Mistress Kent of Beckley by Oxford, 32 years. Sunday 24 January 1619, 9.00 am.
[In chart] Desperate. Defies God. Praises the devil.
A quarter of a year ill ever since she lay in childbed. Despairs of God’s mercy. Charges herself with many crimes as that as that [sic] she did lie with her sister’s brother’s son. Says that the devil will have her. Denies God & blasphemes him. Thinks that she is bewitched by her brother’s son.
Despairs of mercy. Has taken physic. Twice let blood. Temples, two arms, in the emrods [hemorrhoids], & purged.
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