And further the deponent saith not.
"Taken on oath before the Commissioners of Hampton, the 8th of the 2nd
mo., 1656.
"WILLIAM FULLER.
"HENRY DOW.
"Vera copea:
"THOS. BRADBURY, Recorder.
"Sworn before, the 4th of September, 1656,
"EDWARD RAWSON.
"Thomas Philbrick testifieth that Goody Cole told him that if any of his
calves did eat of her grass, she hoped it would poison them; and it fell
out that one never came home again, and the other coming home died soon
after.
"Henry Morelton's wife and Goodwife Sleeper depose that, talking about
Goody Cole and Marston's child, they did hear a great scraping against
the boards of the window, which was not done by a cat or dog.
"Thomas Coleman's wife testifies that Goody Cole did repeat to another
the very words which passed between herself and her husband, in their
own house, in private; and Thomas Ormsby, the constable of Salisbury,
testifies, that when he did strip Eunice Cole of her shift, to be
whipped, by the judgment of the Court at Salisbury, he saw a witch's
mark under her left breast.
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