Examinations taken before Thomas Higgons, mayor of the town of Rye in the county of Sussex, and the jurats of the same town, as appeareth upon the margin, the 30th day of July anno regni domini nostri Jacobi dei gratia regis nunc anglie etc. sexto annoque regis sui Scotie 42do. Margery Harry the wife of […]
Joan the wife of Anthony Harry of Rye butcher sayeth that about a year past, the time certain she remembreth not, her sister Thomas Harry his wife, came unto her house, and made her acquainted that Mistress Taylor did speak unto her to help her unto a piece of powder beef to make her daughter, […]
Questions to be demanded of Mistress Taylor upon her second examination. 1 Whether there were not pales pulled down in your garden for Swapper’s wife to come into the said garden to dig for money, and who pulled them down, and why were they pulled down, and whether you did not help dig there. 2 […]
14 Whether have not you seen any fairies or other spirits, and how ?many of them have you seen together, and when and where saw you them, or whether did you not tell Swapper’s wife that you had seen some, or many, or 80 or a 100 of such fairies or spirits. 15 Whether did […]
23 Whether did not you then tell the said Swapper’s wife, after she came down the second time out of the chamber, that the bottle in which you had given her the said water was not where she had set it, and whether when she went to see was the same there or no. 24 […]
The second examination of Anne Taylor the wife of George Taylor of Rye gentleman, taken before Master Thomas Higgons, mayor of the town of Rye and the jurats his brethren, viz. Master Richard Portriffe, Master John Styner, Master Richard Cockram, Master Richard Fowtrell, Master Alexander Fowkes and Master William Tharpe, the third day of August […]
12 To the xiith she sayeth she never used any such words unto Swapper’s wife as is contained in that interrogatory, neither doth she know of anything mentioned in that interrogatory. 13 To the xiiith she sayeth she never heard any spirits talking together, neither doth she know nor can say of anything mentioned in […]
27 To the xxviith she sayeth that before or in Master Hamon’s sickness she did never say any such words of Master Hamon as is mentioned in that interrogatory, or did use any such speeches. 28 To the xxviiith she sayeth she never gave roses or gillyflowers to her said son to any such intent […]
[margin:] Richard Portriffe mayor, John Styner, Richard Fowtrell, Alexander Fowkes Examinations taken before Richard Portriffe Mayor of the ancient town of Rye in the county of Sussex and the jurats of the same town, the 14th day of November anno regni domini nostri Jacobi dei gratia regis nunc anglie etc. sexto etc. Scotie 42nd, 1608. […]
the said Susan, “We know well enough wherefore you come, she need not to send you up to know who did it, for she knoweth who did it.” Whereupon one of the spirits called Richard (as this examinate remembreth that she the said Susan did tell him) made a sign w— mouth unto the said […]
