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 delivered to the little Man in Black, a Picture in Wax, into which he and Agar stuck Thorns, and Henry Walter thrust his Thumb into the Side of it; then they threw it down, and said, There is Dick Green's Picture with a Pox in't; a short time after which, Richard Green was taken ill and died.

Farther, she saith, That on Thursday Night before Whitsunday last, about the same Place, met Catherine Green, Alice Green, Joan Syms, Mary Warberton, Dinah and Dorothy Warberton, and Henry Walter, and being met, they called out Robin, upon which instantly appeared a little Man in Black-cloaths, to whom all made Obeysance, and the little Man put his Hand to his Hat, saying, How do ye? speaking low but big: Then all made low Obeysances to him again. That she hath seen Margaret Clark twice at the Meetings, but since Margaret Agar was sent to Prison, she never saw her there.

Taken before me,

Rob. Hunt.

ADVERTISEMENT.

Before we pass to other Relations, it will not be amiss farther to remark upon these taken out of the Examinations of Mr. Hunt: From the poisoned Apples that Jane Brooks gave to Rich. Jones, and Eliz. Style to Agnes Vining, and the poisoned Pewter-dish that Alice Duke put into the Hands of Tho. Conway, (which Dish and Apples they had from the Devil) we may observe in what a peculiar Sense, Witches and Wizards are called <...>, Venefici, and Veneficæ, Poisoners. Not that they mischieve People ordinarily by natural Poisons, as Arsenick and the like, but rather by some hellish Malignancy infused into things by the Art and Malice of the Devil, or by the steams of their own Body which the Devil sucks. For the Hand of Jane Brooks stroaking down Rich. Jones his Side impressed a pain thereon.

We may observe also what an eximoious Example of Moses his Mecassephah, (the Word which he uses in that Law, Thou shalt not suffer a Witch to live) Margaret Agar is, and how unfitly some Interpreters render Mecassephim, Malefici, from the great