883 A. KE. Verrill— The Bermuda Islands. 471 
‘‘ 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 corne ground, 
which sprouted 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 toa 
witch upon 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 wickedly 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 
diabolical! 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 Hngland 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, 
wh 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. 
