[65] Darrel in his _Detection of that sinnful, shamful, lying, and ridiculous discours of Samuel Harshnet_, 1600, writes: “There is no doubt but that S.H. stand for Samuell Harsnet, chapline to the Bishop of London, but whither he alone, or his lord and hee, have discovered this counterfeyting and cosonage there is the question. Some think the booke to be the Bishop’s owne doing: and many thinke it to be the joynt work of them both.” [66] On 10 November, 1629, he was sworn of the Privy Council. [67] Whence Shakespeare derived the names of various evil spirits whom Edgar mentions in _King Lear_. [68] I do not conceive that at the present time many, if any, Bishops of the Church of England would license exorcism. Certainly the more scientifically minded and modernistic Lords Spiritual of the Anglican bench have rid themselves of such an idle superstition. How they would explain Our Blessed Lord’s words and actions I do not pretend to know, but I suppose that according to their wider knowledge Christ—_sit uenia uerbis_—was mistaken in this as in other particulars. [69] _Colloquia Mensalia_, passim. [70] It is difficult to see how the teachings of such a Protestant leader as Gaspar von Schwenckfeld (1489-90—1561) are anything save tantamount to mere personal morality and a vague individual pietism. A critical edition of his numerous works is in course of publication under the editorship of Hartranft, Schlutter, and Johnson: _Corpus Schwenckfeldianorum_, I, Leipzig, 1907. [71] Parker’s _Correspondence_, Parker Society, Cambridge, 1856, pp. 465-6. [72] By vomiting pins and straws they had made many believe that they were bewitched, but the tricks were soon found out and they were compelled to public penance at S. Paul’s. There is a black letter pamphlet _The discloysing of a late counterfeyted possession by the devyl in two maydens within the Citie of London_ [1574], which describes this case. See also Holinshed, _Chronicles_ (ed. London, 1808), IV, 325, and Stow _Annales_, London, 1631, p. 678. But the fact that there are malingerers does not mean there are none sick. [73] _Marie Glover’s late woefull case.... A defence of the truthe against D. J. his scandalous Impugnations_, British Museum, Sloane MSS., 831. Sinclar, _Satan’s Invisible World Discovered_, Edinburgh, 1685, Relation XII quotes an account of Mary Glover from Lewis Hughes’ _Certaine Grievances_ (1641-2); and hence Burton, _The Kingdom of Darkness_, and Hutchinson, _Historical Essay concerning Witchcraft_, both assign a wrong date (1642) to the occurrence. [74] Enlarged edition, 1720. [75] _The Other World_, London, 1875, I, pp. 59-69. The incident is narrated by Fortescue Hitchins, _The History of Cornwall_, Helston, 1824, II, pp. 548-51; and also in fuller detail by the Rev. R. S. Hawker, _Footprints of Former Men in Far Cornwall_, London, 1870, who quotes from Ruddle’s MS. Diary. [76] Six miles north of S. Columb and three miles due south from Padstow.