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The Confeſſion of Agnes Waterhowſe
the
xxvii daye of July in Anno
1566 at Chelmsforde before Juſtice
Southcote and M. Gerard the quenes
atturney
.

FYRST being demaunded whether that ſhee were gyltye or not gilty vpon her araynement of the murtheringe of a man, ſhe confeſſed that ſhe was gilty, and then vppon the euidence geuen agaynſt her daughter Jone Waterhouſe, ſhe ſayde that ſhe hadde a white Cat, and wylled her cat that he ſhuld deſtroy many of his neyghbours cattell, and alſo that he ſhoulde kyll a man, and ſo he dyd, and then after ſhe muſt go ii or iii mile from her houſe, and