Saducismus Triumphatus: Evidence Concerning Witches and Apparitions

...enclosed paper, both men at that time, and both at the trial; and as for Mr. Lumley, he lived next door to Walker, and what he has provided in writing, he can testify to original: "depose" if there were occasion. The other gentleman wrote his testimony in his own hand, but because I was not there, I did not obtain his signature original: "name" for it. I could have sent you twenty signatures original: "Hands" of people who could have said this much and more by hearsay, but I thought these were the most proper witnesses because they could speak from what they saw and heard themselves.

Thus far we have the account of Mr. Shepherdson, the doctor’s discreet and faithful informant original: "Intelligencer". Now, Mr. Lumley of Lumley, being an elderly gentleman who was at the trial of Walker and Sharp for the murder of Anne Walker, says: that he remembers very well that the said Anne was a servant to Walker, and that she was believed to be pregnant but would not disclose by whom. However, after being moved to her aunt's house in the same town (the aunt being called Dame Caire), she told her aunt that the man who got her with child would take care of both her and the baby, and told her not to worry.

After she had been at her aunt's for some time, it was observed that Sharp came to Lumley one night. He was a "sworn brother" original: "sworn Brother," a close companion or partner-in-crime of the said Walker, and the two of them called her out from her aunt's house that night, which was the night she was murdered.

About fourteen days after the murder, there appeared to a man named Graime, a fuller original: "Fuller," a person who cleaned and thickened freshly woven cloth in a water mill, at his mill six miles from Lumley, the likeness of a woman with her hair loose about her head and the appearance of five wounds in her head. As the said Graime stated in his evidence, that apparition commanded him to go to a Justice of the Peace and report to him how Walker and Sharp had murdered her in the place where she was killed. But he, fearing to disclose a thing of that nature against a person of good reputation original: "Person of Credit" like Walker, was reluctant to do it; however, the said Graime did eventually go to a Justice of the Peace and related the whole matter.

Upon this, the Justice of the Peace granted warrants against Walker and Sharp and committed them to prison; but they found bail to appear at the next Assizes The periodic courts held in English counties, where they came to their trial. Upon the evidence of the circumstances, along with Graime’s testimony about the apparition, they were both found guilty and executed.

The other testimony is from Mr. James Smart of the city of Durham, who says that the trial of Sharp and Walker was in the month of August 1631, before Judge Davenport. A Mr. Fairhair gave evidence under oath that he saw the likeness