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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A19854	A brief apologie prouing the possession of William Sommers. Written by Iohn Dorrell, a faithful Minister of the Gospell: but published without his knowledge, with a dedicatorie epistle disclosing some disordered procedings against the saide Iohn Dorrell	Darrel, John, b. ca. 1562.	1599 (1599)	STC 6282; ESTC S114072	16,727	42

hee would cast me into the well and so went away And Nicholaies Shepand said and if I were in a fitt againe hee would fetch a paire of Knipknapes a roape he would make me confesse or else hang me And Iohn Couper and Shepeard said and if I would saye that I was a Counterfait that Maister Mēre and the Aldermene would giue me ten pound and I should set vp any trade what I would and I had better say that I was a Counterfeit liue like a man then to haue nothing For if I should saye that I was not a Counterfeit and goe into the Clergies haude I should haue nothing Out of which words of his may be obserued that this apparition of the Dogge consorteth with that which the three Commissioners aforesaid did see and Som. did vtter in the audience of diuers Also that the Deuill and his agents conspire in one complott against this mighty worke of the Lorde Iesus Lastlie that it is no maruell though Som. delude the vnbeleeuers by some rare actions seeing the Deuill promised to helpe him in any thing he would take in hande Thus Som. is confuted by Som. him selfe Yet because experience hath proued that this Som. is a villanous wretch and hath discredited him selfe to his friends by sundrie lewd practises of theeuerie and knauerie since the Bish of L. was possessed of him whiche yet are concealed as Secreta imperij Matters of State and may not be spoken of in any case therfore for more suretie least these prankes should be disclosed Commissions haue bene addressed into Notingham to gather better ground for these surmises But contrarie to the commendable course of proceedings vnder your LL. in the courts of Iustice those Commissions haue bene directed to the maine Aduersaries and informers against the defendant he not ioyning in commission with them not hauing knowledge when they were graunted or when or where they were to be sitt vpon The witnesses that voluntarilie offred to be deposed for the trueth were repulsed all partiall persons that could be thought vppon were presently called Such as were vnwillinge to depose to satissie their malice were threatned to be sent to London and one was put in feare that she should be burned because shee would not falselie depose against hir knowledge These and such like exorbitant courses tedious to be recounted haue bene vsed euery tearme and vacation for the space of a yeare yeelding straung example of newe greeuance To omit many particulars Onely I commend one or two particulars to your LL. consideration Thomas Gray of Langloy in the Countie of Leicester Esquier hauing bin heretofore Maister vnto Som. was by the Bish of Lond. c. although the Gentleman was bold to tel him that his dealing should bee made knowen vnto his betters likewise Whereas Maister Darrell had bene imployed about the dispossessing of Thomas Darling of Burton vpon Trent into whō one Alice Goodridg had sent her familiar Spirit called Minnie as hir selfe confessed and for the same was cōdemned as a witch by the Queenes Iustices accordinge as in the Treatise following is declared Now to the end there might bee gained some supplement of proofe to giue colour to the pretended counterfeiting betwene M. Darrell and Som. the said Darling and others haue bin examined vpon their othes by the aforenamed Bish drawen to confesse contrarie to the trueth as them selues haue auouched that Darling was a meere counterfeit and was neither possessed nor bewitched Whereby the iudgment giuen by the Queenes Iustices against the said Alice for bewitching of Darling is directly deseated impeached especiallie if Sentence should be giuen herein For if Darling did counterfeit then hee was not bewitched and if he was not bewitched then was the iudgement and execution against Alice Goodridge erroniously and wrongfullie awarded Whether this practise may stande with the statute of Provision and Premunire and with the honour which is due to the Temporall Courts your LL. wisdomes cā best determine Or if it be not in case of Premunire it is an abuse which your LL. being now acquainted therwithall will see redressed By this short recapitulation of indirect proceedinges and that in a matter concerning Christ our common Sauiour contrarie to the Royall commaundement of our most gracious and soucraine Lady the Queenes Maiestie hir Iawes and lawfull liberties of hir loyall subiects you see what cause I haue to exhiblie this short Apologie vnto your LL. humblie crauing that you would allowe some spare time to read it ouer assuring my selfe that though it be penned in simplicitie without colours and pompe of humane learning yet it will leaue such impression in you as you will not onely incline to the cause but also by your authoritie cleare it of scandall It wilbe perhaps obiected that by publishing this Treatise I goe about to raise mutinies among y e Queenes subiectes or to discredite the Ecclesiasticall sta●e or hir Maiesties commission for ecclesiasticall causes which neuer came within the intention of my purpose All mutinies either among the Subiectes or against my deare Soveraine I detest from my hart to the lowest hell And if one ecclesiasticall person among the Commissioners be chalenged before your LL. who are his betters and equall in commission and haue authoritie to redresse his abuses what is this to the Ecclesiasticall estate or hie Commission which ought to bee honoured of all loyall subiectes Againe although by the meanes of the foresaid partie as being vnacquainted and ignorant how to proceed orderlie in matter of Iustice it hath bene alreadie giuen out for this yeare last past that all is counterfait and Dorrell a cousener as if he had bene deliberatelie heard the witnesses on both sides indifferentlie examined and produced and the Sentence in fine iudicially and solemnly pronounced yet in verie trueth the matter depondeth vndecided Therefore I trust that without offence we not being admitted to informe your LL. according to the course of ordinarie proceedinges may somewhat extraordinarilie in duetifull submission endeuour to arrest iudgement which being so vnduelie followed cannot be lawfull Thus referring the consideration of these thinges to your HH I beseeche the Lord almightie to continue increase your cares for the seruice of hir Maiestie the benefite of this Church and common Wealth to the enlargement of all true honour to your selues with comfort at the time of your death a blessed memorie after life and eternall happinesse to your bodies and soules in the life to come for euermore AMEN Nullus liber homo capiatur vel imprisonetur aut disseisietur de libero tonemēto vel libertatibus vel liberis consuetudinibus suis aut utlagetur aut exuletur aut aliquo modo destruatur nec super eum ibimus nec super eum mittenius nisi per legale iudioium parium suorum vel per legam tortae Nulli vendemus nulli negabimus aut differemus iustitiam aut