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A Treatise of Witchcraft by Alexander Roberts
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passeth betweene them, his assuming a body, and framing a voice
for the performance of that businesse; that women, and why,
are most subiect to this hellish practice.
Now the truth of all these shall
appeare by exemplary proofes
in the Narration
following.


* * * * *


A true Narration of some of those
_Witch-crafts which _Marie_ wife of_
Henry Smith Glouer did practise, and of the
_hurts she hath done vnto sundry persons by the same:_
confirmed by her owne Confession, and from the publike
_Records of the examination of diuers vpon their oaths:
of her death, and execution for the same, which
_was on the twelfth day of Ianuarie_
_last past._


_Marie_ wife of _Henrie Smith_, Glouer, possessed with a wrathfull
indignation against some of her neighbours, in regard that they made
gaine of their buying and selling Cheese, which shee (vsing the same
trade) could not doe, or they better (at the least in her opinion) then
she did, often times cursed them, and became incensed with vnruly
passions, armed with a setled resolution, to effect some mischieuous
proiects and designes against them. The diuell who is skilfull, and
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