went to this wrathfull and malicious person, assuring that if his wife
did not amend, hee would accuse her to the Magistirate, and cause the
[a]rigor of the law to be executed vpon her, which is due to such
malefactors. These things were done some three yeares sithence. The
party troubled yet liueth, but in no confirmed health, nor perfect
soundnesse of body.

[Footnote a: _Witches can by no meanes bee so easily brought to
recall the mischiefe they haue done, as by threats and stripes.
Remigius in Dæmonolatria, lib 3. c. 3._]


_Her wicked practises against Cicely Balye._

A third subiect whereupon this wrathfull womans anger wrought, was
_Cicely Balye_, then seruant to _Robert Coulton_, now wife of _William
Vaux_, who sweeping the street before her maisters doore vpon a Saturday
in the euening, _Mary Smith_ began to pick a quarrell about the manner
of sweeping, and said vnto her she was a great fat-tail'd sow, but that
fatnesse should shortly be pulled downe and abated. And the next night
being Sunday immediatly following, a Cat came vnto her, sate vpon her
breast, with which she was grieuously tormented, and so oppressed, that
she could not without great difficulty draw her breath, and at the same
instant did perfectly see the said _Mary_ in the chamber where she lay,
who (as she conceiued) set that Cat vpon her, and immediatly after fell
sicke, languished, and grew exceeding leane; and so continued for the
space of halfe a yeare together, during the whole continuance in her
maisters seruice; vntill departing from him, she dwelt with one Mistres
_Garoway_, and then began to bee amended in her health, and recouer of
her former pining sicknesse: for this Witch had said, that so long as