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A14696	The examination of John Walsh before Maister Thomas Williams, commissary to the Reuerend father in God William Bishop of Excester, vpon certayne interrogatories touchyng wytchcrafte and sorcerye, in the presence of diuers ge[n]tlemen and others. The .xxiii. of August. 1566.		1566 (1566)	STC 24999; ESTC S102100	5,129	18

❧ The Examination of Iohn Walsh before Maister Thomas Williams Commissary to the Reuerend father in God William bishop of Excester vpon certayne Interrogatories touchyng Wytchcrafte and Sorcerye in the presence of diuers gētlemen and others ¶ The. xx of August 1566. ¶ Imprynted at London by Iohn Awdely dwelling in litle Britain streete wythout Aldersgate 1566. The. xxiij of December ⸫ ¶ The Printer to the Christian Reader HEre hast thou gentle Reader the examination of Iohn Walsh of Netherbery in Dosetshiere touching Sorcerie and Witchcraft which he learned as hereafter is shewed of a certayne Priest named syr Robert of Dreiton Wherein thou mayest see the fruites of Papistes and papistrye and their yll exercises of their ydle lyues which hath bene no small hurt to all common weales For hereby not onely the simple people haue bene falsly seduced and superstitiously lead but all estates haue beene sore greeued and troubled by these their practises of Sorcery and Witchcraft It would be to tedious to shew but a few histories of their diuelish practises and to to horrible factes in murthers and other mischiefes which not onely the fat belly fed Moonkes flattering Friers and idle lusty Priestes practised and vsed but also the holy fathers them selues Popes Cardinals and Bishops were chiefly and wholye geuen to the studye and exercise of these most wicked and diuelish sciences and by these meanes did worke to come to the Papall seate hie dignities and great wealth Which was as the histories declare wyth the murthering and poysoning priuely one of anothrr As first Pope Alexander the sixt hauing societis with wicked Sprites and Diuels gaue hymselfe body and soule vnto them vpon condicion he might attaine to the Popes seate and dignity which they promised him and fulfilled but he enioyed it not long contrarie to his expectation For he being priuely conueyed into a chamber in a certain place called Mount Cauillus and ther questioning with his Demon how long hee shoulde raygne Pope was aunswered that he should raigne xi and. viij which this holy father vnderstood to be so many yeares but he was deceiued For after he had raigned Pope xi yeares and. viii monethes this Diuel would no lenger be without hys praye but strayght came to the Popes court deckt like a Courtier and at the Popes chamber doore dyd knock very loudlye saying that he must needes speake with his Fatherhood The doore being opened he came and spake with the Pope al others being bid to auoyde But they were so earnestlye talking together that many did rightly confect that they were at contention For the Pope stoutlye affirmed his time not to be expired For sayd he I had promised me xix yeares for xi and. viij is xix and of these xix yeares I haue raygned but. xi yeares and. viij monethes But this courtierlike Deuil replied and sayd that he mistooke his wordes for I sayd not sayde he xix yeares but I ment xi yeares and. viij monethes and therefore nowe thou must needes dye Whereat the Pope being abashed fall to entreating but all was in vayne For assoone as this Deuil was gon the soule of this Pope departed miserably from his body wyth horrible cryes fearefull groninges and deadly bewaylinges In this sort dyed this horrible Sorcerer as sayeth Hieronimus Marius in his worke intituled Eusebius Captiuus In which worke the history of this wicked Pope Alexander is very lyuely set foorth both as touching his wycked lyuing and horrible factes Whose terrible ende may be an example to all Sorcerers Cuniurers and Witches Like vnto hym was Pope Gregory the. vij otherwyse called Hellybrand Hildebrande I should say who was also a great Sorcerer and Nigromancer as Benno the Cardinal doth declare in his worke of this Gregories life Saying that he also had a Familiar sprite whereby he wrought manye mischiefes in the common weale of Rome as well for the satisfieng of his fleshly and beastlye lust as also for to encrease hys ryches and dignitie Platina also writeth the lyke of Pope Iohn 8. Pope Siluester Pope Bennet 8. with dyuers others which were better practised in those diuelish sciences then in godly diuinitie Much like to these was Pope Paul the third who as Sleidan declareth exercised sorcerye and Witchcraft and therby committed ij horrible murthers and poysoned his Moother and Neuew that he might enioye hys inheritaunce the sooner He poysoned also his own Sisters husband that he more freelyer might haue her at hys wycked commaundement Pope Clement the. 8. was also of this Fraternitis as in the Comentaries vpon the Articles of the Doctors of Paris is declared where hys style is thus set foorth that he was a Bastard Empoysoner Homicide Bawd Symoniacke Sodomite Periurer Whooremaister Nigromancer Church robber and a practiser of all kinde of wyckednes These with a great many moe of that abhominable sea of Rome wer thus occupied whose endes were most terrible as their lyues were most wicked And these faculties their inferiour sorte as Moonkes Friers and Priestes also vsed and would teach the same witchcraftes and Sorceries to such men and women as they had committed euyll wyth As of late was confessed of a woman which vsed Witchcraft and Sorcerye that she learned the same of a priest whose harlot she had bene many a yeare I exhort all men therfore to flee from them and these dyuelish practises as from Deuils incarnate least in following them with lyuing here pleasantly a litle while they be tormented with thē in hell perpetually Which God for hys Christes sake wythdraw and let now and euer Amen Finis ¶ The examination of Iohn Walsh of Dorsetshere touching Witchcraft and Sorcerie THe Tewsday being the. xx daye of August 1566. there was examined before maister Thomas Williams Cōmissary to the reuerend Father in God William Bishop of Excester one Iohn Walsh vpon certaiue Interrogatories touchyng Wytchcraft in the house of Mayster Thomas Sinkeler keeper of the Shiriffes warde in the presence of Iohn Butler and Robert Buller Gentlemen William Blachford aud Iohn Bordfield ¶ He being first demaunded of his habitacion he said that he dwelt in a parish called Netherberry in Dorsetshere Secondly beyng asked whether he were euer syr Robert Draitons man he said that he was retaining vnto him by the space of vii yeares Thirdly being demaunded whether he did practise any Phisicke or Surgery he sayde that he doth practise both for the Tisicke and the Agues and that he hath practised thys Phisicke by the space of these v. yeares sithens his maister syr Robert of Dreiton died Fourthly being demaunded of whom he learned his Phisicke and Surgery he aunswered that he learned it of hys maister syr Robert of Dreiton Fiftly being demaunded whether he doth it by Arte naturally or els by anye other secrete or priuy meanes He aunswered that hee vseth hys Phisicke or Surgerie by Arte naturallye practised by him as he sayth not by anye other yll or secrete meanes And yet he being demaūded whether he