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A07467	The admirable history of the posession and conuersion of a penitent woman Seduced by a magician that made her to become a witch, and the princesse of sorcerers in the country of Prouince, who was brought to S. Baume to bee exorcised, in the yeare 1610, in the moneth of Nouember, by the authority of the reuerend father, and frier, Sebastian Michaëlis, priour of the couent royall of S. Magdalene at Saint Maximin, and also of the said place of Saint Baume. Who appointed the reuerend father, Frier Francis Domptius, Doctor of Diuinity, in the Vniuersity of Louaine, ... for the exorcismes and recollection of the acts. All faithfully set down, and fully verified. Wherunto is annexed a pneumology, or discourse of spirits made by the said father Michaëlis, ... Translated into English by W.B.	Michaelis, Sébastien, 1543?-1618.; W. B., fl. 1613-1617.	1613 (1613)	STC 17854; ESTC S107052	483,998	666

during the time of Exorcismes is no new thing in the Church of God and the fresh remembrance of the woman of Laon that was possessed in the face of the whole Court and of diuerse Prelates doth giue ample attestation of the same which History was word for word so largely written that it ariseth to a iust volume and many graue personages haue alleaged the same so that diuerse Preachers made no scruple to make mention thereof in the Pulpit as of a great miracle sent from God to confirme the Catholicke faith which began then to fluctuate and wauer in many and also to conuert Heretickes vnto the truth This booke hath bin seene and receiued in all the quarters of Christendome as some haue obserued yet neither Bishops nor the Sorbone nor any Vniuersity did euer shew any disgust they tooke in the publication of the same nay it hath bin found that it hath wrought good effect in the propagation and aduancement of the faith Saint Ierome thought it no scorne to write the History of a woman possessed through witch-craft together with the manner thereof and the questions of the Exorcist Saint Hilarion and the answeres made by the Deuill And in our time a Nunne of Millane that was possessed did in like manner discourse out of the Scripture as ours do in this History As for the matter of preaching which some may heere conceiue the History it selfe will thwart all such imaginations for she neuer went into the Pulpit and the Deuill himselfe did oftentimes protest that hee was no Preacher saying that if God should command him to go into the Pulpit to declare who this Magician is hee must haue taken vpon him the shape and semblance of a man because it would not befitt a woman to do it THE II. DOVBT Whether we are to beleeue all the Deuill saith THE ANSWERE IT is a note worthy of obseruation that he neuer said it was necessary to beleeue him but when hee spake out of the Gospe●l and the Scripture and then he sharply rebuked all Hereticks and vnbeleeuers but when he speaketh otherwise he plainly saith that he constraineth and tyeth none to beleeue him as appeareth in the 249. page about the end of the Act taken vpon Christmas day THE III. DOVBT He saith that Antichrist is borne ANSWERE THis hath bin said many times by the Doctors as by Saint Gregory and others and about 200. yeares after Saint Vincent Ferrier did say it and preach it and doth assure vs of the same in the Treatise hee made De Antichristo which was verified in Iohn Husse burned at the Councell of Constance vntill which time the said Saint Vincent liued And this Iohn Husse was the first originall and sourse of heresies both of the age past and of this now present Quoniam Antichristi multi sunt Antichristus i●m venit saith Saint Iohn And who knoweth what God prepareth and storeth vp for the hainous transgressions of our age THE IIII. DOVBT Whether Salomon bee damned and Nabuchodonosor saued ANSWERE THe Annotation which I haue made in the margent doth make knowne that this is a Probleme in the Church yet Saint Augustine holdeth he is damned vpon the 126. Psalme and in many other passages as Bellarmine noteth 1. tom lib. 1. Controuers cap. 5. who is of the same opinion together with Lyra vpon the second of Kinges the 7. Chapter Touching Nabuchodonosor Saint Augustine doth oppose him directly against Pharaoh and magnifies the iustice of God in Pharaohs reprobation and his mercy in Nabuchodonosors saluation although both saith he were equall in condition and dignity and in the greatnesse of their sinnes The repentance of the latter appeareth in the Scripture And Epiphanius reporteth that Nabuchodonosor after he recouered his witts in all his life after did neuer eate flesh nor drinke wine and was aduised to do this by the Prophet Daniel THE V. DOVBT The Deuill seemeth to command the Exorcist saying to him take the stole and exorcise mee THE ANSWERE HEere is to be noted that immediatly after it is said command mee and hee doth oftentimes protest that he neither can nor will do any thing without his command In which hee sheweth that he speaketh not after the manner of one that commandeth but of one that desireth and would bee commanded Example heereof we haue in the Gospell where it is said Sieijcis nos hinc mitte nos in gregem porcorum ait Iesus Ite where it is cleere thaty word Mitte is not imperatiuely spoken but by way of deprecation Saint Athanasius reporteth that when the Deuil perswaded S. Anthony to pray to God hee prayed vnto him not because the Deuil said it but because it was his duty and that the Deuill therein did speake agreeable vnto the word of God THE VI. DOVBT Whether Henry the great the fourth of that name bee saued THE ANSWERE THe Diuell doth say it and repeat it three seuerall times in diuers places And whereas it may be obiected that this may bring in a bad example the answere is cleere that contrariwise it is a maruellous example vnto vs against Sorcerers since that God doth so freely and largely pardon those who are not hasty to giue credit vnto their abominations And because it is said that it was likely that his death was a kinde of Martyrdome we are to interpret all doubtfull and indifferent things to the best as wee are commanded in the Gospell especially in behalfe of our Kings and Princes Wee must suppose that before his Assassinate a Germane Astrologian did ●oretell the day of his death and he was afterwards aduertised thereof by others We must also suppose that by the excellency of his iudgement and through the great faith which he had in God and by the instructions of his ghostly fathers he had this faith and knowledge as to thinke it a greeuous sin to beleeue iudiciarie Astrologers or Magicians All this being by vs supposed as euery true French-man and indeed euery good Catholicke ought it is easy to resolue this difficulty that his death was a kinde of Martyrdome since is a man shall suffer death for any vertue be it morall or diuine with faith it is alwayes a Martyrdome Beati qui persecutionem patiuntur propter iustiriam quoniam ipsorum est regnum calorum As for example if some or other had foretold Ioseph that vnlesse he gaue consent vnto the lasciuious desires of his Mistres he should as he went out of the house be murthered If this had happened Ioseph had bin a true Martyr because he rather made election to expose his life to danger then to offend God through incontinencie Much more when such a mischeefe as this befalls a man because he would not transgresse the first commandement of the Law which is the waightiest and of most importance amongst them all the obseruation of which is most frequently commanded in the law and the

not therefore say I am not able to beare it for God commandeth nothing that is impossible It is a truth that hee indeed was loaden with a yoake that was very combersome and with a burthen exceedingly heauy for his Crosse did ouerlay him with an intollerable pressure yet did hee not call vnto you behold my Crosse carry you it as I haue done No hee saith not so because hee knoweth your debilitie will easily sinke vnder the same but hee saith carry my yoake because the burthen thereof is very portable to those that loue God and serue him as they ought God hath his troopes of Angels and Saints about him neither is it to bee wondred that Angels obey him and that men put his will in execution but that Deuils who are already condemned to the Gallies of Hell should yeeld him their obedience heere is it that doth amaze vs with astonishment and admiration Great God why doest thou not cause these things to be deliuered by some Seraphin or some learned Preacher and not to bee divulged by the mouth of this silly woman Or why should I bee constrained to disclose my name in an action that is directly preiudiciall vnto Hell and to my great griefe that am forced to pronounce it Then he said many beleeue not this but I answere them they haue not seene God nor Paradise and yet they beleeue both the one and the other Certainly Thomas thy God vnto whom it is impossible that hee should tell a lie hath said that hee would rise the third day and what did hee not rise the third day Certainly hee did but because thou diddest not see it thou wouldest not beleeue it but diddest say I will not beleeue it except I may touch the prints of the nayles There is none among you that euer saw him die in person yet doe you beleeue that he suffered death for you Know you not what God said to Thomas blessed are they that shall not see these things that thou seest and shall beleeue There is no neede of faith in those things which wee manifestly and plainly see as if I should tell you that this Priest is standing at the Altar I imagine you would beleeue mee neither should this faith of yours containe any great matter of merite because you see this together with mee All the fruitlesse sciences and speculations of Cicero Plato and the other Heathen Philosophers to what purpose serue they but to trauell and consume the spirits of a man by imaginary contemplations These waters cannot appease the thirstinesse of the soule and by consequence are not powerfull to yeeld due and conuenient refreshments but the smallest delights of a spirit indued with vertue doth surpasse all worldly delectations and cursed may they bee who for the fruition of momentary pleasures heere hazard the losse of that eternall felicity Your God is a cunning Surgeon and of the choisest esteeme amongst those that are most famous hee well knowes when to serch the wound and forecasteth how it may be healed and apprehending the meanes he presently commeth furnished with such salues and medicaments as hee conceiueth most proper for the cure God is Father vnto two daughters Mercy and Iustice but mercy obtained the right of eldership in the house of God and you know those that are the elder haue a kinde of prerogatiue ouer the other Mercy is sister vnto Christ Iesus and shee it was that said vnto him that it was fit that he should suffer al those torturings and contempts which afterward he subiected himselfe vnto in his Passion And although both these sisters proceeded from the same father and mother yet is it a certainty that the one is in more grace and neerenesse then the other For God the Father was more indulgent vnto mercy then iustice yet are they sisters and both daughters vnto him because he is no lesse iust in exercising his iustice then he is gracious in declaring his mercy It is no argument of imperfection in God that he powreth down the viols of his wrath vpon the wicked and rewardeth the good endeauours of the iust it is rather a demonstration of his omnipotency to render vnto euery man according to his workes Of a truth thy inward parts O mother of God are as the shop of an Apothecary full of fragrant and aromaticall odours which the holy Ghost hath furnished with all varieties of perfumes and spices that is to say with his fruits and with the adundance of vertues and graces I further say that Mary is an inclosed garden and the holy Ghost is the gardener who could well tell how to manure this blessed plot of earth sowing therein all kinds of beautifull flowers and ingraffing goodly and vernant trees charged with excellent flowers and fruits Thou Mary art also a tree thy holy cogitations are the leaues thy seruent desires are the flowers and thy little Iesus is the fruit that was brought forth for your saluation The nature of this fruit is admirable so that it was accounted worthy to bee made a Present for the eternall Father on the tree of the Crosse for the expiation of your sinnes Let your memory recall into your remembrance these blessings of your God and let Ioseph who signifieth your vnderstanding bow his knees in a corner of the stable and take in so high a mystery with his most attentiue contemplation Mary as hauing a greater portion of light is of more neerenesse and figureth vnto vs the will the vnderstanding laboureth to comprehend him but the will shunneth such wild conceptions and demeaneth it selfe like vnto the mother of Christ Iesus who dared not at the first to touch him but at length Mary who is the will taketh him in her armes and beareth him vp and downe for loue at the last ouercommeth feare Take therefore the Child Iesus play with him and wrap him charily in his swathling bands hee is but a little one and therefore very tractable endeauour then to bee diligent about him bring with you little bands to roule him in and to be breefe prouide your selues of whatsoeuer may bee needfull for him Hee is a little child and yet a great God as it is written Vnto you a child is borne and vnto you a sonne is giuen Hee is young and tender his hands are swathled vp so that hee cannot strike come therefore and draw neere vnto him but withall consider that he is also a seuere Iudge to those that refuse to obey his will If Abraham should haue reasoned the case with God when hee commanded him to sacrifice his well-beloued sonne Isaac and should haue said how or in what manner is this possible to bee done I tell you he had not merited to bee the father of the faithfull Bee you humbled therefore before this God and beleeue that he is yonder in the blessed Sacrament for his body is a glorified body and taketh vp no place I say further that it is not enough to haue this child Iesus wrapped

keyes thereof and suffer him to haue the gouernment of them Locke fast your gate that is to say your will against all manner of vice shut vp your windowes to wit the fiue externall senses that theeues steale not in and make a cheate vpon your soules Then Verrine said I had rather an hundred thousand times sup in Hell then haue giuen you such a supper as by this discourse I haue done and withall swore that hee had vttered all which is aboue mentioned for the glorie of God that all proceeded from God and that the Diuel was forced thereunto as a slaue or a captiue in the galleys Then he said to those that were there present This Baume this Rocke these leaues will rise vp against you at the day of Iudgement if you make not your aduantage of these things Your God loueth you so well that if it were behoofull for you hee would at this very instant returne to Mount Caluary The same day this dialogue chanced to be betweene Verrine and Belzebub Verrine said You that heare Masse doe say I beleeue that my God is there in blood and bones and that in the Chalice both his flesh and bones his Humanitie and Diuinitie are present But you must conceiue that you are there as poore malefactors before your Iudge pray therefore vnto your Iudge and he will heare you for hee giueth grace vnto the humble and casteth downe the proud of heart Oh how narrow is the gate of Paradise and how low you are to stoope to enter into it Then Belzebub said Ha God thou art too plenteous in thy pitie to sinners the Diuell is enforced to acknowledge it I am not at this time possessed with the scheduls Lewis hath them in his custodie to the confusion of Diuels is this great mercie shewed towards sinners Christ Iesus is euer shewing his wounds to his Father hee doth alwaies renue and make them fresh and doth still represent them vnto him All Hell is confounded Misericordia Dei plena est terra O Mercie thou art too too exceedingly great You haue no more to doe but only to crie peccaui and presently all is pardoned a mercy indeede too spatious Let a man renounce God his Passion and all the merites of the same and let him onely say Miserere mei and presently all is pardoned confusion vnto vs Confundatur superbia Diabolorum Lord thou diddest cast forth the Angels which would haue bandied themselues against thee and diddest crush in pieces all their forces yet let a sinner cast himselfe headlong into Hell and renounce thy precious blood and wounds yet wilt thou euer mediate for them to thy Father and wilt receiue them into grace if they bring with them a pure desire to returne backe to God for thy sake a mercy too large for sinners and damnation too great for the Diuell Cursed be the wound that cost me so deere because in it all sinnes are swallowed vp Cursed be Long in us that made that wound O God most bountifull vnto sinners O vertuous and most mercifull Mary The Diuell is their God and yet O Mary thou art alwaies falling at the feete of thy sonne thou art euer interceding for them thou art alwaies saying To day and to morrow and doest euer prolong and driue things off In saying this hee desired against his ordinary manner to haue an oath ministred vnto him and for further confirmation of the truth he said that one of Magdalens Gloues should fall to the ground and that hee would stretch himselfe flat vpon the earth Then said Verrine to him humble thy selfe Belzebub What is now become of thy strength Belzebub said Confundatur su●erbia Diaboli I am now constrained to humble my selfe Then Verrine said All you that are here come and tread vpon him speaking this to the Assembly Then Belzebub began to cry what vnder the feete of men Doe men resist God and am not I able to doe the same Verrine said God is so mercifull that he will fill vp the empty seates in heauen and will pardon men ●heir offences Then did Belzebub inferre O what a iudgement is heere against those which will not turne and be conuerted Next after Lucifer I am the proudest yet learne from hence to humble your selues For one offence am I damned for euer for euer for euer And that iustly said Verrine we are damned because wee had more illumination then was giuen vnto men O O O Mercy said Belzebub how great art thou for the sinner O Iustice how seuere art thou against vs Occasions of doing good are neuer wanting vnto the sinner he hath the benefit of Preachers of Confessours and of Miracles yet remaineth obstinate in his sinne and still God is so fauourable in his behalfe that he will at the last cast make vse of Diuels for his conuersion Verrine replied superbos humiliat he is more powerfull to attract sinners vnto goodnesse then are the Diuels in their malice to allure them vnto ill Further hee said I feare not Belzebub nor Lucifer nor all Hell besides I am not to bee punished for this God hath commanded me and yet there be some found that will not beleeue this Neuer busie your selues further about repentance for the day of iudgement doth approach and 〈◊〉 very stones shall rise vp and the leaues shall bandy themselues against those that shall dwell still in their obstinacie I warne you all of this both young and olde for Death is a thiefe that spareth none but sweepeth all away rich and poore great and small and as the hooke moweth downe the hay so Death with his sithe cutteth downe all Then said Belzebub it is no longing of ours to deliuer the truth Whereupon Verrine tooke occasion to say Magdalene this he vttereth in confirmation of the letter directed to the blessed Mother of God and pronounced by Verrine in the mouth of Louyse reade i● often and keepe it as thou wouldest doe relickes Then said Belzebub I sweare that I haue reasoned of the mercy of God to confound all Diuels Magicians and Witches that are in the world and all them that do● practise or trade with Magicke At this Verrine said Through maine compulsion art thou drawne to sweare and although thou bee my Prince yet at this present thou art but as a Fly Where are thy braues and forces now thou that but a while since diddest out-face heauen and earth doest now humble thy selfe vnder the feete of Frauncis Then Verrine setting his foote vpon Belzebub said I am thy vassall Thou wouldest haue pluckt God from his Throne Consider you that are here whither Monsieur de Guyse your Gouernour would euer haue endured that a Lackey should braue him thus as I doe now my Prince And turning to Magdalene he said Endure patiently Magdalene for the remission of thy sinnes and thinke thy selfe euen vnworthie to humble thy selfe Resist thou Belzebub for thou seest how I braue him and yet there are heere fiue

it may bee also to auoide the massacring one onother in the Sabbath by reason of some enmity or hatred They haue also no salt which figureth out wisedome and vnderstanding neither know they the vse of oliues or oyle which represent mercy When this is done the Magicians and those that can reade sing certaine Psalmes as they doe in the Church especially Laudate Dominum de Coelis Confitemini domino quoniam bonus and the Canticle Benedicite transferring all to the praise of Lucifer and the Diuels And the Hagges and Sorcerers doe houle and vary their hellish cries high and low counterfaiting a kinde of villanous musicke They also daunce at the sound of Viols other instruments which are brought thither by those that were skild to play vpon them Finally they committed vncleannesse one with another vpon Sundaies they pollute themselues by their filthy copulation with Diuels that are Succubi and Incubi Vpon Thursdayes they contaminate themselues with Sodomy Vpon Saturdaies they doe prostitute themselues to abominable bestiality vpon other daies they vse the ordinary course which nature prompteth vnto them When this is finished about three of the clocke after midnight euery one is caried to his owne home and those that are seruants doe carry the Prince and the Princesse in State some supporting the body others the feet and the rest the head Vpon Wednesdaies and Frydaies their Sabbathes of blasphemies and reuenge are held where they doe nothing but blaspheme God and the Saints and by all the contriuances of their braine they study to take vengeance of their enemies Magdalene also said that all Magicians Sorcerers c. are ordinarily marked in three places vpon the braine vpon the heart and vpon the reines and sometimes in other parts but commonly the markes of the Prince and Princesse are more inward that they may not be found She further said that that accursed Magician Lewes instigated thereunto by the outragiousnesse which raigned in him which might parallel that of Lucifer did first inuent the saying of Masse at the Sabbaths and did really consecrate and present the sacrifice to Lucifer and in the distribution of the consecrated bread euery one trampled it vnder his feet and then they cast it vnto dogs which the hagges and witches brought with them from their granges She said that vpon a certaine day the Magician commanded a great Mastiffe to be brought to eate the consecrated bread which he made vp into a lumpe to be deuoured by him but the dog being brought before the blessed Sacrament he as it were kneeled with his hinder feet closed his two fore feet together bowing downe his head as if hee had worshipped the same in so much as they could not beate him from thence neither with blowes of staues nor stones whereupon many of them fell a weeping so that it was ordained that from that time forward they should bring no more dogs to these assemblies She also related that the said Magician did sprinkle the consecrated wine vpon all the company iust like the Priest when he deales about the hallowed water at which time euery one cryeth Sanguis eius super nos filios nostros She further said that one of the hansomest fellowes in all that troope crying vpon a time as high as possibly he could Sanguis eius c. a rocke vnder which hee stood brake in peeces at the top so that a stone thereof fell vpon his head and did shrewdly cut him But hee continuing his cry it thundred so terribly in the ayre and the ratling of the thunder was so fearefully intermingled with flakes of fire that they were all amazed at it But he still persisting in his blasphemous cry Sanguis eius c. was hurried away in the ayre euer keeping the same cry so that at the last he was carried out of the sight of all the spectators and neuer afterward appeared whereupon many of them were conuerted The Acts of the 20. of Ianuary AS Magdalene was confessing her selfe in the morning in her chamber Belzebub cryed out diuers times and endeauoured to interrupt the confession and would by no meanes permit that they should giue absolution vnto her saying aloud that he had rather bee in hell then suffer it and that this absolution did burne him more then the fire of Hell did which hee also sundry times repeated when the said Magdalene went to confession He also said some daies before that he had rather be shut vp in Hell then enter into the Church of S. Baume especially into the place of Penitence where the Sorcerers had no power to spread and cast abroad their charmes and enchantments whereunto Verrine added that none were to enter thither but such as were in the state of grace and those were to goe in bare-footed It happened towards the euening at the time wherin Magdalene was accustomed to come to S. Baume to be exorcised they found her stiffe as a statue of marble in all her limmes and very dull and drowsie so that they were forced to carry her betweene foure to the Church where shee remained a good space at the foote of the high Altar and could not bee brought to her selfe till they carried her to the place of the blessed Penitence applying and laying the holy Pix vpon her face whereupon she came to her selfe and went forth to be exorcised This euening at the second Exorcisme Belzebub was sullen and would not speake a word whereupon Verrine said he doth this to make you leaue your exorcising for hee feareth lest being enforced to speake the Magicians who are oftentimes carried hither by Diuels should reuolt from him and bee conuerted as diuers of them haue already done The Acts of the 21. of Ianuary AT the euening Exorcismes Belzebub was questioned whether hee were in the body of Magdalene or no who answered that he was Being asked why he together with his companions left not that body and being many times adiured to make his answere vnto the same he would say nothing thereunto Yet after that the Priests had powred forth their prayers before God and had laid many grieuous paines vpon him hee made answere in a great rage Haue not I told thee that the obstinacy of Lewes the Magician was the cause hereof and that wee would neuer depart from hence vntill he bee conuerted or dead or else punished by iustice being asked what the reason was that this Magician was so hardened in his sinne and had such a cauterized conscience shut against all good admonitions and what aduantage hee did conceiue would redound from hence vnto him hee would make no answere a long time till at last by encreasing the degrees of his punishments vnto the number of daies that S. Magdalene had remained in the place of her pennance hee answered It proceedeth from the hatred hee beareth vnto God and because hee would still liue in his licentiousnesse without the checke and controule of his conscience Being

time of the Lent by many perswasions diligently exhorted him there-unto saying that hee who had as vpon that day forgiuen those that had crucified him would take pitty vpon him that had handled him a thousand-fold more strangely and ignominiously so that the Magician was determinatly bent to make confession of his witch craft vnto Iustice as afterwards he accordingly performed This Crosse is the instrument and this death of Christ Iesus is the efficient cause of the remission of all our sinnes be they neuer so enormous or numberlesse As Magdalene was hearing the Passion sermon at a window of the Arch-bishops house otherwise called the Chapter-house father Michaelis who was at that time the preacher did inueigh against Magiciās whereupon Belzebub began to say aloud there is no small number of them in the citty of Aix and afterward added there is a Frier in this assembly that is fallen a sleep and indeed they found that one of those who was wont to watch with the said Magician in prison did at that time slumber a little being sate amongst the people Vpon holy Saturday Magdalene in token of her humility and obedience tooke the besome to sweepe ●he chamber whereat the Diuell grumbled and cryed very fiercely And when the Confessor would haue confessed her Belzebub did so dull her and make her sleepie that she remained without motion iust as a pillar of brasse And after many Exorcismes Prayers and Impositions of punishments shee came to her selfe and Belzebub departed from her Whilest the Exorcisme yet continued he returned againe and thrust a pinn in Magdalenes eare which caused much paine and anguish vnto her shee crying and pointing to the said pinne but they could not pluck it forth with their fingers and were forced to haue litle pincers to draw it forth by maine strength Belzebub being adiured to tell what his purpose was in bringing the said pinne thither Hee answered I haue taken the same from vnder the heart of the Magician and it was put there to shut vp his heart and make it obstinate for it is charmed and inchanted And I haue put it into the eare of this Dragon Tharasque for so he called Magdalene to hinder her from hearing the word of God and all wholesome instructions The Acts of the third of Aprill being Sunday and Easter-day VPon Easter day Belzebub at the time of Masse did in a restlesse manner vex and torment himselfe casting himselfe on the ground crying and offering to goe out of the Chapel and at the last hee slipped out indeed That night at supper Belzebub did nothing but grumble and father Francis Billet said vnto him Why doest thou snarle thus Canst thou not let the poore woman suppe in quyet Then hee answered I haue a secret to tell thee whether I will or no. In the morning when I did so turmoyle my selfe at Masse the reason was because that Fortitude did lay his command vpon mee offering to force mee to take off my markes from Magdalene which I was constrained to doe presently after the Communion Question her whether shee did not suffer great anguish and paine in euery part about her vpon which these markes were branded when I tooke them off from her which the woman confessed but did not then know any reason of the same the places also where these markes remained were searched which then had sense and feeling and were able then to yeeld bloode whereas before they were deaded vp and made insensible and not a drop of bloud would fall from them but would rattle and make a noise like parchment when it is pierced with a knife Magdalene further said since my conuersion I was much agreeued with my selfe to haue the Diuels marks still stamped vpon mee but I dared not to pray vnto God for the abolishment of them although hee then knew and hath since granted my desire Belzebub being againe adiured did deliuer that Fortitude had reuealed vnto him that this was obtayned by the prayers of the blessed Virgin S. Iohn Baptist S. Michael S. Peter and S. Paul and they that did execute this commandement were Fortitude and Cleare-sight He further said that God had extended this singular fauour towards her to take away the opinion of some who conceaued that Magdalene was not yet thorowly conuerted and to giue assurance vnto her that she was no longer in the Diuels clawes that so she might with courage and resolution persist in that which was so well begunne The Acts of Easter-Monday being the 4. of Aprill AT the morning exorcismes the Chapel was locked vp by reason of the prease of people that flocked thither And Frier Anthony Boilletot the companion of father Michaelis comming towards the Chapel Belzebub cryed Open the doore for behold Tony would come in for so he called the said father after the rude manner of the pesants in the countrey of Prouince and iust as he said so it was And there being put vnto his back de ligno crucis Belzebub cryed out and said I doe wonderfully feare and tremble at this and being adiured to tell why hee said It was part of the wood that touched the back of Christ Iesus The Acts of Easter-Tewsday being the 5. of Aprill MOnsieur Garandeau Vicar generall died this day in the morning and Belzebub whilest Masse was saying spake aloud these words Garandean is dead I was at his death to try whether I could gaine him and laboured to stagger his faith but I could doe no good vpon him he is now in the hands of the Almighty A good honest woman who was there present hauing heard what hee had spoken said I make no doubt but he is now in Paradise where-unto the Diuell said Soft and faire soft and faire It is to be remembred that all this while Magdalene was racked and exceedinglie tormented The Acts of Wednesday being the 6. of Aprill AS the Father who was Gardian of the Capuchins was searching after a marke in one of Magdalenes feete Belzebub gaue him a box on the eare where-upon being exorcised and adiured he was constrained with great submission and sorrow to aske him forgiuenesse At the euening Exorcisme Belzebub said that on Easter day at 4. of the clock in the morning hee went to hell to craue counsell of Lucifer what hee should doe with Lewes who already began to shake and prooue irresolute he told him that he was to perswade Lewes to recant that so hee might haue his life saued otherwise he was but a dead man and bid him sit vpon his tongue and speake for him because said he he is a very dotterell which is a foolish kinde of bird stopping and stammering at euery word But in other things Belzebub was to make him as meeke as a lambe that men might haue a good opinion of him The Acts of Thursday being the 7. of Aprill FAther Romillon was of opinion that it was fit to cut close Magdalens haire because shee tooke such delight in the yellow