Doctor LAMB'S DARLING: OR, Strange and terrible News from Salisbury; BEING A true, exact, and perfect Relation, of the great and wonderful Contract and Engagement made between the Devil, and Mistress Anne Bodenham; with the manner how she could transform herself into the shape of a Mastive Dog, a black Lion, a white Bear, a Wolf, a Eull, and a Cat; and by her Charms and Spells, send either man or woman 40 miles an hour in the Ayr. The Trial, Examination, and Confession of the said Mistress Bodenham, before the Lord chief Baron Wild, & the Sentence of Death pronounced against her, for bewitching of An Styles, and forcing her to write her Name in the Devil's Book with her own blood; so that for five days she lay in cruel and bitter Torments; sometimes the Devil appearing all in black without a head, renting her , tearing her skin, and tossing her up and down the chamber, to the great astonishment of the Spectators.  

APpointed to be printed and published, as a Caveat and Warning piece for England, Scotland, and Ireland.  
July 25 James Bower, Cleric.   
London, Printed for G. Horton, 1653.   

HIstory often speaks, and common observation assures Us, that Bees gather exeellent honey out of the bitterest herbs: So, were we wise, we might make good use of this ensuing Relation: Wherein we may consider how the Devil gulls and deceives the souls of the sons of men, He (without doubt) to bring them into such an unhappy league with himself, promiseth them to be no Inferiors to the greatest in the world. But to the subject of my Discourse.  
There was lately arraigned at Salisbury, before the Right Honourable the Lord chief Baron Wild, Judge of the Assize, one Anne Bodenham, formerly servant to Dr. Lamb, for her strange and wonderful Diabolical usage of a Maid, servant to M. Goddard, by name Anne Styles; who having lost a silver spoon, went to the foresaid Witch, to discover the person that had stolen it; whereupon this cunning woman put on her spectacles, demanded 12 d. which she had, and then opened a book, in which there seemed to be the picture of the Devil, to the Maid's appearance, with cloven feet and claws; after which, the Witch took a green Glass, and shown the maid the shape of many persons what they were doing in her Master's house, and said, that the spoon should be brought again shortly by a little boy; but said, she would have occasion to come to her again very suddenly; and accordingly, within two days after, her Mistress being afraid of being poisoned, sent the Maid again to the said Witch, to know if there were any such thing intended, and the maid going, a little black Dog, to her apprehension ran before her over Cranebridge, and brought her to the Witches house, being dark, where the doors flew open, without knocking, and the Witch met her at the second door, and told her she knew wherefore she came, and that it was about poisoning; for, said she, on Friday night there shall be a cup of spiced Ale prepared, with poison in it; but be sure you give your Mistress notice of it. The next day being Saturday the maid was sent again to the Witch to get some example shown upon the Gentlewoman that should procure the poison; and the Witch gave her a powder, Dill leaves, and the paring of her own nails; all which the maid was to give to her Mistress; the powder was to be put in the young Gentlewoman's Mistress Sarah and Mistress Anne Goddards drink or broth, to rot their guts in their bellies; the leaves to rub about the brims of the pot, to make their teeth fall out of their heads, and the paring of the nails to make them drunk and mad. And told the maid that when they gave it them, they must cross their breasts, and say, In the name of our Lord Jesus Christ grant that this may be. But the maid coming again on the Monday following, asked her whether she approved of her journey for London; the Witch replied, Wilt thou go to London high or low? To which the maid answered, What do you mean by that? She said, If you will go on high, you shall be carried to London in the Air, and be there in two hours; but if you go a low, you shall be taken at Sutton towns end. Yet before she departed, the Witch desired the maid to live with her, and she would teach her a more stranger Art: What's that, said the maid, she answered, you shall know presently, and forthwith she appeared in the shape of a great black Cat, and lay along by the Chimney: at which the maid being affrighted, she came into her shape again, saying, But before you go, you must seal unto me your body and blaud not to discover me; which she promising to do, she forthwith made a Circle, and called Beezebub, Tormentor, Lucifer, and Satan, appear; then appeared two spirits in the likeness of great boys, with long shagged black hair, and stood by her, looking over her shoulder; then the Witch took the meids fore-finger of her right hand, and pricked it with a pin, and squeezed out the blood, and put it into a pen, and put the pen into the maid's hand, and held her hand to write in a book, and one of the Spirits laid his hand or claw upon the Witches, whilst the maid wrote, and when she had done writing whilst their hands were together, the Witch said Amen, and made the maid say Amen, and the Spirits said, Amen, Amen; and the Spirits hand did feel cold to the maid as it touched her hand, when the Witches hand and hers were together writing; and then the Spirit gave a piece of silver (which he first bit) to the Witch, who gave it to the maid, and also stuck two pins in the maid's head-cloathes, and bid her keep them, and be gone, saying, I will now vex thee far worse, than ever I did the man in Clarington Park, which I made walk about with a bundle of pales on his back all night in a Pond of water, and could not lay them down till the next morning. Thus having ended her diabolical speech, immediately after the maid were exceedingly perplexed with inward Torments, crying out, O the Devil, the Witch, and the two ragged boys are pulling me a pieces! Oh very damnable, very wretched: this hand of mine writ my name in the Devil's book; this finger of mine was pricked, here is yet the hole that was made; and with my blood I wrote my own Damnation, and have cut myself off from Heaven and Eternal life; the Devil came, oh! in a terrible shape to me, entered within me, & there he lies swelling in my body, gnawing at my heart, tearing my bowels within me, and there is no hopes, but one time or other will tear me all in pieces; O hold me, hold me, or else the Devil will t●ke me: I see him now standing on the top of the house, with glittering eyes, looking on me, and will carry me away. Thus was she miserably tormented, for the space of five days, many times being pulled from those that held her, which made the people in the Room run away from her for fear; the maid being thrown from the low bed whereon she lay, to the top of the high bed, and her  torn off her back, and a piece of her skin torn away, the Candle in the Room, standing on a Table, was thrown down, and put out; at which time, there being a little boy that was almost asleep, but with this noise being frighted, had not power with the rest, to go out of the room, stayed there, and saw a spirit in the likeness of a great black man, with no head, in the room souffling with the maid, and took her and set her into a chair, and told her she must go with him, he was come for her soul, she had given it to him: But the maid answered, that her soul was none of her own to give, it belonged to her Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ, who had purchased it with his own precious blood; and although he had got her blood, yet he should never have her soul: Whereupon after tumbling and throwing the maid about the Devil vanished in a flame of fire. After many such like cruel Torments, sometimes lying in a trance; sometimes foaming at the mouth; and sometimes being tossed from the lower bed to the high bed; and from thence to the top of the Tester; yet at last (when news was brought that the Witch was executed) it pleased the Divine providence of the great Jehovah of Heaven, to restore her to her former state and condition, crying out, Oh what a loving God have I to break me off with this league from the Devil! Oh what a sweet Saviour have I that hath ransomed my poor soul from the infernal Lake, & brought me even from the very brinks of Hell: Blessed be his name; he hath wrought my deliverance, and dispossessed the evil spirit. Many other strange and diabolical actions, the foresaid Witch both practised and put in execution; namely, by her several Charms and Spells, she would convey either man or woman 40 miles an hour in the Air, she was one that would undertake to cure almost any Diseases by the said Charms, but sometimes used physical ingredients, to cure her abominable practices; she would undertake to procure things that were lost, and restore goods that were stolen; she could transform herself into any shape whatsoever, viz. 

A Mastive Dog,  
A black Lion,  
A white Bear,  
A Wolf,  
A Monkey,  
A Horse,  
A Bull,  
And a Calf.    
She had likewise the marks of an absolute Witch, having a Teat about the length and bigness of the Nipple of a woman's breast, and hollow and soft as a Nipple, with a hole on the top of it, on her left shoulder, and another likewise was found in her secret place, like the former on her shoulder, which was given in to the Court upon evidence by 

Molier Damely,  
Alice Cleverly,  
Grace Stokes,   for which, she was arraigned and condemned to be hanged; no sooner was sentence denounced, but she skrieked out with a most hideous noise, and desired to be buried under the Gallows and coming to the place of execution, she ran up the ladder, and the rope being put about her neck, she went to turn herself off; but the Executioner stayed her, and desired her to forgive him: she replied, Forgive thee! A pox on thee, turn me off; which were the last words she said. Thus, dear hearts, you see, those that forsake God in their lives, shall be forsaken of him in their deaths.   
FINIS.