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A01558	The life and death of Levvis Gaufredy a priest of the Church of the Accoules in Marceilles in France, (who after hee had giuen him selfe soule and bodie to the Diuell) committed many most abhominable sorceries, but chiefly vpon two very faire young gentle-women, Mistris Magdalene of the Marish, and Mistris Victoire Corbier, whose horrible life being made manifest, hee was arraigned and condemned by the Court of Parliament of Aix in Prouince, to be burnt aliue, which was performed the last day of April. 1611. Together with the 53. articles of his confession. To which is annexed, a true discourse of a most inhumaine murther, committed by foure women witches, vpon a young gyrle, of about tenne yeares olde, who were all executed the 28. of Iune last past. Translated and faithfully collected out of two French copies, the one printed at Paris, the other at Roane. Anno. 1612.		1612 (1612)	STC 11687; ESTC S102950	21,142	38

said Lords Commissaries according to the forme and tenure of the present iudgement Signed Maliuering You haue heard briefly the progresse of the damnable life and deserued death of so famous a Coniurer the like whereof hath not liued these many ages whose acts are here mentioned but in part but worthie for example sake more amplie by a better penne to be exprest yet rather then his memorie should be quite extinct accept these Ruder lines which an vnpractised author as best he could presents the world withall desiring not as most would doe his owne applause but that they would be moued hereby to site the occations of those Euils herein portraied which God for his great mercies sake in Christ our Sauiour Graunt vnto all good Christians Amen A true discourse of a stealth and murder committed by fower women witches vpon a young maide about ten yeares old who were executed in the towne of Haure-degrace one of them being drawne vpon an hurdle and holding in one hand a whip and in the other the knife wherwith she performed the murder and after her hands were cut off they pluckt the flesh from of her armes and pappes with burning pincers the other performing most humble pennance were also drawne vpon hurdles and then hanged and let fall into the fire on the eight and twentie day of Iune ●6●1 faithfully translated THese are the times when crueltie is put in practise by the force and power of sorcerie for we daily sée euident effects hereof as may be discerned in his latter and accursed deuise practised vpon a young maide about some ten yeares of age the which I will not faile to diuulge and make knowne vnto all men knowing well that the little labour I shall herein take will yeeld them no lesse contentment then such an argument and subiect can deserue And therefore I request euery one that he will be as patient to bestow the reading thereof as I am in the writing and publication of the same seeing this Tyrannie deserues as well to be listned vnto as to be written and composed for I know it will strike griefe and sorrowe into their hearts that will but patiently vouchsafe the reading hereof where ending my introduction to begin my report I humbly pray God that it will please him to giue euer one a discreete vnderstanding with amendment of life intreating likewise the reader to hold me excused though I set it not downe in such exquisite and fluent phrase as perchance some other would Now shall I be able to expresse this strange crueltie without distilling teares from mine eyes apt to put me in remembrance of such a wickednesse whensoeuer I doe but take my penne in hand or how can it be that any one in reading this tragicall subiect should not consider and weigh my hardines and courage though but in the very hearing of these murderous and miserable attempts of the world alas I suppose not any one of you would be exempted from hearkning to them and that you will be readie with me to pray vnto the celestiall Monarch that it would please him of his mercie to giue an end to all sorcerous acts and Incests which daily vere and afflict Gods Saints vpon the earth as well in preuenting poore humaine Creatures of their continuall prouisions and nourishments as further in bereaning and vntimely taking from them their liues Euen as we may more clearely vnderstand by these fower Sorceresies or rather in déed Tygresses or hagges who committed this outrage vpon a poore young maide who little thought her last howre had bene so reare or that these witches had determined to vse vpon her so brutish a Tyrannie but indéed what man or woman would euer formerly haue dreamt of such an accident more then this fillie maide did who was then walking along an hedge gathering of blacke berries being in companie with some other little children and specially with a little brother of her owne when these sorceresses thus plotted her perdition alas most accursed Sorceresse thy miscreant heart was euen then possessed with a diuel when by thy bewitching tongue that didst induce this poore Gyrle to followe thée to a place where thou meantest to commit this butchery and yet was her fortune more hard when thou gauest her little brother a péece of money a great Blancke to the ende hee should returne to the place from whence thou hadst stolne her for then came all thy poyson and venome to a full head when she poore soute entring into thy house thou gauest her virginity to an ouglie Ruffian who no wayes considering the euill that would thereof ensue violated and robbed her of the robe of her pudicitie And yet thou then shewedst a farre more hellish cruelty when with thy treacherous hand thou diddest begore thy knife in her Blood thinking by this murder to haue saued thine owne life But alas yet didst thou worse then all the rest whē thou drewest her little heart out of her breast together with her Lyuer to mingle them with her blood with which thou thoughtest to bring to an end thy Sorcerie Ah inuiolable heart Ah trecherous hagge thou thoughtest GOD was not of power to discouer thy malice but most iustly thou wert reuealed by Innocents who by Gods permission went along conducted this young Gyrle to the place where thou and thy complices put her to death True it is that thou wert not conuicted vpon their accusation for being imprisoned thou couldst not be made to confesse the truth and therefore at that instant thou wert deliuered But God the Author of all Truth and Iustice would not suffer thée lōger to liue after the perpetration of so fearful a murder tyrannie but stroke into them such a feare as both thou and thy cōplices would needs flie away to that end selling daily thy moueables that afterwards thou mightest make an escape saue thy life so by this means thou wert discouered euen by thine owne neighbors iustly accused whē yet once more to couer thy dissimulation thou causedst the flesh of this poore innocent Gyrle to be burnt consumde in an hot Ouen to the ende thou mightest cast the ashes afterwards into the water or performe some other Diuellish tricks therewith For thou canst not denie the selling of her blood to a Sorcerer by which 〈◊〉 would doe hurt to the Fruites of the earth and more to mans bodie and that thou wert taken in the manner euen like a Théefe that meant to robbe his neighbor that did but watch for his comming Of all the which the Iustice being the sec●d time aduertised thou wert then conuinced And yet this Infernall Ympe would not for all this reueale the truth neither permit that anie bodie should goe into the house to seeke for the Gyrle but they rather barricadoed thēselues to stand out When publike Iustice not wtstanding their resistāce cōdemned them to be worthie of death guiltie of the offence For entring violently into the said house