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A89263	Wonderfull newes from the north. Or, A true relation of the sad and grievous torments, inflicted upon the bodies of three children of Mr. George Muschamp, late of the county of Northumberland, by witch-craft: and how miraculously it pleased God to strengthen them, and to deliver them: as also the prosecution of the sayd witches, as by oaths, and their own confessions will appear, and by the indictment found by the jury against one of them, at the sessions of the peace held at Alnwick, the 24. day of April, 1650. Novemb. 25. 1650. Imprimatur, John Dovvname.	Moore, Mary, fl. 1650.	1650 (1650)	Wing M2581; Thomason E618_10; ESTC R206348	22,167	34

Daughter had beene quite distracted run up and downe with a staffe in her hand saying she would kill the Rogue in this rage she apprehended her good things for so she called them in the likenesse of a Dove and a Partridge and begun and sung Judgo and revenge my cause O Lord Next How long wilt thou forget me Lord shall I never be remembred And concluded Behold and have regard ye servants of the Lord and so came out of her fit not remembring any thing either done or s●yd she never having any of these Psalmes by heart or any booke by her nor as yet any voice to sing them to this day By her at that time was my Neece MUSCHAMP Mr. MOORES six sonnes and his Daughter with my owne children and servants and divers neighbours After my comming home she fell into another of these strange fits the Minister of Tweedmouth being by seeing and hearing many strange passages which cannot halfe be remembred But part of her discourse was that if she had two drops of his blood or hers within ten dayes it would save her life if not death long comming but torment perpetually Divers of these fits she had in every one expressing their bloud would save her life from ten dayes to six from six 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 consumes 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 save my life if I have it not I am undone for seven yeares to be tormented before death come Whilest she was writing the teares comming downe her face still saving her selfe in this bitter agony as it were from her enemies blows As soone as her mother came from Newcastle she sent that servant she revealed her minde to at Newcastle to one JOHN HUTTON he was one it was suspected that could do more then God allowed of bidding him confesse who had wrong'd her child or she would apprehend him her child in her extremity writing the two first Letters of his name with anothers So when this servant told him his message another being by to witnesse his answer which was thus WILLIAM HALL your Mrs. knowes as well who hath wrong'd he● child as I for the party that with a troubled minde your Mrs. had concealed all this time and at Newcastle in her chamber all alone told you is she that hath done her all this wrong The servant answered God blesse me could he tell what his Mistresse said to him no living soule else prese● it bidding him reveale the party the Rogue sayd a great stone is not easily lifted and he had one foot in the grave already repeating many old sayings but sayd DOROTHY SVVINOVV wife then to Colonell SVVINOVV was the party that had done all the mischiefe to her child and was the cause of all her further crosses This answer being brought and her childs last 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 MUSCHAMP her son in Law EDVVARD MOORE GEORGE ARMORER WILLIAM HALL and WILLIAM BARD rid to Etherston thinking Mr. WALTŌN to have beene a Justice of the Peace but was not then she with her company went directly to Sunderland where Jo. HUTTON dwelt and sent for him who forthwith came and though they had never seen him but by the childes description 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 rise she desired none of his prayers but tell her how he came to know what she spake to her servant all alone so far off he repeated before all the company what he had formerly spoken She sayd her eldest son was very ill too the Lord blesse him not thinking that he was wronged but the Rogue answered one was the cause of both she in a maze sayd I had a sister that dyed in a restlesse sicknesse God grant she was not wronged too the Rogue sayd Mistresse Mistresse one is the cause of all envy nothing will satisfie but death Said she is this possible Mistresse sayd he my life is in your hand but I 'le maintaine DOROTHY SVVINOVV was the death of the Lady MARGERY HAMBLETON the consuming of your son and the tormentor of your daughter and the cause of all your evill and if you would have my hearts bloud take it for my life is in your power none speaking of bloud to him She told him the child had wrote two drops of his or her bloud would save her life and if the Devill had left so much in him she would if it pleased the Lord have it ere they parted The wretch using still Godly words and his prayers desired to take his bloud privately that none should see so 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 should goe before she wanted it then he layd his thumb on his arme and two drops appeared which she wip'd off with a paper the which she had writ the words in and bid him farewell he bid them ride softly they had both tide and time enough it being a fine quiet day of a sudden as soon as they were on horse back it grew very boystrous that they had much adoe to sit on their horses riding fast at Sunderland Towns end came two white Lambs to them and kept close with their horses till they came to Bambrough being two long miles neither sheep nor lambs neere them the water was very deep yet being venterous they rid it over On Munday night she fell into a heavenly Rapture rejoycing that ever she was borne for these two drops of blood had saved her life otherwise she had beene seaven yeares in torment without any ease or death had come behold her two Angels which she was bold to call them on her right hand and her Tormenters on her left setting her selfe with a majestick carriage her words so punctuall and discreet that it was admirable to the beholders Saying her Angels bid her now be bold to speake out looking on her left hand saying thy name is JOHN HUTTON and hers is DOROTHY SVVINOVV she hath beene the death of my Aunt HAMBLETON the consumer of my Brother and the tormenter of me she knowing my Aunts estate was but for life and her onely sonne had marryed FAUSETS daughter who to enjoy the estate he having but one sonne was the cause of yong JAMES FAUSETS unnaturall fits But thinking Mr. FAUSET would follow her more strictly there then we could doe here let him alone to be the more vehement with us every fit

little strength in her neck that her head hung wagging downe but was not set a quarter of an houre till shewing some signes to her Cozen bolted off her knce ran thrice about the Garden expressing a shrill voyce but did not speake presently she that was brought down in this sad condition came up staires on her owne legs in her Cozens hands Captaine FALSET his Wife and his Daughter being then in the house did behold this miraculous mercy of the Lord done to this child her mother being at Berwick three miles off was sent for and imparted her joyfulnesse unto the Lady SELBY and good Mr. BALSOME whose prayers with the rest as the child sayd had prevailed with God for mercy When her mother came home her Daughter which she left in so bad a condition came with her cloathes on down to the gate calling Mother Mother welcome home Now the Mothers joy may be imagined but not expressed desiring her mother presently to send many thanks to Mr. BALSOME and Mr. STROTHER for that the Lord had answered their prayers for her The next day being the Sabbath she beg'd on her mother to returne thanks to the glorious God who never failed any that trusted in him and her self 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 rest of the parish that feared God She by Gods power did it the next Thursday being a Lecture in Berwick her selfe and with Mr. BALSOME and Mr. STROTHER gave glory to the Lord for his never forgotten mercy to her though her flesh did not diminish yet her strength was but weake and her stomack by degrees came to her again and for seven or eight weeks was very well then her mother removed to Berwick where the Garison being kept the discharge of a Musket would cause her to fall into very great extasies being there severall times for 24 hours space she would be suddenly taken with her former torments For three weeks space she lost her stomack and all her limbs and of a sudden recoverd all again not remembring what she had either done or suffered To avoyd this inconvenience her mother removed from Berwick and carried her in one of these sad conditions one mile off Berwick where she continued seven weekes more in these afflictions Her eldest Brother upon S. Johns day at night in the Christmas following 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 eased of his extremity and pain but both his stomack and the use of his legs taken from him so that he was forced to have help to put on his cloathes was lifted into a chaire where he sat all day long but could neither eate nor drinke any thing but a little milke or water or sowre milke He consumed away to nothing yet not heart-sicke but would reason talke and laugh with any friend as if nothing ayled him His mother now being prest downe with sorrow sent to the Doctors both at Newcastle Durham and Edenborough not doubting or suspecting any unnaturall Disease the Physitians all agreed by the course of nature he could not live a month to an end which was sad newes to his sorrowfull Mother God knowes After two or three weekes she had another fit of her former torments after she had lyen three or foure weekes in her extremity begun and cryed the Rogue never till then offering a word in her torments but as if some were striking at her she seemed to save her selfe with hands and bedcloaths from blowes deciphering a wretched creature as we all after knew by her description Sometimes he would fight with her in the shape of a Dragon of a Bear a Horse or Cow Many fancies she did expresse and good things she sayd fought for her and still got the better of him The enemies Weapons were a Club a Staffe a Sword and Dagger her good things got them all as she thought and after the wretch she thought got the Dagger againe Now when she fixt her eyes upon her objects no action you could use would move either eyes or gesture till she came out of her fits then did not remember any thing she either did or sayd After a while she would make her hand goe on her brest as if she would write with her eyes fixt on her object they layd paper on her brest and put a p●n with inke in her hand and she not moving her eyes writ Jo Hu. Do. Swo have beene the death of one deare friend consume another and torment mee whilst she was writing these words she was blowne up ready to burst shrinking with her head as if she feared blowes then would she be drawne as in convulsion fits till she got that writing from them that had it and either burne it in the fire or chew it in her mouth till it could not be discerned Let any one snatch the paper from her and hide it as private as he could she would have gone to the party and place still in torment till she got it and either burne it or chewed it that none could discerne one word she had wrote then immediately she would have ease Thus for a moneth or six weekes every other day with severall torments and such like expressions continued her good things as she called them came still and saved her from her enemies These words written and her other expressions caused her sad m●ther to have very contradictive thoughts So that one day her Neece MUSCHAMP that had been her Companion in most of these sad conditions being troubled to thinke what this childs writing should mean sayd to her Aunt there is one that I have ever feared since my cousin MARGARET was first afflicted but I dare not name her whom I have suspected Her Aunt answers and onely one I suspect And these Letters make me tremble to thinke on it but the Lord pardon our thoughts if we thinke amisse So revealing our thoughts one to another and pitcht both on DOROTHY SVVINOVV Her Neece saith Mrs. SVVINOVV came to see the childe when you were away and spake harshly of you and besides the childes looking on her which she never did on any else makes me feare her Her Aunt answered if she could doe me hurt and not her owne soule I feare her more then any else but that cannot bee so Lord pardon us if we thinke amisse and let us not speake any further of her This childes mothers occasions called her to Newcastle which journey was not pleasant leaving so sad a house at home and her childes writing and her Neeces thoughts and her owne made her very sad that her servant wondering to see such a change presumed to aske the cause of it she knowing her servant to be trusty revealed the suspected party to him no living soule being by her occasions being dispatched returned home But in her absence her

these warnings of her former trialls which have all with much patience beene gone thorow that the preserving mercies of the most glorious God who never failes those that depend upon his most firme promises was never more declared on earth then in the weakest of his creatures preserved by a gratious God to whom let all that read and heare these unexpressible mercies give all Glory Honour Laud and Praises The Expressions of MARGARET MUSCHAMP when she was in her last extreame fit upon the second day of FEBRUARY 1647. THey thought because their time was but short to have tormented me worse then ever but I defie them I have reason to blesse God more for his mercies to me then I thinke ever sinfull creature had Both my torments are at an end and those fearefull sights I doe not now see though it hath pleased God to suffer and let them have power to torment me yet I was never without comfort My time was sad when I had no comfort but I thanke God who hath given me patience I blesse God who never suffered the Devill to have so much power as to cause me blaspheme his name or to speake words to offend him It is a great mercy that he granted me patience to endure my payne if it had pleased God I should have beene content as well with torment as releasement To her Angels Because I shall have no more torment shall not I see your faces againe That 's sad to me that 's more griefe to me I had rather endure my paine that 's more griefe ten thousand times but since it 's Gods will I am as well content with the one as the other I still trust in God he will send you to protect and watch over us I have endured my paines a great while it is two yeares agoe yesterday yet I blesse God for it alwayes with much patience my paine hath beene very vehement for the time yet I blesse God I did never speake wordes to offend him I confesse I doe not deserve it I deserve no such thing rather Judgement not such Godly Chasticement since he granted them power he never left me to my selfe Is this the last farewell If it had been Gods will I had rather indured all the torments could be put to a creature But since it hath pleased God it should be so I am content the thing that 's his will the Lord grant that it never be sorrowfull to me but make his will my will that we may never repine He knowes the secrets of all hearts As for that wicked woman if she had had any fear of God she would have thought that though she had done it never so secretly yet God would finde it out She should have thought no such thing but where the Divell gets entrance his temptations are very strong These 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 should never have seen such joyfull sights these are more joyfull to me then all the paine Our paine what 's all our pain what 's all the pain on earth Gods mercy is above the Divels power Their time is limited They sought my mothers life but could not get it Oh! to think of Hells torments which she hath run her soule into that 's more torment then all ours It's comfort for me joy for me that God hath showne his power that God hath given the Divell power to torment I care not what the 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 strong his power is not lessened That wicked woman DOROTHY SVVINOVV was the cause of the death of my Aunt MARGERY HAMBLETON she was the cause of those troubles which she thought should have broke my Aunts heart but they broke Sir ROBERTS that the estate might fall to her sonne She was the cause of JAMES FAUCETS unnaturall fits but she let him alone because she knew that if he came to London he would follow her more strictly then we can here She set two Witches more to torment us Jo. HUTTON that dyed in prison was my great tormenter these Witches have begun my sisters torment though our torments have been more long yet her time hath been most sad because she wanted comfort though I have had my paines I never wanted comfort She hath entred into the Divels service ought she not to think of the torment of her soule If it had not been thus with us we should have despised the mercyes of God our comfort is for joy in heaven that 's more comfort for us that 's more happinesse to thinke of then all our paines and torments if our bodyes were torne at horse heeles and dragged with wild Beares yet all were nothing to heavens joyes Our souls are a precious jewell we ought all to looke after them our bodies are but dust and ashes if our bodies were tortured with all torments one blinke of heavens joyes will sweeten all 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 she hath hazarded her soule into is the torment of Hell fire Wee confesse wee all deserve that but not by that meanes she hath None will believe it she sets such a faire face upon it where the Divell tempts delusions are strong The Divell hath gotten power to harden all hearts Those that are to do us justice will not though they deny us justice yet God can and will in his due time grant us justice over them all Though God hath suffered the Divell to have power to torment us they now have their times certainly our times are in a better life we have no pleasure here all our pleasure is in the world to come I have cause to blesse God who doth send these blessed Angels to watch over me my paynes were always with joy never sorrowfull 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 Have not I reason to blesse God none hath reason more the Lord 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 What is this they have run their soules into the Lord grant them hearts to repent them of their sinns the Lord grant us penitent hearts to repent us of our sinnes we have all done as much as deserves hell where is gnashing of teeth paines fire and brimstone for ever We have cause to blesse God that hath not suffered us to go neither to Witches nor any of the divels servants but to looke to God No creature thought we could have indured what can we indure of our selves No without God we can doe nothing what cannot

These words were spoken in the hearing of two Ministers and at least a hundred others And taken by Mr. Edward Ord. MARGARET WHITE of CHATTON her owne Confession of her selfe COnfesseth and saith That she hath beene the Divels servant these five yeares last past and that the Divell came to her in the likenes of a man in blew cloaths in her owne house and griped her fast by the hand and told her she should never want and gave her a nip on the shoulder and another on her back And confesseth her Familiar came to her in the likenesse of a black Grey-hound and that the Divell had carnall knowledge of her in her owne house two severall times Likewise the sayd MARGARET WHITES Confession upon Oath of others as followeth viz. Mrs. DOROTHY SVVINOVV of CHATTON and JANE MARTIN of the same and sister to the sayd MARGARET WHITE of CHATTON aforesayd Confesseth upon Oath that Mrs. SVVINOVV and her sister JANE and her selfe were in the Divels company in her sister JANES house where they did eate and drinke together as by her conceived and made merry And Mrs. SVVINOVV and her the sayd MARGARETS sister with her selfe came purposely to the house of Mr. EDVVARD MOORE of Spittle to take away the life of MARGARET MUSCHAMP and MARY and they were the cause of the Childrens tormenting and that they were three severall times to have taken away their lives and especially upon St. Johns day at night gone twelve moneths And sayth that God was above the Divell for they could not get their desires perfected and saith that Mrs. SVVINOVV would have consumed the childe that Mrs. Moore had last in her wombe but the Lord would not permit her and that after the childe was borne Mrs. Swinow was the occasion of its death and Mrs. Swinow came riding on a little black Nag to the Spittle with a riding coat and that she and her sister were also the occasion and had a hand in the death of the sayd child And further confesseth that she and her sayd sister were the death of Thomas Yong of Chatton by reason a kill full of Oates watched against her sisters minde And further saith that the Divell called her sister Jane Besse She confesseth that her sister Jane had much troubled Richard Stanley of Chatton and that she was the occasion of his sore leg. This is acknowledged and confessed to be true before John Sleigh Justice of Peace and Robert Scot Towne Clarke of Barwick MARGARET WHITE I her Marke This was confirmed after in the presence of Mr. Ogle of Eglingame Mr. Walton of Etherstone Mr. Foster of Newham Justices of the Peace being present a multitude of people at Kime●stone This same was afterward taken upon Oath at Morpeth in the presence of Mr. Delavall High Sherriffe of Northumberland Mr. Ogle Mr. Fenwick Mr. Delavall Mr. Shafto Mr. Kilinworth Mr. Hall six Justices of the Peace Warrants issued out after her Inditement was found for the apprehending of her but as yet not taken Northumber Ad Generalem Sessionem Pacis tent apud Alnwick pro Com. pred. die Mercurii viz. 24. die Aprilis 1650. Coram Gulielmo Selby Mil. Georgio Fenwick Ar. Henrico Ogle Ar. al. Justic. ad Pacem in Com. pred. conservand assignat c. Necnon c. Nomina Jurator ad inquirend. c. Johannes Ilderton Ar. Will. Armorer Gen. Nich. Forster Gen. Ephr. Armorer Gen. Franc. Alder Gen. Richard Widhouse Gen. Georgius Lisle Gen. Alex. Armorer Gen. Christoph Ogle Gen. Edvardus Bell Gen. Radulphus Watson Gen. Hugh Arrowsmith Gen. Jo. Creswel Gen. Joh. Ord Gen. Georgius Craw Gen. Franc. Forster Gen. Henricus Johnson Gen. Qui quidem Jurator putant ut sequitur IUr. pro Custod libert. Angl. Authoritat Parliamenti super sacram suam presentant quod Dorotheo Swinow nuper de Chatton in Com. Northumber Vid. 24 die Martii Anno Dom. millesimo sexcentesimo quadragesimo octavo ac divers al. dict. vicibus tam antea quam postea Deum pre oculis non hab. sed instigatione Diabolicaseduct quosd malas Diabolicas Artes Angl. vocat Witchcrafts Inchantments Charmes and Sorceries nequit Diabolic ac Felonice apud Spittle in Com. Palatin Dunelm die Anno supradict usa fuit exercit ratione quarundum malarum Diabolicarum Artium quidem Sibilla Moore de Spittle pred. in Com. Palatin Dunelm pred. infans existen ad tunc in Pace Dom. R. ad tunc existen a pred. vicesimo quarto die Martii supradict usque primam diem Aprilis Anno supradict languebat pred. Sibilla apud Insulam Sacram in Com. Palatin pred. ad mortem suam devenit vitam suam dimisit sic Jur. pred. super sacr. suum pred. dicunt quod Vid. Dorothea pred. Sibilla ratione practitionibus exerit Diabol Artiū pred. apud Insul. sacr. pred. in Com. Palatin Dunelm pred. modo forma pred. Felonice Diabolice interfecit Contr. Pacem Publicam nunc Copia Ex. per Crow Cl. Pa. Northumber Ad Generalem Sessionem Pacis tent apud Alnwick pro Com. pred. die Mercurii viz. vicesimo quarto die Aprilis 1650. Coram Gulielmo Selby mil. Georgio Fenwick Ar. Henrico Ogle Ar. al. Justic. ad Pacem in Com. pred. concernant assignant c. Necnon c. VVHereas Dorothy Swinow of Chatton Widdow doth stand indicted at this Sessions of divers Witchcrafts Inchantments Charmes and Sorceries and especially for useing and practising the sayd Diabolicall Arts upon Sibilla Moore an Infant and Child of Mrs. Mary Moore Widdow It is therefore Ordered by the Court and the High Sheriffe of the sayd County his Bayliffes and Officers and all others whom it may concern are hereby required forthwith to apprehend the body of the sayd Dorothy Swinow her to carry convey unto the Goal of the said County there to remain untill she shall be thence delivered by due course of Law To the High Sheriffe of the sayd County and to all Constables and Officers whom it may concerne Crow Cl. Pac. Northumber Ralph Delaval Esquire High Sheriffe of the sayd County to all Bayliffes of Liberties Sheriffes Bayliffes Constables and whomsoever else it may concerne greeting By vertue of an Order from the Sessions of the Peace to me directed these are to charge and command you and every of you that immediately upon sight hereof you attach and apprehend the body of Dorothy Swinow of Chatton Widdow and her safely convey to the Common Goale at Morpeth there to remaine untill she shall be from thence delivered by due course of Law hereof faile not as you will answer the contrary at your utmost perills Given under the Seale of my Office this 26. day of April Anno Domini 1650. Per eundem Vic. FINIS