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A01001	The wonderful discouerie of the vvitchcrafts of Margaret and Phillip Flower, daughters of Ioan Flower neere Beuer Castle: executed at Lincolne, March 11. 1618 Who were specially arraigned and condemned before Sir Henry Hobart, and Sir Edward Bromley, iudges of assise, for confessing themselues actors in the destruction of Henry L. Rosse, with their damnable practises against others the children of the Right Honourable Francis Earle of Rutland. Together with the seuerall examinations and confessions of Anne Baker, Ioan Willimot, and Ellen Greene, witches in Leicestershire.		1619 (1619)	STC 11107; ESTC S102363	15,152	48

THE WONDERFVL DISCOVERIE OF THE Witchcrafts of Margaret and Phillip Flower daughters of Ioan Flower neere Beuer Castle Executed at Lincolne March 11. 1618. Who were specially arraigned and condemned before Sir Henry Hobart and Sir Edward Bromley Iudges of Assise for confessing themselues actors in the destruction of Henry Lord Rosse with their damnable practises against others the Children of the Right Honourable FRANCIS Earle of Rutland Together with the seuerall Examinations and Confessions of Anne Baker Ioan Willimot and Ellen Greene Witches in Leicestershire THE WONDERFVLL DISCOVERIE OF THE Witch-craftes of Margraet and Phillip Flower Daughters of Ioan Flower by BEAVER CASTLE and executed at LINCOLNE the 11. of March 1618. MY meaning is not to make any contentious Arguments about the discourses distinction or definition of Witchcraft the power of Diuells the nature of Spirits the force of Charmes the secrets of Incantation and such like because the Scriptures are full of prohibitions to this purpose and proclaimes death to the presumptuous attempters of the same Besides both Princes yea our owne learned and most iudicious King Philosophers Poets Chronologers Historiographers and many worthy Writers haue concurred and concluded in this that diuers impious and facinorous mischiefes haue beene effectuated through the instruments of the Diuell by permission of God so that the actors of the same haue carried away the opinion of the world to doe that which they did by Witchcraft or at least to be esteemed Witches for bringing such and such things to passe For howsoeuer the learned haue charactred delinquents in this kinde by titles of sundry sortes and most significant attributes as Pythonissae dealing with artificiall Charmes Magi anciently reputed so for extraordinary wisedome and knowledge in the secrets of simples and hearbes Chaldei famous for Astronomy and Astrology Necromancers for practising to raise dead bodies and by them to foretell euents of the earth Geomantici for conuersing with Spirits and vsing Inchantations Genethliaci for presuming on the calculating of Natiuities or if you will assuming the credit of Figure-casting Ventriloqui for speaking with hollow voyces as if they were possessed with Diuells Venefici for dealing with Poyson and either killing or curing that way For you must vnderstand howeuer the Professors aforesaid practise murther and mischiefe yet many times they Pretend cures and preseruation with many others carrying the shew of great learning and admired knowledge yet haue they all but one familier tearme with vs in English called Witches As for the conceit of wise-men or wise woemen they are all meerely coseners and deceiuers so that if they make you beleeue that by their meanes you shall heare of things lost or stolne it is either done by Confederacy or put off by protraction to deceiue you of your money Only as I said before there bee certaine men and women growne in yeares and ouer-growne with Melancholly and Atheisme who out of a malicious disposition against their betters or others thriuing by them but most times from a heart-burning desire of reuenge hauing entertained some impression of displeasure and vnkindnesse study nothing but mischiefe and exoticke practises of loathsome Artes and Sciences yet I must needes say that sometimes the fained reputation of wisedome cunning and to be reputed a dangerous and skilfull person hath so preuailed with diuers that they haue taken vpon them indeed to know more then God euer afforded any creature to performe no lesse then the Creator both of Heauen earth making you beleeue with Medea that they can raise tempests turne the Sunne into blood pull the Moone out of her Spheare and saile ouer the Sea in a cockle shell according to the Poet. Flectere si nequeam Superos Acheronta mouebo If Art doe faile to moue the Gods consent vnto my minde I will the Diuells raise to doe what they can in their kinde But howsoeuer speciall persons are transported with an opinion of their owne worth and preuailing in this kinde yet by lamentable experience we know too well what monstrous effects haue bene produced euen to the horror of the hearers and damnation of their owne soules by such kinde of people For as it is in the tale of the enuious man that put out one of his eyes to haue his companion loose both so fareth it with them and worse to giue away their soules to bee reuenged of their aduersaries bodies wherein the monstrous subtilty of the Diuell is so apparant that it is wonderfull one way to relate and lamentable another way to obserue the same For no sooner shall such motiues poyson the inward conceite or apprehension of such damnable Caitiffes But then steppeth forth the Diuell and not onely sheweth them the way but prescribeth the manner of effecting the same with facility and easinesse assuring that hee himselfe will attend them in some familiar shape of Rat Cat Toad Bird Cricket c yea effectuate whatsoeuer they shall demaund or desire and for their better assurance and corroboration of their credulity they shall haue palpable and forcible touches of sucking pinching kissing closing colling and such like wherevpon without any feare of God or Man knowledge of Christ hope of redemption confidence of mercy or true beleefe that there is any other thing to bee looked after but this present World according to that Athiesticall position of Epicurus Ede bibe lude post mortem nulla voluptas Eat drink sport play and take thy pleasures rest For after death who knowes what shall be best They admit of those execrable conditions of commutation of soules for the entertaining of the spirits and so fall to their abhominable practises continuing in the same till God laugh them to scorne and will by no meanes suffer them to abuse his holy name nor deceiue others by their prophane liues any longer Witnesse for the generall those infinite Treatises of many of them conuinced by Law and condemned to death to the fearefull example of all carnall and hypocriticall Christians but more especially you may ouer-looke if you please that learned Discourse of Daemonologie composed in forme of a Dialogue by the High and mighty Prince IAMES by the grace of God King of England Scotland France and Ireland c. and printed as I take it according to the coppy of Edenburgh 1603. As also a Treatise of Witch-craft made by that learned Mr. Alexander Roberts Preacher at Kings-Line in Norfolke 1615. vpon the discouery of the Witch-crafts of Mary Smith wife of Henry Smith Glouer with her vocall contract betweene the Diuell and her selfe in sollemne tearmes and such like imposturing filthinesse with many hurts and mischiefes which thereby she procured As also a certaine discouery 1611. made by Iohn Cotta Doctor of Phisicke in Northampton of Empericks woemen about sicke persons Quacksaluers and fugitiues which seeme to worke iuggling wonders Surgeons Apothecaries practisers by spells the true discouery of Witch-craft especially in the sicke with many instances in that kind Wisards and seruants of

liking and good entertainment on euery side vntill the Earle by degrees conceiued some mislike against her and so peraduenture estranged himselfe from that familiaritie and accustomed conferrences hee was wont to haue with her vntill one Peate offered her some wrong against whom shee complained but found that my Lord did not affect her clamours and malicious information vntill one M r. Vauasor abandoned her company as either suspicious of her lewd life or distasted with his owne misliking of such base and poore Creatures whom no body loued but the Earles houshold vntill the Countesse misconceiuing of her daughter Margaret and discouering some vndecencies both in her life and neglect of her businesse discharged her from lying any more in the Castle yet gaue her 40. s. a bolster a mattresse of wooll commanding her to go home vntil the slacknesse of her repayring to the Castle as shee was wont did turne her loue and liking toward this honourable Earle and his family into hate and rancor wherevpon despighted to bee so neglected and exprobrated by her neighbours for her Daughters casting out of dores and other conceiued displeasures she grew past all shame and Woman-hood and many times cursed them all that were the cause of this discontentment and made her so loathsome to her former familiar friends and beneficiall acquaintance When the Diuell perceiued the inficious disposition of this wretch and that she and her Daughters might easily bee made instruments to enlarge his Kingdome and bee as it were the executioners of his vengeance not caring whether it lighted vpon innocents or no he came more neerer vnto them and in plaine tearmes to come quickly to the purpose offered them his seruice and that in such a manner as they might easily command what they pleased For hee would attend you in such prety formes of dog cat or Rat that they should neither be terrified nor any body else suspicious of the matter Vpon this they agree and as it should seeme giue away their soules for the seruice of such spirits as he had promised them which filthy conditions were ratified with abhominable kisses and an odious sacrifice of blood not leauing out certaine charmes and coniurations with which the Diuell deceiued them as though nothing could bee done without ceremony and a solemnity of orderly ratification By this time doth Sathan triumph and goeth away satisfied to haue caught such fish in the net of his illusions By this time are these women Diuels incarnate and grow proud againe in their cunning and artificiall power to doe what mischiefe they listed By this time they haue learnt the manner of inchantations Spells and Charmes By this time they kill what Cattle they list and vnder the couert of flattery and familiar entertainment keepe hidden the stinging serpent of mallice and a venomous inclination to mischiefe By this time is the Earle and his familie threatened and must feele the burthen of a terrible tempest which from these womens Diuellish deuises fell vppon him hee neither suspecting nor vnderstanding the same By this time both himselfe and his honourable Countesse are many times subiect to sicknesse and extraordinary conuulsions which they taking as gentle corrections from the hand of God submit with quietnesse to his mercy and study nothing more then to glorifie their Creator in heauen and beare his crosses on earth At last as mallice increased in these damnable Women so his family felt the smart of their reuenge and inficious disposition For his eldest Sonne Henry Lord Rosse sickened very strangely and after a while died his next named Francis Lord Rosse accordingly was seuerely tormented by them and most barbarously and inhumanely tortured by a strange sicknesse not long after the Lady Katherine was set vpon by their dangerous and diuellish practises and many times in great danger of life through extreame maladies and vnusuall fits nay as it should seeme and they afterwards confessed both the Earle and his Countesse were brought into their snares as they imagined and indeed determined to keepe them from hauing any more children Oh vnheard of wickednesse and mischieuous damnation Notwithstanding all this did the noble Earle attend his Maiesty both at New-market before Christmas and at Christmas at Whitehall bearing the losse of his Children most nobly and little suspecting that they had miscarried by Witch-craft or such like inuentions of the Diuell vntill it pleased God to discouer the villanous practises of these Woemen and to command the Diuell from executing any further vengeance on innocents but leaue them to their shames and the handes of Iustice that they might not onely be confounded for their villanous practises but remaine as a notorious example to all ages of his iudgement and fury Thus were they apprehended about Christmas and carried to Lincolne Iayle after due examination before sufficient Iustices of the Peace and discreete Maiestrates who wondred at their audacious wickednes but Ioane Flow●r the Mother before conuiction as they say called for Bread and Butter and wished it might neuer goe through her if she were guilty of that wherevpon shee was examined so mumbling it in her mouth neuer spake more wordes after but fell downe and dyed as shee was carryed to Lincolne Goale with a horrible excruciation of soule and body and was buried at Ancaster When the Earle heard of their apprehension hee hasted downe with his brother S r. George and somtimes examining them himselfe and sometimes sending them to others at last left them to the triall of Law before the Iudges of assise at Lincolne and so they were conuicted of murther and executed accordingly about the 11. of March to the terror of all the beholders and example of such dissolute and abhominable Creatures and because you shall haue both cause to glorifie God for this discouery and occasion to apprehend the strangenesse of their liues and truth of their proceedings I thought it both meete and conuenient to lay open their own Examinations and Euidences against one another with such apparrant circumstances as doe not onely shew the cause of their mislike and distasting against the Earle and his family but the manner of their proceedings and reuenges with other particulars belonging to the true and plaine discouery of their villany and Witch-craft The Examinations of Anne Baker Ioane Willimot and Ellen Greene as followeth c. Anne Baker Ioane Willimot Ellen Greene. THE EXAMINATION of Anne Baker of Bottesford in the County of Leicester Spinster taken March 1. 1618. by the Right Honourable Francis Earle of Rutland Sir George Manners Knight two of his Maiesties Iustices of the peace for the County of Lincolne and Samuel Fleming Doctor of Diuinitie one of his Maiesties Iustices of the peace for the County of Leicester aforesaid SHE saith that there are foure colours of Planets Blacke Yellow Greene and Blew and that Blacke is alwaies death and that shee sawe the Blew Plannet strike Thomas Fairebarne the eldest sonne vnto William Fairebarne of Bottesford aforesaid by