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Examinate answered, hee had not: and thereupon the said thing threatned to pull this Examinate in peeces, and so this Examinate thereupon marked himselfe to God, and so the said thing vanished out of this Examinates sight. And within some foure daies after that, there appeared in this Examinates sight, hard by the new Church in Pendle, a thing like vnto a browne _Dogge_, who asked this Examinate to giue him his Soule, and he should be reuenged of any whom hee would: whereunto this Examinate answered, that his Soule was not his to giue, but was his _Sauiour Iesus Christs_, but as much as was in him this Examinate to giue, he was contented he should haue it. And within two or three daies after, this Examinate went to the Carre-Hall, and vpon some speeches betwixt Mistris _Towneley_ and this Examinate; Shee charging this Examinate and his said mother, to haue stolne some Turues of hers, badde him packe the doores: and withall as he went forth of the doore, the said Mistris _Towneley_ gaue him a knock betweene the shoulders: and about a day or two after that, there appeared vnto this Examinate in his way, a thing like vnto a black dog, who put this Examinate in minde of the said Mistris _Towneleyes_ falling out with him this Examinate; who bad this Examinate make a Picture of Clay, like vnto the said Mistris _Towneley_: and that this Examinate with the helpe of his Spirit (who then euer after bidde this Examinate to call it _Dandy_) would kill or destroy the said Mistris _Towneley_: and so the said dogge vanished out of this Examinates sight. And the next morning after, this Examinate tooke Clay, and made a Picture of the said Mistris _Towneley_, and dried it the same night by the fire: and within a day after, hee, this Examinate began to crumble the said Picture, euery day some, for the space of a weeke: and within two daies after all was crumbled away; the said Mistris _Towneley_ died. And hee further saith, That in Lent last one _Iohn Duckworth_ of the Lawnde, promised this Examinate an old shirt: and within a fortnight after, this Examinate went to the said _Duckworthes_ house, and demanded the said old shirt: but the said _Duckworth_ denied him thereof. And going out of the said house, the said Spirit _Dandy_ appeared vnto this Examinate, and said, Thou didst touch the said _Duckworth_; whereunto this Examinate answered, he did not touch him: yes (said the Spirit againe) thou didst touch him, and therfore I haue p
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