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 torn, concerning the Maid Vomiting, and calling out against the Witch, he agreeth perfectly throughout with John Pyne as before.

Edward Perry being likewise sworn, deposeth, That he, Mr. Greatrix, and Mr. Blackwall, went to the Maid, and Mr. Greatrix and he had read of a way to discover a Witch, which he would put in practice. And so they sent for the Witch, and set her on a Stool, and a Shoemaker with a strong Awl endeavoured to stick it in the Stool, but could not till the third time. And then they bad her come off the Stool, but she said she was very weary and could not stir. Then two of them pulled her off, and the Men went to pull out his Awl, and it dropt into his hand with half an Inch broke off the blade of it, and they all looked to have found where it had been stuck, but could find no place where any entry had been made by it. Then they took another Awl, and put it into the Maids hand, and one of them took the Maids hand, and ran violently at the Witches hand with it, but could not enter it, though the Awl was so bent that none of them could put it streight again. Then Mr. Blackwall took a Launce and launc'd one of her hands an Inch and a half long, and a quarter of an Inch deep, but it bled not at all. Then he launc'd the other hand, and then they bled.

He further saith, That after she was in Prison, he went with Roger Hawkins and others to discourse with the Witch about the Maid, and they askt what it was she spake to the day before, and after some denial, she said it was a Grey-hound which was her Familiar, and went out at the Window; and then she said, If I have done the Maid hurt, I am sorry for it. And being then asked whether she had done her any hurt, she said she never did bewitch her, but confessed she had overlooked her that time she kist her, but that she could not now help her, for none could help that did the mischief, but others. And further the Deponent saith, That after at the Assize at Cashal, he meeting with one William Lap, and discoursing about these passages with him, the said Lap told the Deponent, that if he would but take a Tyle off the House near the place where the Witch lay and heat it red hot in the Fire, and then take some of the Maids Water and drop upon it, that so long as this was doing, he should find the Witch most grievously tormented: That afterwards he, Edward Perry, Nicholas Pyne and others put this in practice, and found that the Witch was extremely tormented and vexed, and the experiment was over, she came to her self, and then they askt her how she came to hurt the Maid? and she said, that what evil she thought against the Maid that time she