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Name Description Original Text
Captain CollinsA man from Brightling in the county of Sussex, who sends for an old woman (Anonymous 398) accused of witchcraft in the case of Joseph Cruttenden and his wife, whose goods are bewitched to fly and hit people of their own accord, and causing the houses they stay in the burn. When the old woman is apprehended, Captain Collins examined her with Mr. Busbridge, and she is also "searched and watched 24 Hours." The old woman "had to Maidstone about it, but got away," and lives in Burwast afterward.(56)Sabbath-day the Girl told her Dame the former story of the Womans Discourse; she is sent for, and Examined before Captain Collins, Mr. Burbridge, and she is searched and watched 24 Hours()