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forthwith became a Woolfe, which Girdle at his apprehenſion he confeſt he caſt it off in a certain Vallye and there left it, which when the Maieſtrates heard, they ſent to the Vallye for it, but at their comming found nothing at al, for it may be ſuppoſed that it was gone to the deuil from whence it came, ſo that it was not to be found. For the Deuil hauing brought the wretch to al the ſhame he could, left him to indure the torments which his deedes deſerued.
After he had ſome ſpace beene impriſoned, the maieſtrates found out through due examination of the matter, that his daughter Stubbe Beeil and his Goſſip Katherine Trompin, were both acceſſarye to diuers murders committed, who for the ſame as alſo for their leaud life otherwiſe committed, was arraigned, and with Stubbe Peeter condempned, and their ſeuerall Iudgementes pronounced the 28 of October 1589, in this manor, that is to ſaye: Stubbe Peeter as principall mallefactor, was iudged firſt to haue his body laide on a wheele, and with red hotte burning pincers in ten ſeueral places to haue the fleſh puld off from the bones, after that, his legges and Armes to be
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