A true and exact relation of the severall informations, examinations, and confessions of the late witches, arraigned and executed in the county of Essex.: Who were arraigned and condemned at the late sessions, holden at Chelmesford before the Right Honorable Robert, Earle of Warwicke, and severall of his Majesties justices of peace, the 29 of July, 1645. Wherein the severall murthers, and devillish witchcrafts, committed on the bodies of men, women, and children, and divers cattell, are fully discovered. Published by authoritie.

H. F.

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The Information of Ric. Carter and Heary-Cornwall of Thorp, taken upon oath before the said Justices, April 29. 1645.

THese Informants say, that being appointed to watch Mar∣garet Moone, after she was accused and apprehended for a Witch, the said Margaret going about the Roome, these In∣formants did see a thing drop from under her coats (as they thought) in the likenesse of a Rat for bignesse and shape, but of a greyer colour; And presently there was such an extreame offen five stink in the Roome, that these Informants were scarce able to endure to stay in it; And these Informants asking the said Margaret what it was that dropped from her, she bids them coop it up and catch it if they could. And this Informant Henry Cornwall saith, that the said Margaret did confesse to him that she had twelve Impes, and called them by their names; of which he remembers onely these following: Jesus, Jockey, Sandy, Mris. Elizabeth, and Collyn.

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