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<P><HI>Wonderfull News from the North.</HI> OR, A TRUE RELATION OF THE SAD AND GRIEVOVS TORMENTS, Inflicted upon the Bodies of three Children of Mr. <HI>George Mu&s;champ,</HI> late of the County of <HI>Northumberland,</HI> by Witch-craft: AND HOW MIRACULOUSLY IT plea&s;ed God to &s;trengthen them, and to deliver them: As al&s;o the pro&s;ecution of the &s;ayd Witches, as by Oaths, and their own Confe&s;&s;ions will appear, and by the Indictment found by the Jury again&s;t one of them, at the Se&s;&s;ions of the Peace held at <HI>Alnwick,</HI> the 24. day of <HI>April,</HI> 1650.</P>
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<OPENER><DATELINE><DATE><HI>Novemb.</HI> 25. 1650.</DATE></DATELINE></OPENER>
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<P><HI>LONDON,</HI> Printed by <HI>T. H.</HI> and are to be &s;old by <HI>Richard Har|per,</HI> at his &s;hop in Smithfield, 1650.</P>
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<HEAD>A Preface to the Reader.</HEAD>
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<P>_WIth a &s;ad heart I pre&s;ent unto thee the en&s;u|ing Di&s;cour&s;e, not out of malice to the per|&s;on of any, but to &s;hew the great mercy of Almighty God, and to magnifie his glori|ous Name for pre&s;ervation of Me and my Children, and for delivering us from tho&s;e extreame torments and mi&s;eries where|with by Diabolicall meanes we have beene afflicted. In pro&s;ecution of which &s;ad Story, I have delivered nothing but Truth, as is te&s;tified by very many people of great Ranke and Quality, as al&s;o by Divines, Phi&s;itians, and numbers of other people, who have beene &s;ad Spectators of our Mi&s;eries. Be&s;eeching the Almighty God to deliver thee and all good Chri&s;ti|an People from the like Mi&s;eries, and Torments, which have happe|ned unto Me, and my poore innocent Children.</P>
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<HEAD><HI>A briefe De&s;cription of Mr.</HI> GEORGE MUSCHAMPS <HI>Childrens unnaturall Tryalls, from the Yeare of our Lord,</HI> 1645. <HI>&V;ntill</HI> Candlemas, 1647. <HI>The time of their Relea&s;ement.</HI></HEAD>
<P>_FIr&s;t in Harve&s;t, &s;ome two Moneths before MI|CHAELMAS, about four or five of the Clock in the afternoone, Mi&s;tris MARGARET MUSCHAMP &s;uddainely fell into a great Trance, her Mother being frighted, called Company, and with much adoe recovered her; as &s;oone as the childe looked up, cryed out, deare Mother, weepe not for me; for I have &s;eene a happy Sight, and heard a ble&s;&s;ed &s;ound; for the Lord hath loved my poore &s;oule, that he hath cau&s;ed his ble&s;&s;ed Trumpet to &s;ound in my eares, and hath &s;ent two ble&s;&s;ed Angels to re|ceive my &s;infull &s;oule. O weepe not for me, but rejoyce, that the Lord &s;hould have &s;uch re&s;pect to &s;o &s;infull a wretch as I am, as to &s;end his heavenly Angels to receive my &s;infull &s;oule, with many other divine expre&s;&s;ions: Calling good Mother &s;end for my deare Brother, and ho|ne&s;t Mr. HUET, perhaps the Lord will give me leave to &s;ee them; that faithfull man may helpe my &s;oule forward in praying with me, and for me; for we know the prayers of the faithfull are very powerfull with the Lord. They b<GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="blotted" EXTENT="3 letters">g three miles off, in the Holy I&s;land, were &s;ent
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for, and with what &s;peed might be, came; &s;he all this while in her Heavenly Rapture, uttering &s;uch words as were admirable to the be|holders, her Brother and the Mini&s;ter came to her, which heard her ex|pre&s;&s;e much joy. The Mini&s;ter exhorting her, to whom &s;he gave &s;uch &s;atisfaction, that he ble&s;led God in &s;hewing &s;uch mercy to a childe of eleaven yeares old. All that night &s;he continued, apprehending the&s;e Heavenly Vi&s;ions, the Mini&s;ter praying with her, and for her, as &s;he de&s;ired him. After &s;he fell into a little re&s;t, and when &s;he awaked, re|membred not any thing &s;he had &s;ayd or done.</P>
<P>Witne&s;&s;es to this fir&s;t,
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<ITEM>Mr. HUET, Mini&s;ter.</ITEM>
<ITEM>Mrs. KENADY, her two Brothers, and two Si&s;ters, with her Mother.</ITEM>
<ITEM>GEORGE ROBINSON, and his Wife.</ITEM>
<ITEM>KATHERINE GRAME.</ITEM>
<ITEM>ODNEL SELBY, and his Wife.</ITEM>
<ITEM>MARGARET DIKSON, with divers others in the hou&s;e then pre&s;ent.</ITEM>
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<P>After this &s;he continued well till Candlemas.</P>
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<P>ON Candlemas Eve, betwixt the houres of one and two in the af|ternoone, being the Sabboth, her mother with mo&s;t of her &s;er|vants being at Church, onely her two Brothers, and two Si&s;ters with her, &s;he was &s;uddainely &s;triken with a great deale of torment, called for a little beere, but ere they could come with it, the u&s;e of her tongue was gone, with all her limbs, pre&s;&s;ing to vomit, and &s;uch torments, that no eyes could looke on her without compa&s;&s;ion: Her mother comming home with a &s;ad heart, beheld her childe, u&s;ing what meanes could be, but no ea&s;e, till eleaven or twelve a Clock at night &s;he fell in|to a &s;lumber and &s;lept till &s;ix in the morning; as &s;oon as Berwick gates were opened her mother &s;ent for Phi&s;itions, both of &s;oule and body, with the Lady SELBY, Colonell FENVVICKS Widow, with other friends, who forth with came to behold this &s;ad fight, with many o|thers that came to the childe waking out of her &s;le<GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="missing" EXTENT="1 letter">pe, which was without pre&s;ent torment, but had lo&s;t the u&s;e of both limbs, tongue, &s;tomacke, onely &s;miled on them, and &s;igned, that we could under&s;tand &s;he had all her other &s;en&s;es very perfect, but would let nothing come
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within her mouth of any nouri&s;hment, for her Jawes were almo&s;t clo&s;ed: Phy&s;itians gave their advice, with other friends; and what could be had, was gotten for her: but her &s;ignes from the beginning were, away with the&s;e Doctors Drugs, God had layd it on her, and God would take it off her.</P>
<P>She beg'd that Mr. BALSOM, Mr. STROTHER, and Mr. HUET, wou'd be her Doctors in their earne&s;t prayers to the Lord for her; for &s;he was confident there was no helpe for her, but from Heaven: yet her mother to her great expences neglected no lawfull meanes that could be u&s;ed. About 12. a clock &s;he had a tormenting fit before all the com|pany; but it was not above an houre: but from that time till Whit|&s;on Eve, being 16. weekes, &s;he &s;lept as well in the nights, as any one, but as &s;oone as &s;he awaked in the morning begun her torment: Fir&s;t three or foure houres every day, encrea&s;ing till it came to eight houres, every houre a &s;everall torment, &s;uch &s;trong cruell ones that cannot be expre&s;t, as many with weping eyes beheld it, that Mini&s;ters would pray by her till the &s;ad object would make them leave her to the Lord, expecting nothing but death. Sir WILLIAM SELBY his Lady, the Counte&s;&s;e LENDRIK, the Lady HAGGARSTON, with many others, would look, till &s;orrow would mak them forbeare: Yet as &s;oone as the&s;e torments were over, the child would in&s;tantly &s;mile, and make &s;ignes &s;he felt no paine at all: &s;olying quietly till the next morning, onely we wet her lips with a little milke and water; for nothing &s;he would let come within her jawes; but would &s;mile and &s;hew her Armes and brea&s;t, and &s;ay God fed her with Angels food: for truely all the 16. weekes fa&s;t, did not appeare to dimini&s;h her fatne&s;&s;e or fa|vour any thing at all.</P>
<P>On Whit&s;on Eve in the morning &s;he had eight hours bitter torment, in the afternoone her mother being abroad, left her Husbands Brothers Daughter Mrs ELIZABETH MUSCHAMP with her, who made &s;ignes to her to carry her into the Garden, in her mothers ab&s;ence; her Cozen ca&s;ting a mintle about her, gave her her de&s;ire, and &s;ate in the Garden with her on her knee, who in the bringing downe had &s;o little &s;trength in her neck, that her head hung wagging downe; but was not &s;et a quarter of an houre, till &s;hewing &s;ome &s;ignes to her Co|zen, bolted off her knce, ran thrice about the Garden, expre&s;&s;ing a &s;hrill voyce, but did not &s;peake pre&s;ently: &s;he that was brought down
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in this &s;ad condition came up &s;taires on her owne legs, in her Cozens hands: Captaine FALSET, his Wife and his Daughter being then in the hou&s;e, did behold this miraculous mercy of the Lord done to this child: her mother being at Berwick, three miles off, was &s;ent for, and imparted her joyfulne&s;&s;e unto the Lady SELBY, and good Mr. BAL|SOME, who&s;e prayers with the re&s;t (as the child &s;ayd) had prevailed with God for mercy. When her mother came home, her Daughter which &s;he left in &s;o bad a condition, came with her cloathes on, down to the gate, calling Mother, Mother welcome home. Now the Mo|thers joy may be imagined, but not expre&s;&s;ed; de&s;iring her mother pre|&s;ently to &s;end many thanks to Mr. BALSOME, and Mr. STROTHER for that the Lord had an&s;wered their prayers for her. The next day be|ing the Sabbath, &s;he beg'd on her mother to returne thanks to the glo|rious God, who never failed any that tru&s;ted in him, and her &s;elf would ride into the Holy Iland and joyne in thanks and prayers to the Lord, with Mr. HUET, Sir THOMAS TEMPEST, Captaine SHAFT, with the re&s;t of the pari&s;h that feared God; She by Gods power did it the next Thur&s;day, being a Lecture in Berwick, her &s;elfe, and with Mr. BALSOME and Mr. STROTHER gave glory to the Lord for his never forgotten mercy to her; though her fle&s;h did not dimini&s;h, yet her &s;trength was but weake, and her &s;tomack by degrees came to her again, and for &s;even or eight weeks was very well: then her mother removed to Berwick, where the Gari&s;on being kept, the di&s;charge of a Musket would cau&s;e her to fall into very great exta&s;ies, being there &s;everall times for 24 hours &s;pace, &s;he would be &s;uddenly taken with her for|mer torments. For three weeks &s;pace &s;he lo&s;t her &s;tomack, and all her limbs, and of a &s;udden recoverd all again, not remembring what &s;he had either done or &s;uffered. To avoyd this inconvenience, her mother removed from Berwick, and carried her in one of the&s;e &s;ad conditions one mile off Berwick, where &s;he continued &s;even weekes more in the&s;e afflictions.</P>
<P>Her elde&s;t Brother upon S. Johns day at night in the Chri&s;tmas fol|lowing betwixt the houres of 1. and 2. was taken exceedingly ill, that it was thought he would not live: the next morning he was a little ea&s;ed of his extremity and pain, but both his &s;tomack and the u&s;e of his legs taken from him, &s;o that he was forced to have help to put on his cloathes, was lifted into a chaire where he &s;at all day long, but could
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neither eate nor drinke any thing, but a little milke or water, or &s;owre milke. He con&s;umed away to nothing, yet not heart-&s;icke; but would rea&s;on, talke and laugh with any friend as if nothing ayled him. His mother now being pre&s;t downe with &s;orrow, &s;ent to the Doctors both at Newca&s;tle. Durham, and Edenborough, not doubting or &s;u&s;pecting any unnaturall Di&s;ea&s;e; the Phy&s;itians all agreed by the cour&s;e of nature he could not live a month to an end, which was &s;ad newes to his &s;or|rowfull Mother, God knowes.</P>
<P>After two or three weekes &s;he had another fit of her former tor|ments&punc; after &s;he had lyen three or foure weekes in her extremity, be|gun, and cryed the Rogue, never till then, offering a word in her tor|ments, but as if &s;ome were &s;triking at her; &s;he &s;eemed to &s;ave her &s;elfe with hands and bedcloaths from blowes, deciphering a wretched creature as we all after knew by her de&s;cription: Sometimes he would fight with her in the &s;hape of a Dragon, of a Bear, a Hor&s;e, or Cow: Many fancies &s;he did expre&s;&s;e; and good things, &s;he &s;ayd, fought for her, and &s;till got the better of him: The enemies Weapons were a Club, a Staffe, a Sword, and Dagger; her good things got them all, as &s;he thought, and after the wretch, &s;he thought, got the Dagger againe.</P>
<P>Now when &s;he fixt her eyes upon her objects, no action you could u&s;e would move either eyes or ge&s;ture, till &s;he came out of her fits, then did not remember any thing &s;he either did or &s;ayd: After a while &s;he would make her hand goe on her bre&s;t, as if &s;he would write, with her eyes fixt on her object; they layd paper on her bre&s;t, and put a p<GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="missing" EXTENT="1 letter">n with inke in her hand, and &s;he not moving her eyes, writ, Jo Hu. Do. Swo. have beene the death of one deare friend, con&s;ume another, and torment mee; whil&s;t &s;he was writing the&s;e words, &s;he was blowne up ready to bur&s;t, &s;hrinking with her head, as if &s;he feared blowes: then would &s;he be drawne, as in convul&s;ion fits, till &s;he got that wri|ting from them that had it, and either burne it in the fire, or chew it in her mouth, till it could not be di&s;cerned. Let any one &s;natch the paper from her and hide it as private as he could, &s;he would have gone to the party and place, &s;till in torment till &s;he got it, and either burne it or chewed it, that none could di&s;cerne one word &s;he had wrote, then im|mediately &s;he would have ea&s;e: Thus for a moneth or &s;ix weekes, eve|ry other day, with &s;everall torments, and &s;uch like expre&s;&s;ions conti|nued; her good things, as &s;he called them came &s;till and &s;aved her from her enemies.</P>
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The&s;e words written, and her other expre&s;&s;ions, cau&s;ed her &s;ad m<GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="missing" EXTENT="1 letter">+ther to have very contradictive thoughts: So that one day her Neece MUSCHAMP that had been her Companion in mo&s;t of the&s;e &s;ad con|ditions, being troubled to thinke what this childs writing &s;hould mean; &s;ayd to her Aunt, there is one that I have ever feared &s;ince my cou&s;in MARGARET was fir&s;t afflicted; but I dare not name her whom I have &s;u&s;pected: Her Aunt an&s;wers, and onely one I &s;u&s;pect: And the&s;e Letters make me tremble to thinke on it; but the Lord pardon our thoughts, if we thinke ami&s;&s;e: So revealing our thoughts one to ano|ther, and pitcht both on DOROTHY SVVINOVV. Her Neece &s;aith, Mrs. SVVINOVV came to &s;ee the childe when you were away, and &s;pake har&s;hly of you, and be&s;ides the childes looking on her, which &s;he never did on any el&s;e, makes me feare her: Her Aunt an&s;wered, if &s;he could doe me hurt, and not her owne &s;oule, I feare her more then a|ny el&s;e, but that cannot bee; &s;o Lord pardon us, if we thinke ami&s;&s;e, and let us not &s;peake any further of her.</P>
<P>This childes mothers occa&s;ions called her to Newca&s;tle, which jour|ney was not plea&s;ant, leaving &s;o &s;ad a hou&s;e at home, and her childes writing, and her Neeces thoughts, and her owne, made her very &s;ad, that her &s;ervant wondering to &s;ee &s;uch a change, pre&s;umed to aske the cau&s;e of it &s;he knowing her &s;ervant to be tru&s;ty, revealed the &s;u&s;pected party to him, no living &s;oule being by; her occa&s;ions being di&s;patched returned home.</P>
<P>But in her ab&s;ence her Daughter had beene quite di&s;tracted, run up and downe with a &s;taffe in her hand, &s;aying &s;he would kill the Rogue: in this rage &s;he apprehended her good things (for &s;o &s;he called them) in the likene&s;&s;e of a Dove, and a Partridge, and begun and &s;ung, <HI>Judgo and revenge my cau&s;e O Lord:</HI> Next, <HI>How long wilt thou forget me Lord; &s;hall I never be remembred?</HI> And concluded, <HI>Behold and have regard, ye &s;ervants of the Lord;</HI> and &s;o came out of her fit, not remem|bring any thing, either done or &s;<GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="missing" EXTENT="1 letter">yd; &s;he never having any of the&s;e P&s;almes by heart, or any booke by her, nor as yet any voice to &s;ing them to this day.</P>
<P>By her at that time was my Neece MUSCHAMP, Mr. MOORES &s;ix &s;onnes, and his Daughter, with my owne children and &s;ervants, and divers neighbours. After my comming home, &s;he fell into another of the&s;e &s;trange fits; the Mini&s;ter of Tweedmouth being by, &s;eeing and
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hearing many &s;trange pa&s;&s;ages, which cannot halfe be remembred: But part of her di&s;cour&s;e was; that if &s;he had two drops of his blood or hers, within ten dayes, it would &s;ave her life; if not death long com|ming, but torment perpetually.</P>
<P>Divers of the&s;e fits &s;he had, in every one expre&s;&s;ing their bloud would &s;ave her life; from ten dayes to &s;ix, from &s;ix to three, which was on a Saturday, being heavily tormented, her tongue taken from her, with her eyes fixt on her objects, wrote thus againe, JO. HU. DO. SVVI. hath been the death of one deare friend, con&s;umes mother deare friend, and torments me; for three dayes they have no power, but the fourth they will torment me: two drops of his or her bloud would &s;ave my life, if I have it not I am undone, for &s;even yeares to be tormented before death come. While&s;t &s;he was writing the teares comming downe her face, &s;till &s;aving her &s;elfe in this bitter agony, as it were, from her enemies blows.</P>
<P>As &s;oone as her mother came from Newca&s;tle, &s;he &s;ent (that &s;er|vant &s;he revealed her minde to at Newca&s;tle) to one JOHN HUTTON, he was one it was &s;u&s;pected that could do more then God allowed of; bidding him confe&s;&s;e who had wrong'd her child, or &s;he would appre|hend him: her child in her extremity writing the two fir&s;t Letters of his name, with anothers.</P>
<P>So when this &s;ervant told him his me&s;&s;age another being by to wit|ne&s;&s;e his an&s;wer, which was thus: WILLIAM HALL, your Mrs. knowes as well who hath wrong'd he<GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="missing" EXTENT="1 letter"> child as I: for the party that with a troubled minde your Mrs. had concealed all this time, and at Newca&s;tle in her chamber all alone told you is &s;he that hath done her all this wrong. The &s;ervant an&s;wered, God ble&s;&s;e me, could he tell what his Mi&s;tre&s;&s;e &s;aid to him, no living &s;oule el&s;e pre&s;e<GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="missing" EXTENT="1 letter"> it, bidding him re|veale the party? the Rogue &s;ayd, a great &s;tone is not ea&s;ily lifted, and he had one foot in the grave already: repeating many old &s;ayings: but &s;ayd, DOROTHY SVVINOVV wife then to Colonell SVVINOVV, was the party that had done all the mi&s;chiefe to her child, and was the cau&s;e of all her further cro&s;&s;es.</P>
<P>This an&s;wer being brought, and her childs la&s;t writing, three dayes they had no power, the fourth to torment; and the Sabbath being one of the three, the monday following, her mother, her Neece MUS|CHAMP, her &s;on in Law EDVVARD MOORE, GEORGE ARMO|RER,
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WILLIAM HALL, and WILLIAM BARD, rid to Ether&s;ton thinking Mr. WALTO~N to have beene a Ju&s;tice of the Peace; but was not: then &s;he with her company went directly to Sunderland, where Jo. HUTTON dwelt, and &s;ent for him, who forthwith came, and though they had never &s;een him, but by the childes de&s;cription, nor he them; he knew them all naming their names; and fell downe on his knees for to pray for the child; but her mother bidding him ri&s;e, &s;he de&s;ired none of his prayers, but tell her how he came to know what &s;he &s;pake to her &s;ervant all alone, &s;o far off, he repeated before all the company what he had formerly &s;poken.</P>
<P>She &s;ayd her elde&s;t &s;on was very ill too, the Lord ble&s;&s;e him, not thinking that he was wronged; but the Rogue an&s;wered, one was the cau&s;e of both: &s;he in a maze &s;ayd, I had a &s;i&s;ter that dyed in a re&s;tle&s;&s;e &s;ickne&s;&s;e, God grant &s;he was not wronged too: the Rogue &s;ayd, Mi|&s;tre&s;&s;e, Mi&s;tre&s;&s;e, one is the cau&s;e of all, envy nothing will &s;atisfie, but death. Said &s;he is this po&s;&s;ible? Mi&s;tre&s;&s;e &s;ayd he my life is in your hand, but I'le maintaine DOROTHY SVVINOVV was the death of the Lady MARGERY HAMBLETON, the con&s;uming of your &s;on, and the tormentor of your daughter, and the cau&s;e of all your evill; and if you would have my hearts bloud take it, for my life is in your power, none &s;peaking of bloud to him. She told him the child had wrote two drops of his or her bloud would &s;ave her life; and if the Devill had left &s;o much in him, &s;he would (if it plea&s;ed the Lord) have it ere they par|ted. The wretch u&s;ing &s;till Godly words and his prayers, de&s;ired to take his bloud privately, that none &s;hould &s;ee; &s;o the child nickt him halfe a dozen times in the forehead, but no bloud appeared; then he put forth his right arme and that was not till her mother threatned his heart bloud &s;hould goe before &s;he wanted it; then he layd his thumb on his arme, and two drops appeared, which &s;he wip'd off with a pa|per, the which &s;he had writ the words in, and bid him farewell: he bid them ride &s;oftly, they had both tide and time enough, it being a fine quiet day; of a &s;udden as &s;oon as they were on hor&s;e back it grew very boy&s;trous, that they had much adoe to &s;it on their hor&s;es; riding fa&s;t, at Sunderland Towns end, came two white Lambs to them, and kept clo&s;e with their hor&s;es till they came to Bambrough, being two long miles, neither &s;heep nor lambs neere them; the water was very deep, yet being venterous they rid it over.</P>
<P><PB N="9" REF="7">
On Munday night &s;he fell into a heavenly Rapture, rejoycing that ever &s;he was borne, for the&s;e two drops of blood had &s;aved her life, o|therwi&s;e &s;he had beene &s;eaven yeares in torment without any ea&s;e, or death had come: behold her two Angels (which &s;he was bold to call them) on her right hand, and her Tormenters on her left, &s;etting her &s;elfe with a maje&s;tick carriage, her words &s;o punctuall and di&s;creet, that it was admirable to the beholders.</P>
<P>Saying her Angels bid her now be bold to &s;peake out, looking on her left hand, &s;aying, thy name is JOHN HUTTON, and hers is DOROTHY SVVINOVV, &s;he hath beene the death of my Aunt HAMBLETON, the con&s;umer of my Brother, and the tormenter of me; &s;he knowing my Aunts e&s;tate was but for life, and her onely &s;onne had marryed FAUSETS daughter, who to enjoy the e&s;tate, he having but one &s;onne, was the cau&s;e of yong JAMES FAUSETS unnaturall fits: But think|ing Mr. FAUSET would follow her more &s;trictly there, then we could doe here, let him alone, to be the more vehement with us, every fit pro|mi&s;ing me ca&s;e, if I would con&s;ent to lay it on my mother; but I will never con&s;ent, but if it were po&s;&s;ible indure more torment; fince &s;he is all that the Lord of his goodne&s;&s;e hath left to take care of us five fa|therle&s;&s;e children; except our Father in Heaven, which protects her for our &s;akes.</P>
<P>Thus for two houres together &s;he continued in a very heavenly re|ligious Di&s;cour&s;e with the&s;e Angels, rejoycing that &s;he had got two drops of blood; &s;aying, if her Brother had as much, it would &s;ave his life al&s;o; witne&s;&s;e to the&s;e words were Mr. MOORE of Spittle, his &s;ix Sonnes and a Daughter, Mr. ELIZABETH MUSCHAMP, Mrs. MARGARET SELBY, ANNE SELBY, and GEORGE LEE, who was almo&s;t ca&s;t away comming into Barwick Harbour in a Ship by that fearfull tempe&s;t which HUTTON rai&s;ed. GEORGE ARMORER, WILLIAM HALL, WILLIAM BEARD, HENRY ORDE, with divers Neighbours, all admiring the Lords great power expre&s;&s;ed in that afflicted childe. Her mother being de&s;trous to have &s;ome &s;mall quantity of HUTTONS blood, rode the next day to him with two &s;er|vants, who brought him to her &s;onne, he not being able to goe to him. He acknowledged &s;till his life was in her hands, and came riding be|hinde one of her &s;ervants home to the Spittle where &s;he dwelt, and be|ing brought before Mr. MOORE, confirmed all that he had formerly
<PB N="10" REF="8">
confe&s;&s;ed, and withall &s;ayd, Mrs. SVVINOVV had two bad women a|bout her, the Millers and the Web&s;ters Wives, who had beene the death of Jo. CUSTERD and his Wife, with many other things of their wic|kedne&s;&s;e: That night he de&s;ired to goe to re&s;t, and when he plea&s;ed to call him, he would confe&s;&s;e further to him alone; the next day came Mr. WILLIAM ORDE, Mr. BROAD Mini&s;ter, with Mr. HEBERIN, and EDVVARD SAUFIELD, who heard all this confirmed, and &s;o the mother tooke her &s;onne in her armes to the place where the wretch was, and got his blood.</P>
<P>He &s;tayed there &s;even or eight dayes, and yet Mr. MOORE had never power to examine him any more, the wretch &s;till de&s;iring to be gone, the mother in the pre&s;ence of MARGARET SELBY, MARGARET ORDE, and WILLIAM BEARD, charged him, that although he had beene long the Devills &s;ervant, at la&s;t to be but a bridge for Gods crea|tures to goe over, in confe&s;&s;ing the truth; who an&s;wered, Mi&s;tris, Mi|&s;tris. If I were a yong man, able to endure all the torments that &s;hould be layed on me, I would take my death that Mrs. DOROTHY SVVI|NOVV was the death of the Lady HAMBLETON, the confumer of your &s;onne, and the Tormentor of your Daughter, and the cau&s;e of all your other troubles.</P>
<P>Now while&s;t he was there the Girle was never troubled, but he was not pa&s;t the Townes end, till &s;he fell into a terrible fit; &s;aying, DOROTHT SVVINOVV with two Witches more were come to tor|ment her wor&s;e then ever HUTTON did, and the one was a yong wo|man, and the other an old: So that till they had Ju&s;tice of DOROTHY SVVINOVV, her mother and they &s;hould never be at peace: Upon this her mother rid to Ju&s;tice FOSTER of Nuham, and upon Oath gave Information again&s;t both HUTTON and Mrs. SVVINOVV, to appre|hend them, who after delayes apprehended him, and &s;ent him to New|ca&s;tle Goale, but not her, though it will appeare &s;he was three &s;everal times in his company after he had the Information upon Oath, whereof he gave her a Coppy, with the Coppy of HUTTONS Examination, but would never let Mrs. MUSCHAMP &s;ee it; &s;eeing that delay, &s;he &s;poke with a Durham Ju&s;tice at Bellford, which not being in the County, and in ha&s;te he could not grant her a Warrant to apprehend the &s;ayd Mrs. SVVINOVV; but bid Mr. FOSTER doe Ju&s;tice, which is not yet done.</P>
<P><PB N="11" REF="8">
The Girle having many tormenting fits, in the mid&s;t of which her Angels alwayes appearing to her, bani&s;hing the Witches, which &s;he ap|prehended; the Girle would cry out and relate to her Angels how &s;he by the two Witches had been tormented, forcing her to get the information, whereof her mother kept a Coppy; &s;o that let her mo|ther give the paper to whom &s;he would, or laye it any where, the child would goe to either place or party mo&s;t &s;trangely. As &s;oone as her Angels departed. her torments leaving her, &s;he told them that her enemies would have killed her: but ju&s;tly might &s;he &s;ing the 35. P&s; <HI>Plead thou my cau&s;e O Lord, &amp;c.</HI> Repeating the fir&s;t part thereof &s;o &s;en&s;ibly and di&s;tinctly, that the Mini&s;ters there pre&s;ent admired to heare it. As likewi&s;e her declaring the death of the Rogue HUTTON in pri&s;on before it was knowne there, &s;aying if he had been urged he would have di&s;|covered the other 2. Witches; foretelling many &s;trange truths, appoin|ting divers meetings with her Angels, &s;uch a day and &s;uch an houre, to con&s;ult with them what &s;hould become of her brother, and what puni&s;hment her enemies &s;hould have, bidding every one they &s;hould not &s;o much as looke after her, for if they did it would anger her Angels, and undoe her, for there were &s;ome &s;trange Angels be&s;ides her owne to meet her; this being the fourth meeting with them, and it would de|clare all, &s;aying &s;he mu&s;t have all cleane cloathes about her; for this day or to morrow &s;he mu&s;t meet them under &s;uch a tree in the Garden: After comming out of her fit, &s;he remembred not any thing what was done or &s;ayd.</P>
<P>Her mother ob&s;erving her words, which hitherto had beene &s;o re|markable, clothed her childe all in white, and freely commended her to the Lord, watching his glorious time in the afternoone, being in a walk under a tree with her Brothers and &s;i&s;ters; &s;uddenly &s;he gave a great &s;hrike, and skipt over a double ditch and another, and run to the Gar|den doore. Her elde&s;t &s;i&s;ter came to her mother &s;aying, MARGRET is gone to her Angels meeting, who with ha&s;t ran with the key of the Garden doore, where her childe was &s;tanding, beating at it, &s;aying, I come, I come: &s;he opened the doore and left her to her protector, and ha&s;tily went to the other &s;ide of the hou&s;e to &s;ecure that part of the Garden: but (alas) ere &s;he came, a wicked creature &s;et on by the e|nemies in&s;tigation, had been looking after her, and her childe wrin|ging her hands, weeping bitterly, as if &s;he could have torne her fle&s;h
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from the bones, or haire off her head, &s;aying who was here? what wicked creature had &s;tayd her ble&s;&s;ed Angels from her; and for three houres together tooke on grievou&s;ly, her mother weeping with her, begging of the Lord not to puni&s;h the innocent for the wickeds fault. After &s;ome time the child went into the Garden againe, where finding one of her Angels, &s;he &s;ayd, Lord, it was not my fault: but well is me that you will come unto me! but (alas) where are the re&s;t? Her mo|ther being within, hearing the&s;e words. A quarter of a yeare (a long time to be without comfort) &s;till weeping: Then &s;he had this An&s;wer from her Angels, that for twelve weeks they would not vi&s;ibly appeare to her. This she remembred for three dayes, and related to her brothers and &s;i&s;ters and the re&s;t of the houshold the shape of tho&s;e Angels: which were bodyed like Birds, as big as Turkies, and faces like Chri|&s;tians, but the &s;weete&s;t creatures that ever eyes beheld: one of the &s;trange ones came flying over the trees with a &s;weet voyce, and gave her notice the re&s;t were come; which &s;he found mo&s;t true. Two or three lighted upon the ground, and the re&s;t with the heavenlie&s;t voy|ces that ever were heard, with a re&s;olution to declare the truth of all. And if the Ju&s;tices, and Judges at the A&s;&s;izes would not doe ju&s;tice, her owne two Angels (who were alwayes to her like a Dove and a Partridge) would vi&s;ibly, to the admiration of all the beholders, ap|pear like a man and a woman, and ju&s;tifie the truth, if the wicked wretch had not &s;cared them away. But now the one of her Angels bid her have a care &s;he were neither frighted nor angred for twelve weeks, in which time they would not come to her; but in the meane time her enemy would make every third fit a terrible one, which was mo&s;t true.</P>
<P>In the meane time Colonel SVVINOVV dyed, and &s;he comes into the Countrey, and becau&s;e FOSTER would doe no ju&s;tice, I got her apprehended in Berwick; &s;he made &s;uch friends that it was a greater freedome to her then &s;he had formerly from all other Lawes, and went at plea&s;ure. The Girle with her mother being one Sabbath day at Ber|wick Church, comming along the Bridge with her Husbands &s;on, and daughter; DOROTRY SVVINOVV being at the farther end thereof, the Girle never &s;eeing her but in her fits, knew her and was ready to fall downe in her mothers hand, crying yonder is the wofull thiefe; her mother knowing it true, &s;ayd now to the Girle it is not &s;he, who
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an&s;wered, I have &s;een her a hundred times to my &s;mart, it is &s;he: her mother troubled much at the &s;ight too, would have had the Girle back, but her de&s;ire was to be at home, who was no &s;ooner come in, but &s;he fell inro a terrible fit, for two houres long; &s;ometimes her tongue drawne in within her throat, other whiles hanging over her chin on her brea&s;t. Sad and heavy &s;ights were &s;een in her afflictions, &s;till bidding all that were by her &s;ee the wicked Wretch DOROTHY SVVINOVV with the two Witches at her back, &s;aying &s;he would not let her goe back to Berwick, le&s;t the Ju&s;tices &s;hould have been witne&s;&s;es them|&s;elves; but let her come home, where &s;he knew all their hearts were hardened: for alas, &s;he &s;ayd I have two weeks and two dayes yet be|fore my Comforters come, which made her enemies thus cruell, that if it were in her power to take their lives &s;he would but the Lords pre|&s;erving power would never leave them who &s;uffered the&s;e torments for his owne glory and their &s;oules health &s;aying, ours were but the cor|rections of a loving Father to &s;hew his great power in his weake&s;t children, rejoycing exceedingly that he thought her (a &s;infull creature) worthy &s;o much happine&s;&s;e, accounting it more joy to &s;ee her ble&s;&s;ed Angels then all the world could afford, thanking God e&s;pecially for making her a watch over her mother, brothers, and &s;i&s;ters, and would foretell &s;trange things before they happened.</P>
<P>When her 12. weekes were pa&s;t, the very day and houre came di|vers to &s;ee the Event, and waited with patience her appoynted time, which was the very minute of the houre of the day 12. weekes, they were &s;cared from her, Mr. BROAD, Mini&s;ter, Mr. STEVENS, Phy&s;i|tian, Mrs. MUSCHAMP, and Mrs. HAGARSTON, be&s;ides their owne Neighbours were Witne&s;&s;es, hearing her expre&s;&s;e much joy to meete with tho&s;e long ab&s;ent deare friends, relating the intention &s;ome had to looke after them againe; &s;o apprehending them in the Chamber, where the Spectators heard her for two houres, mo&s;t divinely and heavenly di&s;cour&s;e with them, an&s;wering and replying to that religious di&s;cour&s;e, praying for her enemy DOROTHY SVVINOVV, with the teares run|ning downe her face, that if the Lord had mercy in &s;tore to grant her it, lamenting the &s;ad condition &s;he had run her &s;oule into, for &s;atisfy|ing her malice to le&s;&s;en her hope of eternity, making &s;uch a de&s;cription betweene hell torments and heavenly joyes, as that no Divine on earth could have gone beyond her: Crying out for Ju&s;tice, &s;aying, if &s;he
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were in hold as a Fellon ought to be, her power would be gone, and their torments ea&s;ed; but now with much joy &s;he ble&s;t God her An|gels would never leave her againe, whil&s;t they were in affliction; &s;ay|ing, &s;he would go to the Judges (and de&s;ired to carry her brother there to) and begge for Ju&s;tice; if &s;he got it, her brother &s;hould come home as well as ever he was, &s;he no more tormented, and there &s;hould be no more hard heartedne&s;&s;e again&s;t her mother, which the Lord knowes was &s;uch without any ju&s;t cau&s;e, that her pa&s;&s;ion is by Gods power beyond imagination: Every fit &s;he &s;pake to this effect, till the Sizes came: in her fit her brother asked her if it were po&s;&s;ible that he could ride that could neither go or &s;tand; &s;he an&s;wered that the Lord would inable him, therefore he &s;hould goe, and her Angels would goe along with them, and bring them &s;afe back againe.</P>
<P>So their Mother not daring to di&s;obey &s;uch divine commands, who&s;e confidence doth wholly depend upon Gods providence from Heaven, rid behinde her &s;onne, and came to the Judge, relating her &s;ad conditi|on; he heard her, but being fal&s;ely informed, did not re&s;ent it: &s;he went to the Ju&s;tices to remove DOROTHY SVVINOVVS body to the County where the act was committed: they pretended ignorance, the childrens mother went with them to a Coun&s;ellour to in&s;truct them, who&s;e an&s;wer was he would not meddle in it: Yet the&s;e dejectments did not drive her from an undoubted confidence in an all &s;ufficient God; the next day betweene one and two of the Clock in the afternoone the Girle &s;uddainely had a fit and after her torments her Angels appeared unto her, to them &s;he complaines, &s;aying, no Ju&s;tice abroad, no Peace at home, what &s;hould become of her mother? for that Godle&s;&s;e thiefe DOROTHY SVVINOVV, by the in&s;tigation of the Divell, had hardned the heart of both Judges and Ju&s;tices again&s;t her, and now at this in&s;tant (&s;ayd &s;he) is u&s;ing meanes to harden her husbands heart a|gain&s;t her too (which &s;he knowes will be cruelle&s;t to her of all) and withall begun to con&s;ume her elde&s;t &s;i&s;ter, and that &s;he would this night, or to morrow morning go to the Judge, begge once more for Ju&s;tice; if &s;he got it, her Brother with the re&s;t &s;hould be well, if not, wor&s;e then ever; &s;aying, if the Judge denyed her it, it would not be well with him; this was part of her two houres di&s;cour&s;e.</P>
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Witne&s;&s;es the Chamber full, among&s;t which was,
<LIST>
<ITEM>Colonel SIPTHORP, and his Wife.</ITEM>
<ITEM>Colonel RODDAM.</ITEM>
<ITEM>Captain TOMPSON, his Brother and two Si&s;ters.</ITEM>
<ITEM>Mr ANDIRSON, and Mr. SVVAD|VVELL.</ITEM>
<ITEM>Mrs. CLETHER.</ITEM>
<ITEM>Mrs. ALLGOOD.</ITEM>
<ITEM>Dr. GENISON.</ITEM>
</LIST></P>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 TYPE="part">
<P>BEfore &s;he was out of her fit came Dr. GENISON, who invited the mother with her children to his hou&s;e, being the next hou&s;e to the Judges Chamber, in regard the Girles fir&s;t appoyntment was al|wayes kept; &s;o after her &s;upper &s;ent to &s;ee if it were more convenient to waite upon the Judge that night, or the next morning: the an&s;wer was returned that night was fitte&s;t: So Dr. CLETHER and his wife, with Dr. GENISON and his, went along with the mother and their children thither, there was a great many &s;pectators to &s;ee the Event.</P>
<P>Thus being &s;et downe in the chamber, her mother began her former &s;uit, in begging Ju&s;tice: his an&s;wer was, that that which belonged un|to the County Palatine of Durham, belonged not unto him: So &s;he re|que&s;ted him in his returne back, either to doe it, or el&s;e give order to the Ju&s;tices in the County to apprehend her; of a &s;uddaine the Girle fell into a fit, relating before them all DOROTHY SVVINOVVS ma|lice from the beginning, the cau&s;e of the troubles that broke Sir Ro. HAMBLETONS heart, the death of his Lady, and how &s;he &s;ought &s;till by evill meanes to take away her mothers life, when the Lord would not permit that, got leave fir&s;t to torment her, then to con&s;ume her bro|ther, and now hath begun to con&s;ume her elde&s;t &s;i&s;ter, and harden her Father in Lawes heart, to make her mothers life more &s;orrowfull, with her hands up, and eyes fixed upon her objects, begged Ju&s;tice for the Lords &s;ake, for Je&s;us Chri&s;ts &s;ake; &s;aying I ought to command Ju&s;tice by the Lawes of the Realme, in the name of our Soveraigne Lord the King, but I beg not in the name of any mortal man, but in the name of the King of Kings, Ju&s;tice for Chri&s;ts &s;ake, Ju&s;tice for his mercies &s;ake, it we have but ordinary Ju&s;tice, which ought not to be denyed to the poore&s;t creature who demands it, my brother that &s;its there &s;hall goe home as well as ever he did, I no more tormented, my mother no
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more afflicted, and my &s;i&s;ters torments at an end: if we have no ju&s;tice my torments &s;hall be doubled, my brother wor&s;e then ever he was, and my &s;i&s;ter (which &s;he hath this day begun to torment) wor&s;e then any of us, and my mothers afflictions, by the hardning of folks hearts again&s;t her will be un&s;ufferable; but the Lords pre&s;erving mercy will never leave them who depend upon his providence; but it will be wor&s;e for them who deny us ju&s;tice then for us. The&s;e words with many more &s;ignificant expre&s;&s;ions, that the Judge thought she feigned: but as &s;oon as she was out of her fit, did not know what was pa&s;t, as all the be|holders did &s;ee, onely an innocent bashfull Girle, without any confi|dence at all when she was out of her fits. So her mother returned home with them, where she found her other Girle began to con|&s;ume.</P>
<P>That night she came home the Girle fell into a fit, pre&s;&s;ing to vomit, but nothing came up but a piece of Fir-&s;tick full of crooked pinnes: after her Angels came, she cryed out of the Judges inju&s;tice, &s;aying, now the enemy when she &s;ees she can have no ju&s;tice, &s;trived to choake her with the&s;e things, being &s;tones, coles, brick, Lead, &s;traw, quills full of pins, with &s;traw full of pins, tow, and Virginall wire, all full of pins; one great &s;tone for three weekes together came alwayes to her throat and went back again, till at the la&s;t the Lord brought it up. She bid watch with her brother three weeks; for they would if they could either cut his throat in the night, or el&s;e burne him with fire; therefore let the Watchers be very wakefull, and carefull, &s;o ble&s;&s;ed be God they were, and did heare as it were knives sharpning on the &s;taires, and 3 &s;everall times fire was found in the roome one night, like to have burnt them, but by Gods mercyes were &s;aved. She &s;ayd now DOROTHY SVVIHOVV was &s;eeking a new way to take away her mothers life; for she was con&s;uming the child within her, and withall bad them watch with her brother and &s;i&s;ter that night twelve month they began to tor|ment him (which was Saint Johns day at night) betwixt the houres of 1. and 2. in the morning, and that very moment of the houre they would &s;eek to take his life and the u&s;e of his &s;i&s;ters legs, if Chri&s;tians prayers and diligent watching did not prevent them; &s;o it plea&s;ed the Lord to move the hearts of good friends to watch with them till the houre came.</P>
<P>The Girle then had her fit, and cryed out, the Grand Witch Meg
<PB N="17" REF="11">
is come to the doore with a lighted Candle in each hand, pray on one halfe houre longer, and their power will be gone, who ob&s;erved her reque&s;t, there was a &s;uddaine &s;mell of brim&s;tone, but nothing &s;eene by any; but here are &s;ome of their names that were witne&s;&s;es to mo&s;t of her tryalls, and fir&s;t them that prayed by her.</P>
<LIST>
<ITEM>Mr. BROAD.</ITEM>
<ITEM>Mr. EDVVARD ORDE.</ITEM>
<ITEM>Mr. GEORGE ATHERLONY.</ITEM>
<ITEM>Mr. EDVVARD MOORES &s;ix Sonnes, and one Daughter.</ITEM>
</LIST>
<P>With divers others, which were too tedious to relate.</P>
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<P>AFter this her Brother and Si&s;ter continued &s;till con&s;uming, and &s;he every other day falling into her fits, and after torment her An|gels alwayes appearing unto her, &s;he &s;till declares that DOROTHY SVVINOVV hardened the hearts of all that her mother had to deale with, &s;ayd, it &s;hould be wor&s;e and wor&s;e, till of an in&s;tant the Lord &s;hould make her greate&s;t enemies her greate&s;t friends; declaring how that if &s;he were in hold her paine were gone, as well as HUTTONS was for telling her owne relea&s;ement a quarter of a yeare before it came; &s;aying, it was neither for her owne de&s;ires or her owne ea&s;e, that the Lord relea&s;ed her, but to helpe her mother when &s;he could not helpe her &s;elfe, which was mo&s;t true to her great griefe and &s;orrow, but much joy to thinke that the Lord &s;hould not onely foretell it, but inable her own to helpe her: She &s;till expecting ju&s;tice, &s;ent the&s;e &s;trange things the Girle ca&s;t off her &s;tomack to Durham, which could &s;carce be believed; yet by chance one being by at the ca&s;ting of them, which was there pre&s;ent, got a Warrant to apprehend DOROTHY SVVINOVV, and &s;erved it her owne hands, with many contradictions ere it was done: Where DOROTHY SVVINOVV came into a chamber in the Con&s;ta|bles hou&s;e, which afterwards she confe&s;&s;ed was for feare of taking her blood, which was never in the others thoughts: Yet obeyed not that Warrant, till a &s;econd, then went but onely and put in bayle, as though it had beene for an ordinary fault, which the Girle in her fits cryed out of, &s;aying, that &s;till gave her further power to worke her wickedne&s;&s;e. Still all this quarter the Girl in her fits de&s;ired them to watch with her, on Candlemas Eve, and they should not thinke their labour lo&s;t, and
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betwixt the houres of one and two the next day the glory of God should appeare, her mother being confident of the Lords mercy, gave notice to all that came nigh her; &s;o &s;ome that feared God came to &s;ee the Event, which relea&s;ement being writ from her owne mouth will confirme the&s;e warnings of her former trialls, which have all with much patience beene gone thorow, that the pre&s;erving mercies of the mo&s;t glorious God, who never failes tho&s;e that depend upon his mo&s;t firme promi&s;es was never more declared on earth then in the weake&s;t of his creatures, pre&s;erved by a gratious God, to whom let all that read and heare the&s;e unexpre&s;&s;ible mercies, give all Glory, Honour, Laud, and Prai&s;es.</P>
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<HEAD><HI>The Expre&s;&s;ions of</HI> MARGARET MUSCHAMP <HI>when &s;he was in her la&s;t extreame fit, upon the &s;econd day of.</HI> FEBRUARY, 1647.</HEAD>
<P>THey thought becau&s;e their time was but &s;hort, to have tormented me wor&s;e then ever, but I defie them.</P>
<P>I have rea&s;on to ble&s;&s;e God more for his mercies to me, then I thinke ever &s;infull creature had.</P>
<P>Both my torments are at an end, and tho&s;e fearefull &s;ights I doe not now &s;ee, though it hath plea&s;ed God to &s;uffer and let them have power to torment me, yet I was never without comfort.</P>
<P>My time was &s;ad when I had no comfort, but I thanke God who hath given me patience.</P>
<P>I ble&s;&s;e God who never &s;uffered the Devill to have &s;o much power, as to cau&s;e me bla&s;pheme his name, or to &s;peake words to offend him.</P>
<P>It is a great mercy that he granted me patience to endure my payne; if it had plea&s;ed God I &s;hould have beene content as well with tor|ment as relea&s;ement.</P>
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<HEAD>To her Angels.</HEAD>
<P>Becau&s;e I &s;hall have no more torment, &s;hall not I &s;ee your faces a|gaine? That's &s;ad to me, that's more griefe to me, I had rather endure my paine; that's more griefe ten thou&s;and times, but &s;inee it's Gods will, I am as well content with the one as the other, I &s;till tru&s;t in God
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he will &s;end you to protect and watch over us.</P>
<P>I have endured my paines a great while, it is two yeares agoe ye&s;ter|day; yet I ble&s;&s;e God for it, alwayes with much patience, my paine hath beene very vehement for the time, yet I ble&s;&s;e God I did never &s;peake wordes to offend him: I confe&s;&s;e I doe not de&s;erve it, I de&s;erve no &s;uch thing, rather Judgement, not &s;uch Godly Cha&s;ticement: &s;ince he granted them power, he never left me to my &s;elfe.</P>
<P>Is this the la&s;t farewell? If it had been Gods will, I had rather in|dured all the to ments could be put to a creature.</P>
<P>But &s;ince it hath plea&s;ed God it &s;hould be &s;o, I am content, the thing that's his will, the Lord grant that it never be &s;orrowfull to me, but make his will my will, that we may never repine.</P>
<P>He knowes the &s;ecrets of all hearts.</P>
<P>As for that wicked woman, if &s;he had had any fear of God, &s;he would have thought that though &s;he had done it never &s;o &s;ecretly, yet God would finde it out: She &s;hould have thought no &s;uch thing; but where the Divell gets entrance, his temptations are very &s;trong.</P>
<P>The&s;e torments are more welcome to me, then if I had been in my perfect health; if I had not knowne what torments had been, what pain had been, I &s;hould never have &s;een &s;uch joyfull &s;ights: the&s;e are more joyfull to me then all the paine.</P>
<P>Our paine, what's all our pain? what's all the pain on earth? Gods mercy is above the Divels power.</P>
<P>Their time is limited.</P>
<P>They &s;ought my mothers life, but could not get it.</P>
<P>Oh! to think of Hells torments which &s;he hath run her &s;oule into, that's more torment then all ours. It's comfort for me, joy for me, that God hath &s;howne his power, that God hath given the Divell po|wer to torment, I care not what thc Divell can doe; I defie all the Divels in Hell, for where the Divell hath any power, he triumphs as much as he can, though he triumph and we are weake, God is &s;trong, his power is not le&s;&s;ened.</P>
<P>That wicked woman DOROTHY SVVINOVV was the cau&s;e of the death of my Aunt MARGERY HAMBLETON, &s;he was the cau&s;e of tho&s;e troubles, which &s;he thought &s;hould have broke my Aunts heart, but they broke Sir ROBERTS, that the e&s;tate might fall to her &s;onne: She was the cau&s;e of JAMES FAUCETS unnaturall fits, but
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&s;he let him alone, becau&s;e &s;he knew that if he came to London he would follow her more &s;trictly then we can here.</P>
<P>She &s;et two Witches more to torment us: Jo. HUTTON, that dyed in pri&s;on was my great tormenter, the&s;e Witches have begun my &s;i&s;ters torment, though our torments have been more long, yet her time hath been mo&s;t &s;ad, becau&s;e &s;he wanted comfort: though I have had my paines, I never wanted comfort.</P>
<P>She hath entred into the Divels &s;ervice, ought &s;he not to think of the torment of her &s;oule?</P>
<P>If it had not been thus with us, we &s;hould have de&s;pi&s;ed the mercyes of God, our comfort is for joy in heaven, thats more comfort for us, thats more happine&s;&s;e to thinke of, then all our paines and torments; if our bodyes were torne at hor&s;e heeles, and dragged with wild Beares, yet all were nothing to heavens joyes.</P>
<P>Our &s;ouls are a precious jewell, we ought all to looke after them; our bodies are but du&s;t and a&s;hes: if our bodies were tortured with all torments, one blinke of heavens joyes will &s;weeten all.</P>
<P>Now my torments are at an end, I care not though they were longer: the torment of my body is nothing, but to thinke of the torment &s;he hath hazarded her &s;oule into, is the torment of Hell fire.</P>
<P>Wee confe&s;&s;e wee all de&s;erve that, but not by that meanes &s;he hath.</P>
<P>None will believe it, &s;he &s;ets &s;uch a faire face upon it: where the Di|vell tempts, delu&s;ions are &s;trong.</P>
<P>The Divell hath gotten power to harden all hearts.</P>
<P>Tho&s;e that are to do us ju&s;tice, will not: though they deny us ju&s;tice, yet God can and will in his due time, grant us ju&s;tice over them all.</P>
<P>Though God hath &s;uffered the Divell to have power to torment us; they now have their times: certainly our times are in a better life; we have no plea&s;ure here, all our plea&s;ure is in the world to come.</P>
<P>I have cau&s;e to ble&s;&s;e God, who doth &s;end the&s;e ble&s;&s;ed Angels to watch over me: my paynes were always with joy, never &s;orrowfull, and when I had no comfort, yet I had hopes that God who layed them on me, would take them off me in his due time.</P>
<P>Have not I rea&s;on to ble&s;&s;e God? none hath rea&s;on more: the Lord
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grant I never forget his mercies: he hath been very mercifull to us, in granting us patience to endure more then wee could expect at his hands.</P>
<P>What is this they have run their &s;oules into? the Lord grant them hearts to repent them of their &s;inns; the Lord grant us penitent hearts to repent us of our &s;innes: we have all done as much as de&s;erves hell, where is gna&s;hing of teeth, paines, fire and brim&s;tone for ever.</P>
<P>We have cau&s;e to ble&s;&s;e God that hath not &s;uffered us to go neither to Witches, nor any of the divels &s;ervants, but to looke to God.</P>
<P>No creature thought we could have indured, what can we indure of our &s;elves? No, without God we can doe nothing, what cannot God inable us to indure? There is nothing that can be done, but we can do it by Gods a&s;&s;i&s;tance, we cannot &s;ay we can doe any thing of our &s;elves, no not the lea&s;t thing in the World, &s;eeing our helpe is in an able God, we can do any thing.</P>
<P>I know the Lord will never &s;uffer the divell to have any further pow|er over our bodies; though they hurt our bodies, they &s;hall not hurt our &s;oules, they &s;hall not come neare our &s;oules.</P>
<P>Our &s;oules are all the comfort we can expect, what are our bodies? Our bodies are nothing; I ble&s;&s;e God that would have his glory tryed on our weake bodies, which no creature thought could have indured &s;uch torment.</P>
<P>We have rea&s;on my brother, &s;i&s;ter, and all of us to ble&s;&s;e God; yea, all creatures that behold it have rea&s;on to ble&s;&s;e God, and to thinke that he is a mercifull God to us, it is his mercy we know, it is his promi&s;e that all tho&s;e that repent with penitent hearts, he is &s;till ready to forgive them, we acknowledge it is Gods mercy, not our de&s;erts.</P>
<P>They have tormented my brother a yeare a gone St. IOHNS day at night, and they have tormented me two yeares agone yea&s;terday, my &s;i&s;ter is pined away, they began with her &s;ince Lammas, &s;he hath le&s;&s;e comfort then we have had.</P>
<P>She from the beginning hath had great paine without comfort, and though my paine have beene &s;ore&s;t, yet I have had great comfort.</P>
<P>Since God hath granted this day to be my relea&s;ement, have I not rea&s;on to ble&s;&s;e this God? My brother and &s;i&s;ter are &s;till under their burthen: Let them not thinke it a burthen, but rather beg patience to indure it.</P>
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<P>My &s;i&s;ter is wor&s;e then my brother, or then ever I was, my torments were vehement, &s;ometimes a day, &s;ometimes eight houres, &s;ometimes &s;horter, &s;ometimes longer; and though my time was &s;ore and vehe|ment, yet &s;till <HI>I</HI> had ea&s;e after it, but my &s;i&s;ter hath no ea&s;e.</P>
<P>Now when I am relea&s;ed, what &s;hall become of my brother and &s;i&s;ter, if it plea&s;e God to give them &s;o much power as to torment them? If that God make me a watch over them, that I may declare their grief, it is a great mercy.</P>
<P>They thought to have choaked me, once they made me ca&s;t up pins, and &s;tones, and things that creatures would not thinke po&s;&s;ible &s;hould have come out of my mouth, yet God inabled me to indure that not a|ny creature thought I could.</P>
<P>They thought to have done the like to my Brother, but God did not &s;uffer the Divell to have &s;o much power, but they have &s;triven &s;o to do.</P>
<P>For my Brother GEORGE he had neede to have a care of him&s;elfe, he by the &s;ight of me I &s;aw con&s;umed; we have rea&s;on to ble&s;&s;e God he is away.</P>
<P>If you love my &s;i&s;ter BETTYES life bring her not home, you may as well take a knife and cut her throat, as be the cau&s;e of her torments.</P>
<P>If they love my &s;i&s;ter and brothers life, bring them not in &s;ight one minute, by looking on them doth them more hurt then we thinke of.</P>
<P>If my &s;i&s;ter had gone away to and not looked &s;o much on my Bro|ther as &s;he hath done it had beene better for her.</P>
<P>She hath done her &s;elfe more wrong then us, in &s;etting the&s;e two more again&s;t us, though it hath plea&s;ed God to let them have &s;o much power over our bodies, yet they never had power over our &s;oules.</P>
<P>They are trying all ways in the world to have power to torment my Mother, they are &s;eeking to torment her by an unnaturall way, if we have not a care of our &s;elves, and one of another by Gods mercies.</P>
<P>Shall they never have more power to torment me?</P>
<P>They thought this la&s;t night to have made me more pa&s;&s;ionate then ever I was; I ble&s;&s;e God though they made me &s;omewhat pa&s;&s;ionate, yet &s;til God inabled me with patience not to be much extravagant much after their de&s;ires, tho&s;e Ju&s;tices all of them have denyed us Ju&s;tice: Let them take heede of them&s;elves: Let them take heede of a heavy
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burthen that may fall upon them&s;elves: Though our Mother be lo|ving unto us; yet let them take heede of a heavy burthen may fall on them: I wi&s;h to God it be not &s;o, that the innocent doe not &s;uffer, the Lord grant they may have a &s;en&s;iblene&s;&s;e of the wrong they have done us, and &s;uffer not the innocent to indure for them.</P>
<P>Now after this, when they cannot get power to torment me, will they ever be more vehement with my brothers and &s;i&s;ters?</P>
<P>When&s;oever &s;he is put in hold till &s;he come to her tryall &s;he &s;hould not have her liberty; for if &s;he come abroad among&s;t her company, &s;he will be as cruel as ever.</P>
<P>If the&s;e two Witches were catcht and in hold, &s;he would goe to death to the utmo&s;t to make them more vehement then ever: though they torment the re&s;t, yet they &s;hall never have power to torment me.</P>
<P>It is &s;ayd in the word of God, you &s;hall not &s;uffer a Witch to live; yet &s;he con&s;ults with Witches, and con&s;ults with their wayes, which by the Lawe of God de&s;erves death.</P>
<P>Shall I never behold your faces againe? If it were &s;o it would be more &s;ad to me then all my paine: Though you be not in my &s;ight, yet I tru&s;t in Gods mercy &s;o much, as that you will &s;till watch over us, and protect us.</P>
<P>God grant we never forget Gods mercies, to be impatient, &s;eeing we have re&s;t in torment.</P>
<P>What mercies can be &s;howne unto a creature, but it hath plea&s;ed God to &s;hew it to me? that it hath plea&s;ed him to grant mee &s;o much patience, though of my &s;elfe I was not &s;en&s;ible of my torments, that was a mercy and much comfort to my &s;oule, that though they tor|mented my body, they never had power to cau&s;e me &s;peake unbefitting words to hazzard my &s;oule.</P>
<P>But had it not plea&s;ed God to have &s;ent you to me that time, what have would become of me? I had beene di&s;tracted and like a mad body.</P>
<P>When the Divell was &s;trong and had mo&s;t power, God &s;till cro&s;&s;ed him of his opportunity.</P>
<P>Tho&s;e that are &s;o malicious, &s;eldome any thing &s;atisfies their mindes, &s;ave this extravagant way, that is a fore thing: many times malice is never &s;atisfied without life: &s;hall I never &s;ee you with my eyes here? yet ye will reveale this, either by me, or by &s;ome other means</P>
<P>It &s;hall be more &s;trange before it be all declared. Now after this
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time &s;hall I never have more torment by any Witch, nor none I hope. Shall I meet you in &s;uch a place, at &s;uch a time? I will.</P>
<P>Seeing you have &s;et mee that time of appoyntment, I hope you will put me in minde of it: I will, if it be Gods will to make me do it.</P>
<P>Mr. FRANCIS BROAD, and Mr. GEORGE ATHERLONY two Mini&s;ters, with Doctor STEPHENS a Phy&s;itian, were with her in di|vers of her la&s;t tormenting fits.</P>
<TRAILER>The&s;e words were &s;poken in the hearing of two Ministers, and at lea&s;t a hundred others. And taken by Mr. <HI>Edward Ord.</HI></TRAILER>
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<HEAD>MARGARET WHITE <HI>of</HI> CHATTON, <HI>her owne Confe&s;&s;ion of her &s;elfe.</HI></HEAD>
<P>COnfe&s;&s;eth and &s;aith, That &s;he hath beene the Divels &s;ervant the&s;e five yeares la&s;t pa&s;t, and that the Divell came to her in the likenes of a man in blew cloaths, in her owne hou&s;e, and griped her fa&s;t by the hand, and told her &s;he &s;hould never want, and gave her a nip on the &s;houlder, and another on her back; And confe&s;&s;eth her Familiar came to her in the likene&s;&s;e of a black Grey-hound, and that the Divell had carnall knowledge of her in her owne hou&s;e two &s;everall times.</P>
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<P><HI>Likewi&s;e the &s;ayd</HI> MARGARET WHITES <HI>Confe&s;&s;ion up|on Oath of others, as followeth,</HI> viz. <HI>Mrs.</HI> DOROTHY SVVI|NOVV <HI>of</HI> CHATTON, <HI>and</HI> JANE MARTIN <HI>of the &s;ame, and &s;i&s;ter to the &s;ayd</HI> MARGARET, WHITE <HI>of</HI> CHATTON, <HI>afore&s;ayd,</HI></P>
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<P>Confe&s;&s;eth upon Oath that Mrs. SVVINOVV, and her &s;i&s;ter JANE, and her &s;elfe were in the Divels company in her &s;i&s;ter JANES hou&s;e, where they did eate and drinke together (as by her conceived) and made merry.</P>
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And Mrs. SVVINOVV, and her the &s;ayd MARGARETS &s;i&s;ter with her &s;elfe, came purpo&s;ely to the hou&s;e of Mr. EDVVARD MOORE of Spittle, to take away the life of MARGARET MUS|CHAMP and MARY, and they were the cau&s;e of the Childrens tor|menting, and that they were three &s;everall times to have taken away their lives, and e&s;pecially upon St. Johns day at night gone twelve moneths; And &s;ayth that God was above the Divell, for they could not get their de&s;ires perfected; and &s;aith, that Mrs. SVVINOVV would have con&s;umed the childe that Mrs. <HI>Moore</HI> had la&s;t in her wombe, but the Lord would not permit her; and that after the childe was borne Mrs. <HI>Swinow</HI> was the occa&s;ion of its death, and Mrs. <HI>Swinow</HI> came riding on a little black Nag to the Spittle with a riding coat, and that &s;he and her &s;i&s;ter were al&s;o the occa&s;ion, and had a hand in the death of the &s;ayd child: And further confe&s;&s;eth that &s;he and her &s;ayd &s;i&s;ter were the death of <HI>Thomas Yong</HI> of <HI>Chatton</HI> (by rea&s;on) a kill full of Oates wat|ched again&s;t her &s;i&s;ters minde; And further &s;aith, that the Divell called her &s;i&s;ter <HI>Jane (Be&s;&s;e:)</HI> She confe&s;&s;eth, that her &s;i&s;ter <HI>Jane</HI> had much trou|bled <HI>Richard Stanley</HI> of <HI>Chatton,</HI> and that &s;he was the occa&s;ion of his &s;ore leg.</P>
<CLOSER><SIGNED><HI>This is acknowledged and confe&s;&s;ed to be true, before</HI> John Sleigh <HI>Ju&s;tice of Peace, and</HI> Robert Scot <HI>Towne Clarke of</HI> Barwick. MARGARET WHITE, I her Marke</SIGNED></CLOSER>
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<P>This was confirmed after, in the pre&s;ence of Mr. <HI>Ogle</HI> of <HI>Eglingame,</HI> Mr. <HI>Walton</HI> of <HI>Ether&s;tone,</HI> Mr. <HI>Fo&s;ter</HI> of <HI>Newham,</HI> Ju&s;tices of the Peace, being pre&s;ent a multitude of people at <HI>Kime<GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="blotted" EXTENT="1 letter">&s;tone:</HI> This &s;ame was afterward taken upon Oath at <HI>Morpeth,</HI> in the pre&s;ence of Mr. Delavall, High Sherriffe of <HI>Northumberland,</HI> Mr. <HI>Ogle,</HI> Mr. <HI>Fenwick,</HI> Mr. <HI>Dela|vall,</HI> Mr. <HI>Shafto,</HI> Mr. <HI>Kilinworth,</HI> Mr. <HI>Hall,</HI> &s;ix Ju&s;tices of the Peace. Warrants i&s;&s;ued out after her Inditement was found, for the apprehen|ding of her, but as yet not taken.</P>
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<OPENER><DATELINE>Northumber. <HI>Ad Generalem Se&s;&s;ionem Pacis tent. apud</HI> Aln|wick <HI>pro Com.</HI> <DATE>pred. die Mercurii viz. 24. <HI>die Aprilis,</HI> 1650.</DATE> <HI>Coram</HI> Gulielmo Selby <HI>Mil.</HI> Georgio Fenwick <HI>Ar.</HI> Henrico Ogle <HI>Ar. &amp; al. Ju&s;tic. ad Pacem in Com. pred. con|&s;ervand. a&s;&s;ignat. &amp;c. Necnon, &amp;c.</HI></DATELINE></OPENER>
<P><HI>Nomina Jurator. ad Inquirend. &amp;c.</HI>
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<ITEM><HI>Johannes Ilderton.</HI> Ar.</ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>Will. Armorer,</HI> Gen.</ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>Nich. Forster,</HI> Gen.</ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>Ephr. Armorer,</HI> Gen.</ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>Franc. Alder.</HI> Gen.</ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>Richard. Widhou&s;e,</HI> Gen.</ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>Georgius Li&s;le,</HI> Gen.</ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>Alex. Armorer,</HI> Gen.</ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>Chri&s;toph. Ogle,</HI> Gen.</ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>Edvardus Bell,</HI> Gen.</ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>Radulphus Wat&s;on,</HI> Gen.</ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>Hugh Arrow&s;mith,</HI> Gen.</ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>Jo. Cre&s;wel.</HI> Gen.</ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>Joh. Ord,</HI> Gen.</ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>Georgius Craw,</HI> Gen.</ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>Franc. For&s;ter,</HI> Gen.</ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>Henricus John&s;on,</HI> Gen.</ITEM>
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<P>Qui quidem Jurator, putant ut &s;equitur.</P>
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<P><HI>IUr. pro Cu&s;tod. libert. Angl. Authoritat. Parliamenti &s;uper &s;acram &s;uam pre&s;entant. quod</HI> Dorotheo Swinow <HI>nuper de</HI> Chatton <HI>in Com.</HI> Northumber. <HI>Vid.</HI> 24 <HI>die Martii Anno Dom. mille&s;imo, &s;excente&s;imo, quadrage&s;imo, octavo, ac diver&s;. al. dict. &amp; vicibus tam antea quam po&s;tea Deum pre oculis non hab. &s;ed in&s;tigatione Diabolica&s;educt. quo&s;d. malas &amp; Diabolicas Artes Angl. vocat</HI> Witchcrafts, Inchantments, Charmes, and Sorceries, <HI>nequit Diabolic. ac Felonice apud</HI> Spittle <HI>in Com. Palatin. Dunelm. die &amp; Anno &s;upradict. u&s;a fuit &amp; exercit. ra|tione quarundum malarum &amp; Diabolicarum Artium quidem</HI> Sibilla Moore <HI>de</HI> Spittle <HI>pred. in Com. Palatin. Dunelm. pred. infans exi&s;ten. &amp; ad tunc in Pace Dom. R. ad tunc exi&s;ten. a
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pred. vice&s;imo quarto die Martii &s;upradict. u&s;&abque; primam diem Aprilis Anno &s;upradict. languebat. &amp; pred.</HI> Sibilla <HI>apud In|&s;ulam Sacram in Com. Palatin. pred. ad mortem &s;uam devenit &amp; vitam &s;uam dimi&s;it &amp; &s;ic Jur. pred. &s;uper &s;acr. &s;uum pred. di|cunt quod Vid.</HI> Dorothea <HI>pred.</HI> Sibilla <HI>ratione practitionibus &amp; exerit. Diabol. Artiu~ pred. apud In&s;ul. &s;acr. pred. in Com. Palatin. Dunelm. pred. modo &amp; forma pred. Felonice &amp; Diabolice interfe|cit Contr. Pacem Publicam nunc.</HI></P>
<CLOSER><SIGNED><HI>Copia. Ex. per</HI> Crow. <HI>Cl. Pa.</HI></SIGNED></CLOSER>
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<OPENER><DATELINE>Northumber. <HI>Ad Generalem Se&s;&s;ionem Pacis tent. apud</HI> Aln|wick <HI>pro Com.</HI> <DATE>pred. die Mercurii, viz. vice&s;i|mo quarto die Aprilis 1650.</DATE> <HI>Coram</HI> Gulielmo Selby <HI>mil.</HI> Georgio Fenwick <HI>Ar. &amp;</HI> Hen|rico Ogle <HI>Ar. &amp; al. Ju&s;tic. ad Pacem in Com. pred. concernant. a&s;&s;ignant. &amp;c. Necnon &amp;c.</HI></DATELINE></OPENER>
<P>VVHereas <HI>Dorothy Swinow</HI> of <HI>Chatton</HI> Widdow, doth &s;tand indicted at this Se&s;&s;ions of divers <HI>Witchcrafts, Inchantments, Charmes,</HI> and <HI>Sorceries,</HI> and e&s;pecially for u&s;e|ing and practi&s;ing the &s;ayd Diabolicall Arts upon <HI>Sibilla Moore</HI> an Infant and Child of Mrs. <HI>Mary Moore</HI> Widdow: It is therefore Ordered by the Court, and the High Sheriffe of the &s;ayd County, his Bayliffes and Officers, and all others whom it may concern, are hereby required forthwith to ap|prehend the body of the &s;ayd <HI>Dorothy Swinow,</HI> &amp; her to carry &amp; convey unto the Goal of the &s;aid County, there to remain untill &s;he &s;hall be thence delivered by due cour&s;e of Law.</P>
<TRAILER>To the High Sheriffe of the &s;ayd County, and to all Con&s;tables and Officers, whom it may concerne.</TRAILER>
<CLOSER><SIGNED>Crow, <HI>Cl. Pac.</HI></SIGNED></CLOSER>
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<SIGNED><HI>Ralph Delaval</HI> E&s;quire, High Sheriffe of the &s;ayd County,</SIGNED>
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<P>By vertue of an Order from the Se&s;&s;ions of the Peace to me di|rected, the&s;e are to charge and command you, and every of you, that immediately upon &s;ight hereof, you attach and apprehend the body of <HI>Dorothy Swinow</HI> of <HI>Chatton</HI> Widdow, and her &s;afely convey to the Common Goale at <HI>Morpeth,</HI> there to remaine untill &s;he &s;hall be from thence deli|vered by due cour&s;e of Law; hereof faile not, as you will an&s;wer the contrary at your utmost pe|rills.</P>
<CLOSER><DATELINE>Given under the Seale of my Office <DATE>this 26. <HI>day of April,</HI> Anno Domini, 1650.</DATE></DATELINE>
<SIGNED>Per eundem Vic.</SIGNED></CLOSER>
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