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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
lord_n	day_n	observe_v	sabbath_n	17,846	5	10.0492	5	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A64291	A new confutation of Sadducism being a true narrative of the wonderful expressions and actions of a spirit which infested the house of Andrew Mackie of Ringcroft in the county of Galloway in Scotland, from February to May 1695 : containing, among other things, predictions as to future times in a letter writ with blood, and dropt by the said spirit / writ by Mr. Alexander Telfair.	Telfair, Alexander.	1696 (1696)	Wing T622; ESTC R2406	11,426	20

them from her Friends Whereupon I examin'd them strictly concerning that Matter and both of them declared that the said Woman left some things with them put up in a Sack but they delivered the same as she left it to her Friends and did not so much as know what was in it 3. I am informed that there was one Macknaught who formerly dwelt in that House and being under a Decay both as to his Person and Goods he sent his Son to a Witch who liv'd at Routing-Bridg in the Parish of Iron-Gray to know what might be the Cause of it But the Youth meeting some Foreign Souldiers in his way goes along with them to Flanders and never return'd with his Answer Some Years after there was one John Redick a Neighbour of Macknaught's that having occasion to go beyond-Sea met with young Macknaught in Flanders who enquiring after his Father and other Friends and understanding that John Redick was going Home desired him to acquaint his Father or any other whom he should find dwelling in Ringcroft that they must take up the Threshold of the Door and search for a Tooth which being found they must burn for none who dwelt in that House would ever thrive till this was performed But John Redick returning Home and finding old Macknaught dead and his Wife removed from the place took no notice of the Matter till he heard of the Spirit 's infecting Andrew Mackie's Family and then he told it me But there was one Thomas Telfair who dwelt in that same House for some Years betwixt Macknaught's Death and Andrew Mackie's Possession of it and being informed some other way of what the Witch had said to Macknaught's Son he took up the Threshold found the Tooth and and threw it into the Fire where it burnt like so much Tallow But he informs me that he never had any trouble during his abode there neither before nor after he burnt the Tooth This is all that hath ever been alledged to be the occasion of this Trouble so that I think the true Cause is still unknown and shall now come to the Matter of Fact In February last Andrew Mackie above-mentioned found some young Cattel of his always let loose in the Night and their Bindings broke which he conceived to proceed from their own unruliness and therefore he made stronger Bindings of Wit hs for them but they were broken still Then he began to suspect that it proceeded from some other Cause and therefore removed the Cattel to another House but the very first Night after he found one of the Beasts tied with an hair Rope to one of the Beams of the House so light that its Feet only touched the Ground and it could no way move it self yet it received no hurt Some Nights after a great Quantity of Peat * Firing made of Earth was brought into the middle of the House and set on fire when all the Family was asleep and if the Smoke had not awak'd them they had certainly been consum'd in the Flames but they extinguished the Fire and though they made a narrow search could neither hear nor see any Agent On the 7th of March following there were Stones thrown into all the parts of the House but they could not discover from whence they came nor what threw them and thus it continued till the Sabbath throwing in at times both by Day and by Night but chiefly in the Night-time On Saturday the Family being all without-doors the Children coming in saw something like a Person sitting by the Fire with a Blanket about it which frightned all of them but the youngest who being about ten Years of Age chid the rest for being afraid telling them that if they bless'd themselves they needed not fear and perceiving the Blanket to be his own blesses himself and saying Be what it will it hath nothing to do with my Blanket he runs and pulls the Blanket away but found nothing under it save a four-footed Stool turn'd up-side down On the Sabbath March 11. the Pot-hooks and Hanger were carried out of the Chimney and being wanted four days they found them at last in a Cockloft where they had search'd for them several times before but could not find them This is attested by Charles Macklelan * Lord of the Mannor Laird of Collin and John Cairns of Hardhills When it threw Stones at any Person it was observed that they had not half their natural Weight It threw them more frequently on the Sabbath than on other days and more then too when any Body was at Prayer and mostly at the Person praying Andrew Mackie having acquainted me with the Matter on the Sabbath Afternoon I went to his House on Tuesday after where I staid a considerable time and pray'd twice with the Family during which time there was no trouble Then I came out with a Resolution to go Home but as I was speaking to some Men at the end of the Barn I saw two little Stones drop down on a Field a little from me and forthwith some People came out of the House crying that the Spirit was become as troublesome there as ever Whereupon I returned to the House and while I was at Prayer it threw several small stones at me which did me no hurt After this it gave no farther disturbance to the Family till the 18th day of March that it began to throw Stones as before but more frequently and of greater weight so that they hurt more where they hit than those it threw formerly And thus it continued to the 21st when I went again to the House where it molested me mightily threw Stones and divers other things at me and beat me several times on the Shoulders and Sides with a great Staff so that those who were present heard the noise of the Blows That same Night it pull'd off the side of a Bed knock'd upon the Chests and Boards as People do at a Door † Attested by Charles Macclelan of Colline William Mackminn and John Tait of Torr. And as I was at Prayer leaning on the side of a Bed I felt something thrusting my Arm up and casting my Eyes thitherward perceived a little white Hand and an Arm from the Elbow down but it vanished presently On the 22d it grew more troublesome both to the People of the Family and to the Neighbours who came to visit them beat them with Stones and Staves and compelled some of them to leave the House contrary to their Inclination * Attested by Charles Mackclellan of Colline and Andr Tait of Torr. It threw Stones at some People as they came to the House and would pelt them with Stones about the Yards and sometimes threw Stones at them as they went from the House as particularly at Thomas Telfair of Stocking It wounded the above-named Andrew Mackie the Master of the Family on the Forehead and thrust him several times by the Shoulders which he seeming not to regard it caught him by the