that the spirit Richard willed her to go to young Anne Bennett for a piece of linen cloth, which accordingly this examinate did. And Mistress Taylor did give her a piece of linen about the bigness of a napkin, which she carried home and laid it in the window of the chamber which the said Mistress Taylor kept for the spirits.
And Mistress Taylor did then go home to this examinate’s house with her, and after Mistress Taylor and this examinate had stayed in the parlour about some half hour, they did hear a stomp in the chamber. And Mistress Taylor willed this examinate to
Go up to them, which to ask what they did lack, which accordingly she did. And when this examinate came up, the spirit Richard appeared unto her and said
The piece of linen which you brought is too little, and willed her to speak to Anne Bennett for a bigger piece.
Whereupon this examinate going down to Mistress Taylor, made her acquainted therewith. And then the said Mistress Taylor willed this examinate to
Go home with her, and she should have a bigger piece.
And so they went to Master Taylor’s house, and the said Mistress Taylor did rend a sheet asunder, and did give the bigger half thereof unto this examinate to carry to the spirits, and to give it them. The which piece of linen she carried up into the chamber where the spirits did use, and did lay the same upon certain hemp that was there.
And there it lay three days, and then she willed the said Mistress Taylor willed her to
Fetch the same piece of linen again and to bring it unto her, which accordingly this examinate did.
But she sayeth that she verily thinketh that the spirits did use the same, for that the same was soiled, and one end there was clay upon it. And Mistress Taylor then said she
Did verily believe that they the spirits had carried the same into the ground with them.
7 She being examined upon the apparitions in the glass windows, she never knew of any such apparitions or sights until such time as Mistress Taylor herself did tell this examinate of the same, and that was the same day that Master Taylor’s daughter died was buried.
And then the said Mistress Taylor did go up into her chamber with alone, and called Master Taylor up alone unto her to show him the sights in the window. And after Master Taylor came down, then the said Mistress Taylor called up her mother to see the same. And she went up, and when she came down again her mother said she
Did see certain sights in the window, but not so much as Master Taylor and his wife did see. And then the said Mistress Taylor did will this examinate to
Come up and see the same, which accordingly she did.
And she sayeth that at that time she could see nothing, but the shape of a head of a man in Master Fowkes his window.
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