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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A46994	A vindication of the Surey demoniack as no impostor, or, A reply to a certain pamphlet publish'd by Mr. Zach. Taylor, called, The Surey impostor with a further clearing and confirming of the truth as to Richard Dugdale's case and cure / by T.J. ... ; to which is annexed a brief narrative of the Surey demoniack, drawn up by the same author ...	Jollie, Thomas, 1629-1703.	1698 (1698)	Wing J889; ESTC R10650	80,797	80

Richard Dugdale dancing on his Feet three Yards from the Wall of the Barn was as soon as one could turn himself set strainght upon his Head and was as stiff as a Tree John Grimshaw of Clayton in the County of Lancaster Woolen-weaver Informs that the said Richard Dugdale being in a Fit he said Nicholas Art thou there What peepest thou for Come up Then said Seest thou where thy Mother sits Then something came to his Shoulder and several parts of his Body the said Richard Dugdale seemed to be much affrighted with it And further informs that he coming to the Surey one Night he the said Richard Dugdale told Mr. John Grimshaw that he the said Informant Grimshaw was coming before he came And this Informant leaving his Horse at a considerable distance from the place where the said Richard Dugdale was and going into the place where the said Richard Dugdale meets him with a great noise and saith How now Calling him Grimshaew adding Art thou there with all thy Knives this Informant having at that time three or four Knives about him telling this Informant that he could not go on Foot And this Informant further saith that when the said Richard Dugdale was in his Trances as they called them and lying upon the Ground he was sometimes as light to this Informants thinking as his Shoes and Stockings and sometimes as heavy as a Man could lift The Informations aforesaid were taken at the Time and Place aforementioned before us Willoughby Ralph Egerton And Lastly We the said Justices of the Peace do Certify that the said Thomas Dugdale Father of the said Richard Dugdale did make Oath before us that he knew not of any Design or Combination betwixt his said Son and any other Person which might occasion the aforesaid strange Fits and Disturbances Nor that he the Deponent was any way privy thereunto nor knoweth he of any Cheating or Deceiving Practices for Gain or any such End Purpose or Design Whatsoever Willoughby Ralph Egerton The Informations of several Persons who voluntarily offered themselves concerning Richard Dugdale of Whalley in the County of Lancaster Gard'ner before Thomas Braddill Esq and Ralph Egerton Esq Two of his Majesties Justices of the Peace for the said County at Darwin in the said County on the Twentieth Day of July 1695. JOhn Fletcher of Harwood in the County of Lancaster Husbandman declares that he hath seen the said Richard Dugdale in many of his Fits wherein he hath barked like a Mastiff-Dog being then as strong as ten Men. For this Informant hath been one of the ten that hath undertaken to hold him Also that this Informant one time found him in the River of Calder up to the Neck in Water crying out and saying Wil'st thou drown me Wil'st thou drown me striking at the same time upon the Water with two Sticks Whereupon this Informant with the help of others by a Rope drew him out of the Water The said Dugdale being then in a dumb Fit which began in the Water and continued near four Hours afterwards And farther this Informant saith he found in the Barn where the said Dugdale lay a round hole in the Hay like a Hens-Nest wherein were seven Stones laid together And this Informant hath taken up several Stones cast by the said Dugdale which were warm and hath seen the said Dugdale running upon his Hands and Feet barking and howling And the said Dugdale being sat down he hath seen him several times thrown five or six Yards from the place And being to help this Informant to cleave a piece of Wood the said Dugdale upon his first stroke had his Ax flew one way and himself cast about twelve Yards from the place John Whitehead of Bank hey in the County of Lancaster Labourer declaceth that being with the said Dugdale at the Surey in one of his Fits he found him lying upon the Barn-floor like a dead Man at which time Mr. Ainsworth the Apothecary and another Apothecary from Manchester coming in both of them felt the said Dugdale's Pulses which did not b●at and then they laid their Faces to his Mouth to try if he breathed but could not perceive it And further this Informant saith that at Mr. Jolly's House the Informant endeavouring to hold the said Dugdale in his Fit by the Wrist of his Arm could by no means do it for this Informant's Fingers were no sooner closed but they opened again John Smalley of Harwood in the Country of Lancaster Cooper decl●reth that he hath seen the said Richard Dugdale in twenty or thirty of his Fits sometimes lying on the Floor for the space of four Hours very stiff and heavy insomuch that this Informant with three more have carried him out of the Ba●n but on his coming out on his Fit his Head and part of his Body hath been lifted up by this In●ormants Daughter a Child then of seven Years old The Informations aforesaid were taken at the time and place aferementioned before the said Mr. Braddill and me the said Ralph Egerton The Informations of divers credible Persons which were and are ready to give in upon Oath before the said Justices of the Peace or others at the places aforesaid or else where if desired thereunto as they voluntarily offer'd and declar'd unto Mr. Tho. Jolly and others of sufficient Credit and Cautiousness JOhn Fletcher further saith I was one Night in Bed with Richard Dugdale and I felt something come up toward my Knees then I felt it creep up till it came towards my Heart then I got hold of it and it was about the bigness of a little Dog or Car and it slipt through my Hands as if it had been a Snig and when we were in Bed very often there have been something in Bed knattering as tho there had been Mice or Rats and we searcht the Bed it was not harmed and things to our thinking have fallen in the House a if all had been broken yet in the Morning nothing stir'd and one Sabbath-day in his Fit there was a Knife length-way in his Mouth none knowing how it came there where it was held so very fast that I with much ado pulled it out and askt the Company whether any one of them wanted a Knise they all said no till one Jeremy Webster that was newly come in said I had one when I came in and I think he cannot have got it out of my Pocket but he finding nothing but a Sheath in his Pocket claim'd the Knife and it was certainly his John Fletcher further saith that when the said Richard Dugdale was in a Fit about five a Clock in the Night John Hindle prickt a large Pin in his Feet and he neither stirred nor complained at all Besides in one of his Fits I heard him tell that he must vomir an Hair-Button and a Curtain Ring which I saw him do within an Hour I have seen as John Darwin before restified Richard Dugdale for a quarter of an Hour together dance upon

a Papistical Combination it would be a laborious loss of time on our part as his is labour in vain for I hope to cut the work shorter and to clear all fully before Mr. T. and I part if it be not done already Pag. 60 Mr. T 's scornful way of clearing us from having any hand in the supposed Contrivance is below me to take notice of neither am I immediately concerned in the matter in hand but I confess it affects me to see poor D. so beknaved and berogued when I am abundantly satisfied that the poor Man had neither so much cunning nor so little honesty as to be criminal either way Pag. 61 As to the pieces of Latin in D 's Letter to Sir E. A. we neither have any account what they were nor who testifies the same but Mr. T 's ipse idxit whenas D. himself doth not own any such thing but doth again and again disown his ever learning any further than the Nouns and Pronouns in the Accidence Poor Dugdale had no Latin at all that I can hear of neither from one or another nor doth Mr. T. at all prove that he had Mr. T 's third Argument as he calls it about the Incubi and Succubi seems only to make way for his abominable Calumny upon some slanderous Report as to the whoring of the Surey Hearers * Several Neighbours are ready to testify that they never so much as heard upon just ground that there was any such uncivil Behaviour all sorts of People coming thither on one account or other and whom we could not hinder from coming Let Mr. T. take heed of coming too near the imitating of the Heathens false Charge upon the pious Meetings of the Primitive Christians But if there were any dallying under the Hedges when they might have been better employed it 's more likely they were some of Mr. T 's Communion who might take the filthiest Actions to be less culpable than hearing a Nonconformist preach or pray As among the Papists a transgressing of God's Laws is venial when transgressing one of their own Laws is a mortal Sin Pag. 62 We must still take Mr. T 's word without any mention of his Witnesses where he speaks of an ingenious Person walking to Surey when as it 's too well known how many notorious Falsehoods he 's guilty of Surely the ingenious Person Mr. T. speaks of whoever he is is not very ingenuous to conceal his Name otherwise others might satisfy him or themselves in this matter Neither is it fair dealing to judg the poor Mother before she be heard what she hath to say for her self What wresting of the poor ignorant Woman's Words which Mr. T. saith that the Dissenters must do whenas she might if she said the Words probably mean that the Devil said so whenas withal presently after she named three Popish Priests which the Demon in D's Fit had hinted to be the Persons who must help him It 's very probable by this that the Devil would have had it out of our Hands into the Priests Hands and so served his ends by them better than by tormenting D. As to the Letter mentioned in this Page I am loth to question the Fidelity of the supposed Author yet must I animad vert a little upon it In my Minutes Verbatim it 's thus Upon the 3d of September we again met at Surey on young D's account as I went to the place of meeting he gave me notice by a little Paper he put into my Hand that as his Spirit told him he must be dumb and deaf whilst we prayed immediately upon his delivery of the Note to me he became both dumb and deaf all the while the Exercise continued By this it 's plain that the meaning was as to that Exercise not that he must be so all the while we came to him this the event did evidently disprove What he means by no satifactory Answer I know not it might be satisfactory to others tho not to him who might be otherwise prepossest Pag. 63 Again there seems to be no good consistency betwixt a Passage in D's Letter to Sir E. A and that the report of a Letter to Mr. T. to Sir E. A. he only saith that they did him no good in his Letter to Mr. T. he saith those six meaning the Ministers must do him no good This looks not like faithful dealing he might say in that Fit of Impatience we did him no good but it 's more to say we must do him no good This looks liker what Mr. T. will have the Mother to say than what she did indeed say Again as to what he infers for a Confederacy there might be a Combination among the Popish Priests yet no Combination of young D. with them nor among the Family nay nor of any of the D's with the Devil sure it becomes you to have more Charity towards those of your Communion or to prosecute them if you will have them guilty of Witchcraft or Cheating The close of that Paragraph seems to be rather Mr. T 's it is so very magisterial and censorious Mr. T 's and the Letters must do him no good must not stand good by what was before observed If the Devil in one of D's Fits said that the said Popish Priests might help him and that one of them be a Doctor what is all this to the purpose of proving a Combination of any of the D's with them It rather infers as was said before that the Devil would have it out of our Hands who only sougnt the Glory of God and the Good of others to have it into the Priests Hand who served the Devil's Interest and their own Ends as we have cause to suspect as to some of them Mr. T 's telling of D's tacking over to the Popish Priests tatcheth not very well with a former Combination with them no more than his application to Sir E. A. let not us be too rigid towards such Persons in such Extremities We know not how we our selves may be tempted Pag. 64 I am perswaded that none but such as Mr. T. will judg that the Popish Priests had instructed D. all along unless it was by some secret Diabolical Means unknown to him otherwise who can think but he would have on some occasion or other in all this time confest it to some Conformist or Non-conformist Tho the Devil and his Instruments would not have it discovered yet poor D. either for fear or favour would have discovered it if he could Mr. T 's Story here of R. D. is so much upon Supposition and Imagination whereupon he founds he Belief that it deserves not insisting upon The truth of things so far as it concerns the matter in hand I have given faithfully as it 's taken from his own Mouth the Substance whereof is in the Narrative The Passage of the other Paper of some Magicial Charm mentioned in the Narrative is so plainly reported and such use is made of it the

Thief was verily fubseribed by his Neighbours many more of whose Hands he might have got had he desired them John Fielding Thomas Booth of Hay-Honses confesses at the same time and declares That his former Examination was true and furhter adds that he and another striving to lift him up could not stir him off the spot and yet within one quarter of an hour after he alone did lay hold upon him about the the Hips and lift him up about three quarters of a Yard high and held him for a considerable while and felt him to be no heavier than his Stick and his whole Body was stright and stiss after which he having laid him down saw him in his dead Fit half an hour longer without any motion from Richard either as he lay or at he was lift up Thomas Booth the 16th day of September 1697. These Informations were given besere us Willoughbly Will. Hulme John Smalley of Harwo●d estifies That his Information formerly given about R. Dugdale was true and he is certain that Richard's Shoes specified therein were buckled just before the●●l●w off nor had he any hand himself in loosening them or helping them off so knew of any other Person or outward Means confederate or assisting in their flying off John Smally Lawrence Robertshaw of Harwood testifies That the Information he formerly gave in the Surey-Demoniack was true Lawrence Robertshaw William Livesay testifies That the Information he formerly gave in the Surey-Demoniack is true and says he saw two Stones thrown into the Barn end that Richard foretold were a coming which he took up and felt them more than ordinary warm Nor did he go up and down to pick up Company to go to the Surey nor knows he of any Spy that went over the Fields or any other ways to give Intelligence William Livesay The Informations were given before us the 16th day of September at the House of Richard Sharples of Blackburn 1697. Willoughby Will. Hulme James Abbot doth under his Hand testify That when Dugdale had told me of my Cheshire and Stassordshire Journy I came home and told our Folks that I wondered what I might go into Cheshire for we none of us having any occsion thither hard after a Letter came from Beverly to inform us that one Eliz. Gandy would comeover to see her Grandfather and from thence into Cheshire unto knotsford but in all this I never thought of Staffordshire nor had I ever been there not ever thought that I should ever have gone thither yet when it fell so out I called to remembrance that Dugdale told me of it James Abbot the 16th day of September 1697 at the House of Sharples of Blackburn This is further added to the forme Confession taken before us Willoughby Will. Hulme John Jolly testifies That the Private Information of Thomas and Ann Dugdale Parents to Richand Dugdale with Mary and Alice Dugdale Sisters to the said Richard Dugdale which is printed in the Surey-Demoniack was freely declared to him by the Parties aforesaid at Surey July the 31st 1695. And that the Information aforesaid was by him put down in Writing in their own words and meanings And that all the said Information was distinctly read over to the Parties aforesaid to which they then voluntarily put their Marks John Jolly the 16th day of September 1697. This was affirmed before us Willoughby William Hulme Joseph Hargreaves testifies That his former Confession in the Surey-Demoniack is true Joseph Hargreaves Nathaniel Waddington confesses and testifies That the Information he formerly gave concerning Richard Dugdale is true except what is mentioned about Fielding and likewise what was mentioned about the Gold and Bisket which he only heard by report He further says he was present when Dugdale accused the Gentlewoman of having Bisket in her Pocket and chalienged her to play with her at Cards for the Gold she had in her Pocket but says he cannot tell whether she had any or no ut it was generally reported that she had both in her Pocket Nathaniel Waddington William Fort of Altham confesses and trstifies That he saw Richard Dugdale in one of his Fits at his Fathers House in Altham and that for half a quarter of an hour together he stood streight up and was as one dead and breathless he says that he himself and others all that while held a Candle to his Mouth and Nostrils and could not in the least perceive that he had any Breath in his Body Before this whilst he was in his Fit he says he saw his Body rise up from the Ground five of six times being stiff and streight three quarters of a Yard above Ground and that he did not bend in any Joint whatever but with sudden Motions was thrown from his Back to his Belly and so likewise from his Belly to his Back rising three quarters of a Yard from the Ground as he turned himself He likewise says that he heard him sing some Verses of a Psalm in Latin and some Schollars that were present said was true Latin William Fort. the 17th of September 1697. These Informations were taken before us Willoughby Will. Hulme The further Information of William Sellar's of Pendleton Husbandman concerning Richard Dugdale which he is ready to take his Oath upon when he is called to it and it be within compase considering his great Age and bodily Weakness Whereas I did heretofore make Oath as to several Particulars of R. D's case before the Right Honourable the Lord Willoughby and Ralph Egerton Esq two of His Majesty's Justices of the Peace for the County of Lancaster I do now upon occasion more particularly express and explain my said Testimony as follows I did lift up the said Richard Dugdale several times and because I thought it very strange that he should be so light I do well remember that I did once my self without any help list him up by his Legs all at once about a Yard form the Barn-floor and held him up so long as I could well judg of his weight R. D's Unkle being present when he was as light as an Hat or a Walking-Cane and as streight as a Cane he was then in a dead Fit and continued therein some considerable time after I had laid him down again all this I do saithfully testify Witness my Hand John Birch William Sellars This Paper being read before the Right Honourable the Lord Willoughby and William Hulme Esq was approved by them as delive'd by John Birch to them but could not be sucseribed in William Sellar 's Absence John Hindle testifies further That he and John Walmsly were present when Dugdale had his last Fit in the Surey-Barn where in his Fit R. D. said it was Obscession and in a Combination and that he might never have more Fits and it should never be discovered while the World endured John Hindle As to the following Informations they were brought to me after the meeting before the Justices at Blackbrun And much more might be gîven in