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A60284	Satan's invisible world discovered, or, A choice collection of modern relations proving evidently against the saducees and atheists of this present age, that there are devils, spirits, witches, and apparitions, from authentick records, attestations of famous witnesses and undoubted verity : to all which is added, that marvellous history of Major Weir, and his sister : with two relations of apparitions at Edinburgh / by Georg Sinclar ...	Sinclair, George, d. 1696.	1685 (1685)	Wing S3858; ESTC R4971	118,890	288

for the space of four or five dayes there were no remarkable assaults as before The Minister hearing thereof shewed him the evil of such a course and assured him that if he repented not and called back his Children he might not expect that his trouble would end in a right way The Children that were nigh by being brought home no trouble followed till one of his Sons called Thomas that was farest off came home Then did the Devil begin a fresh for upon the Lords day following in the afternoon the House was set on Fire but by the help of some Neighbours going home from Sermon the Fire was put out and the house saved not much loss being done And Munday after being spent in Private prayer and fasting the house was again set on Fire upon the Tuesday about nine a clock in the morning yet by the speedy help of Neighbors it was saved litle skaith being done The Weaver being thus vexed and wearied both day and night went to the Minister of the Parish an Honest and Godly in andesiring him to let his Son Thomas abide with him for a time who condescended but withal assured him that he would find himself deceived and so it came to pass for notwithstanding that the Lad was without the Family yet were they that remained in it sore troubled both in the day time and night season so that they were forced to wake till Mid-night and sometimes all the night over during which time the persons within the Family suffered many losses as the cutting of their Cloaths the throwing of Piets the pulling down of Turff and Feal from the Roof and Walls of the house and the stealling of their Cloaths and the Pricking of their Flesh and Skin with Pins Some Ministers about having conveened at the place for a solemn Humiliation perswaded Gilbert Campbel to call back his Son Thomas Notwithstanding of whatsoever hazard might follow The Boy returning home affirmed that he heard a voice speak to him forbidding him to enter within the House or in any other place where his Fathers Calling was exercised Yet he entered but was sore abused till he was forced to return to the Ministers house again Vpon Munday the 12 of February the rest of the Family began to hear a voice speak to them but could not well know from whence it came Yet from Evening till Mid-night too much vain discourse was kept up with Satan and many idle and impertinent questions proposed without that due fear of God that should have been upon their Spirits under so rare and extraordinary a Trial. They came that length in familiar discourse with the Foul-Thief that they were no more afrayed to keep up the Clash with him than to speak to one another In this they pleased him well for he desired no better than to have Sacrifices offered to him The Minister hearing of this went to the house upon the Tuesday being accompanied with some Gentlemen one James Bailie of Carphin Alexander Bailie of Dunraged Mr. Robert Hay and a Gentlewoman called Mistris Douglas whom the Ministers Wife did accompanie At their first in-coming the Devil says Quum Literarum is good Latine These are the first words of the Latine Rudiments which Schollars are taught when they go to the Grammar School He crys again a Dog The Minister thinking that he had spoken it to him said he took it not ill to be reviled by Satan since his Master had troden that path before him Answered Satan it was not you Sir I spoke it to I meant by the Dog there for there was a Dog standing behind backs This passing they all went to Prayer which being ended they heard a voice speaking out of the ground from under a Bed in the proper Countrey Dialect which he did counterfeit exactly saying Would you know the Witches of Glenluce I will tell you them and so related four or five Persons nam●s that went under a bad report The Weaver informed the Company that one of them was dead long ago The Devil answered and said It is true she is dead long ago but her Spirit is living with us in the World The Minister replied saying though it was not convenient to speak to such an excommunicat and intercommuned person the Lord rebuke thee Satan and put thee to silence we are not to receive Information from thee whatsoever fame any person goes under Thou art seeking but to seduce this Family for Satans kingdom is not divided against it self After which all went to Prayer again which being ended for during the time of Prayer no noise or trouble was made except once that a loud fearful youel was heard at a distance The Devil with many threatnings boasted and terrified the Lad Tom who had come back that day with the Minister that if he did not depart out of the house he would set all on fire The Minister answered and said the Lord will preserve the house and the Lad too seeing he is one of the Family and hath GODS Warrant to tarry in it The Fiend answered he shall not get liberty to tarry he was once put out already and shal not abide here though I should pursue him to the end of the world The Minister replyed the Lord will stop thy malice against him And then they all went to prayer again which being ended the Devil said give me a Spade and a Shovel and depart from the house for seven days and I will make a Grave and ly down in it and shall trouble you no more The good man answered not so much as a Straw shal be given thee through Gods assistance even though that would do it The Minister also added God shal remove thee in due time The Spirit answered I will not remove for you I have my Commission from Christ to tarry and vex this Family The Minister answered a Permission thou hast indeed but God will stop it in due time The Devil replied I have Sir a Commission which perhaps will last longer than your own The Minister dyed in the year 1655 in December The Devil had told them that he had given his commission to Tom to keep The Company enquired at the Lad who said there was something put into his pocket but it did not tarry After this the Minister and the Gentlemen arose and went to the place whence the voice seemed to come to try if they could see or find any thing After diligent search nothing being found the Gentlemen began to say We think this voice speaks out of the Children for some of them were in their beds The Foul Spirit answered you lie GOD shall judge you for your lying and I and my father will come and fetch you to Hell with Warlock Thieves and so the Devil discharged the Gentlemen to speak any thing saying Let him speak that hath a Commission meaning the Minister for he is the servant of GOD. The Gentlemen returning back with the Minister sat down near the place whence the voice seemed

examined and punisht The Fellow confessed the Cheat and begged earnestly to have his Drum Mr. Mompesson told him that if he understood from Collonel Ayliff whose Drummer he said he was that he had been an honest man he should have it again but in the mean time he would secure it So he left the Drum with the Baillie and the Drummer in the Constables hands who it seems was prevailed on by the Fellows intreaties to let him go About the midst of April following when Mr. Mompesson was preparing for a Iourney to London the Bailly sent the Drum to his House When he was returned from that Iourney his Wife told him that they had been much afrighted in the Night by Thieves and that the House had been like to have been broken up And he had not been at home above three nights when the same noise was heard that had disturbed his Family in his absence It was a very great Din and knocking at his Doors and the outsides of his House Hereupon he got up and went about the House with a Brace of Pistols in his hands He opened the Door where the great knocking was and then he heard the noise at another Door He opened that also and went out round his house but could discover nothing only he still heard a strange noise as a thumping and Drumming on the Top of his House which continued a great space and then by degrees went off into the Air. After this the noise of Thumping and Drumming was very frequent usually five nights together and then it would intermit three It was on the outsides of the house which is most of it of Board It came constantly as they were going to sleep whither early or late After a moneths disturbance without it came into the Room where the Drum lay four or five nights in seven within half an hour after they were in bed continuing almost two hours The sign of it just before it came was they still heard an hurling in the Air over the house and at its going off the beating of a Drum like that at the breaking up of a Guard It contitinued in this room for the space of two moneths which time Mr. Mompesson lay there to observe it In the fore part of the night it used to be very troublesome but after two hours all would be quiet Mistris Mompesson being brought to bed there was but little noise that night she was in Travail nor any for three weeks after till she had recovered strength But after this civil Cessation it returned in a rudder manner than before and followed and vext the Youngest Children beating their bedsteads with that violence that all present expected when they would fall in pieces In laying hands on them one should feel no blows but might perceive them to shake exceedingly For an hour together it would heat on the Drum Round-heads and Cuckolds and Tat-too and several other points of War as well as any Drummer could After this they would hear a scraping under the Childrens bed as by something that had Iron tallons It would lift the Children up in their beds follow them from one room to another and for a while haunt none particularly but them There was a Cock-loft in the house which had not been observed to have been troubled thither they removed the Children putting them to bed while it was fair day where they were no sooner laid but their Troubler was with them as before On the first of November 1662 it kept a mighty noise and a Servant observing two boards in the Childrens room seeming to move he bid it give him one of them upon which the board came nothing moving it that he saw within a yeard of him The man added nay let me have it in my hand upon which it was shoved quite home to him he thrust it back and it was driven to him again and so up and down to and fro at least twenty times together till Mr. Mompesson forbad his Servant such Familiarities This was in the day time and seen by a whole room full of people That morning it left a Sulphurious smell behind it which was very offensive At night the Minister one Mr. Craig and diverse of the Neighbours came to the house on a Visit. The Minister went to Prayer with them kneeling at the Childrens Bed-side during Prayer-time it withdrew into the Cock-loft but returned as soon as Prayer was ended and then in sight of the Company the Chairs walkt about the Room of themselves the Childrens shoes were burled over their head and every loose thing moved about the Chamber At the same time a Bed-staff was thrown at the Minister which hit him on the Legg but so favourably that a lock of Wool could not have fallen more softly and it was observed that it stopt just where it lighted without rolling or stirring from the place Mr. Mompesson perceiving that it so much persecuted the young Children he lodged them out at a Neighbours house taking his eldest Daughter who was about ten years of Age into his own Chamber where it had not been a Moneth before As soon as she was in bed the disturbance began there again continuing three weeks drumming and making noises and it was observed that it would exactly answer in drumming any thing that was beaten or called for After this the house where the Children were lodged out happening to be full of Strangers they were taken home and no disturbance having been known in the Parlour they were lodged there where also their Persecutor found them but then only pluckt them by the Hair and Night-cloaths without any other disturbance It was noted that when the Noise was loudest and came with the most sudden and surprising violence no Dog about the house would move though the knocking was oft so boisterous and rude that it had been heard at a considerable distance in the Fields and awakened the Neighbours in the Village none of which live very near the house The Servants somtimes were lift up with their beds and then let gently down again without hurt at other times it would ly like a great weight upon their feet About the latter end of December 1662. the Drummings were less frequent and then they heard a noise like the gingling of Money occasioned as it was thought by somewhat Mr. Mompessons mother had spoken the day before to a neighbour who talkt of Fairies leaving money viz. that she would like it well if it would leave some to make amends for their trouble The night after the speaking of which there was a great gingling of money over all the house After this it desisted from ruder noises and employed it self in little Apish and less troublesome tricks On Christmass-even a little before day one of the Boyes arising out of his bed was hit on a sore place on his heel with the latch of the door the pin that it was fastned with was so smal that it was a difficult matter to pick

she might be delivered out of the hands of the Devil Vnder this confession she continued even unto the day of her death Another evidence of ingenuity in him was this that after five or six men and women whom he had delated were also convinced and had confessed their Witch-craft he earnestly desired that he and they might be taken to the Church on the Lords-day to hear the Word of GOD which being granted and they conveyed with a Guard to the Church all of them sat down together before the Pulpit The Preacher lectured on these words Mark 9.22 And oft times it hath cast him into the fire and into the water to destroy him c. The Father of the Lunatick-child complained to Christ of the Devils cruelty towards his son And the Preacher briefly noted that Observation from the words That what ever the Devil did to such as he had gotten any power over his aim and end was always to destroy the poor Creature both Soul and Body This truth being seriously applyed and spoken home by the Preacher to the said Hob Grieve and the rest of the confessing Witches and Warlocks they were all immediately so confounded that all of them cryed out with a dreadful and lamentable noise A lace that is a most sure truth Oh what will become of us poor Wretches Oh pray for us But Hob Grieve especially bare witness to that sad truth by a general Declaration in the face of the Congregation that he had Experience of the truth thereof For said he there is no trusting to his promises for in Musselburgh water when I had a heavy Criel upon my back he thought to have drowned me there and since I came into prison he did cast me into the fire to destroy me as is well known to the present Preacher and Magistrates of the place and many others And concluded with an Exhortation to all to beware of the Devil For whatever he says or doth his purpose is to destroy you and that you will find to be the end of his work as we know to our dolefull experience this day Another evidence of the Devils art in studying the destruction of the poor Creature was manifest in that same place and year 1649. A certain Woman in the town of Lauder was fyled not by Hob Grieve but by some other and for a long time denyed The Magistrates of the place for this cause were loath to meddle with her but adjudged to death all the rest who had confessed and ordained them to be burnt upon the Munday after She hearing of this and that she alone was to remain in prison without hopes of escape was prompted by the Devil to make up a confession in her own bosom as she supposed might take away her life and thereupon sent for the Minister and made that confession of Witch-craft which she her self had patcht up before Witnesses and in the close she earnestly intreated the Magistrates and the Ministers that she might be burnt with the rest upon Munday next Her confession was That she had covenanted with the Devil and had become his servant about twenty years before when she was but a young Lass and that he kissed her and gave her a name but since he had never owned her and that she knew no more of the works of the Devil as she should answer to GOD but what she said was true But intelligent Persons began to be jealous of the truth of that confession and began to suspect that out of the pride of her heart in a desperate way she had made up that confession to destroy her life because she still pressed to be cut off with the rest upon Munday Therefore much pains was taken on her by Ministers and others on Saturday Sunday and Munday morning that she might resile from that confession which was suspected to be but a Tentation of the Devil to destroy both her soul and body yea it was charged home upon her by the Ministers that there was just ground of Jealousie that her confession was not sincere and she charged before the Lord to declare the truth and not to take her blood upon her own head Yet stifly she adhered to what she had said and cryed always to be put away with the rest Whereupon on Munday morning being called before the Judges and confessing before them what she formerly said she was found guilty and condemned to die with the rest that same day But being carried forth to the place of Execution she remained silent during the first second and third Prayer and then perceiving that there remained no more but to rise and go to the Stake she lift up her body and with a loud voice cryed out Now all you that see me this day know that I am now to die as a Witch by my own confession and I free all men especially the Ministers and Magistrates of the guilt of my blood I take it wholly upon my self my blood be upon my own head And as I must make answer to the GOD of Heaven presently I declare I am as free of Witch-craft as any child but being delated by a malicious Woman and put in Prison under that name of a Witch disowned by my husband and friends and seing no ground of hope of my coming out of Prison nor ever coming in credit again through the temptation of the Devil I made up that confession on purpose to destroy my own life being weary of it and chosing rather to die than live and so died Which lamentable story as it did then astonish all the Spectators none of which could restrain themselves from tears so it may be to all a demonstration of Satans subtility whose design is still to destroy all partly by tempting many to presumption and some others to despair These things to be of truth are Attested by an Eye and Ear witness who is yet alive a faithful Minister of the Gospel RELATION X. A True Narrative of the Drummer of Ted-Worth In the year 1661 about the middle of March a Gentleman named Mr. Mompesson in the County of Wilts being at a Neighbouring town called Ludgarshal and hearing a Drum beat there he enquired of the Bailly of the town at whose house he then was what it meant The Bailly told him that they had been for some days troubled with an idle Drummer who demanded money of the Constable by vertue of a pretended Pass which he thought was counterfeit Vpon this Mr. Mompesson sent for the Fellow and askt him by what authority he went up and down the Countrey in that manner with his Drum The Drummer answered he had good Authoritie and produced his Pass with a Warrant under the hands of Sir William Cawly and Collonel Ayliff of Gretenham Mr. Mompesson knowing these Gentlemens hands discovered that the Pass and Warrant were counterfeit and thereupon commanded the Vagrant to put off his Drum and charged the Constable to carry him before the next Justice of the Peace to be further

East end of the town as I am informed was frequented with a Ghost which made it stand empty for a long time Whether any have dwelt in it since I know not This I have from a very creditable Person who being a Schollar there at that time was an eye and ear witness who is yet alive RELATION XXXI Of the Devil of Mascon in France ANNO 1612 one Monsieur Perreaud a Protestant Minister there being from his own house one night and his Wife being in bed she was much troubled with noise and din in the house the next night she felt somewhat that pulled the blankets from the bed and the same night all the Pewter Vessel and Brass Candlesticks were thrown about the Room The Minister coming home was told this who carefully searched every corner of the house before he went to bed and secured all the Doors and Windows to prevent suspicion of Imposture He was scarce well in bed when he heard a strange noise in the Kitchen like the rowling of a great Iron Bullet beating against a partition of Wanscot upon this the Minister went to the Room but found nothing The next morning he made it known to the Elders of the Church and a publick Notary one Francis Tornous who sate up with him every night till Midnight but they heard nothing till September 20. At which time about nine a clock at night in the presence of all who were there the Devil began to whistle three or four tunes with a loud and shril voice though somewhat hoarse which seemed to be about three or four steps from them singing a little tune of five notes which Birds are taught to whistle and after he often repeated this word Minister Minister to which Master Perreaud said Yes indeed I am a Minister and servant of the living GOD before whose Majestie thou tremblest Said the other I know nothing to the contrary I have no need of thy testimony sayes he This being done he says over with a loud voice the Lords prayer the Creed the ten Commandments and the morning and even Prayers and sings the eighty and first Psalm He told the Minister that his Father had been poysoned and named the man that did it He told him that as he came by his elder brothers house that night he saluted him and asked if he had any service to command him with to Mascon to his brother and told that they were very kind to him and remembred their Love to the Minister It was told him afterwards by those who were present that a fellow of strange shape came riding on a very lean horse hanging down his head and spake to that purpose At another time the Devil began to mock GOD and all Religion and said over the Doxology but skipped over the Second Person and made a foul horrible and detestable Equivocation upon the third Person He also earnestly desired them to send for Mr. Du Chaffin the Popish Priest of St. Stevens Parish to whom he would confess himself and withal he desired him to bring some Holy Water along with him for that said he will presently send me a packing That great Mastiff said he dare not bark against me this was the great House Dog because I have made the sign of the Cross upon his head Then he fell a scoffing and jearing and told how he did fall off the Ladder into the Ditch among the Frogs while the Savoyes were scalding the walls of Geneva and did most exactly imitate their croaking At another time he told them with a lamentable voice that he had a mind to make his Latter-Will and Testament and bid the Maid call for Mr. Tornous the publick Notary and declared to him what Legacies he would leave and to one present he said he would bequeath five hundered pound but he answered I will have none of thy money thy money perisheth with thee At another time while he was speaking a man who was present rushed into the place whence the voice seemed to come and searched it strictly but found nothing except a small bottle which he brought forth at which the Devil fell a laughing and said to him I was told long since that thou wast a fool and I see now thou art one indeed to believe that I am in the Bottle I should be a greater Fool my self to go into it for so I might be catched by stopping the mouth of the Bottle with ones Finger At another time the Minister said to him Go thou cursed into everlasting fire prepared for the Devil and his Angels To whom he replyed in great wrath Thou lyest I am not cursed I hope yet for Salvation by the Death and passion of Jesus Christ. The Devil threatned the Minister that he would pull him out of his Bed by the feet and pull the Blankets off him He answered I will lay me down and sleep for the Lord maketh me to dwell in safety thou canst have no power over me but what is given thee from above Whereupon he said it is well for thee it is good for thee And at last he confessed that he could not prevail against the Family because they did too much call on the name of God And indeed it was observed that as often as they kneeled down in prayer the Devil left talking and often said while you are at your prayers I 'le go take a turn in the Street But no sooner was prayer ended but he began as before which course he continued till the 25. of November at which time he spake these last words Alas alas I shall speake no more The Minister told Mr. Du-Moulin that a grave Divine once coming to his house and hearing the Devil speak profanly rebuked him sharply for it Whereupon the Devil answered Minister you are very Holy and Zealous in this Company but you are not so when you were singing such a baudy song in such a Tavern And having said this he sang the same baudy song over before them all The Divine said it is true Satan I have been licentious in my younger years GOD of his mercy hath given me repentance and pardon for it but for thy part thou art hardned in sin and shall never get Repentance nor Pardon After this the Devil said O poor Hugonits those of the reformed Religion you shall suffer much within a few years O what mischief is intended against you A Popish Officer that belonged to a Court of Justice being a Lawyer came out of curiosity to the Ministers house to ask some Questions concerning many matters The Minister forbad him but he would not forbear And after the Devil had resolved him many things anent absent Friends private Business News and State affairs and Questions in Law he says to him now Sir I have told you all you have demanded I must tell you next what you demanded not that at this same very time such a man whom he named is taking a word of your wife at home And then he discovered many

fall out as indeed he had reason went to his Uncle a grave and experienced Person who advised him to take all his Ships Company to the number of fourteen able men and keep watch not forgetting the Reading of Scripture and earnest Prayer to GOD. The Night was still and calme as an Summers evening without the least appearance of Change when upon a sudden at midnight as James Fleming himself was coursing her too and again as the custome was holding her by the hand I say upon a sudden a terrible tempest like an Hirricano came on which took the Roof from the house to their great consternation And a voice was heard three times calling her by a strange name to come away At which she made three several loups upward increasing gardually till her feet were as high as his breast But he held her by both her armes and as he used to say when he spoke of it he betooched himself strongly and earnestly to God though with great amazement his hair standing Widdershins in his head And after the third call he prevailed against the greatest Effort which ever he felt and threw her on the ground she groveling and fomeing like one having the falling-sickness where she fell into a profound sleep for the space of two or three hours When she awaked she declaimed most bitterly against the Devils treachry and perfidiousness who had promised to carry her to Irland before four a clock in the morning and to touch at Paisley where she might see her sister in passing She made a free and full confession and deleated many Women some of them of good repute who afterwards confessed and died so The Author of this letter is a Person of great honesty and sincerity From the First Relation of his we have an evident instance that the Devil can transport the Bodies of men and Women thorow the Air ` T is true he did not carry her far off but not for want of skill and power Neither was he afraied to hear the name of God spoken but purposing to destroy both the Soul and the body of the poor creature he has pretended so much to excuse himself at her hand The first Story puts me in mind of one Craich a Witch put in prison in the Steeple of Culross to whom several years agoe Mr. Alexander Colvil Justice Depute came a gentleman of great sagacity and knowledge as to Witches He asked if she was a Witch She denyed Dar you hold up your hand and swear that you are not a Witch Yes sir said she But behold what a remarkable Iudgement of God come upon her While she is swearing with her arm lifted up it became as stiff as a tree that she could not pull it in again to the amazement of all that were present One Person yet living there was a witness and can attest this The Gentleman seing the vengeance of God upon her for her wickedness falls down presently upon his knees and entreated the Lord in her behalf who was graciously pleased to hear him Some are of Opinion that the Devil cannot raise winds and storms upon the Sea and Land This is evident from the last relation in the Letter Which puts me in mind of a terrible tempest of wind in the Firth that day when Bessie Fouler was burnt at Mu●●elburgh in May anno 1661. The Devil it seems had promised to her that she should not die at that time whereupon she looking out at the Prison Window spake very confidently to the folk below You think to see me burnt the day but you will all be deceived The Hirricano did so prevail that in effect everie body suspected that she should not have died that day The morning and the forenoon were very calme RELATION XXXV Anent some Prayers Charms and Avies used in the Highlands IN the time of ignorance and superstition when the darkness of Paganism was not dispelled by Gospel light Spirits keept a more familiar converse vvith families and even in the time of Popery what was more frequent in houses than Brownies whom they employed in many services It were unseasonable and tedious to rehearse all the Stories which have been told of Brownies and Pharies commonly called our Good-Neighbours how there was a King and a Queen of Pharie of such a Court and train as they had and how they had the teind and dutie as it were of all corns flesh and meale how they rode and went alongs the sides of hills all in Green apparel I verily believe many have seen such spectres but what were they Nothing but the delusion of the Senses of sundry simple people whom the Devil made believe they did see and hear such things Browny was a Spirit that haunted divers houses familiarly without doing any evil but doing necessary turns up and down the house and frequently was found working in the Barn threashing the corn in the night time who appeared like a rough hairy man Such then was the ignorance of many that they believed their house was all the sonsier that Browny was about it As K. J. says in his Demonology I will not speak of ridiculous Friets such as our meeting with a Lucky or unlucky foot when we are going about important business these unquestionably are the Devils lessons for the most part and a denying of Gods Providenee The practise of the Heathen was to attribute good or evil luke to the slying of Birds as Virgil sayes Saepe sinistra cava praedixit ab ilice Cornix Whether there be any Magie in the practise of some young Women too curious who upon Allhallow even goe to bed without speaking to any having first eaten a cake made of soot and dreaming see in their sleep the man that shall be their husband I shall not determine But it looks like a very bad practise I heard of a Woman who dipt her smock in South-running-water on that night and hanged it up before the fire to dry One comes in in the likness of the man who was to be her husband and turns it and went immediately to the Bed where she was attending the event and kist her It seems she did not believe it was the Devil To speak of the second sight I cannot till fuller information be given I am undoubtedly informed that men Women in the Highlands can discern fatality approaching others by seeing them in Waters or with winding-sheets about them And that others can lecture in a sheeps shoulder bone a death within the Parish seven or eight days before it come It is not improbable but that such preternatural knowledge comes first by a compact with the Devil and is derived downward by succession to their posterity many of such I suppose are innocent and have this Sight against their will and inclination Charms and Spells have been first taught to men and Women in confederacy with the Devil many of which are received by Tradition and used by Witches and ignorant Persons too The vertue of curing