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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

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

God inable us to indure There is nothing that can be done but we can do it by Gods assistance we cannot say we can doe any thing of our selves no not the least thing in the World seeing our helpe is in an able God we can do any thing I know the Lord will never suffer the divell to have any further power over our bodies though they hurt our bodies they shall not hurt our soules they shall not come neare our soules Our soules are all the comfort we can expect what are our bodies Our bodies are nothing I blesse God that would have his glory tryed on our weake bodies which no creature thought could have indured such torment We have reason my brother sister and all of us to blesse God yea all creatures that behold it have reason to blesse God and to thinke that he is a mercifull God to us it is his mercy we know it is his promise that all those that repent with penitent hearts he is still ready to forgive them we acknowledge it is Gods mercy not our deserts They have tormented my brother a yeare a gone St. IOHNS day at night and they have tormented me two yeares agone yeasterday my sister is pined away they began with her since Lammas she hath lesse comfort then we have had She from the beginning hath had great paine without comfort and though my paine have beene sorest yet I have had great comfort Since God hath granted this day to be my releasement have I not reason to blesse this God My brother and sister are still under their burthen Let them not thinke it a burthen but rather beg patience to indure it If ever God give them health we have all reason to have thoughts of eternity and never to forget the word of God My sister is worse then my brother or then ever I was my torments were vehement sometimes a day sometimes eight houres sometimes shorter sometimes longer and though my time was sore and vehement yet still I had ease after it but my sister hath no ease Now when I am released what shall become of my brother and sister if it please God to give them so much power as to torment them If that God make me a watch over them that I may declare their grief it is a great mercy They thought to have choaked me once they made me cast up pins and stones and things that creatures would not thinke possible should have come out of my mouth yet God inabled me to indure that not any creature thought I could They thought to have done the like to my Brother but God did not suffer the Divell to have so much power but they have striven so to do For my Brother GEORGE he had neede to have a care of himselfe he by the sight of me I saw consumed we have reason to blesse God he is away If you love my sister BETTYES life bring her not home you may as well take a knife and cut her throat as be the cause of her torments If they love my sister and brothers life bring them not in sight one minute by looking on them doth them more hurt then we thinke of If my sister had gone away to and not looked so much on my Brother as she hath done it had beene better for her She hath done her selfe more wrong then us in setting these two more against us though it hath pleased God to let them have so much power over our bodies yet they never had power over our soules They are trying all ways in the world to have power to torment my Mother they are seeking to torment her by an unnaturall way if we have not a care of our selves and one of another by Gods mercies Shall they never have more power to torment me They thought this last night to have made me more passionate then ever I was I blesse God though they made me somewhat passionate yet stil God inabled me with patience not to be much extravagant much after their desires those Justices all of them have denyed us Justice Let them take heede of themselves Let them take heede of a heavy burthen that may fall upon themselves Though our Mother be loving unto us yet let them take heede of a heavy burthen may fall on them I wish to God it be not so that the innocent doe not suffer the Lord grant they may have a sensiblenesse of the wrong they have done us and suffer not the innocent to indure for them Now after this when they cannot get power to torment me will they ever be more vehement with my brothers and sisters Whensoever she is put in hold till she come to her tryall she should not have her liberty for if she come abroad amongst her company she will be as cruel as ever If these two Witches were catcht and in hold she would goe to death to the utmost to make them more vehement then ever though they torment the rest yet they shall never have power to torment me It is sayd in the word of God you shall not suffer a Witch to live yet she consults with Witches and consults with their wayes which by the Lawe of God deserves death Shall I never behold your faces againe If it were so it would be more sad to me then all my paine Though you be not in my sight yet I trust in Gods mercy so much as that you will still watch over us and protect us God grant we never forget Gods mercies to be impatient seeing we have rest in torment What mercies can be showne unto a creature but it hath pleased God to shew it to me that it hath pleased him to grant mee so much patience though of my selfe I was not sensible of my torments that was a mercy and much comfort to my soule that though they tormented my body they never had power to cause me speake unbefitting words to hazzard my soule But had it not pleased God to have sent you to me that time what have would become of me I had beene distracted and like a mad body When the Divell was strong and had most power God still crossed him of his opportunity Those that are so malicious seldome any thing satisfies their mindes save this extravagant way that is a fore thing many times malice is never satisfied without life shall I never see you with my eyes here yet ye will reveale this either by me or by some other means It shall be more strange before it be all declared Now after this time shall I never have more torment by any Witch nor none I hope Shall I meet you in such a place at such a time I will Seeing you have set mee that time of appoyntment I hope you will put me in minde of it I will if it be Gods will to make me do it Mr. FRANCIS BROAD and Mr. GEORGE ATHERLONY two Ministers with Doctor STEPHENS a Physitian were with her in divers of her last tormenting fits