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Rh YRST, that her mother this late wynter woulde haue learned her this arte, but he lerned it not, nether yet the name of the thinge. She aith he neuer aw it but once in her mother’s hand, and that was in the likenes of a tode, and at that time comming in at a odeyn when her mother called it oute to worke ome thynge withall, he herde her to call it Sathan, for hee was not at any time truely taught it, nor did neuer exercie it before this tyme as foloweth:

Item he confeed that when her mother was gone to Breacktede, in