Joan Upney confesses that Fustian Kirtle (alias Mother Arnold), a witch of Barking, gave her a familiar like a mole and told her that if she wanted to do ill to anyone to send the familiar and it would clap them. After the death of this familiar, Mother Arnold provided Upney two more familiars, "another Moule and a Toad, which she kept a great while."(A4v)

Joan Upney confessed that she ran away after hearing that John Harrolde and Richard Foster accused her of being a witch.(A4v-B)