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A02750	A declaration of egregious popish impostures to with-draw the harts of her Maiesties subiects from their allegeance, and from the truth of Christian religion professed in England, vnder the pretence of casting out deuils. Practised by Edmunds, alias Weston a Iesuit, and diuers Romish priestes his wicked associates. Where-vnto are annexed the copies of the confessions, and examinations of the parties themselues, which were pretended to be possessed, and dispossessed, taken vpon oath before her Maiesties commissioners, for causes ecclesiasticall.	Harsnett, Samuel, 1561-1631.	1603 (1603)	STC 12880; ESTC S120922	196,686	296

theyr vnderstanding who receiued the blessed sacrament leaning one vppon anothers breast and therefore this temptation was as auncient as the originall institution that the sacrament was bread not to be adored Fourthly Sara was tempted by the deuill to thinke that our English Ministers were as good as the priests If the deuil had not tempted Sara to this hee had beene much too blame for he beeing one of their chorus and a principal actor in their play so familiar with all their legerdemaine did well see that if hell it selfe had beene raked as they say and 13 of the deuils most deuilish Ministers fetched from thence they could not haue passed Weston and his twelue deuilish tragaedians in any degree Dissemblers iuglers impostors players with God his Sonne his angels his saints deuisers of new deuils feigned tormentors of spirits vsurpers of the key of the bottomlesse pit whippers scourgers batfoulers of fiends Pandars Ganimedaeans enhaunsers of lust deflowrers of virgins defilers of houses vnciuil vnmanlie vnnaturall venereans offerers of theyr owne masse to supposed deuils deprauers of theyr owne reliques applying them to vnspeakable detestable monstrous deformities prostituters of all the rites ornaments and ceremonies of theyr Church to impure villanies prophaners of all parts of the seruice worship and honour of God violators of tombes sacrilegious blasphemers of God the blessed Trinitie and the virgin Marie in the person of a counterfet deuill seducers of subiects plotters conspirators contriuers of bloody detestable treasons against their annointed Soueraigne it would pose all hell to sample them with such another dosen Fiftly Sara was tempted by the deuil not to say her prayers in Latine because God had not so commaunded but in English as she had learned of the Minister in her mothers house Deerely beloued brethren the Scripture moueth vs in sundry places humbly to acknowledge and confesse our manifold sinnes and wickednes God saue the Queene and her Ministers Are not these mens faces sorely scorched with the flames of hel fire and their consciences seared with those hote burning coales that dare publish this desperate impietie to the world that the confession of our sinnes according to Gods holy wil and fatherly admonitions in the Scripture which is the first beginning of our worship and seruice of almighty God appointed and established in our publique forme of prayer in the Church is the deuils temptation Was it euer heard of before from eyther Heathenist or diuine that the deuil did tempt any humbly to acknowledge and confesse his sinnes before almighty God Which are the expresse words of our seruice booke derided by these hellish Impostors and fathered vppon the deuil What are our faith our hope our charity our zeale our worship of almightie God but Pharisaical cloudes and wandring starres accursed of God without true and vnfaigned humiliation going afore And what shal become of their much-commended mortification penance affliction and taming of the body to bring it into due obedience vnder the gouernment of Gods holy spirit or in what order and ranke shal wee place these if deiection of minde and humiliation of spirit the acceptable sacrifices vnto God be the cognisances of the deuil Blinde and desperate malice cares not what it speakes so it may speak For that addition in scorne and superbious contempt annexed by you vnto our publique prayer God saue the Queene wee doe glory in it and pray vnto God from the bottome of our harts that wee long so pray It demonstrateth plainly to the world with what spirit you are led namely by the spirit of Satanical pride and desperate disobedience that dare referre that pious loyal prayer to the deuil Thus hath the deuil forsooth spoken in fauor of our Prince her worthy Counsailors her renowmed Courtiers her learned Ministers in fauor of the Sacraments and publique seruice of almighty God established in our Church now let vs heare the same deuil as you haue presented him on the stage pleading for your Church and patronizing your heathenish superstition and diabolical inuentions in the same Dibdale to the deuil What sayest thou to the virgin Mary Deuil Oh shee had no originall sinne I had not a bit of her neither within nor without Heere you see a plaine blasphemy of the Church of Rome that could neuer before be warranted by Scripture reason nor auncient Father that any except the vnspotted sonne of God should be borne without original sinne now warranted and stamped with the signet of the deuil for good namely that the virgin Mary was borne without sinne Dibdale What sayest thou to Gregory the thirteenth Deuil Oh he is a Saint in heauen he neuer came in Purgatorie This fauour the deuil bestowes on that Pope because he had beene a bountiful founder and benefactor to the English renegadoes and a most pestilent deuiser against the life of our Soueraigne who for this good seruice was caried on the deuils backe as seemes ouer Purgatorie into heauen Dibdale What sayest thou to Brian Came he into Purgatorie Deuil Oh no he is a Saint in deede he is in heauen This man was one of the arch-traytors that came ouer with Parsons and Campian with special designes of treason from the Pope and therefore the deuil ought him a special good turne could not requite him better then to enroll him amongst his Saints Dibdale What sayest thou to the blessed Sacramant of the Altar Deuil It is the very body of Christ cut it and thou shalt see it bleede It had beene an easie experiment to haue tried whether that the deuil would haue beene true of his word but Dibdale had an euasion readie twined for this and that was Hee would not cut it for tempting his Creator It was no tempting of God to aske counsel of the deuil touching the Sacrament but it had beene a sore temptation to haue made proofe of the bleeding and yet there was no man of good sence but would rather haue giuen credit to his eyes if he had seene it to bleede then to the deuils bare affirmation in so waighty a case But whom should the children of lyes coggeries and Impostures beleeue if they should not beleeue their father the graund father of lyes Weston What sayest thou to Campians girdle whence hath it this vertue being a seely twist to afflict intoxicate and amaze thee Deuil Ierusalem nouit Tiburnus nouit Ierusalem and Tiburne can tell you Thus farre the worthie dialogue betweene Dibdale and the deuill wherein are many points of high prudent consideration If we may be so bold with his deuilships good leaue wee would gladly aske a question or two first why cutting should make the sacrament to bleed and not breaking doe the same if the body of our Sauiour be really there For veines beeing the vessels of blood there is fluxe of blood caused as well by rupture of a veine caused by violence and for the most part in greater aboūdance as by dissection

shall then be full of chaire-worke indeed And verily as many as be young women and maides and marke in the course of this storie the kind handling of Anne Fid and Sara three proper young maids by the Doctors of the Chayre and withall shall obserue well the manner of the Chayre theyr holy brimstone holy potion and the rest of that holy geere wil I doubt not be much delighted with the contemplation of that day and rather then faile hartily both wish and pray that all theyr holy works may grace Tiburne as they haue worthily deserued with new holy reliques before that day come Well howsoeuer you like them or theyr holy chaire this is theyr theoreme sure and sound that the greatest part of Protestants be possessed and so they proceeded with Anne Fid and Sara Who before they becam entangled in their holy ginnes were protestant maydes went orderly to Church Mary after that they and their Leno had caught them with cat-biting hipping and crosbiting as you haue heard that they had brought them with their Syren-songs to belieue that some wicked spirit had lyen a long time lurking in theyr bellies and theyr sides why then they enchaunt them a fresh with this lamentable dolefull dittie That theyr harts doe bleede for sorrow to see them in this pittifull wofull plight being in Satans possession that they burne with bowels of cōmiseration and compassion of theyr distressed estate that they would spend theyr best spirits and liues to doe them any good onely one little thing is a barre that hinders the influence of all diuine grace and fauour vpon them and that is theyr religion which they must first abandon and be reconciled to the Pope or otherwise all theyr holy ceremonies are of no auaile And heere beginnes their holy pageant to peepe into the stage First they tell Friswood and Sara as you may see in their confessions that theyr baptisme they had receiued in the Church of England must be amended in regard it wanted many rites ceremonies ornaments belonging to the baptisme of the Church of Rome Heere Allen and Parsons will con you little thanke for so little setting by their resolution in cases for England Their words are these Ceremoniae omissae baptismi in pueris cum possunt commodè suppleri debent non autem id faciendum consulimus in ijs qui sunt prouectioris aetatis ne inde nascatur scandalum aut opinio priorem baptismum non valuisse Your Ceremonies say your two Gods may be fitly played vpon the baptisme of children but vpon an adultus not so least a conceit or scandale arise thereby that the former baptisme should not be of it selfe good Allen and Parson determine Friswood and Saras English baptisme good enough without your goodly ceremonies florished ouer their heads and yet you must be dooing in spight of them both Your implements were ready for the purpose and it fitted your deuill-worke better and so you esteemed not Allen or Parsons a pinne And in good sooth you might aswell haue kept these goodly Ceremonies in your budget except you cleerly meant to mocke almighty God and to make the sacrament naught els saue a rattle for fooles babes and women to make sport withall In my opinion there was neuer Christmas-game performed vvith moe apish indecent slouenly gawdes then your baptising and super-baptising ceremonies are Your puffe your crosse-puffe your expuffe your inpuffe vppon the face of a tender infant beeing the impure stinking breath of a foule impure belching swaine your enchaūted salt your charmed grease your sorcerised chrisme your lothsome driuell that you put vppon theyr eyes eares noses and lyppes are fitting complements for hynch pynch and laugh not coale vnder candlesticke Frier Rush and wo-penny hoe Which are more ciuilly acted and with lesse foule soyle and lothsome indecorum then your spattring and greasing tricks vpon the poore infant and yet old doting Bellarmine blurres three whole leaues of paper in displaying the banner of this ridiculous trumpery telling vs a long tale that they came from tradition of the Church when we can aswel tell as hee can his Aue Marie from what sniueling Pope what drunken Frier what Heathenish imitation they did all proceede But see these popish guegawes acted vpon Friswood herselfe First out comes the holy chaire and Friswood the new babe is placed very demurely in it with a cloth vpon her head and a crosse vpon it Then in comes the priest attired in an Albe or a Cope with a candle in his hand or else he is Anathema by the Counsell of Trent and after the performance of a whole anticke-sute of Crosses hee approches very reuerently to Friswood in the chayre Then as herselfe in her confession describes it he first charmes her in Latine then he puts salt in her mouth spittle vppon her eares and eyes and annoints her lippes and her nose with oyle and so God and Saint Frauncis saue the young childe in steade of Friswood christening her by the name of Frauncis because that Saint had such a soueraigne commaund ouer the birds of the ayre that his name for it was made communicable both to hee and shee and Sara was christened by the name of Mary Suppose now gentle Reader that Friswoods Mother had come sodainly in and seene the Priest with his candell in his hand and his Cope vpon his backe busie in his enchaunting Latine charme and with-all had espied her daughter Friswood musled in her chaire of estate with a cloath and a Crosse and her other sacred geare I wonder what she would sodainly haue thought whether she would not haue beene much amazed at this infernall incantation and haue imagined that a ghost in steede of Friswood had beene coniured out of hell But if shee had had the hart to haue spoken vnto Friswood and to haue called her by her name and she should sodainly haue stepped out of her enchaunted chaire and haue said that her name had not beene Friswood but Frauncis verily they would haue taken her for a ghost in deede or haue feared that the Priest had enchaunted her out of her wits But stay what hast For after these new transformed creatures had their ceremonies and rites done vppon them and were framed fashioned and attired for their parts and were ready for the chaire the stage no man abroad could be admitted to either sight or speech with them intus res agitur they were now mysticall creatures and must attend their sacred close mysteries within All must be mum Clum quoth the Carpenter Clum quoth the Carpenters wife and Clum quoth the Friar You shall be more thoroughly confirmed by Friswood her selfe touching this poynt who saith in her examination That neither shee nor her sister Sara did see either father or mother being in the same Towne all the while that they were in theyr hands neyther would they suffer their father or mother to speake with them though they desired it many times

Queene herselfe standing excommunicate and that therefore the examinations taken before them are of no validitie to bind the examinats but that all that they doe confesse is tanquam coram non Iudice A number of other shifts they haue which I doe not now remember The Apostolicall rule is that euill shall not be doone that good may come of it but they doe not account it euill as I verily thinke to calumniate the Protestants by any deuise whatsoeuer that may carry any probabilitie with it nor make any conscience to tell and publish any vntruthes which they thinke beeing belieued may aduaunce and promote such poynts and matters as they take vpon them to defend for the honour of the church of Rome and dignitie of their priesthood Anth Tyrrell ❧ The confession of Richard Mainy Gentleman written by himselfe and auouched vppon his oath the sixt of Iune 1602. THe said Richard Mainy had read vnto him some parts of a discourse or two written by certaine Seminary priests of a pretended possession and dispossession both of himselfe and of certaine others viz. one Marwood Trayford Sara Francis Williams two sisters and Anne Smith These parties were said to be possessed and dispossessed of many wicked spirits The priests that dealt with them were diuers but the especiall men that had Richard Mainy in hand were Ma. Edmunds the Iesuit alias Weston Cornelius and one Dibdale men wholy at the deuotion and direction of the said Edmunds It was in the yeeres 1585 and 1586 when these stratagems were executed Such dealings as they had with the said Mainy were at Denham at one Ma. Fittons two miles from Windsore and at the Earle of Loncolnes house in Channon-row where Iohn Mainy his brother did then remaine Of these matters the said Mainy beeing demaunded diuers questions desired that hee might haue leaue to aunswer them after his owne fashion and not to be tied to the order of the said demaunds for that hee thought he could set downe those things which hee remembred more plainly to his owne vnderstanding then otherwise he should be able if he were bound to follow the order propounded vnto him by the said demaunds And that which he hath set downe is the discourse following not much disagreeing from the order of the interrogatories ministred vnto him And hath Ma. Edmunds the rest of the priests thus dealt with mee I am very sorry for it It might haue beene sufficient for them to haue practised theyr purposes vpon me and the rest youthes and almost girles although they had not published the same to the world But of likelihood theyr glory and our discredit were so ioyned together as the one could not stand without the other This course whereunto they haue therby drawne me wil procure me great displeasure I know amongst my friends and worke me much hinderance in my priuate estate but what remedie Beeing called by publique authoritie and enforced by vertue of mine oath to deliuer the truth I cannot see how with any conscience I can deny those things which I find to be truly layd to my charge and could neuer haue beene thought of if their writings had neuer come to the Magistrats hands The particulers which now of necessity I must deliuer I was purposed to haue concealed from all men liuing although heeretofore in generall termes I haue beene driuen to say somewhat of these matters About 14 yeeres since the Lords of her Maiesties most honourable priuie Counsell Henry Earle of Darby being one hauing gotten some notice of the pretended possessions and dispossessions at the places before mentioned and that I was one of the parties that had beene dealt with did write their letter vnto Ferdinando then Lord Strange to examine me It seemeth they had beene informed that I should publish how I was possessed with certaine wicked spirits and of them dispossessed by some priests of the Catholique Romane Church and that I should take vpon mee in companie where I came to iustifie the same So as being called before the said Lord Strange he demaunded of me whether I had giuen out such speeches Hee examined mee vpon my oath and my aunswer was according to the truth as I was perswaded in mine owne conscience and as farre as my memory did serue me viz. that I was neuer possessed with any wicked spirit nor had reported any such thing and that I was so farre from iustifying of it that I was fully perswaded that in all the courses which the priests tooke with me when they pretended that I was possessed there was nothing but deceit falfhood illusions and iuglings This was the effect of my aunswer at that time if my memory doe not much faile me and thereupon I was by his Lordship dismissed VVith this aunswer I suppose the Iesuits were long since acquainted which hath greatly already hindered me alienated the harts of some of my deerest friends from mee And the same aunswer that I made then before his Lordship I must now make againe to the substance of all those questions which haue been demaunded of mee viz. that I was neuer possessed with any wicked spirit otherwise then all other sinners are but euer as free I thanke GOD from hauing any deuils in me as either Ma. Edmunds himselfe or any other of the Priests that had to deale with me for ought I know This aunswer I thought would haue beene sufficient to haue satisfied all those things which are obiected against me but I am vrged with sundry particulers and therefore I must of necessity yeeld to the cleering of my selfe in them and yet no otherwise then the truth requireth When I was about 13 yeeres old I was sent by my mothers direction to Rhemes in Fraunce where there was then an English Seminary the intent of my mother and other of my friends was as I thinke to haue had mee to haue been a priest I remained in Rhemes about two yeres and was there maintained with my mothers exhibition allowance Towards the end of the said two yeeres of a childish curiositie I entred into the obseruances of certaine religious men termed in that country Bonhommes or fratres minimi and became a young probationer amongst them This order was deuised by Fraunces de Paula who is canonized for a saint of whom there is mention made in the Romane breuiary as hauing his place appointed in the Kalender on the second of Aprill There his office course of life is set downe and briefly described After I had remained about a quarter of a yeere or somewhat more in this probation I was sent by the Rector of the house with some other of my fellowes to the house of the Bonhommes at Paris where I had scarcely remained a quarter of a yeere but I grew weary of that profession Their rules seemed vnto me to be too strict for me and their diet beeing nothing but fish I began to dislike it Besides I had a disease wherewith I had been

not what other vile smell as before he had done I should not surely haue beene so quiet but he had another drift as wel it appeareth From the said Good-friday for ought I remember vntill the three and twentith of April which was then S. Georges day Ma Edmunds suffered me to be quiet I thinke now to gather some strength and imagined then that he would neuer haue troubled me further But it fell out that a day or two before Saint Georges day as it should seeme that I had againe a fit of the Mother where-vpon they tooke occasion to haue me in handling againe for as they said Modu the Prince of deuils was yet in me and now they pretended as I remember to do the best they could to cast him out of me that so I might be rid for altogether Ma Edmunds and the rest dealt with me at this time very extreamely and I must confesse that in hope to be now dispatched I bent my selfe as farre as possibly I could to faine and affirme euery thing that I perceaued they expected at my hands But what I then did or said if I should haue beene tortured vpon the rack had I not seene what was published in writing of me at that time I could not now haue remembred so many particulers After that Ma Edmunds had exorcised and perfumed me as often-times he had done before the deuil that had lyen secret long in me as the writing saith began to appeare But I wil set downe the effect of the said priests reports as touching this matter By commaundement of the Exorcist which was Ma Edmunds the deuill in Ma Mainy confessed his name to be Modu and that he had besides himselfe seauen other spirits all of them Captaines and of the great fame There-vpon Ma Edmunds commaunded that euery one of the seauen should come vp in their degrees one after another and to declare his name by his principall quality Then Ma Mainy by the instigation of the first of the seauen began to set his hands vnto his side curled his haire and vsed such gestures as Ma Edmunds presently affirmed that that spirit was Pride Heere-with he began to curse and banne saying What a poxe doe I heere I wil stay no longer amongst a company of rascall Priests but goe to the Court and braue it amongst my fellowes the noble men there assembled And then after Ma Edmunds had said that hee shewed himselfe thereby to be the spirit of Pride he went downe againe and Ma Mainy became very quiet and fell to his prayers But Ma Mainy could not tell one word as he reported of any thing that had beene then said onely he affirmed that he had all the while felt a great paine in his body Then Ma Edmunds did proceede againe with his Exorcismes and suddainly the sences of Mainy were taken from him his belly began to swell and his eyes to stare and suddainly cryed out ten pounds in the hundred he called for a Scriuener to make a bond swearing that hee would not lend his money without a pawne Ma Edmunds demaunding of that deuill whether he were the same that had spoken before he said no. But yet affirmed that hee was a good fellow and a companion of his and one that bare as great rule in England as any other deuill There could be no other talke had of this spirit but of mony bargaining and vsury so as all the company deemed this deuill to be the author of Couetousnesse not expecting any instruction therein from Fa Edmunds After a while this deuill goeth downe as the other did Ma. Mainy recouereth his sences falleth to his prayers and ere long Ma. Edmunds beginneth againe his Exorcismes wherein hee had not proceeded farre but vp commeth another spirit singing most filthy and baudy songs euery word almost that hee spake was nothing but ribaldry They that were present with one voyce affirmed that deuill to be the author of Luxury And Ma. Edmunds beeing not able to endure such lewd speeches commaunded him to be silent and to get him downe forthwith againe The deuill obeyed Ma. Mainy recouereth falleth to his prayers and afterwards Ma. Edmunds goeth forward with the rest And thus he did proceed till he had raised vp all the seauen Captaines and compelled them to shew themselues as the other had doone Enuy was described by disdainfull lookes and contemptuous speeches Wrath by furious gestures and talke as though hee would haue fought Gluttony by vomiting and Sloth by gaping and snorting as if hee had beene a sleepe Ma. Mainy at euery time recouering his sences and falling to prayer as he had done before After these seauen deuils had thus shewed themselues and were againe at rest in Ma. Mainy it seemed good to Ma. Edmunds to try what he could doe with Modu their prince and Captaine He beginneth againe his exorcismes and continued the same till after a while the said Modu rose vp againe and asked Ma. Edmunds how hee liked his 7. Brethren before mētioned who had appeared one after another And furthermore hee fell a cursing and said A pox on you all for popish priests My fellowes the protestants can make very much of my said Brethren giue them good entertainment bidding them welcome whensoe-they come but you scuruy priests can neither abide them your selues nor suffer them to be quiet whensoeuer you are conuersant Heereunto Ma. Edmunds aunswered that they would be enemies both to him and them all during their liues And commaunded both him and the rest of his companions for to depart out of Ma. Mainy vrging them with such seuerall adiurations as are see downe to that purpose in the booke of Exorcismes Whilst he was thus proceeding with him he required Modu by the authority of his Priesthood and power left by Christ in the Catholique Romane Church to tell him truly concerning these visions that appeared vnto Mainy with that the deuill in Mainy fell out into a great laughter saying that it had doone him very much good that he had coosened so many priests and made all the company for to worship him For saith hee all that time that you and the rest seemed to pray vnto Christ and vnto Saffronbag it was I and all my cōpany that you worshipped Heerewith Ma. Edmunds beeing greatly mooued defied him said that they had no intention of worshipping him and that if any wee so deceiued it was of ignorance and that his torments should be the greater for so intolerable an illusion Then Ma. Edmunds began againe his exorcismes with great earnestnes and all the company cried out vpon God the blessed virgin S. George and all the company of heauen to helpe and succour them in that holy action so as both that wicked Prince Modu and all his company might be cast out of Ma Mainy And accordingly God heard their prayers for shortly after they were all cast forth and that in such sort as Ma Edmunds directed them which was that euery deuill should