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ing well that night, feeling no pain, save Susan, who did feel 

 a pain like pricking of pins in her stomach.' 



' That same morning,' the author of the report from which 

 these particulars are taken Sir Matthew Hale's own marshal, 

 as collateral documents teach goes on to state : 



' We/ i. e. Sir Matthew, the marshal, and retinue, < went 

 on to Cambridge.' Whilst there, and on Sunday preceding 

 March 17th (Monday), when Amy Duny and Kose Cullender 

 were executed, Sir Matthew penned a sort of confession of 

 faith in respect to his belief in witches. 6 That he was well 

 satisfied with the conviction,' writes a chronicler of the time, 

 * may be perceived by his writing this meditation so immedi- 

 ately upon it.' * Therefore,' the chronicler goes on to explain, 

 ( I think it very proper for this place, not only for the use 

 which well-disposed people may make of it, but also as an 

 evidence of the judgment of so great, so learned, so profound 

 and sagacious, so cautious, circumspect, and tender a man in 

 matters of justice, and especially in matters of life and death, 

 to check and correct the impiety, the vanity, the self-con- 

 ceitedness or baseness of such witch-advocates as either main- 

 tain that there be no witches, or, contrary to their duty and 

 their oaths, make light of the examination and trial of them. 

 Such persons may have cause to be ashamed of themselves 

 after notice of such a judgment, and others may hereby be 

 admonished what to think of them.' So much for the pre- 

 face ; the discourse opens thus : 



'That there are such evil angels (witches) is without 

 question. The Old Testament assures us of it, as easily 

 appears upon consideration of the temptation of our first 

 parents ; the history of Abimelech and the men of Sechem ; 

 the history of Saul and the witch of Endor; the history 

 of Micaiah and the false prophets; the history of Job; the 

 prophecy of the desolation of Babylon, wherein Jim and 

 Ziim and the satyrs were prophesied to inhabit. The New 

 Testament more explicitly and abundantly clears it by the 



