Selected quad for the lemma: peace_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
peace_n	indictment_n	justice_n	session_n	2,138	5	10.8610	5	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
B02896	A declaration in answer to several lying pamphlets concerning the witch of Wapping being a more perfect relation of the arraignment, condemnation, and suffering of Jone Peterson, who was put to death on Munday the 22 of April, 1652. Shewing the bloudy plot and wicked conspiracy of one Abraham Vandenbernde, Thomas Crompton, Thomas Collet, and others.		1652 (1652)	Wing D598; ESTC R171711	5,374	14

maliciously aspersed and bespattered was now fully vindicated to their great astonishment trouble and disgrace Then the Court proceeded to the other Indictment which was for bewitching one Christopher Wilson who doth not himself complain of any such thing but the Confederates only and the only materiall evidence that then was against her was one Margaret Austin who had formerly been a wandering person but was in charity taken up relieved and kept by the said Jone Peterson until shee perceived that the said Austin had purloined some of her goods out of her house and two Witnesses more the substance of whose Testimony was as followeth That the said Wilson having been a long time sick and hearing that the said Peterson had done good to many sent for her to come to him who accordingly did and administred meanes for his Recovery which at first was conceived to do him good But he afterwards relapsed and the reason that was urged to induce the Court and Jury to believe that he was Bewitched was that dureing his sickness shee sent to him for monyes ●or her Phisick to whom Answer was returned that he could then send her none Whereupon it was then deposed that shee did reply that he had better have sent her monies for he should be to times worse then ever was And that afterwards he became very ill again and remained languishing Many other witnesses were produced but could only swear to generallities hear-says and most absurd and rediculous impertinences then being by 〈◊〉 Court demanded what she could say for her selfe she ●●sired that such Witnesses as she had then there prese●● might be called some of which durst not appeare becau●● that the said Mr. Waterton as the witnesses them selves doe and will affirme had threatned to send them to Ne●gate if they did appeare Whereupon severall witness●● were called and being demanded what they could say for the Prisoner they began to tell that they had knowne her a long time and that she had done many Cures and much good amongst the Neighboures but never knew that she did any ill But the Officers of the Court interrupted them saying in a taunting manner are you for a Witch and is this all you can say and so turned severall of them away before they could be further heard Then one came to the Court a Stranger to the prisoner and offered to depose that one in black called Thomas Southwick knowne to be servant to Thomas Cromton another of the confederats stood in the Sessions yard offering money to strangers there to come in and swear that the said Peterson was a Wtich and amongst the rest offered to give her mony if she would doe the same but he being called for could not be had nor would appeare although Colonell Okey and some other Justices upon the Bench desired the Recorder to take notice of it and to give Order that the said Thomas Southwick might be brought into Court Whereupon the Jury went forth and brought in their verdicts that the said Peterson was not guilty upon the first Jndictment of bewiching the Lady Powell to death But found her guilty upon the second for which she was then cast and the next day condemned to dye as a witch And after that the said confederates and their agents went very often to her promising her a Repreive or Pardon if she would confesse that Mrs. Levingstone had Imployed her to make away the life of the Lady Powell to which she replyed she could not because it was altogether false But one of the said confederates urging her againe to say something against Mrs. Levingstone she told him he was a rogue and gave him a blow on the face which made his nose bleed Where it is to be noted that what for love of money they could not tempt her to they resolved at last for love of her life to force her to by necessitating her either unjustly to confesse a notorious falsehood against the said Mrs. Levingstone or else to dye without mercy or Repreive which otherwise was proffered her by the said Confederates to make her unjust in doing the same On the 12 day the said Jone Peterson being brought to the place of Execution was by the Ordinary nine or ten times earnestly pressed to confesse something against the said Mrs. Levingstone Whereupon the Executioner told the Ordinary he might be ashamed to trouble a dying woman so much to which he replyed he was commanded so to doe and durst doe no otherwise And afterwards the said Ordinary still insisting in his discourse and very often pressing the said Peterson to confesse and discharge her conscience before God and the world she answered that she had already confessed before the Bench all she had to confesse that she had made her peace with God and therefore desired to dye in quiet for now she was to appeare before God who presently would Judge her and that God was witnes that she dyed Innocently and was in no wise guilty of what was laid to her charge and that she hoped he would freely forgive her all her sins and to this effect she still replyed to his frequent importunities And having gone to prayers she shewed her selfe very attentive and penitent and after Prayer called to sing the 25th Psalm which she performed very Christianly and cheerfully and so died c. The Copy of a Certificate under the hands of severall Doctors of Phisicke Chirurgions concerning the death of the Lady Powell October the 8. 1651. In the Body of the Lady Powell who dyed the seventh of this instant was observed The Skin vniversally discovered Yellow The Belly swolne very much the Thighs also and Legs The Cavity of the Abdomen possessed with yellowish obscure water the quantity whereof not much above one Gallon and an half The Stomack and Guts not dissafected nor the Kidnies The Pancreas canceorus in part some part being degenerated into a feculent matter like Amurca or dregs of oyle yet contained in a Ciste The Liver larger then it ought black of an unequal schirrous or rather Cancerous substance exangues The Spleen joyned with the left part of the hallow of the liver as if they were one body very black and hard outwardly inwardly rotten The Gall large and full but of a deeper Yellow inclined to red and black matter In the cavity of the Breast or Thorax water of the same substance and colour neer a Gallon The Lungs something thicker and more discoloured then usual The heart well The Bones very easily broken Phisitians Colladon George Bate Goddard George Chabrey Chirurgians Charles Stamford Thomas Page Besides the Apothecaries and several other persons who testified the same And are still ready to do the like Coll. Okey Coll. Berkstead and divers other Justices of the Peace both at Hixes hall and at the old Baley did declare themselves that they were not satisfied either with the proceedings or proof against this Peterson that she was guilty of witchcraft but that there was a design in it relating to the prejudice of Mrs. Levingstone which they are ready to testifie to the Parliament when they shall be required thereunto FINIS * Note that this Teat upon the view of the Physitians was the day before her death found to be natural ' lesse then in many other women the said Physitians also affirmed that she was then quick with child * Note That Sir Jo. Danvers Mr: Snape Mr. Winstanley and Mrs Waterton Justice of the Peace were with the confederates at a Tavern near Hicks-hall consulting when the Bill of Indictment was preparing and that Sir John Danvers came and dined at the Sessions house and had much private discourse with the Recorder and many of the Justices and came and sate upon the Bench at her Trial where he hath seldome or never been for these many years