Pleas of the Crown: Or, a Methodical Summary of the Principal Matters Relating to that Subjectassigns of Richard and Edward Atkyns, Esquires, 1707 - 441 pages |
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Page 25 - There was also Dr. Brown, of Norwich, a person of great knowledge ; who, after this evidence given, and upon view of the three persons in court, was desired to give his opinion, what he did conceive of them ; and he was clearly of opinion, that the persons were bewitched...
Page 7 - At other times they would fall into swoonings, and upon the recovery to their speech they would cough extremely, and bring up much phlegm, and with the same crooked pins, and one time a two-penny nail with a very broad head, which pins (amounting to forty or more) together with the two-penny nail, were produced in court, with...
Page 108 - ... should not be afraid, but to throw it into the fire. And this deponent did according to his direction, and at night, when she took down the blanket with an intent to put her child therein, there fell out of the same a great toad, which ran up and down the hearth, and...
Page 29 - ... she was in her fits, and then to send for one of the witches, to try what would then happen, which they did accordingly; and Amy Duny was conveyed from the bar and brought to the maid: they put an apron before her eyes, and then one other person touched her hand, which produced the same effect as the touch of the witch did in the court. Whereupon the gentlemen returned, openly protesting, that they did believe the whole transaction of this business was a mere imposture.
Page 32 - ... that the persons who have done them this wrong are near, or touch them, then, their spirits being more than ordinarily moved with rage and anger, they do use more violent gestures of their bodies.
Page 25 - ... was clearly of opinion, that the persons were bewitched ; and said, That in Denmark there had been lately a great discovery of witches, who used the very same way of afflicting persons, by conveying pins into them, and crooked, as these pins were, 'with needles and nails. And his opinion was, That the devil, in such cases, did work upon the bodies of men and women, upon a natural foundation...
Page 4 - ... sorceress, and for that the said child in her fits would cry out of Amy Duny as the cause of her malady, and that she did affright her with apparitions of her person, as the child in the intervals of her fits related, did suspect the said Amy Duny for a witch, and charged her with the injury and wrong to his child, and caused her to be set in the stocks'.
Page 29 - Duny was conveyed from the bar and brought to the maid : they put an apron before her eyes, and then one other person touched her hand, which produced the same effect as the touch of the witch did in the Court. Whereupon the gentlemen returned, openly protesting, that they did believe the whole transaction of this business was a mere imposture.
Page 110 - Amy replied, she might thank her for it, for that she this deponent was the cause thereof, but that she should live to see some of her children dead, and...
Page 108 - ... him to catch the toad and throw it into the fire, which the youth did accordingly, and held it there with the tongs ; and as soon as it was in the fire, it made a great and horrible noise, and after a space there was a flashing in the fire like gunpowder, making a noise like the discharge of a pistol, and thereupon the toad was no more seen nor heard.