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B00045	Witchcrafts, strange and wonderfull: discovering the damnable practices of seven witches, against the lives of certaine noble personages, and others of this kingdome, as shall appeare in this lamentable history. ; With an approved triall how to finde out either witch or any apprentice to witch-craft..	Flower, Margaret, d. 1618.	1635 (1635)	STC 11107.7; ESTC S92558	15,311	23

away and shortly after a Crow came and picked upon her cloathes and shee said her prayers againe and bade the Crow goe to whom hee was sent and the Crow went unto her Master and did beat him to death and she with her prayers recovered him to life but he was sicke a fortnight after and saith that if she had not had more knowledge then her Master both hee and shee and all the Cattell had beene slaine Being examined concerning a childe of Anne Stannidge which shee was suspected to have bewitched to death saith the said Anne Stannidge did deliver her childle into her hands and that she did lay it upon her skirt but did no harme unto it And being charged by the mother of the childe that upon the burning of the haire and the pairing of the nailes of the said childe the said Anne Baker came in and set her downe and for one houres space could speake nothing confesseth she came into the house of the said Anne Stannidge in great paine but did not know of the burning of the haire and nailes of the said childe but said shee was so sicke that shee did not know whither she went Being charged that shee bewitched Elizabeth Hough the wife of William Hough to death for that she angred her in giving her almes of her second bread confesseth that shee was angry with her and said she might have given her of her better bread for she had gone too often on her errands but more she saith not This Examinate confesseth that she came to Ioane Gylles house her childe being sicke and that shee intreated this Examinate to looke on her childe and to tell her whether it was forespoken or no and this Examinate said it was forespoken but when the said childe died she cannot tell And being asked concerning Nortley carrying of his childe home unto his owne house where the said Anne Baker was she asked him who gave the said childe that loafe hee told her Anthony Gill to whom this Examinate said he might have had a childe of his owne if hee would have sought in time for it which words she confessed she did speake Being blamed by Henry Mills in this sort A fire set on you I have had two or three ill nights to whom she made answere you should have let me alone then which she confesseth The said Anne Baker March 2. 1618. confesseth before Samuel Fleming Doctor of Divinity that about 3. yeares agoe she went into Northamptonshire and that at her comming backe againe one Peakes wife and Denis his wife of Belvoyre told her that my young L. Henry was dead and that there was a glove of the said Lord buried in the ground and as that glove did rot and wast so did the liver of the said lord rot and wast Further she said March 3 1618. before Sir George Manners Knight and Samuel Fleming Doctor of Divinity that she hath a spirit which hath the shape of a white dogge which she calleth her good spirit Samuel Fleming test The Examination of Ioane Willimot taken the 28. of February in the 16. yeare of the reigne of our Soveraigne Lord Iames over England King c. and over Scotland the 52. before Alexander Amcots Esquire one of his Majistise Iustices of the Peace of the said Parts and County THis Examinat saith That Ioane Flower told her that my Lord of Rutland had dealt badly with her and that they had put away her daughter and that although shee could not have her will of my Lord himselfe yet she had spied my Lords Sonne and had strick on him to the heart And shee saith that my Lords sonne was stricken with a white Spirit and that she can cure some that send unto her and that some reward her for her paines and of some she taketh nothing Shee further saith That upon Friday night last her Spirit came to her and told her That there was a bad woman at Deeping who had given her soule to the Devill and that her said Spirit did then appeare unto her in a more ugly for me then it had formerly done and that it urged her much to give it something although it were but a piece of her girdle and told her that it had taken great paines for her but shee saith that shee would give it nothing and told it that shee had sent it to no place but onely to see how my Lord Rosse did and that her spirit told her that he should doe well The Examination of the said Ioane Willimot taken the second day of March in the yeare above said before the said Alexander Amcots THis Examinate saith That shee hath a Spirit which shee calleth Pretty which was given unto her by William Berry of Langholme in Rutland shire whom she served three yeares and that her Master when hee gave it unto her willed her to open her mouth and hee would blow into her a Fairy which should doe her good and that shoe opened her mouth and he did blow into her mouth and presently after his blowing there came out of her mouth a Spirit which stood upon the ground in the shape and forme of a woman which Spirit did aske of her her soule which shee then promised unto it being willed thereunto by by her Master She further confesseth That she never hurt any body but did helpe divers that sent for her which were stricken or fore-spoken and that her Spirit came weekely to her and would tell her of divers persons which were stricken and fore spoken And she saith That the use which shee had of the Spirit was to know how those did which shee had undertaken to amend and that she did helpe them by certaine prayers which shee used and not by her owne Spirit neither did she imploy her Spirit in any thing but onely to bring word how those did which she had undertaken to cure And she further saith That her Spirit came unto her this last night as shee thought in the forme of a woman mumbling but shee could not understand what it said And being asked whether shee were not in a dreame or slumber when shee thought she saw it she said no and that she was as walking as at this present Alexander Amoors Thomas Robinson test The Examination of Joane Willimot of Goadby in the County of Leicester widow taken the 17. of March 1618. by Sir Henry Hastings Knight and Samuel Fleming Doctor of Divinity two of his Majesites Iustices of the Peace of the said County of Leicester SHe saith That she told one Cookes wife of Stathorne in the said County Labourer that Iohn Patchet might have had his child alive if he would haue sought forth for it in time and if it were not death stricken in her wayes and that Patchets wife had an evill thing within her which should make an end of her and that she knew by her girdle Shee saith further That Gamaliel Greete of Waltham in the said County Shepherd had a Spirit like a white

WITCHCRAFTS Strange and Wonderfull Discovering the damnable practises of seven Witches against the lives of certaine Noble Personages and other of this Kingdome as shall appeare in this lamentable History With an approved triall how to finde out either Witch or any Apprentise to Witch-craft Imprinted at London by M. F. for Thomas Lambert at the Horshooe neere the Hospitall Gate in Smithfield 1635. WITCHCRAFTS Strange and Wonderfull MY meaning is not to make any contentious Arguments about the discourses distinction or definition of Witch-craft the power of Deuills 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 judicious King Philosophers Poets Chronologers Historiographers and many worthy Writers have concurred and concluded in this that divers impious and facinorous mischiefes have beene effectuated through the instruments of the deuil by permission of God so that the Actors of the same have carried away the opinion of the world to doe that which they did by Witch-craft or at least to be esteemed Witches for bringing such and such things to passe For howsoever the learned have charactered delinquents in this kinde by titles of sundry sorts 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 Astronomie and Astrologie Negromancers for practising to raise dead bodies and by them to foretell euents of the earth Geomantici for conversing with Spirits and using Incantations Genethliaci for presuming on the calculating of Nativities or if you will assuming the credit of Figure-casting Ventriloqui for speaking with hollow voyces as if they were possessed with Devills Venefici for dealing with poyson and either killings or curing that way For you must understand however the Professors aforesaid practise murther and mischiefe yet many times they pretend cures and preservation with many others carrying the shew of great learning and admired knowledge yet have they all but one familiar terme with us in English called Witches As for the conceit of Wise-men or Wise-women they are all meerely coseners and deceivers so that if they make you beleeve that by their meanes you shall heare of things lost or stolne it is either done by Confederacie or put off by protraction to deceive you of your money Onely as I said before there bee certaine men and women growne in yeares and over-growne with Melancholie and Atheisme who out of a malicious disposition against their betters or others thriving by them but most times from a heart-burning desire of revenge having entertained some impression of displeasure and unkindnesse studie nothing but mischiefe and exoticke practises of loathsome Arts and Sciences yet I must needs say that sometimes the fained reputation of wisedome cunning and to be reputed a dangerous skilfull person hath so prevailed with divers that they have taken upon them indeed to know more than God ever afforded any creature and to performe no lesse than the Creator both of heaven and earth making you beleeve with Medea that they can raise tempests turne the Sunne into blood pull the Moone out of her Sphere and saile ouer the Sea in a cockell shell according to the Poet Flectere si neueam Superos Acheronta movebo If Art doe faile to move the Gods consent unto my minde I will the Devils raise to doe what they can in their kinde But howsoever speciall persons are transported with an opinion of their owne worth prevailing in this kinde yet by lamentable experience we know too wel what monstrous effects have been produced even 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 envious man that put out one of his eyes to have his companion lose both so fareth it with them and worse to give away their soules to be revenged of their adversaries bodies where in the monstrous subtlety of the Devill is so apparent that it is wonderfull one way to relate and lamentable another way to observe the same For no sooner shall such motives poyson the inward conceit or apprehension of such damnable caitiffes But then steppeth forth the Devill and not onely sheweth them the way but prescribeth the manner of effecting the same with facility and easinesse assuring that bee himselfe Will attend them in some familiar shape of Rat Cat Toad Bird Cricket c. yea effectuate whatsoever they shal demand or desire and for their better assurance and corroboration of their credulity they shall have palpable and forcible touches of sucking pinching kissing closing colling and such like whereupon without any feare of God or man knowledge of Christ hope of redemption confidence of mercy or true beliefe that there is any other thing to be looked after but this present world according to that Atheisticall position of Epicurus Ede bibe lude post mortem nulla voluptas Eat drinke 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 abominable practises continuing in the same till God laugh them to scorne and will by no meanes suffer them to abuse his holy Name nor deceive others by their prophane lives any longer Witnesse for the generall those infinite Treatises of many of them convinced by Law and condemned to death to the fearefull example of all carnall and hypocriticall Christians but more especially you may over-looke if you please that learned Discourse of Daemonology 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 copie of Edenburgh 1603. As also a Treatise of Witch-craft made by that learned Mr. Alexander Roberts Preacher at Kings-Linne in Norfolke 1615 upon the discovery of the Witchcrafts of Mary Smith wife of Henry Smith Glover with her vocall contract between the Devill and her selfe in solemne termes and such like imposturing filthinesse with many hurts and mischiefes which thereby she procured As also a certaine discovery 1611. made by Iohn Cotta Doctor of Physicke in Northampton of Empericks women about sicke persons Quacksalvars and Fugitives which seeme to worke iugling wonders Surgeons Apothecaries practisers by Spels the true discovery of Witch-craft especially in the sicke with many instances of that kinde Wizards and servants of Physicians who may be called ministring helpers To this he hath added the Methodian learned deceiver or heretick physician Astrologers Ephemerides-masters Conjecters by urine Travellers and last of all the true Artist his right description and election As also a Dialogue concerning Witches and Witch-craft composed