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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A17030	The witches of Northampton-shire Agnes Browne. Ioane Vaughan. Arthur Bill. Hellen Ienkenson. Mary Barber. Witches. Who were all executed at Northampton the 22. of Iuly last. 1612.		1612 (1612)	STC 3907; ESTC S115086	12,069	29

were detained hauing once gotten sight of them in their fits the Witches being held by scratching they drew blood of them and were sodainely deliueted of their paine Howbeit they were no sooner out of fight but they fell againe into their old traunces and were more violently tormented then before for when Mischiefe is once a foote she growes in short time so heaost●…ong that she is hardly curbed Not long after Maister Auery and his Sister hauing beene both in Northampton and hauing drawne blood of the Witches Ryding both homewards in one Coach there appeared to their view a man and a woman ryding both vpon a blacke horse M. Auery hauing spyed them a farre off and noting many strange gestures from them sodainely spake to them that were by and as it were Prophetically cryed but in these words That either they or their Horses should presently miscarcy And imediately the hor●…s fell downe dead Wherevpon Maister Auery rose vp praysing y ● grace and mercies of God that he had so powerfully deliuered them and had not suffered the foule spirits to worke the vttermost of their mischiefe vpon men made after his image but had turned their fury against Beasts Upon this they both hyed them home still praysing God for their escape and were neuer troubled after I had almost forgotten to tell you before that M. Auery was by the Iudges themselues in y ● Castle yard of Northampton séene in the middest of his fits and that he strangely continued in them vntill this Ioane Vaughan was brought vnto him But now to draw néere vnto their ends this Agnes Browne and her daughter Ioane Vaughan or Varneham béeing brought to their Arraignement were there indighted for that they had bewitched the bodies of Maister Auery and his sister Mistris Belcher in manner and forme aforesayd Together with the body of a young Child to the death the true relation whereof came not to my hands To all which they pleaded not guilty and putting themselues vpon the couutrey were found guilty And when they were asked what they could say for themselues why y ● sentence of death should not be pronounced against them they stood stiffely vpon their Innocence Wherevpon Iudgement béeing giuen they were carried backe vnto the Gaole where they were neuer heard to pray or to call vppon God but with bitter curses and execrations spent that little time they had to liue vntill the day of their Execution when neuer asking pardon for their offences either of God or the world in this their daungerous and desperate resolution dyed It was credthly reported that some fort-night before their apprehension this Agnes Browne one Ratherine Gardiner and one Ioane Lucas all birds of a winge and all abyding in the Towne of Gilsborough did ride one night to a place not aboue a mile off called Rauenstrop all vpon a Sowes backe to sée one mother Rhoades an old Witch that dwelt there but before they came to her house the old Witch died and in her last cast cried out that there were three of her old friends comming to sée her but they came too late Howbeit shee would méete with them in another place within a month after And thus much concerning Agnes Browne and her daughter Ioane Varnham The Arraignement Conuiction and Execution of one Arthur Bill of Raundes in the County of Northampton THis Arthur Bill a wretched poore Man both in state and mind remained in a towne called Raunds in the County aforesayd begotten and borne of parents that were both Witches and he like a gratious Child would not degenerate nor suffer himselfe to stray from his fathers wicked Counsels but carefully trode the steps that hée had diuillishly taught him This Arthur Bill was accused that he should bewitch the body of one Martha Aspine alias Ieames the daughter of one Edward Aspine of the same towne to death But this matter remaining doubtfull that it could not be cléerely tryed vpon him hée béeing strongly suspected before by bewitching of Diuers kinds of cattle to be guilty of that crime And béeing also publiquely knowne to bée of an euill life and reputation together with his father and mother The Iustices and other officers thereby purposing to trie the said Arthur by an experiment that many thinke neuer failes caused them all to bee bound and their Thumbes and great Toes to bée tied acrosse and so threw the father mother and sonne and none of them sunke but all floated vpon the water And hereby the way it is a speciall thing worthy generall noting and obseruation that there are two signes or tokens which are tokens as more certaine then others to detect and find out Witches by The one is the marke where the Spirits sucke and the trying of the insensiblenesse thereof The other is their fléeting on the water Concerning which though I dare affirme nothing for certainty there béeing for ought I know neither euident proofe in nature nor reuelation from heauen to assure vs thereof yet mée thinkes I may say the like of this as is held of the bléeding of a slaine body in presence of the mutherer For as in a secret murther if the dead Carkase bée at any time either seene or handled by the murtherer it doth streitway gush out of blood as if the blood should by issuing foorth in such strange manner cry vnto heauen for reuenge of the murtherer God hauing as may séeme appointed that secret supernaturall signe for triall of that secret vnnaturall crime that the blood left in the body should thus appéere and as it were challenge the murtherer for that blood whi●…h hée before had felloniously stollen from the body so it may bee that God hath appointed for a supernaturall signe of the monstrous impiety of Witches that the Element of water should refuse to receiue them in her bosome that haue shaken from them the sacred water of Baptisme and wilfully refused the benefit thereof by making that breach and fall from God in participating thus vildly with the Spirits of Beliall By whom and in the exercise of which sinne their hearts are so hardened that not so much as their eyes are able to shead teares threaten or torture them as you please God not permitting them as may bee thought to dissemble their obstinacy in so horrible a crime No not the women though that sex bee ready to shead ●…eares vpon euery light occasion But to returne to our matter These thrée the Father Mother and Sonne beeing thus séene floating vpon the water the suspition that was before not well grounded was now confirmed Whereupon the said Arthur Bill beeing the principall or I thinke the onely Actor in this Tragedy was apprehended and sent to Northampton gaole the nine and twentith day of May last by Si●… Gilbert Pickering of Tichmas●… alias Tichmase in the same County Knight and presently after his commitment ●…earing that his old father would relent and so happily confesse that which might bee preiudiciall vnto him sent for his mother