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A01558	The life and death of Levvis Gaufredy a priest of the Church of the Accoules in Marceilles in France, (who after hee had giuen him selfe soule and bodie to the Diuell) committed many most abhominable sorceries, but chiefly vpon two very faire young gentle-women, Mistris Magdalene of the Marish, and Mistris Victoire Corbier, whose horrible life being made manifest, hee was arraigned and condemned by the Court of Parliament of Aix in Prouince, to be burnt aliue, which was performed the last day of April. 1611. Together with the 53. articles of his confession. To which is annexed, a true discourse of a most inhumaine murther, committed by foure women witches, vpon a young gyrle, of about tenne yeares olde, who were all executed the 28. of Iune last past. Translated and faithfully collected out of two French copies, the one printed at Paris, the other at Roane. Anno. 1612.		1612 (1612)	STC 11687; ESTC S102950	21,142	38

exceedingly reuerenced and very much respected by the Marcellian Vulgar yea in all places wheresoeuer he came aswell for the religious apparance he carried as also for the great learning was knowne to be in him for such was his fluence of spéech that he could so tickle and charme the eares of his Audience that it contented them perpetually to heare him so mellifluously did he hony them who were abused poore soules in their attention falsely deluded with his Eloquence which occasioned that he was then reputed for a most religious and deuout Priest seruing for a pretious Antidote against the poysonsome infection of sinne as their shallow vnderstandings belieued for firme truth who notwithstanding shortly after had knowledge of his diabolicall commerce He held notwithstanding he was in the Diuels hereditarie possession all his Presbiterall functions so that amongst others he being one day in a solitarie place there hapned to come vnto him on Mistresse Magdalen of the Marish requesting him to heare her confession who was then vtterly ignorant of his fatall relinquishment of Religion which at that time was graunted her by the abhominable Impostor This poore innocent maide therefore humbled at the féete of this Uulture and requesting his counsell and aduise for reformation of her former errors and transgrestions heard no other perswasions to come from this Diuelish seducer but cleane to shake off the zeale and desire that thee had to be reconciled to God and further intimated vnto her with painted and colourable speeches not fitte to bee once mentioned amongst Christians that it shee would liue the rest of her life happily he would be the meanes that shee should obtaine and enioy whatsoeuer pleasure shee could desire or wish for In this his perswasion the prophane dogge breathed vpon the countenance of this poore afflicted maide who in that moment was inchaunted and intangled in the snares of this sacrilegious villaine Surely Hell it selfe had placed in the bodie of this tyrant some ghastlie and vncleane spirit to bee as an Instrument and guide to this accursed Inchaunter Oh Heauens Is it possible that such a hell-hound should bee permitted to liue amongst men who inraged with an Infernall Furie drawes and allures such sillie soules vnto him as are not well grounded and confirmed in Faith as we may plainely perceiue in this silly soule who being catcht by the deceitfull ginnes of this disloyall Apostate forsaking her God and giuing credence to the wordes and proferd promises of this accursed Impostor shée also as hee formerly had done and thereto now perswaded her giues herselfe soule and bodie to the Diuell whom at that instant she saw in the forme of a man In which course of his that they of Marcelles could not in so long space discouer the Tragicall trecheries of this their so wel-beloued flatterer whose Charmes inchantments procured that they estéemed him their spirituall minion was wonderfull for so excessiue was their boūd-les affection that to haue exempted him from legal punishments they would haue most of them parted with all their wealth Blinde Marcellians that could thinke it possible for one man by his priuate studies to attaine to such perfection in all humane sciences and in so short a moment the like whereof the best Learned by their manie yeares industrie could neuer attaine vnto neither could bee without his ayde who continually ceased not to reueale those things vnto him wherewith hee fedde the greedie expectation of those whose conuersation hée most desired Nor but that in the publike viewe of a whole Court of Parliament in Prouince hée was in particular accused and conuinced of these insuing Articles and thereof being condemned was put to death in Aix a Towne neare therevnto They would not yet retaine any beliefe concerning his offences But now too late these Iudiciall proceedings haue inforced you to assure your selues concerning his abuses delusions wherewith yée were blinded in cherishing and pampering him so tenderly whose quarters rather would haue adorned the Gates of your Citie which may be accounted happie in being at the last cleansed of so dangerous and fearefull a plague But let vs returne againe vnto the said Mistris Magdalen of the Marish whō though she had fréely giuē her selfe by the cursed allurements of this accursed Curre to the Diuell by his further perswasions diuers times more fully confirmed the said contract receiuing diuers marks of the Diuell in seuerall parts of her bodie A thing testified by the Fathers and Doctors of S. Maxime and exprest in the sentence or death denounced against the saide Gaufredy shee was notwithstanding so incessantly afflicted both in bodie and soule when shee considered the daunger of her ruine that posting in the perturbation of her wauering selfe conflict shee retires her selfe to a Religious man desirous to reueale her sinne acknowledging vnto him that it was such a sinne as could not almost be forgiuen the Tenor whereof much astonished this Religious man For which cause he laboured her to confesse what that sinne might bee but shee fearing the rigorous hand of secular Iustice made answere vnto him that she would willingly tell him vpon condition that she might first obtaine pardon from the chiefe president of the said Towne of Aix which he fearing that she had entered into some practise or complotted some Treason against his Maiestie or his estate denied her perswading her how she might well obtaine this pardon after a little time but that first it was necessarie for her to make knowne wherein she had offended his perswasions could not preuaile with her till such time as he did condiscend to her desired pardon Now the matter knowne and he vndertaking to procure her pardon forthwith hastened to Marcelles to the Court of Parliament where giuing aduertisement of what had passed to the Lord President declaring vnto him what words the said Magdalen had vsed inferring how for the seruice he ought to the Kings Maiestie and publike Iustice considering the wonderful detriment that France had sustained in former times by such trayterous Paracides and blood suckers as she had brought forth he was come in that manner The Lo President delayed not to send with this Religious man many officers to Marcelles At whose comming he fained to be possest of her pardō which she beléeuing was rauished with incomparable ioy which was no sooner conceiued but as suddenly it vanished away for she no sooner appeared or presented herself to his Uiew but the Officers attēding him conueyed her presently to the said Parliament of Prouince whence she was by the commaundement of the said Lo President clapt vp close in a Dungeon whither afterward was also committed Mistresse Victoire Courbier but so as neither could haue conference with any Not long after which imprisonment report was made to the said Lo President that the said Magdalen of the Marish being shut vp in a place so disconsolate and miserable would haue murthered her selfe which to preuent she was forthwith caused to be

THE LIFE AND DEATH of Lewis Gaufredy A Priest of the Church of the Accoules in Marceilles in France who after hee had giuen him selfe soule and bodie to the Diuell committed many most abhominable Sorceries but chiefly vpon two very faire young Gentle women Mistris Magdalene of the Marish and Mistris Victoire Corbier whose horrible life being made manifest hee was Arraigned and Condemned by the Court of Parliament of Aix in Prouince to be burnt aliue which was performed the last day of Aprill 1611. Together with the 53. Articles of his Confession To which is annexed a true discourse of a most inhumaine murther committed by foure women Witches vpon a young Gyrle of about tenne yeares olde who were all executed the 28. of Iune last past Translated and faithfully collected out of two French Copies the one Printed at Paris the other at Roane Anno. 1612. LONDON Printed by Tho. C. for Richard Redmer and are to be solde at his shoppe at the signe of the Starre at the west ende of S. Paules 1612. THE LIFE AND DEATH OF LEWIS GAVFREdy a most notorious Magician AA IN Marcelles a Towne in France one Lewis Gaufredy borne in Beauuerer Les Colmars liued many yeares in very good repute being there beneficed in the Church of the Accoules where such was his wordly excesse of prosperitie that notwithstanding his Ecclesiasticall function through a setled pride now raised to the height and a beastly and strong luxurious appetite formerly bred and now raigning and raging also in him he became méerely sensuall He had an aged Unkle also well knowne both in Marcelles and other places thereabouts of as pernitious manners as himselfe who was no small backe to his impieties who happening to die very rich aswel in Lands and reuenues as in Gold and siluer Bookes other moueables which this miscreant being indéed the next heire no sooner claimed but was as soone possest thereof Now being thus ouermuch inriched what else could be vnto him greater contentment then to take his ease and as he could permit himselfe any leisure for such purposes he would sometimes for recreation sake betake himselfe to that Library formerly his Unkles where amongst other bookes not much opponent to his obscene liking he hapned to light vpon two most damnable Diabolicall the one of Cor Agrippa and the other of Tolle● wherein this mad braine tooke such singular delight that he ceased not till he had read them cleane through But such reading befits none but those who deny the power of the supreme and vniuersall Gouernour and that renounce the Celestiall inheritance promised to all those who are Registred in the sacred Record of the euerliuing To bury therefore in vnprofitable silence the prodigious Acts committed by this execrable inhumane wretch in his destowring Rape of one Mistres Magdalen of D●●ādouls so called of the Marish would be an endlesse torment to my soule together with other his allurements sorceries Incantations and abhominations wherin this perfidious wretch spent the most flourishing part of his youthfull spring time who forgetting the Obligation wherein he stood bound to his Creator and Sauiour without any regard or pittie of his owne soule plunged himselfe so déepely into the Infernall Gulph of the Coniurations and Inuocations comprehended contained in the said bookes of Toliet and Agrippa that in pronouncing and often repetition to himselfe of what he there read the vowed enemie to all mankind appeared approached neare vnto him demaunding vpon what occasion he did inuoake and call vpon him or what his desire was the fearefull sight of whom albeit the appearance was in a beautifull humane shape did driue this horrible blasphemer vnto such an affrighted Extasie that for a time he was and continued as one distracted accursed wretch more happie had it bin that euen in that distraction thou hadst lost thy being then so diabolicallie to reuiue to die againe and dying to draw with thee insnared by thy subtiltie so may sillie soules the number whereof is best knowne to God alone pittie it was that hell did not then swallow thée vp or the Earth deuoure or fire from heauen consume thée But who can reach vnto the depth of Gods al-séeing prouidence whose armes are stretched out and whose arrowes are keene when he pleaseth to be auenged on his Enemies Thou wast not thus long suffered but to Gods greater glorie This said distraction continuing but a while this caitiue re-assuming his former sences forgetting all dutie or respect vnto his Creator and reiecting all soule sauing considerations after no long debatement betweene the Diuell and himself he couenanted wofull couenant that for the space of fortie yeares he might enioy the full fruition of his detested ambition in holding the place prerogatiues liberties and honors of chiefe and principall Confessor that he might haue power and meanes to know carnally all women or maides whatsoeuer on whom his pernitious and lustfull eyes should but reflect and that his charming tongue might flow with eloquence and that notwithstanding these he might be still reputed graue and religious to these may be added those ensuing Articles of his owne confession to which the Diuell condescending This firebrand of perdition gaue himselfe body and soule together with all things else to him appropriate to the said Diuell from thenceforth for euer hidiously renouncing God his faith Heauen and the euer-blessed fellowship of all the holy Angels and Saints of God who can reade this or who can heare it but their haire must stand on end their hearts tremble Ah treacherous caitiffe whence couldst thou deriue that power title so lightly to passe ouer and to confirme the contract and sale of thy body soule to him who for requitall will pay thée with griefe vpon griefe torment vpon torment and that not for a moment onely but perpetually Beware therefore all ye whose soules are luxuriously affected whose hearts are swolne big with pride whose ambition pierceth the very heauens coueting as did those aspiring Angels to be as Gods for by these and such like baites and snares that wilie deceiuer intangleth insnareth and catcheth many millions of soules craftie fowler sillie fowles now more pretious then the richest Iemmes but by and by as stubble for the fire buying their too late repentance at so deare a rate as eternall desperate despaire for so it fell out with him who so soone as he was possest of that diuelish Librarie as one rauisht in contēplation thereof he delighted in nothing more then the practise of his Charmes and Incantations but after the contract betweene the Diuell and himselfe he was able as afterwards himselfe testifies by onely the breath of his mouth to inflame with lust all those on whom he was pleased to breath wherwith he so bewitched Mistris Victoire Corbier that she was cōstrained to lust after him immeasurably which he effected in the month of April last past Before the discouerie of these his impudent villanies he was

said Lords Commissaries according to the forme and tenure of the present iudgement Signed Maliuering You haue heard briefly the progresse of the damnable life and deserued death of so famous a Coniurer the like whereof hath not liued these many ages whose acts are here mentioned but in part but worthie for example sake more amplie by a better penne to be exprest yet rather then his memorie should be quite extinct accept these Ruder lines which an vnpractised author as best he could presents the world withall desiring not as most would doe his owne applause but that they would be moued hereby to site the occations of those Euils herein portraied which God for his great mercies sake in Christ our Sauiour Graunt vnto all good Christians Amen A true discourse of a stealth and murder committed by fower women witches vpon a young maide about ten yeares old who were executed in the towne of Haure-degrace one of them being drawne vpon an hurdle and holding in one hand a whip and in the other the knife wherwith she performed the murder and after her hands were cut off they pluckt the flesh from of her armes and pappes with burning pincers the other performing most humble pennance were also drawne vpon hurdles and then hanged and let fall into the fire on the eight and twentie day of Iune ●6●1 faithfully translated THese are the times when crueltie is put in practise by the force and power of sorcerie for we daily sée euident effects hereof as may be discerned in his latter and accursed deuise practised vpon a young maide about some ten yeares of age the which I will not faile to diuulge and make knowne vnto all men knowing well that the little labour I shall herein take will yeeld them no lesse contentment then such an argument and subiect can deserue And therefore I request euery one that he will be as patient to bestow the reading thereof as I am in the writing and publication of the same seeing this Tyrannie deserues as well to be listned vnto as to be written and composed for I know it will strike griefe and sorrowe into their hearts that will but patiently vouchsafe the reading hereof where ending my introduction to begin my report I humbly pray God that it will please him to giue euer one a discreete vnderstanding with amendment of life intreating likewise the reader to hold me excused though I set it not downe in such exquisite and fluent phrase as perchance some other would Now shall I be able to expresse this strange crueltie without distilling teares from mine eyes apt to put me in remembrance of such a wickednesse whensoeuer I doe but take my penne in hand or how can it be that any one in reading this tragicall subiect should not consider and weigh my hardines and courage though but in the very hearing of these murderous and miserable attempts of the world alas I suppose not any one of you would be exempted from hearkning to them and that you will be readie with me to pray vnto the celestiall Monarch that it would please him of his mercie to giue an end to all sorcerous acts and Incests which daily vere and afflict Gods Saints vpon the earth as well in preuenting poore humaine Creatures of their continuall prouisions and nourishments as further in bereaning and vntimely taking from them their liues Euen as we may more clearely vnderstand by these fower Sorceresies or rather in déed Tygresses or hagges who committed this outrage vpon a poore young maide who little thought her last howre had bene so reare or that these witches had determined to vse vpon her so brutish a Tyrannie but indéed what man or woman would euer formerly haue dreamt of such an accident more then this fillie maide did who was then walking along an hedge gathering of blacke berries being in companie with some other little children and specially with a little brother of her owne when these sorceresses thus plotted her perdition alas most accursed Sorceresse thy miscreant heart was euen then possessed with a diuel when by thy bewitching tongue that didst induce this poore Gyrle to followe thée to a place where thou meantest to commit this butchery and yet was her fortune more hard when thou gauest her little brother a péece of money a great Blancke to the ende hee should returne to the place from whence thou hadst stolne her for then came all thy poyson and venome to a full head when she poore soute entring into thy house thou gauest her virginity to an ouglie Ruffian who no wayes considering the euill that would thereof ensue violated and robbed her of the robe of her pudicitie And yet thou then shewedst a farre more hellish cruelty when with thy treacherous hand thou diddest begore thy knife in her Blood thinking by this murder to haue saued thine owne life But alas yet didst thou worse then all the rest whē thou drewest her little heart out of her breast together with her Lyuer to mingle them with her blood with which thou thoughtest to bring to an end thy Sorcerie Ah inuiolable heart Ah trecherous hagge thou thoughtest GOD was not of power to discouer thy malice but most iustly thou wert reuealed by Innocents who by Gods permission went along conducted this young Gyrle to the place where thou and thy complices put her to death True it is that thou wert not conuicted vpon their accusation for being imprisoned thou couldst not be made to confesse the truth and therefore at that instant thou wert deliuered But God the Author of all Truth and Iustice would not suffer thée lōger to liue after the perpetration of so fearful a murder tyrannie but stroke into them such a feare as both thou and thy cōplices would needs flie away to that end selling daily thy moueables that afterwards thou mightest make an escape saue thy life so by this means thou wert discouered euen by thine owne neighbors iustly accused whē yet once more to couer thy dissimulation thou causedst the flesh of this poore innocent Gyrle to be burnt consumde in an hot Ouen to the ende thou mightest cast the ashes afterwards into the water or performe some other Diuellish tricks therewith For thou canst not denie the selling of her blood to a Sorcerer by which 〈◊〉 would doe hurt to the Fruites of the earth and more to mans bodie and that thou wert taken in the manner euen like a Théefe that meant to robbe his neighbor that did but watch for his comming Of all the which the Iustice being the sec●d time aduertised thou wert then conuinced And yet this Infernall Ympe would not for all this reueale the truth neither permit that anie bodie should goe into the house to seeke for the Gyrle but they rather barricadoed thēselues to stand out When publike Iustice not wtstanding their resistāce cōdemned them to be worthie of death guiltie of the offence For entring violently into the said house

they opened the Ouen where they then found the Ashes and Boanes of this poore Maide within a poake prouided for that purpose that so they might bee cast into some corner and the murther by them committed by this meanes couered But all these matters comming to light shee was put into close Prison and shée that committed the murther and caused the yong Maide to be defloured was condemnd to be drawen vpon an hurdle through the Towne holding a Torche and the knife in her hand and then the same being cutte off her Armes Thighes and Pappes were pluckt asunder by mammockes with hote pyncers And lastly her bodie was throwne aliue into the fire The names of the chiefe of them was Michell the toothles wife to Iohn Brunet some thréescore yeares of Age of the parish of Blouuille The other thrée were Marguerite Gallon Iane Guerin and Susan Mercer who were likewise drawne vpon an Hurdle through the Towne in their smockes and hauing suffered the Tortures extraordinarie they were first hanged and then their bodies burnt for consenting to the wicked practise of this Sorceresse notwithstanding their Appeale to Roan And thus you haue heard an end of their Diuelish liues But now consider the grieuous laments that the sorrowfull mother of this vnhappie Gyrle made for the losse of her childe which of such a suddaine was taken from her presence which had neuer come to passe but that Procession then going about in her parish she was stollen away and no knowledge could be had of her in the world which was an occasion that she grew almost into dispaire neither could shée continue still in a place but franticklie went running vp and downe heere and there leauing no place vnsearcht to learne some tydings of her But all her hope being lost and finding no bodie that could giue her any notice of her she in the ende killed herselfe For being in this manner trouble some to all her neighbours they could not but be moued and became as sorrowfull as shee herselfe Wherefore they laboured to make her forget her sorrow and griefe But could not possiblie effect it but she rather mournd still the more and sobd for her Childe saying Alas my deare Neighbours if you haue hid her in any place let me know it to the end I may be quiet haue her bodie then I alone will lamēt her death And thou my swéete Boy speaking to her yong sonne Tell me where thou leftest thy Sister Leade mee good loue to the place that so I may méete with some honest men that may direct mee O woe alasse well may I curse the houre when I suffered thée to straggle from mee I would to God I had beene then in my graue The little Childe who was yet but young and therefore could not tell nor shew the place whether he had ledde his Sister nor decipher the Sorceresse that had stollen her away yet by signes he shewed his sorrowfull mother the place where they were gathering Hedge-berries together when the accursed vnknowne Hagge gaue him a little péece of siluer to the ende hee should leaue her and that her self might thus haue the better meanes to compasse her intent and dispoyle this poore Gyrle of her virginitie by deliuering her into the hands of a fowle Ruffian when this wretched Mother knowing the innocencie of her owne Child debated thus to her selfe Alas What bootes it me to aske of him Where is thy Sister my good chicke Ah but what doe I meane to wander thus vp downe What make I so long time in this place Oh mercifull God surely some villanous Rogue may peraduēture haue taken thy virginity and afterwards further tainted himselfe with thy blood But what 's this I say who could haue so barbarous an heart I cannot belieue it fell out with her in such sort when returning againe to her selfe she said What may I then suppose is become of my child why heere 's no place where she could doe her selfe any hurt And thus her parents searched all ouer but could heare no word of her nor méete with other satisfaction then to lament the losse of their sillie young Daughter who peraduenture had alreadie vndergone the rage and crueltie of this hellish Megara And for the space of one or two dayes they could not remaine pacified but continued in this Inquisition while they met with a childe who had conducted her along to that part place where the miscreāt creature cut her throate But they durst not bee so bolde at that instāt to goe thither without taking some aduise therevpon fearing least some greater inconuenience might arise thereupon The blood of this poore Maide beganne now to calll for vengeance at Gods hands and then God permitted that the murder committed vpon her should be manifested as it was For hauing obtained a Warrant from the Iustice they apprehended at the same instant the shamelesse Sorceresse but shée being resolu'd on all mischiefe would not confesse her fault but was stout and obstinate in her denialls So that her deliuery was wrought to the charge and cost of the innocent maides Parents procured by the rest of that diabolical crew which wrought their greater sorrow and discomfort then before being now voyde of all meanes to discouer the trueth or to come to the knowledge of their Childes ruine though bitter griefe neuer left their harts whensoeuer she came into their remembrance this matter séeming wholly to be blowne ouer and no further spéech nor talke hereof vsed This murderesse at that very time had not yet committed the butcherie as afterwards her selfe confessed but the Gyrle was close shut vp in a chamber whether this Sorceresse with the rest of her adherents presently went and so amongst them presently cut her throate Alas poore heart shée being no wayes able to resist their violence said Alas my good mistresses Alas Kill me not for Gods sake saue my life and suffer me to goe see my Mother once againe and I vow vnto you no bodie shall know what hath bene done vnto me in your house But then they all layd hold vpon her and held her while this old witch cut her throate with a great Knife and not content therewith they pluckt the heart and lyuer out of her bellie and stéeped them in her blood that afterwards they might giue them to a Sorcerer who had bought them of them consuming the rest of her bodie within an Ouen putting the Ashes thereof into a poake as before I declared vnto you Now this damnable consort thought themselues out of all perill and daunger but it fell out quite contrarie for they were all taken vpon the instant that they meant to haue fled the Countrey And notwithstanding all former discharges they were bewraied and accused by their neighbours They being the second time attainted conuicted For finding the Ashes and Bones of this innocent maide within the Ouen they were carried to the Towne presented to the Iustices when