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A81077	The kingdom of darkness: or the history of dæmons, specters, witches, apparitions, possessions, disturbances, and other wonderful and supernatural delusions, mischievous feats, and malicious impostures of the Devil Containing near fourscore memorable relations, forreign and domestick, both antient and modern. Collected from authentick records, real attestations, credible evidences, and asserted by authors of undoubted verity. Together with a preface obviating the common objections and allegations of the sadduces and atheists of the age, who deny the being of spirits, witches, &c. With pictures of several memorable accidents. By R. B. Licensed and entred according to order.	R. B., 1632?-1725?; Drapentier, Jan, fl. 1674-1713.	1688 (1688)	Wing C7342; ESTC R224752	121,198	192

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and confidence of this stranger and his two Comerades began at length to be troublesom and suspected by the Master of the House Whereupon he invited the Minister of the Town to meet them when they came next And accordingly that night when they were at Supper the Minister came and sitting down with them began to discourse of some Divine matters out of the Holy Scriptures The Gentlemen seemed very uneasy at this kind of conversation and desired him to divert to some other subject arguing That witty Jests and merry Conceits were more proper to Feasting and did more elevate mens Spirits than such kind of talk as that and therefore intreated him not to be any more troublesome to them with discourse of that nature By this the Master of the House was confirmed that they were Daemons and Diabolical Spirits and therefore arming himself with courage against all the attempts of the Devil he said to his Guests Be gone and depart instantly Oye cursed Feinds you shall have nothing to do with me nor mine we are baptized and redeemed by the precious Bloud of Christ and will defend our selves against all your damnable delusions At these words this Devilish Impostor with his two hellish Companions vanished out of sight leaving a most horrid noisom stink and the dead bodies of three ●●defactors who had been lately hanged behind them Manlius Collect. XLI SOme brisk learned men in the Council of Basil walked for recreation into a small Wood to debate in a friendly manner about the disputes of those times As they were going along they heard a pretty little Bird singing most sweetly like a Nightingale so that they were even ravished with the pleasant Musick wherewith she entertained them but could not imagine by her Note what Bird it should be Entring the Wood further they espy the same Bird fitting on a Tree and singing most pleasantly without intermission to which they were all very attentive At last one having more courage and resolution than the rest speaks thus to the Bird I adjure thee in the name of Christ to tell us who thou art The Bird made answer That she was one of the damned Souls and was condemned to that place till the last day and then she must undergo everlasting torment When she had said thus she flew away from the Tree crying O how immense and of what long continuance is Eternity Philip Melarcthon a famous Divine saith I am of opinion that this was the Devil frequenting there All that were present at this adjuration fell very sick and within a little time after died Ibidem XLII MArtin Luther in his Colloquia Mensalia relates this notable Passage A Studious young man of Saffordia in Germany was so extreamly in love with a young Virgin that he became almost distracted with the violence of his passion And being intimately acquainted with one who was skilful in Art of Magick he assured him that he would use such means by his Skill that the Maid with whom he was so much in love should come to him provided he would solemnly ingage not to imbrace nor touch her the young man promiseth he will be civil when instantly the young Lady being extream handsom enters his bed-chamber And by words and gestures discovered much love toward him which he observing was so exceedingly surprized that unable to command his affections he approaches and imbraces her with much tenderness Whereupon the Virgin presently falls down dead which did dreadfully affright both him and the Magician who by his inchantments so prevailed at length that the Devil entred her hody and by his acting in her the Maid returned home where she was very busy in her former imployment but always pale and silent which much troubled her Parents who after three days got some Divines to come and discourse with her who when for some time they had seriously conversed with her the Devil went out of her and she falling down appeared only a filthy stinking Carcass Bloud is the cause of a good colour saith Luther and the Devil cannot create that none but God our Creator only Lutheri Colloqu XLIII AMong other pernicious devices whereby the Devil discovers his malice to mankind several Authors relate that Witches by his assistance with their wicked charms and inchantments can hinder Generation by procuring frigidity and other inconveniences of which they give several instances and among others that which follows A certain Earl of a Noble Family at Argentinum in Germany having married a Lady of illustrious birth found himself deprived of his natural strength of which he could by no means discover the reason It happened that after he had been married three years without having any Children going to the City of Mentz to dispatch some business he fell into the company of a certain woman who some years before his marriage had been his Mistriss whom he entertained very civilly and began co discourse her of their old love and familiarity not in the least suspecting her guilty of his misfortune or that she was concerned in Witchcraft He inquires of her health and what condition she lived in who perceiving the innocence and good nature of the Earl asks him how he did and whether he were perfectly in health who replied He was very well and that all things succeeded happily with him At which she for a while stood amazed and silent which when the Earl perceived he begun to have some doubts within him and by his courteous treatment invited her to discourse further whereupon she inquires what condition his wife was in He replied She was in good health And pray my Lord says she how many Children have you had by her The Earl replied Not above three every year one At this she seemed more disturbed than before and continued silent a great while But pray my Dear says the Earl why dost thou inquire so strictly of the condition of me and mine I do not doubt but thou rejoicest at my felicity Yes saies she I am heartily glad of your good fortune but cursed be that old Witch who swore desperately that by her Charms she would render both you and your Lady uncapable of having Children the certainty whereof a Well that stands in the middle of your Court will discover in which an earthen pot filled with inchantments is thrown of which the old woman did affirm that as long as it lay there you should both be disabled as to generation but I now find and am very glad of it that all she said were lyes and falshood The Earl hearing this business wisely concealed it without taking any notice but making hast home causes the Well to be emptied of water when at the bottom he finds the earthen pot which being burnt he and his Lady recovered their former vigor and afterward had many Children Hist Spect. p. 117. XLIV IN 1532. A Nobleman in Saxony out of a malicious and Tyrannical humor commanded one of his Countreymen over whom he had authority that he

Happened a very sad Tragedy in the Family of the Right honourable the Earl of Rutland whose Children were he ●itched and one murthered by the devilish malice of Joan Flower and her two dau●●ters Margaret and Philip who dwelt near Belvoir Castle in Rutlandshire the Residence of that noble Earl and where they were not only relieved but entertained as Char-women After which Margaret was admitted to live in the Castle as a Servant maid till at length the Countess had information of some misdemeanours they were guilty of having notice that the Mother was a very malicious woman and much given to swearing cursing and Atheistical imprecations and that of late days her countenance was strangely altered her eyes fiery and hollow her speech fierce and envious and her whole demeanour strange and rediculous being much alone and having divers other Symptoms of a notorious Witch and her neighbours reported she had familiar Spirits and terrified them all with her curses and threats of revenge upon the least displeasure was done her She likewise heard that her daughter Margaret often carried such great quantities of provision from the Castle to her Mother as was unfit for a Servant to purloyn and at such unseasonable hours that it was believed they could never maintain their extraordinary riot and expence without robbing their Lady to maintain several debauched Fellows who frequented her mothers house for the love of her youngest daughter Philip who was likewise leudly transported with the love of one Thomas Symson insomuch as he was heard to say she had bewitched him for he had no power to leave her though he found himself much altered both in body and mind since he kept her company Such discourses passed concerning them several years before they were apprehended or convicted of which the Earl and Countess took little notice by reason of their cunning observance and modest carriage toward them At length my Lord had some suspition of the Mother and estranged himself from that familiarity and discourse he used to have with her for one Peak having wronged her she complained to the Earl whom she found unwilling to incourage clamors and malicious informations and the Countess discovering some incivilities in her daughters life and her neglect of business discharged her for lying any more in the Castle yet gave her forty Shillings a Bolster and a Bed commanding her to go home Upon this the Mother being upbraided by her Neighbours and told that her daughter was turned out of doors she cursed all that were the cause of it and studied to revenge her self upon that Honourable Family The Devil perceiving the malicious temper of this wretch and that she and her daughters were fit instruments to inlarge his Kingdom offered them his service and that in such a manner as should no way terrifie them nor could they be suspected to be concerned appearing in the shape of a Dog Cat or Rat telling them that if they would make a contract with him they should have their will upon their enemies and do them what damage they pleased The thoughts of doing mischief to their ill-willers easily induced them all to agree to his damnable proposals and they consent to be his Body and Soul confirming their agreement with abominable kisses and an odious Sacrifice of Bloud with certain Charms and Conjurations wherewith the Devil deceived them After this these three women became Devils incarnate and grew proud in the power they had got to do mischief by several Spells and Incantations whereby they first killed what Cattel they pleased Which so incouraged them that they now threaten the Earl and his Family who soon after fell sick with his Countess and were subject to strange and extraordinary Convulsions which they judging only to proceed from the hand of God had not the least jealousie of any evil practice against them At last as malice increased in them so the Farls Family felt the smart of their revenge for Henry Lord Ross his eldest Son fell sick of a very unusual disease and soon after died His second Son the Lord Francis was likewise miserably tortured by their wicked contrivances And his Daughter the Lady Katherine was oft in great danger of her life by their barbarous dealings with strange Fits c. the Honourable Parents bore all these afflictions with Christian magnanimity little suspecting they proceeded from Witchcraft till it pleased God to discover the villanous practices of these women whom the Devil now left to fall into the hands of Justice for murdering the innocent and to remain notorious examples of Gods judgment to future ages They were apprehended about Christmas in 1618. and after examination before divers Justices of Peace who wondred at their audacious wickedness were all three ordered to be carried to Lincoln Jayl Joan Flower the Mother it is said called for Bread and Butter by the way and wished it might never go through her if she were guilty of that which was charged upon her and so mumbling it in her mouth she never spake a word more but fell down and died with horrible torture both of Soul and Body before she got to the Jayl The two Daughters were examined before Sir William Pelham and Mr. Butler Justices of Peace Feb. 4. 1618. where Philip the youngest made the following confession That her Mother and Sister were very malicious against the Earl of Rutland his Countess and their Children because Margaret was turned out of the Ladies service whereupon her Sister by her Mothers order brought from the Castle the right hand Glove of the Lord Henry Ross who presently rubbed it on the back of her Spirit called Rutterkin and then put it into boyling water after which she prickt it very often and then buried it in the yard wishing the Lord Ross might never thrive and so her Sister Margaret continued with her Mother and she often saw her Imp Rutterkin leap on her shoulder and suck her neck she confest also that she often heard her mother curse the Earl and his Lady and would thereupon boyl bloud and feathers together using many Devilish speeches and strange gestures she likewise acknowledged that she her self had a Spirit sucking her left breast in the form of a white Rat which it had done for three or four years past and and that when it came first to her she gave her Soul to it who promised to do her good and to force Tho. Symson to love her if she would suffer it to suck her which she agreed to and that it had suckt her two nights before Margaret her Sister being examined agreed in the confession that Philip had made of their malice to the Earl and about the young Lords Glove adding that after she had prickt it Henry Lord Ross fell sick within a week lying in great torment and shortly after died which her Mother hearing of said It was well She further said that finding a Glove about two years since of Francis Lord Ross the second Son on a

Dunghill she gave it her Mother who put it into hot water and after took it out and rub'd it on Rutterkin her Cat and bid him go upwards and afterward buried it in the yard and said a mischief light on him but he will mend again She confessed also that her Mother and she and her Sister contrived so to bewitch the Earl and his Countess that they might have no more Children for turning her out of the Castle at which her Mother was so inraged that she swore dreadfully to be revenged Her malice increasing because she thought the Earl did not take her part against one Peak who had abused her whereupon they took Wooll out of the bed the Lady had given her and a pair of Gloves of the Earls and put them into warm water mingled with bloud stirring it together and then taking them out rubb'd them on Rutterkin her Imp saying The Lord and the Lady should have more Children but it would be long first She likewise confest that she brought her Mother a piece of the Lady Katherines Handkercher and her Mother put it in water and rubb'd it on her Spirit bidding him fly and go whereupon he whined and cryed mew at which she said That Rutterkin had no power over the Lady Katherine to hurs her She also acknowledged that she had two Familiar Spirits sucking on her one white and the other black and spotted the white suckt under her breast and the black in the lower parts of her body When she first entertained them she promised them her Soul and they covenanted to do all the mischief she commanded them Lastly she confessed that Jan. 30. four Devils appeared to her in Lincoln Jayl about twelve a Clock at night one standing at her bed-side with a black head like an Ape and spoke to her but the words she could not understand at which she was very angry because he spoke not plainer that she might know his meaning the other three were Rutterkin little Robin and Spirit and that she never feared she should lose her life nor suspected their treachery till that time About the same time Joan Willimot of Goadby a Witch was examined by Sir Henry Hastings and Dr. Fleming Justices in Leicestershire about the murder of Henry Lord Ross who declared that Joan Flower told her the Earl of Rutland had dealt badly by her and had put away her Daughter and though she could not have her will of my Lord himself yet she had sped my Lords Son and had stricken him to the heart She further confessed that to her own knowledge my Lords Son was struck with a white Spirit and that she can cure those who send to her and that some reward her for her pains and or others she takes nothing Acknowledging that she had a Spirit which she called Pretty given her by William Berry of Langholm in Rutlandshire to whom she was a servant three years and that when her Master gave it her he bid her open her mouth and he would blow a Fairy into her which should do her good and accordingly he blowed into her mouth and soon after there came a Spirit out of her mouth which stood on the ground in the form of a woman who asked her to give her Soul to her which she then promised by the instigation of her Master She said she never hurt any body but helpt divers who were bewitcht and that her Spirit came to her weekly giving her an account who were thus afflicted and that the night before it came like a woman mumbling somewhat she could not understand And being asked whether she were not in a dream she affirmed she was awake as much as at that instant Another time her Spirit told her there was a bad woman at Deeping who had given her Soul to the Devil and that her Spirit did then appear in a more hideous form than it had formerly done and much urged her to give it something though but a piece of her Girdle saying it had taken great pains for her but she refused to give it any thing She said further that John Pachet whose child was bewitcht to death might have had it alive if he would have sought help in time and that Pachets Wife had an evil thing within her which would make an end of her which she knew by her Girdle and accordingly she died soon after And that Gamaliel Greete of Waltham in Leicestershire a Shepherd had a Spirit like a Mouse which went into his Body at the time he contracted to give his Soul to the Devil after which if he lookt maliciously upon any thing it received hurt thereby and that he had a mark on his left arm which was cut away of which her own Spirit inform'd her before he left her Upon a second Examination she confest that Joan Flower and her Daughter Margaret met together about a week before their apprehension in Black-borrow Hill and went thence to Joan Flowers house where she saw two Spirits one like a Rat and the other like an Owl and one of them suckt her right ear as she thought and Joan told her that her Spirits had promised she should neither be hanged nor burnt and then took up some earth and spit upon it working it with her Fingers and put it into her purse saying Though she could not hurt the Lord himself yet she had sped his Son who is dead Another Witch called Ellen Green of Stathorn in Leicestershire was examined about that time by the same Justices who confessed that Joan Willimot abovenamed came to her about six years since and perswaded her to forsake God and betake her self to the Devil to which she consented who then called two Spirits one like a young Cat which she named Puss and the other in the shape of a Mole which she called Hiff Hiff who instantly came and Willimot going away left them with her after which they leapt on her shoulder the Kitling sucking her neck under her right ear and the Mole under her left in the same place After which she sent the Kitling to a Baker in the Town who had called her Witch and struck her bidding it go and bewitch him to death and the Mole she sent to Ann Daws of the same Town upon the same errand because she had called her Witch Whore and Jade and within a Fortnight after they both died After which she sent them to destroy two Husbandmen named Willison and Williman who died both in ten days These four she murdered while she dwelt at Waltham When she removed to Stathorn where she now dwelt upon a difference between her and one Pachets Wife a Yeoman there Joan Willimot called her to go and touch Pachets Wife and Child which she did touching the Woman in bed and the Child in the Midwives arms and then sent her Spirits to bewitch them to death the woman languished a month before she died but the Child lived only till next day after she had touched