Trials (Witchcraft) -- England -- Devon; Witchcraft -- England -- Devon
_H._ Did you know any mariners that you or your associates destroyed by
overturning of ships or boats?
_T._ No. I never hurt any ship, bark, or boat in my life.
_H._ Was it you or Susan that did bewitch the children?
_T._ I sold apples, and the child took an apple from me, and the
mother took the apple from the child, for which I was very angry; but
the child died of small-pox.
_H._ Did you know one Mr. Lutteris about these parts, or any of your
confederates? Did you or them bewitch his child?
_T._ No.
_H._ Temperance, how did you come to hurt Mrs. Grace Thomas? Did you
pass through the keyhole of the door or was the door open?
_T._ The Devil did lead me up stairs, and the door was open, and this
is all the hurt I did.
_H._ How did you know it was the Devil?
_T._ I knew it by his eyes.
_H._ Had you no discourse or treaty with him?
_T._ No. He said I should go along with him to destroy a woman, and I
told him I would not. He said he would make me: and then he beat me
about the head.
_H._ Why did you not call upon God?
_T._ He would not let me do it.
_H._ You say you never hurt ships or boats; did you never ride over an
arm of the sea on a cow?
_T._ No. No, Master: 'twas she (meaning Susan), when Temperance said
"'twas she," she said "she lied" and that she was the cause of bringing
her to die "for she cried when she was first brought to gaol, if that
she was hanged, she would have me hanged too; she reported I should
ride on a cow before her, which I never did."
_H._ Susan, did you see the shape of a bullock? At the first time of
your examination you said it was like a short black man about the
length of your arm?
_Susan._ He was black, Sir.
_H._ Susan, had you any knowledge of the bewitching of Mrs. Lutteris'
child, or did you know a place called Trunta Burroughs?
_S._ No.
_H._ Are you willing to have any prayers? Then Mr. H. prayed, whose
prayer we could not take, and they sung part of the 40th Psalm at the
desire of Susan Edwards. As she mounted the ladder, she said, "The Lord
Jesus speed me: though my sins be red as scarlet, the Lord Jesus can
make them as white as snow, the Lord help my soul." Then was executed.
Mary Tremble said, "Lord Jesus, receive my soul! Lord Jesus, speed me!"
and then was also executed. Temperance Lloyd said, "Jesus Christ, speed
me well! Lord, forgive all my sins! Lord Jesus Christ, be merciful to
my poor soul."
Mr. Sheriff. You are looked on as the woman that hath debauched the
other two. Did you ever lie with the Devil?
_T._ No.
_Sh._ Did you know of their coming to gaol?
_T._ No.
_Sh._ Have you anything to say to satisfy the world?
_T._ I forgive them as I desire the Lord Jesus will forgive me. The
greatest thing that I did was Mrs. Grace Thomas; and I desire I may
be sensible of it, and that the Lord Jesus Christ may forgive me. The
Devil met me in the street and bid me kill her, and because I would
not, he beat me about the head and back.
_Sh._ In what shape or colour was he?
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