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say’d, that wicked old woman had bewitched her, and preyed her father to send 
after her, and bring her back. Many horses being ready to goe out with carrots 
to the mercats, men and labourers mounte, and some one way and some another 
pursued the Woman,and the third day found her begging about twenty miles thence 
at Edington, in the Mannour House, of which Mr. Leues (Leving ?), a person not 
to bee mentioned without his due prayse of being both very prudent and very 
hospitable, dwells; to him they brought the woman. Hee having heard the 
Complaynt, and taken the information and examination, made a Mittimus for 
her to Salisbury Goale; but, on the request of the men who tooke her, hee 
suffered them to carry her back to Burbage, to the gardiner’s house, to which 
they carried her, and found the Mayd in a feaver, with the extreame torment of 
her fingers, and not having slept since it came upon her. When Orchard was 
brought to the Mayd, the Mayd charged her with bewitching her, and so did the 
rest of the persons there, and threatened her with hanging : but Orchard stood 
stoutly in it, that she was not bewitched, but that she had washed her hands in 
unwholesome water, and that wholesome water would cure her ; whereupon sume 
of the same sort of water which she washed in before, was brought, which Goody 
Orchard desiring to see, that she might judge whether it were wholesome or not, 
she put one of her fingers into it, and carried her finger so that shee made three 
circles in it contrary to the course of the Sun, and then pronounced it wholesome 
water, and bid the Mayd dip her hands in it, which the Mayd doing, her fingers 
recovered their due posture, and the extreme paynes ceased, but the tone of the 
nerves being for the present lost, her fingers had no strength in them at the time 
of the tryal, and were not without some payne. 
“The Woman was carried to Salisbury, and there convicted and executed ; 
and, to prove her a Witch, Mr. Bartholomew and divers of Malmesbury, that 
being discovered to be the place of her last abode, were bound to give evidence 
against her, which they did; for which, and for Mr. Bartholomew’s being the 
cause of her flying from Malmesbury, those dire revenges were taken upon Mrs. 
Mary Webb, his daughter, who also had denyed the yeest. I have omitted, that 
when the Hage trotted about the garden, she muttered certayne words, some of 
which the witnesses thought tobe . . 
“Jan. 16, 1685-6. The Alderman of Maleuehacy, in Wiltshire, that being 
the title of the chiefe Magistrate of that antient Borrow, sent to the Justices of 
the Peace of that subdivision of the County, to pray them to assist him in a 
discovery which was made of Witches by the voluntary confession of one Ann 
Tilling, widdowe, who had confessed to Mrs. Mary Webb, the wife of Mr. Robert 
Webb, since Alderman of that Burrow, that she Ann Tilling, — Peacock, and 
— Witchell, widow, sisters, had bewitched Thomas, the son of the above-named 
Robert Webb and Mary his wife, which Mary was the daughter of Mr. Bartholo- 
mew, whos chest was broken as in the foregoing relation, so that Thomas Webb 
above-named had very grievous fitts of swooning, sometimes three or four times 
in a day, and that he seemed to bee possest with some foreigne power betwixt 
thos fitts, so that he would curse and sweare, tell what the persons suspected to 
have harmed him were doing or saying, and often speake to them as if they or 
some of them were present, although not visible to any person uppon the place, 
“The confession of Anne Tilling was made to Mrs. Mary Webb upon this 
motion. Mrs. Webb meeting onanally. with Ann Tilling, reproached her for 
