A. K Verrill—The Bermuda Islands. 883 



" And not long after this I had many of my creatures strangly taken & died, 

 as my cattell dyeing Soddaynly. And shoats running loose one hour dead the 

 next & never could discern anything they ayled, neither living nor dead, but 

 were as fatt and as lusty as any creatures in the world, yet perished About this 

 tyme. I had sett according to my estimation about 16 acers of come ground, 

 which sprotited in the ground very well, some above ground and some arrived 

 even of the ground and turned too & agen like the worme of a pease, & soe lay 

 fresh in the ground & never came to good, though free from clodds or other 

 ympediment. I never saw the like before or since." 



"Not long after when I came out of England, I had a very fayre sowe pigging, 

 & goodwife Moore being at my house & seeing her praysed her ; not long after 

 she pigged and all her piggs died as soon as they were pigged. At the tyme of 

 Capt" Turner's entrance into his Govment, or a little after, I did charg goody 

 Moore with these and many things else. And first for that she should declare 

 how she came to know that myselfe wth the rest of the company who were in 

 the shipp with me were taken by the Turkes or chased by them." 



A jury of twelve women appointed to search the body reported as 

 follows : 



"Who doe affirm that upon the search of the body of Alice Moore, afores'd, 

 they have found 3 markes or teates, as to biggness, on the right side of her body 

 & another in her mouth towards the almonds of her eares, & another between 

 her tooes upon her left foote, wh teates or duggs being prickt by them did not 

 bleed only a little waterish blood, & they say she did not sensibly feele when 

 they prickt them, although they asked her if she felt them, & besides they say 

 that they found also other suspitious mkes which are declared to belong to a 

 witch xipon some partes of her body, & also some blew spotts there also."* 



" The Jury for the keepers of the liberties of Comonwealth of England doth 

 present Alice Moore of Warwicke tribe of the said Islands, spinster, for that she 

 not having the feare of God before her eyes has feloniously wickedty and abhom- 

 inably consulted, contracted and consented to & with the Devill to become a 

 witch as doth appeare by several signes & markes upon her body, and by her 

 diabolicall practice in witchcraft hath destroyed the cattell & hogges of Mr John 

 Waynewright and Thomas Gaplin, both of Warwicke Tribe, & of divers other 

 persons contrary to the peace of the comonwealth of England and the dignity 

 thereof." 



"To w'h Indictment she pleadeth not guilty, but the Grand Inquest finding 

 yt a true bill she put herself to be tried by God & the Cuntry w'h being a jury 

 of 12 men sworne, find her guilty & for the same she was adjudged to be carried 

 to the prison from whence she came & from thence to be conveyghed to the 

 place of execution & ther to be hanged by the necke until she be dead, dead, 

 w'h execution was performed accordingly the 20th of May, 1653." 



The Grand Jury having thus caused the death of several harmless 

 old women and a half-witted man, felt very proud of their work, 

 and passed the following gratulatory resolution : 



* Probably the " blew spots," often mentioned, were in most cases varicose 

 veins. 



