A VINDICATION OF THE SUREY DEMONIAC as no Impostor: OR, A REPLY to a certain PAMPHLET Published by Mr. Zach. Taylor, called The Surey Impostor.  
With a further clearing and confirming of the Truth as to Richard Dugdale's Case and Cure.  
By T. Jolly.  
One of the Ministers who attended upon that Affair from first to last: but replies only as to Matter of Fact, and as he therewithal is more especially concerned.  
To which is annexed a brief Narrative of the Surey Demoniac, drawn up by the same Author, for the satisfaction of such who have not seen the former Narrative.  — In all things approving ourselves as the Ministers of God, in much patience, in afflictions, in necessities, in distresses, in imprisonments, in tumults, in labours, in watch, in fastings; by pureness, by knowledge, by long-suffering, by kindness, by the Holy Ghost; by love unfeigned, by the word of Truth, by the power of God, by the armour of Righteousness on the right Hand and on the left; by honour and dishonour, by evil report and good report, as deceivers, and yet true, etc.— 2 Cor. 6.4. to 11. 
London, Printed for Nevil Simmons, in Sheffield, Yorkshire: And sold by G. Conyers at the King in Little Britain, London, 1698.   

THE PREFACE.  
AS I am well assured and many can witness that the Surey Affair was at first laid before me by a special hand of Providence without seeking it, or myself in it: So was I by the same Hand of God led through it from first to last. It is also apparent to several, both in City and Country, that a Narrative of the Case and our Carriage in it, was called for by Persons of great Note in order to their Satisfaction: That thereupon I drew up my short plain Account thereof, extracted out of my Minutes all along, according to mine own certain Observation and others credible Information.  
When it was urged that it would not satisfy unless there was Proof, and that upon Oath, as to Matter of Fact; I was necessitated for the clearing of the Truth and of ourselves; to gather up Informations, which are Printed, and the Affidavits, before such as were unprejudiced and would administer an Oath in the case.  
As to the Printing of the Narrative at all, the Solicitations of several Worthy Persons were the occasion, and the Reflections in a certain Book, called the Devil turned Casuist, I confess did hasten its Publishing: but I did not consent to the Publishing of it as all, but according to the Authentic Copy, and with the Approbation of several noted London-Ministers their nominated. Therefore I must not undertake in vindicate the Printed Edition as it's published, much less every particular Passage in it: I must leave that to these who are immediately concerned. The Typographical Errors and the not adding of the Erratas will be easily excused as to the Editor by the ingenuous.  
As to the substantial part of the printed Narrative concerning Matter of Fact, I must still own it however: Tho it doth not so much affect me whether it prove a Possession, and so a Dispossession or no; for my main ends are very much attained through the good Hand of God upon us as I humbly hope: Not but that I humbly conceive it was a Possession (and so a Dispossession) or as the Ancients call it an Obsession. That the Ancients owned Possession under the Term of Obsession is plain from Justin Martyr, in oratione ad Gent. p. 88 Cyprian p. 70 and 166. Edit. Pamel. The Centuriators 4th Cent. p. 419, 440. and Origen on Mat. 17.21. owns fasting and praying as the means of dispossessing.  
If any ask what those ends were, I answer that the miserable Creature might be delivered from the lamentable Malady which he was under, whether Spiritual or Corporal, and by what means lawful soever to be used: It's evident that this end is attained, for as to his bodily Condition, he's healed; and better I hope as to his Spiritual Condition.  
Another great end was, that we might take the opportunity to serve the saving good of those Multitudes that resorted to the Meetings upon this occasion: However that it might be a Testimony for God and against the Impenitent; this end we hope is in some measure attained also. Whilst we approve our Hearts to the Allseeing God, and appeal to him as All judging, let none be censorious, nor judge before the time, lest attempting to step into his Tribunal, they hasten and aggravate their own Judgement: Yet are we of those who acknowledge our Infirmity as well as profess our Integrity before God and Man. Veniam petimus dabimusque vicissim.  
That we did drive at such holy and blessed ends, the Sermons preached on the occasion will manifest, which Sermons my Reverend and Ingenious Neighbour Mr. R. W. thought might be more to Edification than the Discourses in the printed Narrative: Which Sermons may see the Light if it be judged convenient, and be desired.  
In all this we are greatly concerned to look to our Hearts and see what Spirit we are of, to look to our way and how we walk in it, that we be led by sound Judgement rather than fond Affection; by unfeigned Faith rather than foolish Fancy, in these things. Far be it from any to shut their Eyes against the Evidence, and to harden their Hearts against the Power of Truth, which some may be tempted unto from a Spirit of Envy against the Persons concerned, if not from a Spirit of Malignity against the good ways of God: Others may be tempted unto from a Spirit of Sadducism and Atheism which now works powerfully in the Children of Disobedience or Unperswadableness. Yea God forbidden that on either hand we should any of us give ahvantage to the common Adversaries of the great Truths and good Ways of Christianity; or that we should expose ourselves and each other to humour them and make them sport. If there have been any thing hereof in any who are concerned in these matters, sure they have cause to be humbled for it and to take shame to themselves: If any do think that we kept not within our Province, let them take notice that not to secure in such like cases is to slay: Mar. 3.4. We cordially pity, solemnly pray for those who are not of our particular Communion, as we have occasion. Here was Misery, so the object of our Mercy, Luk. 10.33. according to that case Mar. 9.22. They cried to us that if we could do any thing, we would have compassion on them and help them. Other Means failing them and other Persons neglecting them.   


A Vindication of the Surey Demoniac as no Impostor, etc.  
I Said before that I am not accountable for every thing in the Book called the Surey Demoniac, so neither am I to answer all the Book called the ●urey Impostor, Mr. T. hath engaged Hands enough besides: now I add that, through the Grace of God, I shall not deal with Mr. T. in the way and manner he hath dealt with me. Indeed I must now deal with him in a public way; but as he the first Printing Aggressor might have saved the trouble of so speedy publishing the Surey Narrative, if he had in a Christian Brotherly private way sought an opportunity for satisfaction as to that case at first: so might he, it may be, have saved himself the pains of Preaching and Printing against us afterward, if he had when he was so near some of us sought to be satisfied in the said way, as to the said Narrative.  
Mr. T. is very liberal in his Title Page and all along to bestow on us at random the Imputation of Fanaticism and Enthusiasm: But let him take heed lest he brands not the Experiences of God's special Grace, and the special assistance of his Spirit, (though human Infirmities do accompany the same) with the odious Name of the Diabolical Enthusiasm of Heathenish Fanes: And so be found guilty of a Sin, if not the Sin against the Holy Ghost.  
As to the manner of my dealing with him, I hope to deal with him in such a Spirit as becomes my Profession and Age, however he hath dealt with me.  
Mr. T. chargeth me as declaring it to be as real a Possession as any in the Gospel; 
Pre …  this he saith, without any Proof that I said it. Yet I shall be so ingenuous as to give it him now under my hand that it seems probable to me, according to all the Indications I meet with in approved Authors, on that Subject, that it was a Possession, or an Obsession, as commonly called: For what more probable signs thereof can any one assign? Yea may I not modestly say that there seemed to be as many signs of Possession, or Obsession, as in most, if not in any, of those recorded in the Evangelic History? Indeed in the manner of dispossessing there is a vast difference.  
That this doth any way disadvantage the cause of revealed Religion, I understand not; for we give that Glory to divine Miracles which our Blessed Lord did in his own, and his extraordinary Ministers did in his name, that they were wrought not only in the immediate effecting of what might possibly in process of time be done by ordinary Means (as when he cured Favours), but of what could not be done by any means but by his own Divine Power (as when he raised the dead, gave sight to those born blind, etc.) This I suggest to show upon what Basis true Miracles do stand: But that any Imposture is foisted in, or that there are clearer Indications of Possession in all or any of those styled Demoniacs in the Gospel is yet unproved, so that we firmly believe the Gospel Revelation of the Miracles, and the Confirmation thereof thereby: And as to Demoniacs (and Dispossessions in particular; though the Possession might be mediante morbo, (viz. through Lunacy or a Mania) yet it was certainly immediate sometimes, as in the Pythoniss, Acts 16. and so we suppose in this case.  
Concerning Dr. Heylin's Story about Mr. Darrel mentioned in Mr. T's Preface— how little regard is to be had to him as an Historian in general, especially wherein his opinion is concerned; Archbishop Usher, Dr. Barnard, and Bishop Burnet have sufficiently satisfied the World.  
And as to this particular case of Mr. Darrel's, take the words of the Reverend Dr Hall, Bishop of Norwich, in his invisible World.— Whence it is plain that as there are several kinds of Devils one worse and more powerful than another, so the worst of them are to be vanquished with Prayer sharpened with Abstinence. What a difference than is there of Times and Means? At the first it was a greater work to dispossess Devils by Prayer and Fasting than by Command; now it's far greater to do it by a mere Command than by Prayer and Fasting: That which was then ordinarily done would be now strangely miraculous, and that which is in the ordinary course now was then rare and unusual: The Power of an adjuring Command we see ceased▪ the Power of fervent Prayer can never be out of date. This and this only is the remedy of both bodily and mental Possession: Thus if we will resist the Devil he shall flee away from us: Now upon the ground of the Scripture it was (AS MYSELF WAS WITNESS) that in our Age, Mr. Darrel a Godly and Zealous Preacher, undertook and accordingly through the Blessing of God upon his faithful Devotion performed those famous Ejectments of Evil Spirits both at Nottingham and Lancashire, which exercised the Press and raised no small Envy from the Gainsayers.  
Before we enter upon the examination of Particulars, I shall premise three things which answer to the threefold design of Mr. T's Book.  
1. That whereas he would sometimes have Dugdale 's strange Fits to be the Effects of some bodily Disease, as Epilepsy or Convulsion, the Party not only utterly and solemnly denies any such bodily Disease before, as the natural cause of the said Fits; but the contrary cannot be proved, nor is it attempted: that his Body was distempered by the Fits, and had relief by Physic afterward, is all along acknowledged, but various Effects must needs give place to their several proper Causes: He had no such Disease before to be the cause of such Fits. What Distemper he had after was plainly the Effect of his said strange Fits. Idem non patest esse causa & effectus ejusdem.  
2. That whereas Mr. T. would otherwhile have the business to be a cheat, (for he knows not on whether to six) here also not only the Parties immediately concerned do utterly and solemnly deny it, but the Testimonies as to Matter of Fact, do demonstrate the contrary, when Mr. T. and all his Accomplices have done their utmost; the Witnesses the not at all tampered with, do still stand to their Testimony, and upon further trial may so explain themselves, as to put the Case further beyond all dispute: So do the Parties immediately concerned, they still persist in their disclaiming any such thing.  
3. Mr. T. says their was a Popish Combination: Here again those immediately concerned do not only utterly and solemnly deny it, but the Proofs to the contrary are altogether deficient as to Mr. T's design of a Combination with the Papists. As to any Combination among the Papists I know nothing: I leave that to Mr. T. to find out, who doth so vainly boast of his Talon in discovering such Intrigues. As to us Dissenters, himself clears us from having any hand in the Contrivance, only he would fain have us to be the Papists diminutive Underlings and their Fools. As to the Dugdale's it's not denied, but discovered by us that the Popish Priests would have been tampering with them: Yea, it may be the poor ignorant People might in their great Distress, and through their Infirmity have a Tempatation, when they saw not the desired Success so soon as they expected, to seek to such unlawful Means, as they had sought to other unlawful Means before, and as one King of Israel did indeed run to the Witch at Endor, another sent to the God of Ekron; but these Dugdale's did afterward decline such Temptations, and do still disclaim any Combination with the Papists in this case. Can a mere Solicitation by the Tempter be called a Combination with him: Nay, though the Temptation have got some hold, and there be some hankering after it? Yet doth it not amount to a Combination with Satan: So here.  
Pag. 6 Mr. T. charges me with Disingenuity, first in that I brought a Paper along with me and would have had the Justices to have sworn the Witnesses to the things therein contained, not leaving them to the liberty of their own Words— I only shown the Justices what the Informants said to me, that the Justices might examine them thereupon and take their Oaths also; that things might be cleared publicly one way or another: So that others, it may be, will call this Ingenuousness and fair dealing on my part, though Mr. T. will not  
2. He charges me with concealing part of the Evidence that was at Darwin attested before the Justices— In answer. I am loath to make public the Carriage of some who tock upon them the Management of that Affair with the Witnesses more privately in the Chamber, as I was informed by one Present: Nor would I expose the Scribe's Reputation especially, as concerned in such a case: Nor their Carriage more publicly, when I made bold to come into the Room, and so saw their Behaviour both to the Witnesses and myself: Which I say I am not wi●…ing to insist upon, unless there be further necessity for it, them yet there is. I have a due deference for the said Persons, I would not exasperate any, Neither is there any need here to show the co … s; tency of the Informations: There may hereafter be a more proper place for it, if there be occasion. However the Case be is it not more fit to acquiess in the Testimony of Witnesses upon their Oath, to testify the Truth, the whole Truth, and nothing but the Truth, in those at Holcomb (I say) where they had their full Freedom, than their mere Informations at Darwin, where they had not that Freedom, though the one of the Justices was at both places, and so heard both the Informations and Affidavits, to which we have his own hand.  
Pag. 7 3. Mr. Jolly is not over much christian in pressing the Witnesses to inform further than their Knowledge allowed them. I say still I would have the Witnesses examined as 〈◊〉 such things they had said elsewhere: But to swear to it would not be admitted by one of the Justices at Darwin, else the Matter might have gone no further: But Persons are so unbelieving that they must have an Oath to end the Controversy. Indeed the said Justice alleged the danger of a Vremunire: But whether there was not another reason he best knows: If so, he may see how he is frustrated in his Design, and that he cannot suppress the Truth Opprimi, non supprim● po … st.  
Pag. 9 4. He charges me with feigning and framing D's Certificate, and falsifying his Hand.— As to the business of R. D's Certificate before me, and James Gregson, under his own Hand July the 10th 1695, I dare take mine Oath upon it, that he did in all outward appearance do it voluntarily; I doubt not but James Gregson will do the same: I am ready also upon Oath to testify to a true Copy of the Certificate.  
Here also follows William Seller's, and my Certificate drawn up shortly after, and signed by us, which we are ready to take our Oath upon.  
Whereas Richard Dugdale, upon the 27th of July 1695, was called before Justice Braddel, and several others, to give account as to some particulars relating to his strange Fits; we whose Names are subscribed being then and there present upon that occasion, do certify than the said Dugdale did at the said time own the Certificate which he had subscribed with his own Hand, not disowning his freedom in the subscribing of it: Moreover we do certify that the said Dugdale did then say to this purpose, That he could not certainly judge up 〈◊〉 his own knowledge what the nature of h … said Distemper was, because when he was out of his Fits, he could not tell how was with him whilst he was in his Fits: Moreover, he did not deny the benefit he had to his Body ●y Physic, so far as his Distemper was Bodily: But that the said Dugdale was guilty of any Confederacy, in order to getting of Ga' …, or any their sinister end by his being in that condition, he utterly denied.  


Thomas Jolly.  
William Cellar.    
So he still doth with Indignation deny those false and unworthy Imputations.  
Pag. In Mr. Baily's Certificate, on the 20th of July 1695, which was nor subscribed by Dugdale, he confesseth his subscribing the said Certificate before me and J. Gregson; and in that he saith, he thought his Distemper was from some natural Cause, and not supernatural or divine: Tho D. doth not deny what he is charged with in Baily's Certificate.  
How any have wrought upon him since in his Circumstances, I know not: for what D. is said to express before Mr. Baily, in the Gallery of the Old Hall, in Whally, was but said by one Witness, and we are two against him.  
As to what Mr. Nowell, etc. say they had lately from his own Mouth; I suppose lately must refer to the publishing Mr. T's Book, for this Information hath no date; it's likely that R. D. might have forgot what was so long since done: but I have it upon Record, sufficiently attested, that the words, (viz. That my former strange Fits were not any Cheat or Art of Man that I know of, but as I do verily believe were caused by the Devil) are in the said Original Certificate: There was no other Paper offered to D. by me or any other to this purpose that I konws of.  
As to any thing of forgery or feigning in this or any other Case, as Mr. T. most falsely chargeth me, I think there is none who knows my Temper and Conversation will so much as suspect me to be guilty thereof;; therefore to charge me with putting D's Hand to a Paper which he refused to sign, and then to have the impudence to tack it to the Narrative, is, to say no more, to show Mr. T. not only to be altogether a Stranger to me, but to be of a very strange Spirit, and a notorious Slanderer.  
I will not recriminate, but hearty desire he would reflect upon himself, and know what Spirit he's of. Yet must Mr. T. excuse me (however others will) if I treat him now and then with some gaulless Acrimony, though I would not be leavened with his Spirit.  
Pag. 23 That the Daemon (as I suppose) in his Fits said this Affliction was througn Obsession in a Combination, is attested upon Oath; but betwixt whom this Combination was, Mr. T. doth not here declare: That which seemed most probable to others as well as myself, was that it was some blind Contract with the Devil, in some of D's Drunken Fits, to gratify his vain humour; but I could not be positive in this, I now hope better.  
The Name of the Party whom D. said he saw in his Fit, and was then in such a beastly posture ten Miles from Surey, his Name was purposely concealed lest we should seem to reflect on Persons of Mr. T's Profession and Communion: Therefore also the faithful and charitable reporting of an Instance of his knowing what happened in his Fit, would with Persons of Ingenuity be a good Evidence, both of his and our Sincerity.  
Pag. 24 Nameless Authors and Groundless Reports as are brought in here methinks signify but very little the Daemon in D's Fit might say as Walmsly deposeth, do not Gamesters do so? Without any import that he enquired for his own Information, and so the Question might not be impertinent. Walmsly might well have opportunity to know what Expressions Gamesters use, and yet be none of those Gamesters himself; the Devil might personate D. when he said People think this is laid on me for my Sins.  
Pag. 25 There was no design in me as Mr. T. here insinuates, to condemn the lawful Recreation of Bowling, nor to reflect on the gentlemen who use it lawfully; if Mr. T. will judge me guilty of such evil Thoughts, it is worst for himself: I now purge myself from having such evil Thoughts, I hope henceforth Mr. T. will be my Compurgator.  
As to the Passage about shortening of his Fit, I am not concerned; 
Several Persons a … ready to witness against Mr. T. as to D's acting his Kuttery in a Blanket.  and as to that about his wrapping of himself in a Blanket, I never knew any thing of it until now that I have it from Mr. T. now I understand the meaning of the Frontispiece. If there be no truth in it a to this case, as I think there is not, Mr. T. deserves to stand in a Sheet for it.  
If Mr. T. had brought some Witness (which he doth not) that D. did take up such Stones, etc. and put them in his Mouth, 
Pag. 26.  he had done something to prve Roguery: But sure Mr. T. knows that a posse ad esse non valet consequentia.  
His disclainming of such words as to their being in the Certificate, of which I spoke before, and the Inference Mr. T. makes thereupon, viz. that D. owned his Fits to the a Cheat, methinks holds not at all, for the might not after so long time intervening remember, and so not acknowledge those words in the Certificate, and yet be far from charging himself as a Cheat. It seems also by the words in the beginning of this Paragraph, that he was surprised to say something that he was not ware of what use would be made of it, as Mr. T. doth plainly intimate. I perceive by poor D's own Confession, that he hath been hectored by some on this occasion; it would make one suspect that other ways have been taken with him by others.  
Pag. All that which Mr. T. saith from D's anonymous School Fellow comes up but to little to what is deposed; besides there's a plain intimation, that then the Devil might be pampering with him by the means of Fascination: Who knows what advantage the Devil might then get against him, to draw him to further Folly and into this future Snare!  
But how can he do such Feats; or who can hire him or threaten him into the doing of such now, as are deposed that he did in the said Fits? I defy all the World as to this thing, unless the evil Spirit should make a reentry, which God forbidden.  
As to E. Slayter's Certificate, it is as follows—  
When the Master was out of School, I have seen him go up and down the School upon his Hands and Feet, leaping to and fro'like a Dog; and when the Master had been present in the School, he would have come running in gazing up and down as if he had been frighted; and telling the Master his Pockets were full of Money, bidding him feel if what he said was not true, but the Master asked him how he came by that Money, which he pretended he had, and he told him his Mother gave it him; but no Money there was. Many a time I have seen him come into the School, gazing as before, and pretended that he had seen a Woman, which he called by the Name of Sadler's Wife, who had grievously frighted him. Many other Tricks I have seen him play at the School which were very like those he acted in the time of his pretended Possession: And having known him ever since he was a Schoolboy, and seen many of the Tricks he then played, I am fully persuaded that what was said to be a Possession, was nothing else but a Cheat. In witness whereof as a Christian and one that desires the Truth may be known to the World, I here Subscribe my Name  
Edward Slayter.  
The same answer may serve as to this Testimony, who might not see nor believe so much as might make him think it a Possession, but rather a Cheat or by Witchcraft, as is before hinted.  
Both these his Schoolfellows speak but of what they saw of his said Fits, and are pleased thereupon to call it a Cheer. I must confess Sadler expresseth himself Christianlike, I verily think that Mr. T. did not draw up his Certificate: but the further following Informations may clear this point.  
Pag. 28 Mr. T. doth almost suspect whether D. had any natural Disease; yet since, as he saith, he seemed to be afflicted with an Epilepsy joined with Convulsive Motions. For this he consults the Physician, and so must I for an Answer; but it shall be such as have the Surey Book by them to consult that withal: that they speak not without Book, as it seems Dr. R. doth. At present I shall leave with the Doctor what Psellus saith of Obsession, first of the means of Cure — Neque discedit ab occupatis, 
Psellus de Daemon. Interpret. Marsil. Fiein.  nisi divina potestate propulsum, or arione, viz. jejunioque accedentis. And he adds — Sed ego O Ma●ce inquam, retentior a quaedam supere nos medicorum sectatores adducunt, asserentes passiones ejusmodi non esse effectus daemonum, sed humorum vaporumque & venti male seize habentium. It aque Pharmacis & diaeta non carmintbus incant antium expiationibusque curare haec aggredisilent. Tum … le nihil mirum est haec medicos dicere, qui nihil noverint praeter sensum, sed corporibus tantum incubuerint cognoscendis. Illa fortasse decebat malorum humorum putare incommoda capitis somniferam gravitatem, atrae bilis angustias, phrenesis dilirimenta, quae lavacris putionibusque, vel evacuationibus, vel emplastris sedare consuerunt. Inspirationes autem occupationesque, quibus qui obsessus est, agere nihil potest, non intellectu, non ratione, non phantesia, non fensu. Aliud vero est quod movet atque ducit, dicitque insuper quae non noverit occupatus, & futura nonnunquam praedicit, quo inquam pacto dicemus; hac esse erraticas materiae motiones.  
Let Mr. T. also at present take notice of what may be obvious to any one in this particular case, in reference to what Mr. T. with his Testimonies, say thereupon.  
Tho the case be otherwise solved, yet let us say something as to what Mr. T. allegeth from the Physicians, and would thence prove D's Fits to be an Epilepsy, Convulstion, or the like.  
As to Dr. Willis the Instances brought out of him; all together do not near reach this case: Besides the Doctor doth not deny Possession in some of them: Neither doth he according to Mr. T. tell us the means of their Cure.  
As to Dr. Radcliffs Letter to Mr. T. upon this occasion the Doctor is not very ingenuous in saying that the Non-conformists do engross any thing to themselves in this case: For if he do but peruse Mr. Burton's Collections under this Head, he may have his answer.  
And as to our averring that the Devil sometimes tells the truth, the Doctor, if he be well acquainted with the Scripture of Truth, may easily find several Instances, both in the Gospels and in the Acts, to show that the Devil sometimes speaks great Truths though he be forced to it, and besure speaks them for no good end. The truth is many in this Age are more Atheistical than the Devil himself, as wicked as he is, for he believes a God to make him tremble— he professeth Christ in his desperate way— he makes use of Scripture Words and Truths to pervert them.  
As to Dr. R's Instance out of Galen, concerning the fore knowledge of his Fit, it's nothing to the purpose, for D's foretelling was in the foregoing Fit, and not when the present Fit was coming on him: this latter is easy enough in several ordinary natural Distempers: But why doth he not bring us one Instance in that case of a Person always in so many Fits exactly foretelling the time of the following Fit, and still hitting; his Fit being greater or lesser? His telling and foretelling other things also, the Doctor doth wholly wave; this is not fair dealing.  
His Testimony out of Leiselius doth not come up to this case: Had the Doctor haa the Surey Informations by him, and consulted them, he might have seen it, to be, as I say.  
His account as to D's Gravity and Levity in the same Fit seems rather ridiculous; for both were in the same dead Fit, and he continued in the said Fit a considerable time after the Witnesses had several times tried his weight: This many Persons do testify upon Oath, and others inform to the said purpose.  
I think we may challenge all the Doctors in England, to bring us a single Instance, out of any approved Author any such, under a mere natural Disease; to parallel the case.  
Pag. That Passage of Satan's pushing D on to such Words and Dees, etc. refers to him then as being out of his Fit, so I find it to be in those Minutes which I took all along: not to his Fits wherein he was so long dumb as I suppose: And I may well suppose it, though Mr. T. would so disingeniously, without any Proof, insinuate the contrary.  
Pag. 34 I am not able to remember particulars, but must refer to my Memorials in my Diary upon that occasion, where are all and only these Words about that called the Lord's Day cry, viz The next meeting on this occasion will be on the 16th Instant. Tho the Youth knew nothing of it upon the Lord's Day before (nor any of the Family) concerning this Meeting: Yet in a Fit on the said Lord's Day, he foretold of this day and told of the number of the Ministers viz. Five, when as none of the Ministers themselves knew it would be so, then none else was likely to know, what can the most critical Wit, and most captious Spirit make of this?  
Pag. 36 The Family's being so impoverished as to sell two head of Cattle, was before we had any thing to do with them as to this affair, or any other ways; it was by the charge, whilst Dugdale was with Mr. Crabtree. Our eating and drinking with them, upon their importunity, when the exercise was over, is far from devouring Widow's Houses as Mr. T. would suggest; especially if that be true, which Robert Clark testifies, viz. That he had it from William Sellars that they had got above 20 l. by us: And if it be true as their Neighbours say, that the Family hath lived in a better condition ever since, though they have had but little from us since: We did not so eat with them as to devour them, nor so relieve them as to bribe them.  
His Prediction as to England paying the Piper (as he phrased it) notwithstanding its present Security, whilst Ireland was in such Misery, is much verified by sad Experience; and I think few did then think that the War would continue so long, and that the charge of it would have been so great. I mention this without any murmuring thereat.  
Pag. 37 I must confess that I do pen down all the Heads of my Sermons and the most of the Proofs to the several particulars before hand ordinarily, so that the Devil might discover the same to D. though Mr. T. judgeth very hardly, that therefore we have our Sermons from the Devil. The Lord judge betwixt us, whether we have our Sermons from the good Spirit, according to the written word in a way of Prayer, or else from the evil one. Unless Mr. T. be of a better Spirit than appears in his Writing and Preaching against us on this occasion: His ordinary Readers and Hearers will say he speaks from his own Spirit at best, which is bad enough.  
Pag. 38 Why doth he manifest more virulence and violence against us, than against the Papists? What Combination hath Mr. T. proved as he hopes: I dare not so much as think that he hath so little Charity for us, as to think that we combined with them upon any ill design of cheating, though I confess some in their Passion have been too censorious that way: But the Reverend Mr. W. was pleased in his discourse with me, to clear Mr. C. himself from ill designing in this matter, and some of his People have testified under their hand, their sense of the sincerity of my Endeavours therein.  
Pag. I will not foul my Paper, and offend my Reader with those scurrilous and ridiculous Passages in this Page. O the Eructations of an exulcerated Heart! How desperately wicked is the Heart of Man!  
Pag. 41 As to the Marginal Notes upon the Affidavits, I must mind the Reader, that the Witnesses Testimony upon their Oath must needs carry the cause: Besides I suppose there will be nothing found in the Informations at Darwin that interfereth with the Affidavits at Holcomb. I cannot but observe how little notice Mr. T. take of Justice Egerton, who fate with Mr. Braddil at Darwin, it may be it's because he afterward joined with the Lord Willoughby at Holcomb. Let it be here also noted, that the most of the Witnesses as well as D's whole Family are Conformists, which doth rather advantage our cause; for otherwise Mr. T. might have had more colour to suspect us of some selsish design, which we carried on by and among ourselves; Besides if they be Cheats and False-witnesses why are they not dealt with accordingly, if there be any Discipline among those of that Communion? They do indeed confess a want of the Primitive Discipline.  
There was the strangeness of the Stone's passage through his Jaws and Throat, that it should only cause some streaks of Blood: Yet that it was so voided, the Oath confirms: That it was not possible in an ordinary way Dr. B. acknowledgeth: Therefore there was a cause extraordinary, some invisible Power.  
As to Too. D's Information at Darwin, before Mr. Braddil, that after I and the rest had left him, his Son had several Fits. It's true we had left off meeting at the Surey, because their Landlord on whom the Family had most of their dependence for Subsistance, was so offended upon account of that breaking down of his Hedges by some rude People: But I am sure we left not off the business in hand; for as I then told R. D. the Son, that though we did not meet at his Father's House, as formerly, for the reason aforesaid, yet we did continually remember his case both privately and publicly. Should we tell of our secret as well as open Agonies, about this Affair, it would not be well taken by some, and it's no Pleasure to me to speak of them. I am sure that young D. did then own the Spiritual means, as the means whereby he had this help, and desired the continuing of the use thereof, as there was occasion; and they were so. That he said his Son answered him he could not tell what his Distemper was, nor how it came: This seems to me to evince that it was no such Combination nor Cheat, as Mr. T. would have it to be. And as to the Passage of Walmsly at Darwin, as to his Fits continuing, it's owned, and might well have been expressed upon his Oath at Holcomb, if he had remembered; for it's very true, that D's Fits did continue for some short time after we had lest meeting at Surey, on the occasion aforesaid, and that his last Fit was most violent also.  
Pag. 42 I will not be so disingenuous as to pass by Mr. T. his once taking notice of any Moderation in any concerned as Witnesses in this case; I think he doth once acknowledge our Ingenuity also: I wish I had occasion to acknowledge his Moderation and Ingenuity oftener.  
Pag. 43 The Experssions are likely to be to the same purpose when the Deponents witness to the same thing, though Mr. T. reflects on them for it: Mr. T's unfaithful uncharitable Insinuations and Reflections, do not affect me further than to pity him, and pray for him too; though I fear lest my telling him this doth but occasion his lifting himself up into the Seat of the Scornful.  
I must confess I have more Charity for the Mother of young D. I do not, I did not suspect her of Witchcraft: I thought she was the most sensible Person of the Family in ordinary. I neither then, before, nor since, saw or heard any thing that gave me just ground of Suspicion, and now that she can say the Lord's Prayer decently, it seems she's recta in curiâ.  
As I said before, let any get him now to make such Noises and do such other Feats, this may be something towards a real Demonstration that he did counterfeit, and that the charge upon him was right. But our Antagonists who roll all other Stones away, attempt not this, because as Sisiphus' Stone it's likely to recoil upon them.  
Pag. 46 In Whitehead's Information there is some difference from what he said to me, but no clashing at all, yet must this be a Crime? Must it also be a Crime, when their several Informations at several times, do so agree almost in the same words? It must it seems be wrong, if they be consistent with themselves and inconsistent with Mr. T's design. To call the Witnesses my sworn Creatures, and to tell of my prompting them, is very untrue and unworthy: Did Mr. T know how many of them are mere Strangers to me, of a different persuasion from me, how little I have done to oblige any of them in this concern, further than their own veracity and ingenuity did oblige them? I say did Mr. T. know this, it would have put a stop to him in his Career, as forward, as resolute a Spirit, as I hear him to be of. Canis festinans caecos parit catulos.  
As to what Mr. T. saith in his Instances to prove Persons fancifulness, by such as are serious, will be rather judged invective, than argumentative: This is Mr. T's way, hard Words but weak Arguments, instead of soft Words and strong Arguments.  
Pag. 47 I will not take the Liberty Mr. T. doth, it looks too like Buffonery, when he comes to treat Robert Shaw, upon his Modesty in his Information, why he said not all he could say: His reason might be, because there was so much said by others as to what he had to say, that he thought it not requisite, to multiply words, and therefore he thought not himself bound to mention all the Passages, unless the Justice's put him upon it. I have occasion to say, that though the substance of what was said and done might be reported, yet it might have been (and may if need be) enlarged to much more, than hath yet seen the Light: Tho we were then, and are still under special disadvantages in this Country, the MANY and the MIGHTY not favouring this way.  
Pag. 48 Mr. T. hath done nothing as yet to prove a Combination as he would insinuate, that I can find: Neither is any thing argued from D's Activity, nor from the Symptoms of such a Disease to his purpose, though he speak so confidently: But that is his way, to supply the defect of his cause. It's plain to all that know R. D. that he hath neither the common Activity, nor Ingeny of others, and so very unlikely to act a part, as Mr. T. would have it. Had Mr. T. managed his matter with more Humility and Modesty, he might have consulted better for the credit of himself, and cause too, among considering sober Persons.  
I must leave Mr. T. to his own Sentiments, not only when he tells us of D's counterfeiting the Symptoms of such a Disease, but when he tells us of specific venoms, that will produce such a Disease, and so all these Feats; I must confess these are Mysteries beyond me. Thus do Persons set their own and others Wits on the Rack, not always to make them tell the truth, but sometimes to tell untruths.  
Mr. T's distinction betwixt his real and counterfeit Fits (as he calls them) from their being natural when they were more rare, anc counterfest when they came more thick, this also is a strange stretch beyond my Capacity. To the same purpose is the little Story of R. C. these things may humour some sort of People, and it may be subserve towards some ends.  
Here Mr. T. and Dr. B. differ as to the various causes of the various Noises and Voices, the former imputes them to his Activity, the latter to the Disease: But if Reason may be the Umpire, they are to be imputed to a third cause, whose Award is like to stand till the two Parties be better agreed. Some Persons are so taken up with visible Powers, that they regard not the invisible; are so taken up with second causes, that they neglect, if they don't deny the first cause.  
Pag. 49 Did I, as Mr. T. would suggest, leave any thing out of the Depositions? Did I make them? Or were they made to me? Mr. T's next Paragraph we must take his word for, what are the Effects of his Convulsions, and what are Symptomatical of his approaching Fit, as also the way of counterfeiting of foaming at the ending of his Fit It seems Mr. T. is Master of these Arts also: So that poor D. might have learned of him this Art, which I am apt to think he knew nothing of.  
Had all the Witnesses jumped in the same Expressions, about his Heaviness and Lightness, it might have looked like a Confederacy: Had they all referred to the same Fit, there might have been an appearance of an observable difference: These things considered, all is easily solved when the Witnesses explain themselves, as to the circumstances of their trying his weight, the matter is put beyond all questioning: But of this more hereafter.  
As to what Dr. R. saith upon this, gives no satisfaction, nor as to the reasons of most of his Fits, neither was he likely to know the manner of his Fits, seeing he had not the Narrative.  
Sellar's, Walmsly's Waddington's and Booth's Testimony in particular, concerining D's Heaviness and Lightness, must needs import that they held him up long enough to give a true Judgement of his weight. Upon enquiry how long they mitht each hold him up, they did, as themselves testify, hold up his whole Body so long, and that when he was in a dead Fit, as they could truly judge of his weight; yea, that they lifted him several times, and that his Fit cntinued a considerable time after.  
Pag. 50 The Story of Summer as to this particular of Gravity and Levity reacheth not to the Depositions in this case, if in any other, and comes off only with an it was said to be so heavy in his Fits, that seven Men were scarce able to carry him; but it saith nothing by Mr. T's Relation, as to his extreme Lightness in the same Fit: Tho I must be better satifyed as to the truth of the Story itself, than from Mr. T. Dr. Heylin, or Dr. Harsnet, before I can believe it: Those two Doctors are pretty well made known to the World, we see too much of their Spirit now a-days, as if there were a Pythagorean Metempsichosis.  
Mr. T. is still pleased to reflect upon me, as to my Sincerity about the Predictions concerning sending of Money: It's well that the assault and battery is on that side, where through Grace, even common Grace, I am best armed: For I have a natural averseness to, and antipathy against Insincerity or Unfaithful dealing, as was hinted before, His murus aheneus esto— Therefore as to giving secret Intelligence, it is so gross a Calumny, that I doubt not it will recoil on Mr. T. there's no ground at all for his saying, there's sufficient Testimony to the contrary. As to my affectation to be thought capable of dispossessing the lurking evil Spirit, Mr. T. is very much mistaken: God knows I had higher and other ends in my Eye, viz. the Glory of God, in the spiritual and eternal good of those many who came to hear and see what was done amongst us, and wherein I might warrantably look at D's deliverance, the Searcher of Hearts knows my sincerity in it: Mr. T. must not measure all others by himself.  
Will Mr. T. neither prove that R. D. had secret Intelligence of our coming to his Father House, nor believe us that he had not; this is very unfair dealing. As to his jeer about the Leatherbottle, if it become him, it doth not become me to take further notice of it, than to mind him that he must give account of idle words, much more of ill ones.  
Pag. 51 O the Malignity that is in the Heart of Man! Is there no doubt but I told D. that I would send him Money? Was Sellars frequently employed by me on the same Errand? Was Sellars acquainted with any pious Bribery among us? Did Sellars tell R. C. that T. D 's Family had above 20 l. from us and our company? Whenas upon enquiry W.S well remembers that R. C. told it him so. Is there not a lying Spirit sent forth, besides that Lie-speaking Spirit that all are born with? Because it was not said, that no secret Intelligence was given, must it be concluded that there was, and that we were conscious of it? Let Mr. T. know that I utterly deny any such double dealing, and utterly detest it. Was Mr. T. so familiar with the Demoniac. that he knew him to be displeased because no more Money was sent? whenas the next words plainly import that it was want of Meat that probably he was displeased at.  
Some of the Informants not swearing at that time, had, it's reason, some suggesting that if they did swear they might be called up to London, yet they tell you are ready to attest those things upon their Oath, when required; what if they scruple taking an Oath when not required to it, as Mr. B. before scrupled the administering of an Oath in such a case, though the Parties voluntarily offered themselves to take their Oath: It was much that such Persons went so far, considering what Discouragements they had from some.  
As to Abbot's Information who is a Conformist also (as most of the Informants are) and Mr. T. should, one might think, have the more charity for him, he is sure he had no acquaintance with D. and he verily believes D. had no knowledge of him; who now disproves this? Or that all the Country knew of his deficiency in his Trade? Or that he had an Uncle at Knotsford? I am sure I never heard of these things before now, though I have lived so long in the Country, and have traveled so much up and down in't. Besides D. speaks of his going into Staffordshire also: But Mr. T. leaves that out, that this is a reason why Abbot swore not, is altogether false: Some discouraging them, by telling of some danger of further trouble if they did swear, was the true reason of their not swearing. But Abbot's further Testimony clears this more fully.  
Mr T's uncharitable Surmises, reproachful Reflections, and false Inferences as to Livesay's and Grimeshaw's Informations deserve not to be taken notice of by me, but they cannot but be taken notice of by them who also are conformable. This is not the way to keep Persons in his Communion but rather to drive them f●●m it. Mr. T. hath so overshot himself, and so overdone his business, that he hath done his Cause but little service, and his Party much diservice.  
As to R. ●. his certifying, that William Sellars told him that D's Family had above 20 l. from us: W. S positively saith, that it was R. C. that told him so. However that there may be truth in the thing, then are we far from devouring Widows Houses, as was before said. And as to the hear-say Testimony that it was commonly reported that D. said in his Fit that R. C. was hearkenting about the Barn when he was in his Bed; Mr T will not allow of hear-say Testimonies to serve against his own design; nor doth R. C. tell us of any one in particular that reported it.  
Pag. 53 If some things came into the minds of the Witnesses afterward, which they could not call to mind, when they were before the Justices, or that which the Justices might not have time to her, if I did take, and give account hereof, I hope there's no Villainy in all this as Mr. T intimates. Hath not Mr. T. since committed such Villainy? If some will not believe that such things were indeed informed by the Witnesses, and truly represented by me, I am not accountable for their Ignorance and Incredulity: But those who have any true knowledge of me, and charity towards such Persons, will easily believe that I have not dealt unfaithfully in this Matter of Fact: As to others I dare challenge them to disprove me. I would have things stand upon their own bottom and in their true light: So let uprejudiced Persons judge: Thus I say as to all, and as to the following Particulars of Webster's Knife, and the supposed Cat or little Dog. Methinks it's a very sorry occasion of branding poor Fletcher with the Epithet of Boggard Fletcher, and that all the World must know this. Mr. T. is hard put to it that he must rake up such things as these.  
Why should not Waddington conceal the Name of the Gentlewoman, who made a design to try D. as well as Mr. T doth in his Informations, whenas the Parties concerned might be offended at the divulging thereof without their consent? By the way also, why may not I receive Informations, that come to my hand, yea seek to be informed as to the truth of Reports, as well as Mr. T. who neither hath one Affidavit, nor so much as one Information before a Justice that we hear of, to countenance his cause? It's evident that he had several Agents behind the Curtain, who have some more Modesty or Policy, so may be ashamed or afraid openly to own Mr. T's cause and carriage in it.  
Pag. 54 It's likely that Mr. T's Report concerning Fielding's Stealing is mere hear-say, for they live 16 or 17 Miles asunder and there is no Proof of F's Stealing or Lying: But we must take his word, whose apparent design is to brand us and the Witnesses, as others before him have attempted to brand me and baffle them. Fortiter calumniare aliquid haerebit. As to Fielding's we shall hear of it hereafter.  
As to the Instance of Grace Whally, Mr. T's Insinuations are so unlikely, so unjust, and so unworthy, that they deserve not insisting upon, as any impartial Person, I suppose, will easily judge. As I would not be so disingenuous as to pass by any thing that is material, so I would not be tedious in taking up time in every trivial matter.  
As to the Instance of Smally's Testimony, Mr. T. might have satisfied himself, when he came to Whally upon design to expose the Surey case: Whether T. D. would not testify to his part of the Evidence, though I have not seen T. D. of a long while: Yet I doubt not but he will stand to what he said.  
Might not Smally easily discern his Shoes to be buckled, without being conscious or confederate to any supposed Tricks of D.? How the flying of his Shoes to such a distance, as indeed it was, could be by the force of some ordinary Disease, or by Knavery, is the thing in question as to Mr. T. though not as to me: See his further Testimony afterwards.  
Pag. 55 Concerning Haworth's Information, I am sure I had it so, and can show the original, so it's no Lie of mine. As to Haworth I doubt not but he will own the Information. What mistake there might be betwixt Haworth and Turner I know not: It was not for me to inquire of every particular Person concerned, seeing I had a probable thing by other Evidences from a credible Person.  
What temptation Turner might since be under to deny it, I know not; but I am sure Haworth was under no temptation to affirm it, that I know of: Neither is he so much as one of my Hearers that I know of. Mr. T's Iffs and Guesses, of which we have so many in this Page, signify but little, unless he was an otherwise Person than he appears to be in Print: See what Haworth saith afterward.  
Concerning Waddington's Testimony here, he may be excused from naming the Party, as well as Mr. T. in a parallel case: Thomas Mr. T. pronounces the Story false upon his mere Supposition, he had as good have been altogether silent, as to charge the Informations with things notoriously false; though there might be some mistake in another thing.  
The Informations, as is expressed, were voluntarily offered, and declared to me, and others of sufficient Credit and Cautiousness. My Yea will stand against Mr. T's Nay, unless his time and trial in the World had been more.  
The Ministers of Christ under the Cross, whoever they be, may comfort themselves in being made conformable to their Lord and Master: When their say, and do are so perverted, when they are laden with mock Titles, and scourged by the lose Tongues of others, who yet have their hands bound in some measure, as the High-Priests, and Elders had, by a superior Power: Tho they may boast themselves Masters of the Art of Scurrility, but no Preachers of Christ the King of Kings, nor of our Gracious King William, who according to the Signification of his Name, and of his Title, is indeed the Defender of the Faith, and of the truly Faithful.  
My Nephew who is basely belied, will take his Oath that the Particulars were said by the Dugdale's to him, and that he did read the said Particulars to them, before they put to their Marks. This also is cleared afterwards.  
Pag. 56 Here's nothing to invalidate, or weaken Fletcher's Testimony, that I can discern, but rather to confirm it. For F. doth not insinuate that he was the great Instrument of finding D. in the River and helping him out, he owns others concernment in it, as well as himself. But Mr. T. doth very unjustly insinuate that F. was taught to call it, a dumb Fit which D. fell into when he came out of the Water. Fletcher will anon speak for himself as to this.  
Observe also that the Gentlemen did not deny, that they had been abusing D. in the Buttery, at the Abbey, when D. in his Fit charged them with it. Any one may think that Mr. T. would have let us known, if it had been so. So that Mr. T. hath furnished us with a further Testimony against himself. Aliqando bonus dormitat Homerus.  
As to Mr. T's reason of that extravagant Whim (as he calls it) it proves but his own imagination: So I may let it evaporate as an uncharitable Surmise.  
Alas! What pumping for occasions of Reflections, as we see in the Instance of M. S. yet how little comes! I am very loath to emprove that Hint of the near Neighbourhood of M. S. now, and of R. C. before; alas what Influences may worldly Interest, and ill Company have upon Persons otherwise ingenuous and sober!  
A plain representing of the Truth, which I do here and all along, as in the Presence of God, will I hope manifest that Mr. T. is but foaming out his own Shame, and that all his Falsities and Virulencies shall vanish as to us: I do not wish that the guilt, stain, and recompense, may stick upon him. Should I tell him how I have pitied and prayed for him, he would but scorn, and scoff, at it (I fear, as I hinted before) and do what I say more than once. Yea, through the Grace of God, I will do it till I know Mr. T. hath sinned the Sin unto Death.  
Neither I, nor any other, that I know of, did ever promise D. deliverance, as Mr. T. is pleased to say, but encouraged him from the Word of God in the way of his duty; this we did and ought to do.  
It's not said in the Narrative that there was a Fastday at Surey, on the 24th of March, 1689.  
I said before, we had left meeting at Surey a little before, for the cause aforesaid; but some of us, I am sure, carried on that work of solemn seeking the Lord on that occasion, as diligently as formerly, according to the best of my remembrance: I may truly and will humbly say through the Lord's help, we did not let fall our Hands, till we had got the Victory, nor let go our hold, till we had got the Blessing, (though some may blasphemously call this canting:) I am sure as to myself, I hope as to others.  
As to the casting out of the Devil, we do not know of any such gift of Miracles, as to command the Devil in the name of Christ to departed, and that he should immediately thereupon departed, as in the Primitive Times: Yet we believe that Dispossession may be, and frequently hath been in tract of time, according to Mat. 17.21. Even in these latter Ages (as Dr. Hall Bishop of Norwich testified, in his discourse with Costerus the Jesuit; see his Life) even among Protestants; though Dr. Heilin, and such like, will by no means admit it among the Non-conformists, if others can give us Instances thereof, we would gladly hear of them, to strengthen our common Cause, against the Papists.  
I am told there is a Canon of the Convocation, which prohibits the attempting this way of dispossessing Satan, without the Licence of the Ordinary; which necessarily implies that the Episcopal Clergy did believe there then was such a thing as Possession, and Dispossession: Yea we find in Mr. J. Bruen's Life, that such a Licence was granted upon such an occasion. I am told Mr. T. was informed of the said Cannon, and thereupon reform the first Leaf of his Preface.  
Also as to means of dispossessing, and their success now a-days, Dr. Willet in Synop. Papis. P. 92. owns not only the extraordinary means, but this of Fasting, and Prayer; whereby saith he, we doubt not but even in these days, when it pleaseth God, Satan is chased from the Possession of Christ's Members.  
Pag. 57 But to limit the holy one of Israel, to answer Prayers, in accomplishing his work, just whilst we are at Solemn Prayer, were a great presumption, and tempting God indeed; yea would be found contrary to the ordinary Experience of those, who know what belongs to the answer of their Prayers, or the benefit of any Ordinance, or Providence; which usually comes after some time of waiting. This also we take to be the meaning of those Scripture-Phrases, of looking up, and harkening what the Lord will say.  
As to what I judge in this case, I shall with all plainness, and modesty declare myself afterwards, according to clear Scripture Warrant, without any appearance of tempting the Holy Ghost, as Mr. T. would charge upon us: I hope we shall be found far, as from tempting the Spirit of the Lord, so from lying to him. It's true of some, on the on hand, in imposing on the holy Spirit, that they may offend; so on the other hand, in Quenching, Grieving, Vexing, Resisting, yea denying of Him, his Office, Operatinons, and despiting the Spirit of Grace: Some would have called Caleb's other Spirit an odd Spirit, as well as Mr. T. calls ours so.  
All the Extremity D. endured, his impatience and fleeing to Sir E. A. for relief, must argue to impartial Persons, that there was nothing of Cheat, or of Popish Combiantion in the case; the Effects of his Fits were sometimes so grievous, that (to use his own Expressions) he would not for all the World, wish that Misery to the vilest Creature in the World.  
The Minister's discouragement because of the ill Frame, and Carriage of of D. sometimes, as to the success of their Endeavours (which Mr. T. objects against us) is nothing but what there's cause for, and it may be others in the like Circumstances would have thought so too. As to the Lord's giving up D. also. We are but Men, and so subject to like Infirmities with others; yet upbraiding in this case is very unbecoming.  
As to the trying of Physicial Means, this might have been better taken by Mr. T. as our designing the discovery of the case, and doing the Party good by any lawful means. But things are it seems— ad modum recipientis. How will Mr. T. reconcile this to his cenforious charging us with an ambitious design of a Power to cast out the Devil?  
The Physicians we consulted with, were judicious, conscientious Persons, Licentiates by the College of Physicians, they honestly declined intermeddling as Physicians (though they might have made considerable advantage by it, apprehending that his afffliction was not mainly a bodily Disemper; yet these must needs be my Tools, and less sincere than Mr. Crabtree; the Spider will have Poison, even where the Bee will gather Honey.  
As to the suspicion of Witchcraft in the Family I have already cleared myself so as to searching any of them upon that account: I cannot hinder others Jealousy, nor most I hinder what may heal it; that all might be satisfied and the innocent cleared, I did not oppose it.  
As to the meeting at Read, I was not there, nor near the place, as is falsely and invidiously suggested: Yet Mr. T. confesseth that there was no searching of any. It was well they were not searched by any of us; yet it was well they were willing to be searched, and offered themselves to it.  
The disingenuity of Father and Son were not both at the same time, else it's likely we had desisted, and good reason for it, particularly as to the Father; for though the place was licenced, it was not fit we should intrude ourselves, and obtrude our labour; they cry out in a pang of impatience that they got no good by us, as if we could do it by our own power, little looking to God, and to their Duty; no marvel he exercised them with such delay and discouragement, whilst they were so unprepared for the Mercy: Surely things and times, are in the Lord's Hand, not in ours. If the Apostles Peter and John checked the People, for looking so earnestly at them, and at their Power or Holiness, much more may we.  
That Mr. T. will tell of their having another Game to play, was this, the Game the poor silly People had to play, viz. to spend so much Money with Mr. Crabtree! It seems by this, that their Game was to throw away their Moneys, instead of getting Money by the supposed Artifice: For there's no mention of us, till Dr. Chew (so called) had tried in vain, and so much Money, and Time was spent with Mr. Crabtree; all this while Mr. T. is contending against common Reason and Sense. I am apt to think that Mr. T. not only looseth this Cast, but the whole Game, he's playing, if Praise and Preferment be what he plays for.  
Pag. 58 It seems Dr. Chew (so called) gave Physic, on March 25. after his last Fit upon March 24. (which in that Fit he said must be his last) but our Spiritual Means were before the last Fit. Now whether is likely to be the means of his Cure, that which went before his last Fit, or that which followed? Mr. T's charge of our vain Ambition, and sinister Aim is most censorious (its well if there prove not a Beam in his own Eye to be cast out) it's high time for me to be dead to all such things.  
As to our letting the Narrative sleep, until those Gentlemen were in their Graves, as if we suffered it to be so upon such a design, it is another among the many other of Mr. T's Falsehoods and Calumnies.  
What doth Dr. C's Certificate signify? Not only that it was after the Fits left D. but here is not one Witness to the Certificate; besides he only saith, that his Physic had good success, which we deny not in its place and time; and for that afterwards observing my directions, as Dr. C. saith, he never since had any more Fit. It's pity the Doctor is not alive to explain and prove the Inference; but that it's left to such a one as Mr. T. to do it: I think Dr. Chew, (or rather Edward Chew as he styles himself) as bad a name as he went under among many as to some things, yet he would have been more candid than Mr. T. Because he lays such stress on this Certificate: Let me a little Syllogise upon it, and see whether there be not a gross non sequitur.  
1. I shall prove that Dr. C. did not the Cure: (is it not rather a mere trick to elude the right means, to pretend that Dr. Chew did the Cure?)  
If the Cure, as to D's Fits, was effected upon the 24th of March, and Dr. Chew gave him not Physic till the 25th of March, than Dr. Chew's Physic did not effect the Cure; but the first is thue: therefore the latter; that he was freed upon the 24th of March is fully testified; that he took not the Physic till the 25th of March is freely confessed. Here take notice that D. in his Fits did tell he must be killed, or cured, before the said 25th of March: Observe also how politicly the Gentlemen ordered it to give D. the Physic, just when the Term was expired, and after his last Fit.  
2. That Dr. C's Physic could not cure him at all, as possessed which is here supposed.  
Where there is no proper Vehicle, as to natural causes to convey the evil Spirit into him, there can be no Physical Means to dislodg it: But here was no proper Vehicle, Ergo.  
Dugdale was not Melancholy, which is called, Vehiculum Deaboli, nor Lunatic, nor Epileptic, before the said strange Fits: If there was any of these, or any other Distemper afterward, it was rather the Effect of his strange Fits, than any way the cause thereof. As to his Boyish Tricks and Childish Fancies, most of which he peremptorily denies, these were long before, and prove nothing to the purpose. The Tricks he is charged with, when he was a Schoolboy, are not only denied by himself, but by other of his Schoolfellows.  
3. That the Spiritual Means were the only Means of his Cure, as to his strange Fits. I prove thus,  
The Means must needs go before the End, as to Execution; but these Spiritual Means were the only Means that went before the said Cure, therefore— finis est prior in intention, posterior in executione.  
Pag. 58 However it may not be amiss to make some remarks upon what Mr. T. saith, so far as I am more immediately, and especial concerned; for my main business is not to disprove any tampering of the Papists, with the D's, but to settle the case, as a Possession, upon a sure Basis: Which I suppose is done already, and not likely at all to be shaken by all Mr. T's Combination, to prove a Popish Combination.  
Let it be remembered all along, that though Mr. T. is pleased to call us the Papists Tools, yet withal he confesseth that we would not give way, that they should handle us nor the D 's neither: So that there was no great danger of the Papists doing any harm by us, as their Tools. But let Mr. T beware how he meddles with edged Tools, or rather in Scripture-Phrase, how he kicks against the Pricks. Indeed Mr. T's Ignorance and Infidelity, as in the Apostles case, may by some be taken as an Extenuation of the Fault of his furious Zeal; 1 Tim. 1.13. Yet others will take it as an Aggravation thereof, especially if we consider whose Son he was, and what Education he had.  
I wonder what Mr. T. means, by our having most Plots, and the worst luck in Plotting that ever Men had Have we had more Plots and worse Success than the Papists? Was there in all his remembrance any but that of the Meal-Tub, and will Mr. T. vindicate that to be a Presbyterian Plot.  
I pray Sir, what Plot have any others discovered, or what Talon have you to boast of, as to further Discoveries, unless it be of your own folly? Let not him that puts on his Armour boast as he that puts it off. If you had as good a Talon at disclosing Secrets as the Demoniac had in his Fits, it will not be for your credit. In that you call D's Devil our Friend, you too much discover the Spirit you are acted by. I pray what friendship did the Devil show us, or we him? Mr. T. will say the Devil was not in D. I wish he be not entered into, if ever he went out of others, in a worse Sense.  
I shall not envy Mr. T. the excellency of his Talon, in belching forth his venomous Rancour against us, in his preamble to his pretended discovery of the Combination, nor shall I much heed the reproaches he would cast upon us; for by this time, neither his Tongue, nor his Pen, will be accounted a Slander.  
To call us the constant Tools of Propery, when it is so well known by the many Popish Plots, that the Papists have made use of another sort of Tools, as some of Mr. T's own Communion have so well discovered: Whenas such Champions as Ames, Baxter, Owen, Pool, and many more have so well acquitted themselves against the Papists; and whenas it's so well known how much of the Non Conformists Arguments, is made use of against Popery: So that the Non Conformists have as good Hands, and better Tools against the Papists. If the distinction of Obsession from Possession, be used among the Papists; is ever, distinction among Papists, a Popish Distinction? The Truth is, both Ancient and Modern Writers only make use of the Term Obsession as more proper.  
Doth not the afore said Bishop Hall, Vye with his Antagonists upon this Point, as may be seen in his Life? Is it any disadvantage to the Protestant Interest, if there be such a Power in the use of lawful means among us? What Glory is therein the contrivance of such a Combination to be emulous, if there be such a Combination according to Mr. T's Pretensions? Are we not much beholding to Mr. T. that he will excuse us from being the original Authors of the pretenaed Combination, but who can vield to his reasonless Reasons?  
Might we not have been cunning enough to combine, though we had no more Learning than the D's, who are pretended to be in the Combination? Who will question Mr. Carrington's Ability to reply upon the Daemon either in Greek or Latin, if they knew him? But that he thought it not convenient to discourse him in another Language, as the Priest did for the reason assedged. I would the two Masters of Art might try Masteries in any of the Arts (tho Mr. T. may be the Seniour) to clear it, that Mr. C. hath more Learning than Mr. T. can guests at by the Narrative. Some of Mr. T's Brethren might have satisfied him as to Mr. C's Learning. O how is Mr. T. ready to burst with his fullness of that Spirit which dwells in him, whereby he had conceived us to be the diminutive Vnderling-Slaves, to the Papists in the Farce, as he calls it. Parturiunt montes, etc.  
Note that our disproving of a Combination, in Mr. T's Sense, is exabundanti; for it's the Possession that we defend: And we are cleared from having any hand in the pretended Combination.  
As to Mr. T's 1st Ground for his supposed Combination, it will prove Sandy, whether in reference to what himself or Dr. B. saith. For from T. D's having been a Papist and his Children having been Popishly brought up, Mr. T. might as reasonably and charitably have inferred, that the Papists would never entrust such a supposed Intrigue, in the hands of such, who had proved so unfaithful to them, and who have approved themselves true Protestants ever since. But Mr. T. is apt to take things by the wrong handle. And as to the consideration of the then Scene of Public Affairs, it's probable these poor People in that blind Corner, were very far from such Policies, which might better beseem those who would secure their beneficial places, or sought great things for themselves: These were more likely to ingratiate themselves with those, who then had got the Ascendant.  
Who this Dr. B. is I know not, nor is there any one's word to witness that these words were his; however he's made to speak very like to Mr. T. but why should any be bound to believe the imputation of they know not who, when the accused had no opportunity to answer for themselves, As ignorant as the D's are, I doubt not but they are ready to answer to any, who will busy themselves to ask them of these things.  
Tho I am not so immediately concerned as to the 2d Ground Mr. T. lays for a supposed Combination, yet must I take notice how he calls the Dissenters, the Papists constant Apes in such Juggles, as before he called us their constant Tools. Who would think that Mr. T's Father was a Dissenter, but he's dead, and forgotten too. It's commonly said, It's an ill Bird that betrays its own Nest.  
I am not, neither are my Reverend Brethren accountable, neither for the Typographical Errors, nor for those Mistakes that were in the uncorrected Copy; which, through I know not whose weakness, is printed: The same I must say for my Reverend Brother Mr. C. S. who many years ago was deservedly commended, chief Master of the Free-School in Blackburn, as Mr. T's Father was at Ratchdale. As to my Reverend Brother the truly Orthodox and Eminently Learned Academic, Mr. R. F. he was but once at the Surey, nor so much as once did see the Narrative (that I know of) that is printed, as it's printed, before it was printed. I will here also, by the way, do Mr. Rinshaw the right to tell the World, that he was but once at the Surey-Meeting upon the said occasion, and there were some small mistakes in the uncorrect Copy, which he took notice of, and should have been corrected. I wish the Surey-Book had had the Erratas annexed.  
My Brethren who are more immediately concerned, are of age to answer for themselves, and when the worst is made of it, that Pride and Malice can make of it, what is this to prove Mr. T's Combination; but only whilst he, in his malevolent way, would, with the Devil clear us from Forgery; yet must he trample on his Betters for some inculpable, at least pardonable weaknesses; as where Mr. T. upbraids Mr. C. so basely with the natural Infirmities in his Sight, or other Infirmities. I have tried D. and find him altogether a Stranger to those Latin and Greek Sentences which Mr. W. and Mr. C. allege as spoken in his Fit. Mr. T. might have tried him too, had he been so ingenuous.  
I shall not henceforth give myself, and the Reader that needless trouble as to follow Mr. T. in his Meandrous Passages, towards proving a Papistical Combination, it would be a laborious loss of time on our part, as his is labour in vain: for I hope to cut the work shorter, and to clear all fully before Mr. T. and I part, if it be not done already.  
Pag. 60 Mr. T's scornful way of clearing us from having any hand in the supposed Contrivance, is below me to take notice of, neither am I immediately concerned in the matter in hand; but I confess it affects me to see poor D. so beknaved and berogued, when I am abundantly satisfied, that the poor Man had neither so much cunning, nor so little honesty, as to be criminal either way.  
Pag. 61 As to the pieces of Latin in D 's Letter to Sir E. A. we neither have any account what they were, nor who testifies the same, but Mr. T's ipse idxit; whenas D. himself doth not own any such thing, but doth again and again disown his ever learning any further than the Nouns and Pronouns in the Accidence. Poor Dugdale had no Latin at all that I can hear of, neither from one or another, nor doth Mr. T. at all prove that he had.  
Mr. T's third Argument, as he calls it, about the Incubi and Succubuses, seems only to make way for his abominable Calumny, upon some slanderous Report, as to the whoring of the Surey Hearers; 
* Several Neighbours are ready to testify that they never so much as heard, upon just ground, that there was any such uncivil Behaviour:  all sorts of People coming thither on one account or other, and whom we could not hinder from coming. Let Mr. T. take heed of coming too near the imitating of the Heathens false Charge, upon the pious Meetings of the Primitive Christians. But if there were any dallying under the Hedges, when they might have been better employed, it's more likely they were some of Mr. T's Communion, who might take the filthiest Actions to be less culpable, than hearing a Nonconformist preach or pray. As among the Papists a transgressing of God's Laws is venial, when transgressing one of their own Laws is a mortal Sin.  
Pag. 62 We must still take Mr. T's word without any mention of his Witnesses, where he speaks of an ingenious Person walking to Surey, when as it's too well known how many notorious Falsehoods he's guilty of. Surely the ingenious Person Mr. T. speaks of, whoever he is, is not very ingenuous to conceal his Name, otherwise others might satisfy him, or themselves in this matter. Neither is it fair dealing to judge the poor Mother, before she be heard, what she hath to say for herself. What wresting of the poor ignorant Woman's Words, which Mr. T. saith, that the Dissenters must do, whenas she might, if she said the Words, probably mean that the Devil said so; whenas withal, presently after, she named three Popish Priests, which the Daemon in D's Fit had hinted to be the Persons who must help him: It's very probable by this, that the Devil would have had it out of our Hands into the Priest's Hands, and so served his ends by them better than by tormenting D.  
As to the Letter mentioned in this Page, I am loath to question the Fidelity of the supposed Author; yet must I animad vert a little upon it. In my Minutes Verbatim, it's thus. Upon the 3d of September, we again met at Surey, on young D's account; as I went to the place of meeting, he gave me notice by a little Paper he put into my Hand, that as his Spirit told him, he must be dumb, and deaf, whilst we prayed; immediately upon his delivery of the Note to me, he became both dumb and deaf, all the while the Exercise continued: By this it's plain that the meaning was, as to that Exercise, not that he must be so all the while we came to him; this the event did evidently disprove.  
What he means by no satifactory Answer, I know not; it might be satisfactory to others, though not to him, who might be otherwise prepossessed.  
Pag. 63 Again, there seems to be no good consistency betwixt a Passage in D's Letter to Sir E. A and that the report of a Letter to Mr. T. to Sir E. A. he only saith, that they did him no good; in his Letter to Mr. T. he saith, those six, meaning the Ministers, must do him no good. This looks not like faithful dealing; he might say in that Fit of Impatience, we did him no good; but it's more to say, we must do him no good: This looks liker what Mr. T. will have the Mother to say, than what she did indeed say.  
Again, as to what he infers for a Confederacy, there might be a Combination among the Popish Priests, yet no Combination of young D. with them, nor among the Family; nay, nor of any of the D's with the Devil: sure it becomes you to have more Charity towards those of your Communion, or to prosecute them if you will have them guilty of Witchcraft, or Cheating.  
The close of that Paragraph seems to be rather Mr. T's, it is so very magisterial, and censorious.  
Mr. T's, and the Letters (must do him no good) must not stand good, by what was before observed.  
If the Devil in one of D's Fits said, that the said Popish Priests might help him, and that one of them be a Doctor; what is all this to the purpose of proving a Combination of any of the D's with them? It rather infers, as was said before, that the Devil would have it out of our Hands, who only sougnt the Glory of God, and the Good of others, to have it into the Priest's Hand, who served the Devil's Interest, and their own Ends, as we have cause to suspect, as to some of them.  
Mr. T's telling of D's tacking over to the Popish Priests, tatcheth not very well with a former Combination with them, no more than his application to Sir E. A. let not us be too rigid towards such Persons in such Extremities: We know not how we ourselves may be tempted.  
Pag. 64 I am persuaded that none but such as Mr. T. will judge that the Popish Priests had instructed D. all along, unless it was by some secret Diabolical Means, unknown to him; otherwise who can think but he would have, on some occasion or other, in all this time, confessed it to some Conformist or Nonconformist. Tho the Devil and his Instruments would not have it discovered, yet poor D. either for fear, or favour, would have discovered it, if he could.  
Mr. T's Story here of R. D. is so much upon Supposition and Imagination, whereupon he found'st he Belief, that it deserves not insisting upon: The truth of things, so far as it concerns the matter in hand, I have given faithfully, as it's taken from his own Mouth, the Substance whereof is in the Narrative.  
The Passage of the other Paper of some Magicial Charm, mentioned in the Narrative, is so plainly reported, and such use is made of it, the our indifferent Person would thereupon, not only vindict us, but the D's also, from the Cheat or Combination; seeing we all declined the use of any such Popish, Magicial, Diabolical Means.  
As to Mr. T's most untrue, and uncharitable charge of our promising ourselves a rich Harvest by the Miracle we should work,— It's well for us, Mr. T. must not be our judge, and that our own Conscience is as a thousand Witnesses for us. His other Reflections here are like the opening of some stinking Grave, which I would rather cover.  
Pag. 65 Mr. T. is void of all Reason, as well as Modesty, in saying that we were guilty of superstitious Credulity, were coming Creatures to the Priests, swallowed all that was offered by them, when he at the same time saith, it's true we declined the reading of the Paper over D. that the Priests sending the Paper to D. is an unanswerable Argument of his corresponding with them, when himself acknowledgeth that the D 's declined it also, Where's Mr. T's Religion or Reason. Sed perit judicium quandores transit in affectum.  
Mr. T. dare eng age for the Devils vanishing, upon our reading that Paper over D. It was wisely done to pass his word for the Devil on such hard Conditions, as were never likely to be performed.  
I shall leave the business of the Commission here mentioned to others to canvas. I shall only hint here, that the Papers which came into D's hand, when he stretched it forth, were undoubtedly from an invisible hand, as the Spectators testify; so as to those Papers and other things which he committed; it is attested that he was not near any Wall, nor could any one visible, convey them to him For I took little notice of what the Devil said, concerning his commission, nor of the date of it: I had a higher to look at, from whom he had his Commission, or Permission, and who alone could determine the time, and cancel the Commission, as he pleased.  
As to that Poison of Asps, and Gall of Bitterness, in charging us with vainglory all along, our being so full of ourselves, and of the Spirit we had to deal with: It serves but to fill up his own measure, and that of his Partakers, which seems to be almost brimful.  
I confess I did from several Circumstances fear, that the Devil in some drunken Fit, had drawn D. into some blind Contract with him, or Consent to him, not because the Devil might say to that purpose, but because he was ready to gratify D's Humour several ways; yet if the Devil be found a Liar herein, I am not sorry for that; and if I did mistake, I hope their needs no very large Charity to cover it.  
Pag. As to Mr. T's reproachful Term of a Farce, and reproaching us with weariness because we could do no good, in the former he is profane, if he refer to the Ordinunce; in the latter he doth some of us wrong, I am sure: we may be weary in our work, but not weary of it. How little any threatening with Warrants did affect D. towards accepting of the Physician, will appear by further evidence, and the event, in that he was cured of his strange Fits, before he took the Physic: tho it's evidenced already that he had his Fits as formerly, after the Threatening.  
As to the Passage of Satan's speaking several Noises, and Voices, out of the Lump which risen up, I do not remember any thing, but that T. Core, testifies to that.  
Dr. B's Testimony will but signify a little in this case, with those who knew what his Faith and Practice was; but he's dead— de mortuis nil nisi bonum: And as to his Profession as a Physician, what Judgement could he pass upon D's Fits, whenas he saw him but once, and had not seen the Depositions at all, as I suppose; I cannot be positive, for his supposed Letter bears no date, neither can I tell when it was, that Dr. B. died.  
Besides, what he is supposed to say, is not to the purpose, for what is it as to the rising of the Lump from his Foot upward, when he tells of convulsive Twitchings? How doth he prove his being before instructed, to improve those Motions to such a purpose? Might not a Spirit move such parts, though it have neither Flesh nor Bones, so could not be felt? What silly work is here? But when Men lose their Religion, they lose their Reason also. What rational Person will deny a Spirits acting, though not animating, as the Soul doth the Body?  
Concerning the Expressions in Prayer which I am charged with, by I know not who, at second or third Hand; this is my constant comfort, amidst my acknowledged Infirmities, in all my Duties, that I hope I have the Holy Spirit to help my Infirmities, Jesus Christ to bear them, the Father to pity them; that I stand not to the Mercy of some Men's Misconstructions, and Misrepresentations, nor to the Wresting, and wiredrawing of my Words, by such as Mr. T. to their evil Ends; but take the words which they insinuate me guilty of, and as they are reported by Mr. T. the former part of them, (viz. that Satan might appear, or seem to be in those, that did not believe him to be in that young Man, by way of Possession) are potentially expressed; such a thing might be, I wish it were not so: The latter part of the words, (that others might take Warning and thereby Learning) are expressed optatively, as praying that others may take warning, and learn by this Example. The Reader will pardon the Incoherence of the Expressions, and rather impute it to the Ignorance of the Reporter, and the Imperfection of the Report. Where now is the Profaneness and Curse of the Petition? Where is the Justice of any being scandalised? What occasion hath Mr. T. so Sarcastically, and Blasphemously, to reflect upon praying by the Spirit, and Spiritual Sacrifices offered up to God? But it's according to the Evil Spirit that Mr. T. I doubt is led by, and walks after.  
Pag. 67 Whenas Mr. T. would insinuate against us words of Blasphemy, or near bordering thereupon; were not my Soul filled, and fortified with such firm Faith, in dear Love to, and deep Veneration of the most precious Person of christ, his most glorious Gospel; and truly Miraculous Works: Yea, his most Holy Spirit, and Conversation too, then might Mr. T's Scorpion Language, though thy such a feeble Hand, wound me to the quick; but through the Grace of God, it is but as Lashes upon Armour, in this case.  
Whenas also he would insinuate, that a Tongue which speaks such words, aught to be boared through with an hot Iron; but we must spare the fanatics, saith he: Blessed be God who hath made our Officers Peace, and our Exactors Righteousness; yea, thanked be our Rulers, which are such Shields of Defence to us, else we yet see what such as Mr. T. would be at, right or wrong.  
And what is all this bitter Zeal, as the Apostle James calls 〈…〉 for this I must refer the Reader to what is expressed, and expla … … fore, concerning the Indications of Evangelick Possession 〈…〉 these: Where I do modestly declare my own, and I think others Sentiments also, But Mr. T. is very unfaithful in inserting 〈◊〉 words (though in a Parenthesis) viz. and consequemly dispessessed by them. as if they were my words; indeed it's the consequence that is so hateful to him, which makes him so furiously to militate against 〈◊〉 Premises.  
But why doth not Mr. T. descend to Particulars, and Instanc● 〈◊〉 the Indications of a Possession, and show us wherein the Indication, in D. did come short of any, or many, in the Evangelic History. Still remember how we reserve the due Honour to the Cures, and Dispossessions, as done by the immediate Power of Christ; or in his Name, in a miraculous manner; such effects immediately to follow: though all is done by his Marvellous Power, whether it be without Means, or with them; whether the means be more ordinary, or extraordinary; whether the Effect be sooner or later; yet are not at all Miraculous. Had not some of Mr. T's Brethren been wiser than he, I suppose, he would have denied all Possessions, at least in latter Ages, from the Press, as he had done from the Pulpit.  
Seeing Mr. T. would make the World to believe, that we seek vainglory, and worldly Interest, by the account of our many certified places for Meeting, and so our being Pluralists; I must humbly say the Truth, and shame the Devil, (as they say) had he any Shame. I am concerned, and constrained to vindicate the Truth, and myself; for I think I and my People have more certified Places, than any one Minister, and People in the County; being so scattered in the Country as we are: So it may be Mr. T. may point at me more than others.  
Should I tell how long I have laboured among this People, how much I have suffered for them, how little this poor People have been able to do for me, what offers I have had as to worldly advantages, Mr. T. would charge me with vainglory, though he clear me from seeking my worldly Profit: But it's enough to me that God knows all, though these things are pretty well known in the World; and I do not desire to make them more public than they are; it is a Mortification to me, to speak of them more than needs: Nor would it be a Pleasure to Mr. T. unless to droll upon them.  
It's true, we have several Places besides my Chapel certified, yet some of them are only for our more private Days of Prayer; but they all belong to the same People, disposed as aforesaid, and the most of what I have from them all, is but about 12 l. per An. out of which I maintain an Assistant also, to supply on the one hand, when I am at a more remote distance on the other: Yet do we ordinarily all meet at our Chapel. Now let Mr. T. himself judge, where are the Pluralities, and Worldly Interests; Do I not rather spend what I have, and am I not almost spent in serving a Poor, yet willing People, these 48 Years? Tho I confess I am now, through Age and Bodily Infirmity, confined about home? Let these Hints suffice in these straits Mr. T. reduceth us into: If we vindicate ourselves, he'll have us to be vainglorious; if we do not, we must be Pluralists, like to themselves: So that on our part it proves to be only a Plurality of Labours (in Labours more abundant.)  
As to the Hearers not taking the Oaths to the Government, and subscribing the Declaration against Popery, though Mr. T. will charge it upon their Old Spirit of Contempt of Authority: Yet let him know that the Government hath as hearty Subjection, and as fervent Prayers from Dissenters, as from the Conformists, who have all the Dignities and Benefices. So that the Dissenters not doing as aforesaid, is not out of the least unwillingness to do it; but because that they judged that the Magistrate should call them to it, if they saw occasion.  
Pag. 68 As to what Mr. T. doth most unworthily and immoderately insinuate concerning us, who some of us it may be, might for our Age be his Grandfather's: I do most solemnly protest for myself, and I hope for my Brethren also, that it's altogether false, that we had lest off the case, though we had left off meeting at Surey, for the reason aforesaid; that the deferring of the publishing of the Narrative was with any Reference to the said Gentleman's death, we also do utterly deny. And as to the forgetting of several Passages, by reason of the distance of time, the same may be said on our part also. That there were several with R. D. when those words were expressed, and such things happened on the 24th of M. 89. we affirm, though none of the Ministers were present: For John Walmsly was present and deposeth as to the Passages, and several others present, testify to the same purpose.  
That what we did in this affair, was out of the Pride of our Hearts, and in affectation to be thought Miracle-Mongers, and such as cast out Devils; the Searcher of Hearts, knows it to be otherwise, and that we lay little stress on these things. Our rejoicing is this, that we hope our Names are written in Heaven, and that our Record is on high: Yet we may say that the Lord hath done greater works, than casting out Devils out of men's Bodies, by his faithful Servants: Particularly the effectual Call, and saving Change of Souls, which in Scripture Sense is raising the spiritually dead, opening the Eyes of such as are born spiritually blind, yea a new creation out of nothing, and worse than nothing. This Doctrine may not go well down with those who have no Experience of it, and so make light of so great a work.  
Yet though we are most Unjustly, and Uncharitably, charged by Mr. T. as despairing of the Success, and as deserting the Work: However our Weakness is ingenuously acknowledged in the Narrative, which is no sign of vainglory: Tho our acknowledged Weakness, is invidiously objected against us. Yea, I will say further, though Mr. T's Spirit may be heightened, and others hardened thereby: That much Weakness did appear among us, not only in the Management of so great a Work, and after as to our non-acknowledgment of the Success, as we ought: But as to some few things published in the Narrative, and as to the manner of the Publication thereof, (if it was through inadvertency of any of us:) Yet whilst we deny ourselves, we dare not deny the Grace of God in pitying us, and pardoning, in helping, and blessing us. Yea, we must own the Lord's Goodness in his helping of us under, and blessing to us Mr. T's evil dealing with us; much is to be learned, and got by others Envy and Enmity. Blessed be God, I may say, though no thanks to Mr. T.  
Pag. 69 That some might suspect Witchcraft in the case, doth not at all weaken the cause: For it's ordinary that Possessions are by Witchcraft, as Instances in Old and New England confirm. But that Mr. Pendelbury, who was sometime assisting in the work, did afterward take it as a Cheat, neither is, nor can be proved. The Testimony put upon Elizabeth Mills, of Ratchdale, is not so much as pretended to be under her own Hand: So Mr. T. must be only on somebody's hear-say, which sort of Testimony he will not allow to others; neither doth Mr. T. tell us who the Reporter is: So that we are bound up from sifting this Matter. Mr. P. and E. M. being dead, as Mr. T. saith, the Reporter being unarmed, and we having little reason to take Mr. T's word: Thus Mr. T's Groundwork fails, and his Superstructure falls.  
Besides it's likely Mr. P. would have suggested it to some of us, if he had suspected it to be a Cheat: But I never heard that he ever hinted any such thing to any of us, or any other.  
I will do that worthy Person, now deceased, this right, that he is only mentioned as one, who was sometimes assisting in the work: Let the Cause stand upon its right bottom, and let not the Blessed Memory of such a one suffer, on either hand.  
I now have it from good Hands, that indeed Mr. P. first was not satisfied whether it was a natural Distemper, or what to call it: But afterward when he heard two Voices from R. D. at once, etc. and heard what account others gave of other Particulars, than he was satisfied that D. was acted by a Diabolical Power.  
As to the Testimony of Dr. Whittaker, who was a faithful Witness all along to what passed in this Affair, Mr. T. might have spoken more civilly of him: For Dr. Whittaker is both a Gentleman and a Scholar, as Mr. Townly well knows: That he did teach some few Youths to perfect them for University Learning, before he came to his Estate, this is no more Disparagement to Dr. Whittaker, than to Mr. T's Father, who made School teaching his Calling; nor are the Youths which Dr. W. taught any Disparagement to Dr. W. I wish Mr. T. be no greater Disparagement, to his Father.  
Mr. T. might have been more civil to Dr. Whittaker as a Physician, than to call him a Medicaster, when as he underwent the strike Trial of the College of Physicians, and hath his Diploma from them to show. No such unlearned Empiric, as Mr. T's Dr. C.  
Pag. But as to Mr. Townly's Letter, Dr. Whittaker doth acknowledge some lose discurse he had with Mr. Townly, about the Surey-Case, and doth remember that Mr. Townly, himself did then own the Signs of Possession in young D. and Mr. Townly might justly suspect, and suggest, the Politic Intrigueing of the Popish Priests, which, I may say, they fruitlessly attempted: But Dr. Whittaker doth peremptorily deny the words, as he is charged in the Letter: Of which Letter also, we have but part set down by Mr. T. breaking off at a Comma, and closing it with an, etc.  
Yet if all were granted, that Mr. Townly saith of the discourse betwixt the Doctor and him, the Doctor's Certificate under his own Hand will stand good, and he will stand to it. For let it be observed that Mr. Townly's Letter to Mr. White gives us no account particularly when that discourse was, and though the Doctor might then also be jealous of the thing and of its issue; yet upon further observation of his own, and hearing the Depositions, he was fully satisfied, as other Non-conformists present, before the Justices at Holcomb in like manner were; though they very much doubted the thing before.  
As to the Passage of D's being Dumb and Deaf so long, I have declared the Truth before, and I was likelier to know the Truth, the Paper being delivered to me; that he sometimes was sensible out of his Fit, of what was in his Fit, is not denied; but we affirm that ordinarily he was not sensible: See as to this Origen. de Principiis cap. 3.  
Concerning the Reserves that Mr. T. pretends to, and threatens us with, (through the Grace of God) I fear them not at all, nor any thing that any one can say or do, in this case, as to me. I hope I am on a sure bottom, and under a strong guard; so that I need not fear this Shock, after all the rest.  
As to all that impudent insolent Language, which Mr. T. gives us, in the close of this Page: I do humbly, and meekly, yet cordially, and confidently retort it upon himself, as Arrows shot against a Brazen-Wall: Religion is not abused by us, but by himself; we are not an ambitious designing Party, whatever he is: We could have sat down content sooner or later, if Providence had not led us from first to last: We have not seen ourselves baffled, neither in danger of it, by the Vltimi Conatus, the dying Efforts of such Men; we can through Christ strengthening us, hold up our Heads in the World: Yea, lay down our Heads in Peace, and lift up our Heads before the Judge of all at last: (Tho he may do somewhat towards judging in this matter, even in this World) it is no Spirit of Infatuation nor Vanity that led me to, and through this work, so far as I am concerned; and I should know the Spirit of Christ as well as Mr. T. Surely I do know myself better than he knows me; it was neither Wickedness, nor Weakness, that concerned me thus far: I suppose that to all serious sober Persons it will be chargeable elsewhere, it is no Superstitious Popish piece of Priest craft, on our part besure: At other times Mr. T. will rather judge us to be too far from Superstition and Popery, both Name and Thing, we may also retort upon him his Terms of audacious Wickedness, the scarce to be paralleled Insolence of a young scossing Ishmacl: It is Mr. T. that the Inconsistencies and Untruths will be found with, upon perusal of our reply and examining the case further: That the Father of Lie doth sometimes tell the Truth, as Doeg did of David, though for an evil End, and the Lord turns all against himself as appears in the Gospel-History: That we do not credit Satan any further than we have it confirmed other Ways, or by the Event. That there is no affront to God Almighty, or Presumptnous attributing that to his Spirit, and his Ordinances, which is wholly owing to the Sins and Chea's of Men: Neither is there base Insincerities, nor lying Legends and Forgeries, nor a Spirit of Fanaticism and Division sanctified with Prayer and Fasting. The Lord is coming to execute Judgement upon all, and to convince all that are ungodly among them, of their ungodly Deeds, which they have ungodly committed, and of all their hard Speeches which they have spoken against him. We have some of us seen something in our time of the Lord's handling such Sons of Zerviah, or Sons of Belial, even in this World. Lege Historiam ne sis historia.  
I only say the Lord rebuke the foul Spirit in this Man, and the Lord give him Repentance: Else I am afraid the Lord will soon reckon with him for what he doth say, and would do. It's not the warmth of Fancy, but pious Zeal, it's not the bare Opinion, but good Assurance, that we serve God: It's not Will-worship, but Gospel-worship: However, Surely they are not the groslest Mistakes, the worst of Errors, and the vilest Superstitions, that are possible for Christians to be ensnared in, as Mr. T. would have them to be. How is this Man even bursting asunder (without any Provocation) and falling headlong with his Rage and Rancour; the Lord judge betwixt us, as to the cause: Yet let him not enter into Judgement with, to proceed in Execution thereof upon, the Offenders.  
We acted according to the Measure of Grace, and Gifts, that we have received; whereof we dare not, will not boast; but as to consulting with the conforming Clergy, we must needs differ from them in this, as in other things, if they preach such Doctrine as M. T. did in this Country: If we had consulted them it's very likely they would have expected, that we also should have passed by the miserable Man, on either side, as the Priest and Levite did, but he lay in our way, and we had Mercy on him: Blessed be the Name of the Lord for it.  
If the Popish Priests were playing a Game, it was soon at an end, without our going to any, to learn to read, and understand the Papers which were vomited up by D. We need not fear Rivalship of those, in such a case, who deny all Possessions in latter Ages, or give us no Indications thereof: Nor of those who are such Strangers to the right use of Gospel-Means in this case, and therefore set on soot Means of their own devising, as some have done of late, as I am credibly informed.  
For my part I am more satisfied in the thing than ever, since I have further enquired into it, since also I see with what a Spirit, in what a manner Mr. T. hath managed the matter. As to our People also, they are better instructed, and spirited, than to give heed to such rash Heads, as Mr. T's, who abandons himself to his unmortisied Passions, and unbridled Expirssions: Enough to turn the Spirit of any true Christian against such Men, and their Cause too.  
As to our Injudiciousness, and Insincerity, our People, who hear you sometimes, and live amongst you, who hear us ordinarily, and converse so much with us, are likelier to judge in the case, than Mr. T. and such like who I suppose never hear us, nor scarce know us at all: Yet these our People dare not adventure their precious and immortal Souls, under the way of Preaching, nor in the way of Living, which too many go in.  
Concerning the Church, Mr. T. doth, Laodicea like, so boast of, we do hearty acknowledge there have been many, and we hope are some of the Episcopal Persuasion, who are sound, according to the true sense and intent of the Doctrinal Part of the 39 Articles, who are of a right Christian Temper, of a Holy Conversation, and are for Parochial Discipline, and Reformation: These we honour and consent with so far.  
But as to this Faction, who so vainly boast of their Purity, and Perfection, whenas the Lord Jesus knows their works: Yea any one, even with half an Eye, if indeed opened, may see, even by Mr. T's Scurrilous, Slanderous, Scandalous Pamphlet, and look no further, that they are wretched and miserable, and poor, and blind, and naked: By this time of God and Religion: Yea have, by their implacable opposition to the Truth, and way of the Gospel, with the Preachers, and the Professors thereof, blocked up, as much as in them lies, the Course of Reformation also, by their unfaithful Preaching, and ungodly Practice, with the countenancing such as partake with them, how bad soever, have opened the Floodgates to Atheism, and Profaneness, consequently to Superstition and Idolatry, as woeful Experience doth testify beyond all contradiction.  
O that there were indeed such a Zeal for revealed and real Religion, for Protestantism and Reformation, against Atheism and Profaneness, Superstition and Idolatry, as is pretended.  
After all this I must solemnly profess, that such an heap of gross Lies, notorious Slanders, unworthy Insinuations, reproachful Reflections, and base Language, did I, to my remembrance, never meet with, as in this Pamphlet of Mr. Ts'Tis, and this against those, who not only may I hope be reckoned among the least of Christ's little Ones, but who, through his Grace, have in some measure approved themselves as his Ministers, according to 2 Cor. 6.3. to 11. so that my Heart aches, and I even tremble to think what guilt this Man hath loaden himself with, and what judgement he hath exposed himself to, according to Mat. 18.6, 7. Luk 17.1, 2.  
The result of all as to the Case and its Signs, the Cure and its Means; Mr. T's invidious, odious Representations, of persons and things, being waved, as mere Folly and Falsity; yea, wiped away as Filth, and Froth; too like that of the Demoniac in some of his Fits: I shall plainly and calmly express myself.  
1. Negatively.  
1. It is not to be denominated a Mania, or Distraction, a Spasma, or Epilepsy, Convulsion, or any such bodily Disease; though there might seem sometimes to be something Symptomatical thereof: for the Affidavits, and Informations, do plainly demonstrate, that it was a further thing which continued after Mr. Chew's first physicking him, and Mr. Crabtree's second physicking him so strongly; which strange Fits also were removed, before he took Mr. Chew's Physic the latter time; observe here that Mr. C. said that he would ride an 100 Miles to help him: Also that D. in several of his Fits said, he might be killed or cured before the 25th of M. when Mr. C. gave him his Physic the latter time.  
2. It could not be any Art of Man, especially in this D. for all who know him, must say that he is but of a very ordinary aptness, or capacity, as to Intellectuals, and not so much as of an ordinary Agility or Activity, as to his Body. Any one would judge him very unfit as to the inventing of such things, and a very bungler as to the acting of them  
3. Neither ought it to be called a Counterfeiting, or Cheat, to get Money, or for any other Sinister End; seeing they are things that could not possibly be counterfeited; seeing also that it was so chargeable to them, whilst they were under Mr. C's Hands; also in the hireing of a continual Keeper, and other ways; seeing also that any such Cheat is solemnly disowned by the Parties concerned; as appeared before in the Informations, Affidavits, Certificate, which himself signed, and doth further appear. Besides if the Gentlemen looked on it as a Cheat, why did they make use of Physicial Means? if they looked on it as a Disease, why did they threaten him?  
4. Nor can it be justly charged to be any Combination amongst the Parties themselves, nor with the Papists: As to Combination with us, or amongst us Dissenters, Mr. T. himself, as little Charity as he hath for us, doth clear that. As to a Combination among the Parties themselves or with the Papists; this is utterly disowned by the Dugdale's, nor is there any Proof of such a Combination, nothing but mere Surmises, sorry Suggestions. That there might be a Combination among the Popish Priests, before, or under the strange Fits of D. is not denied; but their tampering with him is signihed in the Narrative. Now if Mr. T. who is so good at the discovering of such Intrigues, can make any thing of it, we have furnished him with something to work on: Some of the Papists have been formerly exposed for their Magical Charms, Sorceries, or Withcrafts most deservedly, of which I doubt they have not repent, or reform.  
2. Affimatively. To those who have frequently seen, and heard D. in his Fits, it is more evident that it was a Diabolical Possession, and that it was a righteous Judgement of God upon him, for his Profane and Debauched Life: But we cannot say, whether it was by the immediate Hand of God, or by Witchcrast. Yet others, who did not hear him, and see him, as we did, are something doubtful whether it was a real Possession: But the Signs of a Possession, which Divines give, and the Testimony, as to Matter of Fact, do make this probable, at least, as we think to those who are unprejudiced, and .  
1. His telling, and foretelling of things in his Fits, which he could not possibly know by any ordinary man's. In his Fits he always, so far at we can learn, told when his next Fit would come, though he had no external direction at all; yet still his Fits came at that time exactly, as those who had Watches, and observed, can aver in manifold Instances: He could tell of Persons coming at a considerable distance, who they were; and whence they came; and what they did by the way; with many such like Instances. Can those who call this a Cheat, hire, or threaten him to the doing of these, and of the following Feats as formerly?  
2. His Ability of Body in his Fits, beyond the Joint Strength of many Lusty Men: His Agility also, beyond any Art, he had at other times: Yea, beyond the Lawful Art of any other. Whenas his Ability was but ordinary, and his Agility less than ordinary, at other times.  
3. The speaking in him of another Voice, besides his own, sometimes speaking many Words, and Sentences, in which were Dental and Labial Letters, when he made no use of the Organs of Speech: Yea, two Voices at once have been heard from him, the one being of a very hideous sound: And his words, as in his ordinary discourse, distinctly heard at a Mile and a half distance.  
4. His being in the same Fit, one while as heavy as a Lump of Lead of that bigness, and other while as light as a Bag of Feathers of 14 or 16 Pound weight. Also as to the stiffness of his Body, it being inflexible in some part of his Fits, as a Bar of Iron, yea Breathless, Senseless, and Lifeless to others apprehension, for a considerable time.  
5. His Diabolical Rage and Blasphemy against God, and Christ, and the things of God, though under no Feverish Frenzy that we perceived; there being no such Behaviour in him at other times: Yet would Satan sometimes in his Fits, transform himself into an Angel of Light; yea, sometimes in his Fit he would tell the Heads of a Sermon, that he never heard.  
6. His speaking several Languages, which he never learned, nor understood any thing of (though at other times it seemed to be a sort of Gibberish, to some of us; or a Language which the Hearets understood not) and sometimes singing in Latin Verse, whilst in his Fits.  
7. Sometimes something like a Mouse appearing about him, and in him, atising like the bigness of a Man's Fist, up and down under his Clothes; something about the bigness of a little Dog in Bed with him, that was not one: Also the forcible rising of the Lump and Voices out of it.  
As to this we may take notice of these Testimonies. King James the First. Doemenol.  
There are divers Symptoms whereby that heavy Trouble, may be discerned from natural Sickness, and especially three.  
1st. The incredible Strength of the possessed Creature, which will exceed the Strength of six of the wightest and woodest Men, not so troubled.  
2dly. The holding up so far of the Patient's Breast, and Belly, with such unnatural stirring, and vehement Agitation, within them, and such an Irony hardness of the Sinews, so stiffly bended out, that it were not possible to prick out, as it were, the Skin of any other Person so far.  
3dly. The speaking of several Language's, which the Patient never learned, and that with an uncouth hollow Voice; and all the time of his speaking, a greater motion being in his Breast, than in his Mouth.  
Cudworth's Atheism, p. 704.  
When Maniacal Persons discover Secrets, declare things past, and future, speak Languages they never learned; this puts it out of doubt, and question, that they are not mere Madmen, but Demoniacs. For Instances, see Psellus, de oper. Daemon. Also Fernelius, de abditis, etc. There are many other Instances of this kind, recorded by Modern Writers unexceptionable, of Persons either wholly Daemoniacal, or so affected, or infected by them, as to have certain unusual and supernatural Symptoms; which for Brevity Sake we shall here omit.  
See also Mr. Mather's Essay as to remarkable Providences, Chap. 6.  
So that other Symptoms of Possessions either must be found out, which are yet unknown to us, or these and more suchlike must be disproved, which we think can never be done; or diabolical Possessions must be utterly denied, which is so absurd, that few but Insidels (and Mr. T.) will so deny.  
As to the means of Cure.  
That this D. is delivered as to his outward Man, from this direful Judgement, we suppose none need to question, being now freed from such Fits for many Years. The only Question now with some is, whether it was not a mere bodily Malady, and so some Purges or Vomits, which he took might be the means of his Cure.  
If we should suppose that to be the case, yet Spiritual Means being so much used withal, these must needs have the preference among Christians. And God must be acknowledged in all, as in Hezekiah's Case. Surely Prayer had more Influence towards his Recovery, than the Lump of Figs.  
But if it was a mere Spiritual Malady, or a Diabolical Possession, and Sin the immediate Cause thereof, as Judicious Conscientious Persons, who are unprejudiced, and , do judge; then the only Means must be Spiritual, and the Blessing which follows, must needs be Supernatural. So in that case, Mat. 17.21. all other means are excluded. Yea, though that Demoniac was a Lunatic, 
See Dr. Stillingst. his opinions as to this, in his Origin. Sacr. pag. 263.  as appears by Mat. 17.15. Luk. 9.39. compared: The Devil taking advantage by his Lunacy, to get Possession of him, as we call Melancholy, Vehiculum Diaboli. In this case there was not so much as Melancholy Lunacy, nor any such bodily Malady, as we suppose, to be the Evil Spirit's Vehicle, into D's Body, that Physical Means should carry it out; he being of an healthful Constitution before these Fits begun with him. Corporeal things have not direct Physical Influence on Infernal Spirits, as Mr.. observes.  
Even in case of immediate Dispossessions by our Blessed Saviour, they imputed them unto wrong Causes: Let not us run into the same Error.  
If the Malady was complicated, viz, in part Supernatural, and in part Natural, that being causal of this, and this being conseqential of that: Then both sorts of Means must be acknowledged in their several places: Yet must Spiritual Means have the Precedency, as having most of God in them; though Physical Means are not to be neglected, or despised. So in those Cases, Job 33.14. to 31. Jam. 5.14, 15, 16. It's evident that the young Man was something disordered in his Body, by his strange Fits: It's a wonder that his Body was no more distempered. He needed Physical Medicines to open, and ease his Body, being advised thereto, he made use of Mr. Chew, whom he had formerly, without success, applied himself unto: His Medicines were now used, and blessed, to the said purposes. We dare not slight the Bodily Mercy, nor the Physical Means, but would own each in their place, giving all the Glory to God, whoever were the Instruments, whatever were the Means. What a disturbance, and distraction, would it have been to all about him, if he had not been delivered.  
After all this, we are too timorous acknowledging, this signal answer of Prayers, and too backward in solemn Thanksgiving for such a deliverance: Insomuch as it is also a Reformation of the young Man in several things: O that we could say in every thing! Yet is he now more devout in his way, and of the more sober sort among his Neighbours, as they themselves confess.  
As to some others alas! They will not believe, though they see so many Signs and Wonders in this Age of Wonders. It's well if it happen not to them, that as Despisers they wonder, and perish; the Lord working a work in their Day, a work which they shall in no wise believe, though a Man declare it unto them. If they be a little affected, yet they sit down in more security, either in their Sensuality or Formality. Tho others regard not the Works of the Lord, nor consider the Operations of his Hands: Yet the Wise shall understand his works, and walk in his ways. Not being scandalised at others ridiculing this; seeing Men dare to deal so now a-days with the great Truths, and Things of God.  
We must conclude not only with the sincere Acknowledgement of our own Weaknesses, and Failings, for which we beg Pardon, but also with this solemn Recognition of the Lord's Assistance, upon this occasion: Yea, also this his answering of Prayers in the perfect Recovery of this D. as to his outward Man, and in part, at least, as to the Reformation of his Conversation, which Public Testimony of our thankfulness to God for this signal Public Mercy, and the Praise to his Name alone for it, we hope he will graciously accept in Christ; notwithstanding our slack and slender Returns to him. That the Lord will further appear in pleading this Cause so far as it is his own, to the vindicateing and glorifying of his Name however: Yea, that he will further bless his Word, and Works to the special spiritual advantage of many, is the earnest desire as well as design of.  
Thomas Jolly.   

The Testimony and Information upon Oath of several Persons who voluntarily offered themselves concerning Richard Dugdale of whaley, in the County of Lancaster, Gardener; taken before Hugh Lord Willoughby, and Ralph Egerton, Esq Two of His Majesty's Justices of the Peace for the County of Lancaster, at Holcomb in the said County, the Nine and Twentieth day of July, 1695.  

THomas Dugdale, Father of the said Richard Dugdale, maketh Oath, that he consulted one Crabtree, in behalf of his said Son, then under a strange Distemper, and had his Answer; that if there was Money enough he could effect the Cure: whereupon this Deponent seeing his Son's Body much weakened with the said Crabtree's Physic, and his Fits more violent, did apply himself to Mr. Jolly a Neighbouring Minister, and others of his Brethren in the Ministry. And this Deponent saith, he hath seen his Son vomit up Stones several times, and other things. Once he declared, he must either vomit Gold, Silver, or Brass Rings, and an Hair Button, and accordingly he did so. At other times he vomited great Stones, also blue Stones like Flints. One time he vomited a Stone as was an Inch and an half long, and an Inch and an half broad, having Blood upon the edges, which this Deponent and others standing by him apprehended it was very painful to him. And further this Deponent maketh Oath, that one day a little before Night, walking by his said Son then in a Fit, it growing dark, a Candle being brought in, the Deponent looking upon him, there was a great Stone laid upon his Belly, weighing about Twelve or Thirteen Pounds, this Deponent not knowing how it came there, nor was there any such like Stones about the House. Besides Stones have been thrown at the Barn side, falling very thick upon the Door, yet this Deponent could never discover the hand which threw them, nor any Person employed therein, although this Deponent's Wife was hit with one of them, but without any Rurt. At other times the said Richard Dugdale would cast Goose-dung at this Deponent, and others standing by, which he seemed to fetch out of the Barn side; although neither this Deponent, nor those that were with him could find any there, nor discover any one that brought it, nor were there any Geese kept at the House, nor other Geese came near it. And Lastly, This Deponent saith, that his said Son would run upon his Hands, and his Feet together, as fast as most Men could run upon their Feet alone, and his Body would sometimes be so heavy, that two or three strong Men could hardly lift it up, at other times as light as a Bag of Feathers.  
John Walmsly of Harwood in the said County of Lancaster, Sadler; Deposeth, That he hath seen the said Richard Dugdale in a Fit held in a Chair by six Men. And whilst his Feet were off the ground, he hath leapt up in the Chair for two or three Hours together, as fast as a Man can ordinarily count any thing; and hath so sweated through his , that it hath stood like a Dew upon them. Moreover this Deponent, hath taken the said Richard Dugdale by his Shoe, betwixt this Deponents foremost Finger, and his Thumb, another taking him at his Head, and so lifting him up, this Deponent could not think he weighed six Pounds. And farther, this Deponent faith, that Mr. Jolly the Minister, sending word by him to the said Richard's Father, that the Ministers would be at his House called Surey on such a day; this Deponent going the same day he was spoken to with his Errand, the said Richard declared it before this Deponent mentioned it, as likewise what Ministers would be there. And furthermore, this Deponent upon his Oath saith, that the said Richard Dugdale in some of his Fits, opening his Hand hath received written papers into it, none of the Bystanders knowing how they came thither. Which the said Richard Dugdale had given People that were about him, also the said Deponent hath seen him shuffle Rushes like Cards, and play Games on them, as tho' he had been playing with some other Person, with whom he hath chid about the Casts, cursing and swearing in his Play, and then said, Do not Gamesters thus. He likewise played with Rushes as tho' they had been Dice, using exactly several Expressions belonging to that Play; saying, People think this is laid on me for my Sins, But I never was a Gamester in my Life, neither know I how to play at such Games, when out of my Fits. And the said Richard Dugdale did likewise play at Bowls, making Bowls of Rushes, and when he had thrown the Jack, he said, I must now throw my Gill, then running a good way, as though he had been running after a Bowl, swearing, Run, run, Flee, flee, bold a Bias; and sometimes he catcht up Rushes, as tho'they had been Bowls, swearing, Sirrab, standout of the way, or I'll knock out your Brains; adding, I never was a Bowter, but doubt Gentlemen do thus. And this Deponent saith, that the said Richard Dugdale had several Fits, after his being threatened with being brought before a Justice of Peace. And once being in his last Fit, when this Deponent was present, he declared his Affliction was through Obsession, and in a Combination which should never be discovered, whilst the World endured. And this Deponent hath seen him in a Fit, as in a great Agony, with something he could not see, and then hath been taken up, and thrown backwards, set upon his Head, and so stood till he was pulled down by one John Fletcher. Also this Deponent hath heard him Curse and Swear, his Gesture being so terrible, it would have frighted a Man to come near him, and yet in a Moment's time after in such a fear, that he hath sought to creep into any hole, or behind any body, to have hid himself, and so lamented himself, as moved the Standers-by with great Compassion. He would at other times have told when his Fits would begin, when they were two or three in one day, or three or four days asunder, wherein he was never disproved, that he knows of; which Fits commonly began with the Calf of his Leg, and wrought upward into the Chest of his Body, and then he was thrown down, where he would lie for a good while as dead, or breathless, and then would have a strange noise in his Mouth, and Nose, and there would be in his Bosom like Whelps before he had risen, after which sometime he would be very furious, sometimes more quiet.  
William Loond of Harwood Carrier, in the County of Lancaster, maketh Oath, that he hath heard the said Richard Dugdale Curse and Swear, his Gesture being so terrible, it would have frighted a Man to come near him, and yet in a Moment of time after in such a fear, that he hath sought to creep into any hole, or behind any body, to have hid himself, and so lamented himself, as moved the Standers-by with great Compassion. He would at other times have told when his Fits would begin, when they were two or three in one day, or three or four days asunder, wherein he never was disappointed that he knoweth of; which Fits commonly begun in the Calf of his Leg, and wrought upwards into the Chest of his Body, and then he was thrown down, where he would lie for a good while as dead, or breathless, and then would have a strange noise in his Mouth, and Nose, and there would be in his Bosom like Whelps before he had risen; after which, sometimes he would be very furious, sometimes more quiet.  


Willoughby.  
Ralph Egerton.     

John Livesay of Clayten, in the County of Lancaster Skinner, maketh Oath, That the Deponent being at home with him, the said Richard Dugdale, he Cursed and Swore, making answer to something his Fit, this Deponent hath taken him up about his Hips, betwixt this Deponents Hands, and he was so light, this Deponent thought he could lift twenty such.  
 
The Depositions aforesaid were taken at the Time and Place , upon the Holy Evangelists before us.  


Willoughby  
Ralph Egerton.     

The Information of divers Persons taken before the said Justices of Peace, at the Time and Place aforesaid, declaring themselves ready to do it upon Oath when required.  
JAmes Abbot of Whitberk, in the County of Lancaster, Dyer, declares, that he went on purpose, to see the said Richard Dugdale at Surey, the place of his abode, having no acquaintance with him; nor had he any knowledge of this Informant, as this Informant verily believeth. When this Informant came, the said Richard Dugdale being in one of his Fits said, Abbot, thou thinkest no body knoweth thee, but I know thee well enough, thou must go into Cheshire, and Staffordshire; when as this Informant saith, he had not so much as such a design of such a Journey, to his remembrance; but accordingly it happened, that this Informant went that Journey soon afterwards.  
John Fielding of Harword, in the County of Lancaster, joiner, declares, That being with the said Richard Dugdale in one of his Fits, this Informant to his thinking heard of something within him like Pigs sucking of a Sow, also like the barking of a Dog.  
John whaley of Harwood, in the County of Lancaster, Hair-cloth-Weaver: Informs the same, which John Fielding doth; and further informs the same with John Walmsly, as to the said Richard Dugdale's Carding, Dicing, and Bowling. And moreover informs, that he this said Informant, being with Richard Dugdale in one of his Fits, he said, there were Lapideer (as he called them) a coming, and presently after came a Stone which this Informant took up, and felt it to be very warm. And further informs, that the said Richard Dugdale in his Fits, did ordinarily tell when the next Fit should come.  
William Livesay of whaley, in the County of Lancaster, Shoemaker; Informs, That he being in whaley, desired several young Men to go along with him to Surey, (above half a Mile distant) but they refused, when the Informant came to the Barn, where the said Richard Dugdale was, the said Richard Dugdale toll this Informant, he had desired several Persons to come along with him, but they had denied him, naming Ned Dean in particular. And further informeth that the said Richard Dugdale, dancing on his Feet three Yards from the Wall of the Barn, was as soon as one could turn himself, set strainght upon his Head, and was as stiff as a Tree.  
John Grimshaw of Clayton, in the County of Lancaster, Woolen-weaver; Informs that the said Richard Dugdale being in a Fit, he said, Nicholas, Art thou there! What peepest thou for? Come up. Then said, Seest thou where thy Mother sits? Than something came to his Shoulder, and several parts of his Body; the said Richard Dugdale seemed to be much affrighted with it. And further informs, that he coming to the Surey one Night, he, the said Richard Dugdale, told Mr. John Grimshaw, that he the said Informant Grimshaw, was coming before he came. And this Informant leaving his Horse at a considerable distance from the place, where the said Richard Dugdale was, and going into the place, where the said Richard Dugdale meets him with a great noise, and saith, How now? Calling him Grimshaew, adding, Art thou there with all thy Knives? (this Informant having at that time three or four Knives about him) telling this Informant that he could not go on Foot. And this Informant further saith, that when the said Richard Dugdale was in his Trances (as they called them) and lying upon the Ground, he was sometimes as light to this Informants thinking, as his Shoes and Stockings, and sometimes as heavy as a Man could lift.  
 
The Informations aforesaid were taken at the Time and Place aforementioned before us.  


Willoughby.  
Ralph Egerton.     

And Lastly, We the said Justices of the Peace do Certify, that the said Thomas Dugdale, Father of the said Richard Dugdale, did make Oath before us, that he knew not of any Design or Combination betwixt his said Son, and any other Person, which might occasion the aforesaid strange Fits and Disturbances. Nor that he the Deponent, was any way privy thereunto; nor knoweth he of any Cheating or Deceiving Practices for Gain, or any such End, Purpose, or Design Whatsoever.  


Willoughby.  
Ralph Egerton.     

The Informations of several Persons, who voluntarily offered themselves concerning Richard Dugdale of whaley, in the County of Lancaster, Gardener; before Thomas Braddill, Esq and Ralph Egerton, Esq Two of his Majesty's Justices of the Peace for the said County, at Darwin in the said County, on the Twentieth Day of July, 1695.  
JOhn Fletcher of Harwood, in the County of Lancaster, Husbandman; declares, that he hath seen, the said Richard Dugdale in many of his Fits, wherein he hath barked like a Mastiff-Dog, being then as strong as ten Men. For this Informant hath been one of the ten, that hath undertaken to hold him. Also that this Informant one time found him in the River of Calder, up to the Neck in Water, crying out, and saying, Whilst thou drown me, Whilst thou drown me; striking at the same time upon the Water, with two Sticks. Whereupon this Informant, with the help of others by a Rope drew him out of the Water. The said Dugdale being then in a dumb Fit, which began in the Water, and continued near four Hours afterwards. And farther this Informant saith, he found in the Barn where the said Dugdale lay, a round hole in the Hay, like a Hens-Nest, wherein were seven Stones laid together. And this Informant, hath taken up several Stones cast by the said Dugdale, which were warm, and hath seen the said Dugdale, running upon his Hands and Feet barking and howling. And the said Dugdale being sat down, he hath seen him several times, thrown five or six Yards from the place. And being to help this Informant to cleave a piece of Wood, the said Dugdale upon his first stroke, had his Axe flew one way, and himself cast about twelve Yards from the place.  
John Whitehead of Bank hay, in the County of Lancaster, Labourer; declaceth, that being with the said Dugdale, at the Surey, in one of his Fits, he found him lying upon the Barn-floor like a dead Man, at which time Mr. Ainsworth the Apothecary, and another Apothecary from Manchester. coming in both of them, felt the said Dugdale's Pulses, which did not b●at, and then they laid their Faces to his Mouth, to try if he breathed, but could not perceive it. And further this Informant saith, that at Mr. Jolly's House, the Informant endeavouring to hold the said Dugdale in his Fit, by the Wrist of his Arm, could by no means do it, for this Informant's Fingers were no sooner closed, but they opened again.  
John Smalley of Harwood, in the Country of Lancaster, Cooper; declareth that he hath seen the said Richard Dugdale, in twenty or thirty of his Fits. sometimes lying on the Floor, for the space of four Hours very stiff and heavy; insomuch that this Informant with three more have carried him out of the Ba●n. but on his coming out on his Fit, his Head and part of his Body hath been lifted up by this In●ormants Daughter, a Child then of seven Years old.  
 
The Informations aforesaid were taken at the time and place aferementioned, before the said Mr. Braddill,  
and me the said Ralph Egerton.   

The Informations of divers credible Persons which were, and are ready to give in upon Oath, before the said Justices of the Peace, or others at the places aforesaid, or else where if desired thereunto, as they voluntarily offered, and declared unto Mr. Tho. Jolly, and others of sufficient Credit and Cautiousness.  
JOhn Fletcher further saith, I was one Night in Bed with Richard Dugdale, and I felt something come up toward my Knees; then I felt it creep up till it came towards my Heart; then I got hold of it, and it was about the bigness of a little Dog or Car, and it slipped through my Hands as if it had been a Snig; and when we were in Bed, very often there have been something in Bed knattering, as though there had been Mice or Rats, and we searched the Bed, it was not harmed, and things to our thinking have fallen in the House, a if all had been broken, yet in the Morning nothing stirred; and one Sabbath-day in his Fit, there was a Knife length-way in his Mouth, none knowing how it came there, where it was held so very fast, that I with much ado pulled it out, and asked the Company, whether any one of them wanted a Knise; they all said no; till one Jeremy Webster, that was newly come in, said, I had one, when I came in, and I think he cannot have got it out of my Pocket; but he finding nothing but a Sheath in his Pocket, claimed the Knife; and it was certainly his. John Fletcher further saith, that when the said Richard Dugdale was in a Fit, about five a Clock in the Night, John Hindle pricked a large Pin in his Feet, and he neither stirred nor complained at all: Besides, in one of his Fits, I heard him tell, that he must vomir an Hair-Button, and a Curtain Ring, which I saw him do within an Hour. I have seen (as John Darwin before testified) Richard Dugdale for a quarter of an Hour together, dance upon his Knces, with as much Activity as any one on their Feet.  
John Feltcher.  
John Hindle saith, These strange things, I have heard Richard Dugdale do and say; I was by when he told, that he should vomitan Hair-Button, and Curtain-Ring, which I saw him do within an Hour: Likewise I have listed at him, when I could not lift as much as his Head for my life; at other times I have lifted at him, and could have lifted him, as if he had been but a Child. I was present when Richard Dugdale was in a Fit, about Eight a Clock in the Night, and I pricked a Pin into his Foot, and he neither stirred, nor complained at all. I was present at all which William Loond swears to, in the first part of his Oath.  
John Hindle.  
Thomas Core, saith, I have seen several times the Lump on his Breast or Belly, as big as a Man's Fist, and have heard strange Voices coming out of it.  
Thomas Core.  
James Fielding saith, That the said Swelling, of the said Richard Dugdale, which risen from the thick of his Leg, was about the bigness of a Mole (or a Mole-warp, as we call it) and did work up like such a Creature, towards the Chest of his Body, that it got up into his Shoulder, and then he was at the worst of his Fit. He also saith, that the said Richard Dugdale did, in several of his Fits, take several things out of the Hands of several Persons, and would by no means part with the said things, but to the Party to whom they did belong; having his Eyes close shut all the while: also he saith, that they which attempted to force the things out of his Hands, could not force them out of his Hands, how strong soever the Persons were, that they might sooner pull the things in pieces, than get them from him. The said Fielding also saith that the said Creature, did arise under the said Richard Dugdale's Skin, as he doth verily think. Also, he saith, that the said Richard Dugdale did in his Fit lest up several lusty Men, and the Chair wherein they held him, though the said Richard Dugdale is but of an ordinary strength of Body, when out of his Fit.  
James Fielding Jun.  
John Smalley further saith (so doth John Fletcher witness with him herein, as he doth with several other Witnesses, in several other things) that he saw Richard Dugdale lie four Hours in one Fit, as if he were stark dead, and as stiff as a Board; also when his Shoes were fast buckled to his Feet, they did fly six Yards, and hit the Skel-boos in the Barn, with great force; also he saith, that Richard Dugdale was in the same Fit, as light as his Clothes, and as heavy as a Sack of Corn.  
John Smalley also further saith, that upon occasion, he went to the Abbey in whaley, and whilst he was there, the said Richard Dugdale said, that Smalley was taking … quor at the Abbey, and he takes it freely, it costs him nothing. This he said to Thomas Dugdale, as he also testifieth.  
John Smalley.  
Edmund Haworth at Rushton, Carrier; testifies to the Passage about Jeremy Webster's Knife, as abovesaid: Also to those Passages about Richard Dugdale his vomiting several Stones, Hair-Buttons, Curtain-Rings. He moreover testifies, that the said Richard Dugdale, in one of his Fits told him, with his Company that came along, what they had been eating at home; what discourse they had by the way; what Styles they went over; how they stumbled; and that the said Richard Dugdale did threaten Robert Turner, to send his Sister (as he called his Spirit) to give him a fall at such a Fields end; which fell out accordingly: So that it set all the Company a trembling; and that he and three or four more were coming towards Surey, and that Richard Dugdale in a Fit said, that such were coming, but he would send them back again, which happened accordingly; for they did turn back near Harwood-Church. He also testifies, that a Voice spoke in the said Richard Dugdale, besides his own Voice, he not moving his Lips; and that another Voice, as they apprehended; spoke out of the Earth, in answer to him, and that he hath been one of the seven or nine, to carry him, and they have all been hard set to carry him; yet at another time, he hath himself alone easily carried him, and that he, and some others were coming, and such a fear came on him, that he durst only go betwixt his Company, and that when he came to the Surey, he found Richard Dugdale in a Fit, who asked him of his fear in such a place, and told him, that his Sifter (as he called his Spirit) did cross them in the way, but had no further power then to put him into that fright.  
Henry Page of Harwood Magna, Feltmaker; certifieth, that he saw Richard Dugdale dance on his Knees a good while together, not touching the Earch with any thing but his Knees. Further, that he saw the same Person bowl with a Bowl he had made with Rushes; that he heard him bark like a Mastiff-Dog.  
Henry Page.  
Grace whaley of the same place, testifieth; that she heard Richard Dugdale snarl and bark like a Dog; that she also heard (as she and others thought) a noise out of his Belly, like as if a Litter of young Dogs had been sucking there: And she further testifieth, that she helped to hold his Head, the time he vomited a Stone, weighing near three Ounces, as she thinks. Further, that she hath seen Richard Dugdale gallop round the Barn on his Hands and Feet, for half an hour together, as cleverly as any Horse; she has heard him whinying like an Horse; and as eating Provender. She further declares, she hath seen the said Richard Dugdale dance on his Knees, not touching the Earth with his Toes; also that she heard Richard Dugdale tell, that in one of his Fits, there would come three Lapideer at a certain time; accordingly at the time he foretold, there was thrown three Stones, some distance of time betwixt each, which were as warm as new Milk. These foresaid Passages she saw, heard, and observed, when Richard Dugdale was in his Fits: Also she ask Richard Dugdale, when out of his Fits, whether he knew of any thing spoken or done by him, whilst in the Fit, which he utterly denied. Also she testifies, that coming with her Brother and others to the Surey, to see Richard Dugdale, she being the hindermost and coming over the Hipping, she unaccountably slipped off one of the Stones into the Water, and could not get out until her Brother came to her help; at that time many Persons came running out of the Barn upon some words Richard Dugdale spoke, at the same time in a Fit, viz. Sister Ekel, put the hindermost into the Water.  
Grace whaley.  
Surey, July the 31st. 1695.  
Thomas and Ann Dugdale, Parents to Richard Dugdale, with Mary and Alice Dugdale, Sisters to Richard Dugdale, testify; that Richard Dugdale's Fits began soon after St. James' day, when they went first unto a Neighbouring Doctor for help, who prescribed several things, which were observed without effect; whereupon the Doctor was desired to take Richard Dugdale to his own House, but refused; acknowledging he had done what he could, yet promised to ride his Horse a Hundred Miles, if he thereby could help him. After this Richard Dugdale's Fits were more violent, soon after we consulted Dr. Crabtr●e, who undertook to cure Richard Dugdale; Thomas Dugdale went along with his Son Richard Dugdale to Dr. Crabtree, where they stayed about a Fortnight, and upon Richard Dugdale's Fits abating, they came home; within a few days after his return, his Fits were more violent than ever: After a Fortnight stay at home; Thomas Dugdale and Richard Dugdale, went to Dr. Crabtree the second time, where they stayed not so long as before, The Reasons were two; First Richard Dugdale was tired with the Methods Dr. Crabtree took, the Doctor confessed that he gave the Patiented Physic at once enough for six Men, which weakened Richard Dugdale so much, that he had Strength little enough to carry him cross the House; yet in his Fits 7 strong Men could not hold him. The second Reason was, the great Charges we were at, for it cost us more than three Pound ten Shillings, in little time more than three Weeks; which was insupportable, considering our Indigency, and no encouraging sings of help; but the Doctor's words to his Neighbours, were at first, that if the Father would bring Money enough he would cure Richard Dugdale, yet said another time, if the Spirit in Richard Dugdale was a Water-Spirit, there was no cure for it. Some time after we consulted Mr. Jolly, who with others in the Ministry upon our Request were much concerned for Richard Dugdale, praying for him near twelve Months; in which time he had many strange Fits, sometimes vomited Stones, a Curtain-Ring, a large Hair-Button; in Fits would be lighter than so many Feathers. In the beginning of several Fits, would gape and catch with his Mouth (as a Dog at Flies) ten or eleven times together; in the end opened his Mouth so oft; when we thought Spirits might come into him, and in the end leave him. In many of his last Fits, he told People he might be killed or cured before the 25th of March, which proved true; for on the 24th coming from his work on Hinfield-side, his last Fit seized him, when he came home he was in the Fit; his Face black as a Coal: Upon this he fell down, lay a while, then recovered out of his last Fit: After this Richard Dugdale had no Fit; though once, when he had got too much Drink, he was after another manner than drunken Persons usually are.  

Thomas Dugdale  
Ann Dugdale  
Mary Dugdale  
Alice Dugdale.   
Altham, August the 4th. 1695.  
Nathaniel Waddington further testifieth; First, That he had seen Richard Dugdale gallop round the Barn several times together; and heard him whinying very like a Horse; and make a noise as if an Horse had been eating Provender. Secondly, That he told things in his Fit, that neither he, nor any could by lawful art: As one time he, the said Nathaniel Waddington, and his Neighbour Joseph Hargreaves, going to Surey to see Richard Dugdale; they called at the House of a Neighbour of theirs, to desire the Master to go with them, but a Relations averseness prevented him, Richard Dugdale was in a Fit at the same time, and spoke it before a great number of People that Nathaniel Waddington, and Joseph Hargreaves were coming, that they called on such a one, whom he named, and told further how that good Man's Wife hindered him: The latter part, viz. the discovery they met with from several which were with Richard Dugdale in the Bart, being sure that things were so circumstanced, that Richard Dugdale could have no intelligence: And further, Richard Dugdale's Relation was so particular, that it could not be an uncertain guess.  
Further, That a certain Person going to see Richard Dugdale, took some Biscuit, and a piece or pieces of Gold, on purpose, as the Person said, to try whether Richard Dugdale could discover it. Soon after the Party came to the Surey, the Relator saw the Person standing upon a Seat to take a fuller view of Richard Dugdale in his Fit. Richard Dagdale immediately treated her so very rudely, discovered the Biscuit, and said, I will play at Cards with thee for those Guineas in thy Pocket, etc. These words the Relator heard Richard Dugdale speak in his Fit; further, that John Fielding joiner, related in the hearing of the said Nathaniel Waddington, and others, that he, the said John Fielding was working at his Calling, above thirty Miles distant from the Surey; and that Richard Dugdale, in one of his Fits said, John Fielding is this day at such a place working; and further named the piece of work which he had in hand at that time. The said John Fielding, coming over to see his Relations, several Persons who had heard Richard Dugdale speak those words, and relate such strange Circumstances, came to the said John Fielding, to know whether it were true; this he acknowledged; being much surprised at their Relation. Thirdly, That he asked this Richard Dugdale, when he came out of his Fits, whether he could give account of any thing that passed in the Fit; this Richard Dugdale denied, only once related a strange Passage, that in his Fit he thought he had distinct sight of a Person, and told the posture he thought he saw him in; and the place where; many Miles from the place where Richard Dugdale had his Fit: Which things concerning that Person were found true upon enquiry.  
Nathaniel Waddington further testifies; That Richard Dugdale in his Fits, would sometimes pretend that a good Spirit was in him, and that Richard Dugdale then, would in a long discourse speak against several Sins, viz. Drinking, Gaming, etc. bringing several pat Scriptures, naming Book, Chapter, Verse, either whole or part, so much as was pertinent. Mr. John Grimshaw examined the places, and found them true, and that Richard Dugdale in his Discourse would use many pretty Similitudes.  
Joseph Hargreves, Neighbour to Nathaniel Waddington, testifies; That coming to the Surey, and finding the Boy laid on the Barn Boor; he, the said Joseph Hargreaves, lifted Richard Dugdale from the Ground more than once; and thinks (speaking to the shall) that Richard Dugdale did not weigh aboves Stone and a half: Further that six strong Men could not hold him in a Fit, but that he hath drawn them all a great way, and been forced from amongst them, hanging upon him at a Table a Yard high, that he saw the Lump upon his Legabout the bigness of a Turkey Egg, rise towards his Body, and that he, and others have endeavoured to stop it, by girding a Boot-Garter above it, under the Knee, and by grasping that part with their hands, yet could not prevent its rising into the Chest of his Body; that this, to his thinking, crep up his Leg like a Rat, sometimes in motion, at times would be at a stand. Joseph Hargreaves testifies the first, and third, of Nathaniel Waddington. Richard Crichly under his hand testifies, concerning Richard Dugdale's Strength.   

Several Testimonials about the said Richard Dugdale's Case do follow.  
WE whose Names are Subscribed, being Ministers of the Gospel, having read or heard the Affidavits, and Declarations taken before the Right Honourable Hugh Lord Willonghby, and Ralph Egerton Esq two of his Majesty's Justices of the Peace, for the County Palatine of Lancaster, concerning one Richard Dugdale of Surey, in the Parish of Wholley, do verily believe the truth of the same; and that the strange Fits of the said Dugdale were by a Diabolical Power.  
Given when we met at Blackburn in Lancashire, on August the 6th 1695. 

Thomas Crompton  
Peter Aspinwall  
John Crompton  
John Parr  
Samuel Angier  
Nathaniel Haywood  
Samuel Eton  
Nathaniel Scholes.    
I Do hereby testify (as many more will, if there be occasion) from my own observation, as an Eye and Earwitness, at the Meetings, concerning Richard Dugdale; That I do verily believe, he was then under a Diabolical Possession or Obsession. I do also testify, that he is now fully delivered from this Supernatural Malady; and that no other probable Means of his said Deliverance may be assigned, but the Word of God, and Prayer with Fasting, which Spiritual Means were made use of by several Ministers, with great Faithfulness and Diligence, for a considerable time together.  
Witness my Hand this 10th of June, 1695. At Hely in Lancashire. Robert Whitaker Medicus.   

Concerning Richard Dugdale's Certificate, which he voluntarily subscribed before James, Gregson, and my silf, with others: Which is mentioned in the last Page of the Surey, Demoniac, there is some mistake (though not much material:) For the words in the original are follows.  
July the 10th 1695.  
I Richard Dugdale, Son of Thomas Dugdale, of Surey, near whaley in Lancashire, Gard'ner, do certisy all to whom this may come: That my former strange Fits were not any of them, by any Cheat, or any Art of Man, that I konws of; but as I do verily believe, were caused by the Devil: From whom, and from my terrible Fits, I do verily believe my Body was cieared, through the Ministers I Prayers, at or a out Lady-day, 1690. After which I never had any more such Fits; whereupon I took some Physic, for the clearing of my Body from any ill Humours, it might have gotten by my said sad Fits:  
Witness my Hand, the Day and Year abovesaid. Richard Dugdale. In presence of us, 

James Gregson, his (1) Mark,  
Thomas Jolly.     

WE whose Names are Subscribed; were present at many of the with in mentioned Meetings, concerning Richard Dugdale; so were Eye, and Ear-Witnesses to many of the things within mentioned, and do verily believe the rest; not doubtng, but that the said Dugdale's Assliction, was through Possession or Obscession, by Combination, or by some secret Judgement of God, from which he was delivered, as we are fully persuaded by the Gospel-Means within mentioned.  


William Cross  
John Duerden  
Lan. Walmsly  
John Baxon  
John Bayley  
Christopher Duckworth  
Leonard Barley  
Juhn Marsh  
James Whitaker  
William Waddington  
George Cockshout  
Samuel hay  
Charles Riley  
James Hindle  
Nehemiah Hindle  
Richard Jackson  
William Barton  
Christ Tattersi●l  
Richard Sudal  
Nich. Grimshaw     

Upon occasion of Mr. Taylor's reflecting on the Reverend Mr. Pendlebury deceased, Alexander Haworth gives in the following Certificate.  
I Alexander Haworth, of Top-Royl, in Bury Parish, in Lancashire, Yeoman, going with the Reverend Mr. Pendlebury, to see Richard Dugdaie under his strange Fits; at the first time, upon mine ask of him his opinion of the said Dugdale's Fits, he answered, that he questioned whether the said D. might not be acted by some bodily Distemper in the said Fits: But when the said Mr. Pendlebury, had been with the said D. a second time, I asked him his opinion again in that Case; and then he had altered his persuasion concerning D. having seen such things in him, as he judged more than natural, and he gave such Reasons for it, as altered my Judgement as well as his.  
Dec. 25. 1697. Alexander Haworth.   

Concerning the Expressions in Prayer, which Mr. T. falsely chargeth me with, from an Anonymous Author; I have diligently enquired of those, who were most constant hearers upon the occasion of the Surey Demoniac, and they remember not that I ever used the Expressions charged upon me, or any to that purpose, which mine Accuser would wrest them unto: Only one Person, viz. Nathanie! Waddington, doth well remember some Words I once used in Prayer, on the said occasion, and are as follows.  
How if thou shouldst suffer Satan to enter into such Persons, as do not believe this young Man is possessed.  
Which Words he understood not to be at all by way of Imprecation, but by way of Supposition, if God in Judgement should suffer such a thing for their Infidelity, as to the Case; and their Uncharitableness, as to the Party: How sad this would be!  
Nathaniel Waddington.    

Here follow the further Informations as to the Case of the said Richard Dugdale, taken before the Right Honourable Hugh Lord Willoughby, and William Hulme, Esq two of his Maiesty's Justices of the Peace, and Quorum, for the County Palatin of Lancaster: Taken at the House of Richard Sharples of Blakhurn, in the County aforesaid, the 15th, 16th, and 17th of September, 1697. Where the Informants were examined by the said Justices, upon occasion of several Passages, in a Book called the Surey-Impostor.  

The Confession of Richard Dugdale of whaley, in the County of Lancashire, Gardner, taken before the Right Honourable Hugh Lord Willoughby, and William Hulme, Esq two of His Majesly's Justices of the Peace, and Quorum, for the said County, taken at the House of Richard Sharples, of Blackburn, in the County aforesaid, the 15th day of September, Anno Domini, 1697.  
IMprimis, The said Richard Dugdale, answers and says, that he was in Health of Body and Mind, at the Age of Eighteen Years, or thereabours: About the Nin●eenth Year, 
Commonly called West-by.  he says, he was a hired Servant, with Thomas Lister of Arnald's-bigging, in the County of York, Esq and begged leave of his said Master, to go to a Rush-bearing to whaley, and being in Drink, fell out at whaley with a Man, and fought about dancing that Night. (He says) afterwards he went to his Farthers' House: The day afterwards he went from his Father's House, to Arnald's bigging, and on the Road, being troubled in Mind, he thought that he saw several Apparitions, but could not tell the resemblance thereof. The day afterwards, he says, he went to make Hay, and found himself clogged with some heaviness, that he could not work, or stoop; from thence, he weut to a Well about a Fields breadth from the Hall aforesaid, and saw a Gallon, or Pale, standing at the Well, and that he laid himself down to drink at the Well, and as he was drinking, there came up to him, a Neighbour-woman of good Repute, and advised him not to drink so much Water, but rather go up to the said Hall, and get drink, and told him that so much Water was enough to ruin him; and says that he took her advice, and went up to the said Hall, and getting some Drink from the Cookmaid, he went up into his Chamber, and after some time being laid down upon the Bed, the Chamber-Door opened of itself, as he thought, and there appeared unto him something like a Smoke, or Mist, which presently vanished, and afterwards there came partly a fear upon him. Immedtately after he thought there came unto him, the likeness of a Hard-favoured Man, which at that time he thought had been one Hindle, a Fellow Servant, whose Hair seemed to be clipped close to his Ears, and lay very heavy upon his Breast, insomuch that he asked him what he would do with him, which suddenly after speaking, he thought the Vision turned into the likeness of a naked Child; he says, he thought that he got hold of the naked Child by the Knee, and that the Child turned into the likeness of a Filmert, and went away with a shrill Scriek: All this was done when he was awake, as he is now to his thinking. Immediately after this, he says, that he was very rude, and troublesome, insomuch that two Women could scarce hold him, and that he raved of one Dr. Chew, and desired the Woman to send for his Uncle, to go with him to the said Doctor; who was the first, and last Physician he had Physic from. He says, to the best of his knowledge, he thought he had little advantage by the first Physic, but whether he took all or no, he cannot tell. After the first time of taking Physic from Dr. Chew, he went to one Dr. Crabtree; and the said Doctor blooded him several times, the first of which was as black as Ink, and that Blood was got with very great difficulty. Afterwards he went to Dr. Crabtree a second time, and was blooded, and took Physic as before, and whilst he was with Dr. Crabtree, he says he was for some two or three days, and sometimes a Fortnight without any Fit, and sometimes two or three Fits of a day. He says, his Senses were sometimes taken away from him in his Fits. He says, sometimes he could remember some Passages. Affter this he believes one Robert Martin advised his, the said Dugdale's Father, to advise his Son to apply himself to one Mr. Jolly, to desire his prayers, where he fell into a Fit, but remembers no discourse he had with Mr. Jolly. He the said Richard Dugdale says, he believes he was not possessed with an Evil Spirit. And says likewise, that he had a Fit on the 24th of March, at Evening, and on the 25th of March, in the Morning, he took Physic from Dr. Chew, and says, that the Physic worked well with him, and since that time, he says, he never had any Fit: But says, that the strange things that befell him, occasions him to believe that the Disease was not ordinary. And likewise says, that he was not in any Combination with any Person, or Persons whatsoever, and that there was no Cheat, in any thing, to his knowledge. He further confesseth, that to his knowledge, he cannot remember that he could play any more Tricks than the rest of the Schoolboys, and he denys that he ever spoke any such things as are laid to his charge, to the Schoolmaster about the moneys, and says, that he is no Latin Scholar, not knows any of those Sentences charged upon him, neither by heart, or otherwise. He says, he did write a Letter to Sir Edmund Ashtou, but remembers no Latin Sentence therein. He says likewise, he never wrapped himself in a Blanket, in order to fright any Person. He says likewise, that after the Ministers left Surey, that he had not Fits so often as before; but they were more violent than ever before.  
Richard Dugdale. Taken before us, 

Willoughby  
Will. Hulme.     

Concerning R. D. his Testimony.  
It should not seem strange, that he doth not mention several Particulars mentioned in the Narrative; particularly about the beginning of his Fits; and when we began with him; and when we left of meeting at Surey; and when his Fits left him, etc. for he might easily forget the said Passages in 7 or 8 years' time, or be straightened by the presence and influence of some there present: but some of us did note down the said omitted Passages all along, and can satusy any sober Person, that it was all so, as is expressed in the said Narrative. He did declare such things to us, and desire such things of us from first to last.  
Neither should it seem strange, that he doth not expressly own the true Cause of his said strange Fits, nor the only proper Means of his Deliverance (tho' he hath freely owned both more privately, and under his own Hand): For be is apparently overawed by those, on whom he hath his dependence, as to his Livelihood, and by his Neighbours; alleging in his Excuse, that he is a poor Man, hath a Wife and four small Children: A semptation, that might put a strong Christian to it to conquer it.  
Yet doth he, by the aforesaid Information, fairly overturn Mr. T's Foundations, for he owns himself sound in Body and Mind, when these strange Fits first seized him, and disowns them as any ordinary Disease: and tho' in his Information, he saith, he believes he was not possessed with an evil Spirit, he is partly to be excused, because he himself little knew how he was in the said Fits; but when he heard how it was with him therein from others, and considered of it, he did acknowledge that his said strange Fits were caused by the Devil: So I think must any one who exerciseth his Reason, who is not blinded with Passion, or Partiality, where stat pro ratione voluntas.  
He doth solemnly disown ary thing of a Cheat, or Combination (that he knows of) in the Case, as his Father also doth; so that if it be not any ordinary Disease, nor Cheat, nor Combination, what must it then be? and what must then follow? Especially when all the Informations are well weighed (which now will need fewer Grains of allowance than formerly): Now let all sober Persons judge of the Malady, and Remedy.  
In that the Informations both private and public are called over again before Authority, it is to take away all occasion of suspicion, as to any unfair dealing. In that there is some disserence (tho' not much material) from what is in the printed Narrative: I cannot yet learn how the Mistake was; but the owning of this shows the Fidelity of the Parties concerned: And amends is abundantly made by the considerable additions, and the authenticness of all.   

John Walmsly confirms what he formerly testified, and further adds.  
I have heard R. D. in his Fit say, that he had a Familiar, elsehow should I tell such things as I do? I have seen R. D. stand upon his Feet with his Arms open, and I have swayed at his Arm, and hand, till I have been afraid of breaking it, and could not stir either his Body, or a Joint o● his Arm, or Fingers. And when it was reported that Mr. Braddill would send him to the House of Correction, I have seen R. D. in a Fit scorn towards him by calling, John, John,) come you must make a Mittimus, I will send him away, 
Mr. B's Mark.  (or words to this purpose) than he would have cast up his Shoulder like Mr. Edleston, and made as tho' he would have written with his Finger in the Ball of his Hand with scornful Laughters. I have seen him in his Fits at Mr. Walmsly's, Mr. Cronbock's, and Mr. Braddili's, so that any of them might have seen him for coming forth. They at Surey have come for us, to our house to assist them; and we have gone, and Robert Turner along with us, and taken Ropes and tied them about R. D's Middle. Robert Turner hath gone to the Hedge to get a Stake, to beat him with, but R. D. hath so made to him, that he hath broken, or shpt the Rope, so that we have been forced to lay hold of him. And Robert Truner hath been satisfied that contending with him would do no good, besides I have seen D. make towards Robert Turner, when in a Fit, and offer to pull the Skale-boos down to come to him, and that Robert Turner hath gone back, lest he should have gotten hold of him, and I never could perceive that R. Dugdale either regarded Persons, or Place, where ever he was. I have seen him likewise have his Arms about his Neck, and they have been so fast, that no one could pull them asunder, till opened of themselves. I likewise once came behind him, when he was dancing, and picked him off the place where he was, and he turned at me again, and his Father offered to help me, but he threw him down, as fast as he could rise, and R. D. then got hold of my hair, and there were 5 or 6 young Men present, which did there endeavour to help me, but they all could not so much as open a Finger of D's Hand, but he held me there, till his Fingers opened of themselves: I likewise put up my hand to open his Fingers, but found that I could do no good, to my thinking, I might as well have offered to have broken a Bar of Iron. I verily think that it was no Cheat of Dugdale. As to hearing his Voice, I told Mr. Braddill it was betwixt the Surey, and Mill-Lane-Head, which he, and Mr. Barlow, took to be a Mile and an half; but I have enquired of Neighbours since, and we concluded it to be two Miles. Besides, Surey stands in a bottom, and I do be lief, any unbias'd Man cannot but think, that one might have heard him four Miles another way, as well as that two: For Surey stands close to a lough River, which makes a great noise: Besides Woods, and all against the Hand. As to the Leatherbottle Mr. T. charges me with, I utterly deny it. For I never carried Leatherbottle, Wooden Bottle, Stone or Glase-Bottle, or any other Bottle, or Vessel, to the Surey, either before that time, or at that time, or since, my Father, Mother, Brother, Sisters when called, will be ready to testify this. As to Dugdale's School-Tricks, I learned when he did, I believe three or four Years, and I never saw, or heard, such things as Edward Slaytor doth relate.  
John Walmsly.  
This is fruther added to the former Confession taken before us, the 16th day of September, 1697, at the House of Richard Sharples, in Blockburn.  
Memorandum, That some Passagesin Walmsly's Information, are thought meet to be waved, having resletion on some, and not to be made use of, unless there be special occasion them.  


Willoughby  
Will. Hulme.     

John Livesay of Clayton, confirms, what he had before testified, and further testifies, that Richard Dugdale was seemingly dead, or in a Trance, when he heard singing of Psalms, as from the said Dugdale's Breast, exactly Tuneable, and in Comfort to the singing of Psalms in the Meetinghouse, before the Door whereof, he lay as dead. He also says, he heard the Voice of Richard Dugdale, a Mile and a halt distance from the Surey, exactly such as it was used to be, when he was with him. He says also, that at Wiswai-Eves, near Mr. Walmsly's, he saw him in an Outrageous Fit, before several Gentlefolks, not leaving his Fit for fear of them, and saying to their Maid Nusom, eive me the Pipe out of thy Pocket; and she chanced to have one.  
John Livesay.  
Dr. Whittaker testifies, that it was proposed unto him, to undertake the Cure of Richard Dugdale by physical Means, which he deelined: For that he concluded it to be more than a Natural Distemper.  
Robert Whittaker.  
John Fletcher of Harwood testifies, That he knows nothing of any Papers, that were Lid in any place for Richard Dugdale to take, when he was frisking about, as Mr. T. suggests. Nor did he konws that Richard ever took any Stones from any place, in his said Frisking. And he says, that he believes there was no trick of Legerdemain about Webster's Knife, as appeared from his, and John Merecer's best Observations. And he says that he saw a large Pin pricked not into the Lump on his Body, but directly into his Heel, not a slope, but directly downward, into the Flesh, towards his Toes. And he says he hnows nothing of any bodies teaching him to call Richard's Fit, a dumb Fit. And he confirms the Information he formerly gave, to be true.  
John Fletcher.  
Edmund Haworth of Rushton, confirms the Information he formerly gave, concerning Richard Dugdale to be true, and particularly that about Robert Turner.  
Edmund Haworth.  
The Confession of John Flelding of Harwood, a Conformist, taken before the Right Honourable Hugh Lord Willoughby, and Wlliam Hulme, Esq two of His Majesty's Juslices of the Peace, and Quorum taken at the House of Richord Sharples in Blackbuin, the 16th day of Sepember, 1697.  
IMprimis, John Fielding confesses and save, That being impowered by his Lease to cut down Wood, for House-Boot, Plough-Boot, Cart-Boot, and Bedg-Boot; did however ask leave of his Landlord, to out down five Trees, for reqairing his Flouse, which were by his Landlord's orders, marked out by one Edmand Ruyley, all growing on his own Tenement, one of which being a handful too short, he cut it not down, but onetaler, tho' worse in its stead, which Would not sussiceing for the said House-repair, he hought mere to make it out, notwithstanding which the Landlord sued him about the said Trees. Whereupon he by the advice of his Neighbour's, and Friends, rendered to his Landlord five Pounds, in hopes of having it all returned him back, but his Landlord kept it all, and afterwards struck him. He likewise says, having lived for many Years in Liacolnshire, where he was nicknamed Lancashire Fielding, which is Threeseere Miles distont from the Surey; yet coming to Surey to see the Demoniac, he in a Fit cried, there comes Lancashire Fielding. He also says, That the Certificate shown before us, about his being no reputed Thief, was verily fubseribed by his Neighbours, many more of whose Hands he might have got, had he desired them.  
John Fielding.  
Thomas Booth of Hay-Honses, confesses at the same time, and declares, That his former Examination was true, and furhter adds that he, and another striving to lift him up, could not stir him off the spot, and yet within one quarter of an hour after, he alone did lay hold upon him, about the the Hips, and lift him up about three quarters of a Yard high, and held him for a considerable while, and felt him to be no heavier than his Stick, and his whole Body was stright and stiss, after which he having laid him down, saw him in his dead Fit half an hour longer, without any motion from Richard, either as he lay, or at he was lift up.  
Thomas Booth. the 16th day of September, 1697. These Informations were given besere us, 

Willoughbly  
Will. Hulme.    
John Smalley of Harwo●d estifies, That his Information formerly given about R. Dugdale was true, and he is certain that Richard's Shoes, specified therein, were buckled just before the●●l●w off, nor had he any hand himself in loosening them, or helping them off, so knew of any other Person, or outward Means confederate, or assisting in their flying off.  
John Smally.  
Laurence Robertshaw, of Harwood testifies, That the Information he formerly gave in the Surey-Demoniack was true.  
Laurence Robertshaw.  
William Livesay testifies, That the Information he formerly gave in the Surey-Demoniack is true; and says he saw two Stones thrown into the Barn end, that Richard foretold were a coming, which he took up, and felt them more than ordinary warm. Nor did he go up and down to pick up Company, to go to the Surey; nor knows he of any Spy that went over the Fields, or any other ways to give Intelligence.  
William Livesay. The Informations were given before us, the 16th day of September, at the House of Richard Sharples of Blackburn, 1697. 

Willoughby  
Will. Hulme.    
James Abbot doth under his Hand testify, That when Dugdale had told me of my Cheshire, and Stassordshire Journey, I came home and told our Folks, that I wondered what I might go into Cheshire for, we none of us having any occsion thither; hard after a Letter came from Beverly, to inform us that one Eliz. Gandy would comeover to see her Grandfather, and from thence into Cheshire, unto knotsford, but in all this I never thought of Staffordshire, nor had I ever been there, not ever thought that I should ever have gone thither; yet when it fell so out, I called to remembrance that Dugdale told me of it.  
James Abbot. the 16th day of September 1697, at the House of Sharples of Blackburn.  
This is further added to the form?  
Confession taken before us,  


Willoughby  
Will. Hulme.    
John Jolly testifies, That the Private Information of Thomas. and Ann Dugdale, Parents to Richand Dugdale, with Mary and Alice Dugdale, Sisters to the said Richard Dugdale, which is printed in the Surey-Demoniack, was freely declared to him by the Parties aforesaid, at Surey, July the 31st 1695. And that the Information aforesaid, was by him put down in Writing in their own words and meanings. And that all the said Information was distinctly read over to the Parties aforesaid, to which they then voluntarily put their Marks.  
John Jolly. the 16th day of September, 1697. This was affirmed before us, 

Willoughby.  
William Hulme.    
Joseph Hargreaves testifies, That his former Confession in the Surey-Demoniack is true.  
Joseph Hargreaves.  
Nathaniel Waddington confesses, and testifies, That the Information he formerly gave, concerning Richard Dugdale is true, except what is mentioned about Fielding, and likewise what was mentioned about the Gold and Biscuit, which he only heard by report. He further says, he was present when Dugdale accused the Gentlewoman of having Biscuit in her Pocket, and chalienged her to play with her at Cards, for the Gold she had in her Pocket, but says, he cannot tell whether she had any or no, ut it was generally reported, that she had both in her Pocket.  
Nathaniel Waddington.  
William Fort of Altham, confesses and trstifies, That he saw Richard Dugdale in one of his Fits at his Father's House in Altham, and that for half a quarter of an hour together he stood straight up, and was as one dead, and breathless, he says that he himself and others, all that while held a Candle to his Mouth, and Nostrils, and could not in the least perceive that he had any Breath in his Body. Before this, whilst he was in his Fit, he says he saw his Body rise up from the Ground five of six times, being stiff and straight, three quarters of a Yard above Ground; and that he did not bend in any Joint whatever, but with sudden Motions was thrown from his Back to his Belly, and so likewise from his Belly to his Back, rising three quarters of a Yard from the Ground, as he turned himself. He likewise says that he heard him sing some Verses of a Psalm in Latin, and some Scholars that were present, said was true Latin.  
William Fort. the 17th of September, 1697. These Informations were taken before us, 

Willoughby.  
Will. Hulme.    
The further Information of William Sellar's of Pendleton, Husbandman, concerning Richard Dugdale, which he is ready to take his Oath upon, when he is called to it, and it be within compass, considering his great Age and bodily Weakness.  
Whereas I did heretofore make Oath, as to several Particulars of R. D's case, before the Right Honourable the Lord Willoughby, and Ralph Egerton, Esq two of His Majesty's Justices of the Peace, for the County of Lancaster. I do now upon occasion more particularly express, and explain my said Testimony, as follows.  
I did lift up the said Richard Dugdale several times, and because I thought it very strange, that he should be so light; I do well remember that I did once myself without any help, list him up by his Legs all at once, about a Yard form the Barn-floor, and held him up so long as I could well judge of his weight. R. D's Uncle being present, when he was as light as an Hat, or a Walking-Cane, and as straight as a Cane, he was then in a dead Fit, and continued therein some considerable time, after I had laid him down again, all this I do faithfully testify.  
Witness my Hand. 

John Birch  
William Sellars.    
This Paper being read before the Right Honourable, the Lord Willoughby and William Hulme, Esq was approved by them, as deliveed by John Birch to them, but could not be sucseribed in William Cellar 's Absence.  
John Hindle testifies further, That he, and John Walmsly were present, when Dugdale had his last Fit in the Surey-Barn, where in his Fit R. D. said it was Obscession and in a Combination, and that he might never have more Fits, and it should never be discovered while the World endured.  
John Hindle.   

As to the following Informations, they were brought to me after the meeting before the Justices at Blackbrun: And much more might be gîven in to the same purpose, if there were need for it, and that we made it our brsiness to seek further Testimony: Tho' the thing happened so many years ago, and that the Informants testifying thereunto be so much against their Worldly Interest.  
AND Whittaker (who at that time, when R. D. had those strange Fits, was Servant to Major Nowell of Morton, 
Arnald's-Bigging.  next House to Surey) she testifies; That R. D. told her that his said Fits begun at Westby-Hall (as it's commonly called) as he was making Hay: Whereupon he came into the said Hall, and laid himself down upon a Bed, according to the Advice of a Servant there: Then he said, that 5 or 6 Evil Spirits appeared to him; and then the appearance of a Black Man did grin at him, and pressed very fore upon him: Then both the Spirits and the Man danced upon the Floor, and then vanished in a flame of Fire.  
She also testifies, that at a certain time, when a Fit was coming on him at Morton, he fell a dancing and roreing hidiously: Then he fell to the Ground, and had something rising under his Clothes, as if it were quick; and that it begun in the very part of his Body, where (as he said) that grim Man did press him sore, at the first: Also, that whilst he lay in the said Fit, he did so sweat, that one might wipe the Sweat off his Clothes; and all the Flags under him were wet therewith: She also testifies, that she oft saw R. D, in his Fits at Surey, and that he was much what after the said manner.  
The said Ann doth also testify, that Mr. Barton Shuttleworth, being at the said Morton, upon occasion, he followed her to Surey; she herself than not knowing of his following her; yet R. D. told of Mr. Barton's coming, tho' R. D. could not see him, nor did any Person tell R. D. of his coming. He did also in a Fit tell several young Persons of their resolution to go to an Alehouse; and that they spent (viz. Twopences apiece): This one of Parties did confess to the said Ann; and that it was indeed so as R. D. had said.  
The said Ann doth also testify, That her said Master had oft occasion, to make use of all the Surey-Family about his Worldly Affairs: And that she never perceived any thing concerning any of them, that might give the least occasion of suspicion, as to their being guilty of Withcraft, or of any cheating Practices.  
Ann Whittaker,  
Nicholas Haworth of Altham, Miller, testifies as follows: I have seen Richard Dugdale in his Fits, run about the Surey-Barn on all four, as fast as any Man, that I ever saw, could run on his two Feet. I have seen the Lump in R. D's Leg rise upward, and tho' I have endeavoured to keep it down by girding a Belt, or Boot-garter, a little above it, yet never could: So it did still shoot under. I have heard R. D. hart and bark like any Mastiss: For that I have been very much afraid of him. I have heard R. D. whilper at the Wall in the Surey-Barn, and to my thinking resusing to do somewhat; he hath fallen flat on his Back, as if something had tripped up his Heels: After he had lain a while, he would have risen as soon as a Man can trun his Hand: His rising was so sudden, that one could searce pereeive it.  
Nicholas Haworth.  
John Hindle, of Altham, testifies as follows: I have seen Richard Dugdale lie on the Sruey-Barn-Hoor in some of his Fits, and very suddenly he was set on his Feet, without the bending of any part of his Body, that I could perceive: I could liken it to nothing but one's rushing a Stick to an end. I have also seen a Lump on R. D's shoulder about the bigness of an Hen-egg, and have offered to hold it down, but could not, One time standing behind R. D. he being then in a Fit, I heard him say to Mr. Carrington, Thou shalt be Porter of Hell Gates, thou'st have Brews, and Toad-Broth.  
John Hindle.  
Joshua Thomason, of Entwisle, in the Parish of Bolton, in the County of Lancaster, Yeoman, witnesseth as follows: It was publicly reported about us, that a certain young Man, called Richard Dugdale, livirg at Surey, was possessed of the Devil; whereupon several of my Neighbours concluding to go and see the said Dugdle; I went with them; and coming to Surey, it happened to be a day appointed by the Ministers to be spent in Prayer, and other Religious Exercises, for the said D. Mr. Jolly, one of the Ministers present, being earnest in Prayer for the Party afflicted, That the Lord would free him from so sad an Affliction. D. being then in one of his Fits in the Surey-Barn, with a loud Voice, said many times over. O thou, crying Jolly, thou shalt never cast me out. In the same Fit, the sald D. cried out, O Carlisle, Carlisle, Carlisle, (so he called Mr. Carrington.) After this, as Mr. Jolly was ending his Prayer, and was ready to dismiss the Assembly, Mr. Carrington came to the Barn door; where kneeling down, he pulled out a little Bible, and looking in the same, D. cried out several times, Carlisle, read upon the Wall. Mr. Jolly, and the other Ministers, seeing Mr. Carrington, desired him to go to Prayer. Whilst Mr. C. was at Prayer, D. still cried out in a Language unknown to me. When Mr. C. had done praying, he applied his Discourse to D. and said, Thou declarest thyself to be an unclean Spirit, thou art such a Reviler. D. and Mr. C. continued their Discourse together a long while, one while Mr. C. spoke, then D. then Mr. C. I could understand Mr. C. very well; for he (as I suppose) answered D. very soberly, and with some Texts of Scripture: But I could not understand one word of D's Discouse to Mr. C. and I find several Sentences, that Mr. C. then spoke, are printed in a Book called the Surry Demon●ack.  
At Night Mr. Jolly, Mr. Waddington, and Mr. Carrington, examined D. whether he had made any Contract with Satan, or no, either by writing, word, or any other way: To which D. answered, that there was no such Contract that he knew of. Whereupon the Ministers told him, that if he had made any Contract, or Bargain, with the Devil, they could not help him, unless he would first make an ingenuous Confession. D's Mother upon this, with seeming earnesiness said, I pray thee Richard, it thou have made any Contaact, or Bargain, confess it: Thou had better confess it now. To which Richard answered somewhat faintly, I know of none. Mr. Jolly asked D. how canst thou then answer several questions, and tell many things, which cannot be done by Lawful Art; thou having seemingly whispered with something at an Hole, or Corner in the Barn? Mr. Jolly said further, how could'st thou name those Persons, that came from Haslingden, and tell them at what Alehouse they called, and how much they drank, out of what Vessels, Cans or Cups, what every one paid, whether Silver, half Pennies, or Farthings, and how many of each; and so particularly what change was returned to any of the Company? to this D. answered, that he could not tell any of these out of his Fit: But in his Fit (it seemed) he going to the aforesaid hole, or place in the Barn, a Voice declared to him all the Answers, proper to the several Questions, which had been asked him: And further told him what things had been done by the Persons aforesaid, at a considerable distance from Surey.  
Likewise the Ministers examined D. about an Elephant-hafted Knife, which was found in his Mouth in a Fit, how he came by it? Dugdale said he could not tell.  
Another time, when I came to see D. I found him out of his Fit, and entering into discurce with him, he told me how his Fits began with him at first: Divers then present also told me, that still in his foregoing Fit, his Spirit foretold when his next Fit should come, and how long it should continue. I asked how he knew when his Fit begins? D. said, still when my Fit gins, I lose my fight: Yet to my thinking an Old Man in a black Mantle appears in the beginning of my Fit, and goes before me over the Green, and leads straightway into the Barn, if I be not there before; and I cannot but tollow him. At the end of this discourse, D. did very suddenly rise up from his Seat in the House, and went into the Barn, there he fell flat upon his Back: When he had lain a while, he was turned on his Belly; as he lay, something in the Calf of his Leg leaped up very oft. Upon this I took his Leg betwixt my hands, yet still it leaped and sprinted, as if I had a twopenny Chicken in my hands: And this when I strove to hold it down. After this he was turned on his Pack again, still I perceived that leaping in the Calf of his Leg, and it jutted out as far as his Stocking could stretch. This after some time risen up, and went up his Thigh to his Breast, and as it went along, it thrust up his Clothes the height of ones Fist: This Lump risen as far as the Collar of his Doublet, and then (cho ' at other times his Face, and Neck, were of a white, or pale colour) his Neck and Face were as red as Blood: I could not see any Eyes that he had, but the holes were the same colour with his Face. Upon this he was set on his Feet in a trice, without the natural use of Arms, and Legs, and without bending any part of his Body: As one raiseth a Stick, or Board to an end, very nimbly; and then he went to the aforesaid hole, at the end of the Barn, and laid his Mouth a while to the hole.  
Soon after he turned him about to the Company, and reeling down the Barn, came to the Ring where he used to dance; he said, I have a Message to declare to you all. In the first Epistle to the Thessalonians, chap. 5. ver. 16. Rejoice evermore. This Verse he expounded very handsomely and seriously; showing what it was to rejoice evermore, and in what way we must do it: He spoke to this Verse a long while in good order, and words, and from other Scriptures proved what he said: Yet when he had done, he fleeringly said, but which of us doth so? Then he came to the 17th verse, and showed what it was to pray, and what to pray without ceasing; and this as well as the former: Then ended it; saying, but which of us doth so? He also expounded the 18, 19, 20, 21, 22. verses, and ended the Exposition of every Verse, with a But which of us doth so? And besides that, at the end of the last said, Ha! Ha! and then danced very cleverly.  
After this, D. with his Hands and Arms drummed on his Side, and with that, and a Noise that he made in his Throat, any one, who had not seen or known his Fashions, would have taken it to have been a Drum. I heard a Man there present, who had been in Ireland, say, that D. did then beat a March exactly, which was used by the Irish, which he never heard in England. Then he danced again, after this fell flat on the Floor, and as he lay along, a lusty strong Man who had been Fellow servant with D. came hectoring into the Barn, and said, Come Dick, they say thou art possessed; if thou be, I can get thee helped; but I think thou art not, for thou wast always a good Lad. This Fellow would needs shake Hands with D. and talked over him a long while; till being persuaded, he sat down at the Barn-side. Soon after D. leaped up, and ran to the aforesaid Hole; and as he turned him about, he called the Man by his Name, and said, Art thou come to see me? Thou hast got a Bottle of Ale in Whally, and hast left thy Horse there. The Man said, If thou can tell that (Dick) thou art possessed, and I can get thee help. D. said further to him, Thou thinkest to have another when thou goes back, and a Wheat-cake, and I'll fill thy Wheat-cake with Sparrow-bills; and in such a L●ne I'll break thy Neck. The Man said, I fear thee not, and all the Devils in Hell to help thee. After this D. stooped down, and gathered up a deal of Rushes; which he would, but could not, make a Thumb-rope of; however he drew them out a pretty length, and got them about the Man's Neck, with which D. hurled him about, as if he had been a little Dog; and the Man could not, with all his Strength, get lose, till the Rushes broke. The Man after this was extreme tame and quiet.  
D. discovered many things of several Persons, particularly a Woman, who came from wards Burnly: D. came up to her, snooked and smelled at her, called her by her Name, and said, O art thou there; thou got some Stone-fruit at such a place, (which D. named) as thou came, and thou intend'st to have more. The Womam blushed and slipped away.  
Then D. fell flat on the Earth again, and as he lay he began to draw himself on a Root, and then harred and barked like as any Mastiff; a Mastiff which then lay in the Cowhouse, harred and barked fiercely at D. again; and had leapt at D. if some had not put him out. Much more I could have told of him: But, through distance of time, it is now slipped out of my Memory  
Nou. 12 1697. Joshua Thomason.    

Some few passages, which I took notice of all along from the first, as to the Case of young Dugdale of Surey, near Whally in Lancashire, aged about 19 or 20 Years.  
Upon the 29th of April 1689, in the Morning, came Richard Dugdale to my House, he desiring the liberty, and I having granted it; he had signified his Mind to that purpose a quarter of a Year before: But the Messenger failed, to give me notice, until a day or two, before he come.  
He and his Relation that came along with him, gave such an account of his Case, that I saw cause to suspect he was possessed by an Evil Spirit; and I was further satisfied concerning it, whilst we were at Family-duty, at which he was present.  
The Fit did then seize on him, partly whilst I was reading, and opening the word: But much worse whilst I was at prayer. His motions in his Fit were very strange, particularly turning the sight of his Eyes in ward, and so making him stark blind, whilst his Eyelids were open, with other motions preternatural. He had also such strong motions, as were above his natural Ability and Agility; but I was more confirmed by that rage he was in, against the Ordinance of God, especially than Christ was more solemnly named, and his condition was earnestly commended to the Lord: Then he raged as if the Devil had been in his bodily Shape; tho' he manifested otherwise Inclinations to the Word and Prayer, when he was not in his Fit. And he was in health of Body to all outward appearance, at the said time.  
Other Means he had used, both lawful and unlawful, so that Prayers, and Fasting seemed to be the proper and only Means in this case: Accordingly he desired that we would keep a Day of Prayer on his behalf.  
Accordingly we met at the Sparth, upon the 8th of May, before we begun to exercise (the Pastor of another Society being present to assist in the work) we examined the Parents and the young Man himself; as to the occasion of the sad Affliction they at that time confessed, that both Father and Son, were in drink at Whally Rush-bearing, upon the James-Tide before; that they then had a Scuffle with a young man, whom they suspected, or his Partakers to be instrumental of his harm.  
We also enquired as to the means they had made use of already, and convinced them of the evil of some unlawful means they had made use of. One Instrument they had made use of, was mr. Crabtree. We also shown them that these means we were about, were appointed by Christ in this case; and that they might hope for a Blessing in this way; 
Psa. 1.11. to 25.  they repenting of their Sins, and expecting Mercy in God's own way. Multiplying of Prayers, and other Services, being in vain, if there be not Repentance, and Reformation withal. God regards not to answer in Mercy where there is a secret regard to any Iniquity. 
Psal. 66.18.  We see to whom the promise of Mercy belongs, Prov. 38.13. viz. These who confess their Sins, and forsake them, through Divine Grace.  
We than proceeded to the Word, and Prayer; the Scripture insisted on was Acts 26.18. To turn them from the Power of Satan to God. The Power which Satan hath in particular, and in general, is matter of Lamentation and Supplication: The Lord rebuke Satan, and rescue Sinners from his Power. He had two dreadful Fits in the time of the Exercise: he also confessed several Appatitions he had upon the Riot at James-Tide, and Offers of Gold to him, etc.  
One Sabbath he was quiet under the Ordinances all the while; another Sabbath he was extreme rude all the while: He ordinarily attending at our Meeting under this Affliction.  
Upon their desire we kept another day, the 28th Instant, on his behalf; the concourse of the People was much greater: He was extreme rude in his Fits all the while; yet we continued in the Word, and Prayer, as before. Thus the Providence of God puts his Servants to it; and withal puts his Spirit in them, that they may be more instant, and importunate with him, in Prayer. He needs not entreating, 
Luke 18.  it's we that need exciting: And we are humbly bold to say, the Lord did graciously help us.  
Our third Meeting, on his behalf, was at Surey: Because of its Vicinity to Whally, we acquainted Mr. Jea the Vicar, with the occasion, that he might take no offence. All the while the Evil Spirit did work in the Demoniac, yet it broke not out into a Fit; but afterward the Evil Spirit did hurry him in a most violent manner and manifested more than ordinary Rage against Mr. waddington: And the Subject insisted on, was Eph. 6.12. The Rulers of the Darkness of this World: showing the dark Regions where the Devil rules.  
This Surey, the place of the Parties Habitation, was recorded and certified according to Law. Providence set us upon the public Stage, that the thing might not be done in a Corner.  
On the following Sabbath there was yet a greater concourse of People: Many came to see him, but heard something which affected them withal: The Sermon being to show, that many are under the Power of Sin and Satan, in a less sensible, and therefore in a more dangerous manner. We were without Distractions from the Demoniac all the while.  
Another Sabbath he was very ill, through all the time of the Exercise; and afterwards, as I stood by him, he spurned at me with great violence, grinting and spitting at me in a strange manner; but he hurt me not. I could little think of any ill intent of his herein: I took it only as the Devil's spite at me.  
With reference to the Sabbath before: God hath his ends, as Men have theirs; we designed it not to draw the People to our Meetings, nor (it may be) di● many design chief to hear the Word; much less to get good thereby. It was fa●●rom Ovesimas' disign in fleeing to Rome, that he should there be converted by Paul's Ministrs. Christ's end for the Conversion the Woman of Samaria, 
John 4.  was not her Errand to Jacob's-well.  
The next day upon this occasion was at Surey, upon the 5th of July, The Lord was gracious to the Assembly, and Party also, in freeing us sometimes from those grievous Distractions, which at other times we had upon this occasion. The Lord pitied us particularly with respect to the Lord's Day, that day of Rest, 
Isa. 58.13, 14.  that we might the better sanctisy it. Yet had we Spiritual Rest, whilst in our way, and at our work, when he was at worst, we were helped to wait on the Lord without inward Distraction however: He was very present help.  
The next Meeting on this occasion was upon the 16th instant, tho' the Youth knew nothing of it upon the Lord's Day before, (nor any of the Family) concerning this Meeting; yet in a Fit upon the said Lord's Day, he foretold of this day, and told of the number of Ministers, viz. five, when as none of the Ministers themselves knew it would be so. The Devil raged exceedingly at this Meeting; it may be the great Confluence of the People, on this occasion enraged him the more; had not the Lord helped us mightily, we had been run down by him. He played upon the younger Ministers very sore, until they got above him.  
At the Evil Spirit filled the Jews with Envy, contradicting, and blaspheming, when they saw the Muleitudes flocking to hear the word of God: So in this case. Yet were not the People affrighted, but followed on: Yea, the Concourse was still greater.  
On the Sabbath following we were mereifully freed from Disturbance by the Demoniac, until the close of the Exercise.  
We were in our place, at our work, we should not hinder the People from coming, nor give place to the Devil; but the Lord was pleased, as he saw meet, to make him to give place to us, 
Zech. 3. 2 Cor. 10.4, 5.  being met together in the Name of Christ. 'Tis he that rebuked Satan; it's through him only that the Weapons of our Warsare are mighty. Alas! we are meaner, weaker than others, than any.  
Upon the 25th Instant, we had another opportunity on this occasion; the young Man was detained from us much of the time, by reason of several Trances he was in: The multitude of the People was very great, that it caused great Distraction, and Danger; also a Hay-lost in the Barn being broken down, by the weight of the People; Yet was their (through God's special Providence) no further harm done: This Meeting was in Altham.  
We were forced many times to meet in Out houses, the Crowds of the People being to very great; 
Mat. 131.2.18, 20.  our Chapel also being rather at an outside from the ordinary Congregation: We did for their ease sometimes meet elsewhere, having Christ's example, and encouragement thereunto; all the places of meeing being laso licenced according to Law.  
The next day upon this occasion was at Surey, the 1st of August, than the Youth was quiet all the while. Here the voung Man dwelled with his parents: His Father and he were gardeners: It is about a mile from Whally. Should there not have been some respite sometimes, it had scarce been pessible for the young Man, or we to have held out. We montion, that others also may see the Lord's Mercy, as well as our Infirmity. We would not so far offend others, as to meet at Surey upon any Lord's Day, it being so nigh Whally; yea, all our Meetings are ordered as inoffensively as may be.  
Again, at the same place, upon the 13th Instant, than the Devil raged in the young Man exccedingly; discovering himself more than ever by the Demoniack's discovery of several things in his Fus, which could not be discovered, but by a Diabolical Means; that Subject John 16.8, 9, 10, 11. was several days insisted on there, and also at our Lord's-day Meetings.  
In my ansence Mr. Waddington, and the rest of our Society, had a day in Read, upon this Dugdale's account, tho' he was not present. Indeed he was mostly present at the Meetings, whether on his account, or not; tho' not always. I was absent at this time only, and so I have a further advantage in giving account of this Affair.  
Upon the 3d of September, we again met at Shrey on young Dugdale's account: As I went to the place of the meeting, he gave me notice by a little Paper, which he put into my Hand; that, as his Spirit told him in his Fit, he must be dumb, and deaf, whilst we prayed; immediately upon his delivery of the Note to me, he became both dumb, and deaf, all the while that the Exercise continued. Note, That sometimes, he did out of his Fit, tell what he heard, or saw in his Fit, being done at a great distance, 
2 Kings 6.8. to 12.  at the same time: As the Prophet could by the means of good Angel, tell what was done at such distance. But in ordinary, he, out of his Fit, did not know what happened in his Fit. We would deal plainly on the one Hand, as well as the other.  
We were but few to carry on the work, so that we continued not so long as at other times. They showed us at that time a large Button, and a Curtain-Ring: But especially a large corner'd Stone: All which the young Man had vomited to the Astonishment of all. Also we had account of several Latin Words, and Phrases, which he uttered tho' he knew nothing of them; his natural and acquired Abilities being but ordinary.  
Upon the 5th Instant, we met at the same place, upon the same occasion. The Lord brought in more Ministers for our help; and the Meeting was very full; Satan was chained up, and the Demoniac gave us not much Disturbance.  
We met at the same Place, in the same mauner, upon the 10th Instant; the concourse of People was great, tho' the Wether was very bad: Satan we filenced this Day also. It seems the Demoniac was told by his Spirit in his Fits, That he most not be delivered as yet: But as Lot's Wife, be for a Warning to others.  
Mr. Waddington and myself, were on the 19th Instant called to Surey; The occasion was, the Devil in one of the young Man's Fits, had 〈…〉 something of a Contract, which the Youth had made with him, for a certain t●me, 〈◊〉 subscribi … to a Parchment. A Jade (as he styled her) taking his ●and out of B●d, and put in one or two of his Fingers to the Writing. We were also informed, that the Youth h … written to Sir E. A. their Landlord, to signify that he got no good by our prayers; and so seemed to grow weary of our Pains. It concerned us to clear these two things, but he was then in a Fit, and as long as west id; so that we could not examine him as to the former: As to the lat or he dealt very unworthily with us, considering the Case, and Charge also. we had been at for their Relief every way. Had he not manifested himself free, and forward for our proceeding thus far, we should have desisted before this: We had hereupon desisted, but that the Youth confessed his Fault, and his Father besought us to go on.  
On the 26th Instant, we again met at the Surey, upon the same account: The Reverend Mr. O. Heywood came in also for our help on that Day: The Lord sent us that fuitable Word by him, 1 John 3.8. I thought it requisite ay some hang also, as to our Call to the Work, and Conduct therein; as to the Case and present Circumstances also. The Truth is, we were then in great doubt and distiess; for as we are men subject to like Infirmities with others: So our Temprations were then more than ordinary. Insomuch that we needed to look very narrowly inon the Case, our Course, and Carriage also. We had need to be satisfied from ourselves, when we had so little satisfaction from others.  
Upon the desire of young Dugdale, the Junior Minister of the Company stayed with him that Night. The Devil (it seemed) in the Demoniac still did further declare, that there was such a Contract; that the first hold he got him, was upon a vain Wish he had in he Abbey-hall, That he might euccel all others in Dancing: That the Contract was for 18 months. Out of his Fits he would confess what a fancy he had to Dancing; and that he could not refrain from Dancing, after the aforesaid Jams-Tide was a Twelve month, that he danceth most artisicially in his Fits we saw: Tho' he saith, and others testisy, he could not dance at all before, nor then out of his Fits. The Youth out of his Fit, would not confess any thing of a Contract with the Devil that he knew of: But it's too probable that there was a Confederacy; 
At least with did thensuspect such a thing.  because the Devil was so ready to gratify him, not only in such artisicial dancing, but to tell many things which could not be known without such hellish help; yeathose discoveries being frequently, upon whispering with something in a certain Corner. That it is the Devil which speaks in him, seems very plain, speaking strange Langugges which the Youth never learned, and with another Voice than his own: Yea, with two Voices at once, and sometimes speaking when the Organs of Speech were nor made use of. Also his saying that he was God, and requiring to be worshipped; yea using many such Words, and Gestures, as are most dreadful; tho' the Youth can tell nothing of them, when the Fit is over: Yet at some other times in his Fits, he deelaimed much against the Sins of the Place, and Time.  
Upon the 11th of October, we again met at the Surey, in the same manner, and upon the same account; the People still flocked to the meeting very much, and many were much convinced, and wrought upon all along; the Lord working by, Providence and Ordinance together: Being desired, I stayed to see his Fitover, tho' that was till about & of the Clock in the Evening; some of the time was spent in discoursing, expounding, singing, and praying; the Youth was very attentive all the while, and at the close of the Exercises, his Fit begins, and lasted about an hour; in which Fit the Spirit said that the young Man was his own; declining any discourse with me, and insulting at Mr. Carrington's not appearing that Evening, as he had done the Night before: For then Mr. Carrington had baited the Evil Spirit sufficiently. His Language in his Fit seemed to me to be but a sort of Gibberish, at that time, or he spoke his words so thick that I could make nothing of them; there was a great multitude of People even in the Night, and they were very rude, so that some harm was done to the place, and to some Persons.  
We met again at the Surey, on the 18th Instant; the Crowd of People was very great tho' the Season was very wet; it was some Distraction among ourselves, that one of the Ministers, whilst he was praying, turned his Speech to Satan, as we thought; which some took to be an unwarrantable Apostrophe: Tho' the dissatisfaction was privately managed, yet the Deviltook notice of it, and did reslect upon some for it.  
Upon the 22d Instant we met again at Altham, upon this occasion, a great Consluence of People was there also tho' we divulged not the opportunity, but changed the place, on purpose to conceal it the more, He had a Fit in time of the Exercise, in which Fit two Voices spoke in him at the same time; and in a strange manner the Devil threamed what he would do this very day, and said, how narrowly the Youth escaped being hoist quite away in the Air, as he came to the Meeting. Some would say that it's a bodily Distemper, or a Cheat: Also that there was an Agreement of Themas Dugdale the Father, with a Popish Priest; but Thomas disowned it, and the Event disproven it: Tho' some will not believe, yet it's an evident Testimony angainst the Vanity, and prosanity of the Times (whereof this Family had been very guilty): Also against the Saducism and Atheism of many: yea, some testify their Envy against God's Servants, and their Enmity against his ways, as others are much convinced, and their prejudice quite removed, upon this occasion. We could do no less than, with the good Samaritan, take compassion, when the Priest and Levite passed by. However,  
Upon the 31st Instant, we met again at Surey, upon this occasion; the Evil Spirit had so tormented him the Night before, that his Limbs were taken from him, as to the use of them; and he continued in great Anguish: So that before we begun the Exercise, he broke out into a Fit of Impatience, resolving that this should be the last Prayer-day and that he would take another course for his help; had his Patents been in the same mind, we had then desisted: But the Father with Tears entreared us to go on; the Youth was some what eased, and very quiet all the time of the Exercise. In the close he thanked us, and wished us to go on in the same course.  
So that it seems altogether improbable by this, and several other Passager, that their was any ill Design, or Cheat, in the Party, or in his Parents: who ' some have been apt to cnarge them to that purpose. Charity would rather offend on the other Hand, especially when the charge is so criminal.  
Upon the 7th of November, we met again at Surey, upon the same account, than we sound young Dugdale in a much better Frame, and carrying it better than formerly; the young Man all along seemed to us be naturally of a plain Spirit, nei her having the Art, not being apt to dissemble the worse, nor the better: Here a Christian Candour appeared to us.  
Again at Surey, upon the 14th Instant, since our last meeting, a great Stone about 14 pounds' weight, as I suppose, was laid upon him in one of his Fits, yet without harm to him: Neither the Family, nor the Spectators, knew whence it came; nor how it came there; none such Stone being thereabout.  
The day after he was extremely hurried in his Fits, ridden about, and chafed on his Head, as it were the Form of an Horse hard ridden, and of a very rank smell. Yet the Spirit confessed in his F●t, there was good news for Dick (as he called the Youth) but ill news for itself viz. The Spirit meaning some respite, the Demaniack should have for some considerale time. The Youth fasted for 3 or 4 days together; being always full, when he should come to his Meals; this seems unaccountable to us in anatural, ordinary way.  
Upon the 21st Instant we met again at Surey, upon the same account: Our number of Ministers, and of others, was but slender; the Lord's assisting of us (without any abatement of our other Exercises about home, and abroad) appeared both as to our Spirits, and bodies: For some of us did find that we could well fast 24 Hours, not withstanding extraordinaly p●ins besides, upon this occasion.  
The Youth being lighter by more than the half, and as heavy again as at other times; yea, this in the same dead Fit, is alhing altogether unaccountable, when the saducees of the Times have studied, and said their u? m saint.  
Upon the 28th Instant we met at my House, this being one main occasion of the Day; the Youth was quiet and attentive all the while; yea, very devout both now, and at other times. Indeed sometimes his carriage under the Ordinances, and at other times, gave us some hopes towards a Change, as to his spiritual Stats; which would he much better to him, and so the more desirable to us: Yet a partial Change as to that, and a perfect Cure as to his Body, are signal desirable Mercies: As to our Repute in the World, what is that to some of us, who are so near our going out of this World?  
As he returned from the Meeting, on the Lord's Day following, he had a Fit, in which, as some creaible Persons said, who were with him, he repent the Heads of the Sermon, and the Proofs withal. The rerurn of his Fits after many days of discontinuance must needs much exerise us; but Psal. 37.3. to 8. was of good use to some of us in that case: Yea, we were as frisk to work, as at first, the Lord anointing us with fresh Cile of his good Spirit. 
Psal. 92. ●●   
Upon the 5th of December we again met at Surey; we were but two Ministers to carry on the work. He told one, of some private Discourse, and Passages, betwixt him, and Sir E. A.  
Upon the 12th we met at the Sparth, upon the said occasion: We were but few, the Demoniac was detained at home by a Fit; in that Fit the Devil told him he would find him somewhat else to do then to eat Bread and Cheese, with Cottom Lass at Sparth, as he had done 25. Weeks before; he also told what Distress Ireland was in, and that Fagla and must pay the Piper, as he phcased it, notwithstanding its present Security. We have by sad experience found the truth of the Demon's Predictions in this, and other Instances; the false Prother could foretell Evil. Deut. 13.18. O that any warning, any ways did awaken us: That tho' our iniquity have brought us very low, it may not be our ruin.  
In his Fit upon the day following, he told us of some Money to come, before the messenger came, by whom I sent some for their Relief; the Family being taken of their Callings, put to Charge, and very much impoverished upon this occasion.  
Upon the 20th Instant, our Meeting was again at Surey, upon this account: We had but little Company; his Fits were not so frequent, and violent, as formerly. Several Scriptures, besides those before mentioned, had been insisted on at these Meetings, no this occasion, viz. Eph. 6.12. Mat. 17.21. 1 Tim. 5.15. 1 Tim. 1.13, 14, 15, 16, Mt. 11.28, 29 30 All which were directed for the sanctifying this occasion to the Family. and Country; that all might be sanctified to us by the Word, and Prayer: Not only that the Devil might be driven from the Demoniac.  
January the 1st, at Surey. My brethren of the Ministry being all taken off by other urgent occasions; I turned this Meeting to an Exercise, there being a likelihood of a Tempta … n. As to the success of Prayers, in this and other cases, I took occasion (from Heb. 5.7.) to clear the Providence of God, concerning that point of the answer of … yers.  
It was near Twelvemonths we were almost Weekly employed upon this occasion, in most solemn Prayer, with Fasting; some of us coming many Miles: H●d not some of us been long enured to hard Service, it could not have been so 〈…〉.  
Upon the 9th Instant, we agian met at Surey, as formerly▪ Before the Exercise beg●n, 〈…〉, and plainly, with the Family. We had apparent cause to judge 〈…〉 work did stick on their part; considering how Popishly they had been brought up; what profane Lives they had led: Yea, how 〈…〉 some of them had of their sad Case; and how slow they were a confessing what might be hte Causes thereof. Some of my Brethren thought it requisice yet, to ceal more roughtly uviht them, the elceting some suspicion of a Contract with the Devil, or of Wichcract, even among themselves. I confess I was somewhat shy as to further proceeding lest we had not around to go upon; lest we should exceed the bounds of our Calling; lest we should give the man occasion of Offence; yet they offering themselves to trial; some trial was made, and further, as in ended, that the thing, and themselves might be cleared. And in Case of grouned suspicion, as to Witcherast, or Imposture the matter must be put into the Magistrates hards. who is the Judge in that Case, and must do as he sees cause: We in the use of Spiritual Means are concemed so far as it is a Possession: We would have proper means used; and we would keep our place: Whatever other judge of us.  
Upon the 23d Inslant we again met at Surey, on the same occasion, and in the same manner; I thought the work must be wholly devolved upon me; but one of my Brethren came in for my help about the middle of the Exercise. I had laboured to work to me Serse upon the Youth, as to his Case: But alas! to little purpose: So that I much feared the total, and find giving of him up to Satan in the worse sense. The D … i● did 〈◊〉 him very strangely in his Fits; so that he did Feats above his own Skill, and Strength, undoubtedly; yea, it's altogether worderful that his Head was not dashed in pieces, and his Spirits quite spen; yet than his Body was in as good a case, if not better than ever. The Doubt and Distraction about our Duty in this Case, did much exercise me; L●w Severities being so foreign to my Spirit and Calling: So that the Morning after I was pressed more than ordinary concerning it; yea, in some Agony about it: O the wrestle I then had! more especially.  
Upon the 6th of February we again met the Surey, upon the same account. I was then wholly failed by my Brethren, through their other occasions, as I suppos; but the Lord he bed in asi the Work: The Youth had been free from any cnsiderable Fit for a Fortnight; so that they seemed to be wearing off. In his last Fit he further spoke of things done at a distance; and at the same i'm when a doing.  
Upon the 20th Instant, there was again a more full meeting of Ministers at Surey, upon the occasion aforesaid: Tho' the D'scouragements from many others were very great. I than finished that Discourse upon 2 Cor. 11.3 At the close of the Exercise, we found the Youth some what mroe ingenuous towards us, though his Father bewrayed more Disingenuity. The Youth took occasion ro confess further to me, that after the aforesaid drunken Fit, upon James-Tide was Twelvemonth, and the Dancing Humour he was then in, he had the Apparition of a Man's Head, all along in the way as he went to Westby hall (as it's commonly called) the Week after. When he came thither, he wrought hard at the Hay, and was taken with an unusual Merriness, in the Evening of the same Day: He made himself drunk again, as he confessed, and in his Drink he was transported into such an height of Profaneness, as did astonish the Bystanders: So that they did conclude the Devil had then some extraordinary Power over him. He also, as himself said, had an Apparition of the Devil, pointing at something he had lately done: So that then we concluded, that the Devil, in his Drink, drew him into a blind Consent, and Compact, to sarisfy his Curiosity, and Dancing Humour. He also confessed to me since, that when he had thought to confess something to this purpose, his Mouth was stopped, that he could not; and then he had a Check for confessing so much. Sometimes he refused to do what the Devil moved him to; and than it appeared, he was tossed strangely.  
Providence now seemed to call us off from attending upon this Surey-Case, as formerly; laying before us occasions and opportunities of more public Concernment: It seemed also to take us off from meeting at that place, the Landlord thereof being stirred up against the Family there, because of the harm to his Hedges thereby: So that if we had persisted in meeting there, it might be great prejudice to them; they having much dependence on him, as to their outward condition. In those circumstances the Ministers, and others, generally rather halting in their work also; as Jacob, even when he prevailed for the Blessing. The Lord was pleased to give some visible Encouragement, as to a good issue of this Affair in some sort: For upon the 24 th' of March, he had a most terrible Fit, and therein the Evil Spirit took its leave of him: As it's said by several Witnesses, it left him with a strange kind of vomiting, yet nothing visible appearing. After that time he told me, he did not find that manner of working in his Body, as heretofore: So that he hoped he was delivered. I told him, tho' at present we did not meet at his Father's House, as formerly, for the Reasons aforementioned yet we did coutinually remember his Case, both privately and publicly. He owned the Spititual Means, as the means whereby he had this help, and desired our continuing of the use thereof. He hath been altogether freed for many Weeks, (now Years) save that once he had some Threaten again, as to a Fit, being then in Drink: This he was troubled for. He had cause to be troubled, remembering what advartage Satan got against him by that Sin, at first, dreading lest the unclean Spirit return, and his last Estate be worse than the first, Luke 11. And the Lord smote him with his immediate Hand, which I endeavoured to set in with. Thus far are the Minutes in my Diary, as to this case.  
This short account of the said Affair, I thought meet to give because the Impression of the former Narrative is sold off: Besides the Reprinting of that at large, with this would make this too bulky, and so too costly for the ordinary sort of Buyers. Some such account also seems necessary to those, who have not seen the former Narrative: And indeed this was the first Draught, tho' it came forth last.   
FINIS.   

Postscript.  
IT may be thought a little unaccountable by some, that the Book entitled the Surey-Impostor (which so basely reflects upon the Candour, and Ingenuity, of those Worthy Persons concerned in the Surey Affair, and which so insolently attempts to invalidate Matter of Fact, attested upon Oath by so many credible Witnesses, and even by such as are of Mr. T's own Communion) has not been answered long 'ere this.  
The Worthy Author of these Papers, is not accountable for this delay; he having drawn up, a Vindication of Matter of Fact, so far as he was concerned therein several Months ago; and the Copy of these Sheets has been out of his Hands, with a design that they should be speedily printed, for above these eight Months: But the expectation that Mr. C. would also draw up his Answer, to come forth with this, has been one Principal Reason hereof; together with the Author's great distance from the Press, that he could not so hasten its publishing, as otherwise, he might.  
But however, it's to be hoped, that the candid, and unprejudiced Reader will not suppose the Author's cause to be the worse; or Mr. T's, the better; for his Book not having a more speedy answer.   

ERRATA.  
PAg. 27. lin. 6. for Physicial, read Physical. P. 29 l 6. for Deaboll, r. Diaboli. P. 34. l. 40. for Magicial, read Magical. Antony's P. 35. l. 2. the same. P. 40. l. 33. for strike, r. stict. P. 49. l. 24. for as, r. that.