"On Lord's Day, the 20th of _March_ were sundry of the afflicted Persons at Meeting, as Mrs. _Pope_ [Wife of Mr. Joseph P.], Goodwife _Bibber_, _Abigail Williams_, _Mary Walcut_, _Mary Lewes_, and Docter _Grigg's_ Maid. There was also at Meeting Goodwife C. [Cory] (who was afterward Examined on Suspicion of being a _Witch_:) They had several sore Fits, in the Time of Publick Worship, which did something interrupt me in my first Prayer; being so unusual. After Psalm was Sung, _Abigail Williams_ said to me, _Now stand up_, and _Name your Text_! And after it was read, she said, _It is a long Text_. In the beginning of Sermon, Mrs. _Pope_, a Woman afflicted, said to me, _Now there is enough of that_. And in the Afternoon, _Abigail Williams_, upon my referring to my _Doctrine_, said to me, _I know no Doctrine you had, if you did name one, I have forgot it_. In Sermon Time when Goodwife C. was present _Ab. W._ called out, _Look where Goodwife C. sits on the Beam suck[l]ing her Yellow Bird betwixt her Fingers_! _Anne Putman_, another Girle afflicted, _said there was a Yellow Bird sat on my Hat as it hung on the Pin in the Pulpit_! But those that were by restrained her from speaking loud about it."--_Lawson, First Edition_, Pages 3 and 4. This, as will have been noticed, is the Account of an Eye Witness. [10] The Warrant for the Apprehension of Rebecca Nurse is dated 23 March, 169½. The Day following, the Marshal, George Herrick, made his Return, that he had brought her to the house of _Nath. Ingersal_, where she was in Custody. The Witnesses were Ann Puttnam, Jr., Abigail Williams, Mary Walcott, and Elizabeth Hubbard. Mary Walcott's Age was about 17; Elizabeth Hubbard's also about 17. Nothing could be too abominable for these Miscreants to make up and swear to. Mary Walcott said, among other things, that besides being "most greviously afflicted by" being bitten, pinched, and almost choked by the Prisoner, because she would not write in her Book, Goody N. said she would kill her if she did not; and on the 3rd of May, in the Evening the Apparition of the Prisoner told her "she had an Hand in the Deaths of Benjamin Holton, John Harrod, Rebekah Sheppard and seuerall others."