Trials (Witchcraft) -- England -- Devon; Witchcraft -- England -- Devon
_T._ In black like a bullock.
_Sh._ How do you know you did it? how went you in thro' the keyhole or
the Door?
_T._ At the Door?
_Sh._ Had you no discourse with the Devil?
_T._ Never but this day six weeks.
_Sh._ You were charged about twelve years since, and did you never see
the Devil but about this time?
_T._ Yes, once before. I was going for brooms; and he came to me and
said, "This poor woman has a great burthen, and would help ease me of
my burthen;" and I said, "The Lord had enabled me to carry it so far,
and I hope I shall be able to carry it further."
_Sh._ Did the Devil never promise you any thing?
_T._ No. Never.
_Sh._ Then you have served a very bad master, who gave you nothing.
Well, consider you are just departing this world: do you believe there
is a God?
_T._ Yes.
_Sh._ Do you believe in Jesus Christ?
_T._ Yes, and I pray Jesus Christ to pardon all my sins. And so was
executed.
APPENDIX.--No. II.
Copied from a 4to published Tract in the Library of the British Museum.
THE TRYAL, CONDEMNATION, AND EXECUTION OF THREE WITCHES; VIZ.
TEMPERANCE FLOYD, MARY FLOYD, & SUSANNA EDWARDS.
Who were arraigned at Exeter on the 18th of August, 1682, & being
proved guilty of witchcraft were condemned to be hanged, which was
accordingly Executed in the view of many spectators, whose strange and
much to be lamented Impudence is never to be forgotten.
Also how they Confessed what Mischiefs they had done by the assistance
of the Devil, who lay with the above named Temperance Floyd nine
nights together. Also how they squeezed one Hannah Thomas to death
in their arms. How they also caused several ships to be cast away,
causing a boy to fall from the top of a main-mast into the sea.
WITH MANY WONDERFULL THINGS WORTH YOUR READING.
Printed for F. Deacon, at the Sign of the Rainbow, a little beyond St.
Andrew's Church, in Holborn. 1682.
The Tryal, Condemnation, and Execution of three witches who were
Arraigned at Exeter on the 18th of August, 1682.
Let not my assertion seem strange to the Ingenious Reader, who seems
to affirm this (by some incredulous) story, concerning the subsequent
matter; nor will I trouble you with a long prologue to stir you to
believe that which so many letters have verified, concerning the matter
in hand, but so it was.
Public-domain text, read in full here on John Shaqi.
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