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A01001	The wonderful discouerie of the vvitchcrafts of Margaret and Phillip Flower, daughters of Ioan Flower neere Beuer Castle: executed at Lincolne, March 11. 1618 Who were specially arraigned and condemned before Sir Henry Hobart, and Sir Edward Bromley, iudges of assise, for confessing themselues actors in the destruction of Henry L. Rosse, with their damnable practises against others the children of the Right Honourable Francis Earle of Rutland. Together with the seuerall examinations and confessions of Anne Baker, Ioan Willimot, and Ellen Greene, witches in Leicestershire.		1619 (1619)	STC 11107; ESTC S102363	15,152	48

liking and good entertainment on euery side vntill the Earle by degrees conceiued some mislike against her and so peraduenture estranged himselfe from that familiaritie and accustomed conferrences hee was wont to haue with her vntill one Peate offered her some wrong against whom shee complained but found that my Lord did not affect her clamours and malicious information vntill one M r. Vauasor abandoned her company as either suspicious of her lewd life or distasted with his owne misliking of such base and poore Creatures whom no body loued but the Earles houshold vntill the Countesse misconceiuing of her daughter Margaret and discouering some vndecencies both in her life and neglect of her businesse discharged her from lying any more in the Castle yet gaue her 40. s. a bolster a mattresse of wooll commanding her to go home vntil the slacknesse of her repayring to the Castle as shee was wont did turne her loue and liking toward this honourable Earle and his family into hate and rancor wherevpon despighted to bee so neglected and exprobrated by her neighbours for her Daughters casting out of dores and other conceiued displeasures she grew past all shame and Woman-hood and many times cursed them all that were the cause of this discontentment and made her so loathsome to her former familiar friends and beneficiall acquaintance When the Diuell perceiued the inficious disposition of this wretch and that she and her Daughters might easily bee made instruments to enlarge his Kingdome and bee as it were the executioners of his vengeance not caring whether it lighted vpon innocents or no he came more neerer vnto them and in plaine tearmes to come quickly to the purpose offered them his seruice and that in such a manner as they might easily command what they pleased For hee would attend you in such prety formes of dog cat or Rat that they should neither be terrified nor any body else suspicious of the matter Vpon this they agree and as it should seeme giue away their soules for the seruice of such spirits as he had promised them which filthy conditions were ratified with abhominable kisses and an odious sacrifice of blood not leauing out certaine charmes and coniurations with which the Diuell deceiued them as though nothing could bee done without ceremony and a solemnity of orderly ratification By this time doth Sathan triumph and goeth away satisfied to haue caught such fish in the net of his illusions By this time are these women Diuels incarnate and grow proud againe in their cunning and artificiall power to doe what mischiefe they listed By this time they haue learnt the manner of inchantations Spells and Charmes By this time they kill what Cattle they list and vnder the couert of flattery and familiar entertainment keepe hidden the stinging serpent of mallice and a venomous inclination to mischiefe By this time is the Earle and his familie threatened and must feele the burthen of a terrible tempest which from these womens Diuellish deuises fell vppon him hee neither suspecting nor vnderstanding the same By this time both himselfe and his honourable Countesse are many times subiect to sicknesse and extraordinary conuulsions which they taking as gentle corrections from the hand of God submit with quietnesse to his mercy and study nothing more then to glorifie their Creator in heauen and beare his crosses on earth At last as mallice increased in these damnable Women so his family felt the smart of their reuenge and inficious disposition For his eldest Sonne Henry Lord Rosse sickened very strangely and after a while died his next named Francis Lord Rosse accordingly was seuerely tormented by them and most barbarously and inhumanely tortured by a strange sicknesse not long after the Lady Katherine was set vpon by their dangerous and diuellish practises and many times in great danger of life through extreame maladies and vnusuall fits nay as it should seeme and they afterwards confessed both the Earle and his Countesse were brought into their snares as they imagined and indeed determined to keepe them from hauing any more children Oh vnheard of wickednesse and mischieuous damnation Notwithstanding all this did the noble Earle attend his Maiesty both at New-market before Christmas and at Christmas at Whitehall bearing the losse of his Children most nobly and little suspecting that they had miscarried by Witch-craft or such like inuentions of the Diuell vntill it pleased God to discouer the villanous practises of these Woemen and to command the Diuell from executing any further vengeance on innocents but leaue them to their shames and the handes of Iustice that they might not onely be confounded for their villanous practises but remaine as a notorious example to all ages of his iudgement and fury Thus were they apprehended about Christmas and carried to Lincolne Iayle after due examination before sufficient Iustices of the Peace and discreete Maiestrates who wondred at their audacious wickednes but Ioane Flow●r the Mother before conuiction as they say called for Bread and Butter and wished it might neuer goe through her if she were guilty of that wherevpon shee was examined so mumbling it in her mouth neuer spake more wordes after but fell downe and dyed as shee was carryed to Lincolne Goale with a horrible excruciation of soule and body and was buried at Ancaster When the Earle heard of their apprehension hee hasted downe with his brother S r. George and somtimes examining them himselfe and sometimes sending them to others at last left them to the triall of Law before the Iudges of assise at Lincolne and so they were conuicted of murther and executed accordingly about the 11. of March to the terror of all the beholders and example of such dissolute and abhominable Creatures and because you shall haue both cause to glorifie God for this discouery and occasion to apprehend the strangenesse of their liues and truth of their proceedings I thought it both meete and conuenient to lay open their own Examinations and Euidences against one another with such apparrant circumstances as doe not onely shew the cause of their mislike and distasting against the Earle and his family but the manner of their proceedings and reuenges with other particulars belonging to the true and plaine discouery of their villany and Witch-craft The Examinations of Anne Baker Ioane Willimot and Ellen Greene as followeth c. Anne Baker Ioane Willimot Ellen Greene. THE EXAMINATION of Anne Baker of Bottesford in the County of Leicester Spinster taken March 1. 1618. by the Right Honourable Francis Earle of Rutland Sir George Manners Knight two of his Maiesties Iustices of the peace for the County of Lincolne and Samuel Fleming Doctor of Diuinitie one of his Maiesties Iustices of the peace for the County of Leicester aforesaid SHE saith that there are foure colours of Planets Blacke Yellow Greene and Blew and that Blacke is alwaies death and that shee sawe the Blew Plannet strike Thomas Fairebarne the eldest sonne vnto William Fairebarne of Bottesford aforesaid by

the Pinfold there within the which time the said William Faire-barne did beat her and breake her head wherevppon the said Thomas Faire-barne did mend And being asked who did send that Planet answered it was not I. Further shee saith that shee saw a hand appeare vnto her and that shee heard a voyce in the ayre said vnto her Anne Baker saue thy selfe for to morrow thou and thy maister must be slaine and the next day her maister and shee were in a Cart together and suddainely shee saw a flash of fire and said her prayers and the fire went away and shortly after a Crow came and picked vpon her cloathes and shee said her prayers againe and bad the Crow go to whom he was sent and the Crow went vnto her Maister and did beat him to death and shee with her prayers recouered him to life but hee was sicke a fortnight after and saith that if shee had not had more knowledge then her maister both he and shee and all the Cattell had beene slaine Being examined concerning a Childe of Anne Stannidge which shee was suspected to haue bewitched to death saith the said Anne Stannidge did deliuer her childe into her hands and that shee did lay it vpon her skirt but did no harme vnto it And being charged by the Mother of the childe that vpon the burning of the haire and the paring of the nailes of the said childe the said Anne Baker came in and set her downe and for one houres space could speake nothing confesseth shee came into the house of the said Anne Stannidge in great paine but did not know of the burning of the haire and nailes of the said Childe but said she was so sicke that she did not know whither she went Being charged that shee bewitched Elizabeth Hough the wife of William Hough to death for that shee angred her in giuing her almes of her second bread confesseth that she was angry with her and said she might haue giuen her of her better bread for she had gone too often on her errands but more she saith not This Examinat confesseth that shee came to Ioane Gylles house her child being sicke and that shee intreated this Examinat to look on the Child and to tell her whether it was forspoken or no and this Examinate said it was forspoken but when the said child died she cannot tell And being asked concerning Nortley carrying of his Child home vnto his owne house where the said Anne Baker was shee asked him who gaue the said Child that loafe he told her Anthony Gill to whom this Examinate said he might haue had a Child of his owne if hee would haue sought in time for it which words she confessed shee did speake Being blamed by Henry Milles in this sort A fire set on you I haue had two or three ill nights to whom shee made answere you should haue let me alone then which shee confesseth The said Anne Baker March 2. 1618. confessed before Samuel Fleming Doctor of Diuinitie that about 3. yeares agoe shee went into Northamptonshire and that at her comming back againe one Peakes wife and Dennis his wife of Beluoyre told her that my young Lord Henry was dead and that there was a gloue of the said Lord buried in the ground and as that gloue did rot and wast so did the liuer of the said Lord rot and wast Further shee said March 3. 1618. before S r. George Manners Knight and Samuel Fleming Doctor of Diuinity that shee hath a Spirit which hath the shape of a white Dogge which shee calleth her good Spirit Samuel Fleming test The Examination of Ioan Willimot taken the 28. of February in the 16. yeare of the raigne of our Soueraigne Lord IAMES ouer England King c. and ouer Scotland the 52. before Alexander Amcotts Esquire one of his Maiesties Iustices of the peace of the said parts and County THis Examinat saith that Ioane Flower told her that my Lord of Rutland had dealt badly with her and that they had put away her Daughter and that although she could not haue her will of my Lord himselfe yet she had spied my Lords Sonne and had stricken him to the heart And she sai●h that my Lords Sonne was striken with a white Spirit and that shee can cure some that send vnto her and that some reward her for her paines and of some she taketh nothing She further saith that vpon Fryday night last her Spirit came to her and told her that there was a bad woman at Deeping who had giuen her soule to the Diuell and that her said Spirit did then appeare vnto her in a more vgly forme then it had formerly done and that it vrged her much to giue it something although it were but a peece of her Girdle and told her that it had taken great paines for her but she saith that she would giue it nothing and told it that she had sent it to no place but onely to see how my Lord Rosse did and that her Spirit told her that he should doe well The Examination of the said Ioan Willimott taken the second day of March in the yeare abouesaid before the said Alexander Amcots THis Examinate saith That shee hath a Spirit which shee calleth Pretty which was giuen vnto her by William Berry of Langholme in Rutlandshire whom she serued three yeares and that her Master when hee gaue it vnto her willed her to open her mouth and hee would blow into her a Fairy which should doe her good and that shee opened her mouth and he did blow into her mouth and that presently after his blowing there came out of her mouth a Spirit which stood vpon the ground in the the shape and forme of a Woman which Spirit did aske of her her Soule which shee then promised vnto it being willed thereunto by her Master Shee further confesseth that shee neuer hurt any body but did helpe diuers that sent for her which were stricken or fore-spoken and that her Spirit came weekely to her and would tell her of diuers persons that were stricken and forespoken And shee saith that the vse which shee had of the Spirit was to know how those did which shee had vndertaken to amend and that shee did helpe them by certaine prayers which she vsed and not by her owne Spirit neyther did she imploy her Spirit in any thing but onely to bring word how those did which she had vndertaken to cure And shee further saith that her Spirit came vnto her this last night as she thought in the forme of a woman mumbling but she could not vnderstand what it said And being asked whether shee were not in a dreame or slumber when shee thought shee saw it shee said no and that she was as waking as at this present Alexander Amcots Thomas Robinson test The Examination of Ioane Willimot of Goadby in the County of Leicester Widdow taken the 17. of March 1618 by Sir Henry Hastings Knight and Samuel Fleming Doctor

of Diuinitie two of his Maiesties Iustices of the Peace of the said County of Leicester SHe saith that she tould one Cookes wife of Stathorne in the said County Labourer that Iohn Patchett might haue had his Child aliue if he would haue sought forth for it in time and if it were not death stricken in her wayes and that Patchets wife had an euill thing within her which should make an end of her and that she knew by her Girdle She saith further that Gamaliel Greete of Waltham in the said County Shepheard had a Spirit like a white Mouse put into him in his swearing and that if hee did looke vpon any thing with an intent to hurt it should be hurt and that hee had a marke on his left arme which was cut away and that her own spirit did tell her all this before it went from her Further she saith that Ioane Flower Margaret Flower and shee did meet about a weeke before Ioane Flowers apprehension in Blackborrow-hill and went from thence home to the said Ioan Flowers house and there she saw two spirits one like a Rat and the other like an Owle and one of them did sucke vnder her right eare as shee thought and the said Ioan told her that her spirits did say that shee should neyther be hanged nor burnt Further she saith that the said Ioan Flower did take vp some earth and spet vpon it and did worke it with her finger and put it vp into her purse and said though shee could not hurt the Lord himselfe yet shee had sped his Sonne which is dead H. Hastings Samuel Fleming The Examination of Ellen Greene of Stathorne in the County of Leicester taken the 17. of March 1618. by Sir Henry Hastings K t and Samuel Fleming D. of Diuinitie two of his Maiesties Iustices of the Peace of his said County SHee saith that one Ioan Willimot of Goadby came about sixe yeares since to her in the Wowlds and perswaded this Examinate to forsake God and betake her to the diuel and she would giue her two spirits to which shee gaue her consent and thereupon the said Ioan Willimot called two spirits one in the likenesse of a Kitlin and the other of a Moldiwarp the first the said Willimot called pusse the other hiffe hiffe and they presently came to her she departing left them with this Examinate and they leapt on her shoulder and the kitlin suckt vnder her right eare on her neck the Moldiwarp on the left side in the like place After they had suckt her shee sent the Kitlin to a Baker of that Towne whose name shee remembers not who had called her Witch stricken her and bad her said spirit goe and bewitch him to death the Moldiwarpe shee then bad go to Anne Dawse of the same towne and bewitch her to death because she had called this examinate witch whore jade c. and within one fortnight after they both dyed And further this Examinate saith that she sent both her spirits to Stonesby to one Willison a husbandman Robert Williman a husbandmans sonne and bad the Kitlin goe to Willison and bewitch him to death and the Moldywarp to the other and bewitch him to death which they did and within tenne dayes they dyed These foure were bewitched while this Examinate dwelt at Waltham aforesaid About three yeares since this Examinate remoued thence to Stathorne where she now dwelt vpon a difference betweene the said Willimot and the wife of Iohn Patchet of the said Stathorne Yeoman shee the said Willimot called her this Examinate to goe and touch the said Iohn Patchets Wife and her Childe which shee did touching the said Iohn Patchets wife in her bed and the childe in the Grace-wifes armes and then sent her said spirits to bewitch them to death which they did and so the woman lay languishing by the space of a moneth and more for then shee dyed the childe dyed the next day after she touched it And shee further saith that the said Ioane Willimot had a spirit sucking on her vnder the left flanke in the likenesse of a little white Dogge which this Examinate saith that she saw the same sucking in Barley-haruest last being then at the house of the said Ioan Willimot And for her selfe this Examinate further saith that shee gaue her soule to the Diuell to haue these spirits at her command for a confirmation whereof she suffered them to suck her alwayes as aforesaid about the change and full of the Moone H. Hastings Samuel Fleming The Examination of Phillip Flower Sister of Margaret Flower and Daughters of Ioane Flower before S r William Pelham and Mr. Butler Iustices of the Peace Febr. 4. 1618. Which was brought in at the Assizes as euidence against her Sister Margaret SHe saith that her mother and her sister maliced the Earle of Rutland his Countesse and their Children because her Sister Margaret was put out of the Ladies seruice of Laundry and exempted from other seruices about the house wherevpon her said sister by the commandement of her mother brought from the Castle the right hand gloue of the Lord Henry Rosse which she deliuered to her Mother who presently rubd it on the backe of her Spirit Rutterkin and then put it into hot boyling water afterward shee pricked it often and buried it in the yard wishing the Lord Rosse might neuer thriue and so her Sister Margaret continued with her mother where shee often saw the cat Rutterkin leape on her shoulder and sucke her necke Shee further confessed that shee heard her mother often curse the Earle and his Lady and therevpon would boyle feathers and blood together vsing many Diuellish speeches and strange gestures The Examination of Margaret Flower Sister of Phillip Flower c. about the 22. of Ianuary 1618. SHe saith and confesseth that about foure or fiue yeare since her Mother sent her for the right hand gloue of Henry Lord Rosse afterward that her mother bade her goe againe into the Castle of Beauer and bring downe the gloue or some other thing of Henry Lord Rosse and shee askt what to doe Her Mother replyed to hurt my Lord Rosse wherevpon she brought downe a gloue and deliuered the same to her Mother who stroked Rutterkin her Cat with it after it was dipt in hot water and so prickt it often after which Henry Lord Rosse fell sicke within a weeke and was much tormented with the same She further saith that finding a gloue about two or three yeares since of Francis Lord Rosse on a dung-hill she deliuered it to her mother who put it into hot water and after tooke it out and rubd it on Rutterkin the Cat and bad him goe vpwards and after her mother buried it in the yard and said a mischiefe light on him but he will mend againe Shee further saith that her Mother and shee and her Sister agreed together to bewitch the Earle and his Lady that they might haue no more children and being