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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A56903	Hell open'd, or, The infernal sin of murther punished being a true relation of the poysoning of a whole family in Plymouth, whereof two died in a short time : for which horrid fact, the malefactors were condemned before the Lord Chief Justice North at Exector, the last Lent assizes, the one to be burnt, the other to be hanged : with an account of the several discourses and religious means used by divers godly ministers to bring them to repentance ... / by J.Q., Minister of the Gospel.	Quick, John, 1636-1706.	1676 (1676)	Wing Q207; ESTC R11200	63,192	112

Master and Mistris are so very Sick She replied what she had done as to Mistris Weeks she had done God good Service in it to rid her out of the way and hoped that she had done her business and did look upon it that she had done no sin in it and saith as to the Girts that she can say no farther but what she hath said in her former Examination to which for more certainty she referreth her self The Mark of the said Anne A. E. Evans The Examination of the said Philip Cary taken as aforesaid THe said Examinant being demanded whether the said Anne Evans did not show her the said yellow Stone on Saturday last was Sevennight and whether she did not break it abroad in Powder between two Tiles and whether she did not steep part of it in a Dish in Small Beer and whether she did not give some of the same Rats-bane which she had broken unto the said Anne Evans and told her that she should put it into the Old womans Dish meaning the Old Mistris Weeks or used any words to that effect answered No. And being demanded also whether she had any dicourse with the said Anne Evans concerning the Poyson mentioned in the aforesaid Examination of the said Anne Evans or any words to that effect denies the same but saith that she doth believe that they shall both die for it because she hath concealed the Counsel of the said Anne Evans The Mark of Philip † Cary. ANd now they are in safe Custody in the Prison joyning to the Town-Hall in Plymouth where they have time and leisure to ruminate upon their foul and odious Crime to consider of the horrible danger to which these pretious Souls are exposed and to make their Peace with God if it be well husbanded and improved But I fear me that though the Lord wait graciously Six Months together for their Repentance and cry aloud by this terrible dispensation to convert reform and give Glory to him before they come to Judgment we shall even after their Condemnation at the Assizes meet with other and worse news from them Before we talk with these Malefactors any further it will not be unnecessary to make a little digression and see what evidence the Righteous Providence of God doth Administer towards a fuller detection of their Sin and Guilt Mistris Weeks being deceased and Doctor Holland a Physitian of the Town having averred it to be by Poyson the Coronor was sent for to inquire into the causes of her death who having impannel'd his Jury and examined Witnesses do all Unanimously concurre in their Verdict that she was murdered and that by Poyson The same Verdict also was given in by another Jury that sate upon the death of Mistris Pengelley The obstinacy of the Nurse to the very instant of her going off the Ladder in denying her self either principal or accessary to this bloody fact will excuse the relator if he subjoyn the respective depositions of several Witnesses upon their Oath concerning it that so the Justice of God may be glorified and no Sinister thoughts of the Judge Grand or Petty Juries that condemned her be entertained The Examination of Christopher Scibbow of Plymouth in the County of Devon Dyer had and taken at Plymouth aforesaid by and before Thomas Payne Gentleman Coronor for our Soveraign Lord the King within the Liberty of the Burrough of Plymouth aforesaid on the Corporal Oath of the said Examinant this 27th day of August Anno Domini 1675. THe said Examinant saith that on Wednesday night last he was at the Prison window in Plymouth where Anne Evans Spinster was committed on Suspition for poysoning Elizabeth the wife of William Weeks Dyer when and where this Examinant heard the said Anne Evans to say that the Nurse meaning Philip the wife of Richard Cary did ask of her about a month before to buy some Rats-bane and that she gave answer to the said Nurse that she would not do it because the Apothecary would put her name upon the Book Christopher Scibbow The Examination of Susanna the Wife of Brian Cansfield of Plymouth aforesaid Planter taken before the said Coronor on the Corporal Oath of the said Examinant the day and year aforesaid THe said Examinant saith that on Munday last she went and saw Elizabeth the Wife of William Weeks Dyer and found her very Sick and this Examinant and other Persons that were present did believe that she had been poysoned upon which there was some new Broth made and made with some of the same * Oatmeal Girts that had been put into the old Broth and when it was made she gave it to a great Dog who presently Vomited it up again She also saith that Anne Evans Master Weeks his Servant shewed this Examinant the bottom of the new Broth where was sound a Yellow Gravel and one shewing of it to Mistris Hurd and others they did believe that it was Rats-bane Susanna Cansfield The Examination of Alice the Wife of Anthony Windeit of Plymouth aforesaid Clothier taken as aforesaid before the said Coronor on her Oath THe said Examinant saith that on Wednesday last she went and saw Master William Weeks Dyer and Mary Pengelley being very Sick it being reported that they and Mistris Weeks had been poysoned on which it was said that the * Oatmeal Girts which were in the house and had not been used should be washed and the same were accordingly washed by Anne Evans the said Master Weeks his Servant and in the bottom there was found some Yellow like Gravel part whereof was about the bigness of a small Pins head upon which this Examinant blamed the said Anne Evans for washing the same without order who confessed that she had done it without Order Alice Windeit The Examination and Information of Mary Pengelley of Plymouth in the County of Devon Widow taken before the said Coronor on her Corporal Oath the thirtieth day of August Anno Domini 1675. THe said Examinant saith that yesterday last was Sevennight in the Morning Anne Evans the Apprentice of Master William Weeks Dyer fetched a Tankard of Strong Beer on which there seemed unto this Examinant that there was Keam for which she was blamed of which this Examinant drank hearty And now this Examinant doth verily believe by what hath happened since that that which she took to be Keam on the said Beer was Poyson And this Examinant further saith that afterwards yesterday was Sevennight she being come down over the Staires in the Kitchin about Noon the said Anne Evans asked this Examinant if she would eat any Pottage the said William Weeks and Elizabeth his Wife this Examinants Father and Mother having eaten Pottage a little before and this Examinant told her that she would and accordingly she did eat a Dish of Pottage being out of the same Dish that her said Father and Mother did so eat Pottage a little before and that presently after this Examinant and her said Father