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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

the Pinfold there within the which time the said William Faire-barne did beat her and breake her head wherevppon the said Thomas Faire-barne did mend And being asked who did send that Planet answered it was not I. Further shee saith that shee saw a hand appeare vnto her and that shee heard a voyce in the ayre said vnto her Anne Baker saue thy selfe for to morrow thou and thy maister must be slaine and the next day her maister and shee were in a Cart together and suddainely shee saw a flash of fire and said her prayers and the fire went away and shortly after a Crow came and picked vpon her cloathes and shee said her prayers againe and bad the Crow go to whom he was sent and the Crow went vnto her Maister and did beat him to death and shee with her prayers recouered him to life but hee was sicke a fortnight after and saith that if shee had not had more knowledge then her maister both he and shee and all the Cattell had beene slaine Being examined concerning a Childe of Anne Stannidge which shee was suspected to haue bewitched to death saith the said Anne Stannidge did deliuer her childe into her hands and that shee did lay it vpon her skirt but did no harme vnto it And being charged by the Mother of the childe that vpon the burning of the haire and the paring of the nailes of the said childe the said Anne Baker came in and set her downe and for one houres space could speake nothing confesseth shee came into the house of the said Anne Stannidge in great paine but did not know of the burning of the haire and nailes of the said Childe but said she was so sicke that she did not know whither she went Being charged that shee bewitched Elizabeth Hough the wife of William Hough to death for that shee angred her in giuing her almes of her second bread confesseth that she was angry with her and said she might haue giuen her of her better bread for she had gone too often on her errands but more she saith not This Examinat confesseth that shee came to Ioane Gylles house her child being sicke and that shee intreated this Examinat to look on the Child and to tell her whether it was forspoken or no and this Examinate said it was forspoken but when the said child died she cannot tell And being asked concerning Nortley carrying of his Child home vnto his owne house where the said Anne Baker was shee asked him who gaue the said Child that loafe he told her Anthony Gill to whom this Examinate said he might haue had a Child of his owne if hee would haue sought in time for it which words she confessed shee did speake Being blamed by Henry Milles in this sort A fire set on you I haue had two or three ill nights to whom shee made answere you should haue let me alone then which shee confesseth The said Anne Baker March 2. 1618. confessed before Samuel Fleming Doctor of Diuinitie that about 3. yeares agoe shee went into Northamptonshire and that at her comming back againe one Peakes wife and Dennis his wife of Beluoyre told her that my young Lord Henry was dead and that there was a gloue of the said Lord buried in the ground and as that gloue did rot and wast so did the liuer of the said Lord rot and wast Further shee said March 3. 1618. before S r. George Manners Knight and Samuel Fleming Doctor of Diuinity that shee hath a Spirit which hath the shape of a white Dogge which shee calleth her good Spirit Samuel Fleming test The Examination of Ioan Willimot taken the 28. of February in the 16. yeare of the raigne of our Soueraigne Lord IAMES ouer England King c. and ouer Scotland the 52. before Alexander Amcotts Esquire one of his Maiesties Iustices of the peace of the said parts and County THis Examinat saith that Ioane Flower told her that my Lord of Rutland had dealt badly with her and that they had put away her Daughter and that although she could not haue her will of my Lord himselfe yet she had spied my Lords Sonne and had stricken him to the heart And she sai●h that my Lords Sonne was striken with a white Spirit and that shee can cure some that send vnto her and that some reward her for her paines and of some she taketh nothing She further saith that vpon Fryday night last her Spirit came to her and told her that there was a bad woman at Deeping who had giuen her soule to the Diuell and that her said Spirit did then appeare vnto her in a more vgly forme then it had formerly done and that it vrged her much to giue it something although it were but a peece of her Girdle and told her that it had taken great paines for her but she saith that she would giue it nothing and told it that she had sent it to no place but onely to see how my Lord Rosse did and that her Spirit told her that he should doe well The Examination of the said Ioan Willimott taken the second day of March in the yeare abouesaid before the said Alexander Amcots THis Examinate saith That shee hath a Spirit which shee calleth Pretty which was giuen vnto her by William Berry of Langholme in Rutlandshire whom she serued three yeares and that her Master when hee gaue it vnto her willed her to open her mouth and hee would blow into her a Fairy which should doe her good and that shee opened her mouth and he did blow into her mouth and that presently after his blowing there came out of her mouth a Spirit which stood vpon the ground in the the shape and forme of a Woman which Spirit did aske of her her Soule which shee then promised vnto it being willed thereunto by her Master Shee further confesseth that shee neuer hurt any body but did helpe diuers that sent for her which were stricken or fore-spoken and that her Spirit came weekely to her and would tell her of diuers persons that were stricken and forespoken And shee saith that the vse which shee had of the Spirit was to know how those did which shee had vndertaken to amend and that shee did helpe them by certaine prayers which she vsed and not by her owne Spirit neyther did she imploy her Spirit in any thing but onely to bring word how those did which she had vndertaken to cure And shee further saith that her Spirit came vnto her this last night as she thought in the forme of a woman mumbling but she could not vnderstand what it said And being asked whether shee were not in a dreame or slumber when shee thought shee saw it shee said no and that she was as waking as at this present Alexander Amcots Thomas Robinson test The Examination of Ioane Willimot of Goadby in the County of Leicester Widdow taken the 17. of March 1618 by Sir Henry Hastings Knight and Samuel Fleming Doctor