had kept this Cat, by the space of xv. or xvi. yeare, and as some saye (though untruly) beinge wery of it" (Anon. The Examination and Confession of certaine Wytches (1566) // Early Modern Witches. P. 10–24).

989

"…found by manifest and undeniable proffes of her honest neighbors" (Anon. A Rehearsall both straung and true. P. 35).

990

"If therefore thou be assured that by neighbour… is impaired by damnable witchcrafte" (Anon. A Detection of damnable driftes. P. 42).

991

Об отношениях ведьм и колдунов с их соседями см. прежде всего: Briggs R. Witches and Neighbours. The Social and Cultural Context of European Witchcraft. L, 1996. О роли слухов в возбуждении дел о колдовстве см.: Тогоева О.И. Дела плоти. С. 183–201.

992

"…beyng by him examined, and found…to be a leude, malitious, and hurtfull woman to the people and inhabitants thereaboutes" (Anon. A Rehearsall both straung and true. P. 35); "Their craft and practices, they have used it upon divers and sundry persons…" (Galis R. Op. cit. P. 68); "…hath by them been practised to the great hurt of the Inhabitaunts" (Ibid. P. 71).

993

"The report whereof made all men imagine that he did work it by the devil, without whom it could never have been so sufficiently effected; and thereupon the name of the said Dr Fian (who was but a very young man) began to grow so common among the people of Scotland that he was secretly nominated for a notable conjurer" (Witchcraft in Early Modern Scotland. P. 321).

994

"Such in generali was the common opinion of the Countrey where she dwelt that no man neere her, neither his wife, children, goods, or cattell should be secure or free from danger" (Potts T. Op. cit. P. 199). "A very dangerous Witch of a long continuance, generally suspected and feared in all parts of the Countrie, and of all good people neare her, and not without great cause" (Ibid. P. 247).

995

"Our Enimies that we are to fight against are in number three: The world, the Flesh, and the Dyvell" (Anon. A Most Wicked worke of a wretched Witch (1592) // Early Modern Witches. P. 138–145).

996

"…heard by report of the neighbours… having confirmed his suspition that it was nothing else but Witch-craft" (Anon. The Witches of Northamptonshire. P. 164).

997

"Beeing long suspected in the Towne where she dwelt of that crime, which afterwards proved true" (Ibid. P. 162).

998

"Mother Margaret came to her and gave her money, chargynh her in any wise not to detecte their secretes" (Anon. A Rehearsall both straung and true. P. 36).

999

"She had foure Impes or spirits the whiche shee woulde not carrie with her to the house, for feare they shoulde be espied or seene" (W.W. A true and just Recorde. P. 104).

1000

"...there came a thing into his house of a gray colour, of the bignesse of a great Rat, of about a quarter of an ell long, which he tooke up and put into a box, and kept it some certaine time there" (Stearne J. Op. cit. P. 33).

1001

"The man taking heartie grace himselfe, followed so nighe, that he saw her take in at one Mother Atkyns house, whome before that time he knew to be a notorious witch" (Anon. The severall factes of Witch-crafte. P. 141–142).

1002

"The little regarde and great necligence of Magistrates in these our dayes…" (Galis R. Op. cit. P. 53).

1003

"I determined hap what hap might, when convenient leysure might serve to bring the said Mother Dutton… before the Magistrates" (Ibid. P. 55).

1004

"Then finding a Carte rope harde by, I bounde it about her myddle, and layde the rope on my shoulder" (Ibid. P. 64).

1005

Anon. A Rehearsall both straung and true. P. 39.

1006

"After whose death the Townes men made complaint of her dealinge to the Justice, who commaunded one Maister Norwood a Gentleman in the Towne to go search her house" (Anon. The severall factes of Witch-crafte. P. 128).

1007

"At that word help, the Wich, in comes one of his fellowes runs in hast, and asked him what they should helpe the Witch? Oh (quoth he) to the gallowes, for I am undone by her. Well, yet out he runs, wherefor thay night she would not be found" (Anon. The severall practises of Johane Harrison and her daughter. P. 156–157).

1008

"She saieth, that… fower or five, or more of the best men in Windsor, should not have brought her to the Gaile, but she came of her owne accorde" (Anon. A Rehearsall both straung and true. P. 39).

1009

"Then he commanded her to be taken out, and had women readie that searched her, and found under her left thigh a kind of Teat, which after the Bastard sonne confest her Spirits in severall shapes as Cats, Moales, etc. used to sucke her" (Anon. Witches Apprehended. P. 275).

1010

"When Master Enger began to accuse her… All which she constantly denied, and stood in defiance with him till being carried towards a Justice" (Ibid.).

1011

"Stil having his former long suspition of her, by the information of her