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(8) himſelf, his wife, eight ſons, ſix daughters, eighteen grand-ſons, and fourteen grand-daughters, begotten in inceſt: they then were all ſeized and pinioned; they took what ſleſh they found, and buried it in the ſands, then taking all the ſpoil, they returned to Exeter with the priſoners, the country people flocking round to ſee the curſed tribe. When they came to the town, they were committed to the goal, and next day conducted under a ſtrong guard to Plymouth, where they were all executed without any proceſs, it being needleſs to try any creatures who were ſuch profeſs’d enemies to mankind.

The men had firſt their privy members cut off and thrown into the fire before their faces; and then their hands and legs were cut off, by which amputation they bled to death ſome hours afterwards.

The wife, daughters, and grand children having been made ſpectators of this juſt puniſhment inflicted on the men, were burnt to death in three ſeveral fires. They all dy'd without the leaſt ſign of, and continued curſing and the moſt horrid Imprecations  the laſt gaſp of breath.