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be broken with a woodden Axe or Hatchet, afterward to haue his head ſtrook from his body, then to haue his carkaſſe burnde to Aſhes.
Alſo his Daughter and his Goſſip were iudged to be burned quicke to Aſhes, the ſame time and day with the carkaſſe of the aforeſaid Stubbe Peeter. And on the 31. of the ſame moneth, they ſuffered death accordingly in the town of Bedbur in the preſence of many peeres & princes of Germany.
Thus Gentle Reader haue I ſet down the true diſcourſe of this wicked man Stub Peeter, which I deſire to be a warning to all Sorcerers and Witches, which vnlawfully followe their owne diueliſh imagination to the vtter ruine and deſtruction of their ſoules eternally, from which wicked and damnable practice, I beſeech God keepe all good men, and from the crueltye of their wicked hartes. Amen.
After the execution, there was by the aduice of the Maieſtrates of the town of Bedbur a high pole ſet vp and ſtronglye framed, which firſt went through ye wheele wheron he was broken, whereunto alſo it was
