============================================================== ¶ A verie wonderfull and strange mi- _racle of God, shewed upon a Dutchman of the age of_ 23. yeares, which was possessed of ten di- _vels, and was by Gods mightie providence dis-_ possessed of them againe, the 27. _of Januarie last past, 1572._ —————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————— Unto this the Maior of _Maidstone_, with diverse of his brethren subscribed, chieflie by the persuasion of _Nicasius Vander Schuere_, the minister of the Dutch church there, _John Stikelbow_, whome (as it is there said) God made the instrument to cast out the divels, and foure other credible persons of the Dutch church. The historie is so strange, & so cunninglie performed, that had not his knaverie afterwards brought him into suspicion, he should have gone awaie unsuspected of this fraud. A great manie other such miracles have beene latelie printed, whereof diverse have beene bewraied: all the residue doubtles, if triall had beene made, would have beene found like unto these. But some are more finelie handled than othersome. Some have more advantage by the simplicitie of the audience, some by the majestie and countenance of the confederates; as namelie, that cousening of the holie maid of _Kent_. Some escape utterlie unsuspected, some are prevented by death; so as that waie their examination is untaken. Some are weakelie examined: but the most part are so reverenced, as they which suspect them, are rather called to their answers, than the others. The fourth Chapter. _Of the great oracle of Apollo the Pythonist, and how men of all sorts have been deceived, and that even the apostles have mistaken the nature of spirits, with an unanswerable argument, that spirits can take no shapes._