with Straw on her bodie, and Haye on her head, and
the Dogge it selfe lay on the toppe of the said Straw,
but how long the said Dogge lay there, this Examinate
cannot tell, nor how long her selfe lay there:
for shee sayth, That vpon her lying downe there, as
aforesaid, her Speech and Senses were taken from her:
and the first time shee knew where shee was, shee
was layed vpon a bedde in the said Walshmans
house, which (as shee hath since beene told) was vpon
the Monday at night following: and shee was also
told, That shee was found and taken from the place
where shee first lay, by some of her friends, and
carried into the said Walshmans house, within
a few houres after shee was layed in the Barne, as
aforesaid. And shee further sayth, That vpon
the day following, being Tuesday, neere night of the
same day, shee this Examinate was fetched by her Father
and Mother from the said Walshmans house to
her Fathers house. And shee saith, That at the
place before specified, called the Two Brigges, the
said Iennet Bierley and Ellen Bierley
did appeare vnto her in their owne shapes: whereupon
this Examinate fell downe, and after that was not
able to speake, or goe, till the Friday following:
during which time, as she lay in her Fathers house,
the said Iennet Bierley and Ellen Bierley
did once appeare vnto her in their owne shapes, but
they did nothing vnto her then, neither did shee euer
see them since. And shee further sayth, That
a good while before all this, this Examinate did goe
with the said Iennet Bierley, her Grand-mother,
and the said Ellen Bierley her Aunt, at the
bidding of her said Grand-mother, to the house of
one Thomas Walshman, in Salmesbury aforesaid.
And comming thither in the night, when all the house-hold
was a-bed, the doores being shut, the said Iennet
Bierley did open them, but this Examinate knoweth
not how: and beeing come into the said house,
this Examinate and the said Ellen Bierley stayed
there, and the said Iennet Bierley went into
the Chamber where the said Walshman and his
wife lay, & from thence brought a little child,[L2_a_1]
which this Examinate thinketh was in bed with it Father
and Mother: and after the said Iennet Bierley
had set her downe by the fire, with the said child,
shee did thrust a naile into the nauell of the said
child: and afterwards did take a pen and put
it in at the said place, and did suck there a good
space, and afterwards laid the child in bed againe:
and then the said Iennet and the said Ellen
returned to their owne houses, and this Examinate
with them. And shee thinketh that neither the
said Thomas Walshman, nor his wife knew that
the said child was taken out of the bed from them.
And shee saith also, that the said child did not crie
when it was hurt, as aforesaid: But shee saith,
that shee thinketh that the said child did thenceforth
languish, and not long after dyed. And after