Agnes Browne, } Arthur Bill, }
} } Witches.
Ioane Vaughan,} Hellen Ienkinson,}

Mary Barber.

Who were all executed at Northampton the 22 of Iuly last, 1612.

'London. Printed by Tho. Purfoot for Arthur Iohnson. 1612.' A rare and
valuable little black-letter tract.

[114] 'The Wonderful Discoverie of Witches in the County of Lancaster.' By
Thomas Potts. 1613. Thomas Wright's 'Narrative of Sorcery and Magic.'
1851.

[115] "Ligh in," perhaps lykinge, lusty, or craske.

[116] "Leath," flexible.

[117] The chrism was the white cloth placed over the brow of a
newly-baptized child in the Roman Catholic service. When children died
within the month they were called chrisoms.

[118] "Farrandly," fair, handsome.

[119] "Harne panne," brain case, cranium.

[120] Gethsemane.

[121] "Deere," hurt.

[122] Potts's 'Discovery.' Webster's 'Displaying.'

[123] A 'Treatise of Witchcraft.' By Alexander Roberts, B.D., and Preacher
of God's word at King's Linne in Norfolk. 1616.

[124] Tract. Printed at London by G. Eld for I. Barnes, dwelling in the
long Walke, neare Christ-Church. 1619.

[125] Wright and Hutchinson.

[126] Wright, quoting Lord Londesborough's MSS.

[127] Wright.

[128] Webster. Wright. Harleian MSS.

[129] 'A most Certain Strange and true Discovery of a witch, being taken
by some Parliamentary Forces as she was standing on a small planck-board
and sayling on it over the River of Newberry. 1643.' Evidently a political
matter, and perhaps with no substratum of truth in the story at all.

[130] A collection of Modern Relations. 1693.

[131] Matthew's own account of them in a little tract called 'Certaine
Queries Answered, which have been and are likely to be objected against
Matthew Hopkins, in his way of finding out witches,' was slightly
different.--1. Holt, like a white kitling.--2. Jarmara, a fat spaniel
without any legs at all, which she said she kept fat, for he sucked good
blood from her body.--3. Vinegar Tom, a long-legged greyhound with an head
like an ox, a long tail and broad eyes, who, when Hopkins spoke to, and
bade him go to the place provided for him and his angels, transformed
himself into the shape of a child of foure years without a head, and gave
half a dozen turns about the house and vanished at the door.--4.
Sack-and-sugar, like a black rabbit; and 5. Newes, like a polecat. Also he
said that no mortal could invent