A History of Witchcraft in England from 1558 to 1718 Part 32

_Daimonomageia: a small Treatise of Sicknesses and Diseases from Witchcraft and Supernatural Causes.... Being useful to others besides Physicians, in that it confutes Atheistical, Sadducistical, and Sceptical Principles and Imaginations ..._, London, 1665. Though its t.i.tle-page bears no name, the author was undoubtedly that "William Drage, D. P. [Doctor of Physic] at Hitchin," in Hertfords.h.i.+re, to whose larger treatise on medicine (first printed in 1664 as _A Physical Nosonomy_, then in 1666 as _The Practice of Physick_, and again in 1668 as _Physical Experiments_) it seems to be a usual appendage. It is so, at least, in the Cornell copy of the first edition and in the Harvard copy of the third, and is so described by the _Dict. Nat. Biog._ and by the British Museum catalogue.

_Hartford-s.h.i.+re Wonder. Or, Strange News from Ware, Being an Exact and true Relation of one Jane Stretton ... who hath been visited in a strange kind of manner by extraordinary and unusual fits ..._, London, 1669. The t.i.tle gives the clue to this story. The narrator makes it clear that a certain woman was suspected of the bewitchment.

_A Magicall Vision, Or a Perfect Discovery of the Fallacies of Witchcraft, As it was lately represented in a pleasant sweet Dream to a Holysweet Sister, a faithful and pretious a.s.sertor of the Family of the Stand-Hups, for preservation of the Saints from being tainted with the heresies of the Congregation of the Doe-Littles_, London, 1673. I have not seen this. It is mentioned by Hazlitt, _Bibliographical Collections_, fourth series, _s. v._ Witchcraft.

_A Full and True Relation of The Tryal, Condemnation, and Execution of Ann Foster ... at the place of Execution at Northampton. With the Manner how she by her Malice and Witchcraft set all the Barns and Corn on Fire ... and bewitched a whole Flock of Sheep ..._, London, 1674. This narrative has no confirmation from other sources, yet its details are so susceptible of natural explanation that they warrant a presumption of its truth.

_Strange News from Arpington near Bexby in Kent: Being a True Narrative of a yong Maid who was Possest with several Devils ..._, London, 1679.

_Strange and Wonderful News from Yowell in Surry; Giving a True and Just Account of One Elisabeth Burgess, Who was most strangely Bewitched and Tortured at a sad rate_, London, 1681.

_An Account of the Tryal and Examination of Joan Buts, for being a Common Witch and Inchantress, before the Right Honourable Sir Francis Pemberton, Lord Chief Justice, at the a.s.sizes ... 1682._ Single leaf.

The four brochures next to be described deal with the same affair and substantially agree.

_The Tryal, Condemnation, and Execution of Three Witches, viz.

Temperance Floyd, Mary Floyd, and Susanna Edwards. Who were Arraigned at Exeter on the 18th of August, 1682...._ London, 1682. Confirmed by the records of the gaol deliveries examined by Mr. Inderwick (_Side-Lights on the Stuarts_, p. 192).

_A True and Impartial Relation of the Informations against Three Witches, viz. Temperance Lloyd, Mary Trembles, and Susanna Edwards, who were Indicted, Arraigned, and Convicted at the a.s.sizes holden ... at ...

Exon, Aug. 14, 1682. With their several Confessions ... as also Their ... Behaviour, at the ... Execution on the Twenty fifth of the said Month_, London, 1682. This, the fullest account (40 pp.), gives correctly the names of these three women, whom I still believe the last put to death for witchcraft in England.

_Witchcraft discovered and punished. Or the Tryals and Condemnation of three Notorious Witches, who were Tryed the last a.s.sizes, holden at the Castle of Exeter ... where they received sentence of Death, for bewitching severall Persons, destroying s.h.i.+ps at Sea, and Cattel by Land. To the Tune of Doctor Faustus; or Fortune my Foe._ In the Roxburghe Collection at the British Museum. Broadside. A ballad of 17 stanzas (4 lines each) giving the story of the affair.

_The Life and Conversation of Temperance Floyd, Mary Lloyd and Susanna Edwards ...; Lately Condemned at Exeter a.s.sizes; together with a full Account of their first Agreement with the Devil: With the manner how they prosecuted their devilish Sorceries ..._, London, 1687.

_A Full and True Account of the Proceedings at the Sessions of Oyer and Terminer ... which began at the Sessions House in the Old Bayley on Thursday, June 1st, and Ended on Fryday, June 2nd, 1682. Wherein is Contained the Tryal of many notorious Malefactors ... but more especially the Tryall of Jane Kent for Witchcraft_. This pamphlet is a brief summary of several cases just finished and has every evidence of being a faithful account. It is to be found in the library of Lincoln's Inn.

_Strange and Dreadful News from the Town of Deptford in the County of Kent, Being a Full, True, and Sad Relation of one Anne Arthur._ 1684/5.

One leaf, folio.

_Strange newes from Shadwell, being a ... relation of the death of Alice Fowler, who had for many years been accounted a witch._ London, 1685. 4 pp. In the library of the Earl of Crawford. I have not seen it.

_A True Account of a Strange and Wonderful Relation of one John Tonken, of Pensans in Cornwall, said to be Bewitched by some Women: two of which on Suspition are committed to Prison_, London, 1686. In the Bodleian.

This narrative is confirmed by Inderwick's records.

_News from Panier Alley; or a True Relation of Some Pranks the Devil hath lately play'd with a Plaster Pot there_, London, 1687. In the Bodleian. A curious tract. No trial.

-- 7.--The Final Decline, Miscellaneous Pamphlets (see ch. XIII).

_A faithful narrative of the ... fits which ... Thomas Spatchet ... was under by witchcraft ..., 1693._ Unimportant.

_The Second Part of the Boy of Bilson, Or a True and Particular Relation of the Imposter Susanna Fowles, wife of John Fowles of Hammersmith in the Co. of Midd., who pretended herself to be possessed_, London, 1698.

_A Full and True Account Both of the Life: And also the Manner and Method of carrying on the Delusions, Blasphemies, and Notorious Cheats of Susan Fowls, as the same was Contrived, Plotted, Invented, and Managed by wicked Popish Priests and other Papists._

_The trial of Susannah Fowles, of Hammersmith, for blaspheming Jesus Christ, and cursing the Lord's Prayer ..._, London, 1698.

These three pamphlets tell the story of a woman who was "an impostor and Notorious Lyar"; they have little to do with witchcraft. See above, ch.

XIII, note 23.

_The Case of Witchcraft at Coggeshall, Ess.e.x, in the year 1699. Being the Narrative of the Rev. J. Boys, Minister of the Parish._ Printed from his ma.n.u.script in the possession of the publisher (A. Russell Smith), London, 1901.

_A True and Impartial Account of the Dark and h.e.l.lish Power of Witchcraft, Lately Exercised on the Body of the Reverend Mr. Wood, Minister of Bodmyn. In a Letter from a Gentleman there, to his Friend in Exon, in Confirmation thereof_, Exeter, 1700.

_A Full and True Account of the Apprehending and Taking of Mrs. Sarah Moordike, Who is accused for a Witch, Being taken near Paul's Wharf ...

for haveing Bewitched one Richard Hetheway.... With her Examination before the Right Wors.h.i.+pful Sir Thomas Lane, Sir Owen Buckingham, and Dr. Hambleton in Bowe-lane._ 1701. This account can be verified and filled out from the records of the trial of Hathaway, printed in Howell, _State Trials_, XIV, 639-696.

_A short Account of the Trial held at Surry a.s.sizes, in the Borough of Southwark; on an Information against Richard Hathway ... for Riot and a.s.sault_, London, 1702.

_The Tryal of Richard Hathaway, upon an Information For being a Cheat and Impostor, For endeavouring to take away The Life of Sarah Morduck, For being a Witch at Surry a.s.sizes ..._, London, 1702.

_A Full and True Account of the Discovering, Apprehending and taking of a Notorious Witch, who was carried before Justice Bateman in Well-Close on Sunday, July the 23. Together with her Examination and Commitment to Bridewel, Clerkenwel_, London, 1704. Signed at the end, "Tho. Greenwel."

Single page.

_An Account of the Tryals, Examination, and Condemnation of Elinor Shaw and Mary Phillips ..., 1705._

_The Northamptons.h.i.+re Witches ..., 1705._

The second of these is the completer account. They are by the same author and are probably fabrications; see below, -- 10.

_The Whole Trial of Mrs. Mary Hicks and her Daughter Elizabeth ..., 1716._ See below, -- 10.

-- 8.--The Surey Pamphlets (see ch. XIII).

_The Devil Turned Casuist, or the Cheats of Rome Laid open in the Exorcism of a Despairing Devil at the House of Thomas Pennington in Oriel.... By Zachary Taylor, M. A., Chaplain to the Right reverend Father in G.o.d, Nicholas, Lord Bishop of Chester, and Rector of Wigan_, London, 1696.

_The Surey Demoniack, Or an Account of Satan's Strange and Dreadful Actings, In and about the Body of Richard Dugdale of Surey, near Whalley in Lancas.h.i.+re. And How he was Dispossest by G.o.ds blessing on the Fastings and Prayers of divers Ministers and People_, London, 1697.

Fishwick, _Notebook of Jollie_ (Chetham Soc.), p. xxiv says this was written by Thomas Jollie and John Carrington. The preface is signed by "Thomas Jolly" and five other clergymen. Probably Jollie wrote the pamphlet and Carrington revised it. See above, ch. XIII, note 10. Jollie disclaimed the sole responsibility for it. See his _Vindication_, 7.

Taylor in _The Surey Impostor_ a.s.sumes that Carrington wrote _The Surey Demoniack_; see _e. g._ p. 21.

_The Surey Imposter, being an answer to a late Fanatical Pamphlet, ent.i.tuled The Surey Demoniack._ By Zachary Taylor. London, 1697.

_A Vindication of the Surey Demoniack as no Imposter: Or, A Reply to a certain Pamphlet publish'd by Mr. Zach. Taylor, called The Surey Imposter...._ By T. J., London, 1698. Written by Jollie.

_Popery, Superst.i.tion, Ignorance and Knavery very unjustly by a letter in the general pretended; but as far as was charg'd very fully proved upon the Dissenters that were concerned in the Surey Imposture._ 1698.

Written by Zachary Taylor.

_The Lancas.h.i.+re Levite Rebuked, or a Vindication of the Dissenters from Popery, Superst.i.tion, Ignorance, and Knavery, unjustly Charged on them by Mr. Zachary Taylor...._ London, 1698. Signed "N. N.;" see above ch.

XIII, note 17.

_The Lancas.h.i.+re Levite Rebuked, or a Farther Vindication_, 1698. This seems to have been an answer to a "letter to Mr. N. N." which Taylor had published. We have, however, no other mention of such a letter.

_Popery, Superst.i.tion, Ignorance, and Knavery, Confess'd and fully Proved on the Surey Dissenters, from a Second Letter of an Apostate Friend, to Zach. Taylor. To which is added a Refutation of T. Jollie's Vindication ..._, London, 1699. Written by Zachary Taylor.

_A Refutation of Mr. T. Jolly's Vindication of the Devil in Dugdale; Or, The Surey Demoniack_, London, 1699.