her to complain to the Justice against him, for accusing of her. But she having used several Put offs, said, she would do worse than fetch a Warrant. After which, the Girl grew worse than before, and at the end of a Fit, she tells the Examinant when she shall have another, which happens accordingly, and affirms, that Style tells her when the next Fit shall come. He informs farther, That Monday Night after Christmas-day, about 9 of the Clock, and 4 or 5 times since, about the same Hour of the Night, his Daughter had been more Tormented than formerly, and that though held in a Chair by four or five People, sometimes six, by the Arms, Legs, and Shoulders, she would rise out of her Chair, and raise her Body about three or four Foot high. And that after, in her Fits, she would have Holes made in her Hand, Wrist, Face, Neck, and other parts of her Body, which the Informant, and others that saw them, conceived to be with Thorns; for they saw Thorns in her Flesh, and some they hooked out. That upon the Child's pointing with her Finger from place to place, the Thorns and Holes immediately appeared to the Informant and others looking on. And as soon as the Child can speak after the Fit, she saith, that Widow Style did prick her with Thorns in those several places, which was horrible Torment, and she seemed to the Informant and others standing by, to be in extreme Pain and Torture. The Child hath been so tormented and pricked with Thorns four several Nights, at which time the Informant and many other People have seen the Flesh rise up in little Bunches, in which Holes did appear. The Pricking held about a Quarter of an Hour at a time, during each of the four Fits, and the Informant hath seen the Child take out some of those Thorns.
The same Rich. Hill, Examined Jan. 26. 1664 informs, that when he rode from the Justice's House, with a Warrant to bring Style before him, his Horse on a sudden sat down on his Breech, and he could not after ride him, but as soon as he attempted to get up, his Horse would set down and paw with his Fore-Feet. He saith farther, That since Style was Examined before the Justice, and made her Confession to him, she hath acknowledged to the Informant, that she had hurt his Daughter, and that one Ann Bishop, and Alice Duke, did join in Bewitching her.
Taken upon Oath, before me,
Rob. Hunt.
