[1] On the fiftéenth daie of August being sundaie, Agnes Bridges,Agnes Brid|ges & Rachell Pinder at Pauls crosse for counter|fetting to be possessed. a maiden about the age of twen|tie yeares, and Rachell Pinder, a wench about ele|uen or twelue yeares old who both of them had coun|terfetted to be possessed by the diuell (wherby they had not onelie maruellouslie deluded manie people, both men and women, but also diuerse such persons as o|therwise séemed to be of good wit and vnderstanding) stood before the preacher at Paules crosse, where they acknowledged their hypocriticall counterfetting, with penitent behauiours, requiring forgiuenesse of God and the world, and the people to praie for them. Also their seuerall examinations and confessions were there openlie read by the preacher, and after|wards published in print for the further posteritie hereafter to beware of the like deceiuers.