A declaration in answer to several lying pamphlets concerning the witch of Wapping being a more perfect relation of the arraignment, condemnation, and suffering of Jone Peterson, who was put to death on Munday the 22 of April, 1652. Shewing the bloudy plot and wicked conspiracy of one Abraham Vandenbernde, Thomas Crompton, Thomas Collet, and others.

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A declaration in answer to several lying pamphlets concerning the witch of Wapping being a more perfect relation of the arraignment, condemnation, and suffering of Jone Peterson, who was put to death on Munday the 22 of April, 1652. Shewing the bloudy plot and wicked conspiracy of one Abraham Vandenbernde, Thomas Crompton, Thomas Collet, and others.
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London :: [s.n.],
Printed in the year, 1652.
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Peterson, Joan, d. 1652 -- Trials, litigation, etc.
Trials (Witchcraft) -- England -- Wapping -- 17th century -- Early works to 1800.
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"A declaration in answer to several lying pamphlets concerning the witch of Wapping being a more perfect relation of the arraignment, condemnation, and suffering of Jone Peterson, who was put to death on Munday the 22 of April, 1652. Shewing the bloudy plot and wicked conspiracy of one Abraham Vandenbernde, Thomas Crompton, Thomas Collet, and others." In the digital collection Early English Books Online. https://name.umdl.umich.edu/B02896.0001.001. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed May 7, 2024.

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Besides the Apothecaries, and several other persons, who te∣stified the same And are still ready to do the like.

Coll. Okey, Coll. Berkstead, and divers other Justices of the Peace, both at Hixes hall, and at the old Baley, did declare themselves that they were not satisfied either with the proceed∣ings, or proof against this Peterson, that she was guilty of witch∣craft, but that there was a design in it, relating to the preju∣dice of Mrs. Levingstone, which they are ready to testifie to the Parliament when they shall be required thereunto.

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