2. _Jarmara_, who came in like a fat Spaniel without any legs at all,
she said she kept him fat, for she clapt her hand on her belly and
said he suckt good blood from her body.
3. _Vinegar Tom_, who was like a long-legg'd Greyhound, with an head
like an Oxe, with a long taile and broad eyes, who when this
discoverer spoke to, and bade him goe to the place provided for him
and his Angels, immediately transformed himselfe into the shape of a
child of foure yeeres old without a head, and gave halfe a dozen
turnes about the house, and vanished at the doore.
4. _Sack and Sugar_, like a black Rabbet.
5. _Newes_, like a Polcat. All these vanished away in a little time.
Immediately after this Witch confessed severall other Witches, from
whom she had her _Imps_, and named to divers women where their marks
were, the number of their _Marks_, and _Imps_, and _Imps_ names, as
_Elemanzer_, _Pyewacket_, _Peckin the Crown_, _Grizzel_, _Greedigut_,
_&c._ which no mortall could invent; and upon their searches the same
Markes were found, the same number, and in the same place, and the
like confessions from them of the same Imps, (though they knew not
that we were told before) and so peached one another thereabouts that
joyned together in the like damnable practise that in our Hundred in
_Essex_, 29. were condemned at once, 4. brought 25. Miles to be
hanged, where this Discoverer lives, for sending the Devill like a
Beare to kill him in his garden, so by seeing diverse of the mens
Papps, and trying wayes with hundreds of them, he gained this
experience, and for ought he knowes any man else may find them as
well as he and his company, if they had the same skill and experience.
Quer. 5.
_Many poore People are condemned for having a Pap, or Teat about
them, whereas many People (especially antient People) are, and
have been a long time troubled with naturall wretts on severall
parts of their bodies and other naturall excressencies, as
Hemerodes, Piles, Childbearing, &c. and these shall be judged
only by one man alone and a woman, and so accused or acquitted._
Answ.
The parties so judging can justifie their skill to any, and shew good
reasons why such markes are not meerly naturall, neither that they can
happen by any such naturall cause as is before expressed, and for
further answer for their private judgements alone, it is most false
and untrue, for never was any man tryed by search of his body, but
commonly a dozen of the ablest men in the parish or else where, were
present, and most commonly as many ancient skilfull matrons and
midwives present when the women are tryed, which marks not only he,
and his company attest to be very suspitious, but all beholders, the
skilfulest of them, doe not approve of them, but likewise assent that
such tokens cannot in their judgements proceed from any the above
mentioned Causes.
Quer. 6.
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