Part 32 (1/2)

_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.