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Mrs. CornwallA woman from Thorpe-le-Soken in the county of Essex, wife of Henry and mother of Joan, Mrs. Cornwall and her family fall victim to a malefic contamination which enters her home and her body by way of a peck of apples her Henry traded Margaret Moone for a hook. Although Mrs. Cornwall recognized Moone as a "woman of a very bad fame and suspected for a Witch, and had formerly been questioned at an Assize for the same," and threw the apples away, she soon fell sick to a mysterious disease which consumed her and her husband for twelve weeks and which kills their daughter. Mrs. Cornwall never fully recovers. Moone is found guilty and executed for the death of her daughter. (26)The Information of Will. Dammon, Hen. Cornwall, Bevis Vincent, and Tho.Burles, taken upon oath before the said Justices, April 29. 1645. [...] And the said Informant saith, that the said M: Moons did freely and voluntarily confesse unto him, without any question being asked, that she was the cause of the death of Johan Cornw all this Informants daughter. And this Informant saith, that the said Margaret Moone before his child fell sick, sent for this Informant to do some work for her, and then she desired to buy an Hooke which he carried with him in his hand; And they agreed she should have the said Hooke for half a peck of Apples: And as this Informant went home he did eat one of the said Apples, and was presently taken sick with an extreme shaking and pain in all parts of his body; And his Informants wife knowing the said Margaret Moone to be a woman of a very bad fame and suspected for a Witch, and had formerly been questioned at an Assize for the same, she flung away the Aples. And this Informant saith, that he continued in great extremity for the space of twelve weeks, and most part of that; time deprived of his senses. And at the same time his wife was taken in the same manner, and is not yet perfectly recovered. And lastly this Informant saith, that the next day after he had been at the said Margarets house as aforesaid, that his child (which the said Margaret confessed she was the death of) was taken sick with strange fits, and shrickings out, and so continued languishing for a moneth, and died. ()