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death_n	day_n	time_n	year_n	9,302	5	4.9795	4	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A50139	Memorable providences relating to witchcrafts and possessions a faithful account of many wonderful and surprising things that have befallen several bewitched and possesed person in New-England, particularly a narrative of the marvellous trouble and releef experienced by a pious family in Boston, very lately and sadly molested with evil spirits : whereunto is added a discourse delivered unto a congregation in Boston on the occasion of that illustrious providence : as also a discourse delivered unto the same congregation on the occasion of an horrible self-murder committed in the town : with an appendix in vindication of a chapter in a late book of remarkable providences from the calumnies of a Quaker at Pen-silvania / written by Cotton Mather ... and recommended by the ministers of Boston and Charleston.	Mather, Cotton, 1663-1728.	1689 (1689)	Wing M1123; ESTC W479486	78,489	164

I suppose used upon her by one or some of her Crue the Court could receive Answers from her in none but the Irish which was her Native Language altho she understood the English very well and had accustomed her whole Family to none but that Language in her former Conversation and therefore the Communication between the Bench and the Bar was now cheefly convey'd by two honest and faithful men that were Interpreters It was long before she could with any direct Answers plead unto her Indictment and when she did plead it was with Confession rather than Denial of her Guilt Order was given to search the old womans house from whence there were brought into the Court several small Images or Puppets or Babies made of Raggs and stuff't with Goats hair and other such Ingredients When these were produced the vile Woman acknowledged that her way to torment the Objects of her malice was by westing of her Finger with her Spittle and stroaking of those little Images The abused Children were then present and the Woman still kept stooping and shrinking as one that was almost prest to Death with a mighty Weight upon her But one of the Images being brought unto her immediately she started up after an odd manner and took it into her hand but she had no sooner taken it than one of the Children fell into sad Fits before the whole Assembly This the Judges had their just Apprehensions at and carefully causing the Repetition of the Experiment found again the same event of it They asked her Whether she had any to stand by her She replied She had and looking very pertly in the Air she added No He 's gone And she then confessed that she had One who was her Prince with whom she maintain'd I know not what Communion For which cause the night after she was heard expostulating with a Devil for his thus deserting her telling him that Because hee had served her so basely and falsly she had confessed all However to make all clear The Court appointed five or six Physicians one evening to examine her very strictly whether she were not craz'd in her Intellectuals and had not procured to her self by Folly and Madness the Reputation of a Witch Diverse hours did they spend with her and in all that while no Discourse came from her but what was pertinent agreeable particularly when they asked her What she thought would become of her soul she reply'd You ask me a very solemn Question and I cannot well tell what to say to it She own'd her self a Roman Catholick and could recite her Pater Noster in Latin very readily but there was one Clause or two alwaies too hard for her whereof she said She could not repeat it if she might have all the world In the up-shot the Doctors returned her Compos Mentis and Sentence of Death was pass'd upon her SECT IX Diverse dayes were passed between her being Arraigned and Condemned In this time one of her Neighbours had been giving in her Testimony of what another of her Neighbours had upon her Death related concerning her It seems one Howen about Six years before had been cruelly bewitched to Death but before she dies she called one Hughes unto her Telling her that she laid her Death to the charge of Glover That she had seen Glover sometimes come down her Chimey That she should remember this for within this Six years she might have Occasion to declare it This Hughes now preparing her Testimony immediately one of her children a fine boy well grown towards Youth was taken ill just in the same woful and surprising manner that Goodmins children were One night particularly The Boy said he saw a Black thing with a Blue Cap in the Room Tormenting of him and he complained most bitterly of a Hand put into the Bed to pull out his Bowels The next day the mother of the boy went unto Glover in the Prison and asked her Why she tortured her poor lad at such a wicked rate This Witch replied that she did it because of wrong done to her self her daughter Hughes denied as well she might that she had done her any wrong Well then sayes Glover Let me see your child and he shall be well again Glover went on and told her of her own accord I was at your house last night Sayes Hughes In what shape Sayes Glover As a black thing with a blue Cap. Sayes Hughes What did you do there Sayes Glover with my hand in the Bed I tryed to pull out the boyes Bowels but I could not They parted but the next day Hughes appearing at Court had her Boy with her and Glover passing by the Boy expressed her good wishes for him tho I suppose his Parent had no design of any mighty Respect unto the Hag by having him with her there But the Boy had no more Indispositions after the Condemnation of the Woman SECT X. While the miserable old Woman was under Condemnation I did my self twice give a visit unto her She never denyed the guilt of the Wittchcraft charg'd upon her but she confessed very little about the Circumstances of her Confederacies with the Devils only she said That she us'd to be at meetings which her Prince and Four more were present at As for those Four She told who they were and for her Prince her account plainly was that he was the Devil She entertained me with nothing but Irish which Language I had not Learning enough to understand without an Interpreter only one time when I was representing unto her That and How her Prince had cheated her as her self would quickly find she reply'd I think i 〈…〉 English and with passion too If it be so I am 〈◊〉 for that I offer'd many Questions unto her unto which after long silence she told me She would fain give me a full Answer but they would not give her leave It was demanded They● Who is that THEY and she return'd that They were her Spirits or her Saints for they say the same Word in Irish signifies both And at another time she included her two Mistresses as she call'd them in that they but when it was enquired Who those two were she fell into a Rage and would be no more urged I Sett before her the Necessity and Equity of her breaking her Covenant with Hell and giving her self to the Lord Jesus Christ by an everlasting Covenant To which her Answer was that I spoke a very Reasonable thing but she could not do it I asked her whether she would consent or desire to be pray'd for To that she said If Prayer would do her any good shee could pray for her self And when it was again propounded she said She could not unless her spirits or angels would give her leave However against her will I pray'd with her which if it were a Fault it was in excess of Pitty When I had done shee thank'd me with many good Words but I was no sooner out of her