At Michaelmas, Jane, Elizabeth, Grace and Mary Throckmorton are living once more in their father's house, while Joan Throckmorton stays with their uncle Gilbert Pickering. One of the girls, "the youngest save one" (either Elizabeth or Mary) falls into strange fits in which she loses her senses and is heard to "prattle a little to an infant, which was newlie borne in the house, wherein she tooke great delight." When these fits started, an aunt staying with the Throckmortons gave birth to a child, which this girl meets for the first time while it is held in the visiting Mother Alice Samuel's arms. The fits last three weeks.(36-38)