‘He was concerned about Relieving the Indigencies of a wretched woman in the Town; who, being dissatisfied at some of his _just cares_ about her, expressed her self unto him in such a manner, that he declared himself apprehensive of receiving _mischief_ at her hands; he said he doubted she would attempt his Hurt.’ In the beginning of the following January he fell sick, and took to his bed; but he could not rest, he was delirious and spoke in sundry voices and languages, and felt hundreds of pins pricking him all over. Sometimes there was a strange smell of musk about the place. As, in his agony, he called upon the supposed witch, his kind friends ‘did three or four times in one Night go and give _Disturbance_ to the Woman that we have spoken of: all the while they were doing of it, the good man was at ease, and slept as a weary man; and these were all the times they perceived him to take any sleep at all.’ Sometimes fire was seen on the bed, but when attention was called to it, it vanished. Something as big as a cat moved in the bed, but no one could catch it; and ‘a discreet and sober Woman, resting on the Bed’s Feet, felt as it were, a _Hand_, the _Thumb_ and the _Finger_ of it, taking her by the side and giving her a Pinch; but turning to see What it might be, nothing was to be seen.’ Many more marvels occurred, and at last the poor man died, yet even then his bed moved of itself more than once, and at night, when they were preparing for his funeral, noises were heard in the room ‘as though there had been a great _Removing_ and _Clattering_ of _stools_ and chairs.’ I cannot find that the witch was punished. He next gives an instance of a boy at Tocutt, who held a great deal of communication with the Devil without absolutely resigning his soul to him, and who must have lived a very uncomfortable existence. ‘He speaks of men coming to him before they come in Sight; and, once, _two_ being with him, their _Backs_ turned, the Devil carried him away, they knew not how, and after _search_, they found him in a _Cellar_, as _dead_, but, after a little space, he came to Life again. And another time, threw him up into a _Chamber_, stopped him up into a _Hole_ where they after found him. Another time, he carried him about a _Bowshot_, and threw him into a _Hog-Stye_ amongst _Swine_, which ran away with a terrible noise.’ He gives two more instances of possession by the Devil; but they are mild cases which yielded to prayer. There are other minor cases of witchcraft which I have omitted, because I would fain have space to tell of the works of the Devil at Salem in 1692.