passim.
*** Wodrow p.

434.
**** Wodrow, p.

505.
They all refused, and were condemned to a capital punishment by drowning.

One of them was an elderly woman: the other two were young; one eighteen years of age, the other only thirteen.

Even these violent persecutors were ashamed to put the youngest to death: but the other two were conducted to the place of execution, and were tied to stakes within the sea mark at low water; a contrivance which rendered their death lingering and dreadful.