        item: #1 of 6
          id: A19860
      author: Darrel, John, b. ca. 1562.
       title: A true narration of the strange and greuous vexation by the Devil, of 7. persons in Lancashire, and VVilliam Somers of Nottingham Wherein the doctrine of possession and dispossession of demoniakes out of the word of God is particularly applyed vnto Somers, and the rest of the persons controuerted: togeather with the vse we are to make of these workes of God. By Iohn Darrell, minister of the word of God.
        date: 1600
       words: 65285
      flesch: 67
     summary: wi● any be so absurde , as to thinke and confesse that the holy scriptures speake most truely as touchinge the tormenting here on eard●e of the bodyes of those men the diuels enter into and will they not as well beleue the same writinges tellinge them , that after death and in an other world the diuels shall torment the workes of iniquity in hell fyre , which neuer shall pe quenched , and of which tormentes there will neuer be an ende . And seinge the substance of this booke ( I meane the holy byble ) is spent in reportinge thinges incredible to flesh and bloud , such as the reason of man re●ecteth , & scorneth , among which these concerning diuels , their nature , power , entrance into men &c. are some : and that this is it which letteth man from imbracing it as a word of truth : and that sundry of these incredible & impossible thinges to reason , we euidently see with our eyes , and our selues of our owne knowledge knowe to be most true , why should we not be fullye perswaded or the deuine and certaine trueth of the other incredible thiugs there reported ? and that all those also in theire time we shall as certainely see fulfilled , as we haue alredy in part senee these ? This euen●g he acted many sines , by signs & gesturs most liuly representing and shawdoing them out vnto vs : as namlye brauling , quarriling fighting , swaring , robbing by the high wayes , picking and cutting of pur●●es , burglarie , whordom , prid both in men and women , hypocrisie , slugishnes in hearing of the word , drunckennes , glotinye , also dauncing with the toyes thervnto belonging , the manner of antique dances , the games of dicing and carding , the abuse of the viole with other instruments at the end of sundrie of these he laughted excedingly , diuers times clapping his handes on his thighes for ioye : and at the end of some of them , as killing and stealing , he shewed how he brought them to the gallowes , making asigne therof .
    keywords: apostles; beinge; bene; body; cast; cause; certaine; children; christ; church; day; dispossession; doe; doth; doubt; end; euen; euery; fasting; giuen; god; goe; good; great; hand; hath; haue; himselfe; holy; iesus; iohn; let; like; lord; man; manner; math; meanes; men; miracles; neuer; owne; people; persons; possessed; possession; power; prayer; present; reason; said; saith; sathan; scripture; signes; somers; speake; spirit; strength; supernaturall; themselues; ther; therby; therfore; thinges; thou; time; true; truth; vncleane; vnto; vpon; vsed; wee; wordes; worke; yea; ● ●
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        item: #2 of 6
          id: A35962
      author: Dalton, James, 17th cent.
       title: A strange and true relation of a young woman possest with the Devill, by name Joyce Dovey ... with a particular of her actions, and how the evill spirit speakes within her, giving fearefull answers unto those ministers and others that come to discourse with her / as it was certified in a letter from Mr. Iames Dalton unto Mr. Tho. Groome ... ; also A letter from Cambridge, wherein is related the late conference between the Devil ... and one Ashbourner, a scholler of S. Johns Colledge ...
        date: 1647
       words: 2062
      flesch: 57
     summary: This text is an enriched version of the TCP digital transcription A35962 of text R22628 in the English Short Title Catalog (Wing D142). The rate of 29 defects per 10,000 words puts this text in the C category of texts with between 10 and 35 defects per 10,000 words.
    keywords: dalton; devill; letter; text
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        item: #3 of 6
          id: A36830
      author: Darrel, John, b. ca. 1562.
       title: A true relation of the grievous handling of William Sommers of Nottingham being possessed with a devill shewing how he was first taken and how lamentable from time to time he was tormented and afflicted / published by John Darrel ...
        date: 1641
       words: 3912
      flesch: 68
     summary: A true relation of the grievous handling of William Sommers of Nottingham being possessed with a devill shewing how he was first taken and how lamentable from time to time he was tormented and afflicted / published by John Darrel ... A true relation of the grievous handling of William Sommers of Nottingham being possessed with a devill shewing how he was first taken and how lamentable from time to time he was tormented and afflicted / published by John Darrel ...
    keywords: body; day; hee; nottingham; text; time; words
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        item: #4 of 6
          id: A47490
      author: Dirby, Richard, b. 1649.
       title: Dreadful news from Wapping: being a further relation of the sad and miserable condition of Sarah Bower a young girl, of about fourteen years of age, who is unhappily, at present, posses'd with an evil spirit, by Wapping New-Stairs, near the Chappel. All faithfully related by Richard Kirby, student in physick and astrology, who hath visited her. Licensed according to order.
        date: 1693
       words: 3140
      flesch: 64
     summary: Ann Burgess in St. Edmunds Parish , near Fiv● Bridge , in Norwich , who was Bewitched for sev●ral Years , she having above Twenty Fits in a day besides she voided many Pins , Nails , Quills , T●bacco pipes , and a bended Farthing , with sev●ral other things before many Witnesses , all whi●● hath been shewed and attested before the May●● of Norwich , and I have them now by me to shew● Grace Brown , the Daughter of John Brown in Cu●ford in the City of Norwich , who was Bewitc●●● for several Years , she voiding many scores ●● Pins out of her Body , some of which I have ●● shew , it being likewise attested before the May●● of the City of Norwich . 〈…〉 Re●●●ed by Richard Kirby , Student in P●ysic● and Astrology , who hath Visited her . Novemb. 19. 93.
    keywords: eebo; fits; present; tcp; text; time; ● ●
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        item: #5 of 6
          id: A86015
      author: Gilpin, John, 17th cent.
       title: The Quakers shaken, or, A discovery of the errours of that sect by John Gilpin, of the town of Kendale in Westmoreland, who was once one of the said sect, and afterwards by Gods grace left the same ; attested by the major and pastour of Kendale, and diverse others.
        date: 1655
       words: 6702
      flesch: 27
     summary: Hereupon I resolved to close vvith them , after vvhich time I vvas afraid to read any good Books , or hear any preaching Minister , or call to remembrance any thing vvhich I had formerly learned out of Gods Word concerning God or Christ , or mine ovvn estate , or any other subject contained in Scripture : for I vvas persvvaded by their teaching , that vvhatsoever I had learned out of Gods Word by hearing , reading , catechifing , &c. vvas but notionall , carnall , and hanging upon the Tree of Knovvledg : in vvhich condition vvhilst I abode , they affirmed me to be under the Curse , applying this expression , though very impertinently , Cursed is every one that hangeth on the Tree . Afterwards lying awake , and thinking upon the dreams and visions I had formerly been troubled with I sensibly perceived some thing ( as I imagined ) lighting on my neck , giving me a great stroak which caused much pain to me , and after that another which was lesse then the first , and so a third and fourth , each stroak being lesse then the former , and each stroke descending lower down , till it came to the middle of my back , and then I thought something entered into my body , which I perswaded my self ( from Satans instigation ) to be the Spirit of God decending upon me like a Dove and entring into me , whereupon I heard ( in my conceit ) a voice within me saying , It is day ; whereupon , looking up and perceiving it to be light , I answered , Yes : the voice replyed twice over to me , and said , as certain as it is light , so certainly shall Christ give thee light .
    keywords: christ; devill; god; ground; hand; house; power; self; voice
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        item: #6 of 6
          id: B03653
      author: Higgs, Daniel.
       title: The wonderfull and true relation of the bewitching a young girle in Ireland, what way she was tormented, and a receipt of the ointment that she was cured with.
        date: 1699
       words: 3609
      flesch: 55
     summary: (EEBO-TCP ; phase 1, no. B03653) Transcribed from: (Early English Books Online ; image set 174441) Curses the absent , then forms waxen shapes Runs into th' Liver Needles — The words are spoken of Maedea a Witch , but the child herself being immixt with us in our debates and of a capacity above her years , soon resolved this difficulty , for we doubt not said she , but that thes things com out of me , and with that she caught my Hand , and put it to her Throat ; feel , said she , a Pin without an head comeing up , and which will come up presently , I felt and immediatly when I thought verily I held it fast betwixt the fingers of my left Hand within her Throat , I perceaved it to be forced violently from me , and presently seeing the child about to spit , I receaved in my right Hand , and I have shewed since to several incredulous persons , and still keep it by me to shew to the Curious , with Parots Feathers , Threed , Straw and other like Materials .
    keywords: child; eebo; english; girle; god; tcp; text; things; way
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