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A55138	A pleasant treatise of witches their imps, and meetings, persons bewitched, magicians, necromancers, incubus, and succubus's, familiar spirits, goblings, pharys, specters, phantasms, places haunted, and devillish impostures : with the difference between good and bad angels, and a true relation of a good genius / by a pen neer the covent of Eluthery.	Pen neer the Covent of Eluthery.	1673 (1673)	Wing P2564; ESTC R9332	44,947	136

that he was her spirit then they asked if she were damned and for what fault whether for Covetousness Lust Pride or for the new Heresie and Lutheranisme and what she desired by her unquietude whether that her body should be removed into another place to which questions the spirit by its signs did give either its affirmation or negation and when it had signified that it was tormented for Lutheranism and desired to be removed from that place then they desired the people to bear witness of it but the people fearing the Praetors displeasure would not do it Nevertheless the Franciscans removed thence their bread and water and all the sacred vessels till at last the Bishops Vicegerent to be better certified concerning this matter came in person with many Honourable and Religious men and commanded them to exorcise the spirit in their presence and to send some body to the roof of the place to see if they could perceive any thing This the Authors of this villany withstood saying the spirit was not to be troubled and although he was very urgent yet could he not prevail with the Franciscans to permit any one to go up The Praetor in this time went to the King and because the Franciscans standing upon their priviledges hindred a strict inquiery into the matter the King sent some of his Councel with full power to examine all things Those of the Franciscans therefore that were suspected were laid hold on yet for fear of a shameful death confessed nothing But at last the King promising them Pardon they disclosed the whole business nevertheless they were condemned to be sent again to Aurelia and put in Prison till they had publickly before all the people confessed their crime in the place that Malefactors used to be Executed CHAP. X. A true and admirable process of a Witch that wrought Miracles by the help of the Devil Mr. Iosse Donhoadere a learned Lawyer of Flanders in his Book Intituled Practique Criminal writes to this purpose There was in the time that I was Counsellor in the Town of Bruges an old woman that in carriage clothes and manner of life was in appearance irreprehensible insomuch that she gained an esteem from all and every one had a reverence for her forasmuch as she healed as it were miraculously the children of many Honourable Families straightning the crooked and setting broken joynts instantly in their places not by Art or Physick but certain words and ceremonies of Devotion as to fast three dayes with bread and water to say so many times the Lords Prayer to go on Pilgrimage to Nostre Dame d' Ardenbourg or to St. Arnoul d' Audenbourg or to St. Iosse or to St. Hubert of Ardennes or to say a Mass or two in a day or to say other certain Prayers and Anthems These Devotions being exactly performed the sick people were healed through the faith they and their relations had in this woman The carriage and miracles of this woman being published through the Countrey the Counsellors and Magistrates that had more wit than the vulgar sort caused her to be apprehended one night to be put in Prison and examined by what authority and means and by what confidence she performed such Cures To which she answered alwayes confidently that she did them upon good intentions and that there was no reason they should torment and persecute her for doing good Nevertheless the Councel being moved by manifest signs condemned her to be Rackt gently exhorting her to declare the truth but still she persisted in her first answer affirming there was nothing unlawful and that all was done without any compact or agreement with the Devil There was then present at the Examination the Bourgomaster of Bruges a man very much tormented with the Gout that of times he cry'd out as if he had been rack'd himself which the old woman perceiving and turning her self to him said Mr. Bourgomaster have you a mind to be rid of the trouble of your Gout if you have I shall cure you and that very soon if it were possible replyed the Bourgomaster I would willingly give two thousand crowns to be whole and you shall have them if thou performest what thou saist Then the other Judges and Registers that were present told him Sir pray have a care what you say and what you do believe us and let us send back this Witch into her chamber and hear patiently what we shall declare unto you the woman being carryed back see said they what danger you put your self into by a vain perswasion that this woman should be equal to the Apostles and can cure you of your Gout by lawful means All indeed that she doth seemeth apparently Holy and Divine but if you look more narrowly into the matter there is much to be said against it Let us call for her therefore again and inquire how she pretends to cure you if she promise to cure you miraculously as the Apostles have done the Diseases of their time and that she followes the means they have made use of we shall not be against her knowing that the hand of God is not straigntned but if she make use of unlawful means and puts her trust in them there is reason that all her proceedings should be suspected both by you and us also Therefore when she was sent for back again one of them said if thou presumest to cure the Bourg Master of the Gout what remedies and means will you apply none other said she but that the Bourg-Master believe and be perswaded for certain that I have power to cure him so shall he be sound and set upon his feet Hereupon she was sent out back to her Chamber then the Judges with one accord told the Bourg-Master and standers by You see Gentlemen by the answer of this woman that she doth nothing but by the power of Satan and that she undertakes to cure the Bourg-master by unlawful means for in her way she doth not follow the Holy Apostles who cur'd the sick by Divine Faith and Power saying to the Lame man In the Name of our Lord Iesus Christ rise and Walk and to the Blind In the Name of our Lord Iesus Christ recover thy sight so that one was set upon his feet and the other recovered his sight not by humane help but by the Divine Power in the Name and Faith of Jesus Christ. Now this Witch boasteth only to cure if the Patient put his trust in her and believe that she can do it such faith or rather perfidicusness is directly against the practise of the Apostles This answer being well apprehended and digested the Bourg-Master was sorry for what he had done gave no more credit to woman and ever after repented him of his levity But to return to the Witch because she did persevere in denying those things she was accused of it was concluded she should be put to the Rack where being stretch roughly she acknowledged some light faults but as for Witchcraft she

room and viewing the books he perceived a Manuscript of Agrippa's amongst the rest as it were a compendium of them this he reads and in short space raises an ill favour'd Devil who entring the study asked what he would have that he call'd him so the young man unexperienced frightned and ignorant what to say was choaked by the Spirit and left dead on the ground Agrippa not long after returns home and finds the Devil dancing and shewing tricks upon the house top at which astonished he goes into his Study and finds the dead body which he commands his spirit to enter and carry to the place where the Students used to meet this being done and the spirit quitting the body it fell down and was buryed for dead having some marks only of strangulation about the Throat But not long after the matter was discovered and Agrippa for safty fled to Lorrain There was in the Emperor Maximilians Court a famous Negromancer as Authors affirm who at his command and promise of pardon and reward took upon him to shew the shapes of the three great Warriers Hector Achilles and King David upon condition of silence when they appeared and the Emperor he places in the midst of his Magick Circle seats him in his Throne and afterwards reading and murmuring certain Charms out of his pocket-Pocket-Book he desires silence Hector then knocks at the door so vehemently that the whole house shook and the door being opened he came in with a bright Speer in his hand his Eye fiery and his Stature exceeding other mens Not long after in the same Majestical postture came in Achilles looking fiercely towards Hector and often shaking his Speer as though he would have invaded him Thus having thrice passed by the Emperor and made Obeysance they vanished Afterwards came in King David in his Crown and Princely Robes with his Harp in his hand His countenance was more gracious then that of the other two and he passed likewise thrice by the Emperor but wi●…hout Reverence to him and went away The Magician being asked by the Emperor why King David denyed him the respect the other two gave answered that all things were subject to his Kingdom for asmuch as Christ sprang from him Saint Augustine writes of Pythagoras that whether by natural Magick or some secret agreement with the Devil it is doubted by Authors he kept a Bear of prodigious greatness with him many years and at last making him swear never to hurt any Beast gave him liberty and sent him into the Woods The same Magician being near Tarent and seeing an Ox eating in a field of Beans called to the herdsman to drive the beast from eating the Beans But the surly clown made answer he might chastise him himself if he would as he used to whip his Boys Whereupon Pythagor as making certain magick Characters on the ground and muttering some Charms to himself caused the beast to come out of the Beans as if it had been endued with reason and ever after it refused the Yoke and retired to Tarent living among the inhabitants and taking her food from the hands of Men Women and Children A certain Magician at Madeburg was us'd to shew a little Horse to the people in the Market place for money commanding it to do many rare things which always it performed But complaining one day to the people in the end of his shew that he had got very little that the times were very hard and the like he wisht that he were in heaven then throwing up the bridle into the air the horse followed it and he as if he would have stayed it by the tail was carryed up also his wife catched hold of him his maid of her and all fly up into the air like so many links of a chain Now while the people were looking and wondring at it a certain Citizen came to the multitude and understanding the matter affirmed that he met but a little before the Magician going to his Inn. To this purpose Niderius also reports that in the year 1045 a certain Magician in England was seen to mount on a black horse on a Sabbath day and to be carryed away through the air Henry the third King of France had a brother called the Duke of Allenzon who came to England formerly to be a suiter to Queen Elizabeth in whose retinue was the Valiant Busidamboyes who took the Dukes part between whom and the King was a perpetual sued The King therefore by nature timerous and suspicious was always afraid of this valiant person and after his return into France devised several means to take him out of the way Amongst the rest coming by night out of the Louure he was set upon by seventeen armed and appointed men ye●… behaved himself so stoutly that he killed five of them and made his escape The King seeing he had mist of him and that ever after he stood upon his Guard put in tryal another way For there being a constant report at Court that Bussidamboyes was in favour with the Earl of Monsurrous wife he sent for an Italian Negromancer famous at that time and called ●…riscalino Of him he enquires if he could shew or declare to him what Bussidamboyes was then doing which the Magician after certain conjurations shewed him in a Glass where was Bussidamboyes in bed with a Lady Hereupon the King sent for his Courtiers amongst whom was the Earl of Monsorrou at that time and a●…ked if they knew that Lady The Earl much abased replyed it was his wife Then said the King I will have no Culckolds to be my Courtiers To which the Earl made answer that to hinder what was done was not in his power but that it was in the Kings to give him leave to avenge himself which he earnestly requested The King glad to be any ways rid of Bussidamboyes gave his assent and the Earl posted away immediately to his own house and coming betimes in the morning to his wife as she lay in bed offered her the choice of three things either a draught of Poyson a Dagger to kill her self or to write such a Letter as he would dictate to her The miserable woman terrified with the thoughts of death consented to the Latter and according to her husbands dictating sent for Bussidamboyes who suspected nothing to come unto her In the mean time the Earl concealed himself in the house armed with six more and behind the Curtains in her chamber Bussidamboyes came not long after and offering to go up stairs in his accustomed manner was desired by a Page set for that purpose to leave his Spurs and his Sword below because his Lady was ill and the least noise disturbed her This he did not mistrusting what would follow but as soon he entred the Chamber the Lady gave a sign and all rusht in upon him Nevertheless being of an undaunted courage he took the first chair he found and so behaved himself with that weapon by reason of his great