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B00045	Witchcrafts, strange and wonderfull: discovering the damnable practices of seven witches, against the lives of certaine noble personages, and others of this kingdome, as shall appeare in this lamentable history. ; With an approved triall how to finde out either witch or any apprentice to witch-craft..	Flower, Margaret, d. 1618.	1635 (1635)	STC 11107.7; ESTC S92558	15,311	23

paire of gloves which were given her by Master Vavasor and put them into warme water mingling them with some blood and stirring it together then shee tooke the wooll and gloves out of the water and rubd them on the belly of Rutterkin her Cat saying the Lord and the Lady should have more children but it would be long first Shee further confesseth that by her mothers commandment she brought to her a piece of a handkerchiefe of the Lady Katherine the Earles daughter and her mother put it into hot water and then taking it out rubd it on Rutterkin bidding him flie and goe whereupon Rutterkin whined and cried Mew whereupon she said that Rutterkin had no power over the Lady Katherine to hurt her Another Examination of Philip Flower before Francis Earle of Rutland Francis Lord Willoughby of Ersby Sir George Manners and Sir William Pelham SHee confesseth and saith That shee hath a Spirit sucking on her in the forme of a white Rat which keepeth her left breast and hath so done for three or foure yeares and concerning the agreement betwixt her Spirit and her selfe shee confesseth and saith That when it came first unto her she gave her soule to it and it promised to doe her good and cause Thomas Simpson to love her if shee would suffer it to sucke her which she agreed unto and so the last time it suckt was on Tuesday at night the 23. of February Margaret Flower at the same time confesseth that she hath two familiar Spirits sucking on her the one white the other blacke spotted the white sucked under her left breast and the blacke spotted within the inward parts of her secrets When shee first entertained them shee promised them her soule and they covenanted to doe all things which shee commanded them c. Shee further saith That about the 30. of Ianuary last past being Saturday foure Devills appeared unto her in Lincolne Jayle at eleven on twelve a clocke at midnight The one stood at her beds feet with a blacke head like an Ape and spake unto her but what she cannot well remember at which she was very angry because hee would speake no plainer or let her understand his meaning the other three were Rutterkin Little Robin and Spirit but she never mistrusted them nor suspected her selfe till then THese Examinations and some others were taken and charily preserved for the contriving of sufficient evidences against them and when the Judges of Assize came downe to Lincolne about the first wecke of March being Sir Henry Hobert Lord chiefe Justice of the Common-Pleas and Sir Edward Bromely one of the Barons of the Exchequer they were presented unto them who not onely wondred at the wickednesse of these persons but were amazed at their practises and horrible contracts with the Devill to damne their owne soules And although the Right Honourable Earle had sufficient griefe for the losse of his children yet no doubt it was the greater to consider the maner and how it pleased God to inflict on him such a fashion of visitation Besides as it amazed the hearers to understand the particulars and the circumstances of this devillish contract was it as wonderfull to see their desperate impenitency and horrible distraction according to the rest of that sort exclaiming against the Devill for deluding them and now breaking promise with them when they stood in most need of his helpe Notwithstanding all these aggravations such was the unparalleld magnanimity wisedome and patience of this generous Noble-man that he urged nothing against them more then their owne confessions and so quietly left them to judiciall triall desiring of God mercy for their soules and of men charity to censure them in their condemnation but God is not mocked and so gave them over to judgement nor man so reformed but for the Earles sake they cursed them to that place which they themselves long before had bargained for What now remaines gentle Reader but for thee to make use of so wonderfull a story and remarkeable an accident out of which to draw to a conclusion thou mayest collect these particulas First that God is the supreame Commander of all things and permitteth wonderfull actions in the World for the triall of the godly the punishment of the wicked and his owne glory of which man shall never attaine to know the reason or occasion Secondly that the Devill is the meere servant and agent of God to prosecute whatsoever he shall command rather then give leave unto limiting him yet thus farre in his owne nature that he can goe no further then the bounds within which he is hedged Thirdly that this God hath punishments ad correctionem that is to say chastisements of the godly Ad ruinam Videlicet judgements against the wicked wherein yet man must disclaime any knowledge and forsake prejudicate opinions For the very just shall be tried like gold and no man exempted from castigation whom God doth love Fourthly that this Devill though hee bee Gods instrument yet worketh altogether by deceit for as he was a lier from the beginning so let no man trust him because hee aimes at the confusion of all mankinde Fifthly that the wicked however they may thriue and prosper for a time yet in the end are sure to be payed home either with punishment in this life or in the life to come or both as a finall reward of menstrous impicty Sixthly that man in his frailty must not presume of prosperity but prepare a kind of stooping under the hand of God when it pleaseth him to strike or punish us Seventhly that there is no murmuring nor repining against God but quietly to tolerate his inflictings whensoever they chance of which this worthy Earle is a memorable example to all men and ages Eightly that the punishments of the wicked are so many warnings to all irregular sinners to amend their lives and avoid the judgement to come by penitency and newnesse of life Ninthly that though man could bee content to passe over blasphemies and offences against the Statutes of Princes yet God will overtake them in their owne walkes and pull them backe by the sleeve into a slaughter-house as here you know the evidences against these people tooke life and power from their owne Confessions Tenthly and last of all that private opinion cannot prevaile against publike censures for here you see the learned and religious Judges cried out with our Saviour Ex ore tuo Therefore though it were so that neither Witch nor Devill could doe these things yet Let not a Witch live saith God and Let them die saith the Law of England that have conversation with spirits and presume to blaspheme the Name of God with spels and incantations O then you sonnes of men take warning by these examples and either divert your steps from the broad way of destruction and irrecoverable gulfe of damnation or with Iosuahs counsell to Achan Blesse God for the discovery of wickednesse and take thy death patiently as the prevention of thy future judgement and saving innocents from punishment who otherwise may be suspected without a cause Vtinam tam facile vera invenire possem quam falsa convincere The triall of a Witch Now as touching the triall and discovery of a Witch then which these cannot be any president more necessary and behoovefull for us there are divers opinions holden As some by the pricking of a sharpe knife naule or other pointed instrument under the stoole or seate on which the Witch sitteth for thereon shee is not able to sit or abide others by scratching or drawing of blood from the Witch by either party that is grieved or the next of blood to the same and others by fire as by burning any relique or principall ornament belonging to the suspected Witch which shall no sooner bee on fire but the Witch will presently come running to behold it and of these trials have beene made both in Hartfordshire Northamptonshire and Huntingtonshire But the onély assured and absolute perfect way to finde her out is to take the Witch or party suspected either to some Mildam Pond Lake or deepe River and stripping her to her smocke tie her armes acrosse onely let her legs have free liberty then fastening arope about her middle which with the helpe of by standers may be ever ready to save her from drowning in case she sinke throw her into the water and if shee swimme aloft and not sincke then draw her foorth and have some honest and discreet women neere which may presently search her for the secret marke of Witches as Teates blood-moales moist warts and the like which found then the second time binding her right thumbe to her left toe and her left thumbe to her right toe throw her into the water againe with the assistance of the former rope to save her if shee should chance to sincke and if then shee swim againe and doe not sincke you may most assuredly resolve she is a Witch and of this many pregnant and true proofes have beene made as namely by one Master Enger of Bedfordshire upon the person of Mary Sutton a notable Witch whom he cast into his Mildam at Milton Mills and found the effect as hath beene declared and for her Witchcraft was there condemned and executed and as this so I could recite a world of others in the same nature But the trueth is so manifest that it needeth no flourish to adorne it FINIS

Mouse put into him in his swearing and that if hee did looke upon any thing with an intent to hurt it should be hurt and that he had marke on his left arme which was cut away and that her owne Spirit did tell her all this before it went from her Further shee saith That Ioane Flower Margaret Flower and she did meet about a weeke before Ioane Flowers apprehension in Blackborrow hill and went from thence home to the said Ioane Flowers house and there shee saw two Spirits one like a Rat and the other like an Owle and one of them did sucke under her right eare as she thought and the said Ioane told her that her Spirit did say she chould neither be hanged nor burnt Further she saith That the said Ioatie Flower did take up some earth and spit upon it and did worke it with her finger and put it up into her purse and said Though she could not hurt the Lord himselfe yet she had sped his sonne which is dead H. Hastings Samuel Fleming The Examination of Ellen Greene of Stathorne in the County of Leicester taken the 17. of March 1618. by Sir Henry Hastings Knight and Samuel Fleming Doctor of Divinity SHe saith That one Ioane Willimot of Goadby came about sixe yeares since to her in the Wowlds and perswaded this Examinate to forsake God and betake her to the Devill and she would give her two Spirits to which she gave her consent and thereupon the said Ioane Willimot called two Spirits one in the likenes of a Kitlin and the other of a Moldiwarp the first the said Willmot called Pusse the other Hiffe hiffe and they presently came to her and she departing left them with this Examinate and they lept on her shoulder and the Kitlin suckt under her right eare on her necke and the Moldiwarp on the left side in the like place After they had suckt her shee sent the Kitlin to a Baker of that Towne whose name she remembers not who had called her Witch and stricken her and bade her said Spirit goe and bewitch him to death the Moldiwarp she then bade goe to Anne Dawse of the same Towne and bewitch her to death because shee had called this Examinate Witch whore jade c. and within one fortnight after they both died And further this Examinate saith That she sent both her Spirits to Stonesby to one Willison a husband-man and Robert Williman a husbandmans sonne and bade the Kitlin goe to Willison and bewitch him to death and the Moldiwarp to the other and bewitch him to death which they did and within ten dayes they died These foure were bewitched while this Examinate dwelt at Waltham aforesaid About three yeares since this Examinate removed thence to Stathorne where she now dwelt upon a difference betweene the said Willimot and the wife of Iohn Patchet of the said Stathorne Yeoman she the said Willimot called her this Examinate to goe and touch the said Iohn Patchets wife and her childe which she did touching the said Iohn Patchets wife in her bed and the child in the Grace-wifes armes and then sent her said Spirits to bewitch them to death which they did and so the woman lay languishing by the space of a moneth and more for then she died the child died the next day after she touched it And shee further saith That the said Ioane Willimot had a Spirit sucking on her under the left flanke in the likenesse of a little white dogge which this Examinate saith that shee saw the same sucking in Barley-harvest last being then at the house of the said Ioane Willimot And for her selfe this Examinate further saith That she gave her soule the Deuill to have these Spirits at her command for a confirmation whereof she suffered them to sucke her alwayes as aforesaid about the Change and full of the Moone H. Hastings Samuel Fleming The Examination of Philip Flower sister of Margaret Flower and daughters of Ioane Flower before Sir William Pelham and Master Butler Iustices of the Peace February 4. 1618. Which was brought in at the Assizes as evidence against her sister Margaret SHe saith That her mother and her sister maliced the Earle of Rutland his Countesse and cheir children because her sister Margaret was put out of the Ladies service of Laundry and exempted from other services about the house whereupon her said sister by the commandement of her mother brought from the Castle the right hand glove of the Lord Henry Rosse which she delivered to her mother who presently rubd it on the backe of her Spirit Rutterkin then put it into hot boyling water afterward she pricked it often and buried it in the yard wishing the Lord Rosse might never thrive and so her sister Margaret continued with her mother where she often saw the Cat Rutterkin leape on her shoulder and suck her neck Shee further confessed that she heard her mother often curse the Earle and his Lady and thereupon would boyle feathers and blood together using many Devillish speeches and strange gestures The Examination of Margaret Flower SHe saith and confesseth That about foure or five yeare since her mother sent her for the right hand glove of Henry Lord Rosse afterward that her mother bade her goe againe into the Castle of Bever and bring downe the glove or some other thing of Henry Lord Rosse and she askt what to doe Her mother replied to hurt my Lord Rosse whereupon shee brought downe a glove and delivered the same to her mother who stroked Rutterkin her Cat with it after it was dipt in hot water and so prickt it often after which Henry Lord Rosse fell sicke within a weeke and was much tormented with the same Shee further faith That finding a glove about two or three yeares since of Francis Lord Rosse on a dunghill shee delivered it to her mother who put it into hot water and after tooke it out and rubd it on Rutterkin the Cat and bad him goe upwards and after her mother buried it in the yard and said a mischiefe light on him but hee will mend againe Shee further saith That her mother and shee and her sister agreed together to bewitch the Earle and his Lady that they might have no more children and being demanded the cause of their malice and ill-will shee saith that about foure yeares since the Countesse growing into some mislike with her gave her forty shillings a bolster and an attresse and bade her lie at home and come no more to dwell at the Castle which she not onely tooke in ill-part but grudged at it exceedingly swearing in her heart to be revenged After this her mother complained to the Earle against one Peake who had offred her some wrong wherein shee conceived that the Earle tooke not her part as she expected which dislike with the rest exasperated her displeasure against him and so she watched an opportunity to bee revenged whereupon shee tooke wooll out of the said mattresse and a