ty or more--which she said Julian
Cox, when in the house wall, had forced her to eat. Was not all this
enough to hang a dozen Julian Coxes? Judge Archer thought so; especially
when was added to this testimony Julian's own enforced confession, of how
she had been often tempted by the devil to become a witch, but would never
consent; yet how one evening, walking about a mile from her house, she met
three persons riding on broom-staves, borne up about a yard and a half
from the ground, two of whom she knew--a witch and a wizard, hanged for
witchcraft several years ago--but the third, a black man, she did not then
know. He however tempted her to give up her soul, which she did by
pricking her finger and signing her name with her blood. So that, by her
own showing, as well as by the unimpeachable testimony of reputable
witnesses, she was a witch and one coming under the provisions of the
Awful Verse. And further, as she could not repeat the Lord's Prayer, but
stumbled over the clause "And lead us not into Temptation," which she made
into "And lead us into temptation," or "And lead us not into no
temptation," but could in no manner repeat correctly, the judge and jury
had but one conclusion to come to, which was that she be hanged four days
after her trial. But some of the less blind and besotted spoke harsh words
of Judge Archer for his zeal and precipitancy, and openly declared poor
Julian's innocence when advocacy could do her strangled corpse no good.

THE YOUGHAL WITCH.

About this time, too, or rather two years before old Julian Cox had been
seen flying in at her window in full proportion, one Florence Newton, of
Youghal, was overhauled for her misdeeds towards Mary Longdon. Mary was
John Pyne's servant, and deposed that one day Florence came to where she
lived and asked her for a bit of beef out of the powdering tub, to which
Mary would not consent (these witnessing servants were always so moral and
honest!), saying she had no right to give away her master's beef. The
witch, being angry, muttered, "Thou had'st as good have given it me," and
went away grumbling. A few days after, meeting with Mary going to the
water with a pail of cloth on her head, she came full against her, and
violently kissed her, and said, "Mary, I pray thee let thee and I be
friends, for I bear thee no ill will, and I pray thee do thou bear me
none." Mary does not give her reply, but says that she went home, and in a
few days after "saw a Woman