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should suffer for it;
and it so happened that all those horses, being four in number,
died within a short time after; since that time he hath had
great losses by the sudden dying of his other cattle; so soon as
his sows pigged, the pigs would leap and caper, and immediately
fall down and die. Also not long after he was taken with a
lameness in his limbs that he could neither go nor stand for
some days. After all this, he was very much vexed with great
number of lice of an extraordinary bigness, and although he many
times shifted himself, yet he was not anything the better, but
would swarm again with them; so that in the conclusion he was
forced to burn all his clothes, being two suits of apparel, and
then was clean from them.
_Richard Spencer_, about the first of September last, heard Amy Duny say
that the devil would not let her rest until she was revenged on the wife
of one Cornelius Sandeswell.
_Ann Sandeswell_ says that seven or eight years since,
she having bought a certain number of geese, meeting with Amy
Duny, she told her, if she did not fetch her geese home they
would all be destroyed; which in a few days after it came to
pass.
Afterwards the said Amy became tenant to the witness's husband for a
house, and Amy told the witness that if she did not look well to such a
chimney in the house it would fall, whereupon the witness told her that
it was a new one, and they parted without the witness attaching much
importance to the matter;
but in a short time the chimney fell down according as the said
Amy had said.
Also the witness once asked her brother, who was a fisherman, to send
her a firkin of fish, which he did; and she hearing that the firkin was
brought into Lowestofft Road, asked a boatman to bring it ashore with
other goods which they had to bring;
and as she was going down to meet the boat-man to receive her
fish, she desired the said Amy to go along with her to help her
home with it; Amy replied she would go when she had it. And
thereupon this deponent went to the shore without her, and
demanded of the boat-man the firkin; they told they could not
keep it in the boat from falling into the sea, and they thought
it was gone to the devil, for they never saw the like before.
And being demanded whether any other goods in the boat were
likewise lost as well as hers? they answered no
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