He knowing her, was affrighted, that his Hair on his Head stood on end and yet spake to her, and askt her what brought her there. But as soon as he laid hands on her, it proved to be Julian Cox, who had her head groveling on the ground, and her globes (as he ex∣prest it) upward. Ring hunted her in view, till at last the Huntsman perceiving the Hare almost spent, and making towards a great Bush, he ran on the other side of the Bush to take her up, and preserve her from the Dogs. The Dogs hunted her very close, and the third The evidence against her was divided in∣to two Branches First, to prove her a Witch in general Secondly, to prove her guilty of the Witchcraft contained in the In∣dictment.įor the proof of the first particular, The first Witness was an Huntsman, who swore that he went out with a pack of Hounds to hunt a Hare, and not far off from Julian Cox her house, he at last started a Hare. before Judge Archer then Judge of Assize there, for Witchcraft, which she practised upon a young Maid, whereby her body languished, and was im∣paired of Health, by reason of strange fits upon account of the said Witchcraft. JUlian Cox, aged about 70 years, was In∣dicted at Taunton in Somersetshire, about Summer Assizes 1663.
#Witch riding broom hurt trial
Pool, a Servant and Officer in the Court to Judge Archer in his Circuits, concerning the Trial of Julian Cox for Witchcraft who being himself then pre∣sent an Officer in the Court, noted as fol∣lows, viz.
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