Samuel Shattuck V. Bridget Bishop.

Samuel Shattuck aged 41 years testifieth yet in ye year 1680. Bridget Oliver formerly wife to old Goodman Oliver, now wife to Edward Bishop did Come to my house pretending to buy an old hhd wch [sic] though I asked very little for and for all her pretended want, she went away without it. And sundry other times she came in a smooth flattering manner in very slightly errands; we have thought since on purpose to work mischief. At or very near this time Our Eldest Child who promised as much and under standing, both by countenance and actions as any other children of his years: was taken in a very drooping condition, and as she came oftener to the house he grew worse and worse. As he would be standing at ye door would fall out and bruise his face upon a great step stone as if he had been thrust out by an invisible hand often times falling and hitting his face against ye sides of ye house, bruising his face in a very miserable manner. After this ye abovesaid Oliver brought me a pair of sleeves to dye and after yet sundry pieces of lace, some of which were so short yet I could not judge them fit for any use. She paid me 2d for dying them which 2d I gave to Henry Williams which lived with me he told me put it in a purse among some other money which he locked up in a box and yet ye purse and money was gone out of ye box he could not tell how: and never found it after. Just after the dying of these things this child ... grew worse in his fits ... And ever since this child hath bin followed with grevious fits... always running to and fro acting so strange yet I cannot judge otherwise but yet he is bewitchedand by these circumstances do believe yet ye aforesaid Bridge Oliver now called Bishop is ye cause of it.