The Lancaster Witches: certificate of surgeons and midwives

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Surgeons Hall in Mugwell Street London, 2 July

1634

We in humble obeyance [obedience] to your Lordships have this day called unto us the

Surgeons and midwives whose names are hereunder written who have

by the directions of Mr Doctor Harvey (in our presence and his) made

diligent searches and inspections on those women which were lately

brought up from Lancaster and find as follows:

On the bodies of Jenett Hargreaves, Frances Dickenson

and Mary Spencer nothing unnatural neither in their

secrets or any other parts of their bodies, nor any thing

like a teat or mark, not any sign that any such

thing hath ever been

On the body of Margaret Johnson we find two things

[which] may be called teats