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" However, she is once again carry ed down to ye stake, and 

 there accordingly executed, being burnt to ashes. But this poor 

 officious wardour, whose name was Gosslin — ye holy wise providence 

 of God so permitting it — felt a short time after, ye bitter consequences 

 of her rage and dying curses ; for he grew sick of an incurable 

 disease, lying under most exquisite torments, of which he could never 

 be relieved by any means or medicines, till having languished some 

 years, he was at last released from his sufferings by death." 



J. Linwood Pitts, Sec. Folklore Sect. 



