Any person that is in love with a man, and he won’t return it, let her come to me, and I’ll make him glad of her, and thank ye to boot, by only giving him a little of these love drops, it will make him that he can’t rest without her.  And the like, if a man is in love with a young woman, and she won’t comply, let him give her a little of this liquor of love, and she will not be able to rest without him.  If a woman has got a husband that goes astray, let her give him a few of these drops, and it will make him, rest at home, and never desire to go no more.  And the like with a man if his wife goes astray, it will make her that she will never desire no other man.

This liquor is the study of a Jesuit, one Mr. Delore, and is sold by his nephew, Mr. John Delore, and I promise very fair, if it don’t perform all I say, I’ll have nothing for my pains; and if any young master has debauched a servant, and after won’t have her, let her give him a little of this liquor, and if he don’t marry her, I’ll have nothing for it; therefore, I promise very fair, no performance no pay.

APPENDIX VII.

CONTEMPORARY ACCOUNT OF THE EXECUTION OF MARY BLANDY.

(From No. 7 of Bibliography, Appendix XII.)

She was attended daily by the Rev. Mr. Swinton, before whom, there is no doubt, she behaved properly (though in his absence seemed not under the least concern) as appears From Mr. Swinton, himself, whose veracity I don’t in the least scruple, who has at various times declared, that whenever he was with Miss Blandy after her condemnation, she behaved in a becoming manner for a person under such circumstances; but I am afraid she had too much art for that gentleman, and that he was rather too credulous, and often imposed upon by her; she made him believe, ’tis certain, that after her mother’s death, her apparition frequently appear’d; that there was musick hoard in the house night and day; yet all the performers were invisible.  The reader will be surprised that stories of this kind should prevail at this time of day, and still more so, that Mr. Swinton should listen to them; but I am well informed that this gentleman himself is apt, to give credit to things of this sort.

Some days before her execution, she said that she intended to speak at the tree, if she had spirits when she came there, but that she was afraid the sudden shock of seeing the gallows might be too much for her to withstand, and that her spirits might fail her, unless she had an opportunity of seeing it beforehand, which she did, as the reader will find hereafter.

We are now arrived at the verge of this unfortunate’s life; the day before her execution she receiv’d the Holy Sacrament of the Lord’s Supper, and sign’d and deliver’d the following paper, in order to convince the world how much she had been imposed on and seduc’d.