Richard Dugdale dancing on his Feet three Yards from the Wall of the Barn was as soon as one could turn himself set strainght upon his Head and was as stiff as a Tree John Grimshaw of Clayton in the County of Lancaster Woolen-weaver Informs that the said Richard Dugdale being in a Fit he said Nicholas Art thou there What peepest thou for Come up Then said Seest thou where thy Mother sits Then something came to his Shoulder and several parts of his Body the said Richard Dugdale seemed to be much affrighted with it And further informs that he coming to the Surey one Night he the said Richard Dugdale told Mr. John Grimshaw that he the said Informant Grimshaw was coming before he came And this Informant leaving his Horse at a considerable distance from the place where the said Richard Dugdale was and going into the place where the said Richard Dugdale meets him with a great noise and saith How now Calling him Grimshaew adding Art thou there with all thy Knives this Informant having at that time three or four Knives about him telling this Informant that he could not go on Foot And this Informant further saith that when the said Richard Dugdale was in his Trances as they called them and lying upon the Ground he was sometimes as light to this Informants thinking as his Shoes and Stockings and sometimes as heavy as a Man could lift The Informations aforesaid were taken at the Time and Place aforementioned before us Willoughby Ralph Egerton And Lastly We the said Justices of the Peace do Certify that the said Thomas Dugdale Father of the said Richard Dugdale did make Oath before us that he knew not of any Design or Combination betwixt his said Son and any other Person which might occasion the aforesaid strange Fits and Disturbances Nor that he the Deponent was any way privy thereunto nor knoweth he of any Cheating or Deceiving Practices for Gain or any such End Purpose or Design Whatsoever Willoughby Ralph Egerton The Informations of several Persons who voluntarily offered themselves concerning Richard Dugdale of Whalley in the County of Lancaster Gard'ner before Thomas Braddill Esq and Ralph Egerton Esq Two of his Majesties Justices of the Peace for the said County at Darwin in the said County on the Twentieth Day of July 1695. JOhn Fletcher of Harwood in the County of Lancaster Husbandman declares that he hath seen the said Richard Dugdale in many of his Fits wherein he hath barked like a Mastiff-Dog being then as strong as ten Men. For this Informant hath been one of the ten that hath undertaken to hold him Also that this Informant one time found him in the River of Calder up to the Neck in Water crying out and saying Wil'st thou drown me Wil'st thou drown me striking at the same time upon the Water with two Sticks Whereupon this Informant with the help of others by a Rope drew him out of the Water The said Dugdale being then in a dumb Fit which began in the Water and continued near four Hours afterwards And farther this Informant saith he found in the Barn where the said Dugdale lay a round hole in the Hay like a Hens-Nest wherein were seven Stones laid together And this Informant hath taken up several Stones cast by the said Dugdale which were warm and hath seen the said Dugdale running upon his Hands and Feet barking and howling And the said Dugdale being sat down he hath seen him several times thrown five or six Yards from the place And being to help this Informant to cleave a piece of Wood the said Dugdale upon his first stroke had his Ax flew one way and himself cast about twelve Yards from the place John Whitehead of Bank hey in the County of Lancaster Labourer declaceth that being with the said Dugdale at the Surey in one of his Fits he found him lying upon the Barn-floor like a dead Man at which time Mr. Ainsworth the Apothecary and another Apothecary from Manchester coming in both of them felt the said Dugdale's Pulses which did not bâ—at and then they laid their Faces to his Mouth to try if he breathed but could not perceive it And further this Informant saith that at Mr. Jolly's House the Informant endeavouring to hold the said Dugdale in his Fit by the Wrist of his Arm could by no means do it for this Informant's Fingers were no sooner closed but they opened again John Smalley of Harwood in the Country of Lancaster Cooper declâ—reth that he hath seen the said Richard Dugdale in twenty or thirty of his Fits sometimes lying on the Floor for the space of four Hours very stiff and heavy insomuch that this Informant with three more have carried him out of the Baâ—n but on his coming out on his Fit his Head and part of his Body hath been lifted up by this Inâ—ormants Daughter a Child then of seven Years old The Informations aforesaid were taken at the time and place aferementioned before the said Mr. Braddill and me the said Ralph Egerton The Informations of divers credible Persons which were and are ready to give in upon Oath before the said Justices of the Peace or others at the places aforesaid or else where if desired thereunto as they voluntarily offer'd and declar'd unto Mr. Tho. Jolly and others of sufficient Credit and Cautiousness JOhn Fletcher further saith I was one Night in Bed with Richard Dugdale and I felt something come up toward my Knees then I felt it creep up till it came towards my Heart then I got hold of it and it was about the bigness of a little Dog or Car and it slipt through my Hands as if it had been a Snig and when we were in Bed very often there have been something in Bed knattering as tho there had been Mice or Rats and we searcht the Bed it was not harmed and things to our thinking have fallen in the House a if all had been broken yet in the Morning nothing stir'd and one Sabbath-day in his Fit there was a Knife length-way in his Mouth none knowing how it came there where it was held so very fast that I with much ado pulled it out and askt the Company whether any one of them wanted a Knise they all said no till one Jeremy Webster that was newly come in said I had one when I came in and I think he cannot have got it out of my Pocket but he finding nothing but a Sheath in his Pocket claim'd the Knife and it was certainly his John Fletcher further saith that when the said Richard Dugdale was in a Fit about five a Clock in the Night John Hindle prickt a large Pin in his Feet and he neither stirred nor complained at all Besides in one of his Fits I heard him tell that he must vomir an Hair-Button and a Curtain Ring which I saw him do within an Hour I have seen as John Darwin before restified Richard Dugdale for a quarter of an Hour together dance upon
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 Tattersiâ—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 Ninâ—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
stir either his Body or a Joint oâ— his Arm or Fingers And when it was reported that Mr. Braddill would send him to the House of Correction I have seen R. D. in a Fit scorn towards him by calling John John come you must make a Mittimus I will send him away Mr. B's Merk or words to this purpose then he would have cast up his Shoulder like Mr. Edleston and made as tho' he would have written with his Finger in the Ball of his Hand with scornful Laughters I have seen him in his Fits at Mr. Walmsly's Mr. Cronbock's and Mr. Braddili's so that any of them might have seen him for coming forth They at Surey have come for us to our house to assist them and we have gone and Robert Turner along with us and taken Ropes and tied them about R. D's Middle Robert Turner hath gone to the Hedg to get a Stake to beat him with but R. D. hath so made to him that he hath broken or shpt the Rope so that we have been forced to lay hold of him And Robert Truner hath been satisfied that contending with him would do no good besides I have seen D. make towards Robert Turner when in a Fit and offer to pull the Skale-boos down to come to him and that Robert Turner hath gone back lest he should have gotten hold of him and I never could perceive that R. Dugdale either regarded Persons or Place where ever he was I have seen him likewise have his Arms about his Neck and they have been so fast that no one could pull them asunder till opened of themselves I likewise once came behind him when he was dancing and pick'd him off the place where he was and he turned at me again and his Father offered to help me but he threw him down as fast as he could rise and R. D. then got hold of my hair and there were 5 or 6 young Men present which did there endeavour to help me but they all could not so much as open a Finger of D's Hand but he held me there till his Fingers open'd of themselves I likewise put up my hand to open his Fingers but found that I could do no good to my thinking I might as well have offered to have broken a Bar of Iron I verily think that it was no Cheat of Dugdale As to hearing his Voice I told Mr. Braddill it was betwixt the Surey and Mill-Lane-Head which he and Mr. Barlow took to be a Mile and an half but I have enquired of Neighbours since and we concluded it to be two Miles Besides Surey stands in a bottom and I do be lieve any unbias'd Man cannot but think that one might have heard him four Miles another way as well as that two For Surey stands close to a lough River which makes a great noise Besides Woods and all against the Hand As to the Leather-Bottle Mr. T. charges me with I utterly deny it For I never carried Leather-Bottle Wooden Bottle Stone or Glase-Bottle or any other Bottle or Vessel to the Surey either before that time or at that time or since my Father Mother Brother Sisters when called will be ready to restify this As to Dugdale's School-Tricks I learned when he did I believe three or four Years and I never saw or heard such things as Edward Slaytor doth relate John Walmsly This is fruther added to the former Confession taken before us the 16th day of September 1697 at the House of Richard Sharples in Blockburn Memorandum That some Passagesin Walmsly's Information are thought meet to be waved having resletion on some and not to be made use of unless there be special occasion them Willoughby Will. Hulme John Livesay of Clayton confirms what he had before testified and further testifies that Richard Dugdale was seemingly dead or in a Trance when he heard singing of Psalms as from the said Dugdale's Breast exactly Tunable and in Confort to the singing of Psalms in the Meeting-house before the Door whereof he lay as dead He also says he heard the Voice of Richard Dugdale a Mile and a halt distance from the Surey exactly such as it was used to be when he was with him He says also that at Wiswai-Eves near Mr. Walmsly's he saw him in an Outrageous Fit before several Gentlefolks not leaving his Fit for fear of them and saying to their Maid Nusom eive me the Pipe out of thy Pocket and she chanced to have one John Livesay Dr. Whittaker testifies that it was proposed unto him to undertake the Cure of Richard Dugdale by physical Means which he deelined For that he concluded it to be more than a Natural Distemper Robert Whittaker John Fletcher of Harwood testifies That he knows nothing of any Papers that were Lid in any place for Richard Dugdale to take when he was frisking about as Mr. T. suggests Nor did he konw that Richard ever took any Stones from any place in his said Friskings And he says that he believes there was no trick of Legerdemain about Webster's Knife as appeared from his and John Merecer's best Observations And he says that he saw a large Pin pricked not into the Lump on his Body but directly into his Heel not a slope but directly downward into the Flesh towards his Toes And he says he hnows nothing of any bodies teaching him to call Richard's Fit a dumb Fit And he consirms the Information he formerly gave to be true John Fletcher Edmund Haworth of Rushton confirms the Information he formerly gave concerning Richard Dugdale to be true and particularly that about Robert Turner Edmund Haworth The Confession of John Flelding of Harwood a Conformist taken before the Right Honourable Hugh Lord Willoughby and Wlliam Hulme Esq two of His Majesty's Juslices of the Peace and Quorum taken at the House of Richord Sharples in Blackbuin the 16th day of Sepember 1697. IMprimis John Fielding consesses and save That being impowered by his Lease to cut down Wood for House-Boot Plough-Boot Cart-Boot and Bedg-Boot did however ask leave of his Landlord to out down five Trees for reqairing his Flouse which were by his Landlord's orders marked out by one Edmand Ruyley all growing on his own Tenement one of which being a handful too short he cut it not down but onetaler tho' worse in it's stead which Wood not sussiceing for the said House-repair he hought mere to make it out notwithstanding which the Landlord sued him about the said Trees Whereupon he by the advice of his Neigbours and Friends rendred to his Landlord five Pounds in hopes of having it all returned him back but his Landlord kept it all and afterwards struck him He likewise says having lived for many Years in Liacolnshire where he was Nick-named Lancashire Fielding which is Threeseere Miles distont from the Surey yet coming to Surey to see the Demoniack he in a Fit cried there comes Lancashire Fielding He also says That the Certificate shewed before us about his being no reputed
See Dr. Stillingst his opinions as to this in his Origin Sacr. pag. 263. as appears by Mat. 17.15 Luk. 9.39 compared The Devil taking advantage by his Lunacy to get Possession of him as we call Melancholy Vehiculum Diaboli In this case there was not so much as Melancholy Lunacy nor any such bodily Malady as we suppose to be the Evil Spirit 's Vehicle into D's Body that Physical Means should carry it out he being of an healthful Constitution before these Fits begun with him Corporeal things have no direct Physical Influence on Infernal Spirits as Mr. observes Even in case of immediate Dispossessions by our Blessed Saviour they imputed them unto wrong Causes Let not us run into the same Error If the Malady was complicated viz in part Supernatural and in part Natural that being causal of this and this being conseqential of that Then both sorts of Means must be acknowledged in their several places Yet must Spiritual Means have the Precedency as having most of God in them tho Physical Means are not to be neglected or despised So in those Cases Job 33.14 to 31. Jam. 5.14 15 16. It 's evident that the young Man was something disordered in his Body by his strange Fits It 's a wonder that his Body was no more distempered He needed Physical Medicines to open and ease his Body being advised thereto he made use of Mr. Chew whom he had formerly without success applied himself unto His Medicines were now used and blessed to the said purposes We dare not slight the Bodily Mercy nor the Physical Means but would own each in their place giving all the Glory to God whoever were the Instruments whatever were the Means What a disturbance and distraction would it have been to all about him if he had not been delivered After all this we are too tim'rous acknowledging this signal answer of Prayers and too backward in solemn Thanksgiving for such a deliverance Insomuch as it is also a Reformation of the young Man in several things O that we could say in every thing Yet is he now more devout in his way and of the more sober sort among his Neighbours as they themselves confess As to some others alas They will not believe tho they see so many Signs and Wonders in this Age of Wonders It 's well if it happen not to them that as Despisers they wonder and perish the Lord working a work in their Day a work which they shall in no wise believe tho a Man declare it unto them If they be a little affected yet they sit down in more security either in their Sensuality or Formality Tho others regard not the Works of the Lord nor consider the Operations of his Hands Yet the Wise shall understand his works and walk in his ways Not being scandalized at others ridiculing this seeing Men dare to deal so now a-days with the great Truths and Things of God We must conclude not only with the sincere Acknowledgment of our own Weaknesses and Failings for which we beg Pardon but also with this solemn Recognition of the Lord's Assistance upon this occasion Yea also this his answering of Prayers in the perfect Recovery of this D. as to his outward Man and in part at least as to the Reformation of his Conversation which Publick Testimony of our thankfulness to God for this signal Publick Mercy and the Praise to his Name alone for it we hope he will graciously accept in Christ notwithstanding our slack and slender Returns to him That the Lord will further appear in pleading this Cause so far as it is his own to the vindicateing and glorifying of his Name however Yea that he will further bless his Word and Works to the special spiritual advantage of many is the earnest desire as well as design of Thomas Jolly The Testimony and Information upon Oath of several Persons who voluntarily offered themselves concerning Richard Dugdale of Whalley in the County of Lancaster Gardener taken before Hugh Lord Wiloughby and Ralph Egerton Esq Two of His Majesties Justices of the Peace for the County of Lancaster at Holcomb in the said County the Nine and Twentieth day of July 1695. THomas Dugdale Father of the said Richard Dugdale maketh Oath that he consulted one Crabtree in behalf of his said Son then under a strange Distemper and had his Answer that if there was Money enough he could effect the Cure whereupon this Deponent seeing his Sons Body much weakned with the said Crabtree's Physick and his Fits more violent did apply himself to Mr. Jolly a Neighbouring Minister and others of his Brethren in the Ministry And this Deponent saith he hath seen his Son vomit up Stones several times and other things Once he declared he must either vomit Gold Silver or Brass Rings and an Hair Button and accordingly he did so At other times he vomited great Stones also blew Stones like Flints One time he vomited a Stone as was an Inch and an half long and an Inch and an half broad having Blood upon the edges which this Deponent and others standing by him apprehended it was very painful to him And further this Deponent maketh Oath that one day a little before Night walking by his said Son then in a Fit it growing dark a Candle being brought in the Deponent looking upon him there was a great Stone laid upon his Belly weighing about Twelve or Thirteen Pounds this Deponent not knowing how it came there nor was there any such like Stones about the House Besides Stones have been thrown at the Barn side falling very thick upon the Door yet this Deponent could never discover the hand which threw them nor any Person imploy'd therein altho this Deponent's Wife was hit with one of them but without any Rurt At other times the said Richard Dugdale would cast Goose-dung at this Deponent and others standing by which he seem'd to fetch out of the Barn side altho neither this Deponent nor those that were with him could find any there nor discover any one that brought it nor were there any Geese kept at the House nor other Geese came near it And Lastly This Deponent saith that his said Son would run upon his Hands and his Feet together as fast as most Men could run upon their Feet alone and his Body would sometimes be so heavy that two or three strong Men could hardly lift it up at other times as light as a Bag of Feathers John Walmsly of Harwood in the said County of Lancaster Sadler Deposeth That he hath seen the said Richard Dugdale in a Fit held in a Chair by six Men. And whilst his Feet were off the ground he hath leaped up in the Chair for two or three Hours together as fast as a Man can ordinarily count any thing and hath so sweated through his Cloaths that it hath stood like a Dew upon them Moreover this Deponent hath taken the said Richard Dugdale by his Shoe betwixt this Deponents formost Finger and his
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 Harwoâ—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 theâ—â—lâ—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