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seen Alice Duke's Familiar suck her in that Shape. As also how the Bewitching of Edward Watt's Child by Alice Duke her saying, A Pox on her, agrees with the Promise of the Devil to her, which is expresly, That if she Cursed any thing with a Pox take it, she should have her purpose. She also testifying of the Baptizing the Image of Eliz. Hill, and of those Forms of Words, Thout, tout a tout, and Rentum Tormentum at their going to their Meetings and departing, plainly shews these are not transacted in Dreams, but in reality. The Devil also as in other Stories leaving an ill Smell behind him, seems to imply the reality of the business, those ascititious Particles he held together in his visible Vehicle, being loosened at his vanishing, and so offending the Nostrils by their floating and diffusing themselves in the open Air.

RELAT. V.

Which is the Examination and Confession of Christian Green, aged about Thirty three Years, Wife of Robert Green of Brewham, in the County of Somerset, taken before Robert Hunt Esq; March 2, 1664.

THIS Examinant saith, That about a Year and a half since, (she being in great Poverty) one Catherine Green of Brewham, told her, that if she would, she might be in a better Condition, and then persuaded her to make a Covenant with the Devil. Being afterwards together in one Mr. Hussey's ground in Brewham Forest about Noon, Catherine called for the Devil, who appeared in the shape of a Man in blackish Cloaths, and said somewhat to Catherine, which Christian could not hear. After which the Devil (as she conceiv'd him) told the Examinant, that she should want neither Cloaths, Victuals, nor Money, if she would give her Body and Soul to him, keep his Secrets, and suffer him to Suck her once in 24 Hours; which at last, upon his and Catherine Greens perswasion, she yielded to; then the Man in Black prickt the fourth Finger of her Right-hand, between the middle and upper Joints, where the signs yet remains, and took two Drops of her Blood on his