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A02750	A declaration of egregious popish impostures to with-draw the harts of her Maiesties subiects from their allegeance, and from the truth of Christian religion professed in England, vnder the pretence of casting out deuils. Practised by Edmunds, alias Weston a Iesuit, and diuers Romish priestes his wicked associates. Where-vnto are annexed the copies of the confessions, and examinations of the parties themselues, which were pretended to be possessed, and dispossessed, taken vpon oath before her Maiesties commissioners, for causes ecclesiasticall.	Harsnett, Samuel, 1561-1631.	1603 (1603)	STC 12880; ESTC S120922	196,686	296

shall then be full of chaire-worke indeed And verily as many as be young women and maides and marke in the course of this storie the kind handling of Anne Fid and Sara three proper young maids by the Doctors of the Chayre and withall shall obserue well the manner of the Chayre theyr holy brimstone holy potion and the rest of that holy geere wil I doubt not be much delighted with the contemplation of that day and rather then faile hartily both wish and pray that all theyr holy works may grace Tiburne as they haue worthily deserued with new holy reliques before that day come Well howsoeuer you like them or theyr holy chaire this is theyr theoreme sure and sound that the greatest part of Protestants be possessed and so they proceeded with Anne Fid and Sara Who before they becam entangled in their holy ginnes were protestant maydes went orderly to Church Mary after that they and their Leno had caught them with cat-biting hipping and crosbiting as you haue heard that they had brought them with their Syren-songs to belieue that some wicked spirit had lyen a long time lurking in theyr bellies and theyr sides why then they enchaunt them a fresh with this lamentable dolefull dittie That theyr harts doe bleede for sorrow to see them in this pittifull wofull plight being in Satans possession that they burne with bowels of cōmiseration and compassion of theyr distressed estate that they would spend theyr best spirits and liues to doe them any good onely one little thing is a barre that hinders the influence of all diuine grace and fauour vpon them and that is theyr religion which they must first abandon and be reconciled to the Pope or otherwise all theyr holy ceremonies are of no auaile And heere beginnes their holy pageant to peepe into the stage First they tell Friswood and Sara as you may see in their confessions that theyr baptisme they had receiued in the Church of England must be amended in regard it wanted many rites ceremonies ornaments belonging to the baptisme of the Church of Rome Heere Allen and Parsons will con you little thanke for so little setting by their resolution in cases for England Their words are these Ceremoniae omissae baptismi in pueris cum possunt commodè suppleri debent non autem id faciendum consulimus in ijs qui sunt prouectioris aetatis ne inde nascatur scandalum aut opinio priorem baptismum non valuisse Your Ceremonies say your two Gods may be fitly played vpon the baptisme of children but vpon an adultus not so least a conceit or scandale arise thereby that the former baptisme should not be of it selfe good Allen and Parson determine Friswood and Saras English baptisme good enough without your goodly ceremonies florished ouer their heads and yet you must be dooing in spight of them both Your implements were ready for the purpose and it fitted your deuill-worke better and so you esteemed not Allen or Parsons a pinne And in good sooth you might aswell haue kept these goodly Ceremonies in your budget except you cleerly meant to mocke almighty God and to make the sacrament naught els saue a rattle for fooles babes and women to make sport withall In my opinion there was neuer Christmas-game performed vvith moe apish indecent slouenly gawdes then your baptising and super-baptising ceremonies are Your puffe your crosse-puffe your expuffe your inpuffe vppon the face of a tender infant beeing the impure stinking breath of a foule impure belching swaine your enchaūted salt your charmed grease your sorcerised chrisme your lothsome driuell that you put vppon theyr eyes eares noses and lyppes are fitting complements for hynch pynch and laugh not coale vnder candlesticke Frier Rush and wo-penny hoe Which are more ciuilly acted and with lesse foule soyle and lothsome indecorum then your spattring and greasing tricks vpon the poore infant and yet old doting Bellarmine blurres three whole leaues of paper in displaying the banner of this ridiculous trumpery telling vs a long tale that they came from tradition of the Church when we can aswel tell as hee can his Aue Marie from what sniueling Pope what drunken Frier what Heathenish imitation they did all proceede But see these popish guegawes acted vpon Friswood herselfe First out comes the holy chaire and Friswood the new babe is placed very demurely in it with a cloth vpon her head and a crosse vpon it Then in comes the priest attired in an Albe or a Cope with a candle in his hand or else he is Anathema by the Counsell of Trent and after the performance of a whole anticke-sute of Crosses hee approches very reuerently to Friswood in the chayre Then as herselfe in her confession describes it he first charmes her in Latine then he puts salt in her mouth spittle vppon her eares and eyes and annoints her lippes and her nose with oyle and so God and Saint Frauncis saue the young childe in steade of Friswood christening her by the name of Frauncis because that Saint had such a soueraigne commaund ouer the birds of the ayre that his name for it was made communicable both to hee and shee and Sara was christened by the name of Mary Suppose now gentle Reader that Friswoods Mother had come sodainly in and seene the Priest with his candell in his hand and his Cope vpon his backe busie in his enchaunting Latine charme and with-all had espied her daughter Friswood musled in her chaire of estate with a cloath and a Crosse and her other sacred geare I wonder what she would sodainly haue thought whether she would not haue beene much amazed at this infernall incantation and haue imagined that a ghost in steede of Friswood had beene coniured out of hell But if shee had had the hart to haue spoken vnto Friswood and to haue called her by her name and she should sodainly haue stepped out of her enchaunted chaire and haue said that her name had not beene Friswood but Frauncis verily they would haue taken her for a ghost in deede or haue feared that the Priest had enchaunted her out of her wits But stay what hast For after these new transformed creatures had their ceremonies and rites done vppon them and were framed fashioned and attired for their parts and were ready for the chaire the stage no man abroad could be admitted to either sight or speech with them intus res agitur they were now mysticall creatures and must attend their sacred close mysteries within All must be mum Clum quoth the Carpenter Clum quoth the Carpenters wife and Clum quoth the Friar You shall be more thoroughly confirmed by Friswood her selfe touching this poynt who saith in her examination That neither shee nor her sister Sara did see either father or mother being in the same Towne all the while that they were in theyr hands neyther would they suffer their father or mother to speake with them though they desired it many times

troubled before I went out of England that tooke me there againe and thereupon I gaue ouer that order altogether About that time there was a proclamation published heere in England as I was told that all English gentlemen and others should repaire home into theyr Country within a certaine time vpon danger of her Maiesties displeasure and losse of theyr goods and lands or to that effect Whereuppon I was perswaded by some of my friends that saw my course of life there hauing giuen ouer my studie to returne home againe and the rather for that I had some land left vnto mee by my father Leauing therefore Paris I tooke my iourny homeward by Roane towards Diepe where I tooke shipping and landed at Rie At my arriuall the Maior offering vnto mee the oath of her Maiesties supremacy I willinglie tooke it and afterwards repayred of mine owne accord diligently to the Church and seruice of God established in England by her Maiesties lawes I continued in Sussex Kent and other places from Good friday the time of my arriuall vntill it was towards Alhallontide following which time I spent as other young Gentlemen did with whom I fell acquainted vntill through meere necessity hauing then no part of my liuing in my hands I was constrained through want to repaire to my brother Iohn Mainy at London vpon whom I did for a while especially relye I had not beene long in London before it was my hap to dine at the L. Vaux his house with my said brother eyther at Hackney or Hogsdon I doe not wel remember whether his Lordship was not then at home but the table was kept and entertainment giuen by his sonne and daughter In that dinner while there was much communication of the late possession and dispossession of one Marwood by certaine priests and chiefely if I doe not forget my selfe by Ma Edmunds The tales which were told of that matter seemed strange vnto me as what extraordinarie strength he had in his fits how he roared like a Bull and many other things were then mentioned which now I haue forgotten While my chiefe continuance was in London I rode sometimes with my brother to Denham the house of Sir George Peckham and in the parish of Denham he hauing married Sir George Peckhams daughters and the whole furniture of the house appertayning vnto him as part of his dowrie with his wife At that time also he kept seruants there I went likewise sometimes to Denham of mine owne accord and remained there some two or three dayes at a time It fell out hardly with me as now I perceaue that I came to London about Alhallontide before mentioned for then there was nothing in effect in the mouthes of Catholiques but of the casting out of deuils A little before there was much to doe with the said Marwood as I finde by the story that is written of him beginning Erat quidā inuenis c. Immediatly after as also it is plaine by an other story which I am enformed was taken with one Ma Barnes there was at Hollantide great busines at Fulmer with Trayford and Sara Williams And such were then those times as now I vnderstand and did then partly finde by experience that a small occasion was matter sufficient for the priests to worke vppon to charge any one that they liked to deale with that he was possessed It seemeth also by that which is written in the sayd booke taken with Ma Barnes and by some other tales which I haue heard that the priests or some for them vnderstanding that I tooke no course to be a priest and how I had left the Bonhommes how I had been troubled with my former disease at Paris and how after my returne I had behaued my selfe youthfully amongst other Gentlemen gaue it out that I was surely possessed and afterwards to make the same good haue published in the same booke the testimonie of the deuil himselfe as it is pretended whereof anon Vpon this report I could doe nothing as I am enformed but it was said that the deuil did direct me in it In so much as when I rode to Denham my selfe as is before expressed it was giuen forth as I perceaue that the horse I rid vpon was a deuil and that I had deuils attending vpon me in liuerie coates by that which I find written and reported of me there was neuer young Gentleman I think more abused then I haue been After some time spent at Fulmer by the priests with the said Trayford and Sara Williams they came all of them with Ma Edmond Peckham and his wife to Denham as it is mentioned in the said booke I not knowing at that time what reports were bruted abroad of me resorting thither as I was wont fell into their snares which I would surely haue auoyded if possibly I could haue suspected that they would euer haue dealt with me as afterwards they did At my comming thither amongst them I was kindly vsed and lodged in the furthest part of the house the other chambers were then supplied with other guests that I knew not of vntill a mayde in the house who had beene my brothers Cooke did tell me of them Vpon the comming of Ma Edmond Peckham to Denham my brothers seruants departed and left the house to him as I thinke except it were this mayd to whom I was much beholding for her kindnes towards me Within a day or two after this my cōming to Denham the said maid-Cooke signified vnto me that there was great walking of spirits about the house that diuers had been greatlie affrighted by them The first night that I came thither as I remember I was some-what euill at ease and whether this report that did some-thing astonish me did make me worse or no I cannot tell but I grew worse and worse in so much as my old disease at a very wicked time did there take hold of me The disease I spake of was a spice of the Mother where-with I had beene troubled as is before mentioned before my going into Fraunce whether I doe rightly terme it the Mother or no I know not but it is wel knowne to the Physicians in London that be aliue and were then of any name that my eldest brother Thomas Mainy had the same disease and that he died of it and Ma Edmond Peckham as I haue beene credibly enformed was likewise troubled with it When I was sick of this disease in Fraunce a Scottish Doctor of Physick then in Paris called it as I remember Vertiginem capitis It riseth as he said and I haue often felt of a wind in the bottome of the belly and proceeding with a great swelling causeth a very painfull collicke in the stomack and an extraordinary giddines in the head With this disease I am still once in foure or fiue yeeres troubled and I doe greatly suspect that it wil end me as it did my brother I began no sooner to be troubled at Denham as is