Q. Did you not mutter some words when you used these charms?
A. Yes.
Q. What are they?
A. ‘Cloaths, cloaths, cloaths, and other things lost.’
Q. Whether did you use such charms afore Hallow-een as throwing nuts in the fire, sowing seeds up and down the house, and herbs to every corner, going backwards from the fire to the door, round the close backwards, up the stairs backward, and to your bed backward?
A. Yes.
Q. Being told by a Minister that from what he had heard there was either devolrie in it, or he was the thief himself. To which he replied, ‘I shall make it out to be no devolrie; or if it be devolrie, it is unknown to me.’
Q. Did you not bring back a book of Mrs Violet’s?
A. Yes.
Q. Did you not say you could cause any woman in London come down to you if but told her name?