The genuine history of the good devil of Woodstock. The story of Jane Gilbert, a supposed witch / [by Christopher Smart] The feuds of the houses of Kintair and Seaton.

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[1802]
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Credit: The genuine history of the good devil of Woodstock. The story of Jane Gilbert, a supposed witch / [by Christopher Smart] The feuds of the houses of Kintair and Seaton. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    to remove the fums occafienaHy from one family to .another, when the one could fpare it, and the other wanted affiftance. #She fettled twenty-five pounds per annum on the minifler of the paiifh» to vifit and pray by them, aqd teach the children • their catcchifm ; and to each child that came to church to repeat the catechifm, fhe ordered a plumb-cake every Sunday. ’ Among her donations, file did not forget her friends, Mr. and Mrs. Williams, but gave their fon and daughter five hundred pounds a-piece in her life-time. As to her own pait, fhe allowed herfelf but eighteen pounds a year to live on ; and that, at her death, fhe bequeathed to an old woman who attended her. And this is a woman they were about to deflroy for witchcraft and forcery ! But the people are now afhamed of their behaviour, and therefore I have concealed the name of the place. THE END. o) [Printed by J. Roa'.h, RuJTcll-Court, Sept. *2, 1802.]