Master Generous arrives with his wife and Mall, Old Seely has to be warned about Mistress Generous’ witchcraft. Arthur and Doughty together take control. The accused women find that they cannot conjure up their familiars, and Doughty expounds that even a village constable (i.e., the lowest officer of the Christian state) has power over witchcraft in his staff (imagine a truncheon with the royal coat of arms). Arthur proposes that they try to take statements now, to speed up the later legal process. The various accusations are repeated, and the accused women say that they will not speak, but then Granny Johnson does, calling out loud for Mamilion her familiar, and confessing to her sexual relationship with this demonic familiar. Historically, Margaret Johnson spontaneously confessed to witchcraft, when she had not been one of the 1634 accused at all. As ‘the penitent witch’, she appears in the State Papers, and multiple copies of her confession were made.