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A60284	Satan's invisible world discovered, or, A choice collection of modern relations proving evidently against the saducees and atheists of this present age, that there are devils, spirits, witches, and apparitions, from authentick records, attestations of famous witnesses and undoubted verity : to all which is added, that marvellous history of Major Weir, and his sister : with two relations of apparitions at Edinburgh / by Georg Sinclar ...	Sinclair, George, d. 1696.	1685 (1685)	Wing S3858; ESTC R4971	118,890	288

Grand-Father who imitating their Noble Ancestors were notable examples of Love and Piety towards their Soveraign both of great Humility and Goodness Your Grand-Father was admirable even to excess for Liberalitie to his other Children and Hospitalitie to Freinds and Strangers more becoming a Prince than a Subject Your Mother of the Renowned Gordons a Paragon of Nature for her matchless Beauty and Goodness Rara quidem facie forma pulcherrima Dido My Lord I have touched a little the Historie of your Familie but cannot relate all it deserves It is well done by others and augmented by the Learned Notes of Sir Alexander Seton of Pitmeden Knight Baronet that honourable Gentleman one of the honourable Senators of the Colledge of Justice But for what end my Lord have I celebrated the praises of your Predecessors Is it because I have nothing to say of Your self Far be it Your large Possessions purchased by the Prudence and Heroick Valour of Your Fore-Fathers are managed with Frugalitie and Moderation Non minor est virtus quam quaerere parta tueri Casus inest illic hic erit artis opus The ancient Honour and Dignitie of Your Familie is preserved without the least stain or spot of Disloyalty so that I may trulie say as is ingraven upon the Frontispice of Your statelie Palace Decus decori addis avito This Treatise is called Satans Invisible UUorld Discovered but I am ascertain'd that by Your transcendent Skill you have discovered an Invisible World far beyond what any of your Ancestors could do I mean your subterraneous World a work for a Prince and a Subject to Write of by that great Philosopher Kircher What Meanders and Boutgates are in it are rather to be admired then beleived There Daedalus for all his skill would mistake his way What running of Mines and Levels What piercing of Gaes What cutting of impregnable Rocks with more difficultie than Hannibal cutted the Alpes Qui montes rupit aceto What Deep-Pits and Air-holes are digged What diligence to prevent Damps which kill Men and beasts in a moment What contriving of Pillars for supporting houses and Churches which are undermined What floods of Water run thorow the Labyrinths for several miles by a free Level as if they were conducted by a Guide How doth Art and Nature strive together which of the twain shall advance Your Lordships Interest most What curious Mechanical Engines has Your Lordship like another Archimedes contrived for your Coal-works and for draining of Coal-sinks What a moliminous Rampier hath Your Lordship begun and near perfected for a Harbour of deep Water even at Neip-Tides Portus ab accessu ventorum immotus ingens How bountiful has Nature been in forming a choice Coal under ground within a stone-cast of your New-haven Your Experimental Skill in improving your Coal for making of Salt is praise worthie Your defending of the Salt-pans against the imperious Waves of the raging Sea from the N. E is singular Your renting of Rocks for clearing of Passages into Your Harbours which none of your Predecessors were able to do is stupendious As the Result of the wise Government of your Affairs redounds to your self so does it to the publick Advantage of the Countrie and others so that men may say Te toti genitum se credere genti How manie hundreds of Young and Old have their Beeing and Livelie-hood by their dependence on your Lordships vertuous Actions about the Coal and Salt and things belonging thereunto who art your self the greatest Coal and Salt-Master in Scotland who is a Nobleman and the greatest Nobleman in Scotland who is a Coal and Salt-Master Nay absolutelie the best for skill in both of all Men in the Nation What fruitful Corn-fields where Ceres hath her chief habitation lye within the Prospect of your dwelling house at Seton Which perswades me to maintain this Paradox There is no Subject in Britan has so much Casual and Land-Revenue within a mile of his house as your Lordship has In a word your Affability in Converse your Sobriety in Dyet and Apparel your Friendship and Kindness to Your Freinds your Candor and Ingenuity with the prudent management of your Affairs have indeared all Men to You So that I may say If your Predecessors were famous of Old for their Feates of War in the time of War so is your Lordship famous for your Arts of Peace in the time of Peace But my Lord I fear I am wearisome and therefore I shall close as I began imploring your Patrocination to this small Enchiridion And as I have been long since Devoted to You in all Dutie and Love so shall I ferventlie pray for Your Preservation and Happiness here and hereafter while I live and shall think my self happie to be under the Character of Your Lordships Most Dutiful and Obedient Servant GEORGE SINCLAR In Auctorem Opus Encomiasticon MIramur tam multa tui monumenta Georgi Ingenii claram famam quam scripta per orbem Conciliant docta dum lucubrata quotannis Conspicimus tot missa manu dum falsa refutas Dogmata divini pandens mysteria verbi Et monstras rectum per tanta pericula callem Quo sacrae veritatis amans incedere possit Tutusiter sacro firmatus lumine mentem Et vero faciles non flectat tramite gressus Nunc aliud conaris opus regnique recludis Atria Tartarei qualisque potentia diti Sit permissa Dei rerum cui summa potestas Consilio sapiente doces quanta sit ejus Impietas quae dira paret semperque minetur Exitia humano generi quae funera saevus Ediderit miserasque animas demiserit orco Mira etiam sed vera refers simulachra per urbes Visa per obscurum noctis errantia passim Horrendum dictuque nefas animasque Sepulchris Excitas notos questu implevisse penates Confessasque suae non ullis cognita vitae Crimina Medeas artes aut foedera diri Servitii stygio se cum pepigisse tyranno Aut caedem graviusve nefas Nec longe petitis Uteris exemplis sed quae vicinior aetas Protulit nostris etiam conspeximus oris Esse igitur manes subterranea regna Et flammâ stygio stagnantem sulphure lacum Atque animas queis posse mori natura negavit Qui dubitent cum haecmira legant atque affore tempus Quo tandem notis redeant corporibus omnes Spiritus exactae capiant praemia vitae Ergo homines horum memores dum certa facultas Dum ratio tempufque finunt carpitis auras Aethereas properate gradum pacemque verendi Numinis veniam vestris exposcite factis Tu quoque de vera sic relligione mereri Perge modo quo coepisti Sinclare tuisque Non deerit laus digna piis conatibus unquam Postera sed vestros celebrabit fama labores Patricius Sinclarus REader if thou call in question what I have said in the Preface anent the Number of these absurd Tenets maintained by the

known who had remained there for four weeks before but seldom frequenting Sir George Maxwels house till at length she came to some more familiarity and converse with his two Daughters And having observed Sir George sick and weak in his body she signified unto them That there was a woman whose son had broke his fruit-yeard that did prick him in the sides And seeing this woman one day in the Hall of Pollok amongst a great many other company she assured his Daughters that this was the woman And the day following she told the Gentlewomen That this woman whose name was Jennet Mathie relict of John Stewart under-Miller in Schaw-Mill had formed an Wax-Picture with pins in the side which was to be found in her house in a holl behind the fire offering to bring it unto them providing she were accompanied with men to protect her from violence At first they hardly understood her till she went to one of the Gentlewomens closets and bringing thence a little Bee-wax she plyed it before the fire shewing the dimensions and quantities of the Picture The Gentlewomen not regarded the information because they thought it fabulous yet his two servants Laurence Pollok and Andrew Martine knowing how much the Girle loved their Master and knowing that his life was in hazard if this picture were not found resolved at all adventure to try whether the information were true or false and therefore going alongs with her to the said Jennet Mathies house one of them planted himself on the one side of the fire and the other on the other side while in the mean time the little Girle coming quickly by Laurence Pollok putteth her hand in the holl behind the fire and then slips into Andrew Martine beneath his cloak the Waxen-effigie which had two pins in it one in each side but that in the right side so long as to pierce thorow to the other that in the left was not so long nor so deeply thrust in This picture being brought to Pollok Sir George his Son without acquainting his Father apprehended Jennet Mathie procuring the next day the Lord Ross his order for conveying her to prison She being interrogat touching the Picture after several subterfuges alledges It was the deed of the dumb Girl It was also enquired whether Sir George or his Lady had given her at any time provocation to this malice But it was well known they had been courteous to her and upon her complaints had rebuked some for spreading bad reports upon her name as not appearing sufficiently well founded to a conviction Only upon the 14 of October above specified before Sir George went to Glasgow he had called before him a servant in Pollock-toun that had broken his Orchard in harvest last who confest the fact and that Hugh-Stewart a son of Jennet Mathies was his complice But a bystander declared that he was not now in Pollok-land but in the Darnlie To whom Sir George replied I hope my fingers may reach him in Darnlie This was all which could be thought a provocation to Mathie No harme being done in the mean time to her son whom Sir George to this hour doth not so much as know by the face but hath suffered him all the time of his sickness to live in his mothers house evensince her imprisonment In the mean time Mathie remaining obstinat was searched for insensible marks before the Sheriff Depute of Renfrew and many famous witnesses at Paisley and very many found upon her After the finding of the Picture of wax foresaid there was some abatement of Sir George his sickness but not to any observable degree so low was he brought But upon the fourth of January following his sickness recurred with that violence that for four or five days his friends and relations had no great confidence of his life But they were more amazed on the 7th of January being the Sabbath day when they had an express from the dumb Girle who was at Pollok-town but could not get over the water to the house the River being so swelled at that time signifying that John Stewart Mathies eldest son had four days since formed an Effigie of clay for taking away Sir George his life And when she was called for she declared it was in his house beneath the bolster among the Bed-straw The next day following James Dunlope of Houshill and Ludowick Stewart of Achinhood with some of Sir George his servants and tennents went to Stewarts house taking the little Girle with them resolving to make a very exact trial that it might not be said that the dumb Girle had brought any thing hither Wherefore they caused John Stewart himself to light a candle and hold it while Ludowick Stewart and another did in his sight lift the Clay Effigie from among the bed-straw beneath the bolster the little Girle all the while standing at a distance from the place but the picture having been made only three or four dayes before and not sufficiently hard did break into two pieces In it were three pins one in each side and one in the breast Stewart had nothing to say for himself but that he knew not who had put that thing there He was instantly apprehended and so was a little sister of his lately entered into the fourteenth year of her age named Annabil Stewart who was said to have whispered before some-what of the waxen Effigie This poor creature proved thereafter through Gods favour a key to the detection of making both the Pictures At first she was very obstinate but the next day she confessed that being present in her brothers house the fourth of January while the clay picture was formed the black Gentleman being present which was the name she gave the Devil together with Bessie Weir Marjorie Craig Margaret Jacksone and her brother John but when confronted with her brother she did not with confidence adher to her confession Vpon the finding of this picture Sir George did very observably recover in his health and all the pain which was in his side did by degrees wear away Iohn Stewart remained notwithstanding his sisters confession above measure obstinct untill he was searched the next day for insensible marks whereof he had great plenty At the finding whereof he was so confounded that immediatly he confest his paction with the Devil and almost all the other heads exprest in his judicial confession afterwritten And declared that his complices who formed the Effigie with him were the same his sister had named She also came to a free and full confession of her paction with the Devil and her accession to the forming both of the waxen picture in her mothers house and of the clay one in her brothers house Vpon information of the premisses the Earle of Dundonald and the Lord Ross granted a warrant for apprehending Bessie Weir Margaret Jackson and Marjorie Craig who had been fellow sisters in the foresaid sorcerie Margaret Jackson a woman aged about fourscore of years after a day or

bear this man companie whom thou doest afflict Then did the Minister call upon God and when prayer was ended he discharged the Weaver and all the Persons of the Familie to speak a word to the Devil and when it spak that they should only kneel down and speak to God The Devil then roared mightily and cryed out What Will ye not speake to me I shall strike the bairns and do all manner of mischief But after that time no answer was made to it and so for a long time no speech was heard Several times hath he beat the Children in their Beds and the claps of his loof upon their Buttocks would have been heard but without any trouble to them While the Minister and Gentle-men were standing at the Door readie to goe home the Ministers Wife and the Good-Wife were within Then cryed Satan Grissel put out the Candle Sayes she to the Ministers Wife shall I do it No says the other for then you shal obey the Devil Vpon this he cryes again with a louder shout Put out the Candle The Candle still burns The third time he cryes Put out the Candle and no obedience being given to him he did so often reiterat these words and magnify his voice that it was astonishment to hear him which made them stop their ears they thinking the sound was just at their ears At last the Candle was put out Now sayes he I 'le trouble you no more this Night I must insert here what I heard from one of the Ministers of that Presbytrie who with the rest were appointed to meet at the Weavers house for prayer and other exercises of that kind When the day came five only met But before they went in they stood a while in the Croft which layes round about the house consulting what to do They resolved upon two things first there should be no words of Conjuration used as commanding him in the Name of GOD to tell whence he was or to depart from the Familie for which they thought they had no call from GOD. Secondly that when the Devil spake none should answer him but hold on in their worshipping of GOD and the duties they were called to When all of them had prayed by turns and three of them had spoken a word or two from the Scripture they prayed again and then ended without any disturbance When that Brother who informed me had gone out one Hue Nisbit one of the company came running after him desiring him to come back for he had begun to whistle No sayes the other I tarried as long as GOD called me but go in again I will not After this the said Gilbert suffered much loss and had many sad nights not two nights in one week free and thus it continued till April from April to July he had some Respite and ease but after he was molested with new assaults and even their Victuals were so abused that the Family was in hazard of starving and that which they eat gave them not their ordinary satisfaction they were wont to find In this sore and sad affliction Gilbert Campbel resolved to make his Address to the Synod of Presbyters for Advice and Counsel what to do which was appointed to conveen in October 1655. namely whether to forsake the house or not The Synod by their Committy appointed to meet at Glenluce in February 1656. thought fit that a solemn Humiliation should be kept through all the Bounds of the Synod and among other causes to request GOD in behalf of that afflicted Family which being done carefully the event was that his troubles grew less till April and from April to August he was altogether free About which time the Devil began with new assaults and taking the ready Meat that was in the house did sometimes hide it in holes by the door-posts and at other times did hide it under the Beds and some times among the Bed-cloaths and under the Linnings and at last did carry it quite away till nothing was left there save Bread and Water This minds me of a small passage as a proof of what is said The Good-wife one Morning making Pottage for the Childrens Break-fast had the Tree-plate wherein the meal 〈◊〉 snatcht from her quickly Well says 〈◊〉 let me have the plate again Whereupon it came flying at her without any skaith done 'T is like if she had sought the meale too she might have got it such is his civility when he is entreated A small homage will please him ere he want all After this he exercised his malice and cruelty against all persons in the Family in wearying them in the Night time by stirring and moving thorow the house so that they had no rest for Noise which continued all the Moneth of August after this manner After which time the Devil grew yet worse by roaring and terrifying them by casting of Stones by striking them with staves on their Beds in the Night-time And upon the 18. of September about Midnight he cryed out with a loud voice I shall burn the house And about 3. or 4. Nights after he set one of the Beds on fire which was soon put out without any prejudice except the Bed it self Thus I have written a short and true account of all the Material Passages which occurred To write every particular especially of lesser Moment would fill a large Volum The Goodman lived several years after this in the same house and it seems that by some conjuration or other the Devil suffered himself to be put away and gave the Weaver a peaceable habitation This Weaver has been a very Odd man that endured so long these marvellous disturbances RELATION XII Anent Mother Iackson her VVitch-Craft THis Story hath as much certainty with it as any Human Story can have The Author that writs it is a Famous Minister of the Gospel and attested by famous Witnesses This Woman was arraigned and condemned at Newgate for bewitching one Mary Glover a M 〈◊〉 rchants Daughter in Themes-Street One Doctor Boncraft did inform Judge Anderson then Lord Chief Justice that the said Mother Jackson was wronged and that the Maid did counterfeit Whereupon the Lord Chief Justice gave order to Sir John Crook then Recorder of London to make trial of them in his Chamber at the Temple The Maid being sent for came with her Mother and diverse of her Neighbours and about an hour after the Witch was sent for and was brought in disguised like a countrey-market-Woman with a mufflet hiding her face and an old Hat and a short Cloack spattered with mire When she entered the Chamber the Maid suddenly fell down backward upon the floor with her eyes drawn into her head her tongue toward her Throat her Mouth drawn up to her Ear her Bodie became stiff and senseless Her Lips being shut closs a plain and audible voice came out of her Nostrills saying Hang her Hang her Then did the Recorder call for a Candle and a sheet of Paper and held the paper