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 and told them when the Witch was bolted, it fell out to be the very time the Maid amended at Youghal.

Nicholas Pyne being sworn, saith, That the second night after that the Witch was in Prison, being the 24 of March last, he and Joseph Thompson, Roger Hawkins, and some others went to speak with her concerning the Maid, and told her that it was the general Opinion of the Town that she had bewitched her, and desired her to deal freely with them, whether she had bewitched her or no, She said she had not bewitched her, but it may be she had over-looked her, and that there was a great difference betwixt bewitching and over-looking, and that she could not have done her any harm if she had not toucht her, and that therefore she had kist her. And she said that what mischief she thought of at that time she kist her, that would fall upon her, and that she would not but confess she had wronged the Maid, and thereupon fell down upon her Knees, and prayed God to forgive her for wronging the poor Wench. They wisht that she might not be wholly destroyed by her; to which she said, it must be another that must help her, and not they that did the harm. And then she said, there were others, as Goody Half-penny, and Goody Dod in Town, that could do these things as well as she, and that it might be one of them that had done the Maid wrong.

That towards Evening the Door of the Prison shook, and she arose up hastily and said, What makest thou here this time a night? and there was a very great noise, as if some body with Bolts and Chains had been running up and down the Room, and they asked her what it was she spoke to and what it was made the noise; and she said she saw nothing, neither did she speak, and if she did it was she knew not what. But the next day she confest it was a Spirit, and her Familiar in the shape of a Grey-hound.

He saith farther, That he and Mr Edward Perry, and others for Trial of her took a Tyle off the Prison, next to the place where the Witch lay, and carried it to the House where the Maid lived, and put it into the fire till it was red-hot, and then dropped some of the Maids Water upon it, and the Witch was then grievously tormented, and when the Water consumed she was well again.

And as to the stones falling on and cast at the Maid, as to the Maids fits, her removal into the Chest under the Wool, betwixt the Feather-beds, on the top of the deal Board betwixt two Sollar beams, concerning the Bibles and their remove, his holding one of them in the Maids hands till two Leaves were