[Footnote 63:  In the nook, or corner, of his plaid.]

[Footnote 64:  Pounded, or powdered it, like meal.]

[Footnote 65:  To make the plaster fine, and free from earthy particles.]

[Footnote 66:  Probably a sort of stir-about, or hasty-pudding, made of rye-flour.]

[Footnote 67:  In another deposition it is thus expressed, ’lyk a pow or feadge.’  A feadge was a sort of scone, or roll, of a pretty large size.  Perhaps this term signifies, as large as the quantity of dough or paste necessary for making this kind of bread.]

[Footnote 68:  A flayed sucking pig, after being scalded and scraped.]

[Footnote 69:  Shrivelled with the heat.]

[Footnote 70:  Red like a coal.]

[Footnote 71:  Each alternate day.]

[Footnote 72:  Knew.]

[Footnote 73:  It is written meall in the other Confession; and the metre (such as it is) requires this liberty. Mowld signifies ‘earth’ or ‘dust.’]

[Footnote 74:  Stubble.]

[Footnote 75:  Parched; shrivelled.]

[Footnote 76:  Until.]

[Footnote 77:  Harm; injury.]

B 4 b 1. “And sayd that she should haue gould, siluer, and worldly wealth at her will.”] These familiars, to use Warburton’s expression, always promised with the lavishness of a young courtier, and performed with the indifference of an old one.  Nothing seems to puzzle Dr. Dee more, in the long and confidential intercourse he carried on so many years with his spirits, than to account for the great scarcity of specie they seemed to be afflicted with, and the unsatisfactory and unfurnished state of their exchequer.  Bills, to be sure, they gave at long dates; but these constantly required renewing, and were never honoured at last.  Any application for present relief, in good current coin of the realm, was invariably followed by what Meric Casaubon very significantly calls “sermonlike stuff.”  The learned professor in witchery, John Stearne, seems to fix six shillings as the maximum of money payment at one time which in all his experience he had detected between witches and their familiars.  He was examining Joan Ruccalver, of Powstead, in Suffolk, who had been promised by her spirit that she should never want meat, drink, clothes, or money.  “Then I asked her whether they brought her any money or no; and she said sometimes four shillings at a time, and sometimes six shillings at a time; but that is but seldom, for I never knew any that had any money before, except of Clarke’s wife, of Manningtree, who confessed the same, and showed some, which, she said, her impe brought her, which was proper money.”  Confirmation, page 27.  Judging from the anxiety which this worthy displays to be “satisfied and paid with reason” for his itinerant labours, such a scanty and penurious supply would soon have disgusted him, if he had been witch, instead of witch-finder.