The said _Anne Chattox_ being examined saith, That the wife of one _Pearson_ of Paddiham, is a very euill Woman, and confessed to this Examinate, that shee is a Witch, and hath a Spirit which came to her the first time in likenesse of a Man, and clouen footed, and that shee the said _Pearsons_ wife hath done very much harme to one _Dodgesons_ goods, who came in at a loope-hole into the said _Dodgesons_ Stable, and shee and her Spirit together did sit vpon his Horse or Mare, vntill the said Horse or Mare died. And likewise, that shee the said _Pearsons_ wife did confesse vnto her this Examinate, that shee bewitched vnto death one _Childers_ wife, and her Daughter, and that shee the said _Pearsons_ wife is as ill as shee. * * * * * _The Examination of_ IENNET BOOTH, _of Paddiham, in the Countie of Lancaster, the ninth day of August 1612._ Before NICHOLAS BANNESTER, _Esquire; one of his Maiesties Iustices of Peace in the Countie of Lancaster._ _Iennet_, the wife of _Iames Booth_, of Paddiham, vpon her oath saith, That the Friday next after, the said _Pearsons_ wife, was committed to the Gaole at Lancaster, this Examinate was carding in the said _Pearsons_ house, hauing a little child with her, and willed the said _Margerie_ to giue her a little Milke, to make her said child a little meat, who fetcht this Examinate some, and put it in a pan; this examinat meaning to set it on the fire, found the said fire very ill, and taking vp a stick that lay by her, and brake it in three or foure peeces, and laid vpon the coales to kindle the same, then set the pan and milke on the fire: and when the milke was boild to this Examinates content, she tooke the pan wherein the milke was, off the said fire, and with all, vnder the bottome of the same, there came a Toade, or a thing very like a Toade, and to this Examinates thinking came out of the fire, together with the said Pan, and vnder the bottome of the same, and that the said _Margerie_ did carrie the said Toade out of the said house in a paire of tonges;[T_a_] But what shee the said _Margerie_ did therewith, this Examinate knoweth not. After this were diuers witnesses examined against her in open Court, _viua voce_, to proue the death of the Mare, and diuers other vild and odious practises by her committed, who vpon their Examinations made it so apparant to the Iurie as there was no question; But because the fact is of no great importance, in respect her life is not in question by this Indictment, and the Depositions and examinations are many, I leaue to trouble you with any more of them, for being found guiltie of this offence, the penaltie of the Law is as much as her good Neighbours doe require, which is to be deliuered from the companie of such a dangerous, wicked, and malicious Witch. [Illustration: decoration]