Sarah Griffith, long suspected of being a witch, enters the shop of Mr. John ---, and encounters "a good jolly fellow for his Apprentice." This apprentice laughs and "cryed out he thought that they were be witch'd", and the old woman, feeling ridiculed leaves and threatens revenge. (1)

Mr. John ---'s apprentice happens upon Mother Griffith, and together with two or three young men, tossed her in the river to discover if she was a witch. "So this Witch was no sooner in but Swam like a Corke" and at last they let her out. (1)

Following the death of his apprentice due to strange ailments, Mr. John --- goes to the constable to charge Mother Griffith. She made many attempts to escape, "she tried to leap over the Wall and had done it had not the Constable knocked her down." (1)

Following the threat of Mother Griffith after visiting the Sugarloaf shop, overnight, loud noises are heard and the shop is discovered to be "a strange confusion, every thing turn'd topsy turvy all the goods out of order" by the shopkeeper, Mr. John ---. Mr John ---'s apprentice also falls ill the next day, only to be cured by good prayers of the neighbourhood.(1)

Mother Griffith is taken before Justice Bateman where evidence was lain forth in the witness to Mr. John ---'s apprentice's sickness, and although Mother Griffith pleaded innocent, she was committed to Bridewell.(1)

After Mr. John ---'s apprentice and a few other men swam Mother Griffith, "she smote that Young man on the Arm, and told him he should pay dear for what he had done: Immediately he found a strange pain on his arm, and looking on it found the exact mark of her Hand and Fingers as black as Cole." (1)

Upon returning home from being marked by Mother Griffith, Mr. John ---'s apprentice is strangely afflicted, dies, and is buried in St. Pulcher's Churchyard. (1)