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<P>A DECLARATION IN An&s;wer to &s;everal lying Pamp<GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="blotted" EXTENT="1 span"> concerning the Witch of WAPPING BEING A more perfect Relation of the Arraign|ment, Condemnation, and Suffering of Jone Peter&s;on, who was put to death on Munday the 12 of <HI>April,</HI> 1652.</P>
<P>SHEVVING The Bloudy Plot and wicked Con&s;piracy of one <HI>Abraham Vandenbemde, Thomas Crompton, Thomas Collet,</HI> and others.</P>
<P><HI>LONDON:</HI> Printed in the Year, 1652.</P>
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<HEAD>A Declaration, In an&s;wer to &s;everall lying Pamphlets concerning the witch of <HI>Wappin.</HI></HEAD>
<P>_THe &s;aid <HI>Abraham Vandenbemde</HI> with o|ther the &s;aid confederates (having laid a Plot to take away the life of Mrs. <HI>Anne Leving&s;ton,</HI> becau&s;e the La|dy <HI>Powel</HI> had given her an e&s;tate which &s;ome of them expected) in <HI>December</HI> la&s;t repaired to one <HI>Jone Simp&s;on,</HI> and proffered her 10 <HI>l.</HI> in hand, and 500 <HI>l.</HI>
more in Hillary term following, if &s;he would &s;wear that Mrs. <HI>Leving&s;ton</HI> had u&s;ed &s;orcery &amp; withcra&s;t to take away the Lady <HI>Powels</HI> life. And on the 10 of <HI>Jan.</HI> then following, one <HI>Anne Hook</HI> (who pretends her &s;elf to be a cunning woman) being imployed by the &s;aid confederates, did per|&s;wade her thereunto, offering her &s;ix &s;core pounds, and half the money which the &s;aid <HI>Vandenbemde</HI> and the &s;aid <HI>Cr<GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 letter">mp|ton</HI> were to give her and her husband for making their Affi|davits, if &s;he would do the like. But the &s;aid <HI>Simp&s;on</HI> ab|hominating &s;o wicked a practice, to take away an innocent Gentlewomans life, di&s;covered the Plot; for which con&s;pi|racies of the &s;aid confederates, a &s;peciall Supplicavit was granted out of Chancery, to bind them to the good beha|viour
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and other legal pro&s;ecutions are &s;till depending a|gain&s;t them. But the &s;aid confederates not re&s;ting there (in further pro&s;ecution of the Plot) did imploy the afore|&s;aid <HI>Hook,</HI> to procure witne&s;&s;es to &s;wear what they de&s;ired: who accordingly about <HI>January</HI> la&s;t came to the above-na|med <HI>Jone Peter&s;on,</HI> at her hou&s;e in Spruce I&s;land near Wap|ping and there made offer of 100 <HI>l.</HI> to her, to &s;wear, that the &s;aid Mrs. <HI>Leving&s;ton</HI> had received from her (the &s;aid <HI>Pe|ter&s;on</HI>) certain powders, and bags of &s;eeds, to help her in her law &s;uits, and to provoke unlawfull love (as the &s;aid <HI>Jone Peter&s;on</HI> did affirm before her triall.) But &s;he refu&s;ing to do the &s;ame, the &s;aid confederates to prevent the puni&s;h|ment, which ju&s;tly and vnavoidably mu&s;t have befallen them, in ca&s;e the &s;aid <HI>Peter&s;on</HI> &s;hould have revealed this their practice, as <HI>Simp&s;on</HI> (before) had done the other, they lay a new de&s;ign, to anticipate the &s;ame, as fol|loweth.</P>
<P>On the 7th of <HI>March</HI> la&s;t, the &s;aid confederates came to Wapping, and got a warrant from one Mr. <HI>Waterton</HI> a Ju&s;tice of the Peace, to apprehend the &s;aid <HI>Peter&s;ons</HI> per&s;on, and to &s;earch her hou&s;e for Images of Clay, Hair, &amp; Nails, which accordingly they did; but upon &s;trict &s;earch and dili|gent inquiry could find no &s;uch thing; whereupon the &s;aid confederates carried her before the &s;aid Ju&s;tice, to have her examined where the &s;aid <HI>Vandenbemde, Collet</HI> (their Solli|citour) and two or three other per&s;ons whom they brought with them, &s;ate at the table as the Ju&s;tices Clerks to take her examination, where the &s;aid Ju&s;tice examined the &s;aid <HI>Peter&s;on</HI> upon oath (contrary to law) concerning her u&s;ing of witchcraft and &s;orcery to take away the life of the Lady <HI>Powel</HI> of <HI>Chel&s;ey.</HI> To which &s;he an&s;wered, that &s;he never u|&s;ed &s;orcery or Witch-craft, neither had &s;he ever heard of the Lady <HI>Powel,</HI> &s;aving that not long before one <HI>Anne Hook</HI>
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(an Iri&s;h woman) came to her with one Goodwife <HI>Garland</HI> to have per&s;waded her to have made &s;uch an oath again&s;t Mrs. <HI>Leving&s;ton,</HI> as &s;he the &s;aid <HI>Hook</HI> her &s;elf before had done, as the &s;aid <HI>Jone Peter&s;on</HI> likewi&s;e did affirm before her death. Whereupon the &s;aid Iu&s;tice (contrary to law) gave order to &s;earch her, which was done; but the &s;earchers could find nothing on her body which might create the lea&s;t &s;u&s;|pition in them of her being a witch; whereupon the &s;aid Ju&s;tice took bayl for her appearance at the next Se&s;&s;ions. And on the 14 of <HI>March</HI> following (being the Sabboth day) was by the &s;aid confederates means, again apprehended, and examined a new, about the &s;aid Lady <HI>Powels</HI> death. And the Argument which they then made u&s;e of to per&s;wade the &s;aid <HI>Peter&s;on</HI> to confe&s;s, was, that &s;he needed not fear what &s;he confe&s;&s;ed, for it was not her life they aimed at, but to have matter whereby to accu&s;e one Mrs. <HI>Leving&s;ton,</HI> who had gotten the &s;aid Lady <HI>Powels</HI> e&s;tate, and thereby had un|done 36 Per&s;ons of the &s;aid Ladyes Kindred: And then told her, that they were &s;hortly to que&s;tion the &s;aid Mrs. <HI>Leving&s;tone</HI> for the &s;ame, either in the <HI>Parliament</HI> hou&s;e, or before a Committee (as the &s;aid <HI>Jone Peter&s;on</HI> did like|wi&s;e affirme before her death.) Whereunto the &s;aid <HI>Jone Peter&s;on</HI> replyed, that &s;he never knew, nor heard of the &s;aid Lady <HI>Powell,</HI> otherwi&s;e as afore&s;aid; And that &s;he had not heard from the &s;aid Mrs. <HI>Leving&s;tone</HI> for above a yeare before that time: Then they cau&s;ed her (contrary to Law) to be &s;earched againe in a mo&s;t unnaturall &amp; Barbarous man|ner, by fower women whom they them&s;elves for that purpo&s;e had brought along with them, on of which women told the Ju&s;tice that there was a Teat <NOTE N="*" PLACE="marg">Note that this Teat upon the view of the Phy&s;itians was the day before her death found to be natural' &amp; le&s;&s;e then in many other women, &amp; the &s;aid Phy&s;itians al&s;o af|firmed that &s;he was then quick with child.</NOTE> of fle&s;h in her &s;ecret parts more then other women u&s;ually had, whereupon the &s;aid Ju&s;tice committed her fir&s;t to New-pri&s;on
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and from thence to Newgate, where &s;he was left to the ordering and mercy of one <HI>Brooks,</HI> a Keeper there, and an Agent of the &s;aid confederates.</P>
<P>On Munday the 5th. of <HI>April</HI> in&s;tant, two Bills of indictment were preferred a|gain&s;t her at Hicks-hall, <NOTE N="*" PLACE="marg">Note, That Sir <HI>Jo. Danvers,</HI> Mr: <HI>Snape,</HI> Mr. <HI>Win|&s;tanley,</HI> and Mrs <HI>Waterton</HI> Ju&s;tice. of the Peace were with the confede|rates at a Tavern near Hicks-hall, con&s;ulting when the Bill of Indict|ment was prepa|ring, and that Sir <HI>John Danvers</HI> came and dined at the Se&s;&s;ions hou&s;e and had much pri|vate di&s;cour&s;e with the Recorder and many of the Ju&s;tices and came and &s;ate upon the Bench at her Trial, where he hath &s;eldome or ne|ver been for the&s;e many years.</NOTE> and found by the Grand-Jury, upon which indictments upon the 6th. of <HI>April,</HI> &s;he was arraigned before Mr. Recorder (who is of Councel for the con&s;pirators,) and on the 7 of <HI>Apr.</HI> &s;he was tried; at which triall the &s;aid con|federates (who before had &s;pent three weeks time at <HI>Wapping</HI> in procuring wit|ne&s;&s;es) were pre&s;ent, with three Councel+lors to pro&s;ecute the &s;aid <HI>Peter&s;on.</HI> Then the Court proceeded upon the fir&s;t indict|ment, which was for bewitching the Lady <HI>Powel</HI> to death; whereupon many women per&s;ons of mean degree (and of ill fame and reputation) were produced again&s;t her, and interrogated by the &s;aid Councel, ac|cording to the Briefs delivered unto them, wherein were all the witne&s;&s;es te&s;timonies, written before hand. And being asked what &s;he had to &s;ay for her &s;elf? (upon her knees) &s;he took God to witne&s;&s;e that &s;he never knew the Lady <HI>Powel</HI> nor the hou&s;e where &s;he dwelt, nor was any wi&s;e guilty of her death; and delivered a paper of &s;uch wit|ne&s;&s;es as &s;he had to defend her, de&s;iring that they might be called, whereupon Dr. <HI>Bates,</HI> and Dr. <HI>Colledon</HI> Phy&s;itians, together with Mr. <HI>Stamford,</HI> and Mr. <HI>Page</HI> Chy|rurgians,
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and divers other per&s;ons of good quality, te&s;tifi|ed the di&s;ea&s;e, manner of &s;ickne&s;s, and the cau&s;e of the &s;aid Ladies death, which were the Drop&s;ie, the Scurvey, and the yellow Jaundies, and that they wondred how &s;he was able to live &s;o long, having mo&s;t of tho&s;e di&s;ea&s;es growing on her for many years before; among&s;t which evidences the in|nocency of (Mrs. <HI>Leving&s;tone</HI>) formerly by the confederates maliciou&s;ly a&s;per&s;ed and be&s;pattered, was now fully vindi|cated, to their great a&s;toni&s;hment, trouble, and di&s;grace.</P>
<P>Then the Court proceeded to the other Indictment, which was for bewitching one <HI>Chri&s;topher Wil&s;on</HI> (who doth not him&s;elf complain of any &s;uch thing, but the Confeder|ates only:) and the only materiall evidence that then was again&s;t her, was one <HI>Margaret Au&s;tin</HI> (who had formerly been a wandering per&s;on, but was in charity taken up, re|lieved, and kept, by the &s;aid <HI>Jone Peter&s;on,</HI> until &s;hee per|ceived that the &s;aid <HI>Au&s;tin</HI> had purloined &s;ome of her goods out of her hou&s;e,) and two Witne&s;&s;es more; the &s;ub&s;tance of who&s;e Te&s;timony was as followeth. That the &s;aid <HI>Wil&s;on,</HI> having been a long time &s;ick, and hearing that the &s;aid <HI>Peter&s;on</HI> had done good to many, &s;ent for her to come to him, who accordingly did and admini&s;tred meanes for his Recovery, which at fir&s;t was conceived to do him good; But he afterwards relap&s;ed, and the rea&s;on that was urged to induce the Court and Jury to believe that he was Be|witched, was, that dureing his &s;ickne&s;s, &s;hee &s;ent to him for monyes <GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 letter">or her Phi&s;ick; to whom An&s;wer was return|ed that he could then &s;end her none. Whereupon it was then depo&s;ed&punc; that &s;hee did reply, that he had better have &s;ent her monies, for he &s;hould be to times wor&s;e then ever was; And that afterwards he became very ill again, and remain|ed langui&s;hing. Many other witne&s;&s;es were produced, but could only &s;wear to generallities, hear-&s;ays, and mo&s;t ab|&s;urd
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and rediculous impertinences: then being by <GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="in gutter" EXTENT="1 word"> Court demanded what &s;he could &s;ay for her &s;elfe? &s;he <GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="in gutter" EXTENT="2 letters">+&s;ired that &s;uch Witne&s;&s;es as &s;he had then there pre&s;e<GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="in gutter" EXTENT="2 letters"> might be called (&s;ome of which dur&s;t not appeare becau<GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="in gutter" EXTENT="2 letters"> that the &s;aid Mr. <HI>Waterton,</HI> (as the witne&s;&s;es them &s;elves doe and will affirme) had threatned to &s;end them to <HI>Ne<GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="in gutter" EXTENT="1 letter">+gate,</HI> if they did appeare.) Whereupon &s;everall witne&s;&s;<GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="in gutter" EXTENT="2 letters"> were called, and being demanded what they could &s;ay for the Pri&s;oner, they began to tell, that they had knowne her a long time, and that &s;he had done many Cures, and much good among&s;t the Neighboures, but never knew that &s;he did any ill; But the Officers of the Court interrupted them &s;aying (in a taunting manner) <HI>are you for a Witch? and is this all you can &s;ay?</HI> and &s;o turned &s;everall of them away be|fore they could be further heard. Then one came to the Court (a Stranger to the pri&s;oner) and offered to depo&s;e, that one in black, called <HI>Thomas Southwick</HI> (knowne to be &s;ervant to <HI>Thomas Cromton</HI> another of the confederats) &s;tood in the Se&s;&s;ions yard, offering money to &s;trangers there, to come in and &s;wear) that the &s;aid <HI>Peter&s;on</HI> was a Wtich, and among&s;t the re&s;t offered to give her mony if &s;he would doe the &s;ame, but he being called for, could not be had, nor would appeare, although Colonell <HI>Okey,</HI> and &s;ome other Ju&s;tices upon the Bench, de&s;ired the Recorder to take notice of it, and to give Order that the &s;aid <HI>Thomas Southwick</HI> might be brought into Court. Whereupon the Jury went forth, and brought in their verdicts, that the &s;aid <HI>Peter&s;on</HI> was not guilty upon the fir&s;t Jndictment of be|wiching the Lady <HI>Powell</HI> to death; But found her guilty upon the &s;econd, for which &s;he was then ca&s;t, and the next day condemned to dye as a witch, And after that the &s;aid confederates and their agents went very often to her promi&s;ing her a Repreive or Pardon if &s;he would confe&s;&s;e
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that Mrs. <HI>Leving&s;tone</HI> had Imployed her to make away the life of the Lady <HI>Powell,</HI> to which &s;he replyed &s;he could not, becau&s;e it was altogether fal&s;e. But one of the &s;aid con|federates urging her againe to &s;ay &s;omething again&s;t Mrs. <HI>Leving&s;tone,</HI> &s;he told him he was a rogue, and gave him a blow on the face, which made his no&s;e bleed: Where it is to be noted, that what for love of money they could not tempt her to, they re&s;olved at la&s;t for love of her life to force her to, by nece&s;&s;itating her either unju&s;tly to confe&s;&s;e a notorious fal&s;ehood again&s;t the &s;aid Mrs. <HI>Leving&s;tone</HI> or el&s;e to dye without mercy or Repreive, which otherwi&s;e was proffered her by the &s;aid Confederates, to make her un|ju&s;t in doing the &s;ame.</P>
<P>On the 12 day the &s;aid <HI>Jone Peter&s;on</HI> (being brought to the place of Execution) was by the Ordinary nine or ten times earne&s;tly pre&s;&s;ed to confe&s;&s;e &s;omething again&s;t the &s;aid Mrs. <HI>Leving&s;tone.</HI> Whereupon the Executioner told the Ordinary, he might be a&s;hamed to trouble a dying woman &s;o much, to which he replyed, he was commanded &s;o to doe, and dur&s;t doe no otherwi&s;e And afterwards the &s;aid Ordinary &s;till in&s;i&s;ting in his di&s;cour&s;e, and very often pre&s;&s;ing the &s;aid <HI>Peter&s;on</HI> to confe&s;&s;e and di&s;charge her con|&s;cience before God and the world; &s;he an&s;wered that &s;he had already confe&s;&s;ed before the Bench, all &s;he had to confe&s;&s;e; that &s;he had made her peace with God; and there|fore de&s;ired to dye in quiet, for now &s;he was to appeare be|fore God who pre&s;ently would Judge her, and that God was witnes, that &s;he dyed Innocently, and was in no wi&s;e guilty of what was laid to her charge, and that &s;he hoped he would freely forgive her all her &s;ins, and to this effect &s;he &s;till replyed to his frequent importunities: And having gone to prayers, &s;he &s;hewed her &s;elfe very attentive and penitent, and after Prayer called to &s;ing the 25th P&s;alm, which &s;he performed very Chri&s;tianly and cheerfully, and &s;o died, &amp;c.</P>
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<HEAD>The Copy of a Certificate under the hands of &s;everall Doctors of Phi&s;icke &amp; Chirurgions concerning the death of the Lady <HI>Powell.</HI></HEAD>
<OPENER><DATELINE><DATE>October the <HI>8. 1651.</HI></DATE></DATELINE></OPENER>
<P>In the Body of the Lady <HI>Powell,</HI> who dyed the &s;eventh of this in&s;tant, was ob&s;erved,
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<ITEM>The Skin vniver&s;ally di&s;covered Yellow.</ITEM>
<ITEM>The Belly &s;wolne very much, the Thighs al&s;o and Legs.</ITEM>
<ITEM>The Cavity of the <HI>Abdomen</HI> po&s;&s;e&s;&s;ed with yellowi&s;h ob&s;cure water, the quantity whereof not much above one Gallon and an half.</ITEM>
<ITEM>The Stomack and Guts not di&s;&s;afected, nor the Kidnies.</ITEM>
<ITEM>The <HI>Pancreas canceorus</HI> in part, &s;ome part being degenerated into a feculent matter; like <HI>Amurca</HI> or dregs of oyle, yet con|tained in a Ci&s;te.</ITEM>
<ITEM>The Liver larger then it ought, black, of an unequal &s;chir|rous or rather <HI>Cancerous</HI> &s;ub&s;tance, <HI>exangues.</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM>The Spleen joyned with the left part of the hallow of the liver, as if they were one body, very black, and hard outwardly, in|wardly rotten.</ITEM>
<ITEM>The Gall large and full, but of a deeper Yellow, inclined to red and black matter.</ITEM>
<ITEM><PB N="11" REF="6">In the cavity of the Brea&s;t or Thorax water of the &s;ame &s;ub|&s;tance and colour neer a Gallon.</ITEM>
<ITEM>The Lungs &s;omething thicker and more di&s;coloured then u&s;ual.</ITEM>
<ITEM>The heart well.</ITEM>
<ITEM>The Bones very ea&s;ily broken.</ITEM>
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<HEAD>Phi&s;itians.</HEAD>
<ITEM><HI>Colladon.</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>George Bate.</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>Goddard.</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>George Chabrey.</HI></ITEM>
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<HEAD>Chirurgians.</HEAD>
<ITEM><HI>Charles Stamford</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>Thomas Page.</HI></ITEM>
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<P>Be&s;ides the Apothecaries, and &s;everal other per&s;ons, who te|&s;tified the &s;ame And are &s;till ready to do the like.</P>
<P>Coll. <HI>Okey,</HI> Coll. <HI>Berk&s;tead,</HI> and divers other Ju&s;tices of the Peace, both at Hixes hall, and at the old Baley, did declare them&s;elves that they were not &s;atisfied either with the proceed|ings, or proof again&s;t this Peter&s;on, that &s;he was guilty of witch|craft, but that there was a de&s;ign in it, relating to the preju|dice of Mrs. <HI>Leving&s;tone,</HI> which they are ready to te&s;tifie to the Parliament when they &s;hall be required thereunto.</P>
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