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24 speak with a divine, which being admitted, he not only confessed the crime which he was convicted, but the murder of Wouldkill his companion, and his leaving the innocent children in the wood, where they perished, and at the instigation of whom, as likewise for what reward, and upon what occasion, saying he would not die peaceably before he made that discovery, nor was it long after before he was executed, and the bones of the children were found near the place where he directed the auditors. And thus God punished the shedding of innocent blood, the terror of which may be a means to hinder others from running into wicked designs either for gain or revenge.