“Mris.  Godman was told she hath warned to the court diuers psons, vizd:  Mr. Goodyeare, Mris.  Goodyeare, Mr. Hooke, Mris.  Hooke, Mris.  Atwater, Hanah & Elizabeth Lamberton, goodwife Larremore, goodwife Thorpe, &c., and was asked what she had to charge them wth, she said they had given out speeches that made folkes thinke she was a witch, and first she charged Mris.  Atwater to be ye cause of all, and to cleere things desired a wrighting might be read wch was taken in way of examination before ye magistrate, (and in here after entred,) wherein sundrie things concerning Mris.  Atwater is specifyed wch we now more fully spoken to, and she further said that Mris.  Atwater had said that she thought she was a witch and that Hobbamocke was her husband, but could proue nothing, though she was told that she was beforehand warned to prepare her witnesses ready, wch she hath not done, if she haue any.  After sundrie of the passages in ye wrighting were read, she was asked if these things did not giue just ground of suspition to all that heard them that she was a witch.  She confessed they did, but said if she spake such things as is in Mr. Hookes relation she was not herselfe....  Beside what is in the papr, Mris.  Godman was remembred of a passage spoken of at the gouernors aboute Mr. Goodyeare’s falling into a swonding fitt after hee had spoken something one night in the exposition of a chapter, wch she (being present) liked not but said it was against her, and as soone as Mr. Goodyeare had done duties she flung out of the roome in a discontented way and cast a fierce looke vpon Mr. Goodyeare as she went out, and imediately Mr. Goodyeare (though well before) fell into a swond, and beside her notorious lying in this buisnes, for being asked how she came to know this, she said she was present, yet Mr. Goodyeare, Mris.  Goodyeare, Hanah and Elizabeth Lamberton all affirme she was not in ye roome but gone vp into the chamber.”

THE “WRIGHTING”

“The examination of Elizabeth Godman, May 12th, 1653.

“Elizabeth Godman made complainte of Mr. Goodyeare, Mris.  Goodyeare, Mr. Hooke, Mris.  Hooke, Mris.  Bishop, Mris.  Atwater, Hanah & Elizabeth Lamberton, and Mary Miles, Mris.  Atwaters maide, that they haue suspected her for a witch; she was now asked what she had against Mr. Hooke and Mris.  Hooke; she said she heard they had something against her aboute their soone.  Mr. Hooke said hee was not wthout feares, and hee had reasons for it; first he said it wrought suspition in his minde because shee was shut out at Mr. Atwaters vpon suspition, and hee was troubled in his sleepe aboute witches when his boye, was sicke, wch was in a verey strang manner, and hee looked vpon her as a mallitious one, and prepared to that mischiefe, and she would be often speaking aboute witches and rather justifye them then condemne them; she said why doe they provoake them, why doe they not let them come into the church.  Another time she was speaking of witches wthout any occasion