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.
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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.
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H. F.
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London :: Printed by M.S. for Henry Overton, and Benj. Allen, and are to be sold at their shops in Popes-head Alley,
1645.
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Trials (Witchcraft) -- England
Witchcraft -- England
Chelmsford (England) -- History
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"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." In the digital collection Early English Books Online 2. https://name.umdl.umich.edu/A85006.0001.001. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed May 23, 2024.
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The Examination of Joyce the wife of William Boanes,
taken before the said Justices, May 6. 1645.
THis Examinant saith, that about thirteen yeers since, shee had two Imps which came into the bed to her in the likenesse of Mouses, and that they sucked on this Examinants body; and that afterwards this Examinant employed and sent the said Imps to a Farm house in St. Osyth, called Cocket-wick, where one Richard Welth then lived, where the said Imps killed ten or twelve Lambs of the said Richards: And this Examinant saith further, that a little while after, shee sent her said two Imps to the house of one Thomas Clynch, where they killed a Calf, a Sheep and a Lamb: And this Examinant also saith, that shee carried one of her said Imps, called Rug, to the house of the said Rose Hallybread; and that her said Imp Rug, with three Imps of the said Rose Hallybread,
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Susen Cock, and Margaret Landish, each of them sending out, were carried by this Examinant from the house of the said Rose Hallybread, to the house of the said Robert Turner to kill the ser∣vant of the said Robert; whereupon his said servant hath often∣times crowed like a Cock, barked like a Dogge, sung tunes, and groaned: And this Examinant saith, that her said Imp made the said servant to barke like a Dog; the Imp of the said Rose Hally∣bread inforced him to sing sundry tunes in his great extremity of paines; the Imp of the said Susin Cock, compelled him to crow like a Cock; and the Imp of Margaret Landish made him groan in such an extraordinary manner.