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A60284	Satan's invisible world discovered, or, A choice collection of modern relations proving evidently against the saducees and atheists of this present age, that there are devils, spirits, witches, and apparitions, from authentick records, attestations of famous witnesses and undoubted verity : to all which is added, that marvellous history of Major Weir, and his sister : with two relations of apparitions at Edinburgh / by Georg Sinclar ...	Sinclair, George, d. 1696.	1685 (1685)	Wing S3858; ESTC R4971	118,890	288

Creatures are The other reason why Folk disbelieve Witches and Spirits is Atheism For if a man take good notice he will find there is of it lurking at the root of the Saducean Principle 'T is probable that the Saducees in Christs time were as great Patrons and Advocates of Witches as either Scot the Inglishman the Father of the Witch Patrons whom King Iames mentions in his Demonology or Webster Wagstaff or the Author of the Namle Pamphlet Printed Anno 1659. A third Reason is Because it is commonly believed that many innocent Persons have suffered as Witches especially such as have b●en Tortur'd to a Confession Let it be so but will it follow that all suffer after that manner And though many of their Confessions seem ridiculous as their Transformation into Catts and Hares and their Transportation into far Countreys which is evident enough Yet such things as their renouncing their Baptism and giving up themselves from Top to Toe to the Devils service and receiving his Mark they willing to take it and injunctions to do all manner of evil cannot be thought ridiculous If we can believe that the Devil can speak with an audible voice and come under a visible shape as is very probable he appeared to our Savior why should it be thought incredible that he may not do the like to Men and Women Satan offered to make a fair bargan with Christ if thou wilt fall down says he and worship me I will give thee all these Kingdoms Why much more may he not make compacts with men and Women If Witchcraft were but a new Trade which had never been heard of before and but a few in a countrey-side that profest their skill in it and told such foolish stories of themselves that man might be esteemed singular that would believe them But since this employment hath been verified by Millions in all ages in all places and hath obtained the general approbation of all sober judicious men but especially so well verified from holy Scripture why should any man as Webster and Wagstaff judge all Witchcraft but delusions Samuel said to Saul that Rebellion was like the sin of Witchcraft that is the one is as great a sin as the other Would ever the Spirit of God compare Rebellion especially against himself to a non-ens to a thing that is not or to Jugling Tricks or Legerdemain such as the Hocus Pocusses play Were Jannes and Jambres the Egyptain Magicians who withstood Moses only two Juglers or couzening Rogues that cast down before Pharoah carved and painted Serpents instead of real ones They have been very artificially done that the true Serpents mistook them for real ones It was a Victory to brag of indeed that Moses obtained over Pharoahs Magicians if they were but arrant Cheats who had no more to do with evil Spirits or evil Spirits with them then evil Spirits have to do with other Sinners There is that well known place Exod. 22.18 Thou shalt not suffer a Witch to live which would be a Law of extream severity or rather cruelty against a poor Jugler for his tricks of Legerdemain Why is Witchcraft call'd a Work of the Flesh and reckoned up among the rest of these damnable sins Gal. 5. The Greek word is Pharmakeia veneficium Sorcery or the Art of poysoning whereof they have great skill from the old Drugist their Master Not that they mischieve people ordinarly by natural poyson as Arsenick or the like but rather by some hellish malignancy infused into things by the art and malice of the Devil It is such a poyson that no Alexipharmacon or Orvieton can be an Antidote against Men and Women have been wronged by the touch of a Witches hand by the breath and kiss of their mouth as is well known of late By their looks which is called Fascinatio physica a Forelook or Ill-eyes The Greek word is Bascania from Bascaino to bewitch or envy quasi phasei kaino oculis interficio as when a Witch sendeth forth from her heart thorow her eyes venemous and poysonful Spirits as Rayes which lighting upon a man will kill him The Basilisk killeth this way But the Devil and the Basilisk are both Serpents What was Simon Magus But especially that notable Magician Apollonius Thianeus one beyond most that ever the World knew And that Damsel possessed with a Spirit of Divination in the Greek a Spirit of Python by which name Apollo the Devil was called by the Heathens The Witch of Endor is so notable and evident an instance of Confederacy with the Devil that the Witch Patrons to find an evasion have set theit wits upon the Rack But it is such a Choak-pear to them as that they shall never be able to Chew or Swallow Doctor Glanvile maintains it was the true Samuel that appeared to Saul But it is far more probable that it was the Devil in Samuels lickness For it is most incredible that GOD who had just now refused to answer Saul by the means which himself had appointed would answer him or suffer Samuel to answer him by the use of those means which GOD detested Secondly if it had been the true Samuel or some Good Spirit he would not have received that worship from Saul which Good Spirits would not suffer Rev. 19.10 and 22.8 9. Thirdly Among the other sins for which he condemneth Saul he omitteth this of asking counsel of one that had a Familiar Spirit to enquire of it for which transgression with others he is expresly said to have died 1 Chron. 10.13 Which the true Samuel who was so zealous for GODS honour and so faithful a reprover of sin would never have neglected especially now when he took Saul in the very fact Lastly he pretends himself to be disquieted and brought up by Sauls instigation and the Witches Art which is most false impious and absurd to imagine concerning those blessed souls who are returned to their God Eccl. 12.7 Isa. 57.2 Luke 16.22 Rev. 13.14 Many in all Ages have written of Devilry and Witchcraft Men of eminent Knowledge and Parts as we may see by one instance of King Iames his Demonology a piece as far beyond all other mens writtings on that subject as himself was beyond all Princes in his time I cannot omit to mention the opinion of His Majesties present Advocat Sir George Mackenzie a Gentleman of great knowledge and experience in all such Matters in his 16. Pleading for Mevia accused of Witchcraft I am not of their Opinion sayes he who deny that there are Witches though I think them not numerous and though I believe that some are suffered by Providence to the end that the beeing of Spirits may not be denyed c. And in his Criminals he acteth the part both of a Divine a Lawyer and a good Philosopher in order to Witchcraft But what can be the reason of so much Atheism in the World There are many but I shall only touch at two First there are a monstruous rable of men who

to come and he opening his mouth spake to them after this manner The Lord will rebuke this Spirit in his own time and cast it out The Devil answering said It is written in the 9th of Mark the Disciples could not cast him out The Minister replyed What the Disciples could not do yet the Lord having hightned the Parents Faith for his own glory did cast him out and so shall he thee The Devil replyed It is written in the 4th of Luke and he departed and left him for a season The Minister said The Lord in the dayes of his Humiliation not only got the victory over Satan in that assault in the wilderness but when he came again his success was no better for it is written Iohn 14. Behold the Prince of this World cometh and hath nothing in me and being now in glory he will fulfil his promise and GOD shal bruise Satan under your feet shortly Rom. 16. The Devil answered It is written Matth 25. There were ten Virgins five wise five foolish and the Bridegroom came the foolish Virgins had no oyl in their lamps and went unto the wise to seek Oyl and the wise said go and buy for your selves and while they went the Bridegroom came and entered in and the door was shut and the foolish Virgins were sent to Hells fire The Minister answered The Lord knows the sincerity of his servants and though there be sin and folly in us here yet there is a fountain opened to the house of David for sin and for uncleanness when he hath washen us and pardoned our sins for his Names sake he will cast the unclean Spirit out of the land The Devil answered and said Sir you should have cited for that place of Scripture the 13 chap. of Zech. and so he began at the first verse and repeated several verses and concluded with those words In that day I will cause the Prophet and the unclean Spirit pass out of the land but afterwards it is written I will smite the Shepherd and the Sheep shal be scattered The Minister answered and said well are we that our blessed Shepherd was smitten and thereby hath bruised thy head and albeit in the hour of his sufferings his Disciples forsook him Matth. 26. Yet now having ascended on high he sits in glory and is preserving gathering in and turning his hand upon his little ones and will save his poor ones in this Family from thy malice The Minister returning back a little and standing upon the Floor the Devil said I knew not these Scriptures till my Father taught me them Then the Minister conjured him to tell whence he was The Foul-Fiend replyed that he was an evil Spirit come from the bottomless Pit of Hell to vex this house and that Satan was his Father and presently there appeared a naked hand and an arm from the Elbow down beating upon the Floor till the house did shake again and also he uttered a most fearful and loud cry saying come up Father come up I will send my Father among you See there he is behind your backs The Minister said I saw indeed an hand and an arm when the stroak was given and heard The Devil said to him Saw you that It was not my hand it was my Fathers my hand is more black in the loof O said Gilbert Campbel that I might see thee as well as I hear thee Would you see me says the Foul-Thief Put out the Candle and I shal come butt the house among you like fire balls I shall let you see me indeed Alexander Bailie of Dunraget says to the Minister let us go ben and see if there be any hand to be seen The Devil answered No let him come ben alone he is a good honest man his single word may be believed About this time the Devil abused Mr. Robert Hay a very honest Gentleman very ill with his Tongue calling him Witch and Warlock A little after the Devil cryes It seems out of purpose and in a purpose a Witch a VVitch Ther 's a Witch sitting upon the Ruist take her away he meant a Hen sitting upon the halk of the House These things being Past all went to Prayer during which time he was silent Prayer being ended the Devil answered and said If the Goodmans Sons prayers at the Colledge of Glasgow did not prevail with GOD my father and I had wrought a mischief here ere now To which Alexander Bailie of Dunraged replied well well I see you confess there is a God and that prayer prevails with him and therefore we must pray to God and commit the event to him To whom the Devil replied yea Sir you speak of prayer with your broad lipped Hat for the Gentleman had lately gotten a Hat in the fashion with broad lipps I 'le bring a pair of Shears from my Father which shal clip the lipps of it a little Whereupon he presently imagined that he heard and felt a pair of Shears going round about his Hat which caused him lift it to see if the Foul-Theif had medled with it During this time several things but of less moment passed as that he would have Tom a Merchant Rob a Smith Iohn a Minister and Hue a Lawier all which in some measure came to pass As to Jennet the Goodmans Daughter he cryes to her Jennet Campbel Jennet Campbel wilt thou cast me thy Belt Quoth she what a widdy would thou do with my Belt I would fain says he fasten my loose bones closs together with it A younger Daughter sitting busking her Puppies as young Girls use to do being threatned by the Fiend that he would ding out her harns that is brain her answered without being concerned no if God be to the fore and so fell to her work again The Good Wife of the house having brought out some bread was breaking it to give every one of the Company a Piece Cryes he Grissel Wyllie Grissel Wyllie give me a peice of that hard bread for so they call their Oat Cakes I have gotten nothing this day but a bit from Marrit that is as they speak in that Countrey Margaret The Minister said beware of that for it is a sacrificing to the Devil The Girle was called for and asked if she gave him any hard bread no says she but when I was eating my due piece this morning something came and clieked it out of my hand The Evening being now far spent it was thought fit that every one should withdraw to his own home Then did the Devil cry out fearfully let not the Minister goe home I shall burn the house if he go and many other ways did he threaten After the Minister had gone foorth Gilbert Campbel was very instant with him to tarry whereupon he returned all the rest going home When he came into the house the Devil gave a great gaff of laughter you have now Sir done my bidding Not thine answered the other but in obedience to God have I returned to

1684. For Mr. Sinclar at Edinburgh Sir I Have so far condescended to give you satisfaction in the desired particulars that I have looked over these Memoires which I had by me touching the Life and Death of Thomas Weir that from Eye-witnesses and his Sisters Declaration I can assert the Truth As followeth This man Thomas Weir was born in Clydsdaile near to Lanerk who had been a Lieutenent in Ireland long since What way he came to get some publick command in the City of Edinburgh in the year 49. and 50. I know not but it seems he has been alwayes called Major Weir since that time Many things might be narrated of him which for brevities sake I cannot meddle with since I intend to speak only of his Sorceries and other things relating thereunto It seems he had before he was burnt some charge over the Waiters at the Ports of the City being as it were a Check to them Coming one day as his custome was he found some of them in a Cellar taking a cup of Aile neglecting their Charge After a gentle reproof one of them replyed that some of their number being upon duty the rest had retired to drink with their old Friend and Acquaintance Mr. Burn. At which word he started back and casting an eye upon him repeated the word Burn four or five times And going home he never any more came abroad till a few weeks after he had discovered his impieties It was observed by some that going to Liberton sometimes he shunned to step over that Water-brook which is ordinarly called Liberton-burn but went about to shun it Some have conjectured that he had advise to beware of a Burn or some other thing which this equivocal word might signify as burn in a fire If so he has foreseen his day approaching A year before he discovered himself he took a sore sickness during which time he spake to all who visited him like an Angel and came frequently abroad again This man taking some dreadful tortures of Conscience and the Terrours of the Almighty being upon his Spirit confessed to several Neighbours in his own house and that most willingly his particular sins which he was guilty of which bred amazement to all persons they coming from a man of so high a repute of Religion and Piety He ended with this remarkable expression Before GOD sayes he I have not told you the hundred part of that I can say more and am guilty of These same very abominations he confessed before the Iudges likewise But after this he would never till his dying hour confess any more which might have been for the glorifying of GOD and the Edification of others but remained stupid having no confidence to look any Man in the face or to open his eyes When two of the Magistrates came to his house in the night time to carry him to prison they asked If he had any money to secure He answered None His Sister said there was Whereupon to the value of five Dollars in parcels here and there were found in several clouts His Sister advised the two Magistrates to secure his Staff especially for she also went to Prison After he was secured in the Tolbooth the Bailies returned and went into a Tavern near to Weirs house in the West-bow a street so called there The money was put into a Bag and the clouts thrown into the fire by the Master of the house and his Wife which after an unusual manner made a circleing and dancing in the fire There was another clout found with some hard thing in it which they threw into the fire likewise it being a certain root which circled and sparkled like Gunpowder and passing from the Tunnel of the Chimney it gave a crack like a little Cannon to the amazement of all that were present The money aforesaid was taken by one of the two Bailies to his own house and laid by in his Closet After Family Prayer was ended he retired into the same Closet where I have been during which time his Wife who is yet living and the rest of the Family were afrighted with a terrible noise within the Study like the falling of an house about three times together His Wife knocking gave a fearful cry My Dear are you alive The Bailie came out unafrayed having as he said heard nothing whether he concealed this upon the account his Wife was with Child or otherwise it cannot be well known The money was presently sent away to the other Bailies house a great distance from Weirs where as was reported there was some disturbance but in broken expressions During the time of his imprisonment he was never willing to be spoken to and when the Ministers of the City offered to pray for him he would cry out in fury Torment me no more for I am tormented already One Minister now asleep asking him if he should pray for him was answered not at all The other replyed in a kind of holy anger Sir I will pray for you in spite of your teeth the Devil your master too Who did pray making him at least to hear him but the other stairing wildly was senseless as a Brute Another who is likewise at rest demanded if he thought there was a God Said the Man I know not That other smartly replyed O man the Argument that moveth me to think there is a God is thy self for what els moved thee to inform the world of thy wicked life But Weir answered let me alone When he peremptorly forebad one of his own Parish Ministers yet alive to pray One demanded if he would have any of the Presbyterian perswasion to pray He answered Sir you are now all alike to me Then said the Minister to him I will pray with you Do it not said the other upon your Peril looking up to the beams of the house But Prayer was offered up so much the more heartily because the company about expected some vision It is observable that in things common he was pertinent enough but when any thing about Almighty God and his souls condition came about he would Shrugg and Rub his Coat and Breast saying to them torment me not before the time When he was at the stake to be burnt the City Ministers called to a Church-man there looking on being one of that perswasion whereof Weir was formerlie deemed to be to speak to him but no sooner he opened his mouth than he made a sign with his hand and his head to be silent When the Roap was about his neck to prepare him for the fire he was bid say Lord be merciful to me But he answered let me alone I will not I have lived as a beast and I must die as a Beast The fire being kindled both He and his Staff a little after fell into the flames Whatever Incantation was in his Staff is not for me to discuss He could not officiat in any holy duty without this Rod in his hand and leaning upon it which made those

die shortly He fell sick of a pain in his head with an excessive aiking But before I go furder on in this narration I must make a visit to the Countrey A Gentle man near Tranent or in it a town about seven miles from Edinburgh whose Agent this man was in managing his Law affairs and keeped his Papers for that effect had a singular kindness for Thomas as he had for him This Gentleman being in Bed one morning with his Wife his Nurse and a Child laying in a truckle Bed near them the Nurse was afrighted with something like a cloud moving up and down the Room but not shaped as such She called to her Master and his Wife and awakned them He seing the Cloud figured like a man nimbly skipt over the Bed and drew his sword And going to Bed again layed it by his side and recommended the Family to God For a time it continued in the forementioned dark form but anone they all saw perfectly the body of a man walking up and down The Gentleman behaved himself more like a Christian than a combatant At last this Apparition looked him fully and perfectly in the face and stood by him with a ghaistly and Pale countenance At which the Gentleman with great courrage said to the Spectre what art thou Art thou my dear Friend Thomas Coltheart for so was the Agent called Art thou dead my friend Tell me if thou hast any commission to me from Almighty God tell it me and it shall be welcome The Ghost held up its hand three times waving and shaking it towards him and immediatly disappeared This was done about the very hour as was guessed of the Agents death The Sunday after his death among many accompanying his Corps to the common burial place some of the Town Ministers were there and by chance a friend of his thanked one of them for his attendence and said sir it was a pity that some of you saw him not before he died The Minister asked him if any remarkable thing was the cause of his sicknesse So much was told as gave the Minister ground to make a visit to the Widow who made him very welcome with many tears in her eyes After she had composed her self he prayed Prayer being ended she began the fore-related story and told it from the beginning But when she came to the Dogs part she telling him that he was just now sitting upon the Chair where the Dog lay asleeping the Minister rises up and taking the Mistris by the hand come said he if I have seen his Chair in the name of almighty God I will see his Chamber too and so went in to see the little Room from which the Apparitions came and to which they returned in which Room she gave the Minister an account of what followed the Dog In the mean time a Gentleman came in whom she knew by his voice and running to him with great fervor they embraced one another affectionatly with tears To make an end this stranger was the Gentleman to whom the Ghost of the deceased husband appeared about Tranent the very hour when he was expiring at Edinburgh He told likewise that that morning the Ghost appeared to him he was resolved to attend the Duke of Lauderdaile from Lithingtoun to Edinburgh but this Apparition discomposing his Wife he could not But with his first conveniency he told her he had come in to see her and get an account of his papers being touched with what he saw at his house These things coming to the Duke of Lauderdails ears as remarkable Stories he called for that Minister and had the same account of the Particulars before many of the Nobility narrated to him An Apparition of a deceased Wife to her husband at Edinburgh SIr That which I narrated to you the other day I have now sent it under my hand as a thing very certain and sure I knew a servant Maid that served a Gentlewoman in the Old Provosts Closs as they call it who was married to a Butcher called Iohn Richy about twelve years agoe She lived about five years with him and bore him four Children and then died Within a few dayes after her burial he went in suit of a young Woman courting her for Marriage He had a Comerade of the same trade to whom he revealed his Intention desired him to meet at such a house near to the Court of Guard down some Closs or other that he might see his new Mistriss The appointment is keeped The two Lovers sat down together on a Bed-side and the Comerade sat opposit to them there being a table between them and a Window or shot at the head of the Room that gave them light The Closs or Wynd was narrow to which they had a sight And while the two are dallying together in the Bed the other smiling at them behold while this man is casting his eye about the room he perceived distinctly the body and face of the dead wife in her dead cloaths looking towards them from an opposit window At which this man his Comerade rose up afrighted saying to the other Iohn what 's that Whereupon all stood up looking and saw perfectly the buried woman lifting up her hands as appeared to take the dead dress from her head but could not reach it The man threw her out of his Arms with a purpose to be gone quickly But his Comerade vowed he would not stir till he get some thing to comfort his heart They got a little Brandy and then went away not without wondering and fear Vpon this the man took sickness for three or four days and his Comerade coming to give him a visit counseled him to delay or wholly to desist from that purpose of marriage But affection would not suffer him to forbear and though not fully recovered of his Frenzie he made a new address to his Mistris But while he is putting on his shooes his dead wife appears again in her ordinary habit and crossing the Room in his sight says Iohn will you not come to me and with that evanished Vpon this he took sickness again and called for his Comerade and told him of this second Apparition who most freely intreated him to desist or at least to delay His sickness increasing he died About which time he spake of a third visit his wife gave him blaming him as if he had too soon forgotten her But did not tell it distinctly and therefore his Comerade could not be positive in it He was buried within a moneth of his wifes decease One of the Ministers of Edinburgh who had been acquaint in the house where she served hearing some Whisper of the Apparition sent a servant secretly to call for the mans Comerade who gave him a just and true narration of all which I have written Adding that he having seen the Vision first some told him he would quickly die but he is yet living in the town a Flesher the Minister having married him to two Wives since The deceast wifes name was Helen Brown I intended to have published another Relation anent the devils coming in the night-time and knocked three several times at such a mans door but I was desired to forbear Having no kindness for the Cartesian Philosophy I must fall upon it in the close as I did in the beginning I will not name nor cite the Author that maintains the following Blasphemous Opinions tho I may 1. That there is an infinit intelligible extension which is GOD in which we see all Bodies 2. This Author makes CHRIST the Eternal Word speak in the quality of a Cartesian Philosopher 3. He destroyes altogether the Providence of GOD. 4. He sayes that GOD hath not made all things for his own Glory 5. That it was necessar that all men should be Sinners that there might be a diversity of Glory 6. Works done without Grace are good-works 7. GOD is not the Author of every good thing that is in us 8. He destroyes the Authority of the Scripture and exposes it to be despised by the profane 9. The thoughts of Iesus Christ are the occasional Causes of the distribution of Grace 10. GOD could have created Spirits from all Eternity 11. All Creatures are full of Iesus Christ. 12. He ruins the nature of sin by the Idea which he gives of Liberty 13. That Liberty is not essential to Spirits 14. A man transported by his passion doth not sin 15. Every Habit or Passion or Temperament which we cannot over come doth make the most ugly and Enormous Actions to be no sins And thence Sodomy Incest Murder Adultery Rebellion Witchcraft are no sins if they be habitual These are but a few of his Blasphemous and Atheistical Opinions This Philosophy would please some now adayes very well that habituate themselves in murder in murdering some in their Lodgings and others on the Kings high-way as is most unchristianly done by some O dementia Huccine rerum venimus FINIS

for the space of four or five dayes there were no remarkable assaults as before The Minister hearing thereof shewed him the evil of such a course and assured him that if he repented not and called back his Children he might not expect that his trouble would end in a right way The Children that were nigh by being brought home no trouble followed till one of his Sons called Thomas that was farest off came home Then did the Devil begin a fresh for upon the Lords day following in the afternoon the House was set on Fire but by the help of some Neighbours going home from Sermon the Fire was put out and the house saved not much loss being done And Munday after being spent in Private prayer and fasting the house was again set on Fire upon the Tuesday about nine a clock in the morning yet by the speedy help of Neighbors it was saved litle skaith being done The Weaver being thus vexed and wearied both day and night went to the Minister of the Parish an Honest and Godly in andesiring him to let his Son Thomas abide with him for a time who condescended but withal assured him that he would find himself deceived and so it came to pass for notwithstanding that the Lad was without the Family yet were they that remained in it sore troubled both in the day time and night season so that they were forced to wake till Mid-night and sometimes all the night over during which time the persons within the Family suffered many losses as the cutting of their Cloaths the throwing of Piets the pulling down of Turff and Feal from the Roof and Walls of the house and the stealling of their Cloaths and the Pricking of their Flesh and Skin with Pins Some Ministers about having conveened at the place for a solemn Humiliation perswaded Gilbert Campbel to call back his Son Thomas Notwithstanding of whatsoever hazard might follow The Boy returning home affirmed that he heard a voice speak to him forbidding him to enter within the House or in any other place where his Fathers Calling was exercised Yet he entered but was sore abused till he was forced to return to the Ministers house again Vpon Munday the 12 of February the rest of the Family began to hear a voice speak to them but could not well know from whence it came Yet from Evening till Mid-night too much vain discourse was kept up with Satan and many idle and impertinent questions proposed without that due fear of God that should have been upon their Spirits under so rare and extraordinary a Trial. They came that length in familiar discourse with the Foul-Thief that they were no more afrayed to keep up the Clash with him than to speak to one another In this they pleased him well for he desired no better than to have Sacrifices offered to him The Minister hearing of this went to the house upon the Tuesday being accompanied with some Gentlemen one James Bailie of Carphin Alexander Bailie of Dunraged Mr. Robert Hay and a Gentlewoman called Mistris Douglas whom the Ministers Wife did accompanie At their first in-coming the Devil says Quum Literarum is good Latine These are the first words of the Latine Rudiments which Schollars are taught when they go to the Grammar School He crys again a Dog The Minister thinking that he had spoken it to him said he took it not ill to be reviled by Satan since his Master had troden that path before him Answered Satan it was not you Sir I spoke it to I meant by the Dog there for there was a Dog standing behind backs This passing they all went to Prayer which being ended they heard a voice speaking out of the ground from under a Bed in the proper Countrey Dialect which he did counterfeit exactly saying Would you know the Witches of Glenluce I will tell you them and so related four or five Persons nam●s that went under a bad report The Weaver informed the Company that one of them was dead long ago The Devil answered and said It is true she is dead long ago but her Spirit is living with us in the World The Minister replied saying though it was not convenient to speak to such an excommunicat and intercommuned person the Lord rebuke thee Satan and put thee to silence we are not to receive Information from thee whatsoever fame any person goes under Thou art seeking but to seduce this Family for Satans kingdom is not divided against it self After which all went to Prayer again which being ended for during the time of Prayer no noise or trouble was made except once that a loud fearful youel was heard at a distance The Devil with many threatnings boasted and terrified the Lad Tom who had come back that day with the Minister that if he did not depart out of the house he would set all on fire The Minister answered and said the Lord will preserve the house and the Lad too seeing he is one of the Family and hath GODS Warrant to tarry in it The Fiend answered he shall not get liberty to tarry he was once put out already and shal not abide here though I should pursue him to the end of the world The Minister replyed the Lord will stop thy malice against him And then they all went to prayer again which being ended the Devil said give me a Spade and a Shovel and depart from the house for seven days and I will make a Grave and ly down in it and shall trouble you no more The good man answered not so much as a Straw shal be given thee through Gods assistance even though that would do it The Minister also added God shal remove thee in due time The Spirit answered I will not remove for you I have my Commission from Christ to tarry and vex this Family The Minister answered a Permission thou hast indeed but God will stop it in due time The Devil replied I have Sir a Commission which perhaps will last longer than your own The Minister dyed in the year 1655 in December The Devil had told them that he had given his commission to Tom to keep The Company enquired at the Lad who said there was something put into his pocket but it did not tarry After this the Minister and the Gentlemen arose and went to the place whence the voice seemed to come to try if they could see or find any thing After diligent search nothing being found the Gentlemen began to say We think this voice speaks out of the Children for some of them were in their beds The Foul Spirit answered you lie GOD shall judge you for your lying and I and my father will come and fetch you to Hell with Warlock Thieves and so the Devil discharged the Gentlemen to speak any thing saying Let him speak that hath a Commission meaning the Minister for he is the servant of GOD. The Gentlemen returning back with the Minister sat down near the place whence the voice seemed