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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A01001	The wonderful discouerie of the vvitchcrafts of Margaret and Phillip Flower, daughters of Ioan Flower neere Beuer Castle: executed at Lincolne, March 11. 1618 Who were specially arraigned and condemned before Sir Henry Hobart, and Sir Edward Bromley, iudges of assise, for confessing themselues actors in the destruction of Henry L. Rosse, with their damnable practises against others the children of the Right Honourable Francis Earle of Rutland. Together with the seuerall examinations and confessions of Anne Baker, Ioan Willimot, and Ellen Greene, witches in Leicestershire.		1619 (1619)	STC 11107; ESTC S102363	15,152	48

THE WONDERFVL DISCOVERIE OF THE Witchcrafts of Margaret and Phillip Flower daughters of Ioan Flower neere Beuer Castle Executed at Lincolne March 11. 1618. Who were specially arraigned and condemned before Sir Henry Hobart and Sir Edward Bromley Iudges of Assise for confessing themselues actors in the destruction of Henry Lord Rosse with their damnable practises against others the Children of the Right Honourable FRANCIS Earle of Rutland Together with the seuerall Examinations and Confessions of Anne Baker Ioan Willimot and Ellen Greene Witches in Leicestershire THE WONDERFVLL DISCOVERIE OF THE Witch-craftes of Margraet and Phillip Flower Daughters of Ioan Flower by BEAVER CASTLE and executed at LINCOLNE the 11. of March 1618. MY meaning is not to make any contentious Arguments about the discourses distinction or definition of Witchcraft the power of Diuells the nature of Spirits the force of Charmes the secrets of Incantation and such like because the Scriptures are full of prohibitions to this purpose and proclaimes death to the presumptuous attempters of the same Besides both Princes yea our owne learned and most iudicious King Philosophers Poets Chronologers Historiographers and many worthy Writers haue concurred and concluded in this that diuers impious and facinorous mischiefes haue beene effectuated through the instruments of the Diuell by permission of God so that the actors of the same haue carried away the opinion of the world to doe that which they did by Witchcraft or at least to be esteemed Witches for bringing such and such things to passe For howsoeuer the learned haue charactred delinquents in this kinde by titles of sundry sortes and most significant attributes as Pythonissae dealing with artificiall Charmes Magi anciently reputed so for extraordinary wisedome and knowledge in the secrets of simples and hearbes Chaldei famous for Astronomy and Astrology Necromancers for practising to raise dead bodies and by them to foretell euents of the earth Geomantici for conuersing with Spirits and vsing Inchantations Genethliaci for presuming on the calculating of Natiuities or if you will assuming the credit of Figure-casting Ventriloqui for speaking with hollow voyces as if they were possessed with Diuells Venefici for dealing with Poyson and either killing or curing that way For you must vnderstand howeuer the Professors aforesaid practise murther and mischiefe yet many times they Pretend cures and preseruation with many others carrying the shew of great learning and admired knowledge yet haue they all but one familier tearme with vs in English called Witches As for the conceit of wise-men or wise woemen they are all meerely coseners and deceiuers so that if they make you beleeue that by their meanes you shall heare of things lost or stolne it is either done by Confederacy or put off by protraction to deceiue you of your money Only as I said before there bee certaine men and women growne in yeares and ouer-growne with Melancholly and Atheisme who out of a malicious disposition against their betters or others thriuing by them but most times from a heart-burning desire of reuenge hauing entertained some impression of displeasure and vnkindnesse study nothing but mischiefe and exoticke practises of loathsome Artes and Sciences yet I must needes say that sometimes the fained reputation of wisedome cunning and to be reputed a dangerous and skilfull person hath so preuailed with diuers that they haue taken vpon them indeed to know more then God euer afforded any creature to performe no lesse then the Creator both of Heauen earth making you beleeue with Medea that they can raise tempests turne the Sunne into blood pull the Moone out of her Spheare and saile ouer the Sea in a cockle shell according to the Poet. Flectere si nequeam Superos Acheronta mouebo If Art doe faile to moue the Gods consent vnto my minde I will the Diuells raise to doe what they can in their kinde But howsoeuer speciall persons are transported with an opinion of their owne worth and preuailing in this kinde yet by lamentable experience we know too well what monstrous effects haue bene produced euen to the horror of the hearers and damnation of their owne soules by such kinde of people For as it is in the tale of the enuious man that put out one of his eyes to haue his companion loose both so fareth it with them and worse to giue away their soules to bee reuenged of their aduersaries bodies wherein the monstrous subtilty of the Diuell is so apparant that it is wonderfull one way to relate and lamentable another way to obserue the same For no sooner shall such motiues poyson the inward conceite or apprehension of such damnable Caitiffes But then steppeth forth the Diuell and not onely sheweth them the way but prescribeth the manner of effecting the same with facility and easinesse assuring that hee himselfe will attend them in some familiar shape of Rat Cat Toad Bird Cricket c yea effectuate whatsoeuer they shall demaund or desire and for their better assurance and corroboration of their credulity they shall haue palpable and forcible touches of sucking pinching kissing closing colling and such like wherevpon without any feare of God or Man knowledge of Christ hope of redemption confidence of mercy or true beleefe that there is any other thing to bee looked after but this present World according to that Athiesticall position of Epicurus Ede bibe lude post mortem nulla voluptas Eat drink sport play and take thy pleasures rest For after death who knowes what shall be best They admit of those execrable conditions of commutation of soules for the entertaining of the spirits and so fall to their abhominable practises continuing in the same till God laugh them to scorne and will by no meanes suffer them to abuse his holy name nor deceiue others by their prophane liues any longer Witnesse for the generall those infinite Treatises of many of them conuinced by Law and condemned to death to the fearefull example of all carnall and hypocriticall Christians but more especially you may ouer-looke if you please that learned Discourse of Daemonologie composed in forme of a Dialogue by the High and mighty Prince IAMES by the grace of God King of England Scotland France and Ireland c. and printed as I take it according to the coppy of Edenburgh 1603. As also a Treatise of Witch-craft made by that learned Mr. Alexander Roberts Preacher at Kings-Line in Norfolke 1615. vpon the discouery of the Witch-crafts of Mary Smith wife of Henry Smith Glouer with her vocall contract betweene the Diuell and her selfe in sollemne tearmes and such like imposturing filthinesse with many hurts and mischiefes which thereby she procured As also a certaine discouery 1611. made by Iohn Cotta Doctor of Phisicke in Northampton of Empericks woemen about sicke persons Quacksaluers and fugitiues which seeme to worke iuggling wonders Surgeons Apothecaries practisers by spells the true discouery of Witch-craft especially in the sicke with many instances in that kind Wisards and seruants of