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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A02753	A discouery of the fraudulent practises of Iohn Darrel Bacheler of Artes in his proceedings concerning the pretended possession and dispossession of William Somers at Nottingham: of Thomas Darling, the boy of Burton at Caldwall: and of Katherine Wright at Mansfield, & Whittington: and of his dealings with one Mary Couper at Nottingham, detecting in some sort the deceitfull trade in these latter dayes of casting out deuils.; Discovery of the fraudulent practises of John Darrel	Harsnett, Samuel, 1561-1631.	1599 (1599)	STC 12883; ESTC S103824	204,500	314

do say or preach to the contrary CHAP. I. How Maister Darrell laboured from time to time to make those thinges that Somers did and were but very toyes to bee thought both strange and extraordinarie THings that bee strange doe cause men to wonder If a man go to Rome and be desirous of nouelties hee shall find sundry Priests that will feed his humor They will shew him Christes napkin S. Inkes head S. Andrewes arme S. Blases wezand a peece of S. Christophers arme Saint Peters fingers the pincers wherewith diuers Martirs were pinched a peece of the earth where Christ appeared to Marie Magdalen Saint Annes thumbe Saint Dominckes stoale a peece of Saint Paules staffe that hee walked with Saint Peters tooth the Table whereat Christ last supped some of the fragments of the fiue Barly loues mentioned in the Gospell a peece of the chaine that Saint Iohn was bounde with Moyses rodde Aarons rodde some of the shewe-breade the towell wherewith Christ wiped his Apostles feete parte of the reede that Christ was strucke with at Pilates house the ashes of Saint Iohn Baptist the vessell into the which bloode and water flowed out of Christes side many cloutes died with the bloud of Martirs a stone of Christes Sepulcher a stone or peece of earth of Mount Caluarie a stone or peece of earth from the place where Christ ascended into heauen the spunge wherein they gaue Christ Vinegar and gall the cribbe that Christ was borne in the thornes of the Crowne that Christ was crowned with our Ladies hayre the Chinne of Saint Iohn Baptistes father some of Mary Magdalens hayre a peece of the fatte of Saint Laurence a peece of the arme and some of the braynes of Saint Thomas of Canterburie with many such trinkettes And they will vow and protest with great deuotion that these are no fictions nor feigned reliques but the very things themselues whose names they beare whereby many credulous and superstitious people are drawne to admire them It is the manner of the Mountebankes in Italie resembled by some of our Pedlers when they open their packes to set out their ware with many great wordes Vnto which kinde of people and seducing Mirabilistes Maister Darrell in his practises with Somers may well bee resembled When the boy spake hee tolde the people it was the deuill that vsed his voice when hee did any thing in his fittes hee sayde that it was the Deuill that did it If hee stirred his handes or any parte of his body as hee lay in bedde hee affirmed the Deuill to be in bedde with him The mouing of the boyes fingers vnder a Couerlette hee made to bee Deuilles in formes of Whelpes or Kitlinges when hee strugled hee pretended that for strength hee was almost an other Goliath If hee spake any thing whereof those that were present vnderstoode not the reason how hee knew it hee was straight become a kinde of Prophete and to haue supernaturall knowledge Two or three wordes of Latine which hee had learned at the schoole was sufficient to giue it out that in his fittes he spake Greeke Hebrew and Latine Briefly all that the boy did in his pretended fittes M. Darrell would needes haue to passe and exceede the naturall power of any man and so must bee done of necessitie by the Deuill Whilest hee was thus ietting vppe and downe the place where Somers was playing his prankes and setting out the boyes actions as his chiefe Wares with such strange wordes and qualities a man may well remember the saide Romish Priestes in extolling their feyned Reliques and the saide Mountebankes and Pedlers in lying and cogging to make the best of their packes The particulers before mentioned haue beene partly proued already and it will appeare to bee true more plainely hereafter and touching some others there are these depositions following M. Darrell tolde those that were present Somers being in a fitte that the Boyes tounge was drawne into his throate quite out of his mouth and taking the Candle in his handes would needes haue the company to looke into his mouth the boy lying with his mouth open and then saide see you not that it is so what reason can be giuen of this It passeth nature to doe any such thing with Cooper herein concurreth Edmond Garland Vpon the Sonday at night sayeth M. Hallam M. Darrell saide the boy lying in his fitte beholde his face is it iust behinde him which is most strange but I saw not the same strangenes M. Darrell tolde the people present at Porters house on the Saturday at night when he came to Nottingham that those thinges that the boy did passed the power and skill of any man to doe With this deposition M. Parre doth fully agree in effect word for worde Concerning the ridiculous gestures mentioned before that were pretended to signifie the sinnes of Nottingham M. Darrell himselfe hath tolde vs in his history that Somers did them in that liuely manner that hee thinketh that the like dumbe description of sinnes cannot be made by any humaine skill or power It hath also before beene obserued how hee willed the boy to vtter some darke speeches whereby the people might wonder at him especially when they heard his the saide Darrels profound exposition of them Somers in one of his pretended fittes did take vpon him to expound the Articles of the Creede which he sayeth he was in some sorte enabled to doe by reason that almost euery Minister that came vnto him had in their speeches with him interpreted them diuers times vnto him Towardes the end of the which his discourse M. Darrell came in who being enformed thereof and also of some errors which had escaped therein he made the matter very wonderfull first obserue what is deposed and then what M. Darrell sayeth Comming one euening to Coopers house Somers fell into a fit as they called it of squeaking and scritching and in his fiitte he beganne to repeate the Articles of the Creede and to tel the meaning of euery Article orderly The which his exposition I then thought and doe now thinke to haue beene made by Somers himselfe by the assistance of God and not by the operation of the Deuill Somers did expound the Creede at my house by the space almost of an houre Whereupon M. Darrel then saide to those that were present that heretofore the boy had noted vnto them the sinnes that raigned in Nottingham and that now they should heare him deliuer vnto him the groundes of their faith euerie Christian dutie and other godly rules whereby they might learne to guide their wayes and therefore willed them to hearken vnto his sayinges and to practise the same But now M. Darrell would be heard Somers sayeth hee hauing made a euery glorious interpretation of the Creede I came in euen as hee made an end and being informed thereof and that some of the simple people were so rauished by the saide interpretation as they supposed it

actions to bee maruayled at are not so much moued with them It should seeme that these kinds of deuils that are thus exercised are but doltes and therefore cannot serue these iuglers turnes as being peraduenture but newly hatched when infants are borne and therefore ignorant how to apply themselues to their contentment They cannot cry out or rage by their praying to Saintes by their casting of holy water vppon them by their bringing vnto them of the Sacrament of the Altar or their Agnus Dei by their application of holy reliques nor by their owne approaching neare vnto them being holy catholike priestes And therefore they are deuils of greater vnderstanding and better experience that the Exorcistes hunt after such as are acquinted with the diuine vertue of their so catholike iuglings and practises It is disputed amongst them whether all infantes bee possessed or not it seeming an absurditie to commaund the Deuill to come forth of them if he were not in them For the deciding of which doubt it may be maruailed if those kindes of deuils be of any standing when they vse not their infallible meanes to know the truth therein which are as heretofore hath beene expressed their application of reliques and so forth For if they bee so terrible to Sathan as they pretend why should he not bee compelled by the force of them to shew himselfe or his presence aswell in infantes as eyther in boyes or wenches or any other But as these deluders must haue it seemeth more skilful deuils so must they also haue some elder persons that are more fitte to bee seduced by them Otherwise their reputation in that behalfe would soone decay and their holy water with the rest of their trumpery want that testimony that is drawne from the deuils disliking of them which may not be endured but prosecuted and defended with all their might and skill Neither is this cunning appropriated onely to the Papistes but extendeth it selfe further there being men also amongst our selues who want not their Reliques and deuises which these elder deuils must feare and tremble at There is a profound question amongst the Romanistes Whether all Protestants whom they account heretiques bee not possessed with wicked spirites If it had fallen out that they had so beene their Exorcistes would in such sorte haue beene set on worke as they should not haue beene driuen to haue sought farre for it But it is otherwise ouerruled that forsooth although heretickes haue great fellowship and intercourse with Deuils Obsessi tamen omnes nec possunt nec debent dici yet al of them neither may nor should he thought to be possessed propterea quod c. because the signs of possession do not appeare in them And they that take vpon them to cast out Deuils amongst our selues notwithstanding it seemeth that stinted prayers are very offensiue to them that they are not resolued of the difference betwixt a priest a Bishop yet they will not say that they who hold against them are possessed albeit men of that humor both haue and still do dep●●ue them maligne them and slaunder them vpon any occasion at their pleasures So as these Exorcists of both kinds for want of worke are driuen to their shifts and like Tinkers walke vp and downe from place to place seeking to be imployed It is a matter of some difficultie to discouer their shifts and sleights to that purpose they haue so many and by their experience doe manage them so craftily Diuers of them are here sette downe and the rest may bee supplied peraduenture by some hereafter Sometimes they make choice of some such boyes or wenches as they thinke are fit for their purpose whome they procure by many promises and allurements to keep their counsell and to bee as they tearme it aduised by them And these are commonly of the poorer sort either the children or seruants of such persons as the Exorcistes doe well know to be of their owne stampe and well affected towardes them It falleth out now and then that they haue some schollers of their own whom they mean to preferre the popish sort to some Seminaries and others as they may And there are none to these they are so apt to worke vpon howbeit they can soone frame the other to their bent by their cunning When they haue any of these in hand they doe instruct them so perfectly as when they come to exorcise them they are in a manner secure their schollers knowing as well what to doe as their false maisters themselues These are not dealt with but there must be a great assemblie gathered together in one corner or other all of them such persons as they know to bee their friendes or at the least such as their said friendes doe bring with them and are thought fit to bee peruerted The company mette the Exorcistes doe tell them what a worke of God they haue in hande and after a long discourse how Sathan doth afflict the parties and what straunge thinges they shall see the said parties are brought forth as it were a Beare to the stake and being eyther bound in a chaire or otherwise held fast they fall to their fittes and play their prankes point by point exactly according as they haue beene instructed As if they bee of the new cutte they crie they wallow they foame and shew the signes of possession mentioned in the Scriptures with some others But if they bee of the olde instructions then there are notable Tragedies Out commeth the Priest in his massing attire the hallowed candles are lightened their reliques with their Agnus Dei are brought forth the holy water flieth about the chamber their hallowed frankinsence perfumeth the place and so forth Whereupon all that are present hauing worshipped the said holy misteries no sooner cast their eies towardes the parties pretended to be possessed but there is starting strugling and striuing they scriche they raile they spit they crie they rage and fare as not being able in any wise without daunger of present death to indure the presence of the catholique Priestes and of their holy complements But when these Exorcistes can not worke this way as wanting such fitte schollers to dissemble and collude with them then by casting about they especially the popish iuglers haue in readinesse some other as neede shall require At their comming to the places where they know they are welcome but cannot practise as before if they finde any youth boy or girle that is not well at ease and whose disease is not apparant as eyther an Ague the small pockes or such like where of euery man is able to iudge they will seeme to take great care of them as being desirous to know the cause of their griefe and the meanes to helpe them In this case it is sufficient for them if the partie bee troubled eyther in his stomacke with choller or fleagme or in his belly with gripinges or collicke or in his head or ioyntes with aches or numnesse they