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A46994	A vindication of the Surey demoniack as no impostor, or, A reply to a certain pamphlet publish'd by Mr. Zach. Taylor, called, The Surey impostor with a further clearing and confirming of the truth as to Richard Dugdale's case and cure / by T.J. ... ; to which is annexed a brief narrative of the Surey demoniack, drawn up by the same author ...	Jollie, Thomas, 1629-1703.	1698 (1698)	Wing J889; ESTC R10650	80,797	80

stand Joseph Hargreaves testifies the first and third of Nathaniel Waddington Richard Crichly under his hand testifies concerning Richard Dugdale's Strength Several Testimonials about the said Richard Dugdale's Case do follow WE whose Names are Subscribed being Ministers of the Gospel having read or heard the Affidavits and Declarations taken before the Right Honourable Hugh Lord Willonghby and Ralph Egerton Esq two of his Majesties Justices of the Peace for the County Palatine of Lancaster concerning one Richard Dugdale of Surey in the Parish of Wholley do verily believe the truth of the same and that the strange Fits of the said Dugdale were by a Diabolical Power Given when we met at Blackburn in Lancashire on August the 6th 1695. Thomas Crompton Peter Aspinwall John Crompton John Parr Samuel Angier Nathaniel Haywood Samuel Eaton Nathaniel Scholes I Do hereby testify as many more will if ther be occasion from my own observation as an Eye and Ear-Witness at the Meetings concerning Richard Dugdale That I do verily believe he was then under a Diabolical Possession or Obsession I do also testify that he is now fully diliver'd from this Supernatural Malady and that no other probable Means of his said Deliverance may be assigned but the Word of God and Prayer with Fasting which Spiritual Means were made use of by several Ministers with great Faithfulness and Diligence for a considerable time together Witness my Hand this 10th of June 1695. At Hely in Lancashire Robert Whitaker Medicus Concerning Richard Dugdale's Certificate which he voluntarily subscribed before Jame Gregson and my silf with others Which is mentioned in the last Page of the Surey Demoniack there is some mistake tho not much material For the words in the original are follows July the 10th 1695. I Richard Dugdale Son of Thomas Dugdale of Surey near Whalley in Lancashire Gard'ner do certisy all to whom this may come That my former strange Fits were not any of them by any Cheat or any Art of Man that I konw of but as I do verily believe were caused by the Devil From whom and from my terrible Fits I do verily believe my Body was cieared through the Ministers I Prayers at or a out Lady-day 1690. After which I never had any more such Fits whereupon I took some Physick for the clearing of my Body from any ill Humours it might have gotten by my said sad Fits Witness my Hand the Day and Year abovesaid Richard Dugdale In presence of us James Gregson his 1 Mark Thomas Jolly WE whose Names are Subscribed were present at many of the with in mentioned Meetings concerning Richard Dugdale so were Eye and Ear-Witnesses to many of the things within mentioned and do verily believe the rest not doubtng but that the said Dugdale's Assliction was through Possession or Obscession by Combination or by some secret Judgment of God from which he was delivered as we are fully perswaded by the Gospel-Means within mentioned William Cross John Duerden Lan. Walmsly John Baxon John Bayley Christopher Duckworth Leonard Barley Juhn Marsh James Whitaker William Waddington George Cockshout Samuel Hey Charles Riley James Hindle Nehemiah Hindle Richard Jackson William Barton Christ Tattersi●l Richard Sudal Nich. Grimshaw Upon occasion of Mr. Taylor 's reflecting on the Reverend Mr. Pendlebury deceased Alexander Haworth gives in the following Certificate I Alexander Haworth of Top-Royl in Bury Parish in Lancashire Yeoman going with the Reverend Mr. Pendlebury to see Richard Dugdaie under his strange Fits at the first time upon mine asking of him his opinion of the said Dugdale's Fits he answered that he question'd whether the said D. might not be acted by some bodily Distemper in the said Fits But when the said Mr. Pendlebury had been with the said D. a second time I asked him his opinion again in that Case and then he had alter'd his perswasion concerning D. having seen such things in him as he judged more than natural and he gave such Reasons for it as alter'd my Judgment as well as his Dec. 25. 1697. Alexander Haworth Concerning the Expressions in Prayer which Mr. T. falsly chargeth me with from an Anonymous Author I have diligently enquired of those who were most constant hearers upon the occasion of the Surey Demoniack and they remember not that I ever used the Expressions charg'd upon me or any to that purpose which mine Accuser would wrest them unto Only one Person viz. Nathanie Waddington doth well remember some Words I once used in Prayer on the said occasion and are as follows How if thou should'st susser Satan to enter into such Persons as do not believe this young Man is possest Which Words he understood not to be at all by way of Imprecation but by way of Supposition if God in Judgment should suffer such a thing for their Infidelity as to the Case and their Uncharitableness as to the Party How sad this would be Nathaniel Waddington Here follow the further Informations as to the Case of the said Richard Dugdale taken before the Right Honourable Hugh Lord Willoughby and William Hulme Esq two of his Maiesty's Justices of the Peace and Quorum for the County Palatin of Lancaster Taken at the House of Richard Sharples of Blakhurn in the County asoresaid the 15th 16th and 17th of September 1697. Where the Informants were examin'd by the said Justices upon occasion of several Passages in a Book called the Surey-Impostor The Confession of Richard Dugdale of Whalley in the County of Lancashire Gardner taken before the Right Honourable Hugh Lord Willoughby and William Hulme Esq two of His Majesly's Justices of the Peace and Quorum for the said County taken at the House of Richard Sharples of Blackburn in the County aforesaid the 15th day of September Anno Domini 1697. IMprimis The said Richard Dugdale answers and says that he was in Health of Body and Mind at the Age of Eighteen Years or thereabours About the Nin●eenth Year Commonly called West-by he says he was a hired Servant with Thomas Lister of Arnald's-bigging in the County of York Esq and begged leave of his said Master to go to a Rush-bearing to Whalley and being in Drink fell out at Whalley with a Man and fought about dancing that Night He says afterwards he went to his Farthers House The day afterwards he went from his Fathers House to Arnald's bigging and on the Road being troubled in Mind he thought that he saw several Apparitions but could not tell the resemblance thereof The day afterwards he says he went to make Hay and found himself clogged with some heaviness that he could not work or stoop from thence he weut to a Well about a Fields breadth from the Hall aforesaid and saw a Gallon or Pale standing at the Well and that he laid himself down to drink at the Well and as he was drinking there came up to him a Neighbour-woman of good Repute and advised him not to drink so much Water but rather go up to the said Hall and

Thief was verily fubseribed by his Neighbours many more of whose Hands he might have got had he desired them John Fielding Thomas Booth of Hay-Honses confesses at the same time and declares That his former Examination was true and furhter adds that he and another striving to lift him up could not stir him off the spot and yet within one quarter of an hour after he alone did lay hold upon him about the the Hips and lift him up about three quarters of a Yard high and held him for a considerable while and felt him to be no heavier than his Stick and his whole Body was stright and stiss after which he having laid him down saw him in his dead Fit half an hour longer without any motion from Richard either as he lay or at he was lift up Thomas Booth the 16th day of September 1697. These Informations were given besere us Willoughbly Will. Hulme John Smalley of Harwo●d estifies That his Information formerly given about R. Dugdale was true and he is certain that Richard's Shoes specified therein were buckled just before the●●l●w off nor had he any hand himself in loosening them or helping them off so knew of any other Person or outward Means confederate or assisting in their flying off John Smally Lawrence Robertshaw of Harwood testifies That the Information he formerly gave in the Surey-Demoniack was true Lawrence Robertshaw William Livesay testifies That the Information he formerly gave in the Surey-Demoniack is true and says he saw two Stones thrown into the Barn end that Richard foretold were a coming which he took up and felt them more than ordinary warm Nor did he go up and down to pick up Company to go to the Surey nor knows he of any Spy that went over the Fields or any other ways to give Intelligence William Livesay The Informations were given before us the 16th day of September at the House of Richard Sharples of Blackburn 1697. Willoughby Will. Hulme James Abbot doth under his Hand testify That when Dugdale had told me of my Cheshire and Stassordshire Journy I came home and told our Folks that I wondered what I might go into Cheshire for we none of us having any occsion thither hard after a Letter came from Beverly to inform us that one Eliz. Gandy would comeover to see her Grandfather and from thence into Cheshire unto knotsford but in all this I never thought of Staffordshire nor had I ever been there not ever thought that I should ever have gone thither yet when it fell so out I called to remembrance that Dugdale told me of it James Abbot the 16th day of September 1697 at the House of Sharples of Blackburn This is further added to the forme Confession taken before us Willoughby Will. Hulme John Jolly testifies That the Private Information of Thomas and Ann Dugdale Parents to Richand Dugdale with Mary and Alice Dugdale Sisters to the said Richard Dugdale which is printed in the Surey-Demoniack was freely declared to him by the Parties aforesaid at Surey July the 31st 1695. And that the Information aforesaid was by him put down in Writing in their own words and meanings And that all the said Information was distinctly read over to the Parties aforesaid to which they then voluntarily put their Marks John Jolly the 16th day of September 1697. This was affirmed before us Willoughby William Hulme Joseph Hargreaves testifies That his former Confession in the Surey-Demoniack is true Joseph Hargreaves Nathaniel Waddington confesses and testifies That the Information he formerly gave concerning Richard Dugdale is true except what is mentioned about Fielding and likewise what was mentioned about the Gold and Bisket which he only heard by report He further says he was present when Dugdale accused the Gentlewoman of having Bisket in her Pocket and chalienged her to play with her at Cards for the Gold she had in her Pocket but says he cannot tell whether she had any or no ut it was generally reported that she had both in her Pocket Nathaniel Waddington William Fort of Altham confesses and trstifies That he saw Richard Dugdale in one of his Fits at his Fathers House in Altham and that for half a quarter of an hour together he stood streight up and was as one dead and breathless he says that he himself and others all that while held a Candle to his Mouth and Nostrils and could not in the least perceive that he had any Breath in his Body Before this whilst he was in his Fit he says he saw his Body rise up from the Ground five of six times being stiff and streight three quarters of a Yard above Ground and that he did not bend in any Joint whatever but with sudden Motions was thrown from his Back to his Belly and so likewise from his Belly to his Back rising three quarters of a Yard from the Ground as he turned himself He likewise says that he heard him sing some Verses of a Psalm in Latin and some Schollars that were present said was true Latin William Fort. the 17th of September 1697. These Informations were taken before us Willoughby Will. Hulme The further Information of William Sellar's of Pendleton Husbandman concerning Richard Dugdale which he is ready to take his Oath upon when he is called to it and it be within compase considering his great Age and bodily Weakness Whereas I did heretofore make Oath as to several Particulars of R. D's case before the Right Honourable the Lord Willoughby and Ralph Egerton Esq two of His Majesty's Justices of the Peace for the County of Lancaster I do now upon occasion more particularly express and explain my said Testimony as follows I did lift up the said Richard Dugdale several times and because I thought it very strange that he should be so light I do well remember that I did once my self without any help list him up by his Legs all at once about a Yard form the Barn-floor and held him up so long as I could well judg of his weight R. D's Unkle being present when he was as light as an Hat or a Walking-Cane and as streight as a Cane he was then in a dead Fit and continued therein some considerable time after I had laid him down again all this I do saithfully testify Witness my Hand John Birch William Sellars This Paper being read before the Right Honourable the Lord Willoughby and William Hulme Esq was approved by them as delive'd by John Birch to them but could not be sucseribed in William Sellar 's Absence John Hindle testifies further That he and John Walmsly were present when Dugdale had his last Fit in the Surey-Barn where in his Fit R. D. said it was Obscession and in a Combination and that he might never have more Fits and it should never be discovered while the World endured John Hindle As to the following Informations they were brought to me after the meeting before the Justices at Blackbrun And much more might be gîven in