A True RELATION Of the arraignment Of eighteen witches.  
That were tried, convicted, and condemned, at a Sessions holden at St. Edmunds-bury in Suffolk, and there by the judge and justices of the said Sessions condemned to die, and so were executed the 27. day of August 1645.  
As also a List of the names of those that were executed, and their several Confessions before their executions.  
With a true relation of the manner how they find them out.  
The names of those that were executed.  
Mr. 'lows parson of Branson. Thomas Evered a Cooper with Mary his wife. Mary Bacon. Anne Alderman. Rebecca Morris. Mary Fuller. Mary Clowes. Margery Sparham Katherine Teo●ey. Sarah Spinlow. Jane Limstead. Anne Wright. Mary Smith. Jane Rivert. Susan Manners. Mary Skipper. Anne Leech.  
Printed at London by I. H. 1645.   

A true And perfect Relation of the Witches that were arraigned, tried, and convicted, at a Sessions holden at St. Edmunds-bury in Suffolk; and there by the Judge of the Sessions condemned to die, and so were executed the 27. day of Aug. last 1645.  
THIS abovenamed Mr. 'lows Parson of Branson in Suffolk, (being arraigned there for witchcraft,) confessed that he bewitched a Ship near Harwidge, so that with the extreme tempestuous Seas raised by blusterous winds the said Ship was cast away, wherein were many passengers, who were by this means swallowed up by the merciless waves, further he confessed that he had done many other most hanous, wicked, and accursed acts, by the help of six imps which he had that frequented him daily. This Mr. 'lows preached about threescore sermons after he had made his covenant with the devil, and had a teat on the crown of his head, and two under his tongue: and there is none that maketh a Covenant with the devil but hath from him a private mark.  
Also Thomas Evererd a Cooper, and Mary his wife, both being employed in a Brewhouse at Halsworth in the County of Suffolk, freely confessed that they had bewitched beer in that Brewhouse: and that the odiousness of the infectious stink of it was such & so intolerable that by the noisomeness of the smell or taste many people died. And they further said that many other mischiefs they had perpetrated and acted by their witchcrafts and damnable Sorceries, and that they also had their imps to whom they gave suck.  
One old woman confessed that she had been a Witch the space of above fifty years, in which time she also confessed that she had done many very wicked things in bewitching cattle, corn▪ &c. but above all that she had bewitched seven persons of one family to death to wit, a man together with his wife and five children's and that also she had her imps which came to her in several shapes.  
Another of the women Witches confessed that she had bewitched a child to death, and that she had been a Witch above five and twenty years, in which time she had bewitched great store of Cattle so that the owners of them were much impoverished and hindered both by the death of them sometimes; and sometimes by the unserviceableness of them. And also she confessed that she usually bewitched standing corn, whereby there came great losses to the owners thereof, for that they could reap no profit, nor the benefit of there long, hard, and by her made, fruitless labours: besides she confessed that she had committed many other such like evil deeds to the hindrance of many.  
These and all the rest confessed that cruel malice and he bred envy was their chief delight, continually a long time before they made their Covenant with the devil, who also did often and sundry times and in several shapes appear to them, before they entered into Covenant with him that they might be made Witches.  
Further also these with all the rest being searched as they were taken, were found by the searchers to have Teats or Dugs which their imps used to suck so often as they came to them. And that some of them had such teats or Dugs under their arms, some under their tongue, some in the roof of their mouth, some on the crown of the head some amongst their toes, some in their fundament, and divers other places: their Teats were but little, some of them are shaped like a thunderbolt. These several teats or dugs their several imps used to suck who came to them often Sometimes in the shape of Mice, sometimes in the shape of Kitens, sometimes in the shape of snails, and other-while in, the shape of Snakes, Hornets, wasps, and divers other shapes.  
Besides these are 120. more suspected Witches in prison, at St. Edmunds-bury, who had all their trial now: but that the Judge and Justices were compelled to adjourn the said Sessions till another time by reason of the near approaching of the Cavaliers. And of those Witches some have confessed that they have had carnal copulation with the devil, one of which said that she had (before her husband died) conceived twice by him, but as soon as she was delivered of them they run away in most horrid long and ugly shapes.  
And these confessed that they have bewitched divers Men, Women, and Children to death, as also, Horses, Oxen, Cowes, Sheep Swine, and other sort of cattle, as likewise corn, herbs, and plants &c. and have raised great and very tempestuous winds and storms, to the overthrowing and subverting of Houses, Stables, barns, Stacks of corn, and Hay with Trees, &c.  
Another of these Witches by her own confession affirmed that she owing a grudge to a Gentleman and his wife in Suffolk, having no occasion (but that they seemed discontented at her coming often to their house, and wishing her to forbear coming) and only for this cause she sent one of her imps in the likeness of a little black smooth Dog to play with their Boy being very young and their only child But the child at first refused to play with it, but it coming often, at the length the Child made much of it till at last the imp brought the child to a water side, and there drowned the said child to the great grief of the parents.  
Amongst those remaining yet in prison there is one Witch they say to be burned, who seemeth to be very penitent for her former lewd and abominable endeavours, and acts, and desires to have Petitions put up to divers godly Ministers that they would be pleased to pray in their several Congregations that her said imps may have no further power, to do any more such like hurt, neither by Sea nor Land, as they have divers times formerly done, to the destruction, loss, or utter undoing of many sundry good and honest people,   

Now for the manner how they usually find out these Witches.  
THere are in the County of Suffolk four searchers appointed for the finding of them out, two men searchers and two women searchers, the men are to search those men who are suspected to be Witches, and the women searchers likewise are to search those women that are supposed to be Witches.  
And also their manner is, in what Town soever in the said County of Suffolk, there be any person or persons suspected to bewitch or Witches, thither they send for two or all of the said searchers, who take the party or parties so suspected into a room & strip him, her, or them, stark naked, and on whom the searchers find any teats or dugs, that party or parties, the said searchers set upon a stool or stools, in the midst of the room, so that the feet of him, her, or them, may not touch the ground. Nevertheless the party or parties may sometimes walk up and down the said room, so that there be sure watch kept, that none of his, her, or their several imps come at him, her, or them, to suck him, her, or any one of them so suspected, during the space of four and twenty hovers and in that time (if they be Witches) either their imps will come to suck him, her, or them, or else the party or parties that is a Witch or Witches will he mightily perplexed and much tortured for want of his, her, or their sucking imps, and will be strangely out of order, and foam at mouth, or else be infome other extraordinary seeming tormented posture, and many times they do apparently see their imps come to them.   

The Examination of Anno Leech of Misley in the County aforesaid, widow, taken before the said Justices, April 14. 1645.  
THis Examinant saith; That she had a grey imp sent to her, and that this Examinant, together with the said Elizabeth Clarke, and Elizabeth, the wife of Edward Gooding, did about a year since, send their imps to kill a black cow and a white cow of Mr. Edwards which was done accordingly: And this Examinant saith, that she sent her grey imp, Elizabeth Clarke a black imp, and Elizabeth Gooding a white imp: And this Examinant saith. that about thirty years since, she sent a grey Jmp to kill two Horses of one Mr. Bragge of Misley, which were killed accordingly; and that the occasion of her Malice was, because Mistress Bragge had told this Examinant, that she suspected her to be a naughty woman; this Examinant confessed, that she and the said Elizabeth Gooding, sent either of them an imp to destroy the child of the said Mr. Edwards; this Examinants imp being then a white one, and Elizabeth Goodings a black imp; and that about thirty years since, this Examinant had the said white imp, and two others, a grey, and a black imp, of one Anne, the wife of Robert Pearce of Stoak in Suffolk, being her brother; and that these imps went commingly from one two another, and did mischief where ever they went; and that when this Examinant did not send and employ them abroad to do mischief, she had not her health, but when they were employed she was healthful and well, and that these imps did usually suck those teats which were found about the private parts of her body; and that the said imps did often speak to this Examinant, and told her, she should never feel hell torments, and that they spoke to her in an hollow voyee, which she plainly understood: And this Examinant also confesseth, she sent her grey imp to Elizabeth the daughter of Robert Kirk of Man●y●tree, about three years since, to destroy her; and upon the sending of the said imp, the said Elizabeth lanhished by the space of one whole year, until she died, and that the occasion of offence this Examinant took against her the said Elizabeth was, for that she had asked a coif of the said Elixabeth, which she refused to give to this Examinant. And further, this Examinant saith, that long since, but the exact time she cannot remember, she sent her grey imp to kill the daughter of the widow Rawlyns of Misley aforesaid; and the reason was; because this Examinant was put out of her Farm, and the said widow Rawlyns put in, where she dwelleth at this present. And moreover, this Examinant confesseth, that she was acquainted with the sending of an imp by the aforesaid Elizabeth Gooding, to vex and torment Mary the wife of John Tailor of Mannyntree aforesaid about three years since; and this Examinant being asked why she discover it to the said Mary, she said, the devil would not suffer her, and that the cause of the said Elizabeth Goodings malice against the said Mary was, because the said Mary refused to give the said Elizabeth some Beeregood. And lastly, this Examinant saith, that about eight weeks since this Examinant, the said Elizabeth Gooding, and one Anne West of Lawford widow, met together at the house of the said Elizabeth Clarke, where there was a book read, wherein she thinks there was no goodness.  
whereas there was a book (of the Essex Witches) came forth in print, wherein on Mrs. wait a Ministers wife was nominiated for one, but it was a palpable mistake, for it is very well known that she is a gentlewoman of a very godly and religious life, and a very good conversation: and this was set on purpose to vindicate her: and lay the fault on the Author, in whom it was a great mistake.   
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