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[reference in margin: r) [Seue Triall? p. 40.43.45] inocent persons and not accused shall have the Same Effect. It is related in the account of the Tri=alls of witches at [Underlined: Bury?] in Suffolke [illegible] (r) during the time of the triall ther were Severall Experiments made with the persons afflicted by bringing the ac=cused to touch them, and it was observed that by the [Last?] touch of of of the supposed witches they that were in their fits, to all mens apprehension depri ved of all sense and understanding, would sud=dainly [shreik?] our and open their hands. [A symbol appearing to be a lowercase r sitting above an uppercase M, separated by a line] Sergeant Kooling did not think that sufficient to covict the prisoners. For admitting that the Children were in truth bewitched, [you?] (said he) it can not be applied to the prisoners, upon the Imaginations only of the Afflicted parties: for if that might be al:lowed no person whatsoever can be in Safety, for perhaps they might fancie another person who might be altogether inocent in such matters.