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A19855	A detection of that sinnful, shamful, lying, and ridiculous discours, of Samuel Harshnet. entituled: A discouerie of the fravvdulent practises of Iohn Darrell wherein is manifestly and apparantly shewed in the eyes of the world. not only the vnlikelihoode, but the flate impossibilitie of the pretended counterfayting of William Somers, Thomas Darling, Kath. Wright, and Mary Couper, togeather with the other 7. in Lancashire, and the supposed teaching of them by the saide Iohn Darrell.	Darrel, John, b. ca. 1562.	1600 (1600)	STC 6283; ESTC S109292	232,635	230

therein which only concerneth this momentary life and reacheth not to the bodies of men much lesse to there foules The welfare and saluation of which next to the glory of god is only worthy to be sought and laboured for all other thinges beinge mere tryfles in comparison thereof Besides consideringe seriously of the afore sayd hande of God vpon me and of the continuance of my very rare sluggishnes the lyke whereto I thinke hath bene seldome founde in any notwithstanding my earnest striuing against the same I began to feare least I did 〈◊〉 against the prickes and imagine that the lord sure woulde vse my 〈◊〉 in some other thinge and place me in another standinge And this ● I speake the ●oth in Christ and lye not caused me to change my minde and wars●●● my studye from the law of man to the law of God not any corr●ption in the same that I perceaued His frend forgetteth himself in affirming that M. Darrells life hath bene so searched into for true it is that diligent care was had and commaundement giuen accordingly that touching his conuersation pag. 25. otherwise thē apperteyned directly to his pretended course of casting out diuells there should not any one point be inquired into neither was there as by the acts in record it may appeare and as it is supposed M. Darrell will himselfe confesse No verily I am so farr from confessing this that I am fully assured of the contrary I haue bene very credibly informed of a serching after the life I led at Cambridge and by page 95. it appeareth that vppon some inquiry information hath bene giuen How I behaued myselfe at Ashby and at Nottingham the Dis himselfe may remember that he and an other Commissioner deposed and examyned one Web his wife of Nottingham at whose house at my first comming I made my abode for a sewe dayes wherevpon and what moued her to inter tayne me what speaches in secret passed betwene her and me what words I vttered in the prayers I vsed while I was there or to this effect and not concerning my casting out diuells or Som counterfeiting or not counterfeyting concerning which she could say tho least of a thousand And for●asmuch as this fact of the Dis was contrary to the commaund●ment giuen him and that herein he and his fellowe commissione●●●●ent beyond the boundes of their commission and that the thing he did is in it selfe most intollerable I desire all men to consider of it specially those that be in authority But what hath the Dis in all his searching found out I aske of him whose oxe or affe I haue taken or to whom I haue done wrong if he can tell let him heereafter declare yt But one thing is reported of M. Darrell which passeth the rest and maketh it probable you may not doubt that God hath geuen him an especiall grace aboue all other Exorcists pag. 26. now a dayes to expelli diuels For the say that after a sort he hath forsaken house lands and all for Christs sake● which being an Apostolicall resolution why should not he haue that guifte graunted vnto him Indeede one is as true as the other The reason why it hath bene said as is heere repored is because for a preaching ministery sake and so for Christ and his gospell sake I changed my habitation and when I dwelt in my owne house vpō my owne land in my natiu country among my kinstolkes and acquayntance to my full contentment and hartes delight for the thinges of this life I through the grade of god left all these to my losse puched my tent in an other coast and hereof I am not ashamed And why might not he who knew this to be true say as is aforesaide this the Dis scorneth being one of those that will neither enter into the kingdome of heauen nor suffer those that would He seemeth by his scornfull speaches following to thinke that there is no forsaking of h●● use land and all to followe Christ but where one selleth house lande and all he possesseth and giueth the mony to the poore according to the speach of Christ to the yong man in the gospell if you will be perfect sell that thou hast 〈◊〉 19. 21. and giue it to the poore But to let this error goe what meaneth the Dis to call this an Apostolicall resolution It should seme the answer giue by Peeter concerning himself fellowe Apostls Behould we haue forsaken all followed thee But the Disc must knowe that all this resolution to forsake all and followe Christ is not proper and peculyar to the Apostles but common to them with all christians yea this resolution is so generall as he that is not resolued to for●ak house land yea and his owne life also and all to followe Christ and his gospell u is not worthy of Christ marke 8. 34. and cannot be his disciple Thus saith our Sauiour marke 8. 34 u whosoeuer will followe mee let him forsake himself that is resolue with himselfe or be willing and ready to lose or lay downe his life for my sake whensoeuer I shall call him there-vnto which hee must dayly expect much more house and land and all things besids and againe if any man come to mee and hate not his father and mother and wife Luke 14. 26. and children and brethren and sisters yea and his owne life also he cannot be my disciple And here-vpon ymediatly after he compareth him that is not resolute and ready to forsake life and all and to endure whatsoeuer persecutions can befall him for Christ's sake and yet professe himselfe to be Christ's to a rash and foolish man that beginneth to builde but is not able to make an end and to an vanduised king going to warre against an other who will neither send embassage and desire peace neither yet is able to meete him that commeth against him and then concludeth the same thus so likewise whosoeuer he be of you that forsaketh not all that he hath he cannot be my disciple Yea obserue I beseech you heere how by the next wordes following these of Peter whervpon it must needs be the Dis gathereth this resolution of forsaking all to be Apostolicall this is manifestly conuinced For when Christ had vpon occasiō of Peeter's words tould him the other of his disciples what reward they which had thus forsaken all followed him should haue that they should sit vppon twelue thrones iudge the twelue tribes of Israell there he sheweth that neither this forsaking of all nor reward is proper to them his Apostles but common to others saying And whosoeuer shall forsake houses or brethren orsisters or father or mother or wife or children or lands for my name sake hee shall receaue an hundred fould more and shall inherite euerlasting life As it Christ Iesus had said not only you my Apostles but whosoeuer els shall forsake all to followe mee ma●h 19. 19. marke 10. 1●

vpon the producinge of these silly shiftes and absurd proo●es by a Prelate specially and his Chaplaine hand ouer head and of their word rather then vpon an● diligent examination of the matter receiue these for covnterfeites and me for their instructor which the B. of London and S. Harsnet knew full well eis they woulde haue saued that labour yet the Prelate and his Chaplaine cannot possiblie so beleeue and be perswaded in their consciences which haue forged them to this saide end and purpose and haue deliberatly and aduisedly wayed all things throughly concerning this matter except you will cleane put out the eyes of their vnderstan●ingl and depriue them of their reason math 28. 13. make them of reasonable vnreasonable creatures Though the people of the Iewes through that silly shift of the Hie Preists and the Elders did beleiue that Christes disciples came by night and stole him away whiles the souldiers sleept yet the hie priestes and Elders who deuised this shift for the smotheringe of Christs resurrection knewe and were perswaded in their cōsciences it was not so but far otherwise Even so in this our case though many of the people of England doe in their simplicitie and rash credulitie verelie beleiue that Somers the rest haue counterfeited I instructed them be cause of the silly reasons printed published to that end by the B. of London and S. Harsnet yet the B. Harsnet which haue invented de uised those sottish reasons and framed a whole booke for the smotheringe of the worke of God wrought vpon these persons can not but know and be in their consciences perswaded that they haue not counterfeited nor I taught them These then good reader with sundrie others are the speciall reasons that moue me to thinke that they themselues what face soeuer they sett on it doe not yet in their owne consciences betwixt god them constantly beleiue all that they haue thus published or rather libelled against me beinge a thinge vnpossiblie they should And if it fare so with the bitingest and bitterest aduersaries I may the bolder I thinke even by the law and rule of equitie be an earnest suter vnto thee whosoeuer thou art to suspend thy iudgment and not hastily to passe any sentence against me intreat thy patience christian reader and fauourable censure of me thus farr fourth as to cause thee to stope thine eares to all vniust surmizes and odious exclamations against me till proofe and triall haue discouered my guiltines or innocencie And this the rather I trust you will doe if you remember and forgett not that saying of the holy ghost he that is first in his owne cause is iust then cometh his neighbour and maketh inquirie of him And that other in the same place he that answereth amatter before he heare it it is follie and shame vnto him pro. 18. 13. 17. He that answereth that is taketh vpon him to iudg or determine of a matter incontrouersie before he heare it meaning what can be said of both sides it is follie and shame vnto him that is a poynt of follie comming from the lake of wisdome and such as whereof one ought to be ashamed And the rather I am to intreat this fauour at thy handes in that I haue not bene dealt with accordinge to the ordinarie course of Iustice of this land but altogether against the haire and in the vnreason ablest manner of proceeding that might be as if it were no matter at all what violence indignitie they offer to a man of my condition or to so base a fellowe as Darrell is Neither by their patience doe I thinke that they can for their liues giue me an instance or shewe me the like president of their irregular disorderly proceeding against me in any of the honorable ciuil cour●●● of the Realme which is worthy the notinge yea to be recorded and nayled on the postes of the streetes to the veiw of posteritie One would thinke that the reuerent fathers of the Church should in their courtes and iudiciall proceedinges giue their children as they would haue them counted the reuerent Iudges of the land and fathers of the common wealth an example and pa●terne of Iustice and equitie and not such an example as they would abhorr and be a shamed to followe I haue heard that amonge other the excellent graces of God vpon her Maiestie this is one that doth exceedingly grace both her person her goverment namely that in the makinge and ordaininge of her Iudges she doth among other things enioyne thē this speciall charge That what soeuer in equitie may be produced on the behalfe of the subiecte may be patiently heard and fauourably admitted without exception or partialitie and that they should not perswade themselues to sitte otherwise in Iudgment for her selfe then for her subiecte which kind of equall and christian procedinge if it had bene held with me I needed not now to haue spent my time in refuting this shameles and malitious invectiue what proceedinge hath bene vsed against me will plainly appeare by this discourse followinge and namely in my answeare to the second chapter of the first booke by the quaeries or demaundes to the Discouerer I meane the B. pag. 14 of the Discouerie of London and S. Harsnet iustifiynge the same and affirminge that this cause hath bene examined accordinge to the vsual course by the lawes of the Realme in such cases provided And yet shall not the Discouerer be euer able to name in what one thing after my appearāce before the high commission I was dealt with according to lawe Truly for my owne parte I can not If he can let him doe it For these reasons I hope good reader that layinge aside all partiallitie and preiudice you will reserue the one eare to heare what Darrell hath to say for the Lord and himselfe and against counterfeiting and teachinge Somers Darling c. to counterfeite and that you will beware how you receiue a false report against your neighbour specially against the Lord himselfe and his workes If any thinke that the charge of counterfeiting and of my teachinge to counterfeite the summe of the booke answeared by me is so lying slaunderous abhorring to common sence palpable false and vnpossible to be true that it was altogether vnworthy the answearinge and convincing or at least of so large an answeare and conviction as heere followeth such may remember that the Apostles being charged with drunckennes and to be full of newe wine act 2. 13 14. math 12. Peter for them all answeare 〈◊〉 conuinced that vile slaunder In like sort did our Sauiour Christ being charged more vily to be a coniurer and to cast out deuils through Belzabub the prince of deuils which thinges are written for our learning even to teach vs what to doe whē any such thing falleth out Now the larger I haue bene for these two reasons First I thought it fitt to answeare to all

Luk 18. ●● shall haue the same recompence of reward with you And this is expressly set downe by the 3. Euangelists which argueth a greater ignorance in the Dis From this resolution to forsake house lands and all for Christs sake which I would be sorry I had not he concludeth me to haue or to pretend to haue the Apostolicall guift meaning the same guift to cast out diuells and power ouer vncleane spirits By this worthy collection of the Disc Lethu●● Ridley Cram●●● those worthy men in ● Maye time the must needs haue the Apostolicall gift of casting out deuills because they forsoke all for christ his gospell sake which the Apostles had And marke what he addeth Indeede one is as true as the other But I say who shoulde knowe better then he the one is more true then the other and that the latter is as false as the other is true But to leaue my self what saith the Dis to many thousand a martyrs in former ages who had not only this resolution but did indeede forsake house land and all yea theire owne liues for Christs sake were they all Apostles and indewed with that Apostolicall guift by a worde to cast out diuels and by consequent to worke other miracles Thus we see that whiles the Dis in moc kage blundereth out Apostolicall resolution and Apostoliicall guist he deliuereth doctrines rather Apostaticall then Apostolicall I meane such as can in no sorte be drawne from nor agreeing with their holy writings Will you knowe how he hath forsaken all to followe Christ Hauinge two or three houses and a litle land in Mansfeild and elswhere left him by his father he sode the same and since bath liued vpon the moneye being as one of his frends saith fiue or sixe hundred poundes Pag. 26. If then to sell land and liue vpon the monney be to leaue all and followe Christ and afit noate of one that can cast out diuels wee shall not wante men of that trade many vsurers in England will prooue good Exorcists It is cleare that howsoeuer he doth not in plaine tearmes call me vsurer yet he doth intimate somuch and would haue men so to accounte of me But I desire all men seinge it is not so to be better perswaded of me and not to giue ●are to this his false reporte True it is that after certaine shorte leases which my father left me were expired which were worth yearely three times more to me then my lād I sould that little lande I had as beinge not able of the annuall rent there-of spetially in those deare yeares to mayntaine my selfe and familie hauinge 5. children But it is as true that presently with the same moneye I tooke a farme in Ashbie-delazouch and bought some store of sheepe kine horses oxen with other thinges appeartayninge to husbandry for the mayntēnance of my houshould which both religion and nature taught me to prouide for And these thinges are well knowne to many It is plaine then that I neither soulde my land to that end the Disc pretendeth neither being sould did liue vpon the money that is let it forth to vsurie as vsurers doe I am sory thus to trouble the world with the readinge of my priuat affaires but that the vnresonablenesse of the aduersarie and his sclanderous tongue doeth there-vnto enforce me in the iust defence of mine owne innocencie But hath not the Disc hore faithfully kepte his promise in that he saide he would not meddle with my life or is he not taken tardie in that he saied he had not searched there-into OF CHAPTER 5. How M. Darrell knewe Som. and the rest to be possessed M. Darrell affirmeth that Christ did not ordeyne any meanes to know who was possessed in the apostls time pag. 2 7. but left that to be discerned by the maner of theire sitts and so sraming his iudgment accordingly he saith that the only meanes whereby now men are descerned to be possessed are the signes which are mentioned in the scriptures I neither doe nor did say that the Apostles did by no other way or meanes discerne who were possessed then by the manner of their vexation by sathan which he calleth heere the manner of their fits for it may be that some times they knewe somuch by some present and extraordinary guift act●s 26 26. and so it is likely that Paule knew the Pythonesse to be possessed and therefore I saide that the only meanes whereby NOW men are discerned c. but this is it I say that Christ did not ordeyne any such meanes for then we shoulde haue it in the Scriptures and such ordinance there I dare be bould to say we haue none Besids what needs Christ to haue ordeyned any other meanes for the disceerning of the possessed seeing by their manner of handling in they re fits it was so manifest and a difease so easy to be knowne that the comon people yea euen the simple women could discerne thereof as hath before bene shewed vers 10. yea but saith the Dis there is such an ordinance for in the 1. to the Cor. Chap. 12. among other guifts there is mention of one called discretio spirituum the discerning of spirites which saith the Dis was a measure of gods spirit to discerne betwixt counterfeyts and such as were indeede possessed math 7. 15. math 24 24. vers 11. But we must knowe that the holy ghost meaneth hereby an other manner of guift u Beware saith Christ of false prophets which come to you insheepes cloathing but inwardly are rau●ning wolu●s ● cor 11. 13. chap. 4. 1. And againe * thore shall arise false Christes and false prophets and shall shew greate signes and wonders so that yf it were possible they should deceaue the 〈◊〉 elect And S. Paule speaketh of v false Apost les which were deceiptfull workers transforming themselues into the Apostles of Christ and of Sathan his ministers transforming themselues as though they were the ministers of righteousnes And S. Iohn saith thus Dearly beloued beleue not euery spirit but try the spirits whether they are of god for many false prophets are gone out into this world All these beare the world in hand that they haue the spirit of god and teach the truth or true and only way to saluation whereby they deceaue many and yet it is not so 1 T●●● 4. 6. 1. Tim 4. 1. He now that is in-abled of god to discerne the false prophets and false Christs from the true and put difference betwene v the spirit of truth and * the spirit of error he I say and all they haue this guift called the discerning of spirits which is common to all the elect But he that herein hath an excellency and sharpnes to discerne the same aboue others may fitly be said and I thinke most properly to haue this guift In this guift Peter as it is probable excelled Philip in discerning of Symon Magus This guift they also may

not therefore to be reformed in particuler admit that it was lawfull for men to reepe carnall things of those congregations where they sowe not spirituall thinges to eate of the milke of the flock though they feede not the flock for these kind of * souldiers to haue wages albeit they goe not a warfare and that it were not the Lords ordinance that they only which preach the gospell 1 tim 2. 3 1 cor 6. 14 16. should liue of the gospell and that necessity lyeth not vpon euery minister to preach the gospell but that the reading thereof sufficeth and that men may liue of the gospel although they be not able to preach the gospell or if they be able preach little or not at all or not to the people from whome for their said preachīg sake they receaue their maintenance also that weomen may baptise in the case of danger or necessity as they call it c. Admit this I say yet notwithstanding forasmuch as those whom men call ●uritans doe seeke the reformation of these things and others of the same kinde in a zeale of god as is hereby manifest in that for this cause they doe are ready to forsake father and mother wife and children house and land liberty with all the comforts of this life yea life it selfe it god cal them therevnto and are contented in and during this life to be of all men the most miserable there is small cause why the Discouerer and the world with him should hate scorne so contemptibly vse them as if they were the o●●cowring of the world and refuse of the people S. I●aule in the 9. to the Roma calleth God to witnesse to his conscience that he had great heauiness● and continuall sorrowe in his heart and that he would wish himselfe to be seperated from god vers 1. for his brethren that were his kin●men according to the flesh and in the begining of the Chapter follwing he vseth these wordes Brethren my harts desire and prayer to god for Israell is that they might be saued his reasō therof followeth For I beare them record that they haue the zeale of God but not accordinge to knowledge ●ce● 1. If Paule were thus affected towards the Iewes who were so exceedingly violent and outragious in whatsoeuer they went about in their blynde zeale as at large appeareth by the story of the Actes of the Aposties because they had in them a zeale of god woulde hee were he now liuing among vs be so affected as the most are towards the puritanes as they are tearmed in whome it is manifest there is a zeale of god be it that it were not according to knowledg seing they doe nothing in their said zeale in a tumultuous but all peaceable manner as by prayer to god and humble petition to her Maiestye the heade and the body of this Realme met and ioyned togither in Parliament either would S. Paule trowe wee call these men in scorne as the Disc doth * men of the ouerworne consistorian faction men of the hum●ur of reformation men more pure then the rest of their brethren that is puritanes or with others precisians phantasticall men c. yea of Sathan Sathanist● as my self haue heard them called because of they re zeale admit it were a blinde zea el who for the blinde zeale that the Iewes had called them so louingly brethren It is not possible As from some thinges which might be obserued so from these two places and some other especially that page 15. where vpon certaine worthy premises he collecteth that in all likelihood seing neither by learning nor sufficient arguments they of the over-w●rne Consistorian facti●n could heeretofore preuayle pag. 15. for the setting vp of their presbyteryall conceyts they thought to supply their wants therein by this deuise of castīg our diuells It may very probably be gathered that the thinge which hath vexed the Disc and made him sweate somuch about counterfeyting is not the counter feyting and teaching to counterfeyt a possession nor his hatred and abomination to sinne and in particular to this detestable cousenage but his hatred against the instrumentes which god vsed in these great workes of his whome together with also● the same stamp as from his soule he hath of long hated so hereby was the same mightely increased in that these kinde of men should be thought to haue such interest in Christ Iesus as that at their falsly termed verball prayers and hypocriticall fasting he should as it were visibly descende from heauen and tread downe Sathan vnder their feete This said the Narrator before the Disc came forth cannot be indured whereby we may se he coniectured aright And mark what he therevpon out of the Apostle addeth But god hath chosen the foolish thinges of the world to confound the wise and the weake thinges of the worlde to ●onfound the mighty As if he had said in that the Lord hath vsed in these rare and great workes of his such weake and contemptible mē we should rather considering the lordes manner of dealing be confirmed thereby in these workes further assured that they are of god then kept from beleuing and embracing the same These are not dealt with but there must be a great assembly gathered togither in one corner or other all of them such persons as they knowe to be their frendes pag. 6● or at the least as their said frends doe bring with them and are thought fit to be peruerted The falshood of this is heereby manifest in that M. More and I knewe not those persons in Lancashire who ioyned with vs in prayer to god for the casting out of Sathan of the persons possessed as they can witnesse nor yet any one of them being meere strangers of them al● and they to vs and at Nott. also they were generally vnknowne to me neither was their any choyce made by some of our frendes At the 〈◊〉 on of the 7 in Lancashire there were present about 40. of ●o at N● 15● and procuring of men to come as is well knowne to them that did come who were not a few as the Disc suggesteth Besides this partly argueth that were there a counterfeytinge indeede these our sayde frendes were confederates therein which I think hardly any will sauour It is maruaile that the Disc affirmed not likewise that all those which haue seene Somers Darling and the 7. in Lancashire in their pretended fitts were not my fre●d● so should I haue some stoare of frends or at least that my frendes he speaketh of did bring them or procure them to come knowing them to be such as were like to be peruerted for this he might as truly haue affirmed as the other this had bene to some purpose indeede whereas the other is to none It is strange therefore that he strayned not himselfe a little further but though he doe it not heere yet he saith something els-where bend●g this way for speaking of the

●●●led be such as wel ca●e and 〈…〉 th●n on the estate of th●●e persens possessed out of whome the vncleane spirit was neuer cast c●nsi●●ing theire great vnthankfullnes for so singular and sen●lie mercy of god bestowe● vppon them and that notwithstanding the Lord ●●uing corre●ed them for their sinnes by the diuell and after deliuered them out of ●is handes yet they returne to theire sinnes agayne ●●hout which one cannot be repossessed This I say considered it is 〈◊〉 with god to deliuer th●m vpp to the full possession of the diuell or diuells or at least to some further possession and interest in them then beefore As for the B. of Londons obiection that So. hauing remayned a yeare in his house hath gone to the Church all that time and there carryed himselfe as orderly as any other of ●as samely and likewise in his prayers at home a● M. Harsu● quoth he can witnesse it is easilye answered for we reade in the 1. of Marke that at Cap●r●aum there was in t●● Synago●ue a man in whome there was an vncleane spirit and how est the same man had bene there who can tell● and quietly no doubt hee carried himselfe there otherwise that had bene no place for him Indeede he cryed out when he sawe Iesus but this all that were pos●essed did wheresoeuer they met him so that said ex●lan atien was not because of his being in the Synagogue but because of Christ his being there VVhere I say that So. what 〈◊〉 lo possessed is now possessed I doe not meane that the diuell is for certa●nty at the very instant when I so speake in the body of Somers for as he may be there so at that present may hee be without him as I suppose but I mean that Sathan hath leaue from god ●●emer into that body of his and t●rment it which he is denyed to doe b● others ●uk 9 39. 〈…〉 ●l●p 8 16 4. math 12. 29 44. which letteth not but that he may or doth goe forth sometimes and come in againe at his pleasure And this I c●nceanue g●ne rally of the possessed and Sathan his being within them for it is li●e ly that t●e diuell doth with those he entreth into as the father of the Lu●atick saith concerrings his dealinge with his chylde a And ●he qu●th he a spirit taketh him and sud●enly he cryeth and he treareth him t●at he s●●ameth and hardly departeth from him when he hath 〈…〉 These are saide in the ●criptures to be b possessed with the diuell meating touching their bodyes which in this case is called his 〈◊〉 for concerning their s●●ules they are no more nor otherwi●e possessed thē others mark 123 now a man is possessed of his house although he rema●ne not a●●a●es in it Euen so it is I thinke bet●eene sathan and his house that is the body he poss●sse●h Indee●e 〈…〉 to be p●ss●sse● in whome there 〈…〉 but it folloveth n●t therevpon that the spirit is alwayes in the man neuer out of him Yea except now one spirit now an ot●er shoulde goe into the body of the possessed after the diuen taketh once possession of the body of man which is vul●●● it must needes be that the spirit goeth out sometimes for other wise it is not possible that the spirit shoulde vtter these thinges he is by experience seene oft to doe by the tongue of the party possessed as the speaches and actions spoken and done else where at or about the same instant they are spoken and done And thus much concerning Som. repossession Discouerer After this So. pag. 134. deuised new tricks vnder a euierlet vp in this occasion Lying vppon his bed with a cou●rlet cast ouer him he moued by chance he knew 〈◊〉 how some parte of his body when he was supposed to be in a fit and cheresore sencelesse where vpon he the said M D● gaue it out that it was the diuell that made that motion vnder the couerlett which was such an instruction to Som a● he ceased not to feede that error Likewise sayth So. lying in my bed I did sometimes knock and fillip with my fingers toes against th● had sides and feete and this also wa● ascribed to M. Dar. as to haue bene loue by the diuell That which St. heere deposeth is confirmed by the depositions of diuers pag 239 The very ●nocking at that time I wa● there saith M. Hallam was ●ne of his ●es slipping downe from the other when the voyce of 4. or 5. knocks were heard togither in manner of a chyme quoth M. Crauen I founde one of the to be his singer thrust vnder his thigh as he lay uppon his back ●eorge Richardson thus Touching the likenesses of kitlinges mouing in So. bed I haue hearde much wonder thereof at one time when I was there it was th● bowes s●●nte Edmun. l. Garland thus Catching on a time at that which I saw moue the ●hathes I gott ●●ilde of it and offering to cast vp the cloathe t●●se what I had in my hand it slipped from me I b●ele●ue was th● h●uae priuym●mb●rs Againe I hearing a knocking at the b●●● feete catched the boy by the toes which I perceaued to haue made the former knocking M. Aldred thus the rapping in M. Hallams opinion w●● thing else but the rapping of me of his navles vpon in other M. Par The rapping was the sillipoing of his syngers or ●one motion with his toes VVe heare what So. ●arrell and his witnesses say let vs now hear what was deposed before the 12. Commissioners M. Aldridge This examinas saith that he standing in the hall hearde a greate knocking in the parlour where th● b●y lay and sudd●ly he ru●●ed in where he found the b●y al me in his bed Nu ●●on 〈◊〉 2. lying with his face vpward in his s●●t with his in 〈…〉 his in eyes staring at though they would 〈…〉 h●ad And kne●●ne downe to prayer he h●d the knoke 〈◊〉 againe vnder he knees as he though●● and in the bed vnder the c●u●r lett he sawe the forme and shape as it were of fyue kitlings in quantity to the uiew of the eye And againe this examinate sawe the bedcloathes at the seere to shake moue and leape as the leaues of an aspen tree shaken with the wynde dep 6. Loane Pye saith that diuers times shee had heard a clapping in his bed as though it had bene the clapping of 3. handes and that shee hath seene a maton in the bed as though it had bene the creeping of 3. kitlings which shee and diuers others haue inderuored to take houlde of but neuer could for when they attempted the same it hath vanished his handes and feete neuer sturring to their sights and that at other times shee hath heard at his bedds feete a knocking as though it were vnder the bed to their vnderstanding E●izabeth Milward saith dep 14. that shee hearde a thumping or knocking in his bed and shee putting her hand into