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Mother fen of Northall greene helpeth agaynst witchery. bid her to take a rose cake & {sic} to sp & to boyle it in vinegar betwixt 2 dishes & to apply it four tymes to her temples. & after each cake was drye to cast it into the fyer & to burne it: & also gave her an oyntment. Anothr to tak makle \marke/ the womā ty suspected where the last put there foot out of \the/ Dore & so to cut vp the turfe of that place & after to burn it in the fyer. then if \will/ the ty suspected come thithr asking why she doth soe & bid her tak it out of the fyer. then thou must tell that ty helpe the child bewitched. & I will take it out/

Calendared text from MS Ashmole 203, f. 80v (upper left part of page)

Cite this as: Lauren Kassell, Michael Hawkins, Robert Ralley, John Young, Joanne Edge, Janet Yvonne Martin-Portugues, and Natalie Kaoukji (eds.), ‘NOTE4380’, The casebooks of Simon Forman and Richard Napier, 1596–1634: a digital edition, https://casebooks.lib.cam.ac.uk/notes/NOTE4380, accessed 29 October 2026.