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A84977	A full and true relation of the examination and confession of W. Barwick and E. Mangall, of two horrid murders one committed by William Barwick upon his wife being with child, near Cawood in Yorkshire, upon the 14th. of April last: as likewise a full account how it came to be discovered by an apparition of the person murder'd. The second was committed by Edward Mangall, upon Elizabeth Johnson alias Ringrose, and her bastard child, on the 4th. of September last, who said he was tempted thereto by the devil. Also their trials and convictions before the honorable Sir John Powel, Knight, one of their Majesties Justices, at the Assizes holden at York, on the 16th. of September, 1690. October the 7. Published according to order, 1690.		1690 (1690)	Wing F2322; ESTC R226746	5,338	4

A Full and True RELATION OF THE Examination and Confession OF W. Barwick and E. Mangall OF TWO HORRID MURDERS One Committed by William Barwick upon his Wife being with Child near Cawood in Yorkshire upon the 14th of April last As likewise a full Account how it came to be discovered by an Apparition of the Person MURDER'D The Second was committed by Edward Mangall upon Elizabeth Johnson alias Ringrose and her Bastard Child on the 4th of September last who said he was tempted thereto by the Devil ALSO Their Trials and Convictions before the Honorable Sir John Powel Knight one of Their Majesties Justices at the Assizes holden at York on the 16th of September 1690. October the 7. Published according to Order 1690. AS MVRDER is one of the Greatest Crimes that Man can be guilty of so is it no less Strangely and Providentially discovered when privately committed The foul Criminal believes himself secure because there was no Witness of the Fact Not considering that the Al-seeing Eye of Heaven beholds his conceal'd Iniquity and by some means or other bringing it to Light never permits it to go Unpunished And indeed so certainly does the Revenge of God pursue the Abominated MVRDERER that when Witnesses are wanting of the Fact the very Ghost of the Murdered-Parties cannot rest quiet in their Graves till they have made the Detection themselves Of this we are now to give the Reader Two Remarkable Examples that lately happened in York-shire And no less Signal for the Truth of both Tragedies as being confirmed by Trial of the Offenders at the last Assizes held for that County The First of these Murders was committed by William Barwick upon the Body of Mary Barwick his Wife at the same time big with Child What were the Motives that induc'd the Man to do this Horrid Fact does not appear by the Examination of the Evidence or the Confession of the Party Only it appeared upon his Trial that he had got her with Child before he Married her And 't is very probable that being then constrained to Marry her he grew weary of her which was the the Reason he was so willing to be rid of her tho' he ventur'd Body and Soul to accomplish his Design The Murder was committed upon Palm-Monday being the Fourteenth of April last about Two of the Clock in the Afternoon at what time the said Barwick having drill'd his Wife along till he came to a certain Close within sight of Cawood-Castle where he found the Conveniency of a Pond he threw her by force into the Water and when she was Drown'd and drawn forth again by himself upon the Bank of the Pond had the Cruelty to behold the Motion of the Infant yet warm in her Womb. This done he conceal'd the Body as it may readily be suppos'd among the Bushes that usually encompass a Pond and the next night when it grew duskish fetching a Hay-spade from a Rick that stood in the Close he made a Hole by the side of the Pond and there slightly Buried the Woman in her Cloaths Having thus dispatched two at once and thinking himself secure because unseen he went the same day to his Brother-in-Law one Thomas Lofthouse of Rufforth within Three Miles of York who had Married his drown'd Wifes Sister and told him he had carried his Wife to one Richard Harrison's House in Selby who was his Unkle and would take care of her But Heaven would not be so deluded but rais'd up the Ghost of the Murder'd Woman to make the Discovery And therefore it was that upon the Easter-Tuesday following about Two of the Clock in the Afternoon the fore-mention'd Lofthouse having occasion to Water a Quickset Hedge not far from his House as he was going for the Second Pail-full an Apparition went before him in the Shape of a Woman and soon after sat down upon a Rising Green Grass-Plat right over against the Pond He walk'd by her as he went to the Pond and as he return'd with his Pail from the Pond looking side-ways to see whether she continu'd in the same place he found she did and that she seem'd to Dandle something in her Lap that look'd like a White-Bag as he thought which he did not observe before So soon as he had emptied his Pail he went into his Yard and stood still to try whether he could see her again but she was vanish'd In his Information he says That the Woman seem'd to be habited in a Brown Colour'd Petticoat Wastecoat and a White Hood such a one as his Wifes Sister usually wore and that her Countenance look'd extream Pale and Wan with her Teeth in sight but no Gums appearing and that her Physiognomy was like to that of his Wifes Sister who was Wife to William Barwick But notwithstanding the Gastliness of this Apparition it seems it made so little Impression in Lofthouse's Mind that he thought no more of it neither did he speak to any Body concerning it till the same Night as he was at his Family Duty of Prayer that that Apparition return'd again to his Thoughts and discompos'd his Devotion So that after he had made an end of his Prayers he told the whole Story of what he had seen to his Wife Who laying Circumstances together immediately inferr'd that her Sister was either Drown'd or otherwise Murder'd and desir'd her Husband to look after her the next day which was the Wednesday in Easter-Week Upon this Lofthouse recollecting what Barwick had told him of his carrying his Wife to his Unkle at Selby repairs to Harrison before-mentioned but found all that Barwick had said to be false for that Harrison had neither heard of Barwick nor his Wife neither did he know any thing of them Which notable Circumstance together with that other of the Apparition increas'd his Suspicions to that degree that now concluding his Wifes Sister was Murdered he went to the Lord Mayor of York and having obtained his Warrant got Barwick apprehended who was no sooner brought before the Lord Mayor but his own Conscience then accusing him he acknowledged the whole Matter as it has been already related as it appears by his Examination and Confession herewith Printed To which are also annex'd the Informations of Lofthouse in like manner taken before the Lord Mayor of York for a further Testimony and Confirmation of what is here set down On Wednesday the Sixteenth of September 1690 The Criminal William Barwick was brought to his Trial before the Honorable Sir John Powel Knight one of the Judges of the Northern Circuit at the Assizes holden at York where the Prisoner pleaded not guilty to his Indictment But upon the Evidence of Thomas Lofthouse and his Wife and a Third Person That the Woman was found Buried in her Cloaths in the Close by the Pond-side agreeable to the Prisoner's Confession and that she had several Bruises on her Head occasioned by the Blows the Murderer had given her to keep her under Water and upon Reading the Prisoner's