24 Item did not the said Susan tell you that Richard, one of her familiars, had willed her to speak unto you for a piece of cloth, if it were never so old, of your length, or else a piece of inkle or an old hairlace of that length, yea or no? If yea, what answer did you make unto her?
25 Item did not you deliver unto the said S[usan]---- nosegays to give unto the ------ termed them, yea or no? And have yo[u] no------ and sundry times given unto the said Susan, and sent unto her, herbs to be laid in the windows where the said Sw spirits or fairies did resort, yea or no? And have you not rebuked the said Susan for if that she sometimes stayed too long [ere] that she fetched herbs for them, alleging and saying that if you do anger them, you shall see whereto it will come?
26 Item did she not tell you that when Sir Thomas Waller came unto Rye about the musters, how that she the said Susan had seen one of her familiars at Strand at the mills, and how that some what p[u]ll[e]d her by the coat? And did not you blame her, and tell her she was never within? And did she not afterward tell you, that she going up that day into the cha her garret for a shirt for her husband, hearing a piece of ordnance going shot off, shou and a trumpet sound, should say unto her self, “Lord have mercy upon us, there is a great troop of men come to the town, and great joy”? And that her spirit Richard should spake and say, “Aye, and as much sorrow”, or words to that effect? And what answer did you ---- unto it?
27 Item that day that Robert Burditt was slain, did not the said Susan tell you then or any time since, that she had seen one the m familiars or spirits in the Gungarden betimes in the morning? And after that he was slain, did not you tell her that his bein the familiars being in the garden in the morning, was a token of his death?
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