Page:The Examination and Confession of certain Witches at Chelmsford in the County of Essex.djvu/34

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The Examination

when he perceived it puttinge on his ſhoe, and had touched it with his fote, he being ſodenly amaſed aſked of her what it was, and ſhe bad him kil it and he was forthwith taken with a lamenes wherof he can not healed.

After all this when ſhee had kept this Cat by the ſpace of xv or xvi yeare, and as ſome ſaye (though vntruly) beinge wery of it, ſhe came to one mother Waterhouſe her neyghbour (a pore woman) when ſhe was going to the oven and deſired her to geue her a cake, and ſhe wold geue her a thing that ſhe ſhould be the better for ſo long as ſhe liued, and this mother Waterhouſe gaue her a cake, where vpon ſhe brought her this cat in her apron and taught her as ſhe was inſtructed before by her grandmother Eue, telling her that ſhe muſt cal him Sathan and geue him of her bloude