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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

clearely perceiuing the trueth of so pittifull an Accident all men lift vy their eyes to heauen their hearts being replenished with vnmeasurable griefe All the standers by weeping most bitterly and exclayming how vnworthy a thing it were that this murder should escape vnpunished Nay rather that they should not be put vnto some extraordinarie cruell and tormēting death so as to death they were all condemned endured those paines tortures which we formerly declared vnto you But alas what good got y● sorrowful mother by this could this mittigate or appease her woe can this giue againe vnto her the life of her child alas alas notwithstanding this Infernall hagge suffered Condigne punishment for the reuenge of her Childes death yet did not this wipe out of her heart the remembrance thereof nor the griefe which daily afflicted her when she saw but the place where her child was violated and most vnhappily murdered And you the rest of her Friends Kinsfolkes can you euer forget such an opprobrie can this damsell euer slippe out of your remēbrance whom you so dearely loued no certainely for then your hearts should be too much destitute of common humanitie In like manner all you men woemen that were present at their deaths will you not alwaies carrie in minde such a butcherie and Tyrannie will you not euer remember the day of their punishment you mother 's also which haue children subiect in the like case to the like perill and daunger as hapned to this woman would you not lament ah would you not gréeue for the violent death of your owne blood I verily thinke your hearts would be surprised with as great bitternes and affliction as hers was after the rapture of her childe next which is more the remembrance of the very day when you came to the knowledge of her death would torment you For my part I know not one in the world that would faile in so kind and naturall an office and therefore I neither blame father or mother in this point except the mother in regard of her too vehement sorrow which caused her desperately to kill her selfe for who can preserue themselues from miserable afflictions except by the speciall grace and goodnes of the celestiall mouer who preserues and kéepes this our life and conducts it to the place of its saluation He he it is that 〈◊〉 vouchsafe vs his saueguard no other If therefore we euer loued his sanctitie and holinesse and neuer heard of a more lamentable and pittiful spectacle then this was we ought alwayes to beare and carrie it in minde For who would haue thought that a maide only of fourtéene yeeres of Age the daughter of Marguerite Gallon could haue had the stomacke boldnesse to deliuer this Maid of ten yeares olde and to sell and betray her into the handes of others for so small a summe of money shee receiuing in all but three twentie souz a base piece of Coyne Surely I cannot thinke shee could performe this villanie without her mothers consent yet her selfe alone was in the greatest part the cause of this hard Accident which likewise did not remaine vnpunished For she endured and suffered the like death and punishment as her mother did shée as her mother before her deseruing the fire before her death But thus this Innocent maid whome shee sold to this accursed Enchanteresse cruelly lost her life to all the peoples great griefe in generall euery ones high discontentment You sée therefore how this Prodigie came to bee discouered and how a sillie Damzell was destroyed through the bloodie crueltie of most miscreant creatures who thought their vniust malice would neuer haue come to light But GOD not permitting them long to suruiue suffered likewise that they should come into the hāds of deuine Iustice the which by his Prouidence did condemne them and the punishment of a most cruell death they haue suffered and endured although nothing so terrible as their enormious impietie deserued Where finishing this our present discourse Let vs pray vnto GOD that it would please him to bring to an end this worldes vnhappinesse and to diuert all the impious desseignes and practises of the wicked drawing them rather by his Diuine prouidence to repentance and conuersion from their sinnes to the end that those benefites may be preserued and blessed vpon the Earth which are most requisite and necessarie for vs for the vse and peregrination of this our Temporall and Transitorie life whereof 〈…〉 by these Fiendes of Hell through their méere 〈…〉 ●●priued which without Gods speciall ●●rmission in liewe of our leaude liues they could neuer effect Ian. 1. Feb. 5. Feb. 20. Feb. 19. Feb. 18 Feb. 21 Feb. 23 Feb. 24. Feb. 26. 27. March 4. 5. March 4. March 5. March 18. March 18. Aprill 5. 6. 7. April 6. Aprill 12. 16. April 14. 14 Aprill 15 Aprill 17. Aprill 15. Aprill 22. 23. ● 23.

by the Kings Attourney generall and to frame hereout an Enditement against the said Gaufredy ioyntlie together with M. Gra●deau Uicar to the Archbishoppe of Aix on the eighteenth of the same moneth The Audience Deposition and Confession of the saide Magdalen touching her said Rape seduction and subornation in that which concerned Incantation Couenants and Promises made to wicked Spirites with other abhominations mentioned in the verball Enditement the one and twentie of the saide moneth An other Registrall information taken by the saide Commissarie the three and twentie of the same moneth The Testimonie of M. Anthonie Merindol Doctor of Physicke and the Kings Professor of the Uniuersitie of the said Towne of Aix touching the accidents with extraordinarie and wonderfull motions concurring in the person of the saide Magdalen during the time of his Administration before the manifestation of her possession on the fower and twenty of the said moneth A Report made by Iacques Fountaine Lewys Grassi and the said Merindol all alike Professors Physitions together with Peter Bon-temps Surgion Anatomist a Professor also in the said Uniuersitie by the said Commissaries order vpon the qualitie of such extraordinarie Accidents as interchangeably fell out in the head and braine of the said Magdalen with the reasons thereof Also vpon the qualities causes and reasons of some insensible markes 〈◊〉 ●er bodie by herselfe reuealed as also vpon the deflouring and losse of her virginitie the sixe and seuen and twentie of the said moneth and the fift of Marche last Interrogatories and Answere of the said Gaufredy on the sixe and twentie of Februarie and fourth of Marche last Another Decrée of the said Court that the saide M Anthonie Thoron Commissioner formerly deputed shall frame and continue the absolute pointes of the same Enditement of the fourth of March. A verball Accusation by personall contestation betweene the said Magdalen and the saide Gaufredy of the fift of the said moneth A Relatin of the marckes found vpon the said Gaufredyes bodie conformable to the declaration of the said Magdalen of the eightéenth of the said moneth of March. A Publication of the same Report together with a mèeting of the said Physitions and Surgeons deputed therevnto by the said Commissaries The reexaminations and correspondencies of other testimonies of the said eighteenth 〈◊〉 of March An other Registrall informa●●●n taken in the Towne of M●rceilles the fift sixth and seuenth of Aprill last The Audience of Mistris Victoire Corbier pretended to be Enchaunted by the said Gaufredy vpon the effect and cause of the disturbance indisposition of her vnderstanding her vnmeasurable and luxurious loue and affection towardes the said Gaufredy bearing date the same sixth of Aprill Second Interrogatories propounded to the saide Gaufredy vpon the Euidence of the saide information containing a Confession that hee did bewitch the said Victoire in breathing vpon her of the twelfth and sixteenth of the said moneth of Aprill A verball Enditement out of the voluntary Confessions made by the said Gaufredy of other enormous crimes and Offences imputed to him of the fourteenth and fifteenth of the said moneth The reexamination of him on the same day being the fifteenth of Aprill afternoone Letters of the Uicar to the Bishop of Marceilles to Maister Ioseph Pellerot Prouost in the Metropolitane Church of this towne of Aix Uicar also to the Arch-bishop of the said Aix in his name place and stead to determine and proceede against the said Gaufredy his Diocesan euen as the Bishop himselfe might haue done if he had bene there present of the seauenteenth of the said moneth A procurement made by the said Gaufredy before the said Prouost in the said qualitie of Vicaria● to the end to sue for restitution of cedules therein mentioned to the qualities therein contained of the ninteenth of the said moneth An ordinance by the said Counsellour and commissarie and by the said Maister Pillerot as well as he was Uicar to the said Bishop of Marcelles as also as he was Uicar to the Archbishop of Aix that the said Magdalen should be reexamined vpon her 〈…〉 itions any audiences and againe confronted 〈…〉 said Gaufredy Other and second concessions made by himselfe and absolutely reiterated the two and twentie and three and twentie of the said moneth of Aprill conformable in euery point to the former Another relation of the said Docters in Physicke and surgerie vpon the Abolition of all the markes of the said Magdalen the reestablishment and viuification of all her parts referred to the precedent report of the three twentie of the said moneth of Aprill Uerball information of the interruptions and extraordinarie accidents hapning vpon the confession of the said Magdalen the torture and torments by her inwardly suffered with words vttered out of her mouth ouer and aboue that contained in the said interrogatories and answeres the testimonie of the abolition the reestablishment and viuification of the same markes hapning on the day and feast of the passeouer during the celebration of Masse A iudgement out of the obiections and conclusions of the Kings Atturney generall after the hearing of the said Gaufredy in the chamber and the Commissaries report deputed therevnto Hereupon the Court hath and doth declare the said Gaufredy confessed attainted and conuicted of the said crimes obiected to him for remedie and iustice whereof they haue and doe condemne him to be committed into the hands of the executioner of high Iustice to be lead and conducted through all the streetes and places vsually frequented within this towne of Aix and before the great gate of the Metropolitane Church of Saint Sauiour in the said towne of Aix to performe humble and reuerend pennance bare head and bare foote an haltar about his necke holding a burning torch in his hands and there on his knees to require pardon of God the King and publike iustice this being performed to be lead into the preachers place within the said towne and there to be burnt and consumed a liue at a stake which to that end shall there be set vp while his body and bones be reduced brought to ashes the which shall afterwards be scattered in the winde all and each of his goods and chattels forfeited and confiscate to the King And before his execution he shall be put both to the ordinarie and extraordinarie racke to turne from his owne mouth the truth of any other his complices Decréed in the Parlament of Prouince sitting at Aix and published at the barre and in the hearing of the said Gaufredy in the Concergerie or publike prison who at the same instant was put to the racke or torture ordinarie and extraordinarie there being present the Commissaries deputed and about fiue 〈◊〉 clocke in the afternoone he was executed to death hauing before bene degraded by the Lord Bishop of Marcelles his Diocesan within the Church of the Friers Preachers in Aix before the

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