‘And further confesseth, That on Sunday, which was the 16th day of _July_ instant, she, this Examinant, together with _Mary Trembles_, did go unto the house of _John Barnes_, and that nobody did see them: and that they were in the same room where _Grace_, the wife of the said _John Barnes_ was, and that there they did prick and pinch the said _Grace_ with their fingers, and put her to great pain and torment, insomuch that the said _Grace Barnes_ was nearly dead. ‘And confesseth that this present day, she did prick and torment the said _Grace_ again, (intimating with her Fingers how she did it). And also confesseth that the Devil did intice her to make an end of the said _Grace_; and that he told her he would come again to her once more before she should go out of Town. And confesseth that she can go into any place invisible, and yet her Body shall be lying in her Bed. And further confesseth that the Devil hath appeared unto her in the shape of a Lyon, as she supposed. ‘Being demanded whether she had done any bodily hurt unto any other person besides the said _Grace Barnes_, saith and Confesseth, that she did prick and torment one _Dorcas Coleman_, the wife of _John Coleman_ of _Biddiford_ Mariner. And saith that the said _Mary Trembles_ was a Servant unto her, in like manner as she was a Servant unto the Devil.’ CHAPTER XX. Elizabeth Horner--Pardons for Witchcraft--A Witch taken in London--Sarah Mordike--An Impostor convicted--Case of Jane Wenham--The Last Witch hanged in England. Hutchinson gives an account of a very curious case of witchcraft in 1696: ‘_Elizabeth Horner_ was tried before the Lord Chief Justice _Holt_ at _Exeter_. Three Children of _William Bovet_ were thought to have been bewitched by her, whereof one was dead. It was deposed that another had her Legs twisted, and yet from her Hands and Knees, she would spring five Foot high. The children vomited Pins, and were bitten (if the Depositions were true) and pricked, and pinched, the Marks appearing. The Children said _Bess Horner’s_ Head would come off from her Body, and go into their Bellies. The Mother of the Children deposed, that one of them walked up a smooth plaistered Wall, till her Feet were nine Foot high, her Head standing off from it. This, she said, she did five or six times, and laughed and said, _Bess Horner_ held her up. This poor Woman had something like a Nipple on her Shoulder, which the Children said was sucked by a Toad. Many other odd things were deposed, but the Jury brought her in _Not Guilty_ and no Inconvenience hath followed from her Acquittal.’