Agnes Browne, } Arthur Bill, } } } Witches. Ioane Vaughan,} Hellen Ienkinson,} Mary Barber. Who were all executed at Northampton the 22 of Iuly last, 1612. 'London. Printed by Tho. Purfoot for Arthur Iohnson. 1612.' A rare and valuable little black-letter tract. [114] 'The Wonderful Discoverie of Witches in the County of Lancaster.' By Thomas Potts. 1613. Thomas Wright's 'Narrative of Sorcery and Magic.' 1851. [115] "Ligh in," perhaps lykinge, lusty, or craske. [116] "Leath," flexible. [117] The chrism was the white cloth placed over the brow of a newly-baptized child in the Roman Catholic service. When children died within the month they were called chrisoms. [118] "Farrandly," fair, handsome. [119] "Harne panne," brain case, cranium. [120] Gethsemane. [121] "Deere," hurt. [122] Potts's 'Discovery.' Webster's 'Displaying.' [123] A 'Treatise of Witchcraft.' By Alexander Roberts, B.D., and Preacher of God's word at King's Linne in Norfolk. 1616. [124] Tract. Printed at London by G. Eld for I. Barnes, dwelling in the long Walke, neare Christ-Church. 1619. [125] Wright and Hutchinson. [126] Wright, quoting Lord Londesborough's MSS. [127] Wright. [128] Webster. Wright. Harleian MSS. [129] 'A most Certain Strange and true Discovery of a witch, being taken by some Parliamentary Forces as she was standing on a small planck-board and sayling on it over the River of Newberry. 1643.' Evidently a political matter, and perhaps with no substratum of truth in the story at all. [130] A collection of Modern Relations. 1693. [131] Matthew's own account of them in a little tract called 'Certaine Queries Answered, which have been and are likely to be objected against Matthew Hopkins, in his way of finding out witches,' was slightly different.--1. Holt, like a white kitling.--2. Jarmara, a fat spaniel without any legs at all, which she said she kept fat, for he sucked good blood from her body.--3. Vinegar Tom, a long-legged greyhound with an head like an ox, a long tail and broad eyes, who, when Hopkins spoke to, and bade him go to the place provided for him and his angels, transformed himself into the shape of a child of foure years without a head, and gave half a dozen turns about the house and vanished at the door.--4. Sack-and-sugar, like a black rabbit; and 5. Newes, like a polecat. Also he said that no mortal could invent such names as Elemauzer, Pyewacket, Peck in the Crown, Griezel Greedigut, &c., which, however, one of our great word-masters, Charles Dickens, would find no difficulty in doing, and which certainly have no very infernal sound in them. [132] Baxter, Hutchinson, &c. [133] Baxter. [134] Tract. [135] 'The Laws against Witches.' Published by Authority, 1645. [136] 'Collection of Modern Relations.' [137] 'The Devil's Delusion.' 1649. [138] Baxter. [139] Baxter's 'Certainty of the World of Spirits.'