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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A54396	The devill of Mascon, or, A true relation of the chiefe things which an unclean spirit did, and said at Mascon in Burgundy in the house of Mr. Francis Pereaud, minister of the Reformed Church in the same towne / published in French lately by himselfe ; and now made English by one that hath a particular knowledge of the truth of this story.; Antidémon de Mascon. English	Perrault, François, 1577-1657.; Du Moulin, Pierre, 1568-1658.	1658 (1658)	Wing P1584; ESTC R40060	21,898	64

but his servant yea that he was not the same that had bin in the house the night before that then one of his fellow servants was waiting and that they two were expecting their masters returne from his Journey to Chambery whence he should returne within few daies Howsoever whether it was the Master Devill that then spake or one or more of his servants I have beene informed by worthy witnesses that at the same time there was a Spirit in the house of Monsieur Favre the first president of Chambery who for his learning in law was one of the illustrious men of his age To him the Spirit spake and told him among other things that he came from Mascon and had past through Bresse and seene such and such kinsmen of his To returne to what was in our house at that time the Spirit bespoke aloud great preparations of provision as turkies partriges hares and the like for the comming of his Master Then he sung many prophane and bawdy songs among others that which is called le filou He counterfeited the voyce of Juglers and mountebankes and especially that of huntsmen crying aloud holevrier ho levrier as hunters use to shoute when they start a hare He offered to tempt us by covetousnesse one of the ordinary temptations of the Devill for which reason he is called Mammona Divers times he would peremptorily affirme that there was six thousand crownes hidden in that house and that if any of us would follow him he would shew us where the money was hid But I can say with a good conscience before God and his holy Angels that I never searcht for it nor employed others about it nor suffered any to looke for it or ever had any will to make benefit by it He would try us also by curiosity saying that if we had a mind to see him in any shape of man woman lyon beare dog cat c. he would give us the sport of it Which motion we did much abhorre and reject saying that we were so farre from desiring to see him in any of these shapes or any other that we were very desirous if it might be Gods pleasure never to heare him but that we hoped that God would shortly deliver us from all his temptations In the end he became very angry first against me because I had told him Goe thou cursed into the everlasting fire prepared for the Devill and his Angels Whereupon he told me Thou liest I am not cursed I hope yet for salvation by the death and passion of Jesus Christ This he sayd perhaps to make us believe that he was the soule of a woman deceased a little before in that house the daughter of a woman whom I had ejected by law out of that house for there had beene a rumour that when she died she prayed to God that she might returne to the house after her death to vexe us He told me in great wrath that he would doe this and that to me Among other things he told me that when I should be a bed he would come and pull off my blankets pull me out of the bed by the feete I answered him the same thing that the Royall Prophet David said to his enemies I will lay me downe and sleepe for the Lord maketh me dwell in safety I told him also that which Jesus Christ said to Pilate Thou hadst no power on me but what is given thee from above Whereupon he answered me repeating two or three times these words It is well for thee It is well for thee He was also very angry with one of the company who had called him stinking hee-goate and gave him many ill words as these Thou wouldest appeare a good man but thou art but an hypocrite thou goest often to Pontdeville pretending to goe heare Sermons But when thou goest thou takest thy boxe of bills bonds along with thee to exact thine arreares vse money Goe thou wouldst make no conscience to hang a man for twenty shillings as Mr Denis doth That master Denis was the hangman of Mascon Then making a noise as if he had clapt his hands together he sayd agaíne to the same man Thou makest heare the shew of a valiant man having brought thy sword along with thee this night but if thou beest so bold as to come hither without a light it shall be seene which of vs two is the most valiant Having sayd all these things of the time past present he would also speake of the future Speaking of those that professe the reformed Religion within the Kingdome of France he made once this exclamation O poore Hugonots you shall haue much to suffer within a few yeares O what mischiefe is intended against you more words to the same purpose He sayd of my wife that was with childe neare her time that she should have a daughter sayd it two or three times The case she was in made me feare that she should get some harme in her childbearin by a fright caused by our infernal ghest Wherefore I desired her to goe out of the house goe to her grandmother the Lady Philiberta de la Moussiere with whom she had bin bred from her infancy to lye in at her house But she did excuse herselfe from it very courageously saying that going away would be mistrusting the power mercy of God That since it pleased God to visit vs so he might find vs as well in another house that to resist the Devill we must not flee from him Wherein verily I acknowledged her to be in the right because wee are often exhorted in the Scripture to ●esist fight wrestle with the Deuill ●ut never to flee from him which would be ●eilding to him the victory For he is like he wolfe or the crocodile whom if you and against stoutly they will runne away but if you feare them runne from them they will run after you The Demon sayd one night before vs all ●hat without fayle I should dye within three ●eares thinking thereby to torment me with a continual apprehension of death so make me fall if he could into some melancholy so into sicknes thereby to have made his words good But I answered him in the words of St Paul Act 20. None of these things moue me neither count I my life deare vnto my selfe so that I might finish my course with Joy the ministery which I have received of the Lord Iesus to testifie the Gospell of the grace of God The Demon having used all these wiles against us was forced to say that he could not prevaile against us because we did call two much upon the name of God To shew the efficacy of our prayers this is an observable truth that every time that the Devill saw that wee began to kneele to goe to our prayers he left talking and many times told us these words While you are at your prayers I 'le goe take

Get thee from me Satan the Lord rebuke thee But as he was repeating againe very often that word Minister thinking belike thereby to grieve me much I was provoked to tell him Yes indeed I am a Minister a servant of the living God before whose Majesty thou tremblest To which he answered I say nothing to the contrary And I replied I have no need of thy testimony Yet he continued to say the same as if he would winne us to a favorable opinion of him Then he would offer to transforme himselfe into an Angell of light saying of his owne accord and very lowd the Lords Prayer the Creed the morning and evening prayers and the ten Commandements It is true that he did alwaies clip and leave out some part of it He sung also with a lowd and audible voyce part of the Psalm 81. Then said many things which might be true as some particular passages belonging to my family as among other things that my father had beene poisoned naming the man that did it and why and specifying the place and the manner of the poison That very night he said that he came from Pais de Vaux that he had past through the village of Allamogne which is in Bailliage de Gez at the dore of my elder brothers house where he had seene him with Mr Du Pan Minister of Thoiry That they were ready to goe to supper together at my brothers house That they were neighbours and deare friends That he had saluted them and asked whether they had any thing to command him to deliver to me because he was going to Mascon That they had shewed themselves very kinde to him and desired him to remember their love to me ' yea and had invited him to drinke with them Thou wicked fiend said I to the spirit had they knowne thee they would not have beene so kind to thee Some truth there was in his story for M Du Pan hath since told me and many others that they remembred very well how at that very time a man of such and such a shape riding on a very leane horse that hung downe his head had spoken with them and that such discourses past betweene them The Demon told us also of another brother of mine living in the Vale of the Lake de Joux in the Countrey of Vaux saying that one day when some of our neere kinred were come to visit him he to give them some recreation made them goe upon the lake without a boate upon floating wood tyed together And that they being farre on the Lake a stormy wind did arise which constrained them to returne in haste to the shore Not farre from which all that floating wood was overturned and they all welnigh drowned Which storme he affirmed to be of his raising The relation of that passage being very true it may be true also that he had raised that wind as we reade in the booke of Job that Satan raised a great winde that made the house fall upon the children of that holy man Another night the Demon speaking to Claude Repay a bleacher of linnen cloath one of them that used to come to me at night asked him whether he remembred not that upon such a day after he had set in order some pieces of cloath and skeanes of yarne he found them a while after removed out of their place and out of order and then said that it was his doing He asked another bleacher called Philibert Guillermin who was also in the company whether he remembred not that one day as he was stooping to turne some pieces of cloath and skeanes of yarne lying upon the grasse something pulled him behind by the skirts of his doublet and made him goe back two or three steps and that the next evening as he lay in his bleaching house his hat which he had hanged on a naile by his bed-side was flung at his face and made him start out of his sleepe That said he was of my doing Both Repay and Guillermin acknowledged that these things had happened to them but who had a hand in these accidents they knew not before That Philibert Guillermins brother a merchant of Lovan comming from Lyons lodged in his brothers house and had a mind to visit me the first night but his brother would not let him The Demon failed not to tell us of it saying I know why Mr Philibert came not to sit up here yester-night His Brother had a good minde to have bestowed a visit upon us but Philibert disswaded him because he would not that his brother should heare what noise we keepe in this house He spake also of a late quarrell betweene one James Berard a cutler of Mascon and one Samuel du Mont who had so beaten the sayd Berard that he had brought him to deaths dore which was true and told many particulars of that quarrell which were not knowne He told us how at the late fayre of St Lawrence upon which the citizens of Mascon march in armes under their severall colours one Francis Chickard had beene hurt with a musket shot in the legge which afterwards being gangrened was cut off And he named the man that had shot him and said that he had done it to be revenged of Chickard to whom he bore a malice which might very well be true He related a notable story of those that lived before in the house where we dwelt Philibert Masson and Guillauma Blane his wife commonly called la Challonoise that one day they being fallen out the wife tooke her time when her husband would goe downe into his shop and pusht him behind with such violence that he fell downe the stares starke dead And that she presently by another paire of staires went downe and called the prentices and journeymen from the shop to their drinking that they finding their master in the bottome of the staires dead might impute his death to some sudden sicknesse This secret revealed by the Devill many have believed to be a truth Another night the Demon speaking to one of our company told him such private and secret things that the man who affirmed never to have told them to any person came to believe that the Devill knew his thoughts till I had disabused him Then he began to mock God and all Religion and saying Gloria Patri he skipt over the second person and upon the third person he made a foule horrible and detestable equivocation Whereupon I being incensed with a just anger told him But rather thou wicked and abominable Spirit shouldest have said Gloria Patri creatori coeli terrae Filio ejus Jesu Christo qui destruxit opera Diaboli That is Glory be to the Father Creatour of heaven and earth and to his Sonne Jesus Christ who hath destroyed the workes of the Devill He then desired us with great earnestnesse that we should send for Mr Du Chassin the Popish Parson of St Stevens Parish to whom he would confesse himselfe and that