Page:The Examination and Confession of certain Witches at Chelmsford in the County of Essex.djvu/48

42 he was xii yeres old, and then the quenes atturney aked her what hee could ay, and then hee aide that at uche a day, naming the daye certayne that hee was chirning of butter and there came to her a thynge lyke a blacke dogge with a face like an ape, a hort taile, a cheine, and a yluer whytle (to her thinking) about his neck, and a peyre of homes on his heade, and brought in his mouth the keye of the milkehoue doore, and then my lorde he aide, I was afearde, for he kypped and leaped to and fro, and atte on the toppe of a nettle, and then I aked hym what he wolde haue, and he aide he woulde haue butter, and I aide I had none for him and then he aide he wolde haue ome or he went, and then he dyd run to put the keye into the locke of the mylkehoue dore, and I ayde he holde haue none, and he ayde he wolde haue ome, and then he opened the