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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
B07953	A true discourse concerning the certaine possession and dispossession of 7 persons in one familie in Lancashire, which also may serve as part of an answere to a fayned and false discoverie which speaketh very much evill, aswell of this, as of the rest of those great and mightie workes of God which bee of the like excellent nature. / by George More, minister and preacher of the worde of God, and now (for bearing witnesse vnto this, and for iustifying the rest) a prisoner in the Clinke, where he hath continued almost for the space of two yeares..	More, George.	1600 (1600)	STC 18070.5; ESTC S94225	34,592	85

followed after in order observing time and tune as it had bin the ringing of vij Bells and such was the straungnes of these voyces that the vttering and framing of them exceeded all cunning invention or the skill of anie counterfaite imitation and the effect also so fearfull that it was both terrible and troublesome to the whole Countrie and wrought a wonderfull astonishment in all that heard it 6 Further they all of them had their bodies swolne to a wonderfull huge bignes and almost incredible if there had not bin many eye-witnesses vnto it 7 They had also a marveilous sore heaving and lifting as if their heartes would burst so that with violent strayning of thē selues some of them vomited much bloud many times 8 They had their faces dissigured and turned towardes their backes a fearfull thrusting out of their tougues with a most vglie distorting of their mouthes being drawen vp as it were vnto their eares 9 They were all of them verie fierce offering violence both to them selves and others wherein also they shewed verie great and extraordinarie strength 10 They blasphemed God and the Bible they reviled the Preachers rayled vpon such as feared God scorned all holy prayers wholesome exhortations whiche being offered and applied vnto them they euer became much worse 11 They for the most part delighted in filthie vnsavorie speaches verie aggteable to the nature of that vncleane spirite which then dwelled within them in somuch as in the verie sermon time when such vnseemelie behauiour was spoken against the evill spirit wrought most malitiously and spitefullie against the grace of God and forced one of them though she was a maide to vtter opēlie in the hearing of the people such filthie vncleanes as is not to be named 12 The most of them were both blinde deafe and dumbe for diuers dayes togither 13 They were out of their right mindes without the vse of the sences especiallie voyde of feeling as much sence in a stock as in one of them or as possible in a manner to quicken a dead man as to alter or chaunge them in their traunces or fittes in any thing that they eyther said or did 14 They were kept fasting a long time and diuers of them for the space of three dayes and 3 nightes did neither eate nor drinke anie thing Satan purposing thereby to procure their pining away 15 They in their fitts had diuers partes and members of their bodies so stiffe and stretched out as were inflexible or verie hard to be bended 16 They shewed very great and extraordinarie knowledge as may appeare by the strange things said and done by them according to that which we haue alreadie set downe in the particulars 17 They all in the ende of euerie sit said euer thus IESVS blesse me yea though they had 40 or a 100 fittes in one day as it is certaine some of them had yet they neuer missed to saye thus but as sure as they had a fitt whether it were short or long so sure it was that it should bee ended with this prayer IESVS blesse me this was euer a sure signe that they were restored to the vse of their sences for that time which neuer failed 18 They euer after their fits were as wel as might be an felt verie little or no hurt at all although they had bene neuer so sore tormented immediatlie before Now this harmonie consent in signes and actions both for the matter maner of strange handling of all these in their seuerall fits doth make it evident that they were all really and corporally possessed Notwithstanding that is true which is obiected namely that sundry of these signes may be in one that is not possessed for one may see very fearfull sights and straung apparitions and may be haunted with evil spirits driuen into great feares and frights and yet not be possessed Another may be both lame and blind and dumbe and deafe The third may bee very fierce offering violence both to themselues ond others The fourth may gnash and fome and stare with his eyes and fall downe fearfullie and suddenly lye as if he were dead And so it may be said of diuers others whiche may manie other wayes bee verie strangly handled and yet not one of them truely possessed The reason is because that when sundry of these signes are seuered from the rest and goe alone by them selues or ells are found but two or three or some few togither then such signes may arise as effects from some other workinge cause in the subiect or from the immediate hande of God or some other way But when all these signes shall concurre and meete together in one man or the most of these being ioyned with any one acte aboue the power of nature as supernaturall knowledge and extraordinarie strength or anie such impossible worke then if it shal be examined eyther according to the scriptures or histories or reason it selfe it will prooue a verie sounde and corporall possession And so by consequence the great varietie of strange signes and supernaturall actes performed by these 7. and shewed aswell in everie particular as in those thinges which they had in common one with another doth easilie conclude a verie true and sound possession The third part The 3 part of this discourse cōcernes our comming to Mai. Starkies house the occasion thereof how we came to haue to deale with these 7 persons our entrance into and our whole cariage in that action whiche beeing truelie sett downe may serue to discharge vs of those grievous calumniations cōtayned in the discouerie charging vpō vs both the names and practize of cousiners juglers exorcistes imposters c. FIRST then the continuance of these troubles in Mai. Starkies house the remembrance of Doct. Dees coūsell to send for some Preachers the imprisoning of Edmond the Witch in Lancaster Iayle the hearing of the Boy of Burton who being strangelie afflicted receyued helpe deliuerance by M. Darrells advise vpō these occasions Mr. Starkie sent for M. Darrell 3 seuerall times before he came hee euer imparted the newes vnto the brethren as it came to his hand because he would attempt nothing in those cases without very good advisement and lawfull consent In the end it was concluded that hee should goe and thought fit that I also should go with him as a companion in the iourney and a witnes to all his proceedings according to his owne request This being done M. Darr wrote his letter to M. Starkie wherin he promised that aftter some present and important busines was dispatched he would come and visite him desiring with all the assistance of some faithful Ministers about M. Starkie especially his Pastour to ioyne with vs. This letter M. Starkie reade in the presence of Iohn Starkie his sonne and some other after which time he the said Iohn had no fit at all till the day of our cōming thither the rest had some little fitts but not so grieuous as