Bridge, Widow
A poor old woman. Her own sister, Margaret Loy, being arraigned for a witch, confessed she was one; and when she was asked how long she had so been, replied, since the death of her mother, who died thirty years ago; and at her decease she had nothing to leave her, and this widow Bridge, that were sisters, but her two spirits; and named them, the eldest spirit to this widow, and the other spirit to her the said Margaret Loy.
God bless me and all mine from such legacies : Amen.
This house is out of lease, yet for charity I permit this old woman to be in it only for the old rent; whenever she dies put her daughter out of it, for she is one of the [most] wicked, drunken, swearing, and cursing women in England, and a lewd woman besides. God bless us from her : Amen.
This is a brave place to build on a gallant house and a great back side. You may have one pound a year rent, three rent hens, and three days' shearing, for it; or, may be, you may lay the next house at the south end to it; and then it would be a most stately place indeed Consider well what you do, two houses being better than one. Rent at present, £o, 13s. od
from The Moore Rental