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A01874	The wonderfull discouerie of Elizabeth Savvyer a witch late of Edmonton, her conuiction and condemnation and death. Together with the relation of the Diuels accesse to her, and their conference together. Written by Henry Goodcole minister of the Word of God, and her continuall visiter in the gaole of Newgate. Published by authority.	Goodcole, Henry, 1586-1641.	1621 (1621)	STC 12014; ESTC S117575	10,968	30

found me once praying and he asked of me to whom I prayed and I answered him to Iesus Christ and he charged me then to pray no more to Iesus Christ but to him the Diuell and he the Diuell taught me this prayer Santibicetur nomen tuum Amen Quest. Were you euer taught these Latine words before by any person else or did you euer heare it before of any body or can you say any more of it Answ. No I was not taught it by any body else but by the Diuell alone neither doe I vnderstand the meaning of these words nor can speake any more Latine words Quest. Did the Diuell aske of you the next time he came vnto you whether that you vsed to pray vnto him in that manner as he taught you Answ. Yes at his next comming to me hee asked of me if that I did pray vnto him as he had taught me and I answered him againe that sometimes I did and sometimes I did not and the Diuell then thus threatned me It is not good for me to mocke him Quest. How long is it since you saw the Diuell last Answ. It is three weekes since I saw the Diuell Quest. Did the Diuell neuer come vnto you since you were in prison speake the truth as you will answer vnto almighty God Answ. The Diuell neuer came vnto me since I was in prison nor I thanke God I haue no motion of him in my minde since I came to prison neither doe I now feare him at all Quest. How came your eye to be put out Answ. With a sticke which one of my children had in the hand that night my mother did dye it was done for I was stooping by the bed side and I by chance did hit my eye on the sharpe end of the sticke Quest. Did you euer handle the Diuell when he came vnto you Answ. Yes I did stroake him on the backe and then he would becke vnto me and wagge his tayle as being therewith contented Quest. Would the Diuell come vnto you all in one bignesse Answ. No when hee came vnto mee in the blacke shape he then was biggest and in the white the least and when that I was praying hee then would come vnto me in the white colour Quest. Why did you at your triall for sweare all this that you now doe confesse Answ. I did it thereby hoping to auoyd shame Quest. Is all this truth which you haue spoken here vnto me and that I haue now written Answ. Yes it is all truth as I shall make answer vnto almighty God Quest. What moues you now to make this confession did any vrge you to it or bid you doe it is it for any hope of life you doe it Answ. No I doe it to cleere my conscience and now hauing done it I am the more quiet and the better prepared and willing thereby to suffer death for I haue no hope at all of my life although I must confesse I would liue longer if I might A Relation what shee said at the place of Execution which was at Tiborne on Thursday the 19. day of Aprill 1621. ALl this beeing by her thus freely confessed after her conuiction in the Gaole of Newgate on Tuesday the 17. day of Aprill I acquainted Master Recorder of London therewith who thus directed mee to take that her confession with me to the place of Execution and to reade it to her and to aske of her whether that was truth which shee had deliuered to me in the prison on Tuesday last concerning what she said and how shee dyed I will relate vnto you Elizabeth Sawyer you are now come vnto the place of Execution is that all true which you confessed vnto mee on Tuesday last when that you were in prison I haue it here and will now reade it vnto you as you spake it then vnto me out of your owne mouth and if it be true confesse it now to God and to all the people that are here present Answer This confession which is now read vnto me by Master Henry Goodcoale Minister with my owne mouth I spake it to him on Tuesday last at New-gate and I here doe acknowledge to all the people that are here present that it is all truth disiring you all to pray vnto Almightie God to forgiue me my greeuous sinnes Question By what meanes hope you now to bee saued Answer By Iesus Christ alone Question Will you now pray vnto Almightie God to forgiue vnto you all your misdeedes Answer I with all my heart and minde This was confirmed in the hearing of many hundreds at her last breath what formerly shee in prison confessed to me and at that time spake more heartily then the day before of her execution on whose body Law was iustly inflicted but mercy in Gods power reserued to bestow when and where hee pleaseth My labour thus ended concerning her to testifie and auouch to the world and all opposers hereof this to be true those that were present with me in the prison that heard her confession I haue desired here their testimonies which is as followeth We whose names are heere subscribed doe thereby testifie that Elizabeth Sawyer late of Edmonton in the Countie of Midds Spinster did in our hearings confesse on Tuesday the 17. of Aprill in the Gaole of Newgate to Master Henry Goodcoale Minister of the word of God the repeated foule crimes and confirmed it at her death the 19. of Aprill following to be true and if wee be thereunto required will bee ready to make faith of the truth thereof namely that this was her confession being aliue and a litle before her death Conclusion Deare Christians lay this to heart namely the cause and first time that the Diuell came vnto her then euen then when she was cursing swearing and blaspheming The Diuell rageth and mallice reigneth in the hearts of many O let it not doe so for heere you may see the fruites thereof that it is a playne way to bring you to the Diuell nay that it brings the Diuell to you for it seemed that when shee so fearefully did sweare her oathes did so coniure him that hee must leaue then his mansion place and come at this wretches commande and will which was by her imprecations Stand on your guard and watch with sobrietie to resist him the Diuell your aduersary who waiteth on you continually to subuert you that so you that doe detest her abhominable wordes and wayes may neuer taste of the cup nor wages of shame and destruction of which she did in this life from which and from whose power Lord Iesus saue and defend thy little flocke Amen A Gentleman by name Mr. Maddox standing by and hearing of her say the word blaspheming did aske of her three or foure times whether the Diuell sayd haue I found you blaspheming and shee confidently sayd I. I demanded this question of her to confirme the womens search of her concerring that she had such a marke about her which they vpon their oathes informed the court that truth it was she had such a marke This I asked of her very earnestly and shee thus answered me without any studying for an answer I asked this question because she sayd that the Diuell did not alwayes speake to her I asked this of her because that some children of a good bignesse and reasonable vnderstanding informed the Court that they had diuers times seene her feed two white ferrets with white bread milk I asked this questiō of her because her husband testified to the Bench he saw such a white thing runne thorow the thatch of the house and that he catcht at it but could not get it and hee thought it was a white ferret Vpon my generall suspitiō I asked of her this question I doe here relate the selfe-same wordes vpon this question propounded vnto her what prayer the Diuell taught her to say I asked this question because it was rumoured that the diuel came to her since her conuiction and shamelesly printed and openly sung in a ballad to which many giue too much credite The reason why I asked this was because her father and mothers eye one of theirs was out I asked of her this question because some might thinke this was a visible delusion of her sight only

The wonderfull discouerie of ELIZABETH SAVVYER a Witch late of Edmonton her conuiction and condemnation and Death Together with the relation of the Diuels accesse to her and their conference together Written by HENRY GOODCOLE Minister of the Word of God and her continuall Visiter in the Gaole of Newgate Published by Authority London Printed for VVilliam Butler and are to be sold at his Shop in Saint Dunstons Church-yard Fleetstreet 1621. The Authors Apologie to the Christian Readers who wisheth to them all health and happinesse THe Publication of this subiect whereof now I write hath bin by importunitie extorted from me who would haue beene content to haue concealed it knowing the diuersitie of opinions concerning things of this nature and that not among the ignorant but among some of the learned For my part I meddle hearewith nothing but matter of fact and to that ende produce the Testimony of the liuing and the dead which I hope shall be Authenticall for the confirmation of this Narration and free mee from all censorious mindes and mouthes It is none of my intent here to discusse or dispute of Witches or Witchcraft but desire most therin to be dispensed with all knowing that in such a little Treatise as this is no matter that can be effectuall therein can pe comprised especially in so short a time of deliberation as three or foure dayes And the rather doe I now publish this to purchase my peace which without it being done I could scarse at any time be at quiet for many who would take no nay but still desired of me written Copies of this insuing Declaration Another reason was to defend the truth of the cause which in some measure hath receiued a wound already by most base and false Ballets which were sung at the time of our returning from the Witches execution In them I was ashamed to see and heare such ridiculous fictions of her bewitching Corne on the ground of a Ferret and an Owle dayly sporting before her of the bewitched woman brayning her selfe of the Spirits attending in the Prison all which I knew to be fitter for an Ale-bench then for a relation of proceeding in Court of Iustice. And thereupon I wonder that such lewde Balletmongers should be suffered to creepe into the Printers presses and peoples eares And so I rest at your opinions and iudgements Your well-wisher in the Lord Iesus HENRY GOODCOLE A true declaration of the manner of proceeding against ELIZABETH SAVVYER late of Edmonton Spinster and the euidence of her Conuiction A Great and long suspition was held of this person to be a witch and the eye of Mr. Arthur Robinson a worthy Iustice of Peace who dweleth at Totnam neere to her was watchfull ouer her and her wayes and that not without iust cause stil hauing his former long suspition of her by the information of her neighbours that dwelt about her from suspitiō to proceed to great presumptions seeing the death of Nurse-children and Cattell strangely and suddenly to happen And to finde out who should bee the author of this mischiefe an old ridiculous custome was vsed which was to plucke the Thatch of her house and to burne it and it being so burnd the author of such mischiefe should presently then come and it was obserued and affirmed to the Court that Elizabeth Sawyer would presently frequent the house of them that burnt the thatch which they pluckt of her house and come without any sending for This triall though it was slight and ridiculous yet it setled a resolution in those whom it concerned to finde out by all meanes they could endeauour her long and close carried Witchery to explaine it to the world and being descried to pay in the ende such a worker of Iniquity her wages and that which shee had deserued namely shame and Death from which the Diuell that had so long deluded her did not come as shee said to shew the least helpe of his vnto her to deliuer her but being descried in his waies and workes immediately he fled leauing her to shift and answere for her selfe with publike and priuate markes on her body as followeth 1 Her face was most pale ghoast-like without any bloud at all and her countenance was still deiected to the ground 2 Her body was crooked and deformed euen bending together which so happened but a little before her apprehension 3 That tongue which by cursing swearing blaspheming and imprecating as afterward she cōfessed was the occasioning cause of the Diuels accesse vnto her euen at that time and to claime her thereby as his owne by it discouered her lying swearing and blaspheming as also euident proofes produced against her to stop her mouth with Truths authority at which hearing she was not able to speake a sensible or ready word for her defense but sends out in the hearing of the Iudge Iury and all good people that stood by many most fearefull imprecations for destruction against her selfe then to happen as heretofore she had wished and indeauoured to happen on diuers of her neighbours the which the righteous Iudge of Heauen whom she thus inuocated to iudge then and discerne her cause did reueale Thus God did wonderfully ouertake her in her owne wickednesse to make her tongue to be the meanes of her owne destruction which had destroyed many before And in this manner namely that out of her false swearing the truth whereof shee little thought should be found but by her swearing and cursing blended it thus farre made against her that both Iudge and Iurie all of them grew more and more suspitious of her and not without great cause for none that had the feare of God or any the least motion of Gods grace left in them would or durst to persume so impudently with execrations and false oathes to affront Iustice. On Saturday being the fourteenth day of Aprill Anno Dom. 1621. this Elizabeth Sawyer late of Edmonton in the County of Middlesex Spinster was arraigned and indited three seuerall times at Iustice Hall in the Old Baily in London in the Parish of Saint Sepulchers in the Ward of Farrington without which Inditements were viz. That shee the said Elizabeth Sawyer not hauing the feare of God before her eyes but moued and seduced by the Diuell by Diabolicall helpe did out of her malicious heart because her neighbours where she dwelt would not buy Broomes of her would therefore thus reuenge her selfe on them in this manner namely witch to death their Nurse Children and Cattell But for breuities sake I here omit formes of Law and Informations She was also indited for that shee the said Elizabeth Sawyer by Diabolicall helpe and out of her malice afore-thought did witch vnto death Agnes Ratcleife a neighbour of hers dwelling in the towne of Edmonton where shee did likewise dwell and the cause that vrged her therevnto was because that Elizabeth Ratcliefe did strike a Sowe of hers in her sight for licking vp a little Soape where shee had laide