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<HEAD>Matthew Hopkins Witch Finder Generall</HEAD>
<FIGDESC>depiction of Matthew Hopkins interrogating witches</FIGDESC>
<P>My Imps names are
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<ITEM>1 Ilemauzar</ITEM>
<ITEM>2 Pyewackett</ITEM>
<ITEM>3 Peck in the Crowne</ITEM>
<ITEM>4 Griezzell Greedigutt</ITEM>
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<P>Holt</P>
<P>Jarmara</P>
<P>Sacke &amp; Sugar</P>
<P>Newes</P>
<P>Vinegar tom</P>
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<P>THE Di&s;covery of Witches: IN An&s;wer to &s;everall QUERIES, LATELY Delivered to the Judges of A&s;size for the County of NORFOLK. And now publi&s;hed By MATTHEVV HOPKINS, Witch-finder. FOR The Benefit of the whole KINGDOME.</P>
<Q><BIBL><HI>EXOD. 22.18.</HI></BIBL>
<P>Thou &s;halt not &s;uffer a witch to live.</P></Q>
<P><HI>LONDON,</HI> Printed for <HI>R. Roy&s;ton,</HI> at the Angell in Ivie Lane. M.DC.XLVII.</P>
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<HEAD>Certaine <HI>Queries</HI> an&s;wered, which have been and are likely to be objected again&s;t MATTHEW HOPKINS, in his way of finding out <HI>Witches.</HI></HEAD>
<HEAD TYPE="sub">Q&V;ERIE <HI>I.</HI></HEAD>
<P><HI>_THat he mu&s;t needs be the greate&s;t Witch, Sorce|rer, and Wizzard him&s;elfe, el&s;e hee could not doe it.</HI></P>
<P><HI>An&s;w.</HI> If <HI>Satans</HI> kingdome be divided a|gain&s;t it &s;elfe, how &s;hall it &s;tand?</P>
<P>Querie 2. <HI>If he never went &s;o farre as is be|fore mentioned, yet for certaine he met with the Devill, and cheated him of his Booke, wherein were written all the Witches names in</HI> England, <HI>and if he looks on any Witch, he can tell by her countenance what &s;he is; &s;o by this, his helpe is from the Devill.</HI></P>
<P><HI>An&s;w.</HI> If he had been too hard for the devill and got his book, it had been to his great commendation, and no di&s;grace at all: and for judgement in <HI>Phi&s;iognomie,</HI> he hath no more then any man el&s;e what&s;oever.</P>
<P>Quer. 3. <HI>From whence then proceeded this his skill? was it from his profound learning, or from much reading of learned Authors con|cerning that &s;ubject?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An&s;w.</HI> From neither of both, but from experience, which though it be meanly e&s;teemed of, yet the &s;ure&s;t and &s;afe&s;t way to judge by.</P>
<P>Quer. 4. <HI>I pray where was this experience gained? and why gained by him and not by others?</HI></P>
<P><PB N="2" REF="3"><HI>An&s;w.</HI> The Di&s;coverer never travelled far for it, but in <HI>March</HI> 1644. he had &s;ome &s;even or eight of that horrible &s;ect of Witches living in the Towne where he lived, a Towne in <HI>E&s;&s;ex</HI> called <HI>Maningtree,</HI> with divers other adjacent Witches of other towns, who every &s;ix weeks in the night (being alwayes on the Friday night) had their meeting clo&s;e by his hou&s;e, and had their &s;everall &s;olemne &s;acrifices there offered to the <HI>Devill,</HI> one of which this di&s;coverer heard &s;peaking to her <HI>Imps</HI> one night, and bid them goe to another Witch, who was thereupon apprehended, and &s;ear|ched by women who had for many yeares knowne the Devills marks, and found to have three teats about her, which hone&s;t women have not: &s;o upon command from the <HI>Ju&s;tice,</HI> they were to keep her from &s;leep two or three nights, expecting in that time to &s;ee her <HI>familiars,</HI> which the fourth night &s;he called in by their &s;everall names, and told them what &s;hapes, a quarter of an houre before they came in, there being ten of us in the roome, the fir&s;t &s;he called was</P>
<P N="1">1. <HI>Holt,</HI> who came in like a white kitling.</P>
<P N="2">2. <HI>Jarmara,</HI> who came in like a fat Spaniel without any legs at all, &s;he &s;aid &s;he kept him fat, for &s;he clapt her hand on her belly, and &s;aid he &s;uckt good blood from her body.</P>
<P N="3">3. <HI>Vinegar Tom,</HI> who was like a long-legg'd Greyhound, with an head like an Oxe, with a long taile and broad eyes, who when this di&s;coverer &s;poke to, and bade him goe to the place provided for him and his Angels, immediately transformed him&s;elfe into the &s;hape of a child of foure yeeres old without a head, and gave halfe a dozen turnes about the hou&s;e, and vani&s;hed at the doore.</P>
<P N="4">4. <HI>Sack and Sugar,</HI> like a black Rabbet.</P>
<P N="5">5. Newes, like a Polcat. All the&s;e vani&s;hed away in a little time. Immediately after this Witch confe&s;sed &s;everall other Witches, from whom &s;he had her <HI>Imps,</HI> and named to divers wo|men where their marks were, the number of their <HI>Marks,</HI> and <HI>Imps,</HI> and <HI>Imps</HI> names, as <HI>Elemauzer, Pyewacket, Peckin the Crown, Grizzel Greedigut, &amp;c.</HI> which no mortall could invent; and upon their &s;earches the &s;ame Markes were found, the &s;ame number, and in the &s;ame place, and the like confe&s;&s;ions from them of the &s;ame Imps, (though they knew not that we were told before) and &s;o
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peached one another thereabouts that joyned together in the like damnable practi&s;e, that in our Hundred in <HI>E&s;&s;ex,</HI> 29. were con|demned at once, 4. brought 25. Miles to be hanged, where this Di&s;coverer lives, for &s;ending the Devill like a Beare to kill him in his garden, &s;o by &s;eeing diver&s;e of the <GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 word"> Papps, and trying wayes with hundreds of them, he gained this experience, and for ought he knowes any man el&s;e may find them as well as he and his company, if they had the &s;ame skill and experience.</P>
<P>Quer. 5. <HI>Many poore People are condemned for having a Pap, or Teat about them, whereas many People (e&s;pecially antient People) are, and have been a long time troubled with naturall wretts on &s;everall parts of their bodies, and other naturall excre&s;&s;encies, as Hemerodes, Piles, Childbearing, &amp;c. and the&s;e &s;hall be judged only by one man a|lone, and a woman, and &s;o accu&s;ed or acquitted.</HI></P>
<P><HI>An&s;w,</HI> The parties &s;o judging can ju&s;tifie their skill to any, and &s;hew good rea&s;ons why &s;uch markes are not meerly naturall, neither that they can happen by any &s;uch naturall cau&s;e as is be|fore expre&s;sed, and for further an&s;wer for their private judge|ments alone, it is mo&s;t fal&s;e and untrue, for never was any man tryed by &s;earch of his body, but commonly a dozen of the able&s;t men in the pari&s;h or el&s;e where, were pre&s;ent, and mo&s;t com|monly as many ancient skilfull matrons and midwives pre&s;ent when the women are tryed, which marks not only he, and his company atte&s;t to be very &s;u&s;pitious, but all beholders, the skilful|e&s;t of them, doe not approve of them, but likewi&s;e a&s;sent that &s;uch tokens cannot in their judgements proceed from any the a|bove mentioned Cau&s;es.</P>
<P>Quer. 6. <HI>It is a thing impo&s;sible for any man or woman to judge rightly on &s;uch marks, they are &s;o neare to naturall excre&s;&s;encies, and they that finde them, dur&s;t not pre&s;ently give Oath they were drawne by evill &s;pirits, till they have u&s;ed unlawfull cour&s;es of torture to make them &s;ay any thing for ca&s;e and quiet, as who would not do? but I would know the rea&s;ons he &s;peakes of, how, and whereby to di&s;|cover the one from the other, and &s;o be &s;atisfied in that.</HI></P>
<P><HI>An&s;w.</HI> The rea&s;ons in breefe are three, which for the pre&s;ent he judgeth to differ from naturall marks; which are&punc; 1. He judgeth by the unu&s;ualnes of the place where he findeth the teats in or on
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their bodies, being farre di&s;tant from any u&s;uall place, from whence &s;uch naturall markes proceed, as if a witch plead the markes found are Emerods, if I finde them on the bottome of the back-bone, &s;hall I a&s;s<GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="3 letters"> with him, knowing they are not neere that veine, and &s;o others by child-bearing, when it may be they are in the contrary part?</P>
<P N="2">2. They are mo&s;t commonly in&s;en&s;ible, and feele neither pin, needle, aule, &amp;c. thru&s;t through them.</P>
<P N="3">3. The often variations and mutations of the&s;e marks into &s;e|verall formes, confirmes the matter; as if a Witch hear a month or two before that the <HI>Witch-finder</HI> (as they call him) is com|ming, they will, and have put out their Imps to others to &s;uckle them, even to their owne young and tender children; the&s;e upon &s;earch are found to have dry skinnes and filmes only, and be clo&s;e to the fle&s;h, keepe her 24. houres with a diligent eye, that none of her Spirits come in any vi&s;ible &s;hape to &s;uck her; the women have &s;een the next day after her Teats extended out to their for|mer filling length, full of corruption ready to bur&s;t, and leaving her alone then one quarter of an houre, and let the women go up againe, and &s;hee will have them drawn by her Imps clo&s;e againe: <HI>Probatum e&s;t.</HI> Now for an&s;wer to their tortures in its due place.</P>
<P>Quer. 7. <HI>How can it po&s;&s;ibly be that the Devill being a &s;pirit, and wants no nutriment or &s;u&s;tentation, &s;hould de&s;ire to &s;uck any blood? and indeed as he is a spirit he cannot draw any &s;uch excre&s;&s;ences, ha|ving neither fle&s;h nor bone, nor can be felt, &amp;c.</HI></P>
<P><HI>An&s;.</HI> He &s;eekes not their bloud, as if he could not &s;ub&s;i&s;t with|out that nouri&s;hment, but he often repairs to them, and gets it, the more to aggravate the Witches damnation, and to put her in mind of her <HI>Covenant:</HI> and as he is a Spirit and Prince of the ayre, he appeares to them in any &s;hape what&s;oever, which &s;hape is oc|ca&s;ioned by him through joyning of conden&s;ed thickned aire to|gether, and many times doth a&s;sume &s;hapes of many creatures; but to create any thing he cannot do it, it is only proper to God: But in this ca&s;e of drawing out of the&s;e Teats, he doth really en|ter into the body, reall, corporeall, &s;ub&s;tantiall creature, and for|ceth that Creature (he working in it) to his de&s;ired ends, and u|&s;eth the organs of that body to &s;peake withall to make his com|pact
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up with the Witches, be the creature Cat, Rat, Mou&s;e, &amp;c.</P>
<P>Quer. 8. <HI>When the&s;e Paps are fully di&s;covered, yet that will not &s;erve &s;ufficiently to convict them, but they mu&s;t be tortured and kept from &s;leep two or three nights, to di&s;tract them, and make them &s;ay any thing; which is a way to tame a wilde Colt, or Hawke, &amp;c.</HI></P>
<P><HI>An&s;.</HI> In the infancy of this di&s;covery it was not only thought fitting, but enjoyned in <HI>E&s;&s;ex</HI> and <HI>Suffolke</HI> by the Magi&s;trates, with this intention only, becau&s;e they being kept awake would be more the active to cal their Imps in open view the &s;ooner to their helpe, which oftentimes have &s;o happened; and never or &s;eldome did any Witch ever complaine in the time of their keeping for want of re&s;t, but after they had beat their heads together in the Goale; and after this u&s;e was not allowed of by the Judges and other Magi&s;trates, it was never &s;ince u&s;ed, which is a yeare and a halfe &s;ince, neither were any kept from &s;leep by any order or di|rection &s;ince; but peradventure their own &s;tubborne wills did not let them &s;leep, though tendered and offered to them.</P>
<P>Quer. 9. <HI>Be&s;ide that unrea&s;onable watching, they were extraordi|narily walked, till their feet were bli&s;tered, and &s;o forced through that cruelty to confe&s;&s;e, &amp;c.</HI></P>
<P><HI>An&s;.</HI> It was in the &s;ame beginning of this di&s;covery, and the meaning of walking of them at the highe&s;t extent of cruelty, was only they to walke about them&s;elves the night they were watched, only to keepe them waking: and the rea&s;on was this, when they did lye or &s;it in a chaire, if they did offer to couch downe, then the watchers were only to de&s;ire them to &s;it up and walke about, for indeed when they be &s;uffered &s;o to couch, immediately comes their Familiars into the room and &s;careth the watchers, and heart|neth on the Witch, though contrary to the true meaning of the &s;ame in&s;tructions, diver&s;e have been by ru&s;ticall People, (they hea|ring them confe&s;s to be Witches) mi&s;-u&s;ed, &s;poiled, and abu&s;ed, diver&s;e whereof have &s;uffered for the &s;ame, but could never be proved again&s;t this Di&s;coverer to have a hand in it, or con&s;ent to it; and hath likewi&s;e been un-u&s;ed by him and others, ever &s;ince the time they were kept from &s;leepe.</P>
<P>Quer. 10. <HI>But there hath been an abominable, inhumane, and un|mercifull
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tryall of tho&s;e poore creatures, by tying them, and heaving them into the water; a tryall not allowable by Law or con&s;cience, and I would faint know the rea&s;ons for that.</HI></P>
<P><HI>An&s;.</HI> It is not denyed but many were &s;o &s;erved as had Papps, and floated, others that had none were tryed with them and &s;unk, but marke the rea&s;ons.</P>
<P>For fir&s;t the Divels policie is great, in per&s;wading many to come of their owne accord to be tryed, perswading them their marks are &s;o clo&s;e they &s;hall not be found out, &s;o as diver&s;e have come 10. or 12. Miles to be &s;earched of their own accord, and hanged for their labour, (as one <HI>Meggs</HI> a Baker did, who lived within 7. Miles of <HI>Norwich,</HI> and was hanged at <HI>Norwich</HI> A&s;&s;izes for witchcraft) then when they find that the Devil tells them fal&s;e they reflect on him, and he (as 40. have confe&s;sed) advi&s;eth them to be &s;worne, and tels them they &s;hall &s;<GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 letter">nke and be cleared that way, then when they be tryed that way and floate, they &s;ee the Devill deceives them againe, and have &s;o laid open his trea|cheries.</P>
<P N="2">2. It was never brought in again&s;t any of them at their tryals as any evidence.</P>
<P N="3">3. King <HI>James</HI> in his <HI>Demonology</HI> &s;aith, it is a certaine rule, for (&s;aith he) Witches deny their bapti&s;me when they Covenant with the Devill, water being the &s;ole element thereof, and there|fore &s;aith he, when they be heaved into the water, the water refu|&s;eth to receive them into her bo&s;ome, (they being &s;uch Mi&s;creants to deny their bapti&s;me) and &s;uffers them to float, as the Froath on the Sea, which the water will not receive, but ca&s;ts it up and downe, till it comes to the earthy element the &s;hore, and there leaves it to con&s;ume.</P>
<P N="4">4. Ob&s;erve the&s;e generation of Witches, if they be at any time abu&s;ed by being called Whore, Theefe, &amp;c, by any where they live, they are the readie&s;t to cry and wring their hands, and &s;hed tears in abundance &amp; run with full and right &s;orrowfull acclama|tions to &s;ome Ju&s;tice of the Peace, and with many teares make their complaints: but now behold their &s;tupidity; nature or the elements reflection from them, when they are accu&s;ed for this ho|rible and damnable &s;in of Witchcraft, they never alter or change
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their countenances, nor let one Teare fall. This by the way, &s;wimming (by able Divines whom I reverence) is condemned for no way, and therefore of late hath, and for ever &s;hall be left.</P>
<P>Quer. 11. <HI>Oh! but if this torturing Witch-catcher can by all or any of the&s;e meanes wring out a word or two of confe&s;sion from any of the&s;e &s;tupified, ignorant, unitelligible, poore &s;illy creatures, (though none heare it but him&s;elfe) he will adde and put her in feare to con|fe&s;&s;e telling her, el&s;e &s;he &s;hall be hanged; but if &s;he doe, he will &s;et her at liberty, and &s;o put a word into her mouth, and make &s;uch a &s;illy creature confe&s;&s;e &s;he knowes not what.</HI></P>
<P><HI>An&s;w.</HI> He is of a better con&s;cience, and for your better under|&s;tanding of him, he doth thus unca&s;e him&s;elfe to all, and declares what confe&s;&s;ions (though made by a Witch again&s;t her &s;elfe) he allowes not of, and doth altogether account of no validity, or worthy of credence to be given to it, and ever did &s;o account it, and ever likewi&s;e &s;hall.</P>
<P N="1">1. He utterly denyes that confe&s;&s;ion of a Witch to be of any validity, when it is drawn from her by any torture or violence what&s;oever; although after watching, walking, or &s;wimming, di|ver&s;e have &s;uffered, yet peradventure Magi&s;trates with much care and diligence did &s;olely and fully examine them after &s;leepe, and con&s;ideration &s;ufficient.</P>
<P N="2">2. He utterly denyes that confe&s;&s;ion of a Witch, which is drawn from her by flattery, viz. <HI>if you will confe&s;&s;e you &s;hall go home, you &s;hall not go to the Goals, nor be hanged, &amp;c.</HI></P>
<P N="3">3. He utterly denyes that confe&s;&s;ion of a With, when &s;he con|fe&s;seth any improbability, impo&s;&s;ibility, as <HI>flying in the ayre, riding on a broom, &amp;c.</HI></P>
<P N="4">4. He utterly denyes a confe&s;&s;ion of a Witch, when it is inter|rogated to her, and words put into her mouth, to be of any force or effect: as to &s;ay to a &s;illy (yet Witch wicked enough) <HI>you have foure Imps have you not?</HI> She an&s;wers affirmatively, Yes: <HI>did they not &s;uck you?</HI> Yes, &s;aith &s;he: <HI>Are not their names &s;o, and &s;o?</HI> Yes, &s;aith &s;hee: <HI>Did not you &s;end &s;uch an Impe to kill my child?</HI> Yes &s;aith &s;he this being all her confe&s;&s;ion after this manner, it is by him accompted nothing, and he earne&s;tly doth de&s;ire that all Ma|gi&s;trates and Jurors would a little more then ever they did, exa|mine
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witne&s;ses, about the interrogated confe&s;&s;ions.</P>
<P>Quer. 12. <HI>If all the&s;e confe&s;&s;ions be denyed, I wonder what he will make a confe&s;&s;ion, for &s;ure it is, all the&s;e wayes have been u&s;ed and took for good confe&s;sions, and many have &s;uffered for them, and I know not what, he will then make a confe&s;sion.</HI></P>
<P><HI>An&s;w.</HI> Yes, in brief he will declare what confe&s;&s;ion of a Witch is of validity and force in his judgement, to hang a Witch: when a Witch is fir&s;t found with teats, then &s;eque&s;tred from her hou&s;e, which is onely to keep her old a&s;sociates from her, and &s;o by good coun&s;ell brought into a &s;ad condition, by under&s;tanding of the horriblene&s;s of her &s;in, and the judgements threatned again&s;t her; and knowing the Devils malice and &s;ubtile circumventions, is brought to remor&s;e and &s;orrow for complying with Satan &s;o long, and di&s;obeying Gods &s;acred Commands, doth then de&s;ire to unfold her mind with much bitterne&s;s, and then without any of the before-mentioned hard u&s;ages or que&s;tions put to her, doth of her owne accord declare what was the occa&s;ion of the Devils ap|pearing to her, whether ignorance, pride, anger, malice, &amp;c. was predominant over her, &s;he doth then declare what &s;peech they had, what likene&s;s he was in, what voice he had, what familiars he &s;ent her, what number of &s;pirits, what names they had, what &s;hape they were in, what imployment &s;he &s;et them about to &s;e|verall per&s;ons in &s;everall places, (unknowne to the hearers) all which mi&s;chiefes being proved to be done, at the &s;ame time &s;he confe&s;sed to the &s;ame parties for the &s;ame cau&s;e, and all effected, is te&s;timony enough again&s;t her for all her denyall.</P>
<P>Que&s;t. 13. <HI>How can any po&s;sibly beleeve that the Devill and the Witch joyning together, &s;hould have &s;uch power, as the Witches con|fe&s;&s;e, to kill &s;uch and &s;uch a man, child, hor&s;e, cow, or the like; if we be|leeve they can doe what they will, then we derogate from Gods power, who for certaine limits the Devill and the Witch; and I cannot be|leeve they have any power at all.</HI></P>
<P><HI>An&s;w.</HI> God &s;uffers the Devill many times to doe much hurt, and the devill doth play many times the deluder and impo&s;tor with the&s;e Witches, in per&s;wading them that they are the cau&s;e of &s;uch and &s;uch a murder wrought by him with their con&s;ents, when and indeed neither he nor they had any hand in it, as thus:
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We mu&s;t needs argue, he is of a long &s;tanding, above 6000. yeers, then he mu&s;t needs be the be&s;t Scholar in all knowledges of arts and tongues, &amp; &s;o have the be&s;t skill in <HI>Phy&s;icke,</HI> judgment in <HI>Phy&s;i|ognomie,</HI> and knowledge of what di&s;ea&s;e is reigning or predomi|nant in this or that mans body, (and &s;o for cattell too) by rea&s;on of his long experience. This &s;ubtile tempter knowing &s;uch a man lyable to &s;ome &s;udden di&s;ea&s;e, (as by experience I have found) as <HI>Pluri&s;ie, Impo&s;thume,</HI> &amp;c. he re&s;orts to divers Witches; if they know the man, and &s;eek to make a difference between the Wit|ches and the party, it may be by telling them he hath threatned to have them very &s;hortly &s;earched, and &s;o hanged for Witches, then they all con&s;ult with <HI>Satan</HI> to &s;ave them&s;elves, and <HI>Satan</HI> &s;tands ready prepared, with a <HI>What will you have me doe for you,</HI><NOTE PLACE="marg">The Divells &s;peech to the Witches.</NOTE> <HI>my deare and neare&s;t children, covenanted and compacted with me in my helli&s;h league, and &s;ealed with your blood, my delicate firebrand-darlings.</HI> Oh thou (&s;ay they) that at the fir&s;t did&s;t promi&s;e to &s;ave us thy &s;ervants from any of our deadly enemies di&s;covery, and did&s;t pro|mi&s;e to avenge and &s;lay all tho&s;e, we plea&s;ed, that did offend us; Murther that wretch &s;uddenly who threatens the down-fall of your loyall &s;ubjects. He then promi&s;eth to effect it. Next newes is heard the partie is dead, he comes to the witch, and gets a world of reverence, credence and re&s;pect for his power and activene&s;s, when and indeed the di&s;ea&s;e kills the party, not the Witch, nor the Devill, (onely the Devill knew that &s;uch a di&s;ea&s;e was predomi|nant) and the witch aggravates her damnation by her familiari|ty and con&s;ent to the Devill, and &s;o comes likewi&s;e in compa&s;s of the Lawes. This is Satans u&s;uall impo&s;tring and deluding, but not his con&s;tant cour&s;e of proceeding, for he and the witch doe mi&s;chiefe too much. But I would that Magi&s;trates and Ju|rats would a little examine witne&s;ses when they heare witches confe&s;s &s;uch and &s;uch a murder, whether the party had not long time before, or at the time when the witch grew &s;u&s;pected, &s;ome di&s;ea&s;e or other predominant, which might cau&s;e that i&s;sue or effect of death.</P>
<P>Quer. 14. <HI>All that the witch-finder doth, is to fleece the country of their money, and therefore rides and goes to townes to have im|ployment, and promi&s;eth them faire promi&s;es, and it may be doth no|thing
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for it, and po&s;&s;e&s;&s;eth many men that they have &s;o many wizzards and &s;o many witches in their towne, and &s;o hartens them on to enter|taine him.</HI></P>
<P><HI>An&s;.</HI> You doe him a great deale of wrong in every of the&s;e particulars. For, fir&s;t,</P>
<P N="1">1. He never went to any towne or place, but they rode, writ, or &s;ent often for him, and were (for ought he knew) glad of him.</P>
<P N="2">2. He is a man that doth di&s;claime that ever he detected a witch, or &s;aid, Thou art a witch; only after her tryall by &s;earch, and their owne confe&s;&s;ions, he as others may judge.</P>
<P N="3">3. La&s;tly, judge how he fleeceth the Country, and inriches him&s;elfe, by con&s;idering the va&s;t &s;umme he takes of every towne, he demands but 20.&s;. a town, &amp; doth &s;ometimes ride 20. miles for that, &amp; hath no more for all his charges thither and back again (&amp; it may be &s;tayes a weeke there) and finde there 3. or 4. witches, or if it be but one, cheap enough, and this is the great &s;umme he takes to maintaine his Companie with 3. hor&s;es.</P>
<Q>Judicet ullus.</Q>
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