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 That within a Month after the said Florence had Kist her, she this Deponent fell very ill of Fits or Trances, which would take her on the sudden, in that violence, that 3 or 4 Men could not hold her; and in her Fits she would often be taken with Vomitings, and would vomit up Needles, Pins, Horse-nails, Stubbs, Wool, and Straw, and that very often. And being askt whether she perceived at these times what she Vomited? She said she did; for then she was not in so great Distraction as in other parts of her Fits she was. And that a little before the first beginning of her Fits several (and very many) small Stones would fall upon her as she went up and down, and would follow her from place to place, and from one Room to another, and would hit her on the Head, Shoulders, and Arms, and fall to the ground and vanish away. And that she and several others would see them both fall upon her, and on the ground, but could never take them, save onely some few, which she and her Master caught in their Hands: Amongst which one that had a hole in it she tied (as she was advised) with a leather Thong to her Purse, but it was vanisht immediately, though the Leather continued tied on a fast Knot.

That in her Fits she often saw this Florence Newton, and cryed out against her for Tormenting of her, for she says, that she would several times stick Pins into her Arms, and some of them so fast, that a Man must pluck 3 or 4 times to get out the Pin, and they were stuck betwixt the Skin and the Flesh. That sometimes she should be remov'd out of her Bed into another Room, sometimes she should be carried to the top of the House laid on a Board betwixt two Sollar-beams, sometimes put into a Chest, sometimes under a parcel of Wool, sometimes betwixt two Feather-beds on which she used to lie, and sometimes betwixt the Bed and the Mat in her Master's Chamber in the Daytime. And being askt how she knew she was thus carried about and disposed of, seeing in her Fits she was in a violent Distraction? She answered, she never knew where she was, till they of the Family and the Neighbours with them, would be taking her out of the places whither she was so carried and removed. And being askt the reason wherefore she cryed out so much against the said Florence Newton in her Fits? She answer'd, because she saw her, and felt her Torturing.

And being askt how she could think it was Florence Newton that did her this prejudice? She said, first, because she threatened her, then because after she had Kist her, she fell into these Fits, and that she both saw and felt her tormenting. And lastly,