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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A61990	The Surey demoniack, or, An account of Satans strange and dreadful actings, in and about the body of Richard Dugdale of Surey, near Whalley in Lancashire and how he was dispossest by Gods blessing on the fastings and prayers of divers ministers and people ...	Jollie, Thomas, 1629-1703.	1697 (1697)	Wing S6196; ESTC R33823	69,276	74

him with a great noise and saith How now Calling him Grimshaw 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 Shooes and Stockings and sometines as heavy as a Man could lift The Information aforesaid were taken at the the time and place aforementioned before us Willoughby And Lastly We the said Justices of the Peace do Certifie 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 Deponant 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 Gardiner before Thomas Braddill Esq and Ralph Egerton Esq Two of His Majesties Justices of Peace for the said County at Darwen 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 sate 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 Declareth 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 beat 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 Informants Fingers were no sooner closed but they opened again John Smalley of Harwood in the County of Lancaster Cooper Declareth 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 Barn but on his coming out of his Fit his Head and part of his Body hath been lifted up by this Informants Daughter a Child then of Seven Years old The Informations aforesaid were taken at the the time and place aforementioned 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 elsewhere if desired thereunto as they voluntarily offer'd and delar'd unto 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 Cat and it slipt thro' 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 though 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 as if all had been broken yet in the Morning nothing stirr'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 Knife 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 Vomit an Hair Button and a certain Ring which I saw him do within an Hour I have seen as John Darwin before testified Richard Dugdale for a quarter of an Hour together Dance upon his Knees with as much Activity as any one on their Feet John Fletcher John Hindle saith These strange things I have heard Richard Dugdale do and say I was by when he told that he should Vomit an Hair Button and Curtain Ring which I saw him do within an Hour Likewise I have lifted at him when I could not lift as much as his Head for my life at other times I have lifted at him and could have lifted him as if he had been but a Child I was present when Richard Dugdale was in a Fit about Eight a Clock in the Night and I prickt a Pin into his Foot and he neither stirred nor complained at all I was present at all which William Loond swears to in the first part of his Oath John Hindle Thomas Core saith I have seen several times the Lump on his Breast or Belly as big as a Mans Fist and have heard

confest that he gave the Patient Physick at once enough for Six Men which weakned Richard Dugdale so much that he had strength little enough left to carry him cross the House yet in his Fits Seven strong Men could not hold him The Second Reason was the great Charges we were at for it cost us more than Three Pound Ten Shillings in little time more than Three Weeks which was insupportable considering our indigency and no incouraging signes of help but the Doctors words to his Neighbours were at first that if the Father would bring Money enough he would Cure Richard Dugdale yet said another time if the Spirit in Richard Dugdale was a Water Spirit there was no Cure for it Some time after we consulted Mr. Jolly who with others in the Ministry upon our request were much concerned for Richard Dugdale praying for him near Twelve Months In which time he had many strange Fits sometimes Vomited Stones a Curtain Ring a large Hair-Button in Fits would be lighter than so many Feathers In the beginning of several Fits would gape and catch with his Mouth as a Dog at Flies Ten or Eleven times together in the end open'd his Mouth so oft when we thought Spirits might come into him and in the end leave him In many of his last Fits he told People he might be killed or cured before the 25th of March which prov'd true for on the 24th coming from his work on Hinfield side his last Fit seiz'd him when he came home he was in the Fit his Face black as a Coal upon this he sell down lay a while then recover'd out of his last Fit after this Richard Dugdale had no Fit tho' once when he had got too much Drink he was after another manner than drunken Persons usually are Thomas Dugdale Anne Dugdale Mary Dugdale Alice Dugdale Altham August the 4th 1695. Nathaniel VVaddington further testifieth First That he had seen Richard Dugdale gallop round the Barn several times together and heard him whining very like a Horse and make a noise as if an Horse had been eating Provender Secondly That he told things in his Fit that neither he nor any could by lawful art As one time he the said Nathaniel VVaddington and his Neighbour Joseph Hargreaves going to Surey to see Richard Dugdale they called at the House of a Neighbour of theirs to desire the Master to go with them but a Relations averseness prevented him Richard Dugdale was in a Fit at the same time and spoke it before a great number of People that Nathaniel VVaddington and Joseph Hargreaves were coming that they called on such a one whom he named and told further how that good Man's Wise hinder'd him the latter part viz. the discovery they met with from several which were with Richard Dugdale in the Barn being sure that things were so circumstanced that Richard Dugdale could have no intelligence And further Richard Dugdale's Relation was so particular that it could not be an uncertain guess Further That a certain Person going to see Richard Dugdale took some Bisket and a piece or pieces of Gold on purpose as the Person said to try whether Richard Dugdale could discover it Soon after the Party came to the Surey the Relator saw the Person standing upon a Seat to take a fuller view of Richard Dugdale in his fit Richard Dugdale immediately treated her so very rudely discover'd the Bisket and said I will play at Cards with thee for those Guineaus in thy Pocket c. These words the Relator heard Richard Dugdale speak in his fit further that John Fielding Joyner related in the hearing of the said Nicholas VVaddington and others that he the said John Fielding was working at his Calling above Thirty Miles distant from the Surey and that Richard Dugdale in one of his fits said John Feilding is this day at such a place working and further named the piece of work which he had in hand at that time The said John Fielding coming over to see his Relations several Persons who had heard Richard Dugdale speak those words and relate such strange Circumstances came to the said John Fielding to know whether it were true this he acknowledged being much surpriz'd at their Relation Thirdly That he asked this Richard Dugdale when he came out of his fits whether he could give account of any thing that past in the fit this Richard Dugdale denied only once related a strange passage that in his Fit he thought he had distinct sight of a Person and told the posture he thought he saw him in and the place where many Miles from the place where Richard Dugdale had his Fit which things concerning that Person were found true upon enquiry Nathaniel Waddington further Testifies That Richard Dugdale in his Fits would sometimes pretend that a good Spirit was in him and that Richard Dugdale then would in a long Discourse speak against several Sins viz. Drinking Gaming c. Bringing several pat Scriptures naming Book Chapter Verse either whole or part so much as was pertinent Mr. John Grimshaw examin'd the places and found them true and that Richard Dugdale in his Discourse would use many pretty Similitudes Joseph Hargreaves Neighbour to Nathanial Waddington Testifies That coming to the Surey and finding the Boy laid on the Barn floor he the said John Hargreaves lifted Richard Dugdale from the Ground more than once and thinks speaking to the full that Richard Dugdale did not weigh above a Stone and a half further that six strong Men could not hold him in a Fit but that he hath drawn them all a great way and been forced from amongst them hanging upon him at a Table a Yard high that he saw the Lump upon his Leg about the bigness of a Turkey Egg rise towards his Body and that he and others have endeavoured to stop it by girding a Boot garter above it under the Knee and by grasping that part with their Hands yet could not prevent its rising into the Chest of his Body that this to his thinking crept up his Leg like a Rat sometimes in motion at times would be at a 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 Willoughby and Ralph Eagerton 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 Whalley 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 Angler Nicholas Haywood Samuel Eaton Nathanial Scholes I Do hereby Testifie as many more will if there 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 Diablolical Possession or Obscession I do also Testifie that he is now fully deliver'd from that 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 Faithfulnes and Diligence for a considerable time together Witness my Hand this 10th of June 1695. At Holy in Yorkshire Robert Whitaker Medicus July the 10th 1695. I Richard Dugdale Son of Thomas Dugdale of Surey near Whalley in Lancashire Gardiner do Certifie all to whom this may come That my former strange Fits were not any Cheat or Art of Man that I do know of but as I do verily believe were caused by the Devil from whom and from my terrible Fits my Body was cleared through the Ministers Fasting and Prayer at or about Lady-day 1690. After which I never had any more such Fits for the which I never can return sufficient thanks to the Lord or them Witness my Hand the Day and Year abovesaid In presence of us James Gregson Thomas Jolly Richard Dugdale WE whose Names are Subscribed were present at many of the within 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 doubting but that the said Dugdale's Affliction was through Possession or Obscession by Combination or by some secret Judgment of God for which he was delivered as we are fully perswaded by the Gospel means within mentioned William Cross John Duerden Lau. Walmisley John Baxon John Bayley Christopher Duckworth Leonard Bayley John Marsh James Whitaker William Waddington George Cockshout Samuel Hey Charles Riley James Hindle Nehemiah Hindle Richard Jackson William Barton Christ. Tattersill Richard Sudon Nich. Grimshaw FINIS

therein One going by the Surey towards the said Meeting was told by the Demoniack in a Fit What need'st thou go to the said Meeting thou may'st as well stay here for I can tell thee the Sermon that will be preached there upon which he told the Text and much of the Sermon that was that day Preach'd at the said Meeting and sometimes he said off Book some Chapters of the Bible which he had never learnt to say off Book On Feb. the 6th Was a Fast-day for him at the Surey No considerable Fit fell on him nor had done for many days before tho' in his last and other Fits he often told of things done at a distance at the very same time whilst those things were a doing as for instance A Woman being afraid to go to the Barn tho' she was come within a Bows shoot of it was immediately sent for by the Demoniack that said Unless that weak fa●thed Jade come my Fit will last longer some said Let us send for Mr. J. G. to the Surey the Demoniack answer'd He is now upon the Hay-cart as after was found true tho' he was not us'd to the Hay and remote from the Sury On Feb. the 20th Was a Fast-day for him at the Surey the Ministers met with many great Discouragements Richard's Father bewraying much disingenuity and his Land-lord S. E. A. disapproving the continuance of such Meetings at the Surey because of the harm done to his Headges by such a confluence of People but Richard's Deportment was more incouraging his Acknowledgment and Confessions being very plain open and free as formerly when 2 Cor. 11.3 was insisted on On March the 24th 1689 90 Was another Fast-day for him which was turned unto them from sorrow unto joy and from mourning into a good day Esth 9.22 into the long lookt for much sought for day which some had deridedly said was not to be hoped for whereon was appointed and given unto them comfort for dark Tryals Beauty for Ashes the Oyl of Joy for Mourning and Garments of Praise for the Spirit of heaviness Isa 6.2 3. whereon Richard had a most terrible Fit wherein Satan cry'd out Now Dicky I must leave thee and must afflict thee no more as I have done I have troubled thee thus long by Obscessions and also by a Combination that never shall be discover'd as long as the World indures Upon which Richard's Body was tost and tortur'd as if something was a tearing it a pieces and it was strain'd and stretcht as if it were a vomiting wherein nothing visibly appear'd to come out of him and yet Satan or whatsoever had troubled him before did therein evidently come from or out of him Richard after that time having no more such troubles and workings as heretofore as he some days after did tell Mr. Jolly declaring that he hoped he was then delivered and owning that he got this deliverance by Spiritual Means the use whereof however he desir'd might be continu'd for him which accordingly was for some time after being the Ministers did not know but that Richard might relapse into his old condition especially for that Richard some Weeks after was again in Drink wherein he had some threatnings of his old Fits returning upon him for which Richard was extreamly grieved especially upon Mr. Jolly's putting him in remembrance of the advantage Satan got over him by a Drunken-bout at first and of his last states being worse than the first should his Sins give admission to Satan's entring him again Mat. 12.45 Besides he was advised to purge away the evil humors which his Body might have contracted which have often prov'd and so are styl'd Vehiculum Diaboli the Receptacle of Satan accordingly he took Physick from the said Doctor whom he had in vain made use of at the first and ever since his abovesaid deliverance he has been Perfectly free from all the abovesaid Fits and being healthful and sound as ever he soon after Married and follow'd his Calling of Gardening Mowing c. as well as formerly and has on several occasions since his said deliverance exprest the tendrest respects and thanfulness to the said Ministers as the Instruments which the Lord made use of for his above-said help As to instance Mr. Carrington about half a Year after riding on the Road had his Leg suddenly laid hold on by one leaping over a Thorn-hedg whom he found to be Richard overjoy'd and as surpriz'd with an unspeakable gladness at the sight of him who hereupon could not forbear crying out To th' Son we 'll give praise whilst we live To th' Spirit when we die To th' Father when we rise agen To God eternally 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 Willoughby and Ralph Egarton 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 this Answer that if there was Money enough he could effect the Cure whereupon this Deponant 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 Deponant 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 Deponant and others standing by him apprehended it very was painful to him And further this Deponant 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 Deponant looking upon him there was a great Stone laid upon his Belly weighing about Twelve or Thirteen Pounds this Deponant 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 Deponant could never discover the hand which threw them nor any Person imploy'd therein altho' this Deponents Wife was hit with one of them but without any hurt At other times the said Richard Dugdale would cast Goose-dung at this Deponant and others standing by which he seem'd to fetch out of the Barn side altho' neither this Deponant 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