[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 […]

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 […]

But afterwards at other times she hath seen divers shapes, sometimes of two gentlewomen and some other time of a man drinking with a np napkin before him. And she further sayeth, that Master Taylor and Mistress Taylor, both of them, after the death of his daughter, w willed this examinate to Inquire of the […]

the said Mistress Taylor, being together in the parlour a spinning and a carding, of a sudden they did hear a great stamping in the loft. And then Mistress Taylor said to this examinate, “Hark, now they be come, go see what they lack.” But this examinate answered her, “You have been a great while […]

This deposition taken 20th November ——– The examination of Elizabeth King the wife of Nicholas King of Rye, lighterman, be taken before Master Mayor and his brethren of Rye the 20th day of November anno regis nostri Jacobi etc. quinto. She — this examinate sayeth that she hath been divers times at her sister—Swapper’s house […]

This deposition taken the 20th November quinto Jacobi. The examination of Philip Williams of Rye, tailor, taken before the Mayor and jurats of Rye, the 20th day of November anno regni domini nostri Jacobi dei gratia regis nunc anglie etc quinto. The said Philip Williams sayeth that about a three years past, as he remembreth, […]

[margin:] Master Mayor, Master Cockram, Master Styner, Master Fowkes. The third examination of Susan Swapper taken before Thomas Higgons, Mayor of the ancient town of Rye in the county of Sussex, and the jurats of the same town, the third day of December anno domini 1607 annoque regni domini nostri Jacobi dei gratia regis nunc […]

And after Master Mayor’s death, the said Mistress Taylor did further say to this examinate, said that It were no matter if the devil did fetch away his body for, or to be, an example for others, for she doubted that the devil had his soul already, for that he was an evil liver. For, […]

And this examinate did then carry down the child, and went unto Mistress Taylor and teld her what was done, and delivered her the child, and she said “Alas, poor child, thou wast afraid. How white he doth look!” And afterwards, when gillyflowers were ripe, she gathered four nosegays, and sent them by the child […]

Examinations taken before Thomas Higgons mayor of Rye, the sixth day of December anno domini 1607 annosque regis Jacobi etc. quinto, as followeth Elizabeth Michenor, the wife of Nicholas Michenor of Rye aforesaid labourer, sayeth that about midsummer last past, whether before or after she remembreth not, towards the evening this examinate did see Roger […]