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Rh Charm, and (laying a Barometer or Weather Glas on the Table) it is with this, ays he, that I have taught my Neighbours to know the State of the Weather. All the Company laughed, and Sir William Dove, who was on the Bench, aked her Accuers, how they could be uch Fools, as to think there was any uch Thing as a Witch. It is true, continued he, many innocent and worthy People have been abued and even murdered on this aburd and foolih Suppoition; which is a Scandal to our Religion, to our Laws, to our Nation, and to common Sene; but I will tell you a Story.

There was in the Wet of England a poor indutrious Woman, who laboured under the ame evil Report which this good Woman is accued of. Every Hog that died with the Murrain,