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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A19860	A true narration of the strange and greuous vexation by the Devil, of 7. persons in Lancashire, and VVilliam Somers of Nottingham Wherein the doctrine of possession and dispossession of demoniakes out of the word of God is particularly applyed vnto Somers, and the rest of the persons controuerted: togeather with the vse we are to make of these workes of God. By Iohn Darrell, minister of the word of God.	Darrel, John, b. ca. 1562.	1600 (1600)	STC 6288; ESTC S109297	131,635	124

admitted to come vnto him And at the Assises which was about 7. weekes after he was sent for before the Iudges where my Lorde Anderson and the other Iudge did see him indeede in a deluding fytt Now it is almost an odyous thing to dreame of any deceipt in these predictions of Somers considerynge they were magistrates which had a cheif hand in these thinges and were the causes of them for the two first of these viz the remouinge of him to S. Iones forcibly against his fathers will and the denying of the ministers to come and see him were done by the Maior some of the Aldermen of Nottingham and the last by a Iudge of Assise Heere wee must remember that as they which are possest are not themselues of any extraordinary and supernaturall stength so neither haue they themselues any such knowledge indeede but only seeme so to haue For whatsoeuer they vtter tending thervnto commeth meerly from the spirits within them vsing their instruments of speach and not at all from the parties possessed who when they are come to thēselues haue no such knowledge neither knowe any such thinge as before they vttered Besides these tokens or signes which holy scriptures giueth whereby wee may knowe and discerne of one possessed with the diuell I haue in experience seene these 1 that the diuell doth mightely molest and afflict them whome he possesseth by sights and visions for the most part fearfull appearing in the likenes of a cat beare dog dragon lyon flames of fyre and such like fearefull creatures whereof you may at large reade both in the narration before and in the history of Thomas Darling This was commō to all the 10. possessed persons aboue named 2. that they haue by fits on the suddaine a greate swelling in the body and stirring or mouing of the intrals within the body This also was seene in all those 10. persons And this the King of Scots setteth downe for one Symptome of the possessed terming it very aptly the boldning vp of the patients brest and belly with an vnnaturall sturring vehement agitation within them 3. That in some fits the partes of the body possessed as arme or legg now one forthwith an other some times the whole body are inflexible and withall as heauy as somuch yron And this the King of Scots most excellently describeth in these words an ironie hardnes of his sinows so stiflye bended out that it were not possible to prick out as it were the skine of any other person so farr 4. that howsoeuer they are so misserablye vexed by Satan as they beholderes would iudge them to be in most extreame and intollerable paynes yet they feele noe payne at all yet I doubt not but that satan can soe order the matter as that the possessed shall haue payne when he shall see it serue for hys purpose and this hath bene sene in some of our Demoniakes for when the diuill in Iane Ashton went about to make her lye by pretendyng that she was dispossessed to that end in her fits he put her to extreame payne and Marg. Byrom felt vsuallye very great paine I remember also that Somers shortly after his repossession and a little before he made that curssed and lyinge confession of counterfeiting groned most pittifully in sundry fits and when they were ended he com to himselfe said that in them he felt extreame payne which it may be the spirit therfore did therby to drawe him to make the aforesaid confession which beinge made his fits ended and theirwith the greuyous paines he had before indured In like sorte when one tooke in hand to heale Darling applied somthing to his legges he felt then a pricking which put him to great paine Thus then it may be somtimes in sōe fits but I take it that ordinarily he which is possest feleth noe paine in his fits Herevnto we maye add the running swelling which was so often sene felt in Som which Thyreus the Iesuit also witnesseth to haue bene seene in persons possessed 5. strang vnnaturall voices like to a bull beare swine 6 the fearefull disfigurīg of the face which haue likwise in experience bine obserued in others that haue ben possest 7 Also the speaking without the instruments of speach the mouth being wyd open as did both Som. Darl with sundrie other such strang supernaturall accidents wherof we haue hard before Thus we haue sene 1. how after what māner the possesed in the tim of Christ Iesus his apostles even thos of whom the holy ghost saith were possessed were handled or vexed by sathan 2. these persons we speake of were hādled or vexed iust after the same māner what leteth thē that thes should not be possesed with diuils as well as they for seīg the like or the same effects were foūd in both why should not the like or the same cause from whēce those strāg effects we haue hard of proceded be in both Imagine 2 sicke persons to be handled alike the one hath such a paine in his head the other hath the like the one complaineth of a paine in his backe the other of the very same in his this is paīed thus thus in his belly in his left side in his armes legs feete the other even so they are within of an extreame heat like fire it either of them outwardlye quakinge with cold theire vrimes are alike their pulses they beate a lyke who wyll not saye that thes two haue the same disease and that if it be certaine that the on of them hath such asicknes there is no doubt but that the other hath also the same because it cannot be neyther was it euer seene that in such a consent of effects so many I meane there should be a dissent in the causes why then should it not be so heere and why may we not infer and conclude so in this our present case Those mentioned in the gospell on the sudden and by fits were greuously vexed cryed gnashed there teeth wallowed fomed were throwne into the fyre were feirce and cruell offering much vyolence to themselues and others out of theire right minds vttering dyabolicall speaches of extraordinary supernaturall strength and of supernaturall knowledge and after the same manner were all the 10. persons spoken of before handled as hath bene shew ed and specially William Somers but the former were possessed with the diuell why then shall not we affirme that the latter were possessed likewise Touching the former it is certaine that all the vexation inward and outwarde their crying gnashing their teeth foming wallowing casting into the fier the dyabolicall speaches they vtered their supernaturall strength and knowledge with the rest of those thinges we haue heard of came from the diuel not being without but within them why now should not we thinke that the crying or scriking gnashing foming wallowing casting into the fyre the