wall, and made a circle round about the pot, and then cried, Come Christ, come Christ, come Mounsier, come Mounsier: And no impe appearing, she cried out and said, she had devilish daughters which had carried her impes away in a white bagge, and wished they might be searched, for they were naught: And upon the searching of her daughters, this informant found that two of them had biggs in their privy parts as the said Margaret their mother had. The Information of Mary Philips, Elizabeth Harris widow, Susan Burles and Philip Tumnor, taken upon oath before the said Justices, April 29, 1645.

These informants do all and every of them concur with Frances Milles in her said information, in that particular concerning the teats of the said Margaret Moone, and her two daughters; and the said Mary Philips doth also confirm and concur with that part of the information of the said Frances Milles, touching the pot, the circle, and the calling of the impes by the said Margaret Moone.

And this inforinant Mary Philips doth also say, that being sent for to search the said Margaret Moone, as she was coming towards Thorp aforesaid, and going over a broad foot bridge, this informant sensibly felt a great blow on her head, which strook her into a ditch up to the neck. And this informant and the said Francis Milles doe both of them say, That as soon as they came into the room where the said Margaret Moone was, she called these two informants, Mannintree rogues (they both dwelling at a town so called), and said, Who a devill sent for you? But I hope I have met with some of

you.

The Examination of Margaret Moone, taken before the said Justices, the 29th day of May, 1645.

The Information of Bridget Reynolds, the wife
of Edward Reynolds of Ramsey in the said
county of Essex, taken upon oath before
the said Justices, the 3rd of May, 1645.
other women, were required to search Sarah
This informant saith, That she with some
Hating the wife of William Bating, Elizabeth
Harvy widow, and Marian Hocket widow, who
are all suspected for Witchcraft, and upon her
said search (being a midwife) found such marks
or bigges in their privy parts, that she never
foure teats or bigges in those parts, almost an
saw in other women: for Sarah Hating had
inch long, and as bigge as this informant's lit-
the finger: That the said Elizabeth Harvy had
three such biggs, and about the said scantling:
And that the said Marian Hocket had no such
bigges; but was found in the same parts not
like other honest women, And this informant
further saith, That the said Elizabeth Harvy
said (since she was found with the said suspi-
tious marks) unto this informant, That if she
were a witch, she was so made by the said Ma-
rian Hocket; for that the said Marian brought
unto her the said Elizabeth Harvy, three things
about the bignesse of mouses, and willed the
said Elizabeth to make much of them, for they
were pretty things; which the said Elizabeth
received: And the said Elizabeth told this in-
formant, that ever since she received those.
three things which the said Marian delivered
unto her, she hath been much torn and troubled
in her privy parts, where the said bigges were
found. And that the said three things were
delivered to her the said Elizabeth about six or
seven years since.
The Information of Elizabeth Durden, the wife
of Edward Durden, and Mary Philips, taken
upon oath before the said Justices, the 3rd
day of May, 1645.

These informants do concurre in every par This examinant being examined to all the ticular with the said Bridget Reynolds, in her particulars charged upon her, in all the afore-information touching the search of the said said severall informations, denies every particular.

The Examination of Judith Moone, daughter of the said Margaret Moone, taken before the said Justices, the 29th day of Aprill, 1645.

This examinant (being a single woman, and having such marks of a witch as aforesaid) saith, that about a fortnight before her mother was apprehended for a witch, the said Margaret bid this examinant goe and fetch a bundle of wood, and this examinant told her mother shee would not fetch any wood: Whereupon the said Margaret threatned this examinant, and told her shee had as good have gone for some wood; and that the next night as this examinant lay in her bed, she felt something come into the bed, about her legges, being at tha: time broad awake, and that shee searched to see what it should be, but could not finde any thing.

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Hocket: And this informant Elizabeth Dur-
Sarah Hating, Elizabeth Harvie, and Marian
den further saith, that the said Elizabeth Har-
vie told her, that if shee were a witch, shee was
so made by the said Marian IIocket.
The Information of Francis Stock and John
Batilly, taken upon oath before the said
Justices, May 3rd, 1645.

These informants say, that the said Elizabeth Harvie confessed to them with many teares, that shee had three marks, two before and one behinde (as is already informed by Bridget Reynolds and others), and that the said Marian Hocket made her have the said marks or bigs, by bringing of three things to her the said Elizabeth, and telling her, if shee would receive them, shee should never want so long as she lived; which three things have since made the said marks in her privie parts, and the said Elizabeth told these informants, that the said three things were of a reddish colour, and that since, the said Marian and

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the said Elizabeth falling out, she the said Eli- | The Examination of Marian Hocket, Sarah

zabeth would have put away and sent home the three things which the said Marian brought to her, and that ever since the said things have tormented her in her bed, in the places aforesaid, as if they had pulled her in pieces.

Hating, and Elizabeth Harvie of Ramsey within the County aforesaid, taken before the said Justices, May 3, 1645.

This examinant, Marian Hocket saith, that shee is not guilty of any of the particulars withstanding the severall accusations against charged upon her, touching witchcraft, not

The second Information of Francis Stock, taken before the said Justices upon oath, May 3d,her.

1045.

This informant saith, that about five years since, being one of the constables of Ramsey aforesaid, bee impressed William Hating, husband to the aforesaid Sarah Hating for a souldier, whereupon the said William threatened this informant very much, and not long after, this informant's wife told him, shee espied a snake lying upon a shelf in this informant's house, about three yards high from the ground, which falling down into the house, shee endeavoured to kill with a spade; and striking at it, the snake suddenly vanished away, and could no where be found: And this informant saith, that presently after his said wife was taken sick with extraordinary fits, pains and burnings all over her body, and within one week dyed: And further this informant saith, that within two or three dayes, after the death of his said wife, hee had a daughter taken sick after a very strange manner, who in all the time of her sicknesse, cryed out much on the said Sarah, the wife of the said William Hating, saying, that the said Sarah was the cause of her death, and dyed presently after; and that within two or three duyes after the death of his said childe, this informant had another childe taken sick in the same manner, and within a few dayes dyed also: And lastly, this informant saith, that about three quarters of a yeer after, he had a inan-servant, that for some ill language given to him by John Hating, one of the sons of the said William and Sarah Hating, his said servant did beat the said John, and the very next day hee was taken sick, and so continued in a pining and languishing condition, crying out often of the said Sarah, that she had bewitched him, and was the cause of his death, which soon after ensued.

The Information of Francis Stock, and John
Felgate, taken upon oath before the said
Justices, May 3, 1645.

This examinant, Sarah Hating saith, that shee is not guilty of any particular wherewith shee stands charged in the information of Francis Stock and others.

This examinant, Elizabeth Harvie saith, that about halfe a yeer since, the said Marian Hocket brought three things to her house, two of them being smaller then mouses, and the other somewhat bigger and longer; and that the said Marian told this examinant they were pretty things, and would do her and this examiwant good, if shee this examinant would keep them; and that afterwards shee was very much pained in those parts of her body where the said teats or bigs were discovered by the said searchers, as aforesaid.

The information of Robert Turner of St. Osith
Carpenter, taken upon oath before the said
Justices, May 6, 1465.

This informant saith, that about eight dayes since, his servant was taken sick, shaking and shrieking, and crying out of Rose Hallybread, that shee had bewitched him: And this inform ant saith that sometimes his said servant, since hee was taken sick, as aforesaid, hath crowed perfectly as a cock; sometimes barked like a dog; sometimes violently groaned beyond the ordinary course of nature, and struggling with such strength (being but a youth), that four or five strong men were not able to hold him down in his bed; and sometimes sung divers and sundry perfect tones: And that this informant could not perceive his mouth to open, or so much as his lips to stir all the time of his singg.

The Examination of Rose Hally bread, taken be

fore the said Justices, the 6th of May, 1645. This examinant saith, that about fifteen or sixteen ycers since, there was an imp brought to her house by one Goodwife Hagtree, which imp this examinant entertained, fed it with oatmcale, and suckled it on her body, for the This informant John Felgate saith, that speak- space of a yeer and a halfe, or thereabouts, ing with one Sarah Barton, the sister of the said and then lost it: And this examinant further Marian Hocket (which said Sarah is now im- saith, that about half a yeer since, one Joyce prisoned in the gaole at Harwich upon suspi- Boanes (who is now also accused for Witchtion of Witchcraft), who told this informant, craft), brought to this examinants house anothat the said Marian had cut off her bigs, where-ther imp, in the likenesse of a small gray bird, by she might have been the more suspected to have been a witch, and laid plaisters to those places: And the said Francis and John say, that the said Sarah Barton, told them, that the said Marian had given and delivered unto her the said Surah three imps, and that the said Marian called them by the names of Littleman, Pretty-man, and Dainty.

which this examinant received, and carryed it to the house of one Thomas Toakley of St. Osyth, and put the said imp into a cranny of the doore of the said Toakely's house, after which time the son of the said Thomas languished, and dyed, crying out of this examinant, that shee was his death; And this examinant further saith, that about eight dayes since, Susan

miliars, two like mouses, and the third like a
frog; the names of the two like mouses are
Jack, and the other Prickeare, and the name
of the third, like a frog, is Frog. And this ex-
aminant saith, that she sent one of her said
impes to kill a child of one Thomas Wood-
ward, which her said impe did kill a fortnight
after. And this examinant saith, that shee did
send her said impe called Frog, to kill two of
John Cartwright's children, of Much-Holland
in the county of Essex aforesaid, which said
imp did kill the said two children within a fort-
night or three weeks after. And this examin-
ant saith further, that at another time shee sent
her said imp Fiog, to destroy the wife of one
George Parby, of Much-Holland aforesaid,
which did kill her within three dayes after.
The Examination of Anne Cate, alias Maiden
head, of Much-Holland, in the county
aforesaid, taken before the said Justices,
the 9th of May, 1645.

This examinant saith, That she hath four familiars, which shee had from her mother, about two and twenty yeeres since, and that the names of the said imps are James, Prickeare, Robyn, and Sparrow: and that three of these imps are like mouses, and the fourth like a sparrow, which she called Sparrow. And this examinant saith, that to whomsoever shee sent the said imp called Sparrow, it killed them presently; and that, first of all, shee sent one of her three imps like mouses, to nip the

sleeve, and pricked her wrist twice, and there came out a drop of bloud, which he took off with the top of his finger, and so departed. And this examinant saith that about a quarter of a yeare after, as shee was going to St. Osyth, (where this examinant doth now dwell) to sell her said masters butter, a man met with her, being in a ragged sute, and having such great eyes, that this examinant was much afraid of him; who came to this examinant and gave her three things like to moules, having foure feet a piece, but without tayles, and of a black colour, and bid this examinant nurse the said three things, untill he did desire them againe; And this examinant asked the said man, what she should give them to eate, and he told this examinant milke, and that they would not hurt her, and wished her not to be afraid of them: And the said man told this examinant, that those three things which he gave her, would avenge her on her enemies, and bid her murther some, but not too many, and he would forgive her; and then went away from this examinant: And this examinant saith, that the first time she imployed any of the said things, shee sent one of them to kill a sowe of one Benjamin Howes of Little-Clacton in the County aforesaid; and the said Sowe was killed by the sail impe accordingly: And this examinant saith, that the names of her three imps were Margaret, Amie, and Susan : And that a while after, this examinant and one Joyce Boanes, now in prison, did send each of them an impe to kill one Thomas Bum-knee of one Robert Freeman, of Little Clacton stead of St. Osyth aforesaid, who died about in the county of Essex aforesaid, whom the three weekes after. And this examinant saith, said imp did so lame, that the said Robert dyed that shee belceveth that the said two impes did on that lamenesse within half a yeere after. kill the said Thomas Bumstead; and the impes And this examinant saith, that she sent her name which this examinant sent to destroy said imp Prickcare to kill the daughter of John the said Bumstead was Margaret: And that Rawlins, of Much-Holland aforesaid, which the impe which the said Joyce Boanes sent died accordingly within a short time after; was a dund one like unto a mouse. And this and that shee sent her said imp Prickeare to examinant saith, that she did send another of the house of one John Tillet, which did sudher impes called Amie, to the said Bumsteads denly kill the said Tillet. And this examinant house, which did kill the wife of the said Bum-saith, that shee scnt her said imp Sparrow, to stead within a short time after: And this exa-kill the childe of one Geore Parby, of Much-Holminant confesseth, that the cause of offence shee tooke so to destroy and kill the said Bumstead and his wife, was because the said Thomas Bunstead did beate the sonne of this examinant for eating up of some honey which he found about the house of the said Thomas Bumstead. And this examinant further confesseth, that shee did send her other third impe called Susan, to afflict the childe of one Mictriss Darcy of St. Osyth aforesaid: But did withall bid the said impe it should not hurt the said child too much, and come away againe And this examinant saith, that the sid imp is come again from the said Mistriss Darcies childe.

land aforesaid, which child the said imp did presently kill; and that the offence this examiuant took against the said George Parby, to kill his said childe, was, because the wife of the said Parby deny ed to give this examinant a pint of milke. And this examinant further saith, that she sent her said imp Sparrow to the house of Samuel Ray, which in a very short time did kill the wife of the said Samuel; and that the cause of this examinant's malice against the said woman was, because shee refused to pay to this examinant two pence, which she challenged to be due to her; and that afterwards her said imp Sparrow killed the said child of the said Samuel Ray. And this received the said four imps from her sa moexaminant confesseth, that as soon as shee had ther, the said imps spake to this examinant, and told her, shee must deny God and Christ, which this examinant did then assent unto.

The Testimony of Sir Thomas Bowes, knight,
which he spake upon the Bench, concern-
ing the aforesaid Anne West, shee being
then at the Barre upon her Tryall.
That a very honest man of Mannintree,
whom he knew would not speake an untruth,
affirmed unto him, that very early one morn-
ing, as he passed by the said Anne Weste's
dore, about foure a clock, it being a moon-
light night, and perceiving her dore to be open
so early in the morning, looked into the house,
and presently there came three or four little
things, in the shape of black rabbits, leaping
and skipping about him, who, having a good
stick in his hand, struck at them, thinking to
kill them, but could not; but at last caught
one of them in his hand, and holding it by the
body of it, he beat the head of it against his
stick, intending to beat out the braines of it;
but when he could not kill it that way, he
tooke the body of it in one hand, and the head

of it in another, and indeavoured to wring off the head and as he wrung and stretched the neck of it, it came out between his hands like a lock of wooll; yet he would not give over his intended purpose, but knowing of a spring not farre off, he went to drowne it: but still as he went he fell downe, and could not goe, but downe he fell againe, so that he at last crept upon his hands and knees till he came at the water, and holding it fast in his hand, he put his hand downe into the water up to his elbow, and held it under water a good space, till he conceived it was drowned, and then letting goe his hand, it sprung out of the water up into the aire, and so vanished away: and then comming backe to the said Anne West's dore, he saw her standing there in her smock, and asked her, why shee did set her impes to molest and trouble him? to whom she made auswer, that they were not sent to trouble him, but were sent out as scouts upon another designe.

177. Proceedings against ELEVEN MEMBERS of the House of Commons; viz. DENZIL HOLLIS, esq. Sir PHILIP STAPLETON, Sir WILLIAM LEWIS, Sir JOHN CLOTWORTHY, Sir WM. WALLER, Sir JOHN MAYNARD, knights, Major-General MASSEY, Mr. GLYNN Recorder of London, WALTER LONG, esq. Colonel EDWARD HARLEY, and ANTHONY NICHOLL, esq. charged by Sir Thomas Fairfax and his Army, to be Delinquents:* 23 CHARLES I. A. D. 1647. [6 and 7 Rushworth's Collect. : Whitelocke's Memoirs. 3 Cobb. Parl. Hist. 664.]

ON June 15, 1647, was presented to the parliament a long and bold Remonstrance, entitled "A Declaration or Representation from his

Excellency sir Thomas Fairfax, and of the Army under his command, Humbly tendered to the Parliament," It contained many comAs to Delinquents and Malignants, see Hume were exceedingly beloved in the city, and two and Clarendon as cited in the Notes to pp. 22, or three others who followed their dictates, and 111, of this volume. Oldmixon thus explains were subservient to their directions. These these terms: "By Delinquent and Malignant, were all men of parts, interest, and signal the language of those times, are to be under-courage, and did not only heartily abbor the stood persons who endeavoured to introduce arbitrary power, as well ecclesiastical as civil, and to sacrifice the privileges of parliament, and the rights, properties, and liberties of the people to the king's will and pleasure, and under him to their own." 1 Hist. of England, during the reigns of the Royal House of Stuart,

209.

"In the House of Commons, which was now the scene of all the action that displeased and incensed the army (for the House of Peers was shrunk into so inconsiderable a number, and their persons not considerable after the death of the earl of Essex, except those who were affected to, or might be disposed by the army) they were wholly guided by Hollis and Stapleton, Lewis and Glynn, who had been very popular and notorious from the beginning, and by Waller and Massey and Brown, who had served in commands in the army, and performed at some times very signal service, and

intentions which they discerned the army to have, and that it was wholly to be disposed according to the designs of Cromwell, but had likewise declared animosities against the persons of the most active and powerful officers; as Hollis bad one day, upon a very hot debate in the house, and some rode expressions which fell from Ireton, persuaded him to walk out of the house with him, and then told him, that he should presently go over the water and fight with him.' Ireton replying, his conscience would not suffer him to fight a duel :' Hollis, in choler, pulled him by the nose; telling him, if his conscience would keep him

from giving men satisfaction, it should keep him from provoking them.' This affront to the third person of the army, and to a man of the most virulent, malicious, and revengeful nature of all the pack, so incensed the whole party, that they were resolved one way or other to be rid of him, who had that power in the