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Dr. H. More's Letter.

inclosed Paper, both Men at that time, and both at the Trial; and for Mr. Lumley, he lived next door to Walker, and what he hath given under his Hand, can depose if there were occasion. The other Gentleman writ his Attestation with his own Hand; but I being not there got not his name to it. I could have sent you twenty Hands that could have said thus much and more by Hearsay, but I thought these most proper that could speak from their own Eyes and Ears. Thus far Mr. Shepherdson, the Doctor's discreet and faithful Intelligencer; now for Mr. Lumly of Lumly, being an ancient Gentleman, and at the Trial of Walker and Sharp upon the Murder of Anne Walker, saith, That he doth very well remember that the said Anne was Servant to Walker, and that she was supposed to be with Child, but would not disclose by whom; but being removed to her Aunts in the same Town called Dame Caire, told her Aunt that he that got her with Child would take care both for her and it, and bid her not trouble her self. After some time she had been at her Aunts, it was observed that Sharp came to Lumly one Night, being a sworn Brother of the said Walker's; and they two that Night called her forth from her Aunts House, which Night she was Murder'd; about fourteen Days after the Murder, there appeared to one Graime a Fuller, at his Mill, six Miles from Lumly, the likeness of a Woman with her Hair about her Head, and the appearance of five Wounds in her Head, as the said Graime gave it in Evidence, that that Appearance bid him go to a Justice of Peace, and relate to him, how that Walker and Sharp had Murthered her in such a place as she was Murthured; but he fearing to disclose a thing of that nature against a Person of Credit as Walker was, would not have done it; upon which the said Graime did go to a Justice of Peace and related the whole Matter. Whereupon the Justice of Peace granted Warrants against Walker and Sharp, and committed them to a Prison; but they found Bail to appear at the next Assizes, at which they came to their Tryal, and upon Evidence of the Circumstances, with that of Graime of the Appearance, they were both found Guilty and Executed.

William Lumly

The other Testimony is of Mr. James Smart of the City of Durham, who saith, that the Trial of Sharp and Walker was in the Month of August, 1631, before Judge Davenport. One Mr. Fairhair gave it in Evidence upon Oath, that he saw the likeness