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the dark of the evening, one night sent away with Mark Sharp, who was a collier, or one that digges coals under ground, and who had been born in Blackburn-hundred in Lancashire, and so she was not heard of for a long lime, and no noise or little was made about her. In the winter time, one James Graham, being a miller, and living two miles from the place where Walker lived, was one night alone very late in the mill grinding corn and about twelve or one o'clock at night he came down the stairs, from having been putting corn in the hopper, the mill-doors being shut there stood a woman upon the midst of the floor, with her hair about her head, hanging down and all bloody with five large wounds on her head. He being much affrighted and amazed, began to bless him self; and at last asked her who she was, and what she wanted? To whom she answered, "I am the spirit of such a woman, who lived with Walker and being got with child by him, he promised to send me to a private place, where I should be well look'd to, until I was brought to bed, and well recovered, and then I should come home again, and keep his house. And accordingly," said the apparition, "I was one night late, sent away with one Mark Sharp, who upon a muir (naming a plain which the miller knew) slew me with a pike, such as men dig coals withal, and gave me these five
