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peace_n	county_n	justice_n	session_n	5,221	5	10.3826	5	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A26888	The certainty of the worlds of spirits and, consequently, of the immortality of souls of the malice and misery of the devils and the damned : and of the blessedness of the justified, fully evinced by the unquestionable histories of apparitions, operations, witchcrafts, voices &c. / written, as an addition to many other treatises for the conviction of Sadduces and infidels, by Richard Baxter.	Baxter, Richard, 1615-1691.	1691 (1691)	Wing B1214; ESTC R13061	111,630	274

Floor at some distance from the Bed by the side of a Table the Bed-Cloaths and his own Wearing Cloaths all upon him just in the same manner as he laid them when going to Bed having nothing at all under him by which he got an extream Cold and besides his Leg and Arm next the Table were sorely bruised Being awake he began to think where he was but soon recollected himself and by the Light of the Moon which then shone very bright he discerned the Bed and putting on the Cloaths upon the Bed laid him down again and slept the remaining part of the Night very quietly Soon after his being in Bed this second time the Town-Clock struck Twelve He never was out of his Bed in his Sleep before or since and soon after he came to understand that the Chamber was reputed to be haunted Mr. Charles Hatt's Letter concerning an House being haunted at Kinton in Worcestershire in the Year 1667. Worthy Sir ACcording to your Desire and my Promise when I was with you about a Fortnight since with Mrs. Wilson concerning a Man's House in Kinton six Miles from Worcester being sorely troubled about the latter end of the Year 1667. to the best of my Remembrance viz. I living at Benington near Auster in Warwickshire Workmen come from Kinton acquainted me of an House sorely haunted naming the Person to me which I have now forgot I being desirous to see or hear such things went to the said House but finding only a Maid there a spinning I asked for her Master She told me the Spirit to the best of my remembrance she called it so had boxed him about the Ears as he sate by the Fire● 〈◊〉 against her upon which he cried out and went away to a Son 's of his in the 〈◊〉 Town a little before I came I 〈◊〉 to the said Man desired him to come home He seemed unwilling telling me how he was abused by it and that in the Night it would often pull him out of the Bed and did so torment him that he was a weary of his Life But getting him home he sate him down about the same place near the Fire and I sate over against him discoursing how he was troubled He told me several had been with him as the Minister of the place to my best remembrance They bid him pray pray But he found no Relief I told him I knew no other way than by seeking to the Lord and not to speak slightly of Prayer He told me I might hear it before I went I had not been long but there was a great Noise in the said Room of Groaning or rather Gruntling like a Hog and then gave a lowd Shriek Here it is saith the Man I was much concerned upon the hearing of it so recalling my self I desired to go to Prayer in the next Room where the Man used to lie By this time many of the Towns-People came in and were at Duty About the middle of Duty the aforesaid Noise came as I thought lowder and just by me however I then was not concerned Afterward having some Discourse with the Man about a Month after I heard from him that it did no more trouble him nor to his Death He lived as I remember two Years after This is the best and truest Account I can give I rest SIR Your Christian Friend to command Charles Hatt's Gingraff May 16. 1691. POSTSCRIPT SIR I Spake to my Lady Rich concerning a Voice that Mr. Tiro heard acquainting him of his Death If you remember I told you of him and you desired an Account of it He was a Nonconformist Minister of Vnger in Essex My Lady will send you the Account of it This Mr. Tiro had an extraordinary Love for you Vale C.H. CHAP. III. MR. Iohn Humphreys brought Mr. May Hill to me with a Bag of Irons Nails and Brass vomited by the Girl I keep some of them to shew Nails about three or four inches long doubled crooked at the end and pieces of old Brass doubled about an Inch broad and two or three Inches long with crooked edges I desired him to give me the Case in Writing which he hath done as followeth Any one that is incredulous may now at Beckington receive Satisfaction from him and from the Maid her self In the Town of Beckington by Froome in Somerset-Shire liveth Mary Hill a Maid of about Eighteen years of Age who having lived very much in the Neglect of her Duty to God was some time before Michaelmas last past was Twelve-Month taken very ill and being seized with violent Fits began to Vomit up about two hundred crooked Pins This so Stupendous an Accident drew a numerous Concourse of People to see her To whom when in her Fits she did constantly affirm that she saw against the Wall of the Room Wherein she lay an old Woman named Elizabeth Carrier who thereupon being Apprehended by a Warrant from a Justice of Peace and Convicted by the Oaths of two Persons was committed to the County Goal About a Fortnight after she began to Vomit up Nails Pieces of Nails Pieces of Brass Handles of Spoons and so continued to do for the space of six Months and upwards And in her fits she said there did appear to her an old Woman Named Margery Coombes and one Ann More who also by a Warrant from two Justices of the Peace were Apprehended and brought to the Sessions held at Brewton for the County and by the Bench committed to the County Goal The former of these dyed as soon as she came into Prison the other two were Tryed at Taunton Assizes by my Lord Chief Justice Holt and for want of Evidence were acquitted by the Jury The Persons bound over to give Evidence were Susanna Belton and Ann Holland who upon their Oaths Deposited that they hookt out of the Navel of the said Mary Hill as she lay in a dead fit crooked Pins small Nails and small pieces of Brass which were produced in Court before the Judge and from him handed to the Jury to look upon them Whereupon Mr. Francis Iesse and Mr. Christopher Brewer declared that they had seen the said Mary Hill to Vomit up at several times Crooked Pins Nails and Pieces of Brass which they also produced in open Court and to the end they might be ascertained it was no Imposture they declared they had searched her Mouth with their Fingers before she did Vomit Upon which the Court thought fit to call for me who am the Minister of the Parish to testifie the Knowledge of the matter which I did to this Effect that I had seen her at several times after having given her alittle small Beer Vomit up Crooked Pins Nails and Pieces of Brass That to prevent the Supposition of a Cheat I had caused her to be brought to a Window and having lookt into her Mouth I searcht it with my Finger as I did the Beer before she drank it This I did that I might not be wanting in Circumstantial