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Title:  The witch of Wapping, Or An exact and perfect relation, of the life and devilish practises of Joan Peterson, that dwelt in Spruce Island, near Wapping; who was condemned for practising witch-craft, and sentenced to be hanged at Tyburn, on Munday the 11th. of April, 1652. Shewing, how she bewitch'd a child, and rock'd the cradle in the likenesse of a cat; how she frighted a baker; and how the devil often came to suck her, sometimes in the likeness of a dog, and other times like a squirrel. Together, with the confession of Prudence Lee, who was burnt in Smithfield on Saturday the 10th. of this instant for the murthering her husband: and her admonition and counsel to all her sex in general.
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you had been better you had given me my money for you shall be ten times worse then ever you were; and very suddenly after he fell into very strange fits, and for twelve hours together would rage and rave like a mad man, and afterwards for twelve hours more would slabber out his tongue, and walk up and down like a meer changeling; in this condition he remained certain days, and then he fell very sick, and at this instant (if he be not dead) languisheth away, and rots as he lies.Also there was one of her neighbours, who had a young child, which was very strangely torment∣ed, having such strange fits that the like was never known and had continued certain days in that condi∣tion to the great grief of the Parents, and the admira∣tion of all those that beheld it, and it was brought so low, that they expected every hour when it should depart the world, and the Parents were forced to procure one or other every night to watch with it, whereupon two women that were neighbours, desired that they might watch with it, which was ve∣ry thankfully accepted of; about midnight, they es∣pied (to their thinking) a great black cat come to the cradles side, and rock the cradle, whereupon one of the women took up the fire-fork to strike at it, and it immediately vanished, about an hour after the cat came again to the cradle side, whereupon the other woman kicked at it, but it presently va∣nished, and that leg that she kicked with, began to 0