The following piece of evidence is among the loose papers on file in the clerk’s office:—­

“THE DEPOSITION OF SARAH INGERSOLL, aged about thirty years.—­Saith, that, seeing Sarah Churchill after her examination, she came to me crying and wringing her hands, seemingly to be much troubled in spirit.  I asked her what she ailed.  She answered, she had undone herself.  I asked her in what.  She said, in belying herself and others in saying she had set her hand to the Devil’s book, whereas, she said, she never did.  I told her I believed she had set her hand to the book.  She answered, crying, and said, ’No, no, no:  I never, I never did.’  I asked her then what made her say she did.  She answered, because they threatened her, and told her they would put her into the dungeon, and put her along with Mr. Burroughs; and thus several times she followed me up and down, telling me that she had undone herself, in belying herself and others.  I asked her why she did not deny she wrote it.  She told me, because she had stood out so long in it, that now she durst not.  She said also, that, if she told Mr. Noyes but once she had set her hand to the book, he would believe her; but, if she told the truth, and said she had not set her hand to the book a hundred times, he would not believe her.

     “SARAH INGERSOLL.”

This paper has also the signature of “Ann Andrews.”

This incident probably occurred during the examination of George Jacobs; and the bitter compunction of Churchill was in consequence of the false and malignant course she had been pursuing against her old master.  It is a relief to our feelings, so far as she is regarded, to suppose so.  Bad as her conduct was as one of the accusers, on other occasions after I am sorry to say as well as before, it shows that she was not entirely dead to humanity, but realized the iniquity of which she had been guilty towards him.  It is the only instance of which we find notice of any such a remnant of conscience showing itself, at the time, among those perverted and depraved young persons.  The reason, why it is probable that this exhibition of Churchill’s penitential tears and agonies of remorse occurred immediately after the first day of Jacobs’s examination, is this.  It was one of the first, if not the first, held at the house of Thomas Beadle.  Sarah Ingersoll would not have been likely to have fallen in with her elsewhere.  It is evident, from the tenor and purport of the document, that the deponent was not entirely carried away by the prevalent delusion, and probably did not follow up the proceedings generally.  But it was quite natural that her attention should have been called to proceedings of interest at Beadle’s house, particularly on that first occasion.  She lived in the immediate vicinity.  The indorsement by Ann Andrews, the daughter of Jacobs, increases the probability that the occurrence was at his examination.