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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A42824	Saducismus triumphatus, or, Full and plain evidence concerning witches and apparitions in two parts : the first treating of their possibility, the second of their real existence / by Joseph Glanvil. With a letter of Dr. Henry More on the same subject and an authentick but wonderful story of certain Swedish witches done into English by Anth. Horneck.	Glanvill, Joseph, 1636-1680.; More, Henry, 1614-1687.; Horneck, Anthony, 1641-1697.	1681 (1681)	Wing G822; ESTC R25463	271,903	638

time enough to see him carried out upon four Mens shoulders and to tread upon his jaws That on the day Talbot dyed she heard Agar swear that she had now plagued Talbot and that being in company with her some time before and seeing a dead Horse of Talbot's drawn along by another of his Horses she swore that that Horse should be also drawn out to morrow and the next day she saw the well Horse also drawn out dead That above a Month before Margaret Agar was sent to Gaol she saw her Henry Walter Catharine Green Jone Syms Christian Green Mary Warberton and others meet at a place called Husseys-knap in the Forrest in the Night time where met them the Fiend in the shape of a little Man in black Clothes with a littleband to him all made obeysances and at that time a Picture in Wax or Clay was delivered by Agar to the Man in black who stuck a Thorn into the Crown of it Margaret Agar one towards the Breast Catharine Green in the side after which Agar threw down the Picture and said there is Cornishes Picture with a Murrain to it or Plague on it And that at both the meetings there was a noisom smell of Brimstone That about two years since in the Night there met in the same place Agar Henry Walter Catharine Green Jone Syms Alice Green and Mary Warberton Then also Margaret Agar delivered to the little Man in black a Picture in Wax into which he and Agar stuck Thorns and Henry Walter thrust his Thumb into the side of it Then they threw it down and said there is Dick Greens Picture with a Pox in 't A short time after which Rich. Green was taken ill and dyed Further he saith That on Thursday Night before Whitsunday last about the same place met Catharine Green Alice Green Jone Syms Mary Warberton Dinah and Dorothy Warberton and Henry Walter and being met they called out Robin Upon which instantly appeared a little Man in black Clothes to whom all made obeysance and the little Man put his hand to his Hat saying How do ye speaking low but big Then all made low obeysances to him again That she hath seen Margaret Clark twice at the meetings but since Margaret Agar was sent to Prison she never saw her there Taken before me Rob. Hunt ADVERTISEMENT Before we pass to other Relations it will not be amiss further to remark upon these taken out of the Examinations of Mr. Hunt From the poisoned Apples that Jane Brooks gave to Rich. Jones and Eliz. Style to Agnes Vining and the poisoned Pewter-dish that Alice Duke put into the hands of Thomas Conway which dish and apples they had from the Devil we may observe in what a peculiar sense Witches and Wizzards are called 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Venefici and Veneficoe Poysoners Not that they mischieve People ordinarily by natural Poisons as Arsenick and the like but rather by some hellish malignancy infused into things by the art and malice of the Devil or by the steams of their own Body which the Devil sucks For the hand of Jane Brooks stroaking down Rich. Jones his side impressed a pain thereon We may observe also what an eximious Example of Moses his Mecassephah the word which he uses in that Law Thou shalt not suffer a Witch to live Margaret Agar is and how fitly some interpreters render Mecassephim Malefici from the great mischief they do and delight in And what a great credit this Agar is to J. Webster and the rest of the Hagg-advocates which would make them to be meer couzening Queans or Melancholick Fopps that had nothing to do with the Devil As if the Man in black and a little band were but such another as J. Webster or any other Haggadvocate that in waggery acted the part of the Devil in Husseys Knap or any such like place of a Forrest and so after all quickly and suddainly recoiling behind a bush and letting sly into the wind the deluded Haggs took it for the vanishing of the very Fiend and his perfuming the Air with the smell of Brimstone One that can resolve all the feats of the Hartummim of Egypt into tricks of Legerdemain cannot ●…e easily delude the company with such a feat as this the old Wives being thick of hearing and carrying their spectacles not on their noses but in their pockets And lastly srom the Devils covenanting with the Witches for their Souls it may be observed that the old Haggs dealing bonâ fidde and thinking they have Souls surviving their bodies are better Philosophers than the huffy Wits of our Age that deny distinction of Soul and Body But if they have not as these Huffers would have it and the Haggs think so themselves it is a pretty Paradox that these old Fopps should be able to out-wit the very Devil who does not in bartering for their Bodies and Souls buy a Pig in a poke as the Proverb is but a poke without a Pig But I rather believe that these huffing Wits as high as they are may learn one true point of Philosophy from these Haggs and their Familiars these evil Spirits certainly making their bargains wisely enough in covenanting for the Witches Soul Which clause if it were not exprest the Soul were free from the Familiars jurisdiction after death Wherefore it is no contemptible argument these evil Spirits covenanting for the Soul of the Witch that they know the Soul survives the Body and therefore make their bargain sure for the possession of it as their Peculium after death Otherwise if the Soul were mortal they would tell the Wit●…es so the more easily to precipitate them into 〈◊〉 wickedness and make them more eager by their ministry to enjoy this present life But this Doctrine is inconsistent with the form of his Covenant whereby they are assured to him after death RELAT. VII Touching Florence Newton an Irish Witch of Youghal taken out of her Trial at the Assizes held for the Country of Corke Sept. 11. Ann. 1661. THis Florence Newton was committed to Youghall Prison by the Major of the Town March 24. 1661. for bewitching Mary Longdon who gave evidence against her at Cork Assizes as follows Mary Longdon being sworn and examined what she could say against the said Florence Newton for any practice of Witchcraft upon her self and being bidden to look on the Prisoner her countenance changed pale and she was very fearful to look towards her but at last she did And being askt whether she knew her she said she did and wisht she never had Being askt how long she had known her she said for three or four years And that at Christmas last the said Florence came to the Deponent at the House of John Pyne in Youghall where the Deponent was a Servant And askt the Deponent to give her a piece of Beef out of the Powdering-Tub And the Deponent answering her that she could not give away her Masters Beef she said Florence seemed to be very

may be effected by creatures whose powers and knowledge are so vastly exceeding ours I shall endeavour theresore briefly to suggest some things that may render the possibility of these performances conceivable in order to the removal of this Objection that they are contradictions and impossible For the FIRST then That the confederate Spirit should transport the Witch through the Air to the place of general Rendezvous there is no difficulty in conceiving it and if that be true which great Philosophers affirm concerning the real separability of the Soul from the Body without death there is yet less for then 't is easie to apprehend that the Soul having left its gross and sluggish body behind it and being cloath'd onely with its immediate vehicle of Air or more subtile matter may be quickly conducted to any place it would be at by those officious Spirits that attend it And though I adventure to affirm nothing concerning the truth and certainty of this Supposition yet I must needs say it doth not seem to me unreasonable And our experience of Apoplexies Epilepsies Ecstasies and the strange things men report to have seen during those Deliquiums look favourably upon this conjecture which seems to me to contradict no principle of Reason or Philosophy since Death consists not so much in the actual separation of Soul and Body as in the indisposition and unfitness of the Body for vital union as an excellent Philosopher hath made good On which Hypothesis the Witches anointing her self before she takes her flight may perhaps serve to keep the Body tenantable and in fit disposition to receive the Spirit at its return These things I say we may conceive though I affirm nothing about them and there is not any thing in such conceptions but what hath been own'd by men of worth and name and may seem fair and accountable enough to those who judge not altogether by the measures of the populace and customary opinion And there 's a saying of the great Apostle that seems to countenance this Platonick notion what is the meaning else of that expression Whether in the body or out of the body I cannot tell except the Soul may be separated from the Body without death which if it be granted possible 't is sufficient for my purpose And 2 The Transformations of Witches into the shapes of other Animals upon the same supposal is very conceivable since then 't is easie enough to imagine that the power of imagination may form those passive and pliable vehicles into those shapes with more ease than the fancy of the Mother can the stubborn matter of the Foetus in the womb as we see it frequently doth in the instances that occur of Signatures and monstrous Singularities and perhaps sometimes the confederate Spirit puts tricks upon the senses of the Spectators and those shapes are onely illusions But then 3 when they feel the hurts in their gross bodies that they receive in their airy vehicles they must be supposed to have been really present at least in these latter and 't is no more difficult to apprehend how the hurts of those should be translated upon their other bodies than how diseases should be inflicted by the imagination or how the fancy of the Mother should wound the Foetus as several credible relations do attest And 4 for their raising Storms and Tempests They do it not be sure by their own but by the power of the Prince of the Air their Friend and Allie and the Ceremonies that are enjoyn'd them are doubtless nothing else but entertainments for their imaginations and are likely design'd to perswade them that they do these strange things themselves And lastly for their being suck'd by the Familiar I say 1 we know so little of the nature of Doemons and Spirits that 't is no wonder we cannot certainly divine the reason of so strange an action And yet 2 we may conjecture at some things that may render it less improbable For some have thought that the Genii whom both the Platonical and Christian Antiquity thought embodied are recreated by the reeks and vapours of humane blood and the spirits that proceed from them Which supposal if we grant them bodies is not unlikely every thing being refresh'd and nourish'd by its like And that they are not perfectly abstract from all body and matter besides the reverence we owe to the wisest antiquity there are several considerable Arguments I could alledge to render it exceeding probable Which things supposed the Devil 's sucking the Sorceress is no great wonder nor difficult to be accounted for Or perhaps 3 this may be onely a diabolical Sacrament and Ceremony to confirm the hellish Covenant To which I add 4 That which to me seems most probable viz. That the Familiar doth not onely suck the Witch but in the action infuseth some poysonous ferment into her which gives her Imagination and Spirits a magical tincture whereby they become mischievously influential and the word venefica intimates some such matter Now that the imagination hath a mighty power in operation is seen in the just now mention'd Signatures and Diseases that it causeth and that the fancy is modified by the qualities of the blood and spirits is too evident to need proof Which things supposed 't is plain to conceive that the evil spirit having breath'd some vile vapour into the body of the Witch it may taint her blood and spirits with a noxious quality by which her infected imagination heightned by melancholy and this worse cause may do much hurt upon bodies that are impressible by such influences And 't is very likely that this ferment disposeth the imagination of the Sorceress to cause the mentioned 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 or separation of the Soul from the Body and may perhaps keep the Body in sit temper for its re-entry as also it may facilitate transformation which it may be could not be effected by ordinary and unassisted imagination Thus we see 't is not so desperate to form an apprehension of the manner of these odd performances and though they are not done the way I have describ'd yet what I have said may help us to a conceit of the possibility which sufficeth for my purpose And though the Hypotheses I have gone upon will seem as unlikely to some as the things they attempt to explain are to others yet I must desire their leave to suggest that most things seem improbable especially to the conceited and opinionative at first proposal and many great truths are strange and odd till custome and acquaintance have reconciled them to our fancies And I 'le presume to add on this occasion though I love not to be confident in assirming that there is none of the Platonical supposals I have used but what I could make appear to be fair and reasonable to the capable and unprejudic'd SECT IV. III. BUT III. I come to another prejudice against the being of Witches which is That 't is very improbable that the Devil who

into my Mind which hath been assured by a Servant of the Dukes to be a great truth Thus Some few days before the Dukes going to Portsmouth where he was stabbed by Felton the Ghost of his Father Sir George Villiers appeared to one Parker formerly his own Servant but then Servant to the Duke in his Morning Chamber Gown charged Parker to tell his Son that he should decline that Employment and design he was going upon or else he would certainly be murthered Parker promised the Apparition to do it but neglected it The Duke making preparations for his Expedition the Apparition came again to Parker taxing him very severely for his breach of Promise and required him not to delay the acquainting his Son of the danger he was in Then Parker the next day tells the Duke that his Fathers Ghost had twice appeared to him and had commanded him to give him that warning The Duke slighted it and told him he was an old Doting Fool. That night the Apparition came to Parker a third time saying Parker thou hast done well in warning my Son of his danger but though he will not yet believe thee Go to him once more however and tell him from me by such a Token naming a private Token which no body knows but only he and I that if he will not decline this voyage such a Knife as this is pulling a long Knife out from under his Gown will be his death This Message Parker also delivered the next day to the Duke who when he heard the private Token believed that he had it from his Fathers Ghost yet said that his honour was now at stake and he could not go back from what he had undertaken come life come death This passage Parker after the Duke's murther communicated to his fellow Servant one Henry Ceeley who told it to a reverend Divine a Neighbour of mine from whose mouth I have it This Henry Ceeley has not been dead above Twenty years and his habitation for several years before his death was at North-Currey but three Miles from this place My Friend the Divine aforesaid was an intimate acquaintance of this Henry Ceeley's and assures me he was a person of known truth and integrity ADVERTISEMENT This story I heard but another name put for Parker with great assurance and with larger circumstances from a Person of Honour but I shall content my self to note onely what I find in a Letter of Mr. Timothy Locket of Mongton to Mr. Glanvil That this Apparition to Mr. Parker was all three times towards midnight when he was reading in some Book and he mentions that the Dukes Expedition was for the relief of Rochel The rest is muchwhat as Mr. Douch has declared But I will not omit the close of Mr. Lockets Letter I was confirmed in the truth of the premisses saith he by Mr. Henry Ceeley who was then a Servant with this Mr. Parker to the Duke and who told me that he knew Mr. Parker to be a Religious and sober Person and that every particular related was to his knowledge true RELAT. XII Of the appearing of Mr. Watkinson's Ghost to his Daughter Toppam contained in a Letter of Mrs. Taylor of the Ford by St. Neots to Dr. Ezekias Burton SIR MY Service to you and your Lady Now according to your desire I shall write what my Cousin told me Her name was Mary Watkinson her Father did live in Smithfield but she was Married to one Francis Toppam and she did live in York with her Husband being an ill one who did steal her away against her Parents consent so that they could not abide him But she came often to them and when she was last with him upon their parting she expressed that she feared she should never see him more He answered her if he should dye if ever God did permit the dead to see the living he would see her again Now after he had been Buried about half a year on a Night when she was in bed but could not sleep she heard Musick and the Chamber grew lighter and lighter and she being broad awake saw her Father stand at her bedside Who said Mal did not I tell thee that I would see thee once again She called him Father and talked of many things and he bad her be Patient and Dutiful to her Mother And when she told him that she had a Child since he did dye he said that would not trouble her long He bad her speak what she would now to him for he must go and that he should never see her more till they met in the Kingdom of Heaven So the Chamber grew darker and darker and he was gone with Musick And she said that she did never dream of him nor ever did see any Apparition of him after He was a very honest godly Man as far as I can tell ADVERTISEMENT This story G. Rust who was after Bishop of Dromore told me I remember with great assurance some Twenty years ago who was not at all credulous in these things And it was so as Mrs. Taylor relates to Dr. Burton The next Relation shall be of a Daughter appearing to her Father RELAT. XIII The appearing of the Ghost of the Daughter of Dr. Farrar to him after her death according to a brief Narrative sent from Mr. Edward Fowler to Dr. H. More Anno 1678. May 11. THis week Mr. Pearson who is a worthy good Minister of this City of London told me That his Wife's Grandfather a Man of great Piety and Physician to this present King his name Farrar nearly related I think Brother to the famous Mr. Farrar of little Giddon I say this Gentleman and his Daughter Mrs. Pearsons Mother a very pious soul made a compact at his intreaty that the first of them that dyed if happy should after death appear to the surviver if it were possible the Daughter with some difficulty consenting thereto Some time after the Daughter who lived at Gillingham Lodge two Miles from Salisbury fell in labour and by a mistake being given a noxious potion instead of another prepared for her suddainly dyed Her Father lived in London and that very Night she dyed she opened his Curtains and looked upon him He had before heard nothing of her ilness but upon this Apparition confidently told his Maid that his Daughter was dead and two days after received the news Her Grandmother told Mrs. Pearson this as also an Uncle of hers and the abovesaid Maid and this Mrs. Pearson I know and she is a very prudent and good Woman RELAT. XIV The appearing of the Ghost of one Mr. Bower of Guilford to an Highway-man in Prison as it is set down in a Letter of Dr. Ezekias Burton to Dr. H. More ABout Ten years ago one Mr. Bower an antient Man living at Guilford in Surrey was upon the Highway not far from that place found newly Murdered very barbarously having one great Cut cross his Throat and another down his Breast Two Men were seized