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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
B00045	Witchcrafts, strange and wonderfull: discovering the damnable practices of seven witches, against the lives of certaine noble personages, and others of this kingdome, as shall appeare in this lamentable history. ; With an approved triall how to finde out either witch or any apprentice to witch-craft..	Flower, Margaret, d. 1618.	1635 (1635)	STC 11107.7; ESTC S92558	15,311	23

paire of gloves which were given her by Master Vavasor and put them into warme water mingling them with some blood and stirring it together then shee tooke the wooll and gloves out of the water and rubd them on the belly of Rutterkin her Cat saying the Lord and the Lady should have more children but it would be long first Shee further confesseth that by her mothers commandment she brought to her a piece of a handkerchiefe of the Lady Katherine the Earles daughter and her mother put it into hot water and then taking it out rubd it on Rutterkin bidding him flie and goe whereupon Rutterkin whined and cried Mew whereupon she said that Rutterkin had no power over the Lady Katherine to hurt her Another Examination of Philip Flower before Francis Earle of Rutland Francis Lord Willoughby of Ersby Sir George Manners and Sir William Pelham SHee confesseth and saith That shee hath a Spirit sucking on her in the forme of a white Rat which keepeth her left breast and hath so done for three or foure yeares and concerning the agreement betwixt her Spirit and her selfe shee confesseth and saith That when it came first unto her she gave her soule to it and it promised to doe her good and cause Thomas Simpson to love her if shee would suffer it to sucke her which she agreed unto and so the last time it suckt was on Tuesday at night the 23. of February Margaret Flower at the same time confesseth that she hath two familiar Spirits sucking on her the one white the other blacke spotted the white sucked under her left breast and the blacke spotted within the inward parts of her secrets When shee first entertained them shee promised them her soule and they covenanted to doe all things which shee commanded them c. Shee further saith That about the 30. of Ianuary last past being Saturday foure Devills appeared unto her in Lincolne Jayle at eleven on twelve a clocke at midnight The one stood at her beds feet with a blacke head like an Ape and spake unto her but what she cannot well remember at which she was very angry because hee would speake no plainer or let her understand his meaning the other three were Rutterkin Little Robin and Spirit but she never mistrusted them nor suspected her selfe till then THese Examinations and some others were taken and charily preserved for the contriving of sufficient evidences against them and when the Judges of Assize came downe to Lincolne about the first wecke of March being Sir Henry Hobert Lord chiefe Justice of the Common-Pleas and Sir Edward Bromely one of the Barons of the Exchequer they were presented unto them who not onely wondred at the wickednesse of these persons but were amazed at their practises and horrible contracts with the Devill to damne their owne soules And although the Right Honourable Earle had sufficient griefe for the losse of his children yet no doubt it was the greater to consider the maner and how it pleased God to inflict on him such a fashion of visitation Besides as it amazed the hearers to understand the particulars and the circumstances of this devillish contract was it as wonderfull to see their desperate impenitency and horrible distraction according to the rest of that sort exclaiming against the Devill for deluding them and now breaking promise with them when they stood in most need of his helpe Notwithstanding all these aggravations such was the unparalleld magnanimity wisedome and patience of this generous Noble-man that he urged nothing against them more then their owne confessions and so quietly left them to judiciall triall desiring of God mercy for their soules and of men charity to censure them in their condemnation but God is not mocked and so gave them over to judgement nor man so reformed but for the Earles sake they cursed them to that place which they themselves long before had bargained for What now remaines gentle Reader but for thee to make use of so wonderfull a story and remarkeable an accident out of which to draw to a conclusion thou mayest collect these particulas First that God is the supreame Commander of all things and permitteth wonderfull actions in the World for the triall of the godly the punishment of the wicked and his owne glory of which man shall never attaine to know the reason or occasion Secondly that the Devill is the meere servant and agent of God to prosecute whatsoever he shall command rather then give leave unto limiting him yet thus farre in his owne nature that he can goe no further then the bounds within which he is hedged Thirdly that this God hath punishments ad correctionem that is to say chastisements of the godly Ad ruinam Videlicet judgements against the wicked wherein yet man must disclaime any knowledge and forsake prejudicate opinions For the very just shall be tried like gold and no man exempted from castigation whom God doth love Fourthly that this Devill though hee bee Gods instrument yet worketh altogether by deceit for as he was a lier from the beginning so let no man trust him because hee aimes at the confusion of all mankinde Fifthly that the wicked however they may thriue and prosper for a time yet in the end are sure to be payed home either with punishment in this life or in the life to come or both as a finall reward of menstrous impicty Sixthly that man in his frailty must not presume of prosperity but prepare a kind of stooping under the hand of God when it pleaseth him to strike or punish us Seventhly that there is no murmuring nor repining against God but quietly to tolerate his inflictings whensoever they chance of which this worthy Earle is a memorable example to all men and ages Eightly that the punishments of the wicked are so many warnings to all irregular sinners to amend their lives and avoid the judgement to come by penitency and newnesse of life Ninthly that though man could bee content to passe over blasphemies and offences against the Statutes of Princes yet God will overtake them in their owne walkes and pull them backe by the sleeve into a slaughter-house as here you know the evidences against these people tooke life and power from their owne Confessions Tenthly and last of all that private opinion cannot prevaile against publike censures for here you see the learned and religious Judges cried out with our Saviour Ex ore tuo Therefore though it were so that neither Witch nor Devill could doe these things yet Let not a Witch live saith God and Let them die saith the Law of England that have conversation with spirits and presume to blaspheme the Name of God with spels and incantations O then you sonnes of men take warning by these examples and either divert your steps from the broad way of destruction and irrecoverable gulfe of damnation or with Iosuahs counsell to Achan Blesse God for the discovery of wickednesse and take thy death patiently as the prevention of thy future judgement and saving innocents from punishment who otherwise may be suspected without a cause Vtinam tam facile vera invenire possem quam falsa convincere The triall of a Witch Now as touching the triall and discovery of a Witch then which these cannot be any president more necessary and behoovefull for us there are divers opinions holden As some by the pricking of a sharpe knife naule or other pointed instrument under the stoole or seate on which the Witch sitteth for thereon shee is not able to sit or abide others by scratching or drawing of blood from the Witch by either party that is grieved or the next of blood to the same and others by fire as by burning any relique or principall ornament belonging to the suspected Witch which shall no sooner bee on fire but the Witch will presently come running to behold it and of these trials have beene made both in Hartfordshire Northamptonshire and Huntingtonshire But the onély assured and absolute perfect way to finde her out is to take the Witch or party suspected either to some Mildam Pond Lake or deepe River and stripping her to her smocke tie her armes acrosse onely let her legs have free liberty then fastening arope about her middle which with the helpe of by standers may be ever ready to save her from drowning in case she sinke throw her into the water and if shee swimme aloft and not sincke then draw her foorth and have some honest and discreet women neere which may presently search her for the secret marke of Witches as Teates blood-moales moist warts and the like which found then the second time binding her right thumbe to her left toe and her left thumbe to her right toe throw her into the water againe with the assistance of the former rope to save her if shee should chance to sincke and if then shee swim againe and doe not sincke you may most assuredly resolve she is a Witch and of this many pregnant and true proofes have beene made as namely by one Master Enger of Bedfordshire upon the person of Mary Sutton a notable Witch whom he cast into his Mildam at Milton Mills and found the effect as hath beene declared and for her Witchcraft was there condemned and executed and as this so I could recite a world of others in the same nature But the trueth is so manifest that it needeth no flourish to adorne it FINIS