The Bloody Mother. OR The most inhuman murders, committed by jane Hattersley upon divers Infants, the issue of her own body: & the private burying of them in an Orchard with her Arraignment and execution. As also, The most loathsome and lamentable end of Adam Adamson her Master, the unlawful begetter of those unfortunate Babes, being eaten and consumed alive with Worms and Lice. At East Grinsted in Sussex near London, in july last. 1609.   depiction of the burial of an infant by the two accused  depiction of the wasting away in bed of one of the accused 
Printed for john Busbie, and are to be sold by Arth●…r johnson in Paul's Churchyard at the sign of the White Horse.   

To the Reader.  
YOu have here no translated wonder, no far fetched matter, no English lie, to pass for an outlandish truth: but a true relation of that that many tongues can witness to those that ambiguously shall stand to withstand it. If it brought not with it that probability that it doth, I could not blame any that should have a jealousy or mistrust of the certainty of it; for we have had some pieces that have had fair stamps, but the stuff has been counterfeit. But this I cannot suspect can be suspected by any (after they have read it:) For first, the nearness of the place where these cruelties were executed: secondly the time: thirdly the rumour hath been spread of it: and lastly the names of those that at the bench gave evidence against them, persons (for the most part) of good sufficiency, yet living, cannot but enforce a belief in any that have sense to censure upon such manifest marks of verity.  
Such it is, as mothers with wet eyes, and Fathers with grieved hearts may receive: for with the chief of many precedent soule-confounding mischiefs, this may stand, to show (with terror) the bloody and most dangerous events of lust, and such libidinous living.  
Tho. Brew.   

 depiction of person standing over a pile of bodies   

The bloody Mother. OR The most inhuman murders of jane Hattersley upon divers infants, being the issue of her own body.  

Happy is that man whom other men's harms maketh to be wise. I happy, and thrice happy is he indeed: but such is the folly of men in this our unhappy age, that though they see the most heavy and lamentable ends of thousands of hell-charmd malefactors, yet they will not learn good from their ill, nor to be wise by their folly.  
Sin, like a subtle and most cunning adulator, comes upon us with a fair look, and a tongue full of most fine words and phrases, promising all happiness and sweet content at his entrance; and with that promise hastily gets to the heart of man; where having once got firm footing, he stays, till the most bitter and formenting contraries of his promised, even kill the heart he takes hold on.  
O how happy is he, that seeing the foul ends of folly, and ungracious actions a far off, fears least the temptation and thought, which was the Embryon of that evil, insinuate, and creep into his heart: and fearing praise for assistance to him that helps, whosoever calls upon him for help: one coal of fire is easily quenched, when many are hardly, or never extinguished, till they have confounded the matter they light on: So sin, while 'tis but a spark, with easy opposition may be expelled the heart and mind of man: but suffered to feed upon the fuel Satan casts in, and so to 〈…〉 spread itself in furious ●…ames, will be the dire fall an●…●…usion of his sufferer.  
What heavy ends follow light beginnings, we may easily see, & not go far to find them; for alas, the multiplicity of sin, shows it in every corner. As for example: many there be that amongst their cans, half cans, and most unhealthful healths, have fallen from ordinary & familiar conference to high and opprobrious speeches: from such words, to blows: from blows to stabs: so in blood, and hemp, have made an untimely and heavy division of their souls and bodies.  
Some entering into play, thinking at the entrance upon nothing but the ordinary end; upon some petty, ridiculous, and most childish occasion, have entertained anger, and in that madness, (for indeed it is so) one has been sent to his grave, and the other to the gallows.  
Some taken in the strong entangling net of a beauteous look, have so ●…bord for their maintenance, and security in that most dangerous pleasure, that they have drawn upon themselves, an unexpected reward: for the reward of their labour has been the horror of their consciences, the grief of their friends, and the shortening of their own days, with shame and bitterness.  
Thus much have I said, to excite men at the very beginning, and entrance of sin to behold it, with an eye of perfect judgement and thoughts of a heavenly temper, that this Serpent, with an Angels forehead and a devils tail, may not be suffered to creep in, to his confounding labour.  
But now to my bloody and heavy subject: In Sussex in a town called East Grinsteed, dwelled one Adam Adamsonne; a man that for his years, place, and sufficiency in estate of living, was in good account and recconing amongst his neighbours, But men can but see as men; the eye of man, cannot pierce or pry into the thoughts and intent of man; neither can it give the heart intelligence, but from outward behaviour and working: And therefore right easily may the judgements of men be deceived: for most common it is for man, to seem that he should be, and be that he should not 〈◊〉 so deceiving (as I said) the honest conjectures and judgements of men, by a false and adulterate appearance; as in this Adam Adamsonne is apparent: for with a show of honesty and good dealing, he covered a mass of dishonest and putrefied cogitations: amongst which, the most rank and corrupted, were of lust.  
He had a wife, but the vigour and strength of lust, carried his love from her to a servant he kept; who was as fit for his thoughts (in affibilitie and easy yielding) as if she had spent an apparentiship in a house of such trading, as train●… such as she to such damnable service and employment.  
So much he doted upon this strumpet, that all the love and kindness that was fully due to his legitimate bed-mate, she was mistress and commandress of: what she commanded must be performed; what she requested, must be provided; and what she was displeased with, to please her must be removed: her will was Adamant and his Iron, which followed the attraction of hers, to the very vtt●ermost of her pleasure: and often to make her the more prone and apt to his will, he would promise her when his wife died, to make her his wife: which promise so wrought in her mind, that she thought every day a year till she might see the last gasp of her Dame.  
So long were these thoughts suffered, without a gracious resistance, that they grew to that strength, that they stirred her to show the foulness of them in action: but the Lord so guarded the innocent wronged wife of Adamson, that she could not have the power to perform her divillish purpose.  
Six weeks she bore poison in her purse, to spice her dames drink withal, in which time she made many fair (or rather most damnable foul) proffers; but all were most strangely, and admirably frustrated by the will of the almighty searcher of hearts and reins, who saw and prevented every wicked and ungodly attempt of hers. When she saw that she was so oft and so strangely prevented she resolved to give over that purpose, and in that resolution, she threw her poison into the fire and burned it.  
Many years did this old Lecher maintain this young Lena in this obscure and most foul sin, in so thick a cloud of secrecy, as the devil makes fit, to help those that labour in the business that is sweet & pleasing to him, for ten or twelve harvests have they reaped the most wicked pleasures of their ungodly lust. In which time, the full number of the babes they have had, cannot be known, but three she confessed, besides one that is yet living.  
Of the first of her loads of woe and shame, (being by Adamson turned off, for that he suspected she made another partner with him in his loathsome libidinous sin) she lay in the house of one goodman King, who with his wife ignorant of her ignominous course of living, and present estate of body, had entertained her very kindly.  
But as she deceived them, she deceived many, for she so cunningly blinded the eyes of people, in the time that her sin must needs appear, with lose lacing, tucking, and other odd tricks that she used, that to the very instant minute of her delivery, none could perceive she was with child.  
This Goodman King, and his wife (as thrifty persons use to do) left their bed very early every morning, and jane to lie by it at her pleasure.  
It chanced so one morning, being thus left alone, that a neighbours wife, coming to speak with goodwife King, found her in hard travail with child: which (with an astonished mind) perceiving, she presently ran to King's barn, where she found him at his labour.  
To him she very hastily, as half affrighted with that she had seen, told all, desiring him to call his wife and go hen●e▪ he presently left his work and went with her, and before they came to his door they met his wife, then altogether going hastily home, they met this common & most impudent bastardbearer, coming out of the doors with the pretty infant, that even that minute was come from her polluted womb, into this world, and that then should have been tenderly laid and lovingly looked unto, most carelessly wrapped up in her apron, intending (as we may boldly imagine) in some impuous and execrable sort to have made it away.  
But that intent was by the blessed will and pleasure of God most happily prevented, by these persons.  
Very kindly at first, considering her case, they desired to see what she had in her apron; but jane knowing the peril of it, told them she had nothing there but a few foul clothes she had looked up to have washed, and so would have passed by them.  
But they by no means, would suffer her to pass; insomuch that she fell to striving with them for passage.  
In this strife, the poor infant, so unnaturally laid, by his most unnatural mother, (in a pitiful shriek) did as it were, tell his preservers, that she told a wicked and villainous untruth.  
They hearing the cry of the infant, violently took it from her, and after they had it, with kind usage requested her to show the womanhood that in that case was requisite; and not to shame herself, and bring a scandalous imputation upon her sex, by her obstinacy, and stubborn wildness.  
After many honest and fair persuasive speeches, they got her in a doors, and laid her in her bed, goodwife King very carefully tended her, and mistrusting she would do some mischief to that unhappy issue, of her loins, she nightly lay with her.  
Five or six nights she was her bedfellow, in which time she perceived in her no intent of evil against the infant, so that then she made boulder to rise from her, then at the first she used to do.  
But (oh grief to relate it) she was no sooner out of the house, but this shame of women took that from her sweet infant, that all honest mothers strive, with all tender, loving, and diligent industry to preserve and maintain.  
With that hand that should have tenderly fed it, and given it that should have maintained the breath, she more than Tyger-like, stopped the breath. O cruel mother, O grief to mothers, O wretch most wicked, unworthy the name of a mother.  
Mother's have hearts of war that melt and consume in the heat of sorrow, that comes by the wrong of their children: and eyes (that like full fountains) in abundance of tears, show the grief and anguish they suffer for the least wrong their children suffer.  
But this wretch had a heart of steel, and eyes of marble, so indurate, that no motion of heaven, or spark of humane pity, could be seen or perceived in them.  
Long this woman (though too long) stayed not in the business she went to, but returning she found a heavy object, the babe by his mother breathless, with the mouth of it all ●oyld with foam, that rose by her violent wring.  
This sight struck her with such a strange and inexcogitable amazement, that she could not perfectly tell, whether she saw that she saw or no, but stood as if her senses had lost their power and operations: for she knew she left the child perfectly well, and to see it so suddenly dead, (for she was not an hour absent) she lamentably wondered.  
This honest woman, marvelously incensed against her, by the death of the infant, presently ran and fetched the constable, and other neighbours, to see that eye-wounding spectacle, but before she (with them) could return, this most wicked of all precedent wickedness, had so wrought upon the child, to cleanse & trim it, that there was no sign of such a hand as is minister to a hell-hardned heart, to be found upon it: so that the babe, (ignorantly) taken to be ignorantly over laid (for so jane boldly & deeply swore it was) was without any great ado, there buried. Goodwife King presently giving her such things as were hers, except a gown she stopped for some arrearages, or money due for some matter, turned her out of her doors.  
jane presently, notwithstanding the spleen of her master, in his jealous humour went unto him, & after a few fair words and kind promises, was as strongly possessed of his filth-affecting favour and friendship as ever she was before: where with a face artificially set dissembling, she made a very sore complaint of very great and grievous abuse offered her by goodman King and his wife, and how they kept her gown from her.  
These words of hers, stirred the blood of Adamson so strongly, (in which he showed the strength of the love he bar● he) that presently he got them jointly arrested, and so wrapped them (as I may say) in the law, and wrought upon that wrapping, that in revenge of his harlot, like a man utterly void of all sense or feeling, either of the joys of heaven, or woes of hell, he did utterly undo this poor couple.  
As soon after this as nature will suffer, mistrusted to be with child, she was searched by women, and found to be so: yet against them all, with bitter and vehement oaths, she stood in it they wronged her, and were ignorant in that knowledge, in giving that judgement upon her, swearing she was as clear from that state or the cause of it, as she was in her cradle.  
But within a while after, (as great breakers use to do) she played least in sight, for the space of four or five days, no neighbour could have a sight of her: all which time, she lay to be delivered of the load that made her load her soul, with perjury, in Adamsons house.  
This infortunate fruit of lust, and unlawful pleasures, was no sooner borne, but by the hand of the bloody mother it was murdered, and by the cunning of the cruel father, most secretly buried in a grave of his own making, by the side of a Box tree, in his orchard, which orchard not long after he sold to one Edward Duffield: which done, she presently (to wipe of the stain of susspition) stepped from her bed (the bed that honest women cannot step from so lightly, neither if they could would, in decency and woomanhood) to her ordinary walkings.  
She was (I say) presently seen abroad again well, and so lusty, as if she had no such strength-abating pang, as was justly suspected, and she truly suffered to have made her carry a contrary appearance.  
But common it is that such common pieces, can bear it out better than true and lawful bearers of children can.  
Adamson upon this, cunning in their villainy emboldened, (to cast this and other such like rubs out of the way of their wickedness) impudently like a true brazen faced founder, opposed himself against her searchers, and all such as muttered in suspicion against her, with peremptory speeches, oaths and threatenings, which carried such a show of innocency and clearness, that for that time he carried himself clear from the danger due to so foul and most vild a transgression.  
The shame of her privy offending, a third time grown to ripeness, she was laid in her old receptacle of sin, (Adamsons house) very privately? to which just upon the time of her pain in that business, came one Frances Ford, the wife of one john Ford a neighbour to buy bread, who hearing some low depressed cries and groans from jane; thinking she had been deceased by some ordinary infirmity, went up: but she was no sooner entered into the room where jane lay, but jane very suddenly (fearing she would bewray her) requested her to go down into the parlour to set her nekercher, which Fords wife did; and when she had done, (mistrusting no such thing, as they feared she would find) went up again to her chamber, but ere she could get to the top of the stairs, the chamber door was shut against her by the wicked woman that was hired by her and her master to keep her in that case, and to keep that wickedness for ever concealed. This goodwife Ford, thus withstood in her kindness, marveled, but made no words about it, yet mistrusting she knew not what, she went not down, but stayed and peeped through the keyhole of the door: through which she saw jane (very warm wrapped) set in a wicker chair by her bed's side, with a look bewraying very great debility and faintness of body: and not far from, was a good fire to comfort her and to make ready such things as might comfort her.  
Yet, nothing mistrusted Fords wife, that she sat then groaning under the Annual, or yearly woe of a woman.  
But long she stood not thus, ere she heard the weak shriek of a new borne infant, and saw in the hands of the keeper, a bole-dish, in which was the after birth of a child, and other perspicuous and evident tokens of a child borne at that instant.  
Having seen this, to keep it from their knowledge, she very easily went down the stairs, and after a little stay, hearing the chamber door open, up again, and suddenly (to prevent avother prevention) into her chamber: And there (without any show of any thing that might bewray her knowledge) she stood talking with jane half an hour: in the time of which confeence, her eye and ear were busy, to find that she saw through the key hole; but she could neither see what she had seen, nor heard what she had heard: for all was most cunningly cleared by her cunning keeper.  
This child, as by manifest and probable circumstances appeared at her trial, Adamson (after they had by most vile and inhuman violence, taken the breath from it, that but then it had received) in the dead of night (friend to rape & murder) buried in an unknown grave as the former.  
And this villainy, as the former, he with his countenance, as opposed against the weak words of Fords wife by reason of want of greater proof than her own speeches, he easily passed over, and they slept as securely for all this start, in their horrible uncleanness as before.  
Still progressed this most graceless, audacious and impudent beast, (too bad to bear the good name of woman) in this sin, with all impudency.  
This Chimaera, with a Lion's upper-part in boldness: a goats middle part in lust: and a Serpents lower part in sting and poison.  
Not long after this (for there were no greater Interims, between their great bellies then must needs be) the maturity of her womb, showed itself again in swelling, which with a greater circumspection, than before was looked into, many eyes attended it to see the event, and find the events of former.  
But she perceiving she was so narrowly pried into, fearing they would find that they sought for (her forepa●… villainy) she left her masters house; and went to Darking, to one Crab a Tailor, who had married a sister of hers, & in his house, she was delivered of a child, which was put to nurse to one Thomas Ellis, who tenderly tended it.  
There she was too far from the murdering hand, or cunning brain of her master, to serve it as she had served his fellows: nay this babe had such blessed fortune, that instead of the cruelty, his poor brethren or sisters had from his lawless begetter, he had kindness and comfort, for he allowed the nurse a good cow to give her milk, that the allowance of the child might be the better.  
Many great bellies had she, besides these here spoken of, but the unhappy loads of them could never be seen: by which we may justly thinks, and perfectly in reason, know, that there were many more murders, then are in these leaves laid open: for (as I have before said) for the space of ten or twelve years this wicked couple continued undetected, in these abominable sins of lust and murder.  
Many times did Adamson, with his own tongue give cause of a suspicion for three or four times, as Edward Duffell wrought in his Orhcard (which as I have before said was Adamsons) he was earnestly requested and sometime straightly charged, not to dig near the Box tree: he not mistrusting such a thought as raised that prohibition, marveled; yet not knowing what to make of it, let it pass without any further thinking upon it.  
But see the goodness of the ●eare of every secret: within a small time after this (upon what occasion I know not) Adamson & jane were at high words, and very bitter revilings past from one to another. In which windy battles, jane called her master murderer, in the hearing of many neighbours, and that not once or twice, but itterated and reitterated it, very freely & boldly: and to this added, that there was that yet hidden, that would hang him. And that there was a tree in Duffels orchard, which if it could speak, would send him to the gallows.  
These words in the vehemency of anger she uttered, for thus it pleased him that made Balaams' Ass to speak, that beast, to make the beast speak to open the way to their destruction: for hereupon Edward Duffel took divers of his neighbours, and (remembering that many times he had been warned not to dig near the Box three) went then and diggd about it, to see if there were any such thing as they suspected should be, by her speeches.  
Small digging served to bewray their wickedness, for he had not digged a full foot deep, ear he found many small bones, which bones, not long after, before justices and men of account, were proved (to bar all opposite objections) by the skill of a cunning and very expert Anothomist, to be the bones of a child.  
Upon this (in a word) Adamson and his servant jane were apprehended, & sent to Horshan jail some ten or twelve miles from Greensteed: but Adamson upon bands and good security to answers all that might be objected against him at the Assizes, was in a little time from thence released, and had his liberty to walk about his business.  
jane lay not long there neither; she was upon bonds from thence released ●oo: but her bonds were the bonds she was bound in, & her release, but a remove from thence to the King's bench in southwarcke, where while she stayed, she wanted nothing, for he that had been kind and liberal to her in the time of her liberty, did not forget her in the time of her captivity.  
But that he did at the first was in love, the last in policy: for all he spent then upon her, was only to win her confidently to deny the words she had spoken, & to clear him in her speeches: and as for herself, he had her presume upon it, without fears or doubting, he would get her pardon.  
But to prevent that, and all hope of it, she was removed from thence to Kingston, from thence (to omit tedious recital) to Greensteed again. And there again Adamson as before (For contrary to orders in that case instituted (whether by purse or policy I know not) he had access unto her in the jail) laboured hard with her to unsay all her dangerous words against him; and to say that she was to say at the Bench to the demands of the judges, for his clearing & acquitting: & withal, told her that in so speaking well in his behalf, she should help herself in that danger.  
And more over (for like waves our upon the ●…ck of another came words of inducement from him) if the worst should come that might, he would save her with the King's pardon.  
And to make her belief and resolution the stranger, he told her, if she did not do as he counselled her there was no less to be expected by her then death: and backed it with this reason; that the least syllable uttered in way of confession, would frustrate the pardon he should purchas●e, and make it to be of no force or virtue.  
Thus, a●s since her execcution hath been ●ound, did he very cunningly, & as closely work upon her simplicity, and effected his wishes, in her most wicked and impious credulity; for she believing all he spoke, and making no doubt of the performance, with a face set to the highest key of impudency, was at the Bench very ready in the lesson he had taught her: so that he was by the jury acquitted, but she condemned and adjudged to the gallows: which sentence (presuming upon her masters promise) she heard with an undaunted heart.  
To be short, she was according to her judgement, upon, or about the sixth of july 1609. carried to the place of execution, where still expecting the pardon Adamson told her should come to the gallows and save her, she was as stout and fearless, as if she had been but (like a stage player) to act the part in least.  
But when she had stayed so long, she might stay no longer from the halter, her heart began to fall, and fear to rise, yet remembering that he had said, a word in confession should frustrate her pardon which (notwithstanding) in the last minute of her breath she expected (and fearing so to prevent it) she would say nothing but in that fear, and hope of life, even in the rope she gave the hangman six pence to cut her down quickly: for she (simple wench) thought verily though she were turned off, before she could be half dead, the pardon would come, & save her in that heavy gasping: but her belief was vain, and her vain hopes were deceived, for as she deserved she there died.   

But now you have, with the eyes of your understanding, seen the most just and deserved end of her, turn them again to Adamson, who presently after her execution, fell into a most miserable, greeveous and lamentable consumption.  
worms meat we are all in death, but he in life, was (by the just judgement of God (which God make us all have an eye to) a prey to these despicable and devouring creatures, which had entrenched themselves in many parts of his body to the bone, and minutely, and so mercilessly, with eager appetites fed upon his afflicted flesh, as though he had been laid only but but for one meal to be devoured.  
Lice in great multitudes tormented him: no shift in ●innen, nor other costly shift in trimming, picking & anointing, could decrease the innumerable number of them: and so loathsome a savour came from his body, that those that went to see him could not stand to give their eyes satisfaction, for the grievous and odious strength of it: but turning as disdainfully in the offence, or grievance of that sense) as from the infecting stench of carrion they would leave him, ere they could well look on him.  
Thus for the space of half a year lay he most grievously tormented, in which time, he spent much money, for a happy restoration or recovery, but all his cost was lost, for alas Cum Deo pugnare, grave est: there is no striving against the will of God.  
All his means were waste and consumed: for he never left consuming till he was consumed to skin & bone, and so lamentably ended his days about the beginning of November last.  
If we look well into this lamentable end of his, we shall find a lesson worth the looking into, and that is this: that though he could, by money and friends; or some false colour and covering, 〈◊〉 his desert from the hands of men, yet the Lord would not let him pass this world without a punishment, that like the 〈◊〉 burst out through the Fogg● & clouds of his dissembling and privy contriving, to show the world that he was not the innocent man that he would have seemed to be.  
Many that have wit to shift, and craft to cover, think themselves wise, but the Lord knows they are fools, & so makes their end show them. But to that we cast not an eye, but (alas) being set in the race of our own ruin we run (like the Onagrie, or wild Ass, of Mauritaunia, with such dexterity and strength that till we are breathless we stop not till we are breathless indeed: for till our breath leaves us, we leave not sinning. O could we imitate him as well in the path of piety, we should have heaven in our bosoms, I mean such consciences as (after this life) would assure us of the everlasting beatiatitude of Angels.   

An exhortation.  
IF the Apostle Peter illuminated by the spirit of God, in his time determined the consummation of the world to draw nigh, and like the Lord of Hosts his loyal Herald proclaimed thereupon to all the faithful: Now the end of all things is at hand. If godly Cypryan many years after justly thought, and taught, that the end of the world did hang over his head▪ sweet Laotantius sighed in spirit, & said it could not lack above two hundred years: and holy Jerome (that observed a journal, & watched the hours of his life) had so certain a persuasion of the suddenness, and nearness thereof, that he ever seemed, to hear the sound of the Troump of the latter day, sounding this heavy note in his ears: Surgite mortui, venite ad judicium: That is Arise ye dead and come to judgement: all no doubt incited thereunto, and enlightened by the holy Gohst: certes we 〈…〉 good cause, that live in these latter and dangerous days, stedlastly to believe for many causes; and especially these three, that the second coming of Christ cannot be far off.  
First, for that all the prophecies of the patriarchs, and Prophets, of all the ancients, yea, and of the jews themselves, who yet idly and ignorantly expect another Meslias, so concordantly agree with this our after age, that the Orthodoxes so long since deceased, may seem now to live and behold the state of the days instant.  
Secondly, for that all those prodigies, and tokens foretold by our Saviour in the Gospel, are now universally fulfilled in the world, and autentiquelly import an universal dissolution of the world.  
Thirdly, for that in the same place our Saviour promiseth to shorten those days: and surely if (as there he promiseth) for his elects sake those days were not shortened, scant any flesh should be saved; for if we narrowly look on the course of time, the manners of men, the starting up of false Christ's, the uprise of counterfeit Prophets, the contempt of Religeon, and untowardness of all things, we shall assuredly find, that this our old writhe world, is altogether like to unfruitful, and dry stubble or chaff, apt for nothing, but to be consumed with fire, or as the Apostle Peter saith, the heavens, and earth that now are kept by the same word in store, and reserved unto fire, against the day of judgement: Lord it is time, yea it is full and due time (fit were thy blessed will and pleasure) that thou come to judgement: Come thou Alpha and Omega, thou first and last, come Lord jesus, come quickly: For sin overfloweth, Iniquity aboundeth, Faith faileth, Hope fadeth, Love freezeth; in stead whereof Paganism, Despair, and Murder are founded, and generally wickedness flourisheth, and virtue falleth.  
But omitting all the rest, this wilful murderiug of Innocents' is judged a most heinous iniquity in the sight of God, and amongst all good men counted principal of those sins, whose lamentable clamours ascend up before the majesty of God, & incessantly yell out, greedily thirsting for revenge.  
Let us therefore take warning by those Cruel, bloody, and libidinous bad livers, whose horrid sins calls vengeance from heaven: and let us desire almighty God to hasten the latter day, to the comfort of his elect and glory of his most holy name  
Amen.  
The names of the witnesses. 

Master Andrew Sackuill  
Edward Paine.  
George Drury.  
Steeven Price.  
And Edward Duffield in whose orchard the bones of the murdered Infants were found.  
Goodwife King  
Goodwife Ford  
Goodwife Pain  
Goodwife Pulman  
Goodwife Kent.     
FINIS