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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A19745	The most wonderfull and true storie, of a certaine witch named Alse Gooderige of Stapen hill, who was arraigned and conuicted at Darbie at the Assises there as also a true report of the strange torments of Thomas Darling, a boy of thirteene yeres of age, that was possessed by the deuill, with his horrible fittes and apparitions by him vttered at Burton vpon Trent in the countie of Stafford, and of his maruellous deliuerance.	I. D.	1597 (1597)	STC 6170.7; ESTC S1876	32,153	48

The most wonderfull and true storie of a certaine Witch named Alse Gooderige of Stapen hill who was arraigned and conuicted at Darbie at the Assises there As also a true report of the strange torments of Thomas Darling a boy of thirteene yeres of age that was possessed by the Deuill with his horrible fittes and terrible Apparitions by him vttered at Burton vpon Trent in the Countie of Stafford and of his maruellous deliuerance Printed at London for I. O. 1597. To the Reader TIme hath proued that by experience Christian Reader which S. Iohn by the spirit of Prophecie foreshewed The Diuel saith he hath great wrath knowing that he hath but a short time for this Prophecie is fulfilled not only in the outragious fury that Sathan vseth in raising persecution against Gods Saints by his mischieuous instruments corrupting mens minds by his wicked suggestions but also in tyrannizing according to his limited power ouer them by torments This first kind of cruelty the former Ages haue felt whē the third part of the Sunne and the Moone and the Stars were smitten by the Roman Dragon and stinged by the Turkish scorpions and other locusts of the like stamp the other maner of villany hath shewed her fruites too plentifully in this our age in the cooling of Charitie quenching of the Spirit that our Sauiours Prophecie which cannot be farre off may be fulfilled When the Sonne of man commeth shal he find faith on the earth And this last kind of tiranny is too aparant amongest other instances in the pittifull vexing of this poore distressed child And as the Holie-ghost hath left such conflicts for the spiritual warfare of his children so hath he not left them without weapōs to withstand the fury of their enemies for in temporal persecutions afflictions they haue Patience for their buckler that they may learne to say of them with Iob Blessed be the name of the Lord and in all maner of temptations of Sathan they haue the whole armor of God yea and those weapons that are able to ouerthrow the Diuels strongest holdes as shal well appeare euen in this small Treatise Concerning the strangenesse thereof it is left to thy consideration gentle Reader and for the trueth of it if it should be called in question as not vnlike for the abundaunce of false and friuolous deuises broched in these dayes a thing much to be lamented do oft times abridge trueth of her credit besides that for the particulars a hundred more witnesses might be produced than are here inserted and diuers of them of good woorth and credite the matter it selfe is well knowne to the right Honourable sir Edmund Anderson Knight Lord chiefe Iustice of the common plees as being voluntarily confessed to him by the Witch who was vpon the same arraigned and conuicted before his H. at Darby and therfore is not lightly to be excepted against Besides also that it was compiled by a priuate Christian man of trade who being with the boy almost in all his fits did both take notes at the present of all that was doone and spoken and conferred also afterward with the witnesses of best iudgement and credit that he might be sure of that which hee had set downe In a worde I thinke there can scarcely be any instance shewed the holy Scriptures excepted whereby both the peeuish opinion that there are no wiches and the Popish assertion that only their priests can dispossesse may be better controlled than by this The first kind of people I rather thinke are to be pittied than confuted daily experience crying out against their follie The other may heereby see their too peremptorie conclusions ouerthrowne since he whose aduise help was vsed in this matter is very well knowne to bee a faithfull preacher of the Gospel and so consequently an enemy to Poperie wishing thee therefore so to regarde it as for the trueth and weight thereof it shal deserue and to reape such fruit by it as being well regarded it may yeelde I bid thee farewell in Christ. 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AA A report of the torments and deliueraunce of Thomas Darling a Boy of thirteene yeares of age that was possessed by Sathan at Burton vpon Trent VPon Saterday being the xxvii of Februarie Robert Toone dwelling in Burton vpon Trēt in the Countie of Stafford Uncle to this Thomas Darling going to Winsell Wood which is distant from Burton about half a myle to hunt the hare took the Boy with him and being carnest in following his gaine lost him who after he had a while wandred vp downe and could not finde his Uncle returned home to his vncles house where he soiourned Being come home he wexed heauie and afterward grew to be verie sicke vomiting casting vp what he had eaten at dinner and so was got to bed The next morning hee had sore fits with extreame vomitings that all which sawe him iudged it to bee some strange ague In the time of this extremitie in these hys fits he would manie times poynt with his hand saying Looke where greene Angels stand in the window and not long after would often complaine that a green Cat troubled him which thing was iudged by his friends to proceede of lightnes in his head manie other things fell out also in these times worthie the noting whereof in respect of the vnexpected euent there was no note kept His sickines wexing more vehement his Aunt went to a Phisition with his vrine who said he saw no signes of anie natural disease in the Child vnles it were the wormes His sicknes still increasing notwithstanding anie thing prescribed or ministred she went againe with his vrine to the Phisition who iudged as before saying further he doubted that the Childe was be witched which shee holding incredible imparted it to no bodie rather imagining it to bee though some strange yet a naturall disease as diuers also iudged it to bee the Falling sicknes by reason that it was no continuall distemperature but came by fits with sodaine staring striuing and strugling verie siercely and falling downe with sore vomits also it tooke awaye the vse of his legs so that he was faine to bee carried vp and downe saue in his fits for then hee was nimble inough How hee spent the time betweene his fits it is woorth the obseruing his exercises were such as might well haue beseemed one of riper yeares wherein he shewed the frutes of his education which was religious and godly With those that were good Christians he tooke great pleasure to conferre to whom he would siguiste his daily expectation of death and his resolute readinesse to leaue the World and to be with Christ and all his loue to the world he said extended thus farre that if God had so been pleased he might haue liued to be a preacher to thunder out the threatenings of Gods word against sinne and all abhominations wherewith these dayes doo abound In these fits and such like speeches he continued till Mid-lent