A Strange and wonderful DISCOVERY Of a horrid and cruel MURDER Committed fourteen years since, upon the Person of Robert Eliot of London, at Great Driffield in the East-Riding of the County of York. Discovered in September last by the frequent Apparitions of a Spirit in several shapes and habits unto Isabel Binnington, the Wife of William Binnington, the now Inhabitants in the house where this most execrable murder was committed. Together with the Discourse that passed between the Spirit and the said Isabel Binnington after its first appearing. Taken upon Oath at the Examination of the said Isabel, before Sir Thomas Rennington Knight, and Thomas Crompton, Esq two of His Majesty's Justices of Peace for that Riding, Septemb. 2. 1662.  
Printed in the year 1662.   

The Examination of Isabel Binnington of Great Driffield, aged 28 years, or thereabouts, taken by Sir Thomas Rennington Knight, and Tho. Crompton Esq two of His Majesty's Justices of the Peace for the East-Riding, the second day of September Anno Dom. 1662.  
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THe Examinant sworn and examined, saith, That she and her Husband William Bennington came to the house where she now dwells (being the house of one Mr. Belt of Hull) about the beginning of June last, And saith, that in that house on the 23. of August last, as she was sitting by her fireside, having also a Candle lighted by her, betwixt the hours of 8 and 9 at night there appeared unto her a Spirit having long flaxen hair in green clothes, and barefooted, and without a hat; she conceived that it was some wandering person that might have come for Lodging, and thereupon asked it, saying, what art thou? and what wouldst thou have? Thereupon it removed somewhat nearer unto her: then she begun to be sore affrighted, and said, In the name of the Father, the Son and the Holy-Ghost, If thou wouldst have any thing, speak, Than it said, Fourteen years have I wandered in this place, suffering wrong three times, and seven years I have to wander, twenty one years is my time, than it went (as she supposed) into the parlour, and came again about a quarter of an hour after and said, be thou not afraid of me, I will never hurt thee, and thou shalt never want, than it vanished glideing away without any motion of steps. It had appeared to her three times before, First resembling a man, and secondly resembling a boy about twelve years old. On Sunday August the 24. (which was the fifth time that it appeared) it said nothing, nor she to it, it was about eight or nine of the clock at night on Wednesday following, being the 27. at the usual time it appeared to her again in white, like a winding sheet, than she said, In the name of the Father, etc. If thou wouldst have any thing, speak: than it began, My life was taken from me betwixt eight and nine of the clock at night in this place, she asked what place, it answered, in the Chamber, & I received my Grave betwixt twelve and one: and so it went away. On Friday following it appeared to her again about the usual time, and she (being before advised by the next Justice of Peace, to ask it the names of those that murdered it, and its own name, and some other questions) said to it, In the name of the Father, etc. I pray thee tell me thy name, It said my name is Robert eliot, Then she said, I desire thee to tell me who took thy life: It replied, I was knocked in the head fourteen years since in my bed by three women, Marry Burton, Alice Colson the elder, and Anne Harrison. Then she asked it, what were its Sister's names? It said, Kate and Jane. Then she asked it where it was born? It replied within three miles of London at _____ she is not certain of the Towns name, but she is sure it ends in Ham, on Saturday the 30. in the morning when the Sun was about an hour high, It appeared to her again in white, and then desired that there might be made a bright fire of Coals in the place where she pulled up the stakes and found the bones, than she desired it to tell its Father's name? To which it replied my Father's name was Jacob eliot and my Mother's Rebecca, and my Father was a Hackney-Coachman in London. On Sunday the 31. about five of the clock in the afternoon it appeared to her again in white, and said, Blessed be the time that ever this fire was made, and blessed be they that gave consent to the making of it, for the Stake is now as warm at the root in my heart, as my heart was when the Stake was stricken through it. On Monday the first of September about ten of the clock in the forenoon it appeared to her again, in the same likeness, and spoke to her to this effect. That he was an Apprentice to a Raft-man, and that he came into the Country about his Master's business, and that he came to this house for lodging, and that Mary Burton was very unwilling to lodge him, and that he demanded of her three and twenty pounds, which he had lent her three years before; and that they had some cross words about it, and that he was killed that very night in his bed, by the said three Women, and that the said Mary Burton took out of his pocket three and twenty shillings in moneys, which she gave to her Maid, and two Gold Rings which were his Grandmothers, and one Silver Rings which was his Mothers, and some Writings which concerned his business, which shortly after she carried with her to _____ (it ends in ham) near London, and by virtue of them she demanded certain things of his Sister which belonged to him, viz. a Rug, worth about four and twenty shillings, and a silver Tankard, worth about five nobles, which they gave her, and she sold them in London: his eldest sister Kate delivered them, It said no more at that time; She observed that it spoke altogether the Southern speech. This Examinant also saith, That at one time she desired it that it would speak to others, and it said that until seven years were expired it could not speak with any other, but it would be seen by divers in its own likeness. The Examinant being further questioned concerning the digging in the place where the murdered Person is supposed to have been buried, saith, That sweeping in the room, she perceived some loose mould in the floor, and thereupon said to some of her neighbours with her, that there might possibly be some money hid there, but made no further search at that time, but at another time finding a hole in the place she begun to dig in it with her knife, which casually fell out of her hand into the hole, thereupon she took a piece of a broken dish wherewith she cast up the earth, and made a hole till she came at a Stake of wood, which she pulled up by the half (for it was so rotten that it broke) and burned it, and digged further till she came at a great stone under which she found certain bones (viz.) A scalp or head; some of the teeth, and other bones, which she supposeth might be of a man. Before the digging in this place she never saw the Spirit, she never knew any of the persons which the Spirit named, nor ever heard of them before.  
This upon oath.  
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