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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A72130	[A brief treatise containing the most strange and horrible cruelty of Elizabeth Stile alias Rockingham and her confederates, executed at Abingdon, upon R. Galis]	Galis, Richard.	1579 (1579)	STC 11537.5; ESTC S124945	18,810	29

sight more for feare I thinke then for any good wyll suffered her to escape with the which departure as I could not chuse béeing greatly gréeued séeing that for all my complaintes made no hope of redresse was to bée looked for at the Magistrates handes I thought nowe to vse myne owne force vppon them Wherefore dayly frequenting my selfe to haue once a daye my recourse by their doores I would nowe one then an other so Ribrost with my cudgell caried always about mée for the same purpose that in the ende getting the vpper hand I had them in such awe that the Scholer hauing offended feared not so much his Maisters correction as they did my presence as afterwardes it appeared by Mother Dutton who so soone as shée had heard of my comming that waye would haue runne and locked her selfe into a Cheste for feare Hovve the Author hauing occasion to be abroade one night at the houre of their meeting hee savve the Deuell in a Carte sitting and hovve by the helpe of God he put him to flight and of other strange accidentes done by him MY courage nowe béeing augmented by the triumphant victorie gotten ouer myne enemies and féeling no more taste of my passed grieffes my businesse so falling foorth it was my chance one night about xj of the clocke in the night to ride by the place where these Impes acustomed vse was to méete to my house And in my waye as I was ryding my horse Léeyng of a very good stomacke sudainly stopped flinging and lashing out behinde snorting and taking on out of all measure neyther proceading further nor retorning back wherewith all béeing litle amased because it was no straunge thing vnto mée I alighted and taking my sworde drawen in the one hand and my buckler in the other casting myne eye aside to see if I could perceiue anie bodie stirring I sudainly spied a most horrible sight and oughly feende sitting in a poore mans cart like one ryding to fetche in his haruest with a payre of eies burning like the fiery flames whose ougly shape when I behelde falling on my knées in the middes of the dirt I besought God to assist mée with his strength against this feende and that through his mightie power I might get the victorie Then rising I went towardes the place where this good fellowe was watching for his praye At whom my faith stedfastly set in the Lord I let flye with my sword saying auoide Sathan auoyde and in the name of God I charge thée to auoide thou hast nought to do with mee wherefore go hunte after the Doe which hath caused thée here to sitte At which wordes a great light appeared round about the carte where hee sat and therewithall an horrible sent of brymstone was dispersed abroade but hée was no more seene afterwarde with the which sent Maister Afton of the Scalding house cōming that waye the self same present time thought presently to haue died had not helpe come in the meane time This doone I gate mée to my horse vpon whose back whē I was amounted I passed to my house as quietly as might be without harme where not forgetting the goodnesse of God towardes them that put their trust in him I spent an howre or two in prayer The next day béeing come no lesse desirous to be reuenged of theim then they were to molest mée before Hoping still to finde a meanes to cut theim off and to weede theim cleane from the face of the earth I practised many attemptes and not so many as often executed to the entent I might bée brought to some further answere for the extirpating and pulling vp the saide wicked wéedes by the rootes And because there was no Iustice that would execute his office therein by the othe derected vnto them I determined to prooue what I could doo my selfe wherefore I gat me a pounde of brimstone and melted the same and dipped therein as it melted a great drie linnen cloth and into a houile of strawe of mother Duttons I thrust it whereunto I put a great fier brande béeing of it selfe the brimstone taken away sufficient inough to haue consumed a hundreth times as much which burned vnto ashes that strawe not once perished An other time likewyse one Richard Parker standing by hauing bought a quarter of a pounde of gunne poulder and as much of brimstone I chose an arrowe from out of a sheafe and thereunto I bounde the said poulder and brimstone with stringes making therein a litle touchhole whereby to giue fier thereunto whē I thought it good and thrust the same into an other houile adioyning to her house fully determined to bring her togither with her house by fier to playe the last act of her tragedy vnto the which with a matche set at the ende of a long sticke I gaue fier which arrowe albeit it consumed to ashes yet neuerthelesse the strawe still remained without any signe of hurt which straunge sight when I behelde béeing a thing no lesse straunge to be tolde then harde to be beleued I sighing sayde to my selfe O Lord what shall I doo vnto this wicked impe to the rest of her confederates whom neither fier or sworde may deuoure neither Gods thundering threates prouoke to repentance To suffer them longer to experiment life in their wickednesse and to the ouerthrowe of their neighbours my hart refuseth And still to contriue and spende my time about it is to my hinderance If I complaine mée of their detestable dooings the magistrates seame deafe if I as enemies to God and their Prince molest or vrge them imprisonment laden with gyues falleth out to my share If I craue helpe of the inferior sort my correction so affrayes them that albeit they would helpe yet they dare not Thus doo I sée al hope of mās helpe taken from mee and all comfort bereft mée Wherefore I will henceforth cease and bridle my desires And vnto thée O Lorde which knowing the secretes of all mens hartes canst and wilt when thou séest the time roote out and pull vp from thy good and chosen plantes such wicked graftes To thee I saie will I remitte my cause and séeke to lodge and settle my selfe in some other soyle where iustice may be ministred vice corrected wronges redressed And therewithal departed to my house from whence within fewe daies after I had set my affaires in good order I departed to seeke my aduentures since which time of my departure it hath pleaseth God at the last to strike these wicked and defestable liuers with the rod of his correction Who with the pot of their wickednesse so long powred the water of God his vengeance vpon them that at the length they were apprehēded and committed to the cōmon gaile there to remaine vntill by due proofe of their diabolicall liuings be tried after triall had receiue the Guerdon answerable their demerites where beeing founde giltie and conuicted of the crime obiected against them they suffered at Abingdon the sixe and twentie daie

there talked with him long and leauing him at her departure in the same shape and at an other time she found him like an horse 19. Item shee saith that shée went on a time to olde Windesore to the bedmaker to beg milk which shee could not haue because the maid was a milking but at her return shee said her Rat had prouidid bothe milk and creame 20 Item shée confesseth that one Mother Audrey béeing one of the foure that sat vnder the Pulpit before she wed inhabiting in the Almes house was the chéef Mistresse of them all but shée is dead 21 Item shée saith that foure or fiue of the ablest men in Windesor if shée had béen so disposed should not haue brought her to the Gaile but that shée came of her owne accorde for by the way as shée went with Iohn Browne to the Gaile who was her Guide thither her Bun came to her in the like nesse of a great black Cat and would haue had her away but hoping for fauour she banished him againe 22 Item shée also saith that their woords of charme weare these come on let vs go about it and presently they were changed into a new shape ¶ To all which aforesaid Articles the said Elizabeth saied shée would affirme and vnto her death truely stand to This is not to be forgotten that the said Mother Stile albeit at the time of her apprehension and conduction to the Gaile shee was of perfect limme and ioint yet neuerthelesse was shée after the said confession made so altered and changed by the inchauntments of her owne Confederates that she was the moste odiblest creature that euer man beheld insomuch that shee was brought vpon a barrowe to her arrainment before the Iudges This is to be remembred also that amongst the Offenders afore said and that at the time of their execution Mother Margaret béeing vpon the ladder and readye to playe the last act of her life and commiting her self to the merecie of the law by the which shée was adiudged for her desarts to suffer death began to say the Lordes prayer in the which shée continued til shee came to these woords and forgiue vs our trespases c. at which place making a stay crying out against one Sauoye Haruy of Windesor Ostler her accuser which then was comming towards the place of the execution where they all suffered to see her end saying art thou come to cast mée away and speak to the People then standing by mark the end of him before this time tweluemoonth and waxing ougly to the terror of the Beholders shée impatiently ended her life Finis The Conclusion to the Reader THhus hast thou heard héere moste loouing Reader how much the foolish pittie and slacknes of the Magistrates of Windesore in executing their office hath giuen occasion to these wicked Imps the Daughters of the Deuil to persist in their follye thou hast heard also remembred vnto thée what drifts of deuelish deuises since the first time of mother Duttons apprehension and brought by mée before Maister Richard Redforth then Maior of Windesore hath by them béen practised to the great hurt of the Inhabitaunts their neighbours and to thy great admiracion which if at that present had béen as thorowely sifted out as it was but wincked at and as to late I may say it hath béen by some since those persons in the afore confession mentioned and by their enchauntments brought to their ends not only had enioyed their liues vntil this day but I also a moste loouing Father and they them selues an assured and stedfast rock in the time of their néed where now by their sufferance wée be depriued of bothe But sith to call thinges long time past in obliuion to remembrance again will but increace my gréef and renue my sorowe I therfore will with the vale of scilence couer that which my hart desired to expresse Only I beséech the heauenly Father who is the giuer of all goodnes that this ensample past and now to all men most apparaunt may be so printed and rooted in the harts of all Magistrates appointed for the execution of true and vpright Iustice to the maintenaune of the good and pulling down of the wicked that from hence foorth not only all poore mens causes may be pitied their complaints accepted and their wrongs redressed but also that by their carefull industry and diligence employed all Sorcerers Witches and Charmerers may vtterly be weeded out from the face of the earth to the commeditie of a common welth and to the honor glory of God to whome be all praise laude dominion and power for euer and euer Amen