A
BRIEF
APOLOGIE
PROVING
THE
POSSESSION
OF
WILLIAM
SOMMERS
.
Written
by
IOHN
DORRELL
,
a
faithful
Minister
of
the
Gospell
:
but
published
without
his
knowledge
,
With
a
Dedicatorie
Epistle
disclosing
some
disordered
procedings
against
the
saide
IOHN
DORRELL
.
Quod
in
religionem
committitur
,
in
omnium
fertur
iniuriam
.
1599.
To
the
right
Honourable
St
Thomas
Eggerton
Knight
,
L.
Keeper
of
the
great
Seale
of
England
,
Sr
Iohn
Popham
Knight
,
L.
chief
Iustice
of
England
:
Sir
William
Periam
Knight
,
Lord
chief
Baron
of
th'
Eschequer
,
and
other
the
most
reuerend
Iudges
of
the
Common
Lawes
of
Englande
.
MY
LL.
I
doe
not
doubt
,
but
your
HH.
haue
hearde
of
the
possession
&
dispossession
of
William
Summors
,
a
youth
of
Notingham
,
but
in
what
sence
these
thinges
haue
bene
carried
vnto
you
,
by
reason
of
the
manifolde
varieties
of
reportes
spred
abroad
,
it
may
be
well
doubted
.
Wherefore
to
the
end
,
that
your
HH.
might
take
knowledge
of
the
trueth
herein
,
and
according
to
your
knowledge
by
that
hie
authoritie
deriued
vnto
you
from
her
Sacred
Maiestie
,
for
the
gouernement
of
hir
subiectes
,
according
to
your
accustomed
iustice
and
integritie
,
iustifie
the
trueth
,
&
discountenance
the
contrarie
:
I
haue
therfore
presumed
to
preferre
vnto
your
LL.
this
plaine
Apologeticall
treatise
,
penned
by
Maister
Iohn
Dorrell
,
a
principall
partie
in
this
matter
,
but
published
altogither
without
his
priuitie
or
consent
therein
.
The
maine
point
of
the
controuersie
is
,
Whether
William
Summers
was
possessed
and
dispossessed
,
yea
or
no.
Whereby
there
is
called
into
question
a
matter
of
fact
,
a
greater
then
which
,
can
not
almost
fall
out
to
bee
decided
among
the
sonnes
of
men
,
namelie
touchinge
the
malice
of
Satan
,
and
maruellous
authoritie
of
our
Lorde
IESVS
.
They
that
imagine
Summer
was
not
possessed
,
but
did
counterfeit
,
doe
by
consequence
and
indirectlie
denie
the
malice
of
Satan
,
&
the
Soueraintie
of
our
Sauiour
in
this
action
.
But
if
it
fall
out
contrarie
,
that
hee
was
possessed
and
dispossessed
in
deed
,
what
their
sinne
is
,
and
what
their
reward
shall
be
that
blaspheme
this
great
worke
of
God
,
I
leaue
to
the
secret
iudgement
of
the
great
day
,
when
they
that
now
iudge
,
shall
be
iudged
.
Onelie
,
hereby
it
is
euident
,
that
so
manie
hie
or
lowe
as
professe
them selues
Christians
,
are
greatlie
interessed
in
this
matter
,
that
so
much
concerneth
Christ
their
Maister
:
and
ought
therefore
informe
them selues
herein
,
in
asmuch
as
what
soeuer
is
done
against
the
Head
,
must
needes
strecht
vnto
the
Members
.
Now
,
euerie
matter
of
fact
(
as
this
is
)
most
vsuallie
is
determined
by
the
othes
of
men
:
It
is
therefore
to
bee
respected
what
hath
bene
&
may
be
proued
by
the
depositions
of
credible
men
,
touching
this
matter
.
By
commission
from
the
Archbish
of
York
,
directed
to
12.
especiall
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*
Iohn
Therold
Esq.
hie
Sheriff
of
Nottinghan
.
Sir
Iohn
Biron
Knight
.
Iohn
Stanop
.
Robert
Markham
.
Rich.
Parkins
Es.
Peter
Clerk
,
Maior
of
Noting
.
Archd.
Walton
.
Miles
Leigh
,
offic.
Ioh.
Treton
,
Iohn
Brown
.
Rob.
Evington
,
and
Tho.
Bolton
,
preachers
.
persons
neare
to
Notingham
,
17.
witnesses
were
deposed
,
who
directlie
proue
such
admitable
things
to
be
done
or
suffered
by
the
saide
Summer
,
that
neither
Art
nor
Nature
can
compasse
the
like
.
Besides
these
17.
the
names
of
others
to
the
number
of
60.
or
thereabouts
,
were
taken
in
writing
,
readie
to
be
deposed
of
the
same
and
the
like
.
But
the
Commissioners
being
wearied
with
examinations
of
witnesses
,
&
seeing
Summer
before
their
faces
violentlie
cast
into
one
of
his
sitts
,
so
as
he
wallowed
with
his
body
stretched
out
at
length
with
an
exceeding
swiftnes
from
one
ende
of
the
rowme
where
they
sate
vnto
another
,
and
being
pulled
by
the
cares
and
pricked
with
pinnes
in
his
legg
and
hande
,
of
purpose
to
trie
whether
he
had
any
feeling
or
not
,
yet
he
remayning
sencelesse
,
and
no
bloud
following
,
than
they
thought
it
needlesse
to
proceed
any
further
That
the
blacke
dogge
which
brought
him
the
bag
of
golde
,
did
bidde
him
say
so
.
To
second
the
trueth
of
the
extraordinarie
handling
of
this
Som.
Maister
Treton
,
Maister
Brown
,
and
Maister
Ivington
,
commissioners
,
M.
Hildersham
,
M.
More
,
and
M.
Brincesley
,
all
godly
preachers
,
and
some
of
them
of
great
renowme
for
learning
and
grauiue
,
besides
manie
Gentlemen
and
others
of
good
credite
,
voluntatilie
haue
offred
to
testifie
the
trueth
in
the
premisses
,
but
they
haue
bene
reiected
&
sharplie
censured
.
Petitions
haue
bene
made
for
copyes
of
the
allegations
and
depositions
against
this
matter
,
and
for
awarding
of
new
Commissions
to
indifferent
persons
for
more
full
satisfaction
:
but
hitherto
none
of
these
could
be
obteined
,
no
not
much
as
patient
audience
,
or
any
iudiciall
course
of
proceeding
.
On
the
other
side
,
the
bare
report
of
Som
that
he
did
counterfeit
,
and
was
instructed
therevnto
by
M.
Darrell
(
though
it
bee
impossible
to
be
true
without
the
impeachment
of
the
othes
of
infallible
witnesses
)
is
helde
for
authenticall
,
&
long
libells
or
legendis
drawen
thervpon
,
which
may
be
confuted
by
manifold
witnesses
,
if
they
might
be
heard
.
But
as
if
it
were
more
then
high
treason
to
affirme
the
contrarie
to
that
which
one
man
relying
vpon
Som.
relation
hath
auouched
to
the
L.
Archb
of
Canterb
and
it
may
be
to
your
LL.
&
other
personages
of
hie
estate
to
be
true
,
all
witnesses
without
respect
of
their
authoritie
in
the
common
wealth
,
their
learning
,
grauitie
,
and
approued
credite
,
are
scornfullie
contemned
,
or
insolentlie
charged
to
medle
no
more
in
this
matter
,
although
it
hath
pleased
hir
most
excellent
Maiestic
,
by
one
of
the
Gentlemen
of
hir
priuie
Chamber
If
the
boyes
wordes
be
of
such
credite
that
none
may
impugn
them
,
why
should
not
his
words
sealed
at
other
times
with
othes
and
execrations
be
of
like
value
?
After
his
dispossession
&
repossession
,
being
sometimes
come
to
him selfe
,
he
voluntarily
with
his
own
hand
writinge
(
which
is
yet
to
be
seene
)
sheweth
how
it
came
to
passe
that
he
was
induced
to
giue
out
that
he
had
bene
a
counterfeit
,
not
vpon
any
ground
of
the
trueth
,
but
by
the
threates
of
Satan
and
his
instruments
.
His
own
wordes
are
these
:
Being
at
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A
house
of
correction
in
Notinghars
.
Sent
Iones
,
there
came
vnto
me
a
thing
like
vnto
a
Dogg
,
and
said
vnto
me
,
And
if
I
would
consent
vnto
him
&
say
that
I
was
a
counterfeit
,
he
would
giue
me
a
bagge
of
golde
,
and
if
I
woulde
not
,
hee
woulde
make
me
be
hanged
,
or
else
he
would
teare
mee
in
peeces
:
Nass
,
and
said
,
if
I
would
not
say
that
I
was
a
Counterfeit
,
hee
would
cast
me
into
the
well
,
and
so
went
away
.
And
Nicholaies
Shepand
said
,
and
if
I
were
in
a
fitt
againe
,
hee
would
fetch
a
paire
of
Knipknapes
&
a
roape
,
&
he
would
make
me
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*
confess
.
that
he
was
a
counterfet
confesse
,
or
else
hang
me
.
And
Iohn
Couper
and
Shepeard
said
,
and
if
I
would
saye
,
that
I
was
a
Counterfait
,
that
Maister
Mēre
and
the
Aldermene
would
giue
Out
of
which
words
of
his
,
may
be
obserued
,
that
this
apparition
of
the
Dogge
,
consorteth
with
that
which
the
three
Commissioners
aforesaid
did
see
,
and
Som.
did
vtter
in
the
audience
of
diuers
:
Also
that
the
Deuill
and
his
agents
conspire
in
one
complott
against
this
mighty
worke
of
the
Lorde
Iesus
.
Lastlie
,
that
it
is
no
maruell
though
Som.
delude
the
vnbeleeuers
by
some
rare
actions
,
seeing
the
Deuill
promised
to
helpe
him
in
any
thing
he
would
take
in
hande
.
Thus
Som.
is
confuted
by
Som.
him selfe
.
Yet
because
experience
hath
proued
that
this
Som.
is
a
Secreta
imperij
,
Matters
of
State
,
and
may
not
be
spoken
of
in
any
case
)
therfore
for
more
suretie
least
these
prankes
should
be
disclosed
,
Commissions
haue
bene
addressed
into
Notingham
,
to
gather
better
ground
for
these
surmises
.
But
contrarie
to
the
commendable
course
of
proceedings
vnder
your
LL.
in
the
Thomas
Gray
of
Langloy
in
the
Countie
of
Leicester
,
Esquier
,
hauing
bin
heretofore
Maister
vnto
Som.
was
by
the
Bish.
of
Lond.
&c.
although
the
Gentleman
was
bold
to
tel
him
,
that
his
dealing
should
bee
made
knowen
vnto
his
betters
likewise
.
Whereas
Maister
Darrell
had
bene
imployed
about
the
dispossessing
of
Thomas
Darling
of
Burton
vpon
Trent
,
into
whom
one
Alice
Goodridg
had
sent
her
familiar
Spirit
called
Minnie
(
as
hir selfe
confessed
,
and
for
the
same
was
condemned
as
a
witch
by
the
Queenes
Iustices
,
accordinge
as
in
the
Treatise
following
is
declared
)
Now
to
the
end
there
might
bee
gained
some
supplement
of
proofe
to
giue
colour
to
the
pretended
counterfeiting
betwene
M.
Darrell
and
Som.
the
said
Darling
and
others
haue
bin
examined
vpon
their
othes
by
the
aforenamed
Bish.
&
drawen
to
confesse
contrarie
to
the
trueth
,
as
them selues
haue
auouched
,
that
Darling
was
a
meere
counterfeit
,
and
was
neither
possessed
nor
bewitched
.
Whereby
the
iudgment
giuen
by
the
Queenes
Iustices
against
the
said
Alice
,
for
bewitching
of
Darling
,
is
directly
deseated
&
impeached
,
especiallie
,
if
Sentence
should
be
giuen
herein
.
For
if
Darling
did
counterfeit
,
then
hee
was
not
bewitched
:
and
if
he
was
not
bewitched
,
then
was
the
iudgement
and
execution
against
Alice
Goodridge
erroniously
and
wrongfullie
awarded
.
Whether
this
practise
may
stande
with
the
statute
of
Provision
and
Premunire
,
and
with
the
honour
which
is
due
to
the
Temporall
Courts
,
your
LL.
wisdomes
can
best
determine
.
Or
if
it
be
not
in
case
of
Premunire
,
it
is
an
abuse
which
your
LL.
being
now
acquainted
therwithall
,
will
see
redressed
.
By
this
short
recapitulation
of
indirect
proceedinges
,
and
that
in
a
matter
concerning
Christ
our
common
Sauiour
,
contrarie
to
the
Royall
commaundement
of
our
most
gracious
and
soucraine
Lady
the
Queenes
Maiestie
,
hir
Iawes
and
lawfull
liberties
of
hir
loyall
subiects
,
you
see
what
cause
I
haue
to
exhiblie
this
short
Apologie
vnto
your
LL.
humblie
crauing
that
you
would
allowe
some
spare
time
to
read
it
ouer
:
assuring
my selfe
,
that
though
it
be
penned
in
simplicitie
without
colours
and
pompe
of
humane
learning
,
yet
it
will
leaue
such
impression
in
you
,
as
you
will
not
onely
incline
to
the
cause
,
but
also
by
your
authoritie
,
cleare
it
of
scandall
.
It
wil
be
(
perhaps
)
obiected
,
that
by
publishing
this
Thus
referring
the
consideration
of
these
thinges
to
your
HH.
I
beseeche
the
Lord
almightie
,
to
continue
&
increase
your
cares
for
the
seruice
of
hir
Maiestie
,
the
benefite
of
this
Church
and
common
Wealth
,
to
the
enlargement
of
all
true
honour
to
your selues
with
comfort
at
the
time
of
your
death
,
a
blessed
memorie
after
life
,
and
eternall
happinesse
to
your
bodies
and
soules
in
the
life
to
come
for
euermore
.
AMEN
.
Nullus
liber
homo
capiatur
vel
imprisonetur
,
aut
disseisietur
de
libero
tonemēto
,
vel
libertatibus
,
vel
liberis
Magna
Carta
.
Cap.
29.
That
William
Sommers
did
not
counterfeite
a
possession
,
but
was
in
deed
stranglie
and
snpernaturally
afflicted
by
the
operation
of
Sathan
(
as
we
verely
thinke
)
actuallie
possessing
him
.
IN
the
Gospell
there
are
diuers
signes
set
downe
of
Sathan
his
actuall
possessing
one
,
as
[
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a
Mark
.
5.
5.
Luke
9.
39.
cryinge
,
[
b
](A19854-e1100-b)
b
Mark
9.
18.
gnashinge
the
teeth
,
[
c
](A19854-e1110-b)
c
Mark
.
9.
18.
20.
wallowing
,
[
d
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d
Mark
9.
18
,
20.
Luke
9.
39.
foming
,
[
e
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e
Mar.
17.
25.
Mar.
9
:
22.
extraordinarie
&
[
f
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f
Mar.
5.
3.
4.
Actes
19.
16.
supernaturall
strength
,
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g
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g
Mar.
5.
1
,
2
,
5
,
6
,
7.
Act.
16
16
,
17.
Mar.
1.
25
,
26.
&
9.
26
Act.
8.
7.
supernaturall
knowledge
,
with
sundrie
others
to
the
number
of
18.
but
these
and
euerie
of
the
rest
,
haue
bene
seene
in
Sommer
,
it
must
needes
therfore
be
,
that
Sathan
possessed
him
:
for
where
the
proper
signe
,
or
signes
of
a
thing
is
,
there
is
also
the
thing
signified
thereby
:
where
smoke
is
,
there
is
fier
.
That
he
was
dispossessed
,
the
signes
thereof
confirme
:
which
are
,
Crying
aloude
,
renting
sore
,
&
lying
as
dead
:
these
were
seene
and
heard
at
the
instant
of
his
deliuerance
.
Against
this
it
is
obiected
,
That
he
hath
onely
counterfeited
a
possession
,
being
therevnto
schooled
by
me
.
To
the
former
part
thereof
I
aunswere
,
That
sundrie
of
these
thinges
,
which
haue
ben
done
,
or
rather
suffred
by
him
,
are
such
,
as
are
impossible
to
be
counterfeited
,
that
is
to
bee
done
by
any
arte
of
man
how
cunning
soeuer
he
be
:
as
the
extraordinarie
&
supernaturall
Actions
or
passions
of
his
body
,
strength
and
knowledge
.
1
I
will
goe
out
at
his
eye
,
or
,
I
will
goe
out
at
his
toe
,
it
was
seene
presentlie
to
vanish
,
or
remoue
out
of
that
place
.
2
When
this
Swelling
was
in
his
arme
or
leggs
&
made
any
stay
there
,
as
often
it
did
,
then
,
and
during
that
tyme
,
the
same
member
was
as
heauy
and
inflexible
as
so
much
yron
.
3
His
body
was
of
that
exceedinge
waight
,
that
diuers
at
once
could
scarsly
lift
him
.
4
He
fomed
aboundantly
(
like
vnto
the
horsse
)
and
that
for
an
houre
togither
,
so
as
it
roped
downe
all
along
on
his
brest
,
and
yet
euer
and
anon
was
wiped
away
.
5
In
his
fit
neither
did
the
temples
of
his
head
,
nor
the
pulses
of
his
handes
beate
or
moue
.
6
He
lay
for
the
space
of
an
houre
as
if
he
had
bene
dead
,
cold
as
yee
,
his
face
and
handes
blacke
,
no
breath
being
perceyued
to
come
from
him
.
7
Being
oftentymes
cast
into
the
fier
,
with
his
handes
sometymes
in
the
fire
,
sometymes
his
face
,
lyeing
there
also
a
while
,
He
was
not
burnt
at
all
.
8
He
did
speake
distinctlie
with
a
continuall
speach
for
a
quarter
of
an
houre
,
his
mouth
being
shut
close
.
9
He
spake
with
his
mouth
wide
open
,
yea
his
tongue
tetorted
into
his
throate
,
and
namely
these
words
:
Ego
sum
Deus
,
ego
sum
Rex
:
that
is
,
J
am
God
,
I
am
King
.
Whichhe
retortinge
was
vsuall
with
him
,
and
so
done
,
as
no
parcell
of
his
tongue
was
to
bee
seene
in
his
mouth
.
10
He
was
in
his
fitts
without
feeling
to
the
iudgment
of
those
which
sawe
him
.
Pinnes
being
thrust
deepe
into
sundrie
parts
of
his
body
(
sometimes
vp
to
the
head
,
)
he
stirred
not
at
all
,
neither
did
any
blood
issue
at
the
places
so
pricked
.
Herevnto
adde
that
most
rare
accident
,
That
vnder
the
Couerlet
where
he
lay
,
there
were
certayne
thinges
sometime
foure
or
fiue
at
one
instant
stirring
&
mouing
vnder
our
handes
as
if
they
had
ben
kittlings
,
whelpes
,
or
such
liuing
creatures
:
the
couerlet
being
fuddenly
cast
vp
,
they
vanished
away
:
but
thrown
downe
,
they
were
presently
there
againe
,
and
this
continued
about
tenne
dayes
and
nights
by
tymes
.
The
first
of
these
hath
bin
deposed
by
11.
the
Teste
some
by
4.
by
5.
and
some
by
more
or
lesse
witnesses
,
these
few
excepted
where
this
marke
(
x
)
is
,
which
notwithstanding
are
as
true
as
the
rest
,
and
to
be
deposed
.
There
are
besides
these
diuers
others
,
as
the
drawing
of
his
mouth
awry
,
sometimes
to
th'
one
eare
,
sometimes
to
th'
other
:
the
setting
of
his
face
against
his
backe
:
a
violent
beating
of
his
face
&
head
to
the
ground
,
and
the
casting
of
him self
headlong
against
the
walles
,
and
postes
of
the
house
,
so
as
one
would
haue
thought
hee
would
haue
spoyled
or
bruised
him selfe
greatlie
thereby
,
yet
receyued
he
no
hurt
at
all
:
the
gatheringe
of
him self
of
a
rouud
heape
,
&
bounsing
vp
a
good
height
being
so
geathered
,
a
straunge
voice
which
was
sensibly
heard
to
come
out
of
his
bodye
:
his
vnnatural
swelling
,
his
body
being
twice
so
bigge
as
naturallie
it
is
,
and
his
strange
wallowing
or
swift
rowling
of
him selfe
,
with
his
body
stretched
out
to
his
full
length
.
If
these
things
,
most
straunge
and
admirable
,
can
bee
done
by
any
humaine
skill
,
I
denie
not
but
that
hee
may
be
a
counterfeite
:
but
vntill
that
shall
appeare
,
I
must
needs
subscribe
them
to
some
supernatural
power
,
&
that
is
the
Deuill
:
for
some
cause
of
these
rare
effects
must
be
had
,
&
that
must
be
either
naturall
or
supernaturall
,
but
a
naturall
cause
hereof
can
not
be
giuen
,
of
necessitie
therefore
there
must
bee
some
supernaturall
,
which
was
an
euill
spirit
possessing
him
,
for
the
reason
aforesaid
.
Against
these
impossibilities
much
is
saide
,
but
let
the
same
be
well
examined
by
the
premisses
as
a
rule
,
and
it
will
manifest
the
same
maketh
nothing
against
vs
.
Obiection
,
That
Som.
Confesseth
hee
did
conuterfeit
.
But
the
mayne
thing
that
is
obiected
for
the
proofe
of
his
dissembling
is
his
owne
confession
.
Douer
,
none
would
beleue
him
:
why
then
doe
any
credit
him
in
this
his
confession
?
for
it
is
no
more
possible
for
him
to
goe
that
iourney
in
that
time
,
then
by
his
owne
will
&
power
to
doe
those
things
which
are
about
specified
,
which
he
in
saying
he
hath
counterfeited
affirmeth
he
hath
done
.
If
this
be
a
certayne
trueth
,
that
these
thinges
hee
could
not
possibly
doe
,
which
all
men
may
graunt
,
then
forasmuch
as
20.
witnesses
or
therabout
,
haue
vpon
their
oathes
ascribed
the
same
vnto
him
,
or
some
other
power
in
,
or
by
him
,
it
must
necessarilie
and
inevitablie
followe
,
that
if
they
haue
sworne
truely
,
and
the
hundred
saye
truly
which
daylie
beare
witnes
therto
,
and
are
readie
to
depose
the
same
,
if
they
might
be
called
,
then
he
is
a
Iyar
in
saying
he
counterfeited
:
Chuse
nowe
whether
you
will
beleeue
W.
Som.
or
this
other
companie
.
If
he
say
crvelie
,
they
are
perjured
:
for
vppon
their
oathes
they
haue
avouched
these
things
by
him
,
which
can
not
possibly
be
counterfeited
.
And
if
they
sweare
truely
,
he
lyeth
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
he
dissembled
.
And
here
we
〈◊〉
ouer
that
the
question
is
not
whether
Som.
did
(
or
suffered
)
the
thing
aboue
specified
,
as
whether
he
had
such
a
variable
swelling
,
running
vp
and
downe
along
his
body
,
and
so
of
the
rest
.
For
that
such
thinges
were
seene
in
him
,
is
alreadie
deposed
by
many
:
that
therfore
is
out
of
all
question
,
&
most
true
,
except
they
be
periured
,
which
is
most
vncharitable
to
conceiue
,
and
daungerous
to
affirme
,
but
the
state
of
our
controuersie
or
question
is
whether
Som.
himself
by
some
sleight
or
cunninge
of
his
,
did
then
:
or
(
that
being
impossible
)
some
other
power
in
or
by
him
:
they
therfore
that
goe
from
this
point
,
speake
nothing
to
the
matter
or
against
it
.
Notingham
,
by
them
for
a
time
imprisoned
,
so
as
his
father
in
lawe
entered
bond
for
his
appearance
at
the
Assises
.
2
To
this
ende
Sathan
visibly
appearing
vnto
him
(
as
his
vsuall
maner
is
to
those
he
possesseth
)
sometime
promised
him
golde
,
and
that
he
would
be
at
hand
to
do
those
things
for
him
hee
had
done
howsoeuer
hee
would
haue
him
,
if
he
would
say
he
had
counterfeited
:
at
other
times
threatned
to
pul
him
in
pieces
if
he
would
not
say
so
.
3.
For
the
obteyning
therof
Couper
and
Shepherd
(
two
most
lewd
and
euil
disposed
persons
)
threatned
him
:
the
one
to
whippe
him
,
the
other
to
pinch
him
with
a
paire
of
pincers
,
as
appeareth
both
by
Som.
confession
and
their
own
vpon
their
oathes
before
12
Commissioners
.
These
baytes
thus
layd
by
Satan
&
wicked
men
,
caught
him
,
for
presently
after
&
not
before
,
he
made
the
cursed
confession
of
counterfeiting
:
&
no
maruell
,
these
things
well
considered
,
though
he
vsed
his
tongue
against
the
trueth
and
God
him selfe
and
the
great
worke
which
he
had
wrought
for
him
,
seeing
that
thereby
he
should
not
only
escape
(
as
he
no
doubt
thought
)
that
which
Sathan
threatned
,
and
haue
that
he
promised
,
which
hee
hath
hitherto
performed
:
but
also
to
avoid
the
present
punishment
.
his
keepers
threatned
to
inflict
vpon
him
,
&
,
which
was
most
of
all
,
thereby
he
should
saue
his
life
:
for
he
in
saying
hee
had
dissembled
,
was
thereby
freed
from
all
suspition
(
or
rather
that
malicious
&
false
accusation
)
of
witchcraft
,
and
thervpon
made
not
so
much
as
any
appearance
before
the
Iudge
of
Assise
:
Whereas
vndoubtedly
if
hee
had
stoode
to
the
trueth
,
and
neuer
acknowledged
any
counterfeiting
,
he
had
bene
arraigned
and
sore
layd
at
for
his
life
.
Now
the
prouerbe
is
,
life
is
sweet
:
and
who
(
almost
)
will
not
make
a
lye
for
the
sauing
of
his
life
?
If
then
any
aske
the
question
why
he
should
say
he
counterfeited
,
if
it
were
not
so
?
he
hath
his
aunswere
heere
,
for
hereby
wee
may
plainlie
see
,
that
there
was
in
carnall
reason
much
to
lead
him
to
that
confession
,
though
it
was
altogither
against
the
trueth
.
3.
As
before
so
after
he
had
made
this
wretched
confession
,
and
stoode
in
it
for
the
space
of
a
moneth
,
he
acknowledged
that
hee
neuer
counterfeited
,
yea
in
wretched
maner
he
hath
betaken
him selfe
body
and
soule
to
the
Deuill
,
if
euer
he
dissembled
,
and
this
he
did
for
x.
dayes
,
during
which
time
the
worke
of
God
was
manifest
,
and
that
by
the
confession
of
the
greatest
adversarie
.
Nowe
seeing
he
hath
said
both
wayes
,
and
varied
so
often
,
euen
foure
times
.
For
first
he
said
and
protested
,
that
he
did
not
counterfeit
,
then
,
that
he
did
dissemble
,
after
again
that
he
did
not
,
and
lastlie
,
he
saith
&
faceth
it
out
,
that
he
did
counterfeit
:
Why
should
we
rather
beleue
him
affirming
then
denying
,
seeing
(
I
say
)
he
hath
saide
both
wayes
and
alike
times
of
both
:
yea
who
that
is
wise
will
giue
credit
to
such
a
double
and
false
tongue
?
Considering
also
howe
notoriouslie
wicked
he
is
:
For
take
him
at
the
best
,
and
as
him self
and
others
would
faine
haue
you
:
He
is
an
infamous
deceauer
,
hauing
faigned
to
be
possest
with
a
Deuill
,
and
thereby
(
if
it
were
so
)
prophaned
the
holy
worde
of
God
,
and
the
holy
exercise
of
prayer
and
fasting
:
besides
he
is
as
notorious
a
lyar
as
euer
was
heard
or
read
of
,
and
by
consequent
the
child
of
the
Deuill
,
yea
not
onely
a
lyar
but
a
forsworn
wretch
,
for
he
hath
sworn
both
wayes
:
lastlie
,
he
is
an
horrible
blasphemer
,
for
hee
hath
saide
that
there
is
no
God
,
and
sometimes
these
wordes
,
I
am
God
,
as
is
deposed
.
These
things
considered
,
doe
not
they
greatlie
forget
themselues
which
wil
haue
Will
.
Som.
a
counterfeiter
,
and
my self
to
haue
taught
him
,
because
Will
.
So.
saith
so
?
Is
it
not
a
straunge
thing
that
whatsoeuer
this
graceles
boy
saith
shal
be
held
for
trueth
:
If
he
saye
hee
hath
Counterfeited
,
it
must
bee
so
,
though
God
and
men
affirme
the
contrarie
,
and
reason
it selfe
say
,
it
is
not
possible
so
to
be
.
When
he
for
pretence
hereof
alleadgeth
many
false
,
foolish
,
and
absurd
things
,
not
once
worthie
the
hearing
or
aunswering
,
they
are
received
for
true
&
invincible
arguments
therof
.
If
he
say
,
Jo.
Dorrell
.
taught
him
,
and
for
shew
thereof
alleadge
many
thinges
as
false
as
false
can
be
,
which
Io.
Dorrell
offereth
,
and
is
as
well
able
to
proue
them
false
,
as
to
proue
it
true
that
euer
hee
was
in
the
Gatehouse
,
yet
that
must
needs
be
true
.
In
a
word
,
if
Som.
and
he
alone
say
many
thinges
for
his
dissembling
a
possession
,
and
my
schooling
him
,
though
against
him
,
&
that
he
saith
,
Many
,
euen
hundreds
affirme
the
contrarie
,
&
aboue
20.
haue
sworne
that
which
proueth
the
same
,
and
among
those
some
were
learned
&
reverend
men
,
of
great
wisdome
and
godlines
:
yet
behold
Will
.
Som.
is
beleeued
before
them
all
,
What
marvaile
is
it
then
though
he
be
credited
and
his
word
,
&
oath
receiued
before
myne
,
thogh
I
be
a
Minister
of
Christ
Iesus
,
&
such
(
by
the
grace
of
God
)
as
they
which
seeking
advantage
against
me
,
can
finde
none
:
yet
in
a
worde
you
shall
heare
what
I
say
in
myne
owne
defence
.
Ashby
de
la
zouche
,
where
I
then
dwelt
,
as
hee
affirmeth
,
&
in
a
parke
there
we
met
,
and
this
our
meeting
began
about
4.
yeares
past
.
Now
the
trueth
is
that
he
was
gone
2.
or
3.
yeres
from
Mr.
Grayes
,
before
I
came
to
dwell
at
Ashby
,
&
5.
yeres
before
our
pretended
meeting
,
for
it
is
ix
.
yeares
or
therabouts
,
since
he
went
from
M.
Grayes
,
and
but
6.
yeres
since
I
went
to
Ashby
.
And
during
my
aboade
at
Ashby
,
he
neuer
dwelled
in
that
countries
wherein
Ashby
standeth
,
nor
nearer
it
,
then
Notingham
is
,
which
is
14.
miles
distant
,
and
from
whence
he
himself
doth
not
say
that
euer
he
came
to
me
:
Thus
then
the
case
standeth
,
the
lying
youth
having
charged
me
with
instructing
him
,
and
beeing
charged
thervpon
of
necessitie
where
&
when
we
met
to
that
end
,
and
not
knowing
what
place
to
name
,
at
length
he
bethought
him
of
his
dwellinge
sometimes
with
the
aforesaid
gentleman
,
&
mine
at
Ashby
:
&
having
none
other
he
named
the
aforesaid
place
,
because
then
as
he
thought
,
we
dwelt
within
5.
miles
one
of
another
,
but
therin
he
was
deceiued
,
as
is
alredy
by
oth
proved
:
this
his
accusation
therfore
is
manifestly
false
.
But
admit
he
had
dwelt
with
Mr
Gray
when
I
dwelt
at
Ashby
,
doth
that
so
greatly
confirme
our
meeting
in
the
parke
,
and
my
instructing
him
there
:
&
yet
besides
his
bare
oth
(
who
is
such
as
wee
heare
,
and
hath
sworne
the
contrarie
)
there
is
nothing
to
strengthen
his
accusation
but
this
,
yea
,
this
is
all
that
is
layde
to
my
chardge
,
saue
that
he
addeth
that
vpon
the
6.
and
7.
of
November
97.
at
Nottingham
I
acted
his
trickes
vnto
him
,
which
I
haue
offred
(
and
still
doe
)
to
disproue
by
a
multitude
of
witnesses
.
And
is
it
not
to
bee
wondred
at
,
that
such
an
open
and
notorious
lyar
,
as
this
boy
is
,
should
prevaile
so
long
and
so
farre
against
a
Preacher
of
the
Gospell
,
by
so
palpable
a
lye
and
false
accusation
as
this
is
.
Further
more
So.
Nottingham
,
vexed
with
a
strange
collike
,
through
much
going
into
the
water
,
I
should
dome
to
him
thither
from
Ashby
,
and
perswade
him
to
say
that
hee
was
possessed
,
&
that
so
we
first
became
acquainted
.
To
others
he
said
,
that
the
first
time
that
he
became
acquainted
with
mee
,
was
when
I
was
with
Katherino
Wright
in
Darbishire
,
whiche
was
about
12.
yeares
past
,
at
which
time
he
was
some
8.
yeres
old
,
vnfit
as
any
man
would
thinke
,
to
communicate
such
a
matter
vnto
.
Furthermore
he
tolde
the
Bishop
of
London
(
as
it
may
apappeare
by
one
of
the
articles
)
that
our
first
meeting
&
acquaintance
was
in
the
streetes
at
Ashby
,
I
talking
with
2.
strangers
,
and
that
about
Katherine
Wright
forsooth
,
who
departing
vpon
his
comming
,
we
two
(
as
he
saieth
)
went
into
the
fieldes
togither
.
And
now
he
saieth
,
that
our
first
acquaintance
Ashby
,
among
other
boyes
:
Which
allegacions
as
they
seuerallie
confute
one
another
,
so
I
am
wel
able
(
helped
by
circumstances
)
to
confute
them
all
:
wherin
if
I
faile
,
yea
further
if
I
make
not
myne
innocencie
and
righteousnesse
heerein
manifest
as
the
day
light
at
midday
,
so
that
I
may
be
hearde
and
haue
leave
to
produce
my
proofes
,
as
I
trust
in
time
I
shall
,
then
let
me
bee
held
guiltie
,
&
dealt
with
accordinglie
.
In
the
meane
season
I
will
vse
2.
reasons
more
in
the
defence
both
of
the
work
of
God
,
and
my selfe
.
If
So.
counterfeited
,
&
was
instructed
thervnto
by
me
,
them
in
all
reason
the
same
is
true
of
Th.
Darling
of
Burton
,
&
of
those
7.
in
Lancashire
,
for
they
were
Alice
Goodridge
by
name
,
sundry
times
confessed
,
that
she
mistaking
Tho.
Darling
for
one
Sherrats
boy
,
sent
her
familiar
or
spirit
in
forme
of
a
dogge
(
partie
coloured
,
redd
and
white
)
called
Mynny
,
to
torment
him
in
his
bodie
,
and
that
she
had
caused
his
vexation
:
&
further
that
at
hir
sending
of
him
,
she
streyned
all
hir
body
,
&
vomited
,
bidding
hir
Minny
to
goe
and
doe
so
to
the
boy
,
who
returning
,
saide
,
hee
had
done
so
.
Now
the
trueth
is
,
that
besides
the
child
was
most
fearfullie
tormented
in
and
thorough
all
the
partes
of
his
body
,
he
was
much
troubled
with
vomiting
,
&
making
shew
thereof
.
It
is
also
to
be
remembred
,
that
shee
named
the
tyme
,
place
,
occasion
,
and
the
wordes
shee
vsed
,
when
shee
sent
the
Deuil
to
vexe
and
torment
him
in
his
body
,
as
appeareth
pag.
26.
Herevpon
this
Alice
Goodridge
was
committed
to
Derby
gaole
,
indited
,
arraigned
,
by
the
Iurie
found
guiltie
thereof
,
and
by
the
Iudge
sentence
Nottingham
,
and
craue
helpe
from
some
there
:
thay
that
found
out
Somer
his
dissimulation
,
can
(
no
doubt
)
doe
asmuch
for
Darling
too
,
if
they
would
but
take
the
paines
to
make
diligent
search
and
inquiry
into
it
.
My
second
reason
is
this
:
If
Som.
be
a
counterfeit
,
&
I
haue
taught
him
,
then
vndoubtedly
Marie
Cooper
his
Thom.
Darling
it
was
evident
.
Onely
this
I
holde
,
that
one
being
possessed
,
prayer
&
fasting
is
to
bee
vsed
for
the
casting
out
of
Sathan
,
as
a
meanes
appointed
of
God
to
that
end
.
And
this
I
doubt
not
,
but
I
am
able
to
prove
by
the
holy
scriptures
,
&
further
to
confirme
by
the
testimonies
of
auncient
and
late
Writers
,
and
by
the
practise
of
the
Church
in
all
ages
,
&
the
good
successe
thereof
.
Is
it
not
the
maner
of
the
Romanes
for
favour
to
deliuer
any
man
to
death
,
before
that
he
which
is
accused
haue
the
accusers
before
him
,
&
haue
place
to
defend
him self
,
concerning
the
crime
.
Act.
25.
16.
A
brief
of
the
depositions
taken
at
Notingham
,
the
20.
of
March
1597.
by
ver
tue
of
a
commission
from
the
Archb.
of
York
and
others
hir
Maiesties
hie
Commissioners
,
before
12.
Commissioners
of
worship
,
proving
that
William
Somers
of
Nottingham
,
of
th'
age
of
20.
yeres
,
was
possessed
by
Sathan
,
and
did
not
counterfeit
as
some
pretend
.
1
THat
there
seemed
to
runne
along
his
legg
,
and
thence
into
his
toe
,
bellie
,
throat
,
tongue
,
cheeke
,
eie
,
and
other
partes
,
a
lumpe
sometimes
bigger
or
lesser
then
an
egge
beeing
soft
.
Deposed
by
-
Thom.
Hayes
,
art.
1.
-
Rob.
Aldridge
,
art.
2
-
William
Hinde
,
art.
3.
-
Tho.
Westfield
,
art.
4
-
Ioane
Pie
,
artic.
6.
-
Willi.
Langford
,
art.
5
-
Iohn
Strelley
,
art.
12
-
Richard
Mee
,
art.
13
-
Iohn
Pare
,
artic.
15.
-
Iohn
Clerk
,
artic.
16
-
William
Hunt
,
art.
17.
2
The
lumpe
beeing
in
his
legg
,
it
was
heauie
,
and
inflexible
like
yron
.
Depos
.
by
-
Iohn
Strelley
,
art.
12
-
Ioane
Pie
,
artic.
6.
-
Eliz.
Milward
,
art.
14
-
Iohn
Clerk
,
artic.
16
3
He
had
such
extraordinarie
strength
,
that
sometimes
3.
4.
5.
6.
or
moe
were
scarse
able
to
rule
him
.
Deposed
by
-
Rob.
Aldridg
,
art.
2.
-
Ioane
Pie
,
artic.
6.
-
Iohn
Wood
,
art.
111
-
Iohn
Strelley
,
art.
12
-
Richard
Mee
,
art.
13
-
Willi.
Langsord
,
art.
5
4
When
4.
or
5.
strugled
with
him
,
so
as
they
were
wearied
,
he
did
not
sweat
,
pante
,
or
chāgecolour
.
Deposed
by
-
William
Langforde
,
artic.
9.
-
Richard
Mee
,
art.
13
-
Iohn
Wood
,
art.
11.
5
He
walowed
,
gnashed
with
his
teeth
,
stared
with
his
eies
,
&
fomed
at
his
mouth
excessiuelie
,
hauing
neither
eate
nor
drunke
all
the
day
before
,
as
Langford
depos
.
-
Robert
Aldridge
,
articu
.
2.
-
Willi.
Aldred
,
art.
5.
-
Iohn
Strelley
,
art.
12
-
Richard
Mee
,
art.
13.
-
William
Langforde
,
artic.
9.
6
Ther
seemed
to
runne
vnder
the
couerlet
where
hee
lay
,
as
it
were
kittlinges
,
to
the
number
of
foure
or
fiue
Deposed
by
-
Robert
Aldridge
,
artic.
2.
-
Ioane
Pie
,
artic.
6.
-
Thom.
Gray
,
art
10
7
His
face
and
mouth
fearfullie
distorted
,
one
lipp
toward
one
eare
,
and
another
toward
th'
other
,
deposed
by
-
William
Aldred
,
artic.
5.
-
Ioane
Pie
,
artic.
6.
-
Richard
Mee
,
art.
13
8
His
face
turned
directlie
backward
,
not
moving
his
body
at
all
,
Deposed
by
-
Richard
Mee
,
art.
13
-
Ioane
Pie
,
artic.
6.
9
His
necke
doubled
vnder
him
,
Deposed
by
-
Richard
Mee
,
art.
13
10
His
bodye
doubled
,
his
head
betweene
his
legges
,
suddely
plucked
round
like
a
round
browne
loafe
:
hee
was
cast
vp
like
a
ball
from
the
bed
3.
or
4.
tymes
togither
,
half
a
yard
hic
,
depo
.
by
-
Ioane
Pie
,
artic.
6.
11
Beeing
cast
into
the
fire
,
where
he
lay
sometimes
against
the
walls
&
iron
barrs
of
the
chimney
with
great
violence
,
he
receiued
no
appearance
of
hurt
at
all
,
de
.
by
-
Ioane
Pie
,
artic.
6.
-
Iohn
Strelley
,
art.
12
-
Richard
Mee
,
art.
13
12
His
body
semed
to
be
extended
to
the
height
of
the
talest
man
,
when
once
he
endeuoured
to
hang
himself
,
Deposed
by
-
Ioane
Pie
,
artic.
6.
13
That
hee
tolde
of
diuers
things
done
in
his
absence
,
without
notice
giue
by
any
person
,
Deposed
by
-
Elizabeth
Milward
,
artic.
13
-
Ioane
Pie
,
artic.
6.
14
Strange
speeches
vttered
by
him
in
his
fits
,
in
a
strang
voice
,
as
,
that
hee
was
his
,
that
he
was
God
,
Christ
,
&
a
King
:
that
he
made
baptisme
:
I
wil
vse
W.
So.
tonge
and
members
for
3.
dayes
:
Ego
sum
Rex
,
ego
sum
Deus
:
That
there
was
no
God
,
that
he
was
King
and
Prince
of
darkenes
.
And
in
saying
the
Lordes
prayer
,
could
not
say
,
leade
vs
not
into
temptation
,
but
lead
vs
into
temptation
.
Also
before
Maister
Dorrell
had
seene
him
,
he
said
,
Dorrel
comes
,
Dorrell
comes
,
he
will
haue
me
out
,
but
I
will
come
againe
,
for
Notingham
&
Lenton
are
iolly
townes
for
mee
:
Deposed
by
-
Robert
Aldred
,
art.
2.
-
Richard
Newton
,
artic.
5.
-
Richard
Mee
,
art.
1●
-
Elizabeth
Milward
,
artic.
14.
15
Being
recouered
out
of
his
fitts
,
he
knew
not
what
he
had
saide
or
done
:
Deposed
by
-
Iohn
Wood
,
art.
11.
-
Ioane
Pie
,
artic.
6.
16
In
his
fitts
strange
smelles
were
in
the
place
where
hee
lay
,
sometymes
like
brimstone
,
somtimes
very
sweet
:
Deposed
by
-
Ioane
Pie
,
art.
6.
-
Richard
Mee
,
art.
13
17
A
straung
knocking
perceitted
about
his
bed
,
in
his
fitts
:
both
his
feet
&
hands
beeing
helde
vnmoveable
:
Deposed
by
-
Robert
Aldred
,
art.
●
-
Ioane
Pie
,
artic
6.
-
Elizabeth
Milward
,
artic.
14.
-
Iohn
Parc
,
artic.
15.
18
Hee
did
crie
hideouslie
,
sometimes
like
a
bull
,
bear
,
swine
,
and
in
a
small
voyce
vnpossible
to
be
coūtetfeited
:
Deposed
by
-
William
Langford
,
artic.
9.
-
Robert
Aldridg
,
artic.
2.
-
Richard
Mee
,
art.
13
19
His
legge
would
be
crooked
with
his
falles
,
and
remaine
vnflexible
:
Depo
.
by
-
Richard
Mee
,
artic.
13.
-
Thomas
Haics
,
artic.
4.
20
He
spake
in
a
continued
speeche
,
his
mouth
beeing
wide
open
,
his
tonge
drawn
into
his
throat
,
neither
his
lipps
nor
chaps
moouinge
:
Deposed
by
-
Richard
Newton
,
artic.
7.
-
Henry
Nusiey
,
art.
6.
-
Ioane
Pie
,
art.
6.
-
Iohn
Strelly
,
art.
12.
21
He
spake
a
quarter
of
an
houre
,
his
mouth
beeing
shut
close
:
Deposed
by
-
William
Hunt
,
artic.
17.
22
In
his
fittes
his
pulses
and
temples
did
not
beat
:
he
lay
for
dead
,
cold
as
Ice
:
Deposed
by
-
William
Langford
,
artic.
9.
-
〈◊〉
Milward
,
artic.
14.
23
His
eye
was
black
,
&
chaunged
colour
in
his
fitts
:
Deposed
by
-
William
Hinde
,
ar.
●
-
Thomas
Westfield
,
artic
4.
-
Richard
Mee
,
art
13.