lieu de supplice accoutumé, et par l'Officier criminel attachées à un
poteau, pendues, etranglées, osciées, et brulées, jusqu'à ce que leur
chairs et ossements soient reduits en cendres, et leurs cendres
eparcées; et sont tous les biens, meubles, et heritages, si aucun en
ont acquit, à Sa Majesté. Pour leur faire confesser leurs complices,
qu'elles seront mises à la question en Justice avant que d'etre
executées.


[TRANSLATION.]

Before AMICE DE CARTERET, Esq., Bailiff, and the Jurats.

_JULY 4th, 1617._

SENTENCE OF DEATH.

_Collette du Mont_, widow of _Jean Becquet_; _Marie_, her daughter,
wife of _Pierre Massy_; and _Isabel Becquet_, wife of _Jean Le
Moygne_, being by common rumour and report for a long time past
addicted to the damnable art of Witchcraft, and the same being
thereupon seized and apprehended by the Officers of His Majesty [James
I.], after voluntarily submitting themselves, both upon the general
inquest of the country, and after having been several times brought up
before the Court, heard, examined, and confronted, upon a great number
of depositions made and produced before the Court by the said
Officers; from which it is clear and evident that for many years past
the aforesaid women have practiced the diabolical art of Witchcraft,
by having not only cast their spells upon inanimate objects, but also
by having retained in languor through strange diseases, many persons