them: She also used the same wicked words on several other
occasions that day.

Now one George Hodgkinson of Ashover, a man of good report there,
came accidentally by where this Dorothy was, and stood still a
while to talk with her, as she was washing her Ore; there stood
also a little Child by her Tub-side, and another a distance from
her, calling aloud to her to come away; wherefore the said George
took the Girle by the hand to lead her away to her that called her:
But behold, they had not gone above ten yards from Dorothy, but
they heard her crying out for help; so looking back, he saw the
Woman, and her Tub, and Sive, twirling round, and sinking into the
ground. Then said the man, Pray to God to pardon thy sin, for thou
art never like to be seen alive any longer. So she and her Tub
twirled round, and round, till they sunk about three yards into the
Earth, and then for a while staid. Then she called for help again,
thinking, as she said, that she should stay there. Now the man
though greatly amazed, did begin to think which way to help her,
but immediately a great stone which appeared in the Earth, fell
upon her head, and brake her Skull, and then the Earth fell in upon
her and covered her. She was afterwards digged up, and found about
four yards within ground, with the Boys two single Pence in her
pocket, but her Tub and Sive could not be found.

Atten. You {38a} bring to my mind a sad story, the which I will
relate unto you. The thing is this; About a bow-shoot from where I
once dwelt, there was a blind Ale-house, and the man that kept it
had a Son whose name was Edward. This Edward was, as it were, an
half-fool, both in his words, and manner of behaviour. To this
blind Ale-house certain jovial companions would once or twice a