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A09118 A guide to grand-iury men diuided into two bookes: in the first, is the authors best aduice to them what to doe, before they bring in a billa vera in cases of witchcraft, with a Christian direction to such as are too much giuen vpon euery crosse to thinke themselues bewitched. In the second, is a treatise touching witches good and bad, how they may be knowne, euicted, condemned, with many particulars tending thereunto. By Rich. Bernard. Bernard, Richard, 1568-1641. 1627 (1627) STC 1943; ESTC S101683 81,487 300

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Witches Bodin relateth that one Trescalanus a notorious Witch in Charles the 9. dayes hauing his life giuen to discouer others told the King that there were in his Kingdome aboue 300000. Also the same Bodinu telleth vs that there had beene executed in Loraine while one man Remingius was Gouernour there nine hundred Witches Sixtly and lastly wee may reade in the Admirable History of a Magician set out by Papists and dedicated to the Q. Regent of France that the Diuell called Verrine iustified most of the superstitious and idolatrous practices in that Church 〈…〉 Innocation of Saints and Angels with the rest Is it not likely then that there the Diuel can haue power ouer the Professors of that Religion which he so well liketh and approueth of This is euident in this something that so many Priests Religious men and religious women of their orders haue beene found to be Witches as Bodinns hath lese recorded to posterities in his Daemonomania Thus wee see the sorts which principally may be insnared by Satan to turne Witches CHAP. III. Before the Diuell come to sollicite to Witchcraft hee sindeth some preparednesse in such parties to giue him hope to preuaile THe miserable man or woman which becommeth a Witch maketh way for the Diuel to set vpon them to make them such Hee goeth thither where he is either sure or well hopeth of entertainment Mat. 12.44 48. He therefore watcheth the time when he may best offer his seruice vnto them The preparednesse besides that which is common as impenitencie prophanesse vnconscionablenesse and irrespect to the power of Religion are distempered passions and violence of affections vaine curiosities I company through which occasions he taketh aduantage and worketh to haue his will As for example When any fall into a passionate sorrow accompanied with solitarinesse for some losse as did a woman for the death of her child in which sorrowfull melancholy moode the Diuell offered himselfe to comfort her So at that time to others also in the time of a great death extremely pinched and in desperate cases hee appeared and at length wonne the former woman and these to become Witches for which they were afterwards being found out confessing how they so became such condemned and executed When a man is impatient of pouerty and wil needs be rich euen against Gods prouidence heere is preparation for a Diuell As wee may reade of a young man thus affected to whom the Diuell offered himselfe to supply his wants and to fulfill his desire if hee would become his to which he yeelded and wrote a band with his owne bloud for the ratification When one is inraged with anger plotting reuenge heere is worke for the Diuell Thus hee tooke hold of one Mary Smith of Lynne and brought her to be a Witch and to make a league with him When one is familiar with such a● are Witches Thus one Alice Nutter a rich woman in Lancashire was seduced and one Alison D●uire and Anne C●●tto● which they confessed and were executed for their murthers and Witchcrafts When any are addicted to the reading and study of dangerous bookes inticing to the practice of hidden Mysteries of Magicke and Inchantments Thus was 〈◊〉 G●●fred● a Priest catched and became a Witch a very Diuell incarness in the height of villanies for his pride and teacheries Thus by these and other like meanes which may bee gathered from the confessions of Witches they prepare themselues for Satans temptations to draw them to Witchcraft CHAP. IV. Of Satans appearing in some uisible shape to those that he inticeth to Witchcraft WHen the Diuell hath once perceiued a man or womans preparednesse hee taketh his sit time to discouer himselfe in some visible forme to be seene of them That hee can take a shape it 's not to be doubted For 1. Hee appeared in a forme like Samuel to Saul 1. Sam. 28. And Diuines doe thinke that the seruants that came so immediately one vpon another to bring Iob heauy tidings were Diuels Iob I. and it is held that he appeared to Christ visibly Matth. 4. 2. Histories make mention of his visible appearing and such as doe write de spectris de bonis malis Angelis affirme as much 3. Witches generally confesse it as we may reade in the relations of those many in Lancashire those in Northhampton and Bedfordshire and in all other places Now these appeare not in one but in varietie of shapes and formes as in the shape of a Man or Woman or a Boy of a browne and white Dogge of a Foale of a spotted Bitch of a Hare Moale Cat Kitling Rat dunne Chicken or Owle of a Toade or Crab of these haue I read in the narrations of Witches to which more may be added for no doubt he can if God permit take any forme vpon him for his aduantage to deceiue though some write that he cannot take the forme of a Doue or Lambe Wee may in reading finde that hee varyeth in his appearances according to the nature quality and condition of the persons to whom hee presents himselfe To base fordid filthy nasty and blockish more beast-like then Christian people hee commeth in the baser formes and more abhorred shapes to some of them in the shape of Toads as you haue heard to be loathed euen of nature it selfe if they had not lost it But to a Faustus in a religious persons habit to Gaufredy a Priest one of some learning and wealth he appeareth in some humane shape like a gallant fellow and so vnto others for hee fashioneth himselfe so as hee knoweth to bee best liked to whom hee commeth to shew himselfe to make them his CHAP. V. Of the league betweene the Diuell and the Witch with the sealing and confirmation WHen the Diuell hath once appeared vnto them hee leaueth them not till he get them to make an expresse league with him This he procuteth of some sometimes at the first comming sometimes of others not before the second or third comming for all yeeld not so readily to this alike but howsoeuer hee is so importunate for this that he at length preuaileth withall to make them yeeld The league on the man or womans part is to giue their soules to him which hee most commonly asketh as Witches haue confessed and to renounce God as hath beene also acknowledged by Gaufredy and others sometimes the Diuell asketh not onely the soule as he asketh it o● the sottish sort which care not for it so they may thinke their bodies safe but hee also asketh the whole person and sometime his goods spirituall and temporall as the Diuell dealt with Gaufredy as he plain●ly confessed before he was burnt who gaue himselfe body and soule and all to Lucifer The Couenant on the Diuels part is his promise to helpe the poore to foode the sicke to health the ref●ll to bee 〈…〉 the curious to knowledge the ambitious to honour as hee did the
and indeede with a lowd and shrill inarticulate sound of two sillables Ipha Ipha 2. Shee had diuers tortures of her mouth and face with staring and rowling her eyes sprawling and tumbling vpon the ground grating and gnashing of her teeth 3. Sometimes shee fell into a deadly trance therein continuing the space of a day representing the shape and image of death without all sense and motion sauing breathing and her pulse neither was she moued with pinching or the like 4. When shee came out of the same she would as if fearefully affrighted cast her eyes looking backward then on either side and ouer her head as seeing something and then her eyes would be staring open and her mouth gaping wide with her hands armes strongly stretched out aboue her head with a generall starknesse and st●ffenesse 5. When shee was out of her fits and seemed to sleepe and slumber then her imagination ledde her hands to diuers actions and m●tions arguing folly and defect of reason with her hands onely feeling without the help of any other sense she would dresse and a●tire the heads of such women as were by her so strong was her imagination to leade her feeling These and other particulars are mentioned yet the causes naturall and na●urall meanes were vsed by him and at leng●h by the benefit of the Baths she was cured Another story he records of a poore boy of ●ichley in Northamptonshire who was sudd●nly surprised with a vehement conuu●sion drawing his head and heeles violently backward carrying his whole body into a roundnesse tumbling vp and downe with much paine and inward groaning The p●rents held him bewitched and therefore sent for a wise woman who played her witchery trick●s but could doe nothing The Doctor shewed the naturall cause to be Worms which in some time after the Boy did void and was perfectly well In another book of his called th● t●yall of Witchcraft chap. 2. pag. 15 16 17. he mak●th mention of diuers sorts of persons tormented with diseases wit● their terrible accidents and afflictions to the body of men women and children the reason whereof could not bee discerned till after death but their bodies being opened the reasons in nature were very euident in sight Amongst the rest one story he relates to shew the pestilent euil of seeking to a white Witch and Wizard of a Gentlewoman strangely affl●cted with varietie of strange tormenting diseases together and being almost cured it was by a Wizard whispered and thereupon beleeued that shee was meerely bewitched which supposed Witches were thereupon attached accused arraigned found guilty and executed and yet saith he in true reason and iudicious discerning it is as cleere as the brightest day that no accident befalling her was other then naturall An accursed crediting then of a Wizard vniustly occasioned the taking away of the liues of these so suspected But thogh the diseases ceased for some sixe yeeres yet some of her fits returned againe in the seuenth yeere following and continued longer vpon her then the other and now if they will beleeue a Wizard againe they must goe conceit other Witches and hang them too But now to leaue diseases it is good to obserue the force of Fancie and Feare whereby may bee found Witches But where only in a foolish sconce as he speaketh And to shew this hee instanceth the force thereof in two women going to a Physicion one after another To the one hee said shee was like to bee vexed with the Sciatica whereof he saw the apparant signes which shee affirmed neuer to haue had the motion of in all her life now the same night returning home shee was painefully and grieuously afflicted with it To the other comming some two or three dayes after besides the paine she made knowne hee by signes told her of the Crampe which she before sensibly neuer had felt yet that night also it came to her Now the first party knowing how it hapned to her selfe and hearing the like of her neighbour presently concluded that shee surely was bewitched by the Physician But after her husband an vnderstanding man to satisfie his wiues minde being impatient during her paines had gone and returned from the Physician shee was altered in her opinion and then prayed her husband to go once more to aske him forgiuenesse and if hee so would then should shee be well and indeed so her imagination wrought that at her husbands returne shee met him at the doore and told him that she was well How did a lusty young man at the Assi●es presently faint in reading a conference of two spi●●ts whilest the suspected Witch was at the Barre meerely vpon feare to be in danger to be bewitched as was euid●nt by hi● words saying O thou Rogue wilt thou bewitch me too Feare and imag●nation make many Witches among countrey people being superstitiously addicted and led with foolish obseruations and imaginarie signes of good and bad lucke Therefore seeing there may be such naturall causes truely alledged for those things which seemed to be infl●cted by Satan and the prouocation of Witches I. Let such as suspect themselues to bee bewitched consider whether the cause of their v●xation be not naturall and enquir● not of a diuellish W●zard but of learned and iudicious Physicians to know their disease lest they suspect their neighbours vniustly and for a iu●t punish●ent God giue them ouer into the hands of those that they doe feare So likewise should they in the losse of their cattel looke to the na●urall causes of their death ●or a beast and horse may die suddenly and not be bewitched as an horse of one Master Dorington in Huntingtonshire suddenly falling downe dead was opened there was found in his heart a strange worme round together like a Toade but being spred had 50. branches and was seuenteene inches long II. The Gentlemen of the Grand-Iury in case of Witchcraft when cōplaints are made should 1. Be ●●quisitiue of the grounds leading the Complainant why he thinketh himselfe or any of his to be bewitched whether it bee not rather from his owne feare then from any other cause or whether the affliction bee not from some naturall cause 2. To inquire whether hee hath taken aduice of some learned Physicians and hath also vsed their best helpes for remedie before they enter into consideration of the practices of Witcherie because vnlesse the Witchcraft be very cleere they may bee much mistaken and better it were till the truth appeare to write an Ignoramus then vpon oath to set down Billa vera and so thrust an intricate case vpon a Iury of simple men who proceed too often vpon relations of ●eere presumptions and these sometimes very weake ones too to take away mens liues It is vndoubtedly true that there is a very great likenesse and also a deceiueable likenesse betweene some diseases naturall and those that be really and truely supernaturall comming by the D●uell and Witchery and therefore neede the iudgement of some
another time one cloathed in russet with a bush beard speaking to him So also Toads and Crabs crawling about his house after which hee was tormented So Master Auerie whom before I haue mentioned saw as hee rode in his Coach homeward a vision and forthwith his Coach-horses fell downe dead One Master Engersmen in Bedfordshire driuing a Cart of corne to Bedford saw a great blacke Sow grasing which went along with them at length the horses brake their carriage and ranne away to Bedford so at the returning backe they saw the same Sow and had the like violent course of horses the chiefe man afterwards by a stroake of a Beetle vpon his brest fell into a trance suddenly and was in his senses distracted and continued for a long time in extasies and grieuous perplexitie To these may bee added what formerly is written of the signes of such as the Diuell tormenteth for what hee can doe without the association of a Witch that can he doe when hee is willed by the Witch to doe his worke And thus much briefely for these signes of persons bewitched CHAP. XIII What those things be which Witches doe by which they doe set their spirits on worke to doe mischiefe and by which they are said to bewitch THough as you haue heard Witches doe not the harme themselues yet doe they that which the spirit will haue them to doe before hee will worke the mischiefe Hee sets them on puts into their hearts euill thoughts hee inflameth them with rancor yea and appeareth visibly speaking to them counselling and vrging them to doe this and that before hee doth the hurt they agree and so the Witch sendeth him who is ready inough to goe of himselfe but he will not in cases of Witchcraft That which the Witches doe are a● Watch-words and Signes that the Diuell may know as it were when where and vpon whom to doe mischiefe The meanes which they vse are diuers and many by which as we commonly speake they bewitch man or beast By cursing and banning and bitter imprecations this is very vsuall with such and the Diuell encourageth them thereto as he did one Mary Smith of Linne the effect whereof fell on Iohn Orkton whose fingers she wished might rot off when he was strong and well and so they did and his toes too afterward By threatnings with curses as Chattox the Lancashire Witch did one Hugh Moore Anne Nutter and others who dyed thereupon By Charms Spels the words whereof being repeated the Diu●ll will doe hurt Bodin mentioneth how a maide could get no butter when a boy repeated a verse till he was made to pronounce it backward againe By a Charme did Gaufredy bewitch one Louyse Chapeau into whom the Diuell entred By certaine formes of words like prayers vsing the name of God and the Lord Iesus or the Virgin Mary whom they call our Lady seeming hereby to call vpon them for a blessing they vse these as a Watchword for their spirits as when they say Here is a good horse God saue him c. By praising and by words of commendations this Bodinus confirmeth by many testimonies and P. de Loyer de spectris who citeth Au. Gellius his Noctes Atticae for the same wherevpon the Italians hearing any to praise others very much say Di gratia no gli diate mal d'ochio By their lookes if with an intent to hurt thus could one Gamaliel Greete do into whom whilst he was swearing a spirit like a white Mouse entred as Ioane Willimot the Leicestershire Witch confessed before authoritie Bodinus also mentioneth this kinde of hurting and Virgil in this verse Nescio quis oculis teneros mihi fascinat Agnos By their breath as a Witch in the Diocesse of Constance who blowing infected the whole body of a man with Leprosie so did Gaufredy bewitch with his breath By touching with the hand or finger as Ellen Greene one of the Leicestershire Witches touched one Iohn Patshets wife and her child in the Midwiues armes and then sent her spirits to witch them to death For the spirit Dandy said to the Lancashire Witch Iames Deuice whē hee went to one Duckworths house Thou hast touched him and therfore haue I power ouer him A Witch touched but the brests of a woman that gaue sucke and d●yed vp her milke this Danaeus witnesseth Mary Sutton a Bedfordshire Witch did but touch the necke of one Mr Eng●rs seruants onely with her finger and he was presently after her departure miserably vexed By making pictures of Waxe and Clay of those which they would bewitch and either roast them or bury them that as they consume so wil the parties a notable story hereof is in Boëtius of one King Duffe a Scottish King which is recorded fully in the Chron. of Scotland The Lancashire Witch Chattox and some others were much exercised in this diuellish practice as their confessions in their examinations doe witnes Ioane Flower which bewitched the Earle of Rutlands children would curse the Lo Rosse and take feathers and bloud boile them together vsing many diuellish speeches and gestures as her daughter Philip confessed By tying of certaine knots as Saint Ierome testifieth in vita Hilarionis By sacrifices as Balaam attempted and as a woman before-named did offer a Cocke and another a Beetle as Serres in the French Chronicle witnesseth in Henry the 4. dayes or some the very paring of nailes or but a piece of a girdle as a spirit asked of the forenamed Ioane Flower By getting something of those whom they meane to bewitch So the Witch Flower got the right hand gloue of the Lord Rosses which shee first rub'd on the backe of her spirit Rutterkin then put it into hote boyling water after taking it out pricking it often and wished that the Lord Rosse might neuer thriue There was a Boy at Bradley which a spirit in for●e of a Toade called Bun which spirit as he confessed told him that to kil a mans horse which he rode to the water hee must get the Owner to giue him something as Bread Cheese or what else before hee could kill him By the Witches giuing something as inchanted powder oyntment hearbs yea or apples or strawberries bread cheese drinke this hath beene found true many times By these and no doubt many other wayes they worke to effect their wils and do bewitch others CHAP. XIV Who they be that are most subiect to be hurt by these bad Witches and of the remedies against Witchcraft THough God may try his dearest children this way yet it is very seldome and vpon their goods rather then vpon their bodies yet sometimes it hath beene found that they haue preuailed to the taking away of the life of some who haue been reputed religious Such as vsually most commonly are plagued by them are 1. Carnall Gospellers such as professe religion● without the power of religion New●rals Time-seruers