 Wakely also said that Lloyd told her the black man had sucked at her extra teats.Thomas Eastchurch’s statement was held to be important, as he was a respected town gentleman; however, again his evidence was simply that he overheard Lloyd confess while she was in Bideford lock-up the previous day.He stated that she confessed to meeting "something in the likeness of a black man" who tempted her to go and torment Grace Thomas.