Devil; Witchcraft -- Great Britain; Witchcraft -- United States
Elizabeth Clarke confessed executed.
Elizabeth Gooding denied do.
Anne Leech confessed do.
Helen Clark confessed executed.
Rebecca West do. acquitted.
Mary Greenleife denied fate unknown.
Mary Johnson do. do.
Anne Cooper confessed executed.
Elizabeth Hare denied condemned, but reprieved.
Margaret Moon do. died on the way to execution.
Marian Hocket do. executed.
Sarah Hating do. do.
Rose Hallybread died in gaol.
Elizabeth Harvie confessed executed.
Joyce Boanes do. do.
Susan Cock do. do.
Margaret Landishe do. do.
Rebecca Jones do. do.
Joan Cooper do. died in gaol.
Anne Cate do. executed.
The confession (!) of this latter will serve as an example of the
puerility of them all.
‘This Examinant saith, that she hath four Familiars, which shee had from
her mother, about two and twenty yeeres since; and that the names of the
said Imps are _James_, _Pricke eare_, _Robyn_, and _Sparrow_; and three of
these Imps are like Mouses, and the fourth like a Sparrow. And this
Examinant saith, that to whomsoever shee sent the said Imp called
_Sparrow_, it killed them presently; and that, first of all, she sent one
of her three Imps like Mouses, to nip the Knee of one _Robert Freeman_,
of _Little Clacton_, in the County of _Essex_, aforesaid, whom the said
Imp did so lame, that the said _Robert_ dyed on that lamenesse within half
a yeere after: And this Examinant saith, that she sent her said Imp,
_Prickeare_ to kill the daughter of _John Rawlins_ of _Much-Holland_
aforesaid, which died accordingly within a short time after; and that she
sent her said Imp _Prickeare_ to the house of one John Tillet; which did
suddenly kill the said Tillet.
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