VIIL. Witiam Brown teftify'd, that Heaven have},

ing blefled him witha moft Pious and prudent wife}.
this wite of his, one day mett with Sufanna Martin,
but when ihe approch‘d juft unto her Adartin, vay
niihed ont of fight, and left her extremely affrighted,
Atter which time, the faid Martin, often appear*t),
unto her, giving her no little trouble 5 & when thy,
did come, ine was vilited with Birds that forely,
peck‘t and Prick‘d her; and fometimes, a Bunch)
like a pullets egg would Rife in her throat,ready ty,
Choak her, til the cry‘d out,Witch, you phan r Choa,
me: While this good Woman was in this Extre
mity, the Church appointed a Day of Prayer, ot
her behalf; whereupon her Trouble ceas‘d ; Alt,
faw not Adartin as formerly ; and the Church, iny
{tead of their Faft, gave Thanks for her Delives,
rance, But a confiderable while after, fhe being,
Summoned to give in fome Evidence at the Coutt..
againtt this Martin, quickly thereupon, this Marin,
came behind her, while fhe was milking her Cow;
and faid unto her, For thy defaming me at Court,
I’ make thee the miferableft Creature. in the World
soon after which, fhe fell into a ftrange kind
Diltemper, and became horribly Frantick, and un4

capable of any Reafonable Action ; ‘the Phyfici|

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fins declaring, that her Diftemper was preternatu-
al, and that fome Devil had certainly Bewitched
er; and in that Condition fhe now remained.

IX, Sarah Atkinfon teftity'd, That Sufanna Mar-
is came from Amesbury, to their Houle at New-
wry, in an extraordinary Seafon, when it was. not
t for any one to Travel. She came (as the faid,
nto Atkinfow,) all that long way on Foot. She
rag*d, and fhow‘d, how dry ihe was; nor could
#: be perceived that fo much as the Soles of her
Whoes were wet. <Arkinfon was amazed at it; and
Mrofeffed, that fhe fhould her felf have been wet

p to the knees, if fhe had then came fo far 3 but
WMartin reply*d, She {corn’d to be Drabbled! It was
Noted, that this Teftimony upon her Trial, calt
Sher into a very fingular Confufion. |

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