A True account of a strange and wonderful relation of John Tonken, of Pensans in Cornwall said to be bewitched by some women, two of which on suspition are committed to prison, he vomiting up several pins, pieces of walnut-shels, an ear of rye with a straw to it half a yard long and rushes of the same length, which are kept to be shown at the next assizes for the said county.

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A True account of a strange and wonderful relation of John Tonken, of Pensans in Cornwall said to be bewitched by some women, two of which on suspition are committed to prison, he vomiting up several pins, pieces of walnut-shels, an ear of rye with a straw to it half a yard long and rushes of the same length, which are kept to be shown at the next assizes for the said county.
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London :: Printed by George Croom ...,
1686.
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Tonken, John.
Witchcraft -- England.
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"A True account of a strange and wonderful relation of John Tonken, of Pensans in Cornwall said to be bewitched by some women, two of which on suspition are committed to prison, he vomiting up several pins, pieces of walnut-shels, an ear of rye with a straw to it half a yard long and rushes of the same length, which are kept to be shown at the next assizes for the said county." In the digital collection Early English Books Online. https://name.umdl.umich.edu/A63281.0001.001. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed May 4, 2024.

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