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to be with child which ſhe could not long hide, for after her delivery ſhe was as big as if ſhe had gone with half a dozen children at once; whereupon ſhe was carried before a juſtice, who threatened and chided her for her incontinency, but he was ſoon ſilenced, for his wife and all his family being preſent, Agatha ſaid to him aloud, "Mr Juſtice how gravely you talk now, and yet the truth is, your worſhip is not altogether free, for here ſtands two of your ſervant wenches, who are both at this time with child by you;" pointing to them ſeverally with her finger: At which both himſelf and the two girls were ſo blanked that his wife plainly ſaw what ſhe ſaid was true, aad therefore fell upon the harlots like fury; for all that Mr Juſtice and the conſtables could do, was not enough to keep the peace, and the whole family was in ſuch confuſion, that Agatha at that time was diſmiſſed; and ſoon after, in the month of July, in the fourth year of the reign of king Henry VII. which was in the year of our Lord 1484, was brought to bed of a daughter; her travail was very grievous, and a moſt terrible clap of thunder happened juſt as the was
