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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
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

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

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

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