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A67489	The wonders of the little world, or, A general history of man in six books : wherein by many thousands of examples is shewed what man hath been from the first ages of the world to these times, in respect of his body, senses, passions, affections, his virtues and perfections, his vices and defects, his quality, vocation and profession, and many other particulars not reducible to any of the former heads : collected from the writings of the most approved historians, philosophers, physicians, philologists and others / by Nath. Wanley ...	Wanley, Nathaniel, 1634-1680.	1673 (1673)	Wing W709; ESTC R8227	1,275,688	591

spake and did he knew not what 9. Upon Thursday the twenty fourth of March 1602 about two of the Clock in the Morning deceased Queen Elizabeth at her Mannour of Richmond in Surrey she then being aged seventy years of which she had reigned forty four five Months and odd days Her Corps were privily conveighed to White-Hall and there remained till the twenty eight of April following and was then buried at Westminster at which time the City of Westminster was surcharged with multitudes of all sorts of people in the Streets Houses Windows Leads and Gutters that came to see the Obsequie and when they beheld her Statue lying in Royal Robes with a Crown upon the Head there was such a general sighing groaning and weeping as the like hath not been seen or known in the memory of man neither doth any History mention any people time or state to make the like lamentation for the death of their Sovereign 10. Secundus the Philosopher had been many years absent from home so that he was unknown to the Family by face and upon his return he was very desirous to make some experiment of the chastity of his Mother he courted her as a strange● and so far prevailed that he was admitted to her Bed where he revealed to her who he was at the hearing of which the Mother was so over-born with shame and grief that she gave up the Ghost 11. Peter Alvarado the Governour of Guatimala married the Lady Beatrice Della Culva and he being dead by a mischance his Wife abandoned her self to all the excesses of grief and not only painted her House with sorrows black Livery and abstained from meat and sleep but in a mad impiety said God could now do her no greater evil Soon after anno 1582 happened an extraordinary inundation of waters which on the sudden first assailed the Governour 's House and caused this impotent and impatient Lady now to bethink her self of her devotion and betake her to her Chappel with eleven of her Maids where leaping on the Altar and clasping about an Image the force of the water ruined the Chappel and she with her Maids found their death therein 12. Gormo Father of one C●nute slain before Dublin so exceedingly lov'd this Son of his that he sware to kill him that brought him news of his death which when Thira his Mother heard she used this way to make it known to him she prepared Mourning Apparel and laid aside all Princely State which the old man perceiving he concluded his Son dead and with excessive grief that he conceived thereat he speedily ended his days 13. Cardanus relates of a man in Milan who in sixty years having never been without the Walls of the City yet when the Duke hearing thereof sent him a peremptory command never to go out of the Gates during life he that before had no inclination to do so died of very grief to be denied the liberty of doing it 14. King E●helstan being jealous of Edwin his Brother caused him to be put into a little Pinnace without tackling or Oars one only Page accompanying of him that his death might be imputed to the Waves the young Prince overcome with the grief of this his Brother's unkindness cast himself over-board headlong into the Sea 15. When Queen Mary was informed of the loss of Calis in France she was so affected therewith that she took no pleasure in any thing She would often say that the loss of Calis was written in her heart and might there be read when her body should be opened and indeed the grief she took thereupon shortned her days so that she but a while outlived that news that was so unacceptable to her 16. Margaret Daughter to Iames the Fourth King of Scotland married to L●wis the Dauphin of France was of so nasty a complexion and stinking breath that her Husband after the first night loathed her company for grief of which she soon after died 17. Charles Duke of Burgundy being discomfited at the Battle of Nancy passing over a River was overthrown by his Horse and in that estate was assaulted by a Gentleman of whom he craved quarter but the Gentleman being deaf slew him immediately yet afterwards when he knew whom he had slain he died within few days of grief and melancholy 18. A●urath the sixth Emperour of the Turks at his ●irst ascent to the Throne to free himself of Competitors caused his five Brethren Mustapha Solyman Abd●lla Osman and Tzihanger to be all strangled in his presence The Mother of Solyman pierced through with the cruel death of her young Son as a woman overcome with grief and sorrow struck her self to the heart with a Dagger and so died 19. Amurath the Second having long lain before the Walls of Croja and assaulted it in vain and being no way able either by force or ●lattery to bring Scanderbeg to terms of submission or agreement angry that his Presents and Propositions were refused he resolved to make a terrible assault upon Croja from all Quarters but this by the Christian Valour proving greater loss to him than before not able to behold the endless slaughter of his men he gave over the assault and return'd into his Camp as if he had been a man half frantick or distract of his wits and there sate down in his Tent all that day full of melancholy passions sometimes violently pulling his hoary Beard and white Locks complaining of his hard and disastrous fortune that he had lived so long to see those days of disgrace wherein all his ●ormer Glory and triumphant Victories were obscured by one base Town of Epirus His Bassas and grave Counsellours by long discourses sought to comfort him but dark and heavy conceits had so overwhelmed the melancholy old Tyrant that nothing could content his wayward mind or revive his dying spirits so that the little remainder of natural heat which was left in his aged body now oppressed and almost extinguished with melancholy conceits and his body it self dryed up with sorrow he became sick for pure grief Feeling his sickness dayly to encrease so that he could not longer live lying upon a Pallet in his Pavilion he sadly complained to his Bassas that the destinies had blemished all the former course of his life with such an obscure death That he who had so often repressed the fury of the Hungarians and almost brought to nought the pride of the Grecians together with their name should now be enforced to give up the Ghost under the Walls of an obscure Castle as he termed it and that in the sight of his contemptible enemy Shortly a●ter he became speechless and striving with the pangs of death half a day he then expired This was anno 1450 when he had lived eighty five years and thereof reigned thirty 20. Franciscus Foscarus according to the manner of Venice was elected Duke thereof during his life and long did he govern that

lively representing all the proofs which passion and interest put into his mouth The King sounded all passages to enter into the heart of the Lady and ask'd her whether she were not resolved to marry again she answered that if she met with a Man sutable to her she would do what God should inspire her The King reply'd behold him here since you have lodg'd this guest thirty days in your house and have acknowledg'd him so freely what is the cause why you may not marry him she answered he had not any means and that she her self was well worth a thousand Crowns which was a great riches in those times Well said Theodorick I will give this young Man as much for his Marriage on this condition that you shall marry him she much amazed began to wax pale blush and tremble seeking to excuse her self but faultering in her speech The King to affright her more swore deeply she should marry him presently or tell the lawful cause of impediment The poor Woman condemn'd by the voice of Nature which cry'd in her heart and having horrour of the crime proposed to her cast her self at the King's feet with tears confessing her loves dissimulation and mishap Then this great Prince taking the word from her Are not you a miserable Woman said he to renounce your own blood for a Villain who hath deceiv'd you get you to your house forsake those fond aff●ctions and live in the condition of a good Widow taking unto you such support from your Son as he by Nature ought to a●ford you 6. About the third year of King Iames a strange fanc● possessed the brai●s of a p●ofessed Physician one Richard Haidock of New Colledge in Oxford who pretended to Preach at night in his sleep in such sort that though he were call'd aloud or stirr'd and pull'd by the hands or feet yet would he make no shew of either hearing or feeling and this he did often in the presence of many Honourable Persons that came to hear him so as within a short time his Fame was spread through the Land by the name of the sleeping Preacher At length the King commanded him to be brought to the Court where His Majesty King Iames sate up the most part of a night to attend the event when at last Haidock making a shew to be a sleep began to Pray then taking a Text made his Division applying it to his purpose for in his Preaching his use was to inveigh against the Pope against the Cross in Baptism and against the last Canons of the Church of England and having ended his Sermon seemed to continue sleeping His Majesty having well observed the manner of his carriage after a few days called the said Haidock before him and in conference with him as indeed he had an admirable sagacity in the discovery of fictions made him confess that all that he did was but imposture and thereupon to fall upon his knees and ask forgiveness which the King granted upon condition that in all places he should openly acknowledge his offence because many were brought into a belief that his nightly Preaching was either by Inspiration or by Vision 7. Iosephus relates there was a young Jew bred at Sydon with the freed Man of a Roman Citizen who having some resemblance of Alexander the Son of Herod whom the Father had cruelly put to death feign'd he was the same Alexander saying those to whom Herod had recommended this barbarous execution conceiv'd such horrour at it that they resolved to save him and to conceal him till after the death of his Father in which time he remain'd at Sydon and now was come as from the Gates of death to demand his right as being the indubitate and lawful Heir of the Kingdom This Impostor had gain'd a subtle fellow a Servant of Herod's Houshold who taught him all the particulars of the Court the people embrac'd this false Alexander as a Man returned back from the other World When he saw himself strong in Credit and Coin he was so confident as to go to Rome to question the Crown against Herod's other Sons He presented himself before Augustus Caesar the distributer of Crowns beseeching him to pity a fortune so wretched and a poor King who threw himself at his feet as the Sanctuary of Justice and Mercy Every one seemed already to favour him but Augustus a Monarch very penetrating perceived this Man tasted not of a Prince for taking him by the hand he found his skin rough as having exercised servile labours Hereupon the Emperour drew him aside saying content thy self to have hitherto abused all the World but know thou art now before Augustus I will pardon thee on condition thou discover the truth of this matter but if thou liest in any point thou art utterly lost The Man was so amaz'd with the lustre of such Majesty that prostrating himself at his feet he began to confess all the Imposture Which done the Emperour perceiving he was none of the most daring Impostures saved his life but condemned him to the Galleys The Tutor of this Counterfeit being observ'd by the Emperour to be of a spirit more crasty and accustomed to evil practices was ordered speedily to be put to death 8. Hiero King of the Syracusians in Sicilia had caused to be made a Crown of Gold of a wonderful weight to be offered as a Tribute to the gods for his good success in the War In the making whereof the Goldsmith fraudulently took out a certain portion of Gold and put in Silver so that there was nothing abated of the full weight although much of the value diminished This came at length to be spoken of the King was much moved and being desirous to try the truth without breaking of the Crown proposed the doubt to Archimedes unto whose wit nothing seemed unpossible He could not presently answer it but hoped to devise some policy to detect the fraud Musing therefore upon it as he chanced to enter a Bath full of Water he observed that as his body entred the Bath the Water did run over Whereupon his ready Wit from small effects collecting greater matters conceived by and by a way of solution to the King's Question and therefore rejoycing exceedingly forgot that he was naked and so ran home crying as he ran I have found it I have found it He then caused two massy pieces one of Gold and another of Silver to be prepared of the same weight that the Crown was made of and considering that Gold is heavyer of Nature then Silver therefore Gold of like weight with Silver must needs take up less room by reason of its more compact and solid substance He was assured that putting the mass of Gold into a Vess●l brim full of Water there would not so much Water run out as when he should put in the Silver mass of like weight wherefore he tryed both and noted not only the quantities of Water at each time but also

Heresie of Arrius he said blasphemously God of his own Essence understandeth no more than we do whatsoever we know of it the same knoweth he and look what his capacity reacheth to the same thou shalt find in us His followers re-baptized Orthodox Professours and baptized in the name of the Father uncreated the Son created and the Holy Ghost created by the Son They affirmed the Trinity to be three different substances as Gold Silver and Brass he was a Cappadocian by birth and lived under Valens the Emperour 20. Novatus Father of the Nevatians was an African born he lived under Decius the Emperour after Christ two hundred and twenty years his Heresie lasted one hundred forty eight years they denied repentance to those that fell after Baptism they bragged much of their sanctity and good works they condemned second Marriages as adulterous and used rebaptization as the Donatists he was a Priest of Carthage and father of the Cathari or Puritans 21. Donatus whence arose the Donatists was a Numidian who because Cecilianus was preferred before him to the Bishoprick of Carthage accused him and all the Bishops that Ordained him to be Traditores that is such as had delivered their Bibles to be burnt by Idolaters under the Persecution of Maximinus Though this accusation was found faulty yet Donatus continued obstinate and separated himself and Congregation from all others accounting that no Church where any spot of infirmity was to be found that such a pure Church was only amongst them yet they would have no man forced to a godly life they slighted the Magistracy and would not suffer them to punish Hereticks they held the efficacy of the Sacraments to depend upon the dignity of the Minister they re-baptized all that were admitted to their communion they held it no sin to kill themselves rather than fall into the hands of the Magistrate and scrupled not to kill such as were not of their faith they used certain Magical Purifications and bragged of Enthusiasms and Revelations With the Arrians they made the Son less than the Father and the Holy Ghost than the Son the Circumcelliones were part of these who lived in Cells and Caves and murdered all they met that were not of their Religion 22. Pelagius a Britan by birth and a Monk at Rome was the Ring-leader of the Pelagians he was afterwards a Presbyter under Theodosius the younger three hundred eighty two years after Christ thence he went into England and poysoned the whole Island with his Opinions which were such as these That death was not the wages of sin but that Adam should have died though he had not sinned that Adam's sin was hurtful only to himself and not to his posterity that concupiscence was no sin that Infants did not draw original sins from their Parents that Infants might be saved without Baptism that they should have eternal life but out of the Kingdom of God that man after the Fall had free will to do good and ascribed no more to grace but that by it we had our nature and that by our good works we obtain grace they also rejected the Doctrine of Predestination they say the number of the Elect may be encreased or diminished that faith is by nature but the increase of it from God and that Charity is from men they hold that their Elect ones have no sin nor can sin if they would that the concupiscence of the flesh is from God and that rich men that are baptized cannot be saved unless they give away all that they have Celestinus and Iulianus were his chief followers in these errours St. Augustine and Alypius his friend wrote against them They were condemned by sive African Councils and also by a sixth Synod at Carthage Anno Christi 419. in the tenth year of Honorius 23. Priscillianus a Spaniard some say a Galatian father of the Priscillianists under Gratian the Emperour spread his Heresie first in Spain three hundred forty eight years after Christ from thence like a Canker it run through all the West This Heresie was made up of former Heresies for with the Manichees he held the World was made by an evil God with the Sabellians he consounded the persons of the Trinity with the Origenists he held the pre-existence of souls with Astrologers that all humane events depended upon the Stars with the Stoicks that we sin necessarily and coactively with the Encratites they abstained from flesh and with the Gnosticks they rejected the ancient Prophets as ignorant of the Will of God He was condemned in his absence by the Synod of Aquitaine but at his return into Spain he troubled all things At last he was put to death with Felicissimus Armenius Latronianus and Euchocia his companions Priscillianus himself confessed unto Euclius the Praefect That he kept Conventicles in the night with filthy women and that he used to pray naked amongst them He was condemned of Heresie at Rome by Damasus from whom he appealed to the Emperour Maximus who put him to death his body was carried into Spain by his Party by whom he was esteemed first as a Saint then as a Martyr insomuch that at last in matters of Religion they used to swear by his name 24. Apollinaris Presbyter in Laodicaea was the Author of the Apollinarists he divided Christs humanity affirming That he assumed mans body and a sensitive soul but not the reasonable or intellective soul of man because that was supplied by the divinity Instead of the Trinity they acknowledge only three distinct degrees of power in God the greatest is the father the lesser is the Son and the least of all the Holy Ghost They held that Christs soul was consubstantial with his divinity and that he took not his flesh from the Virgin but brought it from Heaven that Christ had but one will that souls did propagate others and that after the Resurrection the Ceremonial Law should be kept as before This Heresie brake out three hundred and fifty years after Christ under Valens the Emperour It was confuted in the Roman Synod by Damasus Bishop of Rome and Petrus Bishop of Alexandria and in the Synod at Constantinople utterly condemned and exploded CHAP. XX. Of the most famous Magicians Witches and Wizards and their mutual Contests their Diabolical illusions and miserable ends COnsidering the notable pranks that have been played by these Disciples of the Devil it might seem strange that there is no more hurt done in the World did we not remember that the power of their black Master himself is so limited and restrained by a superiour hand of goodness that he cannot perform what he would 1. Amongst the Witches and Sorcerers in Scotland Agnes Sampson commonly called the wise wife of Keith was most remarkable a woman not of the base and ignorant sort of Witches but Matron-like grave and setled in her answers In her Examination she declared That she had a familiar Spirit who upon her call did appear in

obey one another the one therefore commands the other to thrust his head out of the Casement of a Window which he had no sooner done but a large pair of Stags Horns were seen planted on his forehead to the great pleasure of the Spectators who flouted him with a thousand mocks and taunts He resenting the disgrace and thirsting after revenge when his turn came to be obeyed he with a Charcoal drew the lineaments of a man upon the Wall and then commanded the former Magician to stand under that Picture and that forthwith the wall should give place to receive him the other apprehensive of the extream danger he was in began to beseech him that he would hold him excused but the other refuses being therefore compelled he stands under it then the wall seemed to open and he therein being entred was never afterwards more seen 13. He sets down a third in the words of C. Germanus as a thing known unto him for an undoubted truth A notable Conjurer as a Specimen of his Art had cut off the head of the Inn-keepers Servant where he lodged and when he was about to set it on again he perceived he was hindred by the presence of another Conjurer that fortuned to be by he therefore besought him that he would not oppose him but the other not regarding his request the first Magician caused a Lily to spring out upon the top of the Table and when he had lopped off the head of it together with its flowers upon the sudden down falls the Magician that had hindered him headless to the ground that done he sets on the head of the Servant again and speedily conveys himself away lest he should be questioned for the murder of his Rival 14. Iamblichus a notorious enchanter having sacrificed to the Devil was raised up ten Cubits from the earth seeming to the wonder and amazement of all there present to walk in the air and as Evanippus testi●ieth of him his garments were strangely altered as if they had been newly dipped in a thousand several glorious colours 15. Michael Sidecita a great Magician sporting with others upon the Battlements of the great Imperial Palace in Constantinople in that part which prospects upon the water espyed a Lighter or Boat which was laden with Pots Pipkins Pottingers Dishes and all kind of Earthen Vessels some plain some curiously painted with divers colours Now to shew some sport to those Courtiers that were in his company by whispering some charm to himself he caused the owner of that Boat suddenly to arise from his seat and with his Oar never cease beating the brittle Vessels until he had almost pounded them to powder which done he was perceived to recollect himself to wring his hands to pluck himself by the beard and to express signs of extraordinary sorrow And after being demanded what madness was in him to make such spoil of his wares and whereas they were all vendible by his folly to make them worth nothing He sadly answered that as he was busie at his Oar he espyed a huge ugly Serpent crawling towards him ready to devour him who never ceased to threaten his life till he had broken all his Merchandise to pieces and then suddenly vanished this Magician for other and worse pranks had his eyes put out by Manuel Comnenus the Emperour 16. Pythagoras near to Tarentum spying an Ox to feed upon Beans called the Herdsman and bade him drive away the beast and to forbid him from eating any more of that kind of grain to whom the other laughing replyed that his Ox was not capable of such admonition and that his advice had been better bestowed in his School amongst his Scholars This said Pythagoras having murmured some few words to himself the Ox left eating ran to his Manger in the City could never after be coupled to the Yoke but like a domestick Spaniel would take food from the hands of any man Pythagoras was burnt alive in the House of Milo the Crotonian saith Laeret lib. 8. p. 223. 17. Anno Dom. 1323. Frederick Duke of Austria who was chosen Emperour against Lewis was betwixt Otinga and Molensdorf overcome in a great battle and by Lewis sent to be kept Prisoner in a strong Castle It fell out afterwards that a Magician coming into Austria to Leopold his Brother promised that by his Art and the assistance of Spirits he would free Frederick and within the space of an hour set him safe in his presence if he would give him a good reward The Duke replyed That if he performed his promise he would worthily reward him The Magician placed himself together with Leopold in a Circle and by conjurations called up the spirit that was wont to obey him who appearing in shape of a man he commanded that he should speedily go and free Frederick and bring him to him in Austria immediately without hurt The Spirit answered I shall willingly obey thy commands if the captive Prince will come with me This said the Spirit flew into Bavaria and in the form of a stranger came to the Prince in custody to whom he said If thou wilt be freed from thy Captivity mount this Horse and I will carry thee safe into Austria to Leopold thy Brother Who art thou said the Prince Ask me not said the Spirit who I am for that is nothing to the purpose but do as I desire and I will perform what I say Which heard a certain horror seised upon the Prince though otherwise a man of a bold spirit so that signing himself with the Cross the Spirit and Horse disappeared and returned to the Conjurer by whom he was chid for not bringing with him the Prisoner he told him all that had passed At last Frederick was freed out of Prison and confessed that upon the same day the same thing had hapned to him But Leopold was saith Camerarius so frighted with the Spirit he had seen that within a while after he dyed 18. Iovius extols the prodigious wit of Henricus Cornelius Agrippa saying that with immense understanding and vast memory he had comprehended the accounts of all Arts and Sciences the inmost secrets and highest heads of them all and then adds that not being as yet old he departed this life at Lions in a base and obscure Inn with the curses of many persons as one that was infamous and under the suspicion of Necromancy for that he was ever accompanied with a Devil in the shape of a black Dog so that when by approaching death he was moved to repentance he took off the Collar from his Dogs neck which was inscribed with magical characters by the Nails that were in it and brake into these last words of his Abi perdita bestia quae me perdidisti be gone thou wretched beast which hast utterly undone me Nor was that familiar Dog from that time forth ever seen more but with hasty flight he leapt into Araris and being plunged therein over head

occasion he immediately led forth his Army against the Carthaginians they who saw them upon their March supposed them to be the Revolters that came over to their side not at all dreaming of what had fallen out in the Army But so soon as Agathocles drew near them he soon put them out of their mistake he caused his Trumpets to sound a Charge and fell in fiercely upon his unprepared Enemies that expected nothing less so that he made a great slaughter of them 28. Sempronius the Consul warring with the Aequi the Battel between them continued until night with variable fortune on either side The night being come and both Camps in disorder neither of the Armies returned into their own Camp but each Party retired into the next Mountains where they thought to be most assured And the Roman Army divided it self into two parts whereof the one went with the Consul and the other with Tempanius a Centurion The morning being come the Consul without knowing any thing of the affairs of the Enemy went to Rome thinking that he had lost the Battel and the Aequi did the like both having left their Camps to him that would and thought himself victorious It happend that Tempanius in retiring with the rest of the Army understood by chance from certain wounded Souldiers of the Aequi how their Captains abandoning their Camp were fled and gone wherefore he returning saved the Roman Camp sacked the Camp of the Enemy and came victorious to Rome 29. There was one Mr. Mallary Master of Arts of Cambridge Scholar of Christs Colledge who for opinions held contrary to the determination of holy Mother Church of Rome was convented before the Bishops and in the end sent to Oxford there openly to recant and to bear his Faggot to the terrour of the Students of that University It was appointed that he should be brought solemnly into St. Mary's Church upon a Sunday where a great number of the Head-Doctors and Divines and others of the University were assembled besides a great number of Citizens which came to behold the sight Dr. Smith then Reader of the Divinity Lecture was appointed to make the Sermon at this Recantation All things thus prepared cometh forth poor Mallary with his Faggot upon his shoulder the Doctor was also in the Pulpit to make his Sermon he had scarce proceeded into the midst thereof when suddenly was heard into the Church the voice of one crying in the street Fire fire The occasion of which was one Heuster coming from Alhallows Parish saw a Chimney on fire and so passing in the street by St. Mary's Church cryed Fire fire meaning no hurt This sound of fire being heard in the Church went from one to another till at length it came to the ears of the Doctors and at last to the Preacher himself These amazed with sudden fear began to look up to the top of the Church and to behold the walls the rest seeing them look up looked up also Then began in the midst of the Audience some to cry out Fire fire Where saith one Where said another In the Church saith one The Church was scarce pronounced when in a moment there was a common cry the Church is on fire the Church is on fire by Hereticks Then was there such fear concourse and tumult of people through the whole Church that it cannot be declared in words as it was in deed After this through the stir of the people running to and fro the dust was so raised that it shewed as if it had been smoak This and the out-cry of the people made all men so afraid that leaving the Sermon they began all together to run away but such was the press of the multitude running in heaps together that the more they laboured the less they could get out they thrust one another in such sort that they stuck fast in the door that there was no moving forward or backward They then ran to another little Wicket on the North-side but there was the like or greater throng There was yet another door towards the West which though shut and seldom opened yet now they ran to it with such sway that the great Bar of Iron which is incredible to be spoken being pulled out and broken by force of mens hands the door notwithstanding could not be opened for the press or multitude of people At last when they were there also past hope to get out they were all exceedingly amazed and ran up and down crying out That the Hereticks had conspired their death one said he plainly heard the fire another affirmed that he saw it and a third swore he felt the molten Lead dropping down upon his head and shoulders None cryed out more earnestly than the Doctor that preached who in a manner first of all cryed out in the Pulpit These are the subtilties and trains of the Hereticks against me Lord have mercy upon me Lord have mercy upon me In all this great amaze and garboil nothing was more feared than the melting of the Lead which many affirmed they felt dropping upon their bodies The Doctors seeing no remedy that no force nor authority would prevail fell to intreaty and offered rewards one offering 20 l. another● his Scarlet Gown so that any man would pull him out though it were by the ears A President of a Colledge pulling a board out from the Pews covered his head and shoulders therewith against the scalding Lead which they feared much more than the falling of the Church one thought to get out at a window and he had broken the glass and got his head and one shoulder out but then stuck fast betwixt the Iron Bars that he could move neither way others stuck as fast in the doors over the heads of which some got out A Boy was got up to the top of the Church door and seeing a Monk of the Colledge of Gloucester who had got upon the heads of men coming towards him with a great wide Cowl hanging at his back the Boy thought it a good occasion for him to escape by and handsomly conveyed himself into the Monks Cowl The Monk got out with the Boy in his Cowl and for a while felt no weight or burden at last feeling his Cowl heavier than accustomed and hearing a voice behind him he was more afraid than while in the throng believing that the evil Spirit that had set the Church on fire was flyen into his Cowl then began he to play the Exorcist In the Name of God said he and all Saints I command thee to declare what thou art that art behind at my back I am Bertrames Boy said the other but I said the Monk adjure thee in the Name of the inseparable Trinity that thou wicked Spirit do tell me who thou art and from whence thou comest and that thou go hence I am Bertrames Boy said he good Master let me go When the Monk perceived the matter he took the Boy out who ran away as fast as