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England's Grievance Discovered in Relation to the Coal-Trade, and published in 1655. It appears that about five or six years previously, the magistrates of the borough had sent two of their sergeants into Scotland,
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Many poor women were subjected to much indignity by this fellow, who caused them to be stripped partially naked, when he inserted pins into various parts of their flesh, to find a place from which no blood would issue, as he pretended. On one occasion, however, he was detected and compelled to acknowledge that a respectable woman, whom he had grossly treated and condemned, was
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as he had previously insisted. It appears that this worthy afterwards visited other parts of Northumberland,
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The author adds,
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He gives the names of fifteen poor wretches who were hanged at Newcastle at this impostor's instigation, and says,
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These poor souls never confessed anything, but pleaded innocence: And one of them by name Margaret Brown beseeched God that some remarkable sign might be seen at the time of their execution, to evidence their innocence, and as soon as ever she was turned off the ladder, _her blood gushed out upon the people to the admiration of the beholders_! The said witchfinder at length met with the fate he so richly merited. He was, in the words of the indignant author,
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Singularly enough, our author himself met with a similar untimely fate, but for a very different crime, as appears from the following MS. note, in the copy of Gardiner's work before the present writer, purporting to be extracted from a
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MS. Life of Barnes, p. 420 :--
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Upon some methods agreed on for reformation of Manners in the Town according to that clause in the charter which empowers them to make By-laws, there was one Gardiner writ a malicious Invective against the Government of Newcastle, but he got his Reward, being afterwards at York hanged for Coyning.
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Hopkins, was equally unfortunate with his Scotch compeer. Some individuals, with more acumen than the superstitious masses, took it into their heads to experiment upon Hopkins himself. Accordingly they seized him, tied his thumbs and toes together, after his own fashion, when operating on others. On placing him on the water he swam as buoyantly as his victims.
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This, says one writer,
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Covntrey Ivstice, by
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Michael Dalton, Lincoln's Inn, Gent,