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was that Amy down upon the Duny and Rose scaffold, and di Collender, two vers persons, wrinkled old standing round, women, had dipped their bewitched sev handkerchiefs eral children. in it as a thing The mother of most precious, the people giv one child had left her infant ing a mournful for the day with shout and cry one of the old ing for a sur geon. The other ear be women, and at night he fell ing cut no less deep, he into such fits of swooning was then freed from the that the mother was much pillory, and came down frightened. She went to where the surgeons were a Dr. Jacob, who told her waiting for him, who pres to hang the child's blanket ently applied a remedy for up in the chimney-c»rner stopping the blood, "after all day, and at night when a large effusion thereof. she put the child into bed Yet for all this he fainted to put it into the blanket, and if anything fell out to not in the least manner, throw it into the fire; and although he waxed pale." His head being then bound when she took the blanket up, two friends led him away a great toad fell out, which hopped up and down the to his house. He was sub hearth, and she cast it into sequently decreed to im the fire, and after sputter prisonment in the castle of ing for a while " there was the Isle of Jersey, provided no more seen than if there the governor should think fit. Three years after had been none there." Af ter the toad was burned, wards the sentence against the child recovered and Prynne was declared to be was well. The other child illega}, and without just ren were said to have cast cause, and reversed, and up pins and nails, and to Prynne discharged from fine and imprisonment, re have become speechless when touched by Amy stored to his degrees in the Duny. The children had University of Oxford and also at some previous to the Society of Lincoln's TITUS OATES, FROM A RARE PRINT time declared that the Inn, and to the exercise of his profession as an Utter Barrister-at-Law, witches had visited them in the form of a and to his chamber at Lincoln's Inn. ( 1 State bat and a mouse. At times the children would see things run up and down the house Trials, p. 481.) like poultry and mice, and one of them cried In the trial of the witches at Bury St. Ed munds, before Sir Matthew Hale, the charge out like a raft when touched with the tongs.