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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A13830	The Spanish Mandeuile of miracles. Or The garden of curious flowers VVherin are handled sundry points of humanity, philosophy, diuinitie, and geography, beautified with many strange and pleasant histories. First written in Spanish, by Anthonio De Torquemeda, and out of that tongue translated into English. It was dedicated by the author, to the right honourable and reuerent prelate, Don Diego Sarmento de soto Maior, Bishop of Astorga. &c. It is deuided into sixe treatises, composed in manner of a dialogue, as in the next page shall appeare.; Jardin de flores curiosas. English	Torquemada, Antonio de, fl. 1553-1570.; Lewkenor, Lewis, Sir, d. 1626.; Walker, Ferdinand.	1600 (1600)	STC 24135; ESTC S118471	275,568	332

vnderneath least thereby through feare and amazement might ensue some harme or danger to some of the Fryers and so commaunded them to returne to theyr Matines The foole seeing the danger ouerpast layd her downe to sleepe awhile and vvaking about the breake of day conueyed herselfe secretly from vnder the Herse hyding herselfe in a place of the Church vntill such time as the Sexton came to open the doore and people began to presse in at which time she stole priuily out of the Church The Fryers comming to visit this Herse lifting vp the cloth found nothing but the ground trampled and troden so that they knewe not what to iudge thereof This matter could not remaine so secrete but that it was in fewe dayes published not onely through the vvhole Cittie but also in many other places and euery man adding what pleased him it was told in diuers sorts and the opinions and iudgements thereof likewise were diuers no man knowing the truth thereof till on a certaine day two months after the foresayd buriall it chaunced that this foolish or franticke vvoman standing in the Market-place and beeing enuironed with a number of boyes and idle fellowes that were iesting and sporting with her spyed by chaunce two Religious men of the same Cloyster passing by at which breaking out into a great laughter i-fayth quoth shee Fryers Fryers as lustie as you are I made you once tremble and shake for feare At which turning backe better to vnderstande that which shee sayde shee tolde them laughing that it was shee that lay the same night vnder the Herse and which made thē so afray de vvhen they came into the Church to say theyr Matines The standers by made her by sweete speeches and fayre promises confesse all that had passed laughing not a little at the craftinesse of the foole and at the generall error in which they had still remained if shee had not herselfe disclosed vnto them all the particularities thereof LVD Manie such thinges as these without doubt doe happen in the world of which some neuer come to be discouered but seeing we haue sufficiently discoursed of the same I pray you let me somwhat vnderstand your opinion as concerning Robingoodfelowes Hobgoblins which are sayde to be so common that there is scarcely any man but will tell you one tale or other of them of which for mine owne part I beleeue none but doe make reckoning that euery man forgeth heerein what pleaseth him AN. Many of them without doubt are forged and manie also true for these kindes of Spirits are more familiar and domesticall then the others and for some causes to vs vnknowne abide in one place more then in another so that some neuer almost depart from some perticuler houses as though they were their propper mansions making in them sundry noyses rumors mockeries gaudes and iestes without doing any harme at all and though I am not my selfe witnes thereof yet I haue heard many persons of credit affirme that they haue heard them play as it were on Gyternes and Iewes Harpes and ring Belles and that they aunswer to those that call them and speake with certaine signes laughters merry gestures so that those of the house come at last to be so familiar and well acquainted with them that they feare them not at all But in truth as I said before if they had free power to put in execution their malicious desire we shoulde finde these pranks of theirs not to be iestes but earnest indeed tending to the destruction both of our bodie and soule but as I tolde you before this power of theirs is so restrained and tyed that they can passe no farder then to iestes and gawdes and if they doe any harme or hurt at all it is certainlie verie little as by experience we dailie see and therefore leauing vnrehearsed an infinite number of fables and strange tales tolde of them by the common people I will tell you truly what I savve my selfe beeing a boy of tenne yeeres old a Scholler in Salamanca There was in that Citty a widdow very principall and rich somewhat aged in yeeres which kept in her house foure or fiue mayde Seruants of the which two were young and very beautifull There was a common report bruted abroade in the Towne that there should be in this vviddowes house a Hobgoblin or spright that plaid daily sundry strange pranks of which the most vsuall was that hee threw stones from the roofe of the house not onely vpon the persons therein but also vpon others that came to visite the vviddow in such quantity and with such noise as though whole showers of them had beene rained out of the Element yet alwayes harmlesly without hurting any man This matter grew so publique that the brute thereof came at last to the eares of the Magistrate who desiring to know the truth thereof went presently to the widdowes house with at least twenty in his company entring into which hee commaunded a Sergeant accompanied with foure other men to seeke round about the house with a burning Torch willing him not to leaue any corner aboue or beneath vnsearched wherein by any possibility a man might be hidden which he and his fellowes executed so neerely that vnlesse they would haue vntiled the house they could doe no more so that returning they made relation that there was no seeking any farther for all was safe vvhere-vpon the Magistrate told the Gentlewoman of the house that she was abused and deceaued and as it was most likely by her yong maydens who might bring into her house their Louers by whom these stones might be so throwne vp and downe and therefore willed her for auoyding of all inconueniences to looke more narrowly vnto them least emboldened through this simplicity of hers they might in time attempt some greater matter The good Gentlewoman was the most ashamed of the world not knowing what to reply yet still persisted to affirme that of the throwing of the stones to be most true The Magistrate and the rest iesting at her simplicity tooke their leaue to be gone but they were scarcely off the staires but there came such a whirling of stones about their eares with such a noise as though they had beene throwne with three or foure slings together as thicke as might be which falling on their leggs armes and feet did them no hurt at all The Magistrate caused the selfe same man which had searched before to search againe with great diligence and hast but it was all in vaine for there was no body to be found at which as they stood wondring there fell of a sodaine in the portall of the house such a shower of stones amongst them that it farre exceeded the former at which their amazement encreasing one of the Sergeants tooke vp amongst the rest that lay on the flower a markt stone and throwing it ouer the top of the house that stoode on the other side of the streete in front