IL. If any man or woman, be notorionfly defamed for #

Vitch 3 this yeelds a frrong Sufpition, Yet the Fudge ought
arefuily to Look, that the Report be made by men of Honefty
nd Credit. UL. Vfa Fellow bWitch,or Magician, give
‘estimony of any Perfon to be a tVitch ; this indeed is not
uffisient for Condemnation ; bunt itis a fit Préfumption, to
amfe a firait Examinations IV. If After Curfing. there
silow Death, er at leaf, fome mifchief.: for Witches are
ont to prastife their inifchievons Fatts, by Curfing and Ban-
ing: This alfo is a fufficient matter of Examinations tho’
ot of Conviétion. Vo If after Enmuty, RQuarrelling, or
i hreatening, a prefent imifcbief dos feliow ; that alfois #
Dreat Prefumption. Vi. Af the Party fufpetted be the Son
r Daughters the man-fervant or maid-jervant, the Familiar
vied 3 near Neighbour, or old Companions of a known and
NConvicred Witch: This ‘may be ti hewife ‘a profumption ::
Nor Witchcraft as an Art, that may be Learn'd, and
Ponveyd from.man to man. WI. Some add this for a
WPrefimption ; If the party Sufpetted be-found to Lave the
WDevids mark 3 for it is Commonly thought, when the:Devi!
nakes bis. Covenant with them, be alwazes Leave. bis mark
Wehind them, whereby be kisews them forbis own: = amark,
ichereof mo Evident Realony in Nature can be given.
: Vil, Laftly, if the party Examined be Unconfiaitt, or
WContrary te bimjelf, in his Deliberate Anfwers, it argueth a
MGuilty Confcience, which Hops the Freedom of Utter ance. And
Wect, there are canfes of Aftoniflment, which may befal the
Goods as weilas the Bady IX, But then there is a Convicts
Mon, diftovering the Witch ; which mii proceed from juft and
lufficient pyocs, and not from bare Prefuinptious, “X. Scratch

‘“Sufsicion, will take it on his Death. that fuch an ene bath Bee
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ing of the Sufpetted Party, ana Reccvery therenpens with fever
rai other fuch weak proofs 5 as alfo, the Fleeting of the Sufpedl
Ged Party, thrown upon the Warer ; ‘Thefe profs are fo fan
from being fufficient, that fome ef them, are after a forty pranW
étices of Witcheraft. XI. The Teftimony of fome Hs xzard,\
the’ offering to [how the Witches facein a Glafs ; This I granty')
may be a good prefumption, to cafe a firait Examinations buslll
a sufficient proof of Conviction, it cannot be. If the Dewil tell
the Grand-F ry, that the Perfonin Queftion, is a Pitch, anal
offers withal, to confirm the fame by Oath, fheuld the Inquefil
Receive bis Oath or Accufation to Condemn the man? Afull
vedly No. And yet, that is as much as the Teftimony of ange
ther Wizzard, who only by the Devils Help,Reweals the Witch)
XIL Ifa man being dangeroulls Sick, and like te Dy, upon\

witcked Lim, it is an Allegation of the fame Nature, whieb}
may move the Fudee to Examine the Partyy s bus it is of nil

moment for Conviction. XIU. Among the fuffcient means of\

Convitiion, the firft is, the Free and Voluntary Confeffion of the \

Crime, made by the Party Sufpetied, and Accufed, after Exa:|
mination. I fay nots that a bare Confeffion is fuffcient, but a

Corfefion afier due Examinaticny taken spe pregnant pre:

funptions. WAvat needs now more Witnelssor further Enquiry 2)