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 […]
6 Item. Have not you or your daughter Mistress Taylor been at any time troubled with spirits or visions of fairies? If yea, how and in what order have you been so troubled with them? 7 Item. Did not Master Taylor’s daughter in her sickness revile you and your daughter Mistress Taylor, or any of […]
11 Item. Did not you at any time take upon you to heal one Mary the wife of William Carpenter of Rye of the toothache? If yea, what did she give you for your pains? Also did not you require of her the paring of her nails, which she did pare of, and give unto […]
Depositions Examinations taken before Master Richard Portriffe, Mayor of the Ancient Town of Rye in the county of Sussex, and the Jurats of the same town, the xiith day of December Anno domini 1608 annosque regni regis Jacobi etc. nunc Anglie etc. sexto. 1 To that Interrogatory she sayeth she knoweth not anything in that […]
7 To the viith she sayeth she doth not remember of any such speeches or other to the effect as is contained in that interrogatory. 8 To the viiith she doth not believe or think that they came any other wise to their death or end but by the handyworks of God. 9 To the […]
Articles to be ministered unto Elizabeth Bishop of Rye widow 1 Imprimis. Hath not your father Master Robert Carpenter, late of Rye jurat deceased, in his lifetime admonished you in your lifetime to have a care not to meddle or to deal with Anne the wife of George Taylor of Rye gentleman? And How long […]
Articles to be ministered unto Elizabeth Bishop of Rye widow Imprimis do you not know of heard Clement Whitfield her next neighbour? And whether did not the said Anne Taylor say, that she would be even with the said Master Whitfield, or some of his, or that she would warrant you that she had touched […]
Depositions taken before Master Richard Portriffe, mayor of Rye in the county of Sussex, the sixth day of February anno domini 1608, annoque regni regis Jacobi etc. sexto. Elizabeth Bishop widow of Rye aforesaid, aged 30 years and upwards, being sworn and examined, deposeth and sayeth as followeth. That is to say, that Master Robert […]
Depositions taken the 8th day of June Anno Regni dm’ nunc Jacobi dei gratias Regis nunc Anglie etc. 7th annos regni s’m Scotland 42nd, before Master Richard Portriffe Mayor of the town of Rye in the county of Sussex, and Richard Cockram and William Tharpe of the same, jurats and justices of peace of the […]
Margery Convers the wife of Robert Convers, Recorder of the town of Rye, aged 44 years or thereabouts, being sworn upon the Holy Evangelist, deposeth and saieth as followeth, viz. That she this deponent immediately after the death of Master Taylor’s child, named George Taylor, did go into the house of Master Taylor to see […]
