Chapter 8

IL. Ann Durent, Sufan Chandler, and: El izabeb Patay,

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when choy came into the Hall, to'give Inftru€tions}
for the drawing the Bill of Indi&ments, they)
fell into firange and violent Fitts, fo that they were}
inablé to give in their Depofitions, not only theng
but alfo During the whole Affizes. Wiliam Durent}
being an Infant, his Mother Swore, ‘That Amy Du.
wy looking aiter her Child one Day in her abfence,p
did at her return confefs, that fhe had. gever fuck |
to the Child: (tho fhe were an Old Woman : jp
Whereat, when Durent exprefied’ her difpleafure,)
Duny went away with Difcontents and Menaaj,
Ces. th
The Night after, the Child fell into ftrange andj
fad Fitts, wherein it continued for Diverle Weeks;;
One Dogor Facob advited her to hang up chef
Childs Blanket, in the Chimney Corner all Day,
and at Night, when fhe went to put the Child ing
idayit, if fhe found any Thing init then to throw itt
“ witheut fear into theFire.Accordingly ,atNight,there|
fel] aszreat Toad out of the Blanket, which ran.utj
Se.dows the Hearth. A Boy; cateh’t it, && held i)
tn the Fire with the Tongs: where 1t made ag
horrible Noife, and Flafh‘d like to Gun-Powder|
with-a-report like chat of a Piftol: Wherenupot:
the Toad was no more to be feen.* The next Day
2 kinfweman of Duny'sh ~ Deponent, ee |

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her Aunt was all gricvoufly {corch‘d with the Fire,

nd the Deponent going to her Houfe; found her
! ia fuch a Condition. © Duay told her, fhe mighe
hank her foric ; but fhe fhould live to fee fome
pf her Children Dead, and her felf upon Crutches,
Mbut after the Burning of the Toad, this Child Re-
covered,
HW ‘This Deponent further Teltify'd, That Her

Daughter Elizabeth, being about the Age of Ten
Wears, was taken in like manner, as her firft Child
Miwas, and in her Fitts complained much of Amy
Mipuny, and faid, that fhe did appear to Her, and
Mm thic her in fuch manner as the former. One
Day fhe found Amy Duxy in her Honfe, and
wp aculting her out of Doors, Duny faid, You need not
Wwe fo Angry, your Child wont live jong. And within
Hnree Days the Child Dyed...The Deponent ad-
Wied, that ihe was Her felf, not long. after taken
Wich duch. 2. Lamenefs;.in both her Leggs, that
Mahe was forced to go. upon Crutches; and fhe
was now in Court upon them. { It was Res
markable, that immediately upon the Juries bring-
ag in Duny Guilty, Durent was reftored unto the
mie of her Limbs, and-went Home without Her
ratches. |]

iq ILD. As for Elizabeth and: Deborah Pacy, one Aged
Eleven years, the other. Nine’; the elder, being in
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m-ourt,was made utterly fenielets,during all the time
pt the Triall: orat leait fpecchlefs. By the direati-
wn of thejudge, Duny was privately brought toElx-
ao bet le

(86 The Wonders of the

beth Pacy, and the touched her Hand: whereupon |
the child, without , fo much as fecing her, fuddenly |}
leap‘d up and flew “upon the prifoner ; the younger |
was too ill, to be brought unto the Affizes. But}

Samuel Pacy ) their Father, reftify“d, thathis seep |

-Debcrab was taken with a tad den la amenels 5 and up-'f/
on the grumbling oF Amy Duny, for bei ing denyed't
fomething, where this child was then fitting, the |
child was taken with an extreeme painin her {tos i}

mach,, like the pricking of pins 5 a and bean ata |
dreadfal manner, like a Whelp, ratl

onal. creature. The Phyficians cot ald on conjeéture |
He caule of the D iftemper 5 > but Duay being, |
4 woman of Ul Fame, and the ch ne in fitts crying |
out of Amy Dany, as vaftrighting her with the Ags
parition of her perfon, the deponent fufpected her}
and Seid ed her to be fet in the ftocks. While!
fhe was there, fhe faidin the hearit ug af two Wits),
neffes, Ate Pacy keeps a great ftir about bis child, but
bet hin a) eis has dine as much by. his Child ren.)
as T have dine by mines and being, asked, What fhe |
had done to her Childreny the anifirrtintel She bai
been fuin to open. ber Childs mouth :ovith a. Tap» tat,
give at Vitivals ‘ihe Deponent added, that with.]
u1 two Days, ‘the Fits of his Daughters !:were)
fich, that they could not preferve cicacr Life on
Breath; without the help:of a: Tap, vo/nd that}
thes Children cry‘ doout. of Amy: Dany, vand ol)
Role Callender, 23 affiGing them; Ww with their Aps
paticions.

TVeoThe Pits of che Children, were: various)

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Hnvitible Herks

Chey weuld fometimes be Lame fi
pmetimes on teother. Sometimes very for
pmetimes reftored unto their Limbs, and
peaf, or Blind, or Dumb, for a Jong while to-
ther. Upon the Recovery of their Speech,
giey would Cough extreamly ; end with much
Flegm, they would -bring up Crooked Pins: &

poe time, a Two-penny Nail, with a very broad
‘ Head. Commonly at the cnd of every Fit,

fhey would caft up a Pin. “When the Children
fread they could not pronounce the N: ;

ot Fefus or Chrift, but would fall into Fitts; and fay,.
Amy Duny fays, I wuft not ufe that Nam. When
hey came to the Name of Satev, or Devil, they
vould clap their Fingers ‘on the Book, crying
put, This bites, but is makes me {peak right wel!
Phe Children in their Fitts, would. often ery
put, Lhere ffands Amy Duny, er, Rofe Cullens
lor; and they would afterwards relate, _ That
befe Witches appearing befire them, threatned them,
sag if they told what they faw or beard, they
yould Torment thera ten times more than ever they
id before. |

| V. Margaret Arnold, the Sifter of Mr, Pucy,
eftify'd unto the like Sufferings being upon thé
hildren, at her Houfe, whither her Brother
nad Removed them. And that fometimes, the
Phildren ( only) would fee things like Mice,
run about the Houf:; and one of them fudden-

y dnap’t one with the Tongs, and threw it in-

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to the Tire, where it fcreeched out like a Batait
At another time, a thing like a Bee, flew ati
the Face of the younger Child; the Child fell}
into a Fitts; and at Jalt Vomited up a, Tavo-peneifi
zy Nail, with a Broad Head; affirming, Tag
the Bee broveht this Nail, and forced it into berp
mouth. The Child would in like manner be afl
faulted with Flies, which brought Crooked Pins,4
unto her, and made her firft fwallow them, andi
then Vomit them. She one Day caught, an ing

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vilible A4oufe, and throwing it into the

Flafh'd like to Gun-Powder. None boc

Child faw the Moufe, but every one fav ia

She-alfo' declared, out of her Fitts, that i: themyy
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