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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A55138	A pleasant treatise of witches their imps, and meetings, persons bewitched, magicians, necromancers, incubus, and succubus's, familiar spirits, goblings, pharys, specters, phantasms, places haunted, and devillish impostures : with the difference between good and bad angels, and a true relation of a good genius / by a pen neer the covent of Eluthery.	Pen neer the Covent of Eluthery.	1673 (1673)	Wing P2564; ESTC R9332	44,947	136

room and viewing the books he perceived a Manuscript of Agrippa's amongst the rest as it were a compendium of them this he reads and in short space raises an ill favour'd Devil who entring the study asked what he would have that he call'd him so the young man unexperienced frightned and ignorant what to say was choaked by the Spirit and left dead on the ground Agrippa not long after returns home and finds the Devil dancing and shewing tricks upon the house top at which astonished he goes into his Study and finds the dead body which he commands his spirit to enter and carry to the place where the Students used to meet this being done and the spirit quitting the body it fell down and was buryed for dead having some marks only of strangulation about the Throat But not long after the matter was discovered and Agrippa for safty fled to Lorrain There was in the Emperor Maximilians Court a famous Negromancer as Authors affirm who at his command and promise of pardon and reward took upon him to shew the shapes of the three great Warriers Hector Achilles and King David upon condition of silence when they appeared and the Emperor he places in the midst of his Magick Circle seats him in his Throne and afterwards reading and murmuring certain Charms out of his Pocket-Book he desires silence Hector then knocks at the door so vehemently that the whole house shook and the door being opened he came in with a bright Speer in his hand his Eye fiery and his Stature exceeding other mens Not long after in the same Majestical postture came in Achilles looking fiercely towards Hector and often shaking his Speer as though he would have invaded him Thus having thrice passed by the Emperor and made Obeysance they vanished Afterwards came in King David in his Crown and Princely Robes with his Harp in his hand His countenance was more gracious then that of the other two and he passed likewise thrice by the Emperor but wi●…hout Reverence to him and went away The Magician being asked by the Emperor why King David denyed him the respect the other two gave answered that all things were subject to his Kingdom for asmuch as Christ sprang from him Saint Augustine writes of Pythagoras that whether by natural Magick or some secret agreement with the Devil it is doubted by Authors he kept a Bear of prodigious greatness with him many years and at last making him swear never to hurt any Beast gave him liberty and sent him into the Woods The same Magician being near Tarent and seeing an Ox eating in a field of Beans called to the herdsman to drive the beast from eating the Beans But the surly clown made answer he might chastise him himself if he would as he used to whip his Boys Whereupon Pythagor as making certain magick Characters on the ground and muttering some Charms to himself caused the beast to come out of the Beans as if it had been endued with reason and ever after it refused the Yoke and retired to Tarent living among the inhabitants and taking her food from the hands of Men Women and Children A certain Magician at Madeburg was us'd to shew a little Horse to the people in the Market place for money commanding it to do many rare things which always it performed But complaining one day to the people in the end of his shew that he had got very little that the times were very hard and the like he wisht that he were in heaven then throwing up the bridle into the air the horse followed it and he as if he would have stayed it by the tail was carryed up also his wife catched hold of him his maid of her and all fly up into the air like so many links of a chain Now while the people were looking and wondring at it a certain Citizen came to the multitude and understanding the matter affirmed that he met but a little before the Magician going to his Inn. To this purpose Niderius also reports that in the year 1045 a certain Magician in England was seen to mount on a black horse on a Sabbath day and to be carryed away through the air Henry the third King of France had a brother called the Duke of Allenzon who came to England formerly to be a suiter to Queen Elizabeth in whose retinue was the Valiant Busidamboyes who took the Dukes part between whom and the King was a perpetual sued The King therefore by nature timerous and suspicious was always afraid of this valiant person and after his return into France devised several means to take him out of the way Amongst the rest coming by night out of the Louure he was set upon by seventeen armed and appointed men ye●… behaved himself so stoutly that he killed five of them and made his escape The King seeing he had mist of him and that ever after he stood upon his Guard put in tryal another way For there being a constant report at Court that Bussidamboyes was in favour with the Earl of Monsurrous wife he sent for an Italian Negromancer famous at that time and called ●…riscalino Of him he enquires if he could shew or declare to him what Bussidamboyes was then doing which the Magician after certain conjurations shewed him in a Glass where was Bussidamboyes in bed with a Lady Hereupon the King sent for his Courtiers amongst whom was the Earl of Monsorrou at that time and a●…ked if they knew that Lady The Earl much abased replyed it was his wife Then said the King I will have no Culckolds to be my Courtiers To which the Earl made answer that to hinder what was done was not in his power but that it was in the Kings to give him leave to avenge himself which he earnestly requested The King glad to be any ways rid of Bussidamboyes gave his assent and the Earl posted away immediately to his own house and coming betimes in the morning to his wife as she lay in bed offered her the choice of three things either a draught of Poyson a Dagger to kill her self or to write such a Letter as he would dictate to her The miserable woman terrified with the thoughts of death consented to the Latter and according to her husbands dictating sent for Bussidamboyes who suspected nothing to come unto her In the mean time the Earl concealed himself in the house armed with six more and behind the Curtains in her chamber Bussidamboyes came not long after and offering to go up stairs in his accustomed manner was desired by a Page set for that purpose to leave his Spurs and his Sword below because his Lady was ill and the least noise disturbed her This he did not mistrusting what would follow but as soon he entred the Chamber the Lady gave a sign and all rusht in upon him Nevertheless being of an undaunted courage he took the first chair he found and so behaved himself with that weapon by reason of his great