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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
death_n	body_n	see_v	sin_n	6,816	5	4.6347	4	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A15608	VVitches apprehended, examined and executed, for notable villanies by them committed both by land and water With a strange and most true triall how to know whether a woman be a witch or not.		1613 (1613)	STC 25872; ESTC S120192	8,695	22

and another on that The horses they ranne as if they would haue swelted themselues and the fellowes after them breathlesse and sweating to make the wilde Iades stay All which till the Diuell and the Witch had plaide their partes would not serue turne At last this Tragicke-Comedie drawing to an end they made a stand when the seruants bringing them backe and finding their Axeltrée pinnes and all things vnbroken tooke vp their Corne made fit their Cart againe the horses drewe as formally as could be And they went forthwards towards Bedford mistrusting nothing though they saw the Sow following and grazing as they did before Being come to Bedford and hauing vnloaden the Cart and made sale of the Corne the one sell to driuing the Teame home againe leauing his ancienter fellow behind him at Bedford who happening into company fell a carowsing with boone companions like himselfe and in the height of their cuppes they as desirous to heare as he to tell he related vnto them the manner and forme how his Cart and Whéels were diuoret ' as hee was comming to Towne some wondered all laughed the company brake vp and this ancient seruant tooke his horse with purpose to ouertake his fellow who was gone before with the Cart Who no sooner was out of Bedford Townes end but he might behold the same Sow as néere as he could iudge grazing againe as if the Diuell and the Witch had made her his footman to waite vpon him But the fellow not mistrusting any thing made his Nagge take a spéedie amble and so to ouertake the Cart while the Sow side by side ranne along by him When he ouertaking his fellow and had scarce spoken to him but the horses as before fell to their old contention running one from another onely the horses were better furnished then before for where at first they left both Whéeles and Axeltree behinde them they now had the Axeltree to take their part leauing the Whéeles in the high way for the seruants to bring after The horse in this manner comming home draue all the beholders into amazement and the seruants beginning to haue mistrust of the blacke Sow they watcht whither she went whom they found to goe into Mother Suttons house of which they told their master and of all the accidents aforesaid who made slight of it to them whatsoeuer he conceiued of it himselfe and saying he supposed they were drunke they departed The same old seruant of Master Engers within few daies after going to plough fell into talke of Mother Sutton and of Mary Sutton her daughter of what pranckes hee had heard they had plaide thereabouts in the Countrey as also what accidents had befallen him and his fellow as they had passed to and from Bedford In discoursing of which a Béetle came and stroke the same fellow on the breast and hee presently fell into a trance as he was guiding the Plough the extremitie whereof was such as his senses altogether distract and his bodie and minde vtterly distempered the beholders déemed him cleane hopelesse of recouerie yea his other fellow vpon this sodaine sight was stricken into such amazement as he stood like a liuelesse trunke deuided from his vitall spirits as farre vnable to helpe him as the other was néedfull to be helpt by him Till at length being somewhat recouered and awaked from that astonishment hee made hast homeward and carried his master word of what had happened Vpon deliuerie of this newes for hee was a man highly esteemed by him for his honest and long seruice there was much moane made for him in the house and Master Enger himselfe had not the least part of griefe for his extremitie but with all possible speed hasted into the field and vsed helpe to haue him brought home After which he neglected no meanes nor spared any cost that might ease his seruant or redéeme him from the misery he was in but all was in vaine for hrs extasies were nothing lessened but continued a long time in as grieuous perplexitie as at first yet though they suspected much they had no certaine proofe or knowledge of the cause Their meanes were therefore the shorter to cure the effect But as a thiefe when hee entereth into a house to robbe first putteth out the lights according to that Qui male agit odit lucem He that doth euill hateth light so these Impes that liue in the gunshot of diuellish assaults goe about to darken and disgrace the light of such as are toward and vertuous and make the night the instrument to contriue their wicked purposes For these Witches hauing so long and couertly continued to doe much mischiefe by their practises were so hardened in their lewde and vile proceeding that the custome of their sinne had quite taken away the sense and féeling thereof and they spared not to continue the perplexitie of this old seruant both in bodie and minde in such sort that his friends were as desirous to see death ridde him from his extremitie as a woman great with childe is euer musing vpon the time of her deliuerie For where distresse is déepe and the conscience cleare Mors expectatur absque formidine exoptatur cum dulcedine excipitur cum deuotione Death is looked for without feare desired with delight and accepted with deuotion As the actes and enterprises of these wicked persons are darke and diuellish so in the perseuerance of this fellowes perplexitie hee being in his distraction both of bodie and minde yet in bed and awake espied Mary Sutton the daughter in a Mooneshine night come in at a window in her accustomed and personall habite and shape with her knitting worke in her hands and sitting downe at his beds féete sometimes working and knitting with her néedles and sometimes gazing and staring him in the face as his griefe was thereby redoubled and increased Not long after she drewe néerer vnto him and sate by his bedde side yet all this while he had neyther power to stirre or speake and told him if hee would consent she should come to bedde to him hee should be restored to his former health and prosperitie Thus the Diuell striues to enlarge his Kingdome and vpon the necke of one wickednesse to heape another So that Periculum probat transeuntium raritas per●untium multitudo In the dangerous Sea of this world the rarenesse of those that passe the same ouer safe and the multitude of others that perish in their passage sufficiently proue the perill wee liue in In the Ocean Sea of foure shippes not one miscaries In the Sea of this world of many sowers not one escapes his particular crosse and calamitie yet in our greatest weaknesse and debilitie when the Diuell is most busie to tempt vs and seduce vs from God then is God strongest in the hearts of his children and most readie to bee auxiliant and helping to saue and vphold them from declining and falling Gods liberalitie appeares more then his rigour for whom hee drawes out

so long that it may reach from one side of your damme to the other where on each side let one of your men stand that if she chance to sinke they may draw her vp and preserue her Then if she swimme take her vp cause some women to search her vpon which if they finde any extraordinarie markes about her let her the second time be bound and haue her right thumbe bound to her left toe and her left thumbe to her right toe and your men with the same rope if néed be to preserue her and bee throwne into the water when if she swimme you may build vpon it that she is a Witch I haue séene it often tried in the North countrey The morrow after Master Enger road into the fields where Mary Sutton the daughter was hauing some of his men to accompany him where after some questions made vnto her they assayed to binde her on horse-backe when all his men being presently stricken lame Master Enger himselfe began to remember that once rating her about his man he was on the sodaine in the like perplexitie and then taking courage and desiring God to bee his assistance with a cudgell which he had in his hand he beate her till she was scarce able to stirre At which his men presently recouered bound her to their Masters horse and brought her home to his house shutting vp his Mill gates did as before the Gentleman had aduised him when being throwne in the first time shee sunke some two foote into the water with a fall but rose againe and floated vpon the water like a planke Then he commanded her to be taken out and had women readie that se●●●●●d her and found vnder her left thigh a kind of ●●at which after the Bastard sonne confest her Spirits in seuerall shapes as Cats Moales c. vsed to sucke her Then was she the second time bound crosse her thumbes and toes according to the former direction and then she sunke not at all but sitting vpon the water turned round about like a wheele or as that which commonly we call a whirle poole Notwithstanding Master Engers men standing on each side of the damme with a roape tossing her vp and downe to make her sinke but could not And then being taken vp she as boldly as if she had béene innocent asked them if they could doe any more to her When Master Enger began to accuse her with the death of his cattell the languish of his man who continued in sorrow both of bodie and mind from Christmasse to Shronetide as also the death of his sonne All which she constantly denied and stood at defiance with him till being carried towards a Iustice Master Enger told her it was bootlesse to stand so obstinately vpon deniall of those matters for her owne sonne Henry had reuealed all both as touching her s elfe and her mother and of the time and manner of their plotting to torment his little boy when she heard that her heart misgaue her she confessed all and acknowledged the Diuell had now left her to that shame that is reward to such as follow him Vpon which confession the mother also was apprehended and both being committed to Bedford Gaole many other matters were there produced against them of long continuance for they had remained as before about twentie yeares in the prosecute of these lewd and wicked practises But for this matter of Master Enger at the last Assises the euidence of the Bastard son and the confessions seuerally taken both of old Mother Sutton her daughter Mary found them guiltie in al former obiections So that arraigned at Bedford on Munday the thirtieth of March last past they had a iust conuiction and on Tuesday the next day after they were executed FINIS