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Imprisoned under the name of a witch any husband of (....?) and being no hope of ever being in credit againe through the the temptation of the Devil I made the Confessed to destroy my owne life. Being weary of it, and chosing rather to die than to live. This her lamentable speech did astonish all spectatotrs, four of whome could not refrain from teares. The truth of the Related (saith my Author) is certainly asserted by a worthy divine now diving who was an eye or ear witness of the whole matter (?) thus did that miserable creature suffer Death. And this was just excused as the Amalckite confessed he had killed Saul who he had no legall Authority to meddle withall, altho his (?) Pablo if he (?) lied himself, David gave order for his Execution, and said to him, Thy blood be upon thy head, for they mouth hath falsified against thee. 2 Sam: 1:10. But as for the Testimony of Confessing witches against others, the case is not so clear as against themselves. They are not such credible witnesses as in a case of life and death is to be defined. It is beyond disput that the Devil makes his Witches to dream strange things of themselves and others which are not so. There was ( as Authors beyond excepted of late) in appearances a sumptuous feast prepared, the wines and meat set forth in vessels of gold. A certain person whom an Amorous young man had fallen in love with was represented and supposed to be really there, but Apollonius Syannus (sp) discovered the wiothery of the Puisenosso (sp), and in an instant all vanished and nothing but dirty coales were to be seen. She liko (sp) to the is mentioned in the Arausican Council There were certain women that imagined they road upon beasts in the nightand, that they had besides a troop of other persons Diana and Herodias in company with them. The Council giveth this sentence on it, Satana qui lo Fran figurat in Angelum Lucis, transformat so in diversaru Personarum Species, et mentem quaim captivam fonot in somnisdelud et. Satan transformes himself into the disguises of (other?) persones and deludes their souls that are his Captives with dreams of fancies. See D (?). Willot on 1 Sam. 28 Page 165