3 Item. Do you not know or have heard of certain brimstone and gunpowder that should be given unto the spirits by Susan Swapper or by your daughter Mistress Taylor or by yourself? Where was that brimstone and gunpowder had, and whether did not your daughter know thereof or what matter or thing can you say or have heard concerning the same gunpowder and brimstone?
4 Item. Did not you at any time demand of old Stephen Frencham’s wife, or of any other person, in Master the time of Master Hamon’s sickness,
How he did? and you being answered by Goodwife Frencham, or some other person,
That now, God be thanked, he is somewhat amended, did not you then reply and say,
By God, and if he – the said Master Hamon – did escape that sickness, you would be hanged lose your mark, for that you did know that he was taken at such a time, and under such a planet, as he could never escape it. And that he was taken under such a planet as Master Taylor’s da[u]ghter was taken.
or words to that effect? Declare the truth therein.
5 Item. If you did us[e] any such speeches, how and by what means do you know that the said Master Ha[mo]n was taken under such a planet as [he coul]d not escape that sickness, and [under] what planet was Master Taylor’s d[aughter] taken, that she died thereof?
[end of sheet 2]
[RYE 13/20]
