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1 j. After fome time Dr. Petty hearing^ had difcourfed 

 with thofe about her, and fufpecYing that the women might fugged 

 unto her to relate fomthing of ftrange vifwns and apparitions (lie 

 had feen, during the time fhe feemed to be dead (which they al- 

 ready had begun to do, telling about that fie faid, fle had been 

 in a fine green meddow, having a River running round it, and that 

 all things there glittered like ft her and gold) he caufed all to de- 

 part the room but the Gentlemen of the Faculty-, who were to 

 have been at the dijjetlion, and afked her concerning her fenfe and 

 apprehenfions during the time flie was hanged. 



18. To which (he anfwered at firft fomwhat impertinently, 

 talking as if fie had been then to fujfer. And when they fpake un- 

 to her concerning her miraculous deliverance, fie answered, that 



fie hoped God would give her patience, and the like : Afterward, 

 when fie was better recovered, fije affirmed, that^e neither re- 

 membred how the fetters were knocked off, how fije went out of 

 the Prifon ; when Jhe was turned off the ladder, whether any 

 Pfalm was fung or not, nor was fie fenfible of any pains that Jhe 

 could remember : what is moft obfervable is, that (lie came to 

 her [elf as if fie had awakened out of a fleep, not recovering the 

 ufe of her fpeech by flow degrees, but in a manner all together, 

 beginning to fpeak juft where (lie left off on the gallows. 



1 9. Being thus at length perfectly recovered , after thanks 

 given to God, and the perfons inftrumental in it, fi>e retired into 

 the Country to her friends at Steeple-Barton, where (lie was after- 

 wards marryed, and lived in good repute amongft her Neighbors, 

 having three Children afterwards, and not dying as I am inform- 

 ed till theyear 1659. Which occurrence being thought worthy of 

 remembrance by the Author of the continuation of the Hiftory of 

 the World, by Dionyfiws Petavius, who efteemed it no lefs than the 

 finger of God pointing out the Maids innocency ; and by Mr. 

 Heath, who thought fit to tranfmit it to pofterity for Gods glory, 

 and man- caution in judging and punidiing. It would have 

 been a great omiffion in me to have patted it by untouched. 



20. Not long after, vi%. in the year 1658. Elizabeth the [ex - 

 vant of one Mrs. Cope of Magdalen Parlfi Oxon, was indicted at 

 the City Sejfions for killing her baflard child, and putting it in the 

 houfe of ofice ; of which being convicted, fit was condemned 

 to dye, and accordingly was hanged at green-ditch, the place 



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