The Crown appears to have regarded the trial as one of some importance, as evidenced by the fact that Sir William Domville, the Attorney General for Ireland, travelled from Dublin to Cork to prosecute her in person.
According to accounts of her trial, at Christmas of 1660, Newton was heard to mumble curses after she was denied a piece of beef at the house of John Pyne.
She also allegedly vomited horse nails, needles, pins, straw and wool and was pelted by stones that vanished when they hit the ground.
Newton was also accused of causing the death of her gaoler, David Jones, by sorcery, after he attempted to teacher her the Lords prayer.
While Seymour in 1913 believed Newton had probably been convicted and executed,[1] Andrew Sneddon in 2019 published proof that she had in fact died before the trial could be concluded.