ip8 The O^Qatural Hijlory 



her being with child, afearch inftantly was made, and the Infant 

 found on the top of the ordure. 



14. Whereupon, within three days after ber delivery,^ was 

 conveyed to the Caftk at Oxford, where forthwith (an Affife being 

 purchafed on purpofe)fhc was arraigned before Serjeant Vmpton 

 Crokf, then living but at Mar/ion, who fat as Judge by a Commif- 

 fion of Oyer and Terminer, and by him fentenced to be hanged ; 

 which was accordingly executed on the fourteenth of December 

 in the faid Caftle-yard-, where {lie hung about half an hour, being 

 pulled by the legs, and (truck. on the breft (as (lie her felf defired) 

 by divers of her friends ; and after all, had feveral ftroaks given 

 her on the ftomach with the but-end of a Soldiers Mufket. Be- 

 ing cut down, (lie was put into a coffin, and brought away to a 

 houfeto bedijfefted, where when they opened it, notwithftand- 

 ing the rope ftill remained unlofed-, and ftraight about her neck, 

 they perceived her breft to rife ; whereupon one Ma/on a Tayler, 

 intending only an aft of charity, fet his foot upon her breft and 

 belly ; and as fome fay, one Orum a Soldier ftruck her again with 

 the but-end of his musket. 



15. Notwithftanding all which, when the learned and inge- 

 nious, Sir William Petty, then Anatomy Profeffor of the Vniverfity, 

 Dr. Will'ps, and Dr. Clark, now Prefident of Magdalen College, 

 and Vice-Chancellor of the Vniverfity, came to prepare the body for 

 diffttiion, they perceived fome fmall ratling in her throaty here- 

 upon defifting. from their former purpofe, they prefently ufed 

 means for her recovery, by opening a vein, laying her in a warm 

 bed, and caufing another to go into bed to ber ; alfo ufing divers 

 remedies rd^t^iing her fenfeleftneft, Head,Throat, and Breft, in fo 

 much that within 14 hours, fie began to fpeak, and the next 

 day talked and prayed very heartily. 



16. During the time of this her recovering, the officers con- 

 cerned in her execution, would needs have had her away again to 

 have compleated it on her : but by the mediation of the worthy 

 Voclors, and fome other Friends, with the then Governor of the 

 City, Colonel Kelfey, there was a guard fet upon her to hinder all 

 further difturbance, till he had fued out her pardon from the 

 Powers then in being ; thoufands of people in the mean time 

 coming to fee her, and magnifying the juft Providence of God in 

 thusafferting her innocency of murther. 



1 7. After 



