Demonologia : $b or, natural knowledge revealed; being an exposé of ancient and modern superstitions, credulity, fanaticism, enthusiasm, & imposture, as connected with the doctrine, caballa, and jargon, of amulets, apparitions, astrology, charms, demonology, devils, divination, dreams, deuteroscopia, effluvia, fatalism, fate, friars, ghosts, gipsies, hell, hypocrites, incantations, inquisition, jugglers, legends, magic, magicians, miracles, monks, nymphs, oracles, physiognomy, purgatory, predestForsyth, J. S.
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Demonologia : $b or, natural knowledge revealed; being an exposé of ancient and modern superstitions, credulity, fanaticism, enthusiasm, & imposture, as connected with the doctrine, caballa, and jargon, of amulets, apparitions, astrology, charms, demonology, devils, divination, dreams, deuteroscopia, effluvia, fatalism, fate, friars, ghosts, gipsies, hell, hypocrites, incantations, inquisition, jugglers, legends, magic, magicians, miracles, monks, nymphs, oracles, physiognomy, purgatory, predest
Forsyth, J. S.
Demonology; Superstition; Witchcraft
_Walker_, and that she was supposed to be with child, but would not
disclose by whom; but being removed to her aunt’s in the same town
called _Dame Caire_, told her aunt (Dame Caire) that he that got her
with child, would take care both of her and it, and bid her not trouble
herself. After some time she had been at her aunt’s, it was observed
that Sharp came to Lumley one night, being a sworn brother of the said
Walker’s; and they two that night called her forth from her aunt’s
house, which night she was murdered; about fourteen days after the
murder, there appeared to one Graime, a fuller, at his mill, six miles
from _Lumley_, the likeness of a woman with her hair about her head, and
the appearance of five wounds in her head, as the said Graime gave it in
evidence; that that appearance bid him go to a justice of peace, and
relate to him, how that Walker and Sharp had murthered her in such a
place as she was murthered; but he, fearing to disclose a thing of that
nature against a person of credit as Walker was, would not have done it;
upon which the said Graime did go to a justice of peace and related the
whole matter[50]. Whereupon the justice of peace granted warrants
against _Walker_ and _Sharp_, and committed them to a prison; but they
found bail to appear at the next assizes, at which they came to their
trial, and upon evidence of the circumstances, with that of Graime of
the appearance, they were both found guilty and executed.
“The other testimony is that of _Mr. James Smart and William Lumley, of
the city of Durham_, who saith, that the trial of _Sharp_ and _Walker_
was in the month of _August_ 1631, before judge _Davenport_. One Mr.
Fanhair gave it in evidence upon oath, that he saw the likeness of a
child stand upon Walker’s shoulders during the time of the trial, at
which time the judge was very much troubled, and gave sentence that
night the trial was, which was a thing never used in Durham before nor
after; out of which two testimonies several things may be counted or
supplied in Mr. Webster’s story, though it be evident enough that in the
main they agree; for that is but a small disagreement as to the years,
when Mr. Webster says about the year of our Lord 1632, and Mr. Fanhair,
1631. But unless at Durham they have assizes but once in the year, I
understand not so well how Sharp and Walker should be apprehended some
little time after St. Thomas’s day, as Mr. Webster has, and be tried the
next assizes at Durham, and yet that be in August, according to Mr.
Smart’s testimony. Out of Mr. Lumley’s testimony the christian name of
the young woman is supplied, as also the name of the town near
Chester-le-Street, namely, Lumley: the circumstance also of Walker’s
sending away his kinswoman with Mark Sharp are supplied out of Mr.
Lumley’s narrative, and the time rectified, by telling it was about
fourteen days till the spectre after the murder, when as Mr. Webster
makes it a long time.”
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