While in Lavenham, Stearne heard the confession of Anne Randall, who admitted to serving the Devil for over thirty years with the aid of two kitten-imps named ‘Jacob’ and ‘Hangman.’ She confessed to raising a storm that killed William Baldwin’s horses after he refused her wood, sending ‘Hangman’ to kill Stephen Humphrey’s pig following his mockery of her begging, and removing hedges planted by Henry Copinger, the Lord of the Manor.
“being angry with one MR COPPINGER of Lavenham , she sent her Imp Jacob to carry away bushes, which he had caused to be laid to fence his fences, above one load, here some, and there some, all along the hedge side, as they were to be hedged out, and in one night they were gone, no man knew what way, until such time as she confessed her Imp did it. But as I have since heard, they were known to be in another mans ground, who confessed, they came the same night, but how, he knew not till then”
A confirmation and discovery of witches – John Stearne