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the rruel Murder of Ruthwm executed at Gobblecut-lt;•*? a ,, Thi» Day Thomas LoUey, for0„ Suprofit*0* of her being a Witch,Marlfton-Green, in the Panfh of Tring, in Hertfordihire.C nn Friday Morning he received the Sacrament at Hertford, ad-0lr«l to hi® by the Rev- Mr' Edw*rd Bouchier, when he lignedfll Declaration of hi' Belief relating to Witchcraft; which he deftraredcarried to the Place of Execution, and was ther* publickly read, uearncil Requeft, juft before he was turned off, by the Rev. Mr. Ran-i Minifter of Tring, who attended him in his lift Moments, He was ^JSbv toS Men belonging to the Regiment of HorfcBlue, with their * « and two Trumpets; ind the Procefiion was flow, fofemn,- andtaT Friday Night he was lodged in St. Alban’s Goal; at Five thero0 M«rmne was put into aOne Horft Chaife, with the Executioner, and *cXl jjjg place of Execution about Eleven, and after half an Hour *in Prayer he was executed, and immediately after hung up in Chains *1 ! fame Gibbet he was.hanged on. The Infatuation of moft of the ? le in that Part of the Country was fuch, that they would not be feen *\he Place of Execution, infilling that h was a hard Cafe to hang ai5*r rQr dertroyine; an old Woman that had done fo much Damage by Witchcraft. It was laid, he was to have been executed a Week foeerfooner,11 when the proper Officers came to convey him from the Goal, a pro-hfLg afli^bW^arid would iiot fufFer him to be taken out of^ p Jifif Declaration, above-mentioned, was as follrwt.^gESJ^CH you all to take Warning by an unhappy Man’s Suffer-. y0ll be not deluded into fo abfurd and wicked a Conceit, as« believe that there are any fuch Beings upon Earth as Witches.It was that foolilh and vain Imagination, heightened and inflamed by Strength of Liquor, which prompted me to be inllrumcnral (with others ad-brained as myfelf} in the horrid and barbarous Murder of RuthSflJoroe, the fuppofed Witch, for which I am now. fo defcrvedly to fufferfully convinced of my former Error, and with the Sincerity of a , . Man/declare, that I do not believe there is fuch a Thing in being Witch'; and pray God, that none of you, thro' a contrary Perfuafion, mav hereafter be induced to think, that you have a Right in any Shapeto oerfecute, much lefs to endanger the Life of a Fellow-Creature. *5fb of you all to pray to God to forgive me, and to walk clean mypdlmcd Soul in the Blood of Jefus ChriR, my Saviour and Redeemer.•Ho exhorteth you a the.dying ;r''1p f ** / ?| * TotMmi LaQilt'j.
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Williamsburg Virginia Gazette
Williamsburg, Virginia, US
Sun, Dec 05, 1751
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