Selected quad for the lemma: blood_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
blood_n	drink_v	eat_v	see_v	5,566	4	3.8208	3	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A14611	A true and iust recorde, of the information, examination and confession of all the witches, taken at S. Ofes in the countie of Essex whereof some were executed, and other some entreated according to the determination of lawe. Wherein all men may see what a pestilent people witches are, and how vnworthy to lyue in a Christian Commonwealth. Written orderly, as the cases were tryed by euidence, by W. W.	W. W., fl. 1577-1582.	1582 (1582)	STC 24922; ESTC S101821	45,339	105

happened made answere it maketh no matter For shee might haue suffered mee to haue the keeping and nursing of it And the saide Grace saith that when shee lay in the saide Ursley came vnto her and seemed to bee very angrie for that shee had not the keeping in of the saide Grace for that she answered vnto her that shee was prouided And thereupon they entred further into talke the saide Grace ●aying that if shee should continue lame as shee had doone before shee woulde finde the meanes to knowe howe it came and y t shee woulde creepe vpon her knees to complaine of them to haue iustice done vpon them And to that shee the saide Ursley saide it were a good turne Take heed said Grace Ursley thou hast a naughtie name And to that Ursley made answere though shee coulde vnwitche shee coulde not witche and so promised the saide Grace that if shee did sende for her priuily and send her keeper away that then shee woulde shew the said Grace how shee shoulde vnwitch herselfe or any other at any time And the said Grace further saith that about halfe a yeere past she began to haue a lamenesse in her bones specially in her legges at which time y e said Ursley came vnto her v●sent for and w tout request And said she would helpe her of her lamenes if she the said Grace woulde giue her xii pence y ● which the said Grace speaking her fayre promised her so to doe and thereupon for the space of v. weekes after she was wel in good case as shee was before And then the said Ursley came vnto the saide Grace and asked her y e money she promised to her Wherupon the saide Grace made answere that shee was a poore and a needie woman and had no money then the said Ursley requested of her cheese for it but she said she had none And shee the said Ursley seeing nothing to be had of the saide Grace fell out with her and saide that she woulde bee euen with her and thereupon shee was taken lame and from that day to this day hath so continued And she saith that when she is any thing well or beginneth to amend then her childe is tormented and so continueth for a time in a very strange case and when he beginneth to amend Then shee the saide Grace becommeth so lame as without helpe shee is not able to arise or to turne her in her bed The information of Annis Letherdall wife of Richard Letherdall taken by mee Brian Darcey Esquire against Vrsley Kempe alias Grey the xix day of February THe said Annis saith that before Michaelmas last she the said Ursley sent her sonne to the said Letherdals house to haue scouring sand and sent word by the said boy y t his mother would giue her the dying of a payre of womens hose for the sand But the said Annis knowing her to be a naughtie beast sent her none And after she the said Ursley seeing her gyrle to carry some to one of her neighbours houses murmured as the said childe said presently after her childe was taken as it lay very bigge with a great swelling in the bottome of the belly and other priuie partes And the saide Annis saith y t about the tenth day of Februarie last shee went vnto the said Ursley and tolde her that shee had been foorth with a cunning body which saide y t she the said Ursley had bewitched her childe To y t the said Ursley answered that shee knewe shee had not so been and so talking further she said that she would lay her life that she the said Annis had not been with any whereupon shee requested a woman being in the house a spinning with the said Ursley to beare witnesse what shee had said And the next day the childe was in most piteous case to beholde whereby shee thought it good to Carry the same vnto mother Ratcliffe for that shee had some experience of her skill The which when the said mother Ratcliffe did see shee saide to the saide Annis that shee doubted shee shoulde doe it any good yet shee ministred vnto it c. The enformation of Thomas Rabbet of the age of viii yeres or there abouts base sonne to the said Vrsley Kempe alias Grey taken before me Brian Darcey esquire one of her Maiesties Iustices the xxv day of February against his said mother THe saide Thomas Rabbbet saith that his said mother Ursley kempe alias Grey hath foure seuerall spirites the one called Tyffin the other T●ttey the third Pigine the fourth Iacke being asked of what colours they were saith that Tyttey is like a little grey Cat Tyffin is like a white lambe Pygine is blacklike a Toad and Iacke is black like a Cat. And hee saith hee hath seen his mother at times to giue thē beere to drinke and of a white Lofe or Cake to eate and saith that in the night time the said spiri●es will come to his mother and sucke blood of her vpon her armes and other places of her body This Examinat being asked whether hee had seene Newmans wife to come vnto his mother saith that one morning he being in y e chamber with his mother his Godmother Newman came vnto her and saith that then hee heard her and his mother to chide and to fall out But saith before they parted they were friends and that then his mother deliuered an earthen pot vnto her in the which he thinketh her spirites were the which she carried away with her vnder her aperne And this examinat saith that within a fewe daies after the said Newmans wife came vnto his mother and y t he heard her to tel his mother that she had sent a spirit to plague Iohnson to y e death and an other to plague his wife The enformation of Ales Hunt taken before mee Brian Darcey Esquire the xxiiii day of February against Ioan Pechey widdow THis examinat Ales Hunt saith that shee dwelleth in y e next house vnto y e saide Ioan Pechey y t she the said Ioan two or three daies before Christmas last went to y e house of Iohnson y e Collector appointed for y e poore whereas she y e said Ioan receiued beefe bread the which this Examinat saith shee hearde to bee of the gift of y e said Briā Darcey And this examinat saith that y e said Ioan going homewardes murmured found great fault at Iohnson saying he might haue giuen that to a gyrle or another and not to her saying the bread was to hard baked for her and that shee then seemed to bee in a great anger therewithall This examinat saith shee was at that present in the house of the wydow Hunt and that there was but a wall betweene them The saide Ioan comming to her house did vnlocke her dore the which this examinat did see her doe And after shee was entred into her house this examinat saith she hard the said Ioan to