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B08926 ,The detection of a popish cheat, or, A true account of the invention and discovery of the story of a boys conversing with the devil, which has lately occasioned so much noise and so many reports. 1696 (1696) Wing D1209; ESTC R171758 4,192 2

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in Holy Water and shew'd him a Cruicisix and ordered him to hang one about his neck as a constant Charm with these and such like perswasions she tempted the Boy to change his Religion and turn to Mass but the Boy made answer that he could not be benefited by the Mass Service it being in Latin which he did not understand but she told him the Mass was Celebrated in as good English as was used either in Church or Meeting Upon this Mr. Travers went immediately to Patrick Dawson's House and they confess'd that such a Woman had been there that evening in the Boy 's company and that she lived in the end of the Town but when he was earnest to have her produced they deny'd they knew where to find her that she was only a begger Woman that came in by accident tho they own'd then they had seen her there several times before and knew her by sight very well This Passage made it reasonable to believe that the Story had been designedly forg'd And accordingly due care and diligence were apply'd for the sifting and finding out of the matter which was done with good success for on Fridry the 21st day of June the Boy disclosed the whole Plot and gave his Confession First to Mr. Traver in writing and afterwards upon Oath to Sir Humphery Jervise The substance of his Confession was as follows That his Uncle James Tuit and Patrick Dawson with their Wives being all Papists had frequently Advis'd and Press'd this Boy their Nephew to come over to their Religion and that on the 8th day of June the said James Tuit did first put the foregoing Story in the Boys Head and that afterwards the same day his Aunt Joan Tuit did carry him to the Popish Chappel at St. Audoen's Arch where the doors being shut and none present besides her and one Man two supposed Priests or Fryars repeated to him the very same Story and caused him to swear by the Mass Book to relate and stand by it and they themselves swore by the same Book as also Joan Tuit and the other man never to discover the secret He Confesses farther that his Uncle James Tuit did many times tempt him to leave his Master Roger Day 's service and live with him promising him that he should never be without pence in his Pocket that he was directed to leave a torn Paper written in blood in the field near the Gallows and to carry some people th●●her to find it as also to say he had won the Monoy at the Lottery as aforesaid as Confirmations to the story that the grand design of this contrivance was to carry him to St. John's Well on Sunday the 23d of June being St. Johns Eve the day before having been appointed to perfect the Lease to the Devil and that he was to return on Monday in his right mind thro' the miraculous Virtue of that Well He prays God to forgive his Uncles and Aunts and those Priests and promises amendment of life and diligence in his Masters service for the future He owns that the Journey-man Smith said nothing more to him only that of Shaking Hands with the Old Gontleman and that 't was in Drollery Upon this Declaration of the Boy Sir Humphery Jervise issued his Warrants immediately that same day for the Apprehending the abovenamed Dawson and Tuit with their Wives who were all accordingly Apprehended and bound over to the next Quarter Sessions which have not been yet held in the mean time they do not discover either the Priests or the Old Woman however Joan Tuit confesses that she did intend to carry the Boy with her as he said to St. John's Well which besides the Boys Oath is a strong presumption that his Confession is real in the other parts of it and that she knows the whole matter This Publication has been hitherto deferr'd in hopes of finding out the Priests Names but 't is believed an Indulgence will legitimate a false Oath rather than the holy Fathers should be brought to any disgrace or punishment This is one fair proof of the corrupt practices and Priestcraft of the Roman Church 't is a good specimen of their pretended Miracles and it shews evidently that they themselves suspect very much the Truth and Soundness of their Religion when they are forced to fly to such base Tricks and Frauds for the support of it 'T is hoped that this Discovery will Help to awaken and forwarn all Protestants to beware of the Deceitfulness of Popery and if the Papists were not Hoodwinked with an implicite Faith and enslaved in an absolute Subjection to the Imposition of their Clergy they would soon discern abundant Reason to Renounce such Unchristian Principles and embrace the Pure and Sincere Religion of the Reformation Printed in Dublin and Reprinted at London 1696.