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 Finger, giving her Four-pence-half-penny, with which she bought Bread in Brewham. Then he spake again in private with Catherine and vanisht, leaving a smell of Brimstone behind.

Since that time the Devil (she saith) hath and doth usually Suck her Left-Breast about five of the Clock in the Morning, in the likeness of an Hedge-hog, bending, and did so on Wednesday Morning last: She saith it is painful to her, and that she is usually in a Trance when she is Suckt.

She saith also, That Catherine Green, and Margaret Agar of Brewham, have told her, that they are in Covenant with the Devil, and confesseth, that she hath been at several Meetings in the Night at Brewham Common, and in a Ground of Mr. Hussey's; that she hath there met with Catherine Green, and Margaret Agar, and 3 or 4 times with Mary Warberton of Brewham: That in all those Meetings, the Devil hath been present, in the shape of a Man in Black-cloaths: At the first coming, he bids them Welcome, but always speaks very low.

That at a Meeting about 3 Weeks or a Month since, at or near the former Place, Margaret Agar brought thither an Image in Wax, for Elizabeth the Wife of Andrew Cornish of Brewham, and the Devil, in the shape of a Man in Black-cloaths, did Baptize it, and after stuck a Thorn into its Head; that Agar stuck one into it Stomack, and Catherine Green one into its Side. She farther saith; That before this time, Agar said to her this Examinant, that she would hurt Elizabeth Cornish, who since the Baptizing of the Picture, hath been taken and continues very ill.

She saith, That 3 or 4 Days before Jos. Talbot of Brewham died, Margaret Agar told her, That she would rid him out of the World, because he being Overseer of the Poor, he made her Children go to Service, and refused to give them such good Cloaths as she desired. And since the Death of Talbot, she confessed to the Examinant, that she had Bewitcht him to Death. He died about a Year since; was taken ill on Friday, and died about Wednesday after.

That her Mother in Law, Catherine Green, about 5 or 6 Years ago, was taken in a strange manner: One Day one Eye and Cheek did swell, another Day another, and so she continued in great Pain till she died: Upon her Death, she several times said, in the hearing of the Examinant, That her Sister in Law, Catherine Green, had Bewitched her, and the Examinant believes that she Bewitcht her to Death.