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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

Satans 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 Wei● and his Sister With two Relations of Apparitions at Edinburgh By Mr. George Sinclar late Professor of Philosophy in the Colledge of Glasgow No Man should be vain that he can injure the merit of a Book for the meanest Rogue may burn a City or kill an Hero whereas he could never build the one or equal the other Sr. G. McK Edinburgh Printed by Iohn Reid 1685. TO THE RIGHT HONOURABLE GEORGE EARL of WINTON Lord SETON and TRANENT c. And One of His MAIESTIES most Honourable Privy Council My Lord I PRESENT Your Lo with an Oblation both Lame and Imperfect 'T is all which my Ability can afford I must Sacrifice with Barley-Meal because I want Frankincense Farre litabit qui non habet thus But what Imperfection is in it I supply it with the Sincerity of my Respects who presents it 'T is a Subject that the Learndest Prince and greatest Monarch in His time was not ashamed to treate of I seriously implore your Lordships Protection for I have to do with many Adversaries of this Visible World who will not fail to ride tilts at me with Bul-rushes and Windle-strawes As for those of Satans Invisible UUorld in the Name of the LORD I defy them I know the acutness of your Lordships Ingine and Profoundness of your Knowledge in all such and other Matters that there is no Theme which I am able to treat of or Thesis which I am able to publish but your Lordship is able by your Power and Authority to protect it and by your Reason to defend it I am the more encouraged to offer this to your Lordship A Noble Patrician because I have seen Tracts of this Subject consecrated to Kings Dukes and Princes I have sure Experience of your Lordships Bounty and Favourable Aspect which gave Wings to my New Philosophical Experiments to flie thorow Holland France and Germany which have made them so acceptable to Strangers Neque Phoebo gratior ulla est Quam sibi quae Vari praescripsit pagina nomen If my Writings had such good Fortune and Success abroad by the auspicious Conduct of your Lordships name upon the Frontispice what must they have at home where your Power Interest and Relations are so considerable Where your Ancestors are so famous having been useful to their Countrey in Peace and War others of them imployed in Publick Affairs at home and abroad and all of them most eminent for their unstained Loyalty to their Prince and Zeal for his Interest and that since Malcome the third six hundred years agoe to your Lordship who is the twentieth and fifth Lineally descended from Dougald the first of the Family What a Faithful Achates and Companion was Christopher Seton the third to King Robert the Bruce in all his troubles whose love to his King was like the love of Jonathan to David for which and his valiant Atcheivements be bestowed his Sister Christin upon him in Marriage and the Flower-de-Luce to his Coat of Arms one of the chief Ornaments of the Royal Badge Patruo te Principe celsum Bellipotens illustrat Avus Was not Alexander Seton the second Son of Lord William and Lady Katharin Sinclar or rather Saint Katharin who builded the famous Chappel of Seton for his excellent Endowments of Body and Mind made Head of the noble Family of Gordons by marrying the Heretrix of Huntly and that three hundred years ago And was not his Sister Isabel by the same Mother bestowed in Marriage upon that most Princely Youth John Stuart of Darnly from which two the Royal Race is descended So that I may say without Flattery your Family is come off Princes and reciprocally Princes are come off your Family Quis venerabilior sanguis quae major origo Quam regalis erit What was that illustrious Knight Alexander the third who during the time of John the Balliols Vsurpation three hundred and fifty years ago was made Governour of Berwick whom the King of England while he was beseiging the Town could neither by Threatnings nor fair Promises inveigle or perswade to betray his Trust. The Garison labouring under great penurie of Provision a Truce was made upon this Condition That if Relief came not before such a limited day the Town should be delivered up The Scottish Army approaching under the Conduct of the Valiant Douglas and King Edward fearing that the Town might be releived sent to the Governour certifying him though the dayes of Truce were not yet expired that if he did not render it forthwith both his Sons the one an Hostage the other a Prisoner of War should be crucified immediately before his eyes But the magnanimous Father and incomparable Mother being driven to this insuperable Dilemma Dextrum Scylla latus laevum implacata Charybdis Obsidet Love to their Dearest Children perswading and Love and Respect to their Countrey and Familie disswading carrie like two invincible Hero's and by admirable Resolution and Constancy beyond what Roman Histories can parallel they prefer their Countrie to their dearest Pledges Fidelity to Treacherie and Glory to Shame On which barbaritie the Famous Poet Johannes Johnstonus Aberdonensis writteth thus in his Book intituled The SCOTS Hero's Huc averte oculos neu tristia fata tuorum Respice Vincit amor Patriae constansque in pectore virtus Omnia pro Patria sustinuisse valens This strange Tyrannical Barbarous and Monstruous Fact is suppressed in the Histories of England and buried in silence not unwiselie it being capable neither of Defence nor Excuse My Lord Neither can I pass over in silence Lord George the fifth of that Name Claros inter habent nomina clara viros Your Great Grand-Fathers Father who being Master of the Royal Oeconomy to the Queen was sent by Order of Parliament to France to make up a Match between Francis the Dolphin and Mary Queen of Scots And after was sent by King James her Son to Henry the third for confirming the ancient Alliance whose third Son Alexander for his Knowledge and Skill in Juris-Prudence was manie years a Senator of the Colledge of Justice and thereafter President to the Senate and one of the Kings honourable Privy Counsellors and at last made by King James Earl of Dumfermling and Lord High Chancellour of SCOTLAND from whom by his two Daughters he had two Grand Children two matchless Hero's John Duke of Lauderdale and John Earl of Tweeddale both of them as was said of Julius Caesar and Cato Ingenti Uirtute Men of most eminent Parts and Endowments Fortes creantur fortibus bonis Est in Juvencis est in equis patrum Virtus nec imbellem feroces Progenerant aquilae columbam I come at last to your Lordships Father and

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

the Kings Picture made of Wax The design of this horrid Act was that as the Wax by little and little did melt away so the Kings Body by a continual sweating might at last totally decay The Waxen-Image being found and broken and those old Haggs being punished by death the King did in that same moment recover Compare this with the first Relation and you will find them jump and agree exactly RELATION XIV The Apparition of Edward Avon to his Son in Law Thomas Goddard THomas Goddard of Marleburgh in the County of Wilts Weaver on the ninth of November 1674 going to Ogburn at a Style on the Highway about nine in the morning met the Apparition of his Father in Law one Edward Avon of this Town Glover who dyed in May last having on to appearance the same Cloaths Hat Stockings and Shoes he did usually wear when he was living standing by and leaning over that Style Which when he came near the Apparition spake to him with an audible voice these words Are you afraid To which he answered I am thinking on one who is dead and burried whom you are like To which the Apparition replyed with the like voice I am he you were thinking on I am Edward Avon your Father in Law come near to me I will do you no harm To which Goddard answered I trust in him that bought my Soul with his precious blood you shal do me no harm Then the Apparation said How stand Cases at home Goddard askt what Cases Then it askt him how do William and Mary meaning as he conceived his Son William Avon a Shoe-Maker here and Mary his Daughter the said Goddards wife Then it said What Taylor is dead meaning as he thought one Taylor of London who married his Daughter Sarah which Taylor dyed about Michaelmas last Then the Apparition held out his hand and in it as Goddard conceived 20. or 30 shillings in Silver and then spake with a loud voice Take this money and send it to Sarah for I shut up my Bowels of Compassion toward her in my life time and now here is somewhat for her And then said Mary meaning the said Goddard's Wife as he conceived is troubled for me but tell her God hath shewed me Mercy contrary to my deserts But the said Goddard answered In the name of Iesus I refuse all such money Then the Apparition said I perceive you are afraid I will meet with you some other time And immediately it went up the Lane to his appearance So he went over the same Style but saw it no more that day He saith the next night about 7. of the Clock it came opened his Shop windows and stood in the like Cloaths looking him in the face but said nothing to him And the next Night after as Goddard went forth into his Back-side with a Candle light in his hand it appeared to him again in the same shape but he being in fear ran into his house and saw it no more then But he saith that on Thursday the 12. instant as he came from Chilton riding down the Hill between the Mannor-house and Axfoord-Farm-Field he saw some what like a hare crosing his way at which his Horse frighted threw him into the Dirt and as soon as he could recover on his Feet the same Apparition there met him again in the same habit and there standing about eight foot directly before him in the way spake again to him with a loud voice Source a word he commonly used when living you have stayed long and then said to him Thomas bid William Avon take the Sword that he had of me which is now in his House and carry it to the Wood as we go to Alton to the upper end of the Wood by the way side for with that Sword I did wrong thirty years ago and he never prosper'd since he had that sword And bid William Avon give his sister Sarah twenty shillings of the money which he had of me And do you talk with Edward Laurence for I borrowed twenty shillings of him several years ago and did say I had payed him but I did not pay it him and I would desire you to pay him twenty shillings out of the Money which you had from Iames Elliot at two payments Which money the said Goddard now saith was five pounds which James Elliot a Baker here owed the said Avon on Bond and which he the said Goddard had received from the said Elliot since Michaelmas at two payments viz. 35. shillings at one and 3 pound 5 shillings at another payment And it further said to him tell Margaret meaning his own Wife as he conceived that I would desire her to deliver up the little money which I gave to little Sarah Taylor the Child or any one she will trust for it But if she will not speak to Edward Laurence to perswade her But if she will not then tell that I will see her very suddenly And see that this be done within a twelve moneth and a day after my decease and peace be with you And so it went away over the Rails into the Wood there in the like manner as any man would go over a Style to his apprehension and so he saw it no more at that time And he saith that he paid the twentie shillings to Edward Laurence of this town who being present now doth remember he lent the said Avon twentie shillings about twentie years ago which none knew but himself and his Wife and Avon and his wife and was never paid it again before now by this Goddard And this Goddard further says that this verie day by Mr. Majors order he with his Brother in Law William Avon went with the Sword and about Nine a Clock this Morning they laid down the Sword in the Copse near the place the Apparition had appointed Goddard to carry it and then coming away thence Goddard looking back saw the same Apparition again in the like habit as before Whereupon he called to his Brother in Law and said Here is the Apparition of our Father who said I see nothing Then Goddard fell on his knees and said LORD open his eyes that he may see it if it be thy blessed Will And the Apparition to Goddards appearance beckned with his hand to come to it And then Goddard said In the Name of the Father Son and Holy Ghost what would you have me to do Then the Apparition said to him Thomas take up the Sword and follow me To which he said should both of us come or but one of us To which it answered Thomas do you take up the Sword And so he took up the Sword and followed the Apparition about ten Poles in length further into the Copse and then turning back he stood still about a Pole and a half from it his Brother in Law staying behind at the Place where they first laid down the Sword Then Goddard laying down the Sword upon the Ground saw something stand by the

try his Black Art but it would not do with him For whilst he had wearied himself in observing his Spells Charms and Incantations and what the furthest that Hellish skill and power could do to satisfie the Company he was at last enforced to that Confession before them all which he spake with great wrath and anger That there was one in the Company that hindred his work by Reason of whom he could get nothing done at that time I may add to this a strange Providence of GOD. Master John Craig that was a Minister to King James here in Scotland being when he was a Young Man apprehended at Room for venting Heresie as they called it was shut up in Prison In the mean time Paul the fourth dies The Banditi that night broke up all the Prison doors and set at Liberty all the Prisoners Mr. John Craig escapes with an intention to go to Bononia But fearing hurt there he set his mind towards Millain When he had travell'd some days declining the High-wayes out of Fear he came into a Forrest a wild and desert place and being sore wearied lay down among some Bushes at the side of a little river to refresh himself He lay there pensive and full of thought For neither knew he in what place he was nor had he any means to carry him out the way In the mean time there came a Dog fawning upon him with a purse in his teeth with Money and layes it down before him He strucken with fear rises up but construing the same to proceed from GODS favourable Providence he accepted of it and held on his way till he came to Vienna in Austria RELATION XXIII Anent a great Doctor of Divinity that raise out of the Bier and spoke to all that were present IT is written in the life of one Bruno that a Doctor of great note for Learning and Godliness being dead and being brought to the Church to be buried while they were in their Popish Devotions and came to these words Responde mihi the Corps arose in the Bier and with a terrible voice cryed out Justo DEI judicio accusatus sum I am accused at the just Judgement of GOD. At which voice the people ran all out afrighted On the morrow when they came again to perform the Obsequies to the like words as before the Corps rose again and cried with a hideous voice Justo DEI judicio condemnatus sum I am Judged at the Righteous Judgement of GOD. Whereupon the People run away amazed The third day almost all the City came together and when they came to the same words as before the Corps rose again and cried with a more doleful noise than before Justo DEI judicio condemnatus sum I am condemned at the just Judgement of GOD. The consideration whereof that a man reputed so upright should yet by his own confession be damned caused Bruno and the rest of his Companions to enter into that strick Order of Carthusians The Author and Relator makes this use of it If the voice of the dead man could afright them into Superstition should not the warning of GOD afright us into True Doctrine RELATION XXIV Touching some Drunkards destroyed by the Devil THIS hath been published in a Sermon by a Godly Minister But I must insert it here in its own proper place On the 8 of February saith my Author in the year 1578 a company of Drunkards whose names are recorded as followeth Adam Gibbons George Keepel John Keysel Peter Horsdroff John Warner Simon Heamkers Jacob Hermons and Hermon Frow These eight Drunkards in contempt of the blessed Sabbath agreed to go to the Tavern on the Lords day to be merry and coming to the house of one Antony Hodge an honest Godly Man they called for Burnt-Wine Sack Clarat and what not The Good-man refusing to give them any advised them to go to Church to hear the Word of GOD but they all save Adam Gibbons refused saying they loathed that Exercise Whereupon the Host departed who being gone to Church they began to curse and ban wishing he might brake his neck ere he returned and wishing the Devil might brake their own necks if they went from hence till they had some Wine Whereupon the Devil in the likeness of a Young-Man appeared unto them bringing in his hand a Flagon of Wine and so drank unto them saying Good Fellows be merry you shall have Wine enough you seem to be lusty Lads and I hope you will pay me well who answering said They would either pay him or engage their Neck for it Yea rather than fail their Bodies and Souls Thus these men continued drinking and swilling so long till they could hardly see one another At last the Devil their Host told them that now they must pay for all at which their hearts waxed cold But the Devil bid them be of good chear for now they must drink Fire and Brimstone with him in the Pit of Hell for ever At which the Devil breake their Necks assunder and destroyed them And thus ended these drunkards their miserable dayes This by the way may serve for a Document for all Drunkards for ever and to perswade folk that the Lord has the Devil for his Executioner when he pleases to execute his vengeance upon Notorious Sinners RELATION XXV Touching one William Barton a Warlock ABout thirty years ago more or less there was one William Barton apprehended for Witch-Craft His confession was first that if he had twenty Sons he would advise them to shun the lust of uncleanness For said he I never saw a beautiful Woman Maid nor Wife but I did covet them which was the only cause that brought me to be the Devils Vassal One day says he going from my own house in Kirkliston to the Queens Ferry I overtook in Dalmeny Muire a young Gentlewoman as to appearance beautifull and comely I drew near to her but she shunned my company and when I insisted she became angry and very nyce Said I since we are both going one way be pleased to accept of a convey At last after much entreaty she grew better natured and at length we came to that Familiarity that she suffered me to embrace her and to do that which Christian ears ought not to hear of At this time I parted with her very joyful The next night she appeared to him in that same very place and after that which should not be named he became sensible that it was the Devil Here he renounced his Baptism and gave up himself to her service and she called him her beloved and gave him this new name of Iohn Baptist and received the Mark. She likewise bestowed fifteen pound scots upon him in name of Tocher-good and so parted After he had gone a little way off she calls him back and gave him a Merk-piece in good and sufficient money which She bad him spend at the Ferry and desired him to keep entire and whole the 15. pound which he declared was real