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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

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

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