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may not take the oath of a distracted person of a Possessed person in case of murder [or fe?] -lony of any sort. Then neither may we doe it witchcraft. 2 Let me premise this also [there?] have been wayes of trying Witches Long in many Nations Especially in the dark [times] Pagancy and Popery which the righteous [ne?] ver approved of: but which (as Judicious kins expresseth it in plain English) wer ed by the Divel that so inocent persons [might] be Condemned and Some notorious [Witches E=] -scap[e]

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