A true and iust recorde, of the information, examination and confession of all the witches, taken at S. Ofes in the countie of Essex whereof some were executed, and other some entreated according to the determination of lawe. Wherein all men may see what a pestilent people witches are, and how vnworthy to lyue in a Christian Commonwealth. Written orderly, as the cases were tryed by euidence, by W. W.

The Information of Robert Sanneuet, ta∣ken before me Brian Darcey Esquire, one of her M. Iustices the xiiii. of March.

THe sayde Robert saieth, that aboute xv. yeeres past, ther dwelt with him the daugh∣ter of Elizabeth Ewstace, and that for some lewde dealynges, and behauiour by her doone, hee saieth, hee vsed some threatning speeches vnto her, beeing his seruaunt: And that short∣lye after shee wente home to her sayde mother, and telled her of her maysters vsing of her: And the nexte daye hee saieth, as hee was a sitting by his fire side, his mouth was drawne awrye, well neere vppe to the vpper parte of his cheeke: whereuppon hee sayeth, hee sent pre∣sentlye to one of skill to come vnto him, who came vnto him, And that hee seeing him in that case, tooke a lynnen cloath, and couered his eyes, and stroake him on the same side with a stronge blowe, and then his mouth came into the right course: and hee sayeth that hee wil∣led this Examinate to put awaye his seruaunt, and that out of hand: the which he saieth he did.

This Examinat saith, that iii. yeres sithence his brother Crosse was taken verye sickly, and at tymes was without any remembrance, & that he sent for this Examinat, & when he came vnto

him, hee tolde him that Margaret Ewstace had bewitched him, and brought him into that weak state hee then was at: Wherto this Examinate saith, that if that bee so, hee then wished a spyt red hotte and in her buttocks, which speaches of his, hee sayth was carryed by one then in the house vnto the saide Mother Ewstace, and this Examinate saith, that shee seeing a neighbour of his going towardes this Examinates house, asked her whether shee was going, and she an∣swered vnto this Examinates house: Where∣vnto she the sayd Mother Ewstace should say, naye goe not thyther, for he saith I am a witch: And sayed, his wife is with Childe and lustie, but it will bee otherwise with her then hee loo∣keth for: Whereuppon this Examinate saith, that his wife had a most straunge sicknes, and was deliuered of childe, which within short time after dyed.

This Examinate saith, that the Sommer af∣ter he milked vii. mi••che beasts, and that al that sommer many and very often tymes, his sayde beasts did giue downe blood in steede of milke and that hee had little, or no profit by them: And hee saith that about iiii. monethes after many of his hogges did skippe and leape aboute the parde in a straunge sorte: And some of them dyed.