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 sâ—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 heâ— 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 preseâ— 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. WALTOÌ„N 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
promising me case if I would consent to lay it on my mother but I will never consent but if it were possible indure more torment since she is all that the Lord of his goodnesse hath left to take care of us five fatherlesse children except our Father in Heaven which protects her for our sakes Thus for two houres together she continued in a very heavenly religious Discourse with these Angels rejoycing that she had got two drops of blood saying if her Brother had as much it would save his life also witnesse to these words were Mr. MOORE of Spittle his six Sonnes and a Daughter Mr. ELIZABETH MUSCHAMP Mrs. MARGARET SELBY ANNE SELBY and GEORGE LEE who was almost cast away comming into Barwick Harbour in a Ship by that fearfull tempest which HUTTON raised GEORGE ARMORER WILLIAM HALL WILLIAM BEARD HENRY ORDE with divers Neighbours all admiring the Lords great power expressed in that afflicted childe Her mother being destrous to have some small quantity of HUTTONS blood rode the next day to him with two servants who brought him to her sonne he not being able to goe to him He acknowledged still his life was in her hands and came riding behinde one of her servants home to the Spittle where she dwelt and being brought before Mr. MOORE confirmed all that he had formerly confessed and withall sayd Mrs. SVVINOVV had two bad women about her the Millers and the Websters Wives who had beene the death of Jo. CUSTERD and his Wife with many other things of their wickednesse That night he desired to goe to rest and when he pleased to call him he would confesse further to him alone the next day came Mr. WILLIAM ORDE Mr. BROAD Minister with Mr. HEBERIN and EDVVARD SAUFIELD who heard all this confirmed and so the mother tooke her sonne in her armes to the place where the wretch was and got his blood He stayed there seven or eight dayes and yet Mr. MOORE had never power to examine him any more the wretch still desiring to be gone the mother in the presence of MARGARET SELBY MARGARET ORDE and WILLIAM BEARD charged him that although he had beene long the Devills servant at last to be but a bridge for Gods creatures to goe over in confessing the truth who answered Mistris Mistris If I were a yong man able to endure all the torments that should be layed on me I would take my death that Mrs. DOROTHY SVVINOVV was the death of the Lady HAMBLETON the confumer of your sonne and the Tormentor of your Daughter and the cause of all your other troubles Now whilest he was there the Girle was never troubled but he was not past the Townes end till she fell into a terrible fit saying DOROTHT SVVINOVV with two Witches more were come to torment her worse then ever HUTTON did and the one was a yong woman and the other an old So that till they had Justice of DOROTHY SVVINOVV her mother and they should never be at peace Upon this her mother rid to Justice FOSTER of Nuham and upon Oath gave Information against both HUTTON and Mrs. SVVINOVV to apprehend them who after delayes apprehended him and sent him to Newcastle Goale but not her though it will appeare she was three several 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 see it seeing that delay she spoke with a Durham Justice at Bellford which not being in the County and in haste he could not grant her a Warrant to apprehend the sayd Mrs. SVVINOVV but bid Mr. FOSTER doe Justice which is not yet done The Girle having many tormenting fits in the midst of which her Angels alwayes appearing to her banishing the Witches which she apprehended the Girle would cry out and relate to her Angels how she by the two Witches had been tormented forcing her to get the information whereof her mother kept a Coppy so that let her mother give the paper to whom she would or laye it anywhere the child would goe to either place or party most strangely As soone as her Angels departed her torments leaving her she told them that her enemies would have killed her but justly might she sing the 35. Ps Plead thou my cause O Lord c. Repeating the first part thereof so sensibly and distinctly that the Ministers there present admired to heare it As likewise her declaring the death of the Rogue HUTTON in prison before it was knowne there saying if he had been urged he would have discovered the other 2. Witches foretelling many strange truths appointing divers meetings with her Angels such a day and such an houre to consult with them what should become of her brother and what punishment her enemies should have bidding every one they should not so much as looke after her for if they did it would anger her Angels and undoe her for there were some strange Angels besides her owne to meet her this being the fourth meeting with them and it would declare all saying she must have all cleane cloathes about her for this day or to morrow she must meet them under such a tree in the Garden After comming out of her fit she remembred not any thing what was done or sayd Her mother observing her words which hitherto had beene so remarkable 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 sisters suddenly she gave a great shrike and skipt over a double ditch and another and run to the Garden doore Her eldest sister came to her mother saying MARGRET is gone to her Angels meeting who with hast ran with the key of the Garden doore where her childe was standing beating at it saying I come I come she opened the doore and left her to her protector and hastily went to the other side of the house to secure that part of the Garden but alas ere she came a wicked creature set on by the enemies instigation had been looking after her and her childe wringing her hands weeping bitterly as if she could have torne her flesh from the bones or haire off her head saying who was here what wicked creature had stayd her blessed Angels from her and for three houres together tooke on grievously her mother weeping with her begging of the Lord not to punish the innocent for the wickeds fault After some time the child went into the Garden againe where finding one of her Angels she sayd Lord it was not my fault but well is me that you will come unto me but alas where are the rest Her mother being within hearing these words A quarter of a yeare a long time to be without comfort still weeping Then she had this Answer from her Angels that for twelve weeks they would not visibly appeare to her This she remembred for three dayes and related to
house being the next house to the Judges Chamber in regard the Girles first appoyntment was alwayes kept so after her supper sent to see if it were more convenient to waite upon the Judge that night or the next morning the answer was returned that night was fittest 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 spectators to see the Event Thus being set downe in the chamber her mother began her former suit in begging Justice his answer was that that which belonged unto the County Palatine of Durham belonged not unto him So she requested him in his returne back either to doe it or else give order to the Justices in the County to apprehend her of a suddaine the Girle fell into a fit relating before them all DOROTHY SVVINOVVS malice from the beginning the cause of the troubles that broke Sir Ro. HAMBLETONS heart the death of his Lady and how she sought still by evill meanes to take away her mothers life when the Lord would not permit that got leave first to torment her then to consume her brother and now hath begun to consume her eldest sister and harden her Father in Lawes heart to make her mothers life more sorrowfull with her hands up and eyes fixed upon her objects begged Justice for the Lords sake for Jesus Christs sake saying I ought to command Justice 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 Justice for Christs sake Justice for his mercies sake it we have but ordinary Justice which ought not to be denyed to the poorest creature who demands it my brother that sits there shall goe home as well as ever he did I no more tormented my mother no more afflicted and my sisters torments at an end if we have no justice my torments shall be doubled my brother worse then ever he was and my sister which she hath this day begun to torment worse then any of us and my mothers afflictions by the hardning of folks hearts against her will be unsufferable but the Lords preserving mercy will never leave them who depend upon his providence but it will be worse for them who deny us justice then for us These words with many more significant expressions that the Judge thought she feigned but as soon as she was out of her fit did not know what was past as all the beholders did see onely an innocent bashfull Girle without any confidence at all when she was out of her fits So her mother returned home with them where she found her other Girle began to consume That night she came home the Girle fell into a fit pressing to vomit but nothing came up but a piece of Fir-stick full of crooked pinnes after her Angels came she cryed out of the Judges injustice saying now the enemy when she sees she can have no justice strived to choake her with these things being stones coles brick Lead straw quills full of pins with straw full of pins tow and Virginall wire all full of pins one great stone for three weekes together came alwayes to her throat and went back again till at the last 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 else burne him with fire therefore let the Watchers be very wakefull and carefull so blessed be God they were and did heare as it were knives sharpning on the staires and 3 severall times fire was found in the roome one night like to have burnt them but by Gods mercyes were saved She sayd now DOROTHY SVVIHOVV was seeking a new way to take away her mothers life for she was consuming the child within her and withall bad them watch with her brother and sister that night twelve month they began to torment 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 seek to take his life and the use of his sisters legs if Christians prayers and diligent watching did not prevent them so it pleased the Lord to move the hearts of good friends to watch with them till the houre came The Girle then had her fit and cryed out the Grand Witch Meg 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 observed her request there was a suddaine smell of brimstone but nothing seene by any but here are some of their names that were witnesses to most of her tryalls and first them that prayed by her Mr. BROAD Mr. EDVVARD ORDE Mr. GEORGE ATHERLONY Mr. EDVVARD MOORES six Sonnes and one Daughter With divers others which were too tedious to relate AFter this her Brother and Sister continued still consuming and she every other day falling into her fits and after torment her Angels alwayes appearing unto her she still declares that DOROTHY SVVINOVV hardened the hearts of all that her mother had to deale with sayd it should be worse and worse till of an instant the Lord should make her greatest enemies her greatest friends declaring how that if she were in hold her paine were gone as well as HUTTONS was for telling her owne releasement a quarter of a yeare before it came saying it was neither for her owne desires or her owne ease that the Lord released her but to helpe her mother when she could not helpe her selfe which was most true to her great griefe and sorrow but much joy to thinke that the Lord should not onely foretell it but inable her own to helpe her She still expecting justice sent these strange things the Girle cast off her stomack to Durham which could scarce be believed yet by chance one being by at the casting of them which was there present got a Warrant to apprehend DOROTHY SVVINOVV and served it her owne hands with many contradictions ere it was done Where DOROTHY SVVINOVV came into a chamber in the Constables house which afterwards she confessed was for feare of taking her blood which was never in the others thoughts Yet obeyed not that Warrant till a second 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 saying that still gave her further power to worke her wickednesse Still all this quarter the Girl in her fits desired them to watch with her on Candlemas Eve and they should not thinke their labour lost and 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 so some that feared God came to see the Event which releasement being writ from her owne mouth will confirme
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
God inable us to indure There is nothing that can be done but we can do it by Gods assistance we cannot say we can doe any thing of our selves no not the least thing in the World seeing our helpe is in an able God we can do any thing I know the Lord will never suffer the divell to have any further power over our bodies though they hurt our bodies they shall not hurt our soules they shall not come neare our soules Our soules are all the comfort we can expect what are our bodies Our bodies are nothing I blesse God that would have his glory tryed on our weake bodies which no creature thought could have indured such torment We have reason my brother sister and all of us to blesse God yea all creatures that behold it have reason to blesse God and to thinke that he is a mercifull God to us it is his mercy we know it is his promise that all those that repent with penitent hearts he is still ready to forgive them we acknowledge it is Gods mercy not our deserts They have tormented my brother a yeare a gone St. IOHNS day at night and they have tormented me two yeares agone yeasterday my sister is pined away they began with her since Lammas she hath lesse comfort then we have had She from the beginning hath had great paine without comfort and though my paine have beene sorest yet I have had great comfort Since God hath granted this day to be my releasement have I not reason to blesse this God My brother and sister are still under their burthen Let them not thinke it a burthen but rather beg patience to indure it If ever God give them health we have all reason to have thoughts of eternity and never to forget the word of God My sister is worse then my brother or then ever I was my torments were vehement sometimes a day sometimes eight houres sometimes shorter sometimes longer and though my time was sore and vehement yet still I had ease after it but my sister hath no ease Now when I am released what shall become of my brother and sister if it please God to give them so 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 They thought to have choaked me once they made me cast up pins and stones and things that creatures would not thinke possible should have come out of my mouth yet God inabled me to indure that not any creature thought I could They thought to have done the like to my Brother but God did not suffer the Divell to have so much power but they have striven so to do For my Brother GEORGE he had neede to have a care of himselfe he by the sight of me I saw consumed we have reason to blesse God he is away If you love my sister BETTYES life bring her not home you may as well take a knife and cut her throat as be the cause of her torments If they love my sister and brothers life bring them not in sight one minute by looking on them doth them more hurt then we thinke of If my sister had gone away to and not looked so much on my Brother as she hath done it had beene better for her She hath done her selfe more wrong then us in setting these two more against us though it hath pleased God to let them have so much power over our bodies yet they never had power over our soules They are trying all ways in the world to have power to torment my Mother they are seeking to torment her by an unnaturall way if we have not a care of our selves and one of another by Gods mercies Shall they never have more power to torment me They thought this last night to have made me more passionate then ever I was I blesse God though they made me somewhat passionate yet stil God inabled me with patience not to be much extravagant much after their desires those Justices all of them have denyed us Justice Let them take heede of themselves Let them take heede of a heavy burthen that may fall upon themselves Though our Mother be loving unto us yet let them take heede of a heavy burthen may fall on them I wish to God it be not so that the innocent doe not suffer the Lord grant they may have a sensiblenesse of the wrong they have done us and suffer not the innocent to indure for them Now after this when they cannot get power to torment me will they ever be more vehement with my brothers and sisters Whensoever she is put in hold till she come to her tryall she should not have her liberty for if she come abroad amongst her company she will be as cruel as ever If these two Witches were catcht and in hold she would goe to death to the utmost to make them more vehement then ever though they torment the rest yet they shall never have power to torment me It is sayd in the word of God you shall not suffer a Witch to live yet she consults with Witches and consults with their wayes which by the Lawe of God deserves death Shall I never behold your faces againe If it were so it would be more sad to me then all my paine Though you be not in my sight yet I trust in Gods mercy so much as that you will still watch over us and protect us God grant we never forget Gods mercies to be impatient seeing we have rest in torment What mercies can be showne unto a creature but it hath pleased God to shew it to me that it hath pleased him to grant mee so much patience though of my selfe I was not sensible of my torments that was a mercy and much comfort to my soule that though they tormented my body they never had power to cause me speake unbefitting words to hazzard my soule But had it not pleased God to have sent you to me that time what have would become of me I had beene distracted and like a mad body When the Divell was strong and had most power God still crossed him of his opportunity Those that are so malicious seldome any thing satisfies their mindes save this extravagant way that is a fore thing many times malice is never satisfied without life shall I never see you with my eyes here yet ye will reveale this either by me or by some other means It shall be more strange before it be all declared Now after this time shall I never have more torment by any Witch nor none I hope Shall I meet you in such a place at such a time I will Seeing you have set 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 Mr. FRANCIS BROAD and Mr. GEORGE ATHERLONY two Ministers with Doctor STEPHENS a Physitian were with her in divers of her last tormenting fits
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 Kimeâ—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 ArtiuÌ„ 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