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 Hellish Fraternity, I know not. But that Mary Longdon was Bewitcht by her Over-looking her is manifest. Whether this Over-looking relates to <...>, and that the Magical Venon came out at her Eyes when she kissed the Maid, and whether this <...> was the first kind of Witchery, distinct from that of Bewitching People by Images made of Wax, and afterward any bewitching by meer Looking or Touching, was called Over-looking, we will leave to the Criticks of that black School to decide. As also what is that, which in the Witches Shape, so haunts and torments the Bewitched party. For that it is not the meer Fancy of the Bewitched seems reasonable to judge, because their meer Fancy could not create such kinds of extreme Torments to them. And therefore it is either the Witches Familiar in her Shape, or the Aestrial Spirit of the Witch, because the Witch is sometimes wounded by striking as her Appearance, as it happened in the Appearance of Jane Brooks, and also in that of Julian Cox, as you shall find in the Relation following.

RELAT. VIII.

The Narrative of Mr. Pool, a Servant and Officer in the Court to Judge Archer in his Circuit, concerning the Trial of Julian Cox for Witchcraft; who being himself then present, an Officer in the Court, noted as follows, viz.

Julian cox, aged about 70 Years, was Indicted at Taunton in Somersetshire, about Summer Assizes, 1663, before Judge Archer, then Judge of Assize there, for Witchcraft, which she practised upon a young Maid, whereby her Body languished, and was impaired of Health, by reason of strange Fits upon account of the said Witchcraft.

The Evidence against her was divided into two Branches: First, to prove her a Witch in general: Secondly, to prove her Guilty of the Witchcrafts contained in the Indictment.

For the proof of the first Particular: The first Witness was a Huntsman, who Swore that he went out with a Pack of Hounds to Hunt a Hare, and not far from Julian Cox her