| Susan Cock | A woman from St. Osyth in the county of Essex, an accused witch, and maybe a relative of Mary Cook, an accused witch who died in the goal at Chelmsford, 1645. Susan Cook allegedly had a familiar named Bess, and conspired with Rose Hallybread, Margaret Landish, and Joyce Boanes, to torment Robert Turner's servant, because" hee had refused to give unto her this Examinant, the said Susan Cocks, Margaret Landish and Joyce Boanes a few chips." With the help of thier familiars, they made him fall "sick, and oftentimes barked like a Dog: And this Examinant saith, that shee believeth that the said four Imps were the cause of his barking and sicknesse." In _The full Trualls, Examinations and Condemnations of Four Notorious Witches, At the Assizes held at Worchester on Tuesday the 4th of March_ she is accused of murdering Mary Peak a crime for which she is burned at the stake. (5) | And this Examinant further saith, that about eight dayes since, Susan Cook, Margaret Landish, and Joyce Boanes, (all which stand now suspected for Witchcraft) brought to his Examinants house each of them an Imp, (in all three) to which this Examinant added one of her own Imps; and then the said Joyce Boanes carryed the said four Imps to the house of one Robert Turner, to torment his servant, because hee had refused to give unto her this Examinant, the said Susan Cocks, Margaret Landish and Joyce Boanes a few chips: And this Examinant further saith, that the said Robert Turners servant forth with fell sick, and oftentimes barked like a Dog: And this Examinant saith, that shee believeth that the said four Imps were the cause of his barking and sicknesse.
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The Examination of Susan Cock, taken before the said Justices the 6. day of May, 1645. This Examinant saith, that about three or four yeeres since, one Margery Stoakes, this Examinants mother, lying upon her death-bed, and this Examinant comming to visit her, shee the said Margery desired this Examinant privately, to give entertainment to two of her Imps, and withall told this Examinant, they would do this Examinant good: And this Examinant saith, that the same night her said mother dyed, the said two Imps came to her accordingly, and sucked on her body: And this Examinant saith, that one of the said Imps was like a mouse, and the name of that was Susan; that the other was of a yellow colour, about the bignesse of a Cat; and that the name of that Imp was Besse: And this Examinant faith, that she employed her said Imp called Besse, together with the Imps of the said Rose Hallybread, Joyce Boanes, and Margaret Lindish, each of them one, to the house of one John Spall, where the said Imps killed tensor twelve Sheep of the said John Spalls; and that the cause of this Examinants malice was, because she being with childe, desired to have some curds of the said Spalls wife, which she refused, either to give or sell to this Examinant: And further, this Examinant saith, that about a week since, she together with Joyce Boanes, Roser Hallybread, and Margaret Landish sent four Imps to the house of one Robert Tender (by the said Joyce Boanes) to torment his servant, for that the said .Executed at Chelmesford. () |