IX. _Timothy Perley_[177] and his Wife, testify'd, Not only unaccountable Mischiefs befel their Cattle, upon their having of Differences with this Prisoner: but also that they had a Daughter destroyed by Witchcrafts; which Daughter still charged _How_ as the Cause of her Affliction. And it was noted, that she would be struck down whenever _How_ were spoken of. She was often endeavoured to be thrown into the Fire, and into the Water, in her strange Fits: Tho' her Father had corrected her for charging _How_ with bewitching her, yet (as was testified by others also) she said, She was sure of it, and must dye standing to it. Accordingly she charged _How_ to the very Death; and said, _Tho'_ How _could afflict and torment her Body, yet she could not hurt her Soul:_ And, _That the Truth of this matter would appear when she should be dead and gone_. X. _Francis Lane_[178] testified, That being hired by the Husband of this _How_ to get him a parcel of Posts and Rails, this Lane hired _John Pearly_ to assist him. This Prisoner then told _Lane_, That she believed the Posts and Rails would not do, because _John Perly_ helped him; but that if he had got them alone, without _John Pearlie's_ help, they might have done well enough. When _James How_ came to receive his Posts and Rails of _Lane_, _How_ taking them up by the Ends, they, tho' good and sound, yet unaccountably broke off, so that _Lane_ was forced to get thirty or forty more. And this Prisoner being informed of it, she said, She told him so before, because _Pearly_ helped about them. XI. Afterwards there came in the Confessions of several other (penitent) Witches, which affirmed this _How_ to be one of those, who with them had been baptized by the Devil in the River at _Newbury_-Falls: before which he made them there kneel down by the Brink of the River and worshiped him. V. _The Trial of_ MARTHA CARRIER,[179] _at the Court of Oyer and Terminer, held by Adjournment at Salem, August 2, 1692_.