knowledge: yet for the present she found helpe, and was freed from the
languishing and other conflicts wherewith she was assaulted by the space
of sixe weekes.

After this, being married vnto _Iames Scot_, a great Cat which kept with
this Witch (of whose infernall both purposes and practises wee now
speake) frequented their house; and vpon doing some scathe, her husband
moued therwith, thrust it twice through with his sword: which
notwithstanding those wounds receiued, ran away: then he stroke it with
all his force vpon the head with a great pike staffe, yet could not kill
her; but shee leapt after this vpward almost a yard from the boords of
that chamber where she now was, and crept downe: which hee perceiuing,
willed his lad (a boy of foureteene yeares) to dragge her to the
muck-hill, but was not able; and therefore put her into a sacke, and
being in the same, still moued and stirred. Whereupon they put her out
againe, and cast her vnder a paire of staires, purposing in the morning,
to get more helpe, and carry her away; but then could not be found,
though all the doores that night were locked, and neuer heard what
afterward became thereof.

Not long after, this Witch came forth with a Birchin broome, and
threatned to lay it vpon the head of _Elizabeth Scot_, and defiled her
cloathes therewith, as she swept the street before her shop doore, and
that in the sight of her husband, who not digesting this indignity
offered vnto his wife, threatned that if she had any such fits, as she
endured being a Widow before marriage, hee would hang her. At this she
clapped her hands, and said hee killed her Cat. And within two or three
dayes after this enterchange of words betweene them, his wife was
perplexed with the like paine and griefe at her heart, as formerly she
had beene; and that for two dayes and a night: wherefore her husband