STRANGE
NEWS
FROM
SHADWELL
,
Being
a
TRUE
and
JUST
RELATION
of
the
DEATH
of
Alice
Fowler
,
Who
had
for
many
years
been
accounted
a
Witch
;
together
with
the
Manner
how
she
was
found
Dead
with
both
her
great
Toes
Ty'd
together
,
and
laid
out
on
the
Floor
having
a
Blanket
flung
over
her
.
She
being
left
lock'd
up
alone
by
her
Nurse
,
with
a
discovery
of
what
Markes
or
Teats
were
found
about
her
,
when
she
was
searched
by
the
Neighbours
.
IN
King-street
near
Whapping
,
the
one
part
of
it
being
in
the
Parish
of
St.
Paul
Shadwel
,
and
the
other
in
the
Parish
of
Whapping
;
lately
lived
a
Widdow
Woman
named
Alice
Fowler
,
she
was
about
the
Age
of
Forescore
Years
,
and
had
always
been
a
malicious
ill-natured
Woman
and
for
many
years
had
been
reputed
a
Witch
;
she
was
always
observed
to
be
muttering
and
grumbling
to
her self
,
and
was
continually
holding
a
Discourse
as
it
were
within
her self
,
and
some
that
knew
her
would
often
say
that
at
those
times
she
conversed
with
Familiars
or
Spirits
;
she
was
always
poor
,
as
it
is
observable
that
those
kind
of
People
are
:
Her
way
of
living
being
to
sell
Bisquets
to
Baudy
houses
,
where
she
generally
got
Drunk
,
and
being
a
very
Debauched
and
Leud
Woman
,
and
despised
and
slighted
by
the
Neighbourhood
for
this
her
leud
and
base
course
of
Life
.
By
such
small
Shifts
,
together
with
the
Assistanae
of
the
Charity
of
the
Trinity
House
into
which
by
reason
she
was
Antient
and
a
Seamans
Widdow
she
had
of
late
years
gotten
;
she
with
much
ado
lived
a
necessitous
and
miserable
life
,
being
continually
in
want
,
and
at
varience
with
all
that
knew
her
.
Above
twenty
years
since
she
nursed
a
Girl
who
did
always
report
that
she
was
a
Witch
,
and
after
she
was
at
a
womans
Estate
was
still
fearful
and
apprehensive
of
her
,
untill
the
time
of
her
Death
.
'T
is
believed
the
Child
had
been
affrighted
by
some
of
her
Tricks
when
she
was
Young
,
which
made
her
in
the
greatest
Dread
and
Terror
imaginable
of
her
ever
after
.
About
sixteen
Years
since
,
Walter
Fowler
her
Son
was
Transported
to
Barbados
,
who
always
used
to
declare
that
his
Mother
was
a
Witch
,
that
she
had
bewitched
him
and
several
others
,
and
would
relate
several
strange
Exploits
of
her
doing
,
and
saying
often
to
others
that
she
was
there
in
the
Room
and
tempted
him
to
do
such
and
such
Mischiefs
,
and
would
averr
that
he
saw
her
present
,
when
no
one
else
in
the
place
could
see
anything
;
this
mind
he
continued
in
,
always
accusing
her
of
bewitching
him
,
until
about
nine
Years
since
that
he
was
hang'd
in
the
Island
of
Barbados
,
for
Murdering
his
Wife
and
●●●●
king
open
a
House
.
About
six
weeks
since
,
she
having
lain
sick
a
considerable
time
in
King-street
aforesaid
,
where
she
had
a
mean
Room
Furnished
,
and
having
a
poor
Neighbour
to
look
after
and
nurse
her
;
she
sent
her
out
of
an
Errand
to
fetch
her
something
she
had
occasion
for
,
and
the
woman
going
out
of
Doors
,
lock'd
the
Door
and
took
the
Key
with
her
,
leaving
no
body
there
save
the
aforesaid
Alice
sick
in
her
Bed
,
and
coming
back
again
,
found
the
said
Alice
stripped
,
dead
and
cold
as
Clay
laying
on
the
Floor
on
her
Back
,
and
having
her
two
great
Toes
ty'd
together
,
and
a
Blanket
flung
over
her
;
the
poor
woman
being
very
much
surprized
at
this
,
called
in
the
Neighbours
who
were
all
in
great
astonishment
when
they
saw
the
Corps
lying
,
and
had
had
an
account
how
it
was
left
,
and
the
rather
in
that
there
was
so
great
a
stink
when
they
stir'd
the
Corps
that
they
could
hardly
endure
the
Room
.
Several
of
the
Neighbours
were
so
curious
to
search
the
Corps
,
and
do
all
of
them
affirm
that
they
found
in
the
private
parts
of
the
Corps
five
Teats
;
to
wit
,
four
small
ones
and
one
very
big
,
and
that
they
were
all
of
them
as
black
as
a
Coal
.
This
considered
,
together
with
her
ill
report
that
she
had
when
alive
,
made
all
the
neighbours
refuse
to
accompany
the
Corps
to
the
Earth
,
so
that
the
next
day
she
was
put
into
the
Church
Coffin
,
and
by
the
Bearers
without
any
more
company
buried
in
the
Church-Yard
of
St.
Paul
Shadwell
;
so
that
as
in
her
Life
she
was
little
beloved
,
at
her
Funeral
she
was
as
much
slighted
and
scorned
by
every
body
,
no
one
offering
to
accompany
her
Corps
,
as
is
before
rehearsed
.
If
any
one
is
so
curious
to
make
a
farther
enquirie
into
this
Matter
,
it
is
so
known
a
Truth
to
the
inhabitants
of
King-street
aforesaid
,
that
there
is
not
one
in
the
place
but
can
affirm
and
justifie
the
whole
Relation
;
and
the
Matter
is
so
fresh
,
that
it
is
impossible
it
should
be
yet
forgotten
,
it
being
not
above
six
Weeks
since
the
Woman
died
,
as
I
am
informed
by
a
credible
Person
that
went
to
enquire
of
the
Business
amongst
the
neighbours
,
and
was
one
that
well
knew
the
said
Alice
Fowler
in
her
Life
time
,
and
from
whom
I
had
this
Relation
;
which
in
regard
of
the
strangeness
,
I
thought
fit
to
Publish
.