First interrogatory for Anne Taylor / sheet 3

9 Item did not the said Susan the next day after, tell you that she was in good hope now that the sprites had forsaken her, for that she was not troubled with them that night, yea or no? If yea, did not you then tell her that you self had been troubled with them that night, and in what sort did you tell her that you were troubled with them? And did not your mother setting by the fire with your ch[i]ld bein --- sick know thereof?

10 Item did not the said Susan the day following also tell you that she slept that night also quiet, and that she was in good hope they had clean forsaken her, yea or no? If yea, did not you use speeches to the said Susan to this effect, that the said Susan had spoken or made some person acquainted of her proceedings, or of your communication togethers, which was the occasion of the hindrance or hurt of that which should be releved revealed to the said Susan? Did not you or any of you doubt that such speeches as was used to the husband of the said Susan might be a hindrance thereunto?

11 Item did not the said Susan tell you the next day after, that 2 of the said spirits, viz. a man and a woman, appeared unto her, and that the man asked her when were you, by the name of young Anne Bennett, with ?t- her the said Susan? And whether you had found or had any thing in the summer house? And that those things which you were troubled with all was true, and that the field at Weeks Green was ploughed, and the crock was broken, and some part of the money found and the rest left behind, or words to that effect. And what answer made you to ?the ?same? And whether that you had a groat of the same ----------

12 Item did not the said Susan after Whitsun---- past tell you that the two men and women appeared unto her again, and that one of the women said unto her, “now you are well”? And she should answer “yea, I thank God”. And then the woman should say unto her again, “thou must go with me”. And that she should ask her again, “whether must I go with you?yea or no. And whether did y that her girl coming up the stairs, the woman vanished away? And whether did not you then tell the said Susan, that she should hear more soon. And willed her that if they they should ask her

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