[margin: Master Mayor, Master Styner, Master Swayne, Master Cockram, Master Ensing, Master Fowtrell, Master Tharpe]
The second examination of Susan Swapper taken before Thomas Higgons, Mayor of Rye in the county of Sussex, and the jurats of the same town, the 20th November anno regni domini nostri Jacobi dei gratia regis nunc anglie etc. quinto as followeth.
1 The said Susan Swapper sayeth that when she called her husband to help her, and said there was a thing would carry her away, that the spirit Richard took hold of her and would have by the arm and gripped her, and that her arm was lame by reason thereof two days, that she could not help herself. And she made Mistress Taylor acquainted therewith, and she said
If the same did not amend, that she would give to her the said Susan ointment that should help her.
2 The said Susan being examined upon the third page of her examination, who it to explain who the spirit did mean was troubled with those things which the spirit spake of, she sayeth that the spirit did mean thereby young Anne Bennett. And that the said Richard did tell her that that
?Those things that she was troubled withall was true, ?which it was money that was hidden amongst the thyme in Mistress Taylor’s garden.
And that Mistress Taylor did know thereof, and did tell this examinate that
The ground where the thyme grew is hollow, and that the same had been vaulted.
3 ?Th She being further demanded to explain herself and to show the reason why Mistress Taylor would not let out her chamber to any until she heard further, sayeth that the said Mistress Taylor said that
She kept that chamber for the spirits to walk in, and that was the reason she would not hired [sic] out.
And further to that point she cannot say.
4 She sayeth that the spirit which she saw go into the church went all in white, as he did before.
Upon Mistress Taylor’s examination
5 She sayeth that Mistress Taylor did never will her to
Make Master Bracegirdle acquainted with the apparition of the said spirits. But she made this examinate swear that she should not disclose the same to anybody.
6 She being demanded whether the spirits did send her to Mistress Taylor for half a sheet, she sayeth that Mistress Taylor did send by this examinate a piece of linen cloth about the bigness of a
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