uny
by the hand, and afterwards by the face; and with her nails
scratched her till blood came, and would by no means leave her
till she was taken from her, and afterwards the child would
still be pressing towards her, and making signs of anger
conceived against her.

Deborah the younger daughter was held in such extreme manner,
that her parents wholly despaired of her life, and therefore
could not bring her to the Assizes.

_The Evidence which was given concerning these two children was to this
effect._

SAMUEL PACY, a merchant of Leystoff aforesaid (a man who carried
himself with much soberness during the trial, from whom
proceeded no words either of passion or malice though his
children were so greatly afflicted), sworn and examined,
deposeth. That his younger daughter Deborah, upon Thursday the
10th of October last, was suddenly taken with a lameness in her
legs, so that she could not stand, neither had she any strength
in her limbs to support her, and so she continued until the 17th
day of the same month, which day being fair and sunshiny, the
child desired to be carried on the east part of the house to be
set upon the bank which looketh upon the sea; and whilst she was
sitting there, Amy Duny came to this deponent's house to buy
some herrings, but being denied she went away discontented, and
presently returned again, and was denied, and likewise the third
time and was denied as at first; and at her last going away, she
went away grumbling; but what she said was not perfectly
understood. But at the very same instant of time, the child was
taken with most violent fits, feeling most extreme pains in her
stomach, like the pricking of pins, and shrieking out in a most
dreadful manner like unto a whelp; and not like unto a sensible
creature. And in this extremity the child continued to the great
grief of the parents until the 30th of the same month. During
this time this deponent sent for one Dr. Feavor, a doctor of
physic, to take his advice concerning his child's distemper; the
Doctor being come, he saw the child in those fits but could not
conjecture, as he then told this deponent, and afterwards
affirmed in open court, at this trial, what might be the cause
of the child's affliction. And this deponent farther saith, That
by reason of the circumstances aforesaid, an