ABSTRACT

Present: the Herr Chancellor, the Herr Municipal Judge, the Herr Doctor, the Herr Secretary, and the Herr Recorder.

Monday, 15 November 1637. After serious consideration by the civil councillors of the court, the pris-

oner, N.N. commonly known as N.N., having been taken into custody on suspicion of witchcraft, and on fifteen sworn depositions, meriting death, is thoroughly examined as follows:

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or mother, or when they were born, or where they were brought up, or when they died. She has lived with her husband twenty-three years, and during that time has borne eight children, five of whom are still living. Of the three deceased, one died of smallpox twenty-one years ago; another died eight or nine years ago at the age of six, on acount of which she was told to appear at the town hall because of these suspicious circumstances of death; and the third had died six years ago, also of smallpox.