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A81077	The kingdom of darkness: or the history of dæmons, specters, witches, apparitions, possessions, disturbances, and other wonderful and supernatural delusions, mischievous feats, and malicious impostures of the Devil Containing near fourscore memorable relations, forreign and domestick, both antient and modern. Collected from authentick records, real attestations, credible evidences, and asserted by authors of undoubted verity. Together with a preface obviating the common objections and allegations of the sadduces and atheists of the age, who deny the being of spirits, witches, &c. With pictures of several memorable accidents. By R. B. Licensed and entred according to order.	R. B., 1632?-1725?; Drapentier, Jan, fl. 1674-1713.	1688 (1688)	Wing C7342; ESTC R224752	121,198	192

cruel Executions in those Parts With the manner of the Womens burning themselves with their dead husbands Together with a Description of the Isle of St. Helena And the Bay of Souldania where the English usually refresh in their Voyages to the Indies Intermixt with pleasant Relations and Enlivened with Picture Price one Shilling III. THE English Empire in America or a Prospect of his Majesties Dominions in the West-Indies namely New-found-land New-England New-York New-Jersey Pensylvania Mary-land Virginia Carolina Bermuda's Barbuda Anguilla Montserrat Dominica St. Vincent Antego Mevis or Nevis St. Christophers Barbadoes and Jamaica With an Account of their Discovery Scituation and Product The Religion and Manners of the Indians and other excellencies of these Countreys To which is prefixed a Relation of the first Discovery of this New-World and of the Remarkable Voyages and Adventures of Sebastian Cabot Sir Martin Frobisher Captain Davies Captain Weymouth Captain Hall Captain Hudson Sir Thomas Cavendish the Earl of Cumberland Sir Walter Rawleigh and other English Worthies to divers places therein Illustrated with Maps and Pictures of the strange Fruits Birds Beasts Fishes Insects Serpents and Monsters found in these Parts of the World. Pr. 1. s. V. ENglands Monarchs Or A Compendious Relation of the most Remarkable Transactions and Observable Passages Ecclesiastical Civil Military which have happened during the Reigns of the Kings and Queens of England from the Invasion of the Romans under Julius Caesar to this present Adorned with Poems and the Pictures of every Monarch from King William the Conqueror to our most gracious Soveraign King James the Second with his present Majesties Life Heroick Actions and other Occurrences to this time The names of his now Majesties most Honourable Privy Council The Great Officers of the Crown A List of the Dukes Marquesses Earls Viscounts Bishops Barons and Deans The Knights of the most Noble Order of the Garter at Windsor and the Principal Officers Civil and Military in England The number of the Lords and Commons who have Votes in both Houses of Parliament and many other very useful particulars Price One Shilling V. THE History of the Kingdoms of Scotland and Ireland containing 1. An Account of the most Remarkable Transactions and Revolutions in Scotland for above Twelve hundred years past during the Reigns of Sixty eight Kings from the year of our Lord 424. to the Happy Union of both Kingdoms under King James the Sixth of Scotland and first of England of Blessed Memory in 1602 and among other particulars the lamentable Murther of King Duffe with the strange Discovery and Punishment thereof The wonderful History of Mackbeth and the Witches with the many Notable Occurrences in his Reign 2. The History of Ireland from the Conquest thereof unto King Henry the Second to this time With a Relation of the Miraculous Persons and Places in that Countrey A full Account of St. Patrick's Purgatory and divers other memorable Matters Intermixt with Variety of Excellent Speeches Strange Accidents Prodigious Appearances and other very considerable things both pleasant and profitable With a List of the Nobility and Great Officers of State in both Kingdoms Illustrated with near Thirty Pictures and other extraordinary Observables Price One Shilling VI. DElights for the Ingenious In above Fifty Select and choice Emblems Divine and Moral Ancient and Modern Curiously Ingraven upon Copper Plates with Fifty delightful Poems and Lots for the more Lively Illustration of each Emblem Whereby Instruction and Good Counsel may be promoted and furthered by an honest and pleasant Recreation To which is prefixed An Incomparable Poem Intituled Majesty in Misery or an Imploration to the King of Kings written by his late Majesty King Charles the First with his own Hand during his Captivity in Carisbrook Castle in the Isle of Wight 1648. with a curious Emblem Collected by R. B. Price half a Crown VII SUrprizing Miracles of Nature and Art in two parts containing I. The Miracles of Nature or the wonderful Signs and Prodigious Aspects and Appearances in the Heavens Earth and Sea With an Account of the most famous Comets and other Prodigies from the Birth of Christ to this time II. The Miracles of Art describing the most Magnificent Buildings and other curious Inventions in all Ages as the Seven Wonders of the World and many other excellent Structures and Rarities throughout the Earth beautitified with Sculptures Price One Shilling VIII TWo Journeys to Jerusalem Containing first A strange and true Account of the Travels of two English Pilgrims some years since and what Admirable Accidents befel them in their Journey to Jerusalem Grand Cairo Alexandria c. With the wonderful manner of hatching many Thousand Chickens at once in Ovens Secondly The Travels of Fourteen Englishmen in 1669. from Scanderoon to Tripoly Joppa Ramah Jerusalem Bethlehem Jericho the River of Jordan the Lake of Sodom and Gomorrah and back again to Aleppo With the rare Antiquities Monuments and memorable places and things mentioned in the Holy Scripture and an exact Description of the Old and New Jerusalem to which is added a Relation of the great Council of the Jews assembled in the Plains of A●ayday in Hungary 1650. to examine the Scriptures concerning Christ By S. B. an English man there present With the notorious Delusion of the Jews by a counterfeit Messiah or false Christ at Smyrna in 1666. and the event thereof Lastly The fatal and final Extirpation and Destruction of the Jews throughout the Kingdom of Persia whereby many thousands of all Qualities and Ages were cut off in 1666. and the remarkable occasion thereof The Epistle of K. Agbarus to our Saviour with our Saviour's Answer Beautified with Pictures Price One Shilling IX THE Wars in England Scotland and Ireland containing an Impartial Account 〈◊〉 all the Battels Sieges and other remarkable Transactions Revolutions and Accidents which have happened from the beginning of the Reign of King Charles the First 1625. to His Majestys happy Restauration The illegal Tryal of King Charles I. 〈◊〉 large with his last Speech at his Suffering And the most considerable matters till 1660. With Pictures of several Accidents Price One Shilling X. HIstorical Remarks and Observations of the Antient and Present State of London and Westminster shewing the Foundations Walls Gates Towers Bridges Churches Rivers Wards Halls Companies Government Courts Hospitals Schools Inns of Court Charters Franchises and Priviledges thereof with an account of the most remarkable Accidents as to Wars Fires Plagues and other occurrences for above nine hundred years past in and about these Cities to the Year 1681. Illustrated with Pictures with the Arms of the 65 Companies of London and the time of their Incorporating Price One Shilling XI ADmirable Curiosities Rarities and Wonders in England Scotland and Ireland or an Account of many remarkable persons and places and likewise of the Battles Sieges Prodigious Earthquakes Tempests Inundations Thunders Lightnings Fires Murders and other considerable Occurrences and Accidents for many hundred years past Together

the Hall Window throwing stones toward the Entry though there was no body in the Hall at that time sometimes they should hear a dismal hollow whistling otherwhile the noise of the trotting of an horse and snorting but nothing seen Mr. Walton went up the great Bay in his Boat to a Farm he had there and being haling wood and timber to the Boat he was disturbed by the stones as before at home He carried a stirrup iron from the house down to the Boat and there left it but while he was going up to the house the iron came jingling after him through the Woods and returned to the house and then went back again and at last quite away being never more heard of Their Anchor leapt over-board several times as they were going home and stopt the Boat A Cheese hath been taken out of the Press and crumbled all over the floor A piece of iron wherewith they weighed up the Cheese-press stuck into the wall and a kettle was hung up thereon several cocks of English hay mowed near the house were taken and hung upon Trees and some made into small wisps and scattered all about the Kitchin with divers other such tricks wherewith they were treated They were sometimes quiet for a week and much hoped all was past but then their vexation returned as much or more than ever The man was very much hurt with some of the stones thrown at him but the Summer after the disturbance ceased Remark Provid p. 161. IX THE same year another strange Accident is related which happened to Nicholas Desborough of Hartford in New-England who was strangely molested with stones pieces of earth cobs of Indian corn and other things falling upon and about him which sometimes came in through the door sometimes through the window sometimes down the Chimney and other times they seem'd to fall from the floor of the Chamber which yet was very close sometimes he met with them in his shop the yard the barn and in the field at work In the house such things happened frequently not only in the night but in the day time if the man himself was at home but never when his wife was at home alone There was no great violence in their motion for though several Persons in the Family and others also were struck with the things thrown by an invisible hand yet they were not hurt thereby Only the man himself had once his arm somewhat pained by a blow given him and at another time bloud was drawn from his leg by a scratch he received This molestation began soon after a controversy arose between Desborough and another Person about a Chest of cloths which the other affirmed Desborough did unjustly retain and thus it continued for some months though with several intermissions A while after the mans barn was burnt and all his corn in it but by what means it came to pass is not known Hereupon in a little while some to whom the matter was referred ordered Desborough to restore the cloths to the Person who complained of wrong after which he was not troubled as before Some of the stones hurled were of considerable bigness one of them weighed four pounds but generally they were small One time a piece of clay came down the Chimney falling on the Table which stood at some distance from it The people of the house threw it on the hearth where it lay a considerable time They went to supper which whilst they were doing the piece of clay was lifted up by an invisible hand and fell upon the Table taking it up they found it hot having lain so long before the fire as to be so Essay Provid p. 159. X. IN October 1671. a Maid named Elizabeth Knap of Groton in New-England was taken after a very strange manner sometimes weeping sometimes laughing sometimes roaring hideously with violent motions and agitations of her body crying out Money Money c. In November following her tongue for many hours together was drawn like a semicircle up to the roof of her mouth not to be removed though some tried with their fingers to do it Six men were scarce able to hold her in some of her Fits but she would skip about the House yelling and looking with a most frightful aspect Dec. 7. Her Tongue was drawn out of her mouth to an extraordinary length and now a Daemon or Spirit began manifestly to speak in her Many words were uttered without any motion of her lips which was a clear demonstration that the voice was not her own ●ometimes words were spoken seeming to proceed out of her throat when her mouth was shat Sometimes with her mouth wide open without moving either lips or tongue The things then uttered were chiefly railings and revilings of Mr. Willard the worthy Minister of that Town Also the Daemon belched forth horrid and nefandous blasphemies exalting himself above the most High. After this she was taken speechless for some time One thing more is worthy of Remark concerning this miserable creature she cried out in some of her Fits that a woman one of her neighbours appeared to her and was the cause of her affliction The Person thus accused was a very sober religious woman who thereupon with the advice of Friends visited the poor Wretch and though she was in one of her Fits having her eyes shut when the innocent Person impeached by her came in yet could she so powerful were Satans operations upon her declare who was there and could tell the touch of that woman from any one else But this good woman thus accused and abused by a malicious Devil prayed earnestly with and for the possessed creature after which she confessed that Satan had deluded her making her believe evil of her good neighbour without any cause Nor did she after that complain of any apparition or disturbance from such an one yea she said That the Devil ba● himself in the likeness and shape of divers tormented her and then told her it was not he but they that did it Ibidem p. 140. XI VEry remarkable was that Providence wherein Ann Cole of Hartford in New-England was concerned She was accounted a very religious woman and of a good conversation yet in 1662. Living then in her Fathers house who was likewise esteemed a serious Christian she was taken with very strange Fits wherein her tongue was improved by a Daemon to utter things she knew nothing of sometimes the discourse would hold a considerable time The general tendency whereof was that such and such Persons who were named were consulting how they might carry on mischievous designs against her and divers others mentioning several waies they should take for that end perticularly that they should afflict her body take away her good name and the like The general answer made among the Daemons was She runs to the Rock This continuing some hours the Daemons said Let us confound her language that she may tell no more tales After this she uttered many things

some Diabolical practice and advised her to remove her habitation which she did but to no purpose the evil instrument following her thither also and of many young broods of Chickens which she attempted to nurse up for many years she could not raise one but they would suddenly turn round twisting their necks several times about until they dropt down dead She kept two Cats of her own for which she had a great fancy but as soon as ever the other sort of Cats entred the room they would fly like Lightning sometimes into the fire sometimes into the Oven and up the Chimney or any way to avoid the room whilst they were there nor did they ever thrive but soon after starved and pined away After her removal her Son came from Winchester a strong healthy youth about seventeen who had not been there above three months when he was taken with dreadful raving frantick fits so that five or six men could not hold him he would spring out of their hands and leap up with his head against the cieling sometimes he would catch up a Knife or Razor and therewith endeavour to cut his own throat or do himself some other mischief roaring out in a most terrible manner That the Witch aforementioned was by him and commanded him to do it or else she would strangle him or choke him with pins or the like So that they were forc't to lay all dangerous instruments out of his reach and yet though he had none of them near him when his fit came his hands and pockets would be full of Knives Sizzars Razors and the like and after these fits he would cast out of his mouth a great quantity of pins and needles and was forced by extream weakness to keep his bed several days One day as the young man was in the height of his fits his mother saw the suspected Party scrambling against the wall of the room and immediately called out to her husband John John There 's the Witch naming the Party run her through with your Sword. Upon which he darted his Sword at the place she directed him though he saw nothing and his wife cryed out John you have cut the Witch you have cut her hand and it was observed that the woman had a lame hand a considerable time after This afflicted woman would often repair to Church but if the other were there she had not power to enter but stay'd in the porch or at the window The Son continued in those amazing Fits about five years and then ran away in one of them having never been seen nor heard of since The Mother continued in this lamentable state about seventeen years and then died of pain and grief but very sensible having her reason and understanding to the last She was of Opinion that others besides that woman contributed to her misery And though many Physicians and Neighbours were Eye and Ear-witnesses of what is here related yet I do not understand that any Justice was applied to for apprehending of the supposed Witch and bringing her to punishment but that she lived about five years after the afflicted Pandem p. 189. XXXII PAulus Grillandus a Lawyer in Italy well experienced in the Facts of Witches and Sorcerers relates That there was a Countreyman not far from Rome in 1526. who when he saw his wife rise naked in the night to anoint her self and that thereupon she was gone presently out of sight and could not be found in or about the house the next day he provided himself of a good cudgel wherewith to compel her to tell him whither and upon what account she conveyed her self away the last night which she presently confessing he pardoned her upon condition that she would carry him to the same place that he might see her Associats Next night she and her husband both anointed themselves and then they were each of them instantly mounted upon a Goat and so brought immediately among an Assembly of Witches Now his wife had forewarned him that he should by no means name God or Christ except in scorn and derision When they were arrived among the croud his wife bid him stand at a distance till she had saluted their Prince who was most magnificently clothed and guarded with a great company of men and women all honouring and waiting on him as their Lord. After which they danced in a ring backward it may be to prevent their knowing and accusing one another if they should happen to be detected Which this Triscillianus afterward did to Charles the Ninth King of France relating That there were many who adored and worshipped a Goat in their meetings and kissed his Posteriors and then they danced and the Devils had carnal commerce with the women and with each other in the Shapes of men and women After their dancing the Tables were covered and furnished with meat The woman then bid her Husband sit down with the rest of the company and salute the Prince which being done the man not relishing his cheer without Salt called for it which being brought he cryed out aloud God be thanked we have Salt now which was no sooner uttered but Men Women Meat and Tables presently vanished and the man was left alone in a cold desolate place utterly unknown to him When it was day he met with some Shepherds who informed him that he was in the Earldom of Beneventum a great many miles from Rome to which he was forced to travel back and beg food and cloths in his return When he came home he accused his wife who impeached others and they all confessing their guilt were hanged for their enormous wickedness Hist Specters p. 130. XXXIII THE same Author writes that being invited by a Nobleman to the Castle of St. Paul in the Dukedom of Spoleto When he arrived the Nobleman gave him an account of three Sage Matrons who were found to be Witches One of whom trusting in his promise that she might freely speak without danger declared that fifteen years since she was carried by an Old Woman to an assembly of Witches where the Devil being present obliged them by an Oath to renounce God their Creator their Faith and their Religion and to be faithful to him and that with their hands laid upon a book of very strange Characters they were sworn to perform some Solemn Services to him in the night and that they must go wheresoever he commanded them The Devil on the other side promised them mirth pleasure and felicity forever She confessed further that at that time she killed four men and many Cattel and procured much damage to the fruits of the earth and if it happened that at any time she came not to their meetings except she could shew very good cause to the contrary she was so tormented that she could neither sleep nor eat When she came thither she heard the voice of a man who called the Devil little Lord and sometimes Mr. Martinetus As soon as she had anointed her self

The Murderer fled and absented himself above a year yet sometimes came home in the night finding that none sought after him At length wearied with this way of living he resolved to cast himself upon the Lord Commissioners mercy Who coming one day toward Dalkieth in his Coach Spalding came to the Coach-side and falling on his knees begged mercy of him The L. Commissioner inquired what the business was His Servants told him he was such a man that had killed his Neighbour a Townsman who thereupon commanded him to be conveyed to Prison where he lay above a year After which being brought to his Tryal he was found guilty and condemned to be hanged When he heard his Sentence he cried out What must I dye like a Dog why was not I sentenced to lose my head When he came to the Scaffold and prayers were ended he goes up the Ladder and the rope being put about his neck be cries out with a loud voice in the audience of all Lord saies he let never this Soul of mine depart from this body till it come to be reconciled to thee And having said thus the Executioner threw him off the ladder When he had hung the ordinary time which was sufficent to take away any mans life he was cut down and his body being put in a Coffin was carried to the Talbooth to be stript when they opened the Coff●● the man sits upright in it his eyes staring foaming a● the mouth and roaring like a Bull striking at all near him with his Fists The Magistrates hearing of it ordered he should be strangled once more The Executioner falls to work and putting the rope about his neck strained it so hard that his neck was no bigger than his wrist After which continuing quiet a sufficient time he was put into his grave and covered close up with earth notwithstanding all which he made such a rumbling and tumbling therein that the very earth was raised and they could hardly keep the mould down Not long after the house where he formerly lived at the East end of the Town was haunted with a Ghost which made it stand empty a● long time Thus saith my Author I have from a● very credible Person who is yet alive and being a Scholar at Dalkeith was both an eye and ear-witnes● of these particulars Ibidem p. 191. XXXVIII ABout 1656. one William Barton who dwelt a● Kirkliston near Queens Ferry in Scotland was apprehended for Witchcraft Which he confessed saying If he had twenty Sons he would earnestly advise them to avoid the sin of uncleanness For sa● he I never saw a handsom woman in my life but I luste● after her which was the only cause that brought me to 〈◊〉 the Devils Vassal One day says he going from 〈◊〉 own house to Queens Ferry I overtook a young Gentlewo man who was to appearance very comely and beautiful 〈◊〉 drew near to her but she shunned my company and when 〈◊〉 persisted she seemed very angry and coy Madam said I since we are both going one way pray please to accept of me for your Convoy At last after much intreaty she grew better conditioned and we came to that familiarity that she suffered me to imbrace her and do what I pleased 〈◊〉 this time I parted very joyful Next night she appeared to him in the same place where having committed wickedness again with her he then became sensible that it was not a woman but the Devil And hereupon he renounced his Baptism and gave up himself to her Service she calling him her beloved and gave him the new name of John Baptist and received a Mark She likewise beflowed fifteen pounds Scots upon him by the name of Tochergood and so parted He had not gone far when she called him back again and gave him a peice of money called a Merkpeice which she bid him spend at the Ferry but desired him to keep the fifteen pound entire which he declared was real sterling money After this confession he begged liberty to sleep a little which the Judges granted him Having slept a short time he wak't in a very great laughter The Judges inquired the reason very strictly who replyed That the Devil had been with him and had bub sharply rebuked and grievously threatned him for making any confession and bid him deny all for he would secure him from any danger After this his heart was absolutely hardened so that to his dying hour he would never acknowledge any thing for the Devil had assured him even from his very first ingagement with him That no man should ever take away his life Which promise he absolutely beleived and depended on to the last So that when he was told in the prison that the fire was made the stake set up and the hangman coming to lead him forth to execution he answered He did not care for all that since he was sure be should not dye that day The Executioner had orders to bring him out instantly but he no sooner set his foot within the prison door when he suddenly fell down dead and never stirred more In this streight they ordered the Hangmans wife to strangle him which she willingly undertook upon a reward promised her When Barton heard that a woman was to execute him he cryed out Oh how hath the Devil deceived me let none ever trust to his promises And he was accordingly executed by the woman whose name was Margret Hamilton in the presence of many hundred people at Kirkliston the place of his abode There is one thing remarkable in this Relation that the Devil should bestow so much real good money upon the Wizzard he is seldom so liberal but would certainly be more if God would permit him to steal or discover hid Treasures which no doubt he is restrained from lest thereby he should deceive more wretched Souls than he now is able to do Ibidem p. 160. XXXIX IN 1559. at a Village called Joachims Valley in Germany dwelt a Smith that had a Daughter who excelled in modesty and virtue being very constant and diligent in all pious Exercises and yet by Divine permission was set upon by Satan who took and threw her very often upon the ground as if she had been vexed with the falling sickness This so afflicted her Father and Mother that they went to a Wizzard or Conjurer for help but in vain for the Devil boasted that by this their folly his power over the Maid was more confirmed and increased A while after Satan began to speak in the Virgin with an human voice and often appeared in the form of a Cuckow of a Crow of Hornets and other creatures and exactly imitated their voices He uttered many strange and wonderful matters through her so that the report caused a multitude of people to come and visit her and divers out of an honest zeal did provoke the Daemon to speak and undauntedly heard his answers In the mean time the young woman did patiently endure her afflictions incessantly

Dunghill she gave it her Mother who put it into hot water and after took it out and rub'd it on Rutterkin her Cat and bid him go upwards and afterward buried it in the yard and said a mischief light on him but he will mend again She confessed also that her Mother and she and her Sister contrived so to bewitch the Earl and his Countess that they might have no more Children for turning her out of the Castle at which her Mother was so inraged that she swore dreadfully to be revenged Her malice increasing because she thought the Earl did not take her part against one Peak who had abused her whereupon they took Wooll out of the bed the Lady had given her and a pair of Gloves of the Earls and put them into warm water mingled with bloud stirring it together and then taking them out rubb'd them on Rutterkin her Imp saying The Lord and the Lady should have more Children but it would be long first She likewise confest that she brought her Mother a piece of the Lady Katherines Handkercher and her Mother put it in water and rubb'd it on her Spirit bidding him fly and go whereupon he whined and cryed mew at which she said That Rutterkin had no power over the Lady Katherine to hurs her She also acknowledged that she had two Familiar Spirits sucking on her one white and the other black and spotted the white suckt under her breast and the black in the lower parts of her body When she first entertained them she promised them her Soul and they covenanted to do all the mischief she commanded them Lastly she confessed that Jan. 30. four Devils appeared to her in Lincoln Jayl about twelve a Clock at night one standing at her bed-side with a black head like an Ape and spoke to her but the words she could not understand at which she was very angry because he spoke not plainer that she might know his meaning the other three were Rutterkin little Robin and Spirit and that she never feared she should lose her life nor suspected their treachery till that time About the same time Joan Willimot of Goadby a Witch was examined by Sir Henry Hastings and Dr. Fleming Justices in Leicestershire about the murder of Henry Lord Ross who declared that Joan Flower told her the Earl of Rutland had dealt badly by her and had put away her Daughter and though she could not have her will of my Lord himself yet she had sped my Lords Son and had stricken him to the heart She further confessed that to her own knowledge my Lords Son was struck with a white Spirit and that she can cure those who send to her and that some reward her for her pains and or others she takes nothing Acknowledging that she had a Spirit which she called Pretty given her by William Berry of Langholm in Rutlandshire to whom she was a servant three years and that when her Master gave it her he bid her open her mouth and he would blow a Fairy into her which should do her good and accordingly he blowed into her mouth and soon after there came a Spirit out of her mouth which stood on the ground in the form of a woman who asked her to give her Soul to her which she then promised by the instigation of her Master She said she never hurt any body but helpt divers who were bewitcht and that her Spirit came to her weekly giving her an account who were thus afflicted and that the night before it came like a woman mumbling somewhat she could not understand And being asked whether she were not in a dream she affirmed she was awake as much as at that instant Another time her Spirit told her there was a bad woman at Deeping who had given her Soul to the Devil and that her Spirit did then appear in a more hideous form than it had formerly done and much urged her to give it something though but a piece of her Girdle saying it had taken great pains for her but she refused to give it any thing She said further that John Pachet whose child was bewitcht to death might have had it alive if he would have sought help in time and that Pachets Wife had an evil thing within her which would make an end of her which she knew by her Girdle and accordingly she died soon after And that Gamaliel Greete of Waltham in Leicestershire a Shepherd had a Spirit like a Mouse which went into his Body at the time he contracted to give his Soul to the Devil after which if he lookt maliciously upon any thing it received hurt thereby and that he had a mark on his left arm which was cut away of which her own Spirit inform'd her before he left her Upon a second Examination she confest that Joan Flower and her Daughter Margaret met together about a week before their apprehension in Black-borrow Hill and went thence to Joan Flowers house where she saw two Spirits one like a Rat and the other like an Owl and one of them suckt her right ear as she thought and Joan told her that her Spirits had promised she should neither be hanged nor burnt and then took up some earth and spit upon it working it with her Fingers and put it into her purse saying Though she could not hurt the Lord himself yet she had sped his Son who is dead Another Witch called Ellen Green of Stathorn in Leicestershire was examined about that time by the same Justices who confessed that Joan Willimot abovenamed came to her about six years since and perswaded her to forsake God and betake her self to the Devil to which she consented who then called two Spirits one like a young Cat which she named Puss and the other in the shape of a Mole which she called Hiff Hiff who instantly came and Willimot going away left them with her after which they leapt on her shoulder the Kitling sucking her neck under her right ear and the Mole under her left in the same place After which she sent the Kitling to a Baker in the Town who had called her Witch and struck her bidding it go and bewitch him to death and the Mole she sent to Ann Daws of the same Town upon the same errand because she had called her Witch Whore and Jade and within a Fortnight after they both died After which she sent them to destroy two Husbandmen named Willison and Williman who died both in ten days These four she murdered while she dwelt at Waltham When she removed to Stathorn where she now dwelt upon a difference between her and one Pachets Wife a Yeoman there Joan Willimot called her to go and touch Pachets Wife and Child which she did touching the Woman in bed and the Child in the Midwives arms and then sent her Spirits to bewitch them to death the woman languished a month before she died but the Child lived only till next day after she had touched