A declaration of Popish imposture in casting out of Devils.

CHAP. I.

The occasion of publishing these wonders, by the coming to light of the penned book of Miracles.

About some three or four years since, there was found in the hands of one Mr. Barnes, a Popish Recusant a person who refused to attend Anglican church services, which was legally required, an English treatise in a written hand, fronted with this Latin sentence, taken out of the Psalms: Venite, et narrabo, quanta fecit Dominus animae meae original: "Venite, et narrabo, quanta fecit Dominus animae meae" (Come, and I will declare what the Lord has done for my soul). Which treatise, when we had perused upon this holy invitation, we found it a holy bundle of holy relics, holy charms, and holy consecrated things, applied to the casting out of many thousands of devils out of six young persons—three young men and three proper young maids. This was accomplished by the means of Father Edmunds, alias Weston, a principal Jesuit of his order in those times, and twelve secular priests, his reverend assistants.

The names of the parties supposed to be possessed were these: Marwood, servant (as has been informed) to Mr. Anthony Babington; Will. Trayford, attendant at that time upon Mr. Edmund Peckham; Robert Maynie, Gentleman, lately before come out of France; Sara Williams, Friswood Williams, two sisters; and Anne Smith, all three menial servants to Master Peckham aforesaid. The names of the actors in this holy comedy were these: Edmunds, alias Weston, rector chori Latin: "leader of the choir" or ringleader, of whom...