VII. Phebe Chandler teftify‘d, that about a Fort='j

night before the apprehenfion of Marthe Carrier 30n |
a Lords-Day, while the Pfalm was finging,-in the }
Church, this Carrier then took-her by tlic thoulder 2
and thaking her, asked her, where fhe Lived?) fhe
made ber no Anfwer, although as Carrier, who lie
ved next door to het Fathers: Houfé, could! not in |}
reafon but know who the was. Quickly after this, |
as the was at feveral. times crofling the Fields, the »)
heard a voice, that fhe took tobe: Martha Carriers,
and it feem‘d as if it was-over her Head/The voice I
told her, fhe fhoutd within: tovo or three dayes be Poifons \\
ed. Accordingly, within: fuch a Little: time, One |||
Half.of her Right Hand, became greatly {wollen} ij
and'very painful ; as alfo part of her Face $1}
whereot {he can give no account hewiinéame, | It ‘)
continued very Bail for fome: dayes ; and ‘feveral |
: ~ umes |

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@imes fince, fhe has had a great pain in her Breaft ;

nd been fo fiezed on her Legs, that fhe has hardly

een able to go. | She added, that. lately, going
wellto the Houfe of God, Rickard, the Son of
p bok Carrier; Look'd very carneftly upon her,
dnd immediately her hand, which had formerly
teen poifoned, asis abovefaid, began to. pain her
ireately and {he had a ftrange Burning at her fto-
pach j but was chen ftruck deaf, fo that fhe could
pt hear any of the prayer, or finging, till the ewo
I cheee daft words of the Pfalme. |

| VILL «One Fofter, who confefled her own Share
the Witchcraft..forqwhich the Prifoner ftocd in-
Ged, afirm‘d, That fhe had fen the Prifoner
dome of their Witeh-Meetimrs; and that it was
lis Carrier, who perfwaded. her’ to be a Witch.’
ie confefled, That. the Devil carry‘d them on,
Pole, to a Witch-Meeting; bute the Pole

Woke, and fhe hanging about Carriers Neck, they,
th fell down, and fhe then Received an Hurt

iy the Fall, whereof the was not at this very time
>covered. ‘ need

EX..:\One: Lacey, who likewife confefled "he
Hare in this Witchetaft, now Teilaty“d; That fhe

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ticing them into the Snare of the Devil.

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