.

"As to the first part, the malefices, or _corpora
delicti_, are proven by unexceptionable witnesses to
have fallen out in such an odd and extraordinary
manner, that it points out some other causes than the
ordinary course of nature to have produced these
effects.

"For clearing of this, particularly in relation to the
torments of Bargarran's daughter, you may consider not
only the extraordinary things that could not proceed
from a natural disease, which lie proven before you,
but also several other matters of fact, which is
notour, have been seen by some of yourselves, and lie
here in a journal of her sufferings; every article
whereof is attested by the subscriptions of persons of
entire credit, before the honourable commissioners
appointed by his Majesty's Privy Council, for making
inquiry thereanent.

"This girl's throwing out of hairs, pins, and coals of
greater heat than that of her body or blood; as also
so dry that they appeared not to have come out of her
stomach; nor had she any press of vomiting at the
time; that she declared the same to have been put into
her mouth by her tormentors--is deponed by Dr.
Brisbane, in his opinion, not to proceed from a
natural cause....

"She told that her tormentors were giving her a glass
of sack, an orange peel, etc., and accordingly she was
seen to move her lips, and to have an orange peel
betwixt her teeth, though there was no visible hand
that could have done it.

"She advertised beforehand that one of her tormentors
was to be at the door at a particular hour, and that
another of them was in the kitchen before any did tell
her thereof; which accordingly fell out....

"When her glove fell down from her, at a time when
several persons were about her, it was lifted again by
a hand invisible to them.

"She was not only transported through the hall and
down stairs without perceiving her feet to touch the
ground, but also was hurried in a flight up stairs;
and when a minister endeavoured to retain her, he
found a sensible weight, besides her own strength,
drawing her from him.

"She was most vehemently distorted upon attempting to
tell, or even write, the names of her tormentors....

"She