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her forth of the doors ; and when out of doors Amy said, 'You 

 need not be so angry, for your child will not live long.' 



This being on a Saturday, the child died on Monday 

 following. Not long after death of this child deponent be- 

 came lame of both legs, being fain to go on crutches. The 

 thing remarkable was this : after Mrs. Durent had gone on 

 crutches for upwards of three years, appearing on them at 

 the trial, no sooner had the verdict of guilty been brought in, 

 than, to the great admiration of all persons, deponent was 

 restored to the use of her limbs. 



As regards Elizabeth and Deborah Pacy, also supposed 

 to have been under Amy's spells, there was a prodigy too. 

 The elder (eleven) could speak no word, but seemed as one 

 in deep sleep. Lying upon cushions in the open court upon 

 her back, her stomach and belly, by the drawing of her breath, 

 would arise to a great height. The said Elizabeth having 

 lain a long time on the table in the court, she came a little to 

 herself, and sat up, neither seeing nor speaking, but sensible 

 of what was said to her. By direction of the judge, Amy Duny 

 was privately brought to Elizabeth Pacy; whereupon the 

 child, without so much as seeing her, for her eyes were closed, 

 suddenly leaped up and catched Amy by the hand, afterwards 

 by the face, scratching with her nails until blood came. 



Mrs. Pacy's evidence being taken, next followed her hus- 

 band Samuel Pacy, a merchant, a man who carried himself 

 with much soberness during the trial, from whom proceeded 

 no words either of passion or malice, though his children 

 were so greatly afflicted. 



Sworn, examined, and deponed that his younger daughter 

 Deborah, upon Thursday the 10th of October last, was sud- 

 denly taken with a lameness in her legs, and so continued 

 until the seventeenth day of the same month; which day 

 being fair and sunshiny, the child deemed to be carried on 

 the east part of the house, there to be set upon the bank 

 which looketh upon the sea. 



