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��turn over, and throw down all ye water. Againe we see a tray with wool lca[) lip and downo, and tlii-ow ye wool out. and saw nobody meddle with it. Againe a tub's hoo[) fly off, and nobody near it. Againe ye woolen wlieele upside downe, and stood upon its end, and a spade set on it. This myself, my wife, and Stephen Greenleaf saw. Againe my tools fell downe on ye ground, and before my boy would take them they were sent from him. Againe when my wife and ye boy were making ye bed, ye chest did open and shutt, ye bed-elothes would not be made to ly on ye bed, but flew off againe.

"We saw a keeler of liiead turn over. A chair did often bow to me. Ye chamber door did violently fly to- gether. Ye bed did move to and fro. Ye barn-door was unpinned four times. We agreed to a big noise in ye other room. My chair would not stand still, but was ready to throw me backward. Ye catt was thrown at us five times. A great stone of sis pounds weight did remove from place to place. Being minded to write, my ink-horne was hid from me, which I found covered by a ragg, and my pen quite gone. I made a new pen, and while I was writing one eare of corne hitt me in ye face, aud sticks, stones, and my old pen were flung att me. Againe my spectickles were throwue from ye table, and al- most into ye hot fire. My paper, do what I could, 1 could hardly keep it. Before I could dry my writing, a moninouth hat rubbed along it, but I held it so fast that it did only blot some of it. My wife and I being much afraid that I should not preserve ye writing, we did think best to lay it in ye Bible. Againe ye next night I lay it there againe, but in ye morn- ing it was not to be found, till I found it in a box alone. Againe while I was writing this morning 1 was forced to forbeare writing any more, because I was so disturbed by many things constantly thrown att me." Anthony Morse testified, —

��"Occasionally, being to my broth er Morse's hous, he showed to me a pece of brick, what had sevral tinis come down ye cliimne. I sitting iu ye cornar towck that pece of brick in my hand. Within a littel spas of time ye pece of brick was gone from me I know not by what meanes. Quickly after it come down chiinne. Also in ye chimne cornar I saw a hamniar on yc ground. Their beiu no person nigh it, it was sodenly gone, by what meanes I know not ; but within a littel spas it fell down chim- ne, and . . . also a pece of wood a fute long.

"Taken on oath Dec. the 8, 1679, before me,

John Woodbridge,

Commissioner."

Thomas Hardy testified, —

" I and George Hardy being at William Morse his house, affirm that ye earth in ye chimne cornar moved and scattered on us. I was hitt with somewhat ; Hardy hitt l)y a iron la- dle ; somevvhat hitt Morse a great blow, butt itt was so swift none could tell what itt was. After we saw itt was a shoe."

Rev. Mr. Richardson testified, — " Was at Bro. Morse his house on a Saturday. A board flew against my chair. I heard a noyes in another roome, which I suppose in all reason was diabolicall."

John Dole testified, —

" I saw, sir, a large fire-stick of candle wood, a stone, and a fire brandd to fall downe. These I saw nott whence they come till they fell by ftie."

Elizabeth Titcomb testified, —

" Powell said that he could find out ye witch by his learning if he had another scholar with him."

Joseph Myrick and Sarah Hale tes- tified, —

" Joseph Moores often said in our hearing that if there are any Wizards he was sure Caleb Powell was one."

William Morse being asked what

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