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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A18587	A detection of damnable driftes, practized by three vvitches arraigned at Chelmifforde in Essex, at the laste assises there holden, whiche were executed in Aprill. 1579 Set forthe to discouer the ambushementes of Sathan, whereby he would surprise vs lulled in securitie, and hardened with contempte of Gods vengeance threatened for our offences.		1579 (1579)	STC 5115; ESTC S118977	5,619	21

A Detection of damnable driftes practized by three VVitches arraigned at Chelmisforde in Essex at the laste Assises there holden whiche were executed in Aprill 1579. Set forthe to discouer the Ambushementes of Sathan whereby he would surprise vs lulled in securitie and hardened with contempte of Gods vengeance threatened for our offences To the Reader ACcept this pamphlet Christian Reader view and peruse it with discretion and hedefulnesse No trifles are therin conteined worthy to be contēned nor pernicious fantazies deseruyng to bee condemned But contrariwise in this pretie plot may holsome hearbes of admonitions for the vnwarie and carelesse and soote flowers to recreate the wearied senses be gathered For on th one side the cleare sight maie espie the ambushmentes whiche Sathan the secrete woorkemaister of wicked driftes hath placed in moste partes of this realme either by craftie conueighaunces to creepe into the conceiptes of the simple or by apparaunt treacherie to vndermine and spoile the states of suche as God permitteth him to haue power ouer And on the other side the eye that is wimpled may hereby be aduertised of the darkenesse wherewith his vnderstandyng is ouercast and puttyng of the veile of vanitie maie reclaime his concept and esteeme of the impietie of the offendours and vilanie of their actes accordyng to the woorde of God and waightinesse of the case And if in tyme past he hath escaped their Sorceries let hym not the lesse feare the harmes that maie hereafter ensue For the Deuill by the sufferaunce of almightie God is as well able to plague the persone that moste presumeth of safetie as any haue bin who in this treatise are mentioned Some with muche adoe cā be awaked out of their drousie dreames though thei bee tolde that their neighbours house is on fire But when their owne walles are inuaded with like flames thei shall finde that it had bin better to haue come an hower too soone to quenche those forrein fires then to haue risen one minute too late to extinguishe the same creepyng into their owne chambers If therefore thou be assured that thy neighbour either in bodie familie or gooddes is impaired by damnable witchcrafte or perceiuest by information or other wise ought of suche deuises intēded to be practized or likely presumption of suche Deuilishe deedes contriued for Charitie to thy Christian brother and tender regard of thine own state preuente or stop the mischief by all possible meanes And for thyne owne parte with praier and assured faithe in the merites of Christ Iesus shield thy self so shal neither the Deuill nor his Angelles haue power ouer thee or thine Farewell ¶ The Confession of Elizabeth Fraunces late of Hatfeelde in Essex 2 Item this Elizabeth Fraunces saieth further that she knoweth one Elizabeth Lorde awidowe dwellyng in the same parishe of Hatfielde and so hath doen of longe tyme of whom she hard that about seuen or eight yeres paste she brought drinke in a crewse and gaue it to one Ihon Fraunces seruaunte to goodman Some of the same parishe shortly after the taking of whiche drinke he sickened and died 3 Item she further confesseth that she likewise knoweth that the same Widowe Lorde was saied to haue bewitched one Ione Robertes seruaunte to old Higham in a peece of an Apple cake whiche she gaue her vpon the eatyng whereof she presently sickened and not long after died 4 Item she also confesseth that she knowes one Mother Osborne a Widowe in the same toune to be a witche and that she hath a marke in the ende of one of her fingers like a pitt and an other marke vppon the outside of her right legge whiche she thinketh to bee pluckt out by her Spirit and that one Mother Waterhouse her owne sister long since executed for Witch crafte had the self same markes whithe she termeth nippes and she saieth that this Mother Osborne liyng lame and complainyng of her sore legge she the saied Elizabeth Fraunces came vnto her and required to see her leg whiche beeyng shewed vnto her she the saied Elizabeth badde to pnt it into the bedde again saiyng that she her self knewe that the same came by wante of well seruyng of god And thus muche for Elizabeth Fraunces ¶ The Euidence giuen against Elleine Smithe of Maldon THere was one Ihon Chaundeler dwellyng in Maldon whose wife named Alice Chaundeler was mother vnto this Elleine Smithe and for Witchcrafte was executed long before after whose execution he went vnto his daughter in lawe Ellein Smithe and demaunded certaine money of her whiche she had receiued of her mother his wife by meanes of whiche money thei fell out and in fallyng out the saied Elleine in greate rage saied vnto hym that it had been better for hym he had neuer fallen out with her aud so it came to passe for the same Ihon Chaundeler confessed before his death that after the same hower that she had saied so vnto hym he nener eate any meate that digested in hym but euer it came vp againe as soone as it was done by whiche meanes he consumed and wasted awaie to his death 2 The sonne of the foresaid Ellen Smithe of the age of thirteene yeres or there aboutes came to the house of one Ihon Estwood of Malden for to begge an almose who chid the boye awaie from his doore wherevppon he wente home and tolde his mother and within a while after the said Estwood was taken with very greate paine in his bodie and the same night followyng as he satte by the fire with one of his neighbours to their thinkyng thei did see a Ratte runne vp the Chimney and presently it did fall doune again in the likenesse of a Tode and takyng it vp with the tongges thei thruste it into the fire and so helde it in Forcesibly it made the fire burne as blewe as Azure and the fire was almoste out and at the burnyng thereof the saied Ellen Smithe was in greate paine and out of quiete wherevppon dissemblyngly she came to the house of the fore saied Ihon Estwood and asked how all that were there did and he saied well I thanke God and she said I thought you had not been well and therefore I came to see how you did and so went her waie 3 Also it was auouched and by this prisoner confessed that where as her daughter and the daughter of one Widowe Webbe of Maldon afore saied did fall out and fight the same Ellein Smithe offended thereat meetyng good wife Webbes daughter the nexte daie gaue her a blowe on the face wherevpon so soone as the childe came home she sickened and languishyng twoo daies cried continually awaie with the Witche awaie with the Witch and so died And in the mornyng immediatly after the death of the same childe the saied good wife Webbe espied as she thought a thyng like to a blacke Dogge goe out at her doore and presently at the sight thereof she fell distraught of her wittes 4 Besides the sonne of this Mother Smith confessed that