A detection of that sinnful, shamful, lying, and ridiculous discovrs, of Samuel Harshnet, entituled: A discouerie of the frawdulent practises of John Darrel : wherein is manifestly and apparantly shewed in the eyes of the world not only the unlikelihoode, but the flate impossibilitie of the pretended counterfayting of William Somers, Thomas Darling, Kath. Wright, and Mary Couper, togeather with the other 7 in Lancashire, and the supposed teaching of them by the saide John Darrell.

  • Darrel, John, approximately 1562-
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[Imprinted 1600]
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Credit: A detection of that sinnful, shamful, lying, and ridiculous discovrs, of Samuel Harshnet, entituled: A discouerie of the frawdulent practises of John Darrel : wherein is manifestly and apparantly shewed in the eyes of the world not only the unlikelihoode, but the flate impossibilitie of the pretended counterfayting of William Somers, Thomas Darling, Kath. Wright, and Mary Couper, togeather with the other 7 in Lancashire, and the supposed teaching of them by the saide John Darrell. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    ijc, as that albeit 1 hauneuer jecnehim at ^4jhby, nor cieau with himpri- xlfsis the natty at Nutt, yet the courj'e that I had held with him there wasfo contry- ment of the j tied as it might eajily informe So. what he had to doe• it is mod abfurde. cluPter* For who can be lo voyde of realon as to thinke, that I could no foo*» |, ner fpeake of the lignes of polfellioit mentioned in the gotpeil, as fo¬ il ming, calling into the tyer,extraordinary llrength ect. and of othere ,| very admirable fey ts, as ot a greate iweilmg in the body,and ot a lit- '| tie fweliing to run along the body betwene the flelhand the Ikyn, of J* making the armes and iegges heauy as yron, of retorting the tongue into the throat, let as no part of it could be i'eene in the mouth, of m- during the pricking with pynnes,and keeping in the bloud fo as none not a drop lhouid lifue at the places pricked, with many more fuch j like but that So. preiently could and did therevpon doe the fame:? ^ was there euer lo nimble a boy and fo apt a fcholler heard of beefore 11 fince the world began:' It is no maruaiie then though the Difc. terme l! 1 • r* n w f \ i / r' 1 n n n x ti ■i-S* T. o-- ;■ v -v\ a , , Pag It prejent were much amazed. But aiimitt this were potlibie, as me thinketh none fhould fay fo beiides the Di/c. yet out of queftion it is impoifibie, that the ipeach- es I vfed to others at Nott. tnSo hearing vpon the fift ofNouember 8c , after, beiore which time my voyce was not hearde in the prefence of' ) So. should inilrufl Soj in tnofe things hepractifed for-the Ipace of4, j (s)'veef es at the lead before that time .which being fo, and withali ma nirelt and notorioufly kriowne, confirmed alfo by the depofitions of (3) how can the thje 17. 1 bat So. or the diuell did the very fame things beiore the /. Dtf rvoyde this of Ncuember and my comming to him at Nott. which he did after, w^olublufli* wberevppon J was lent for and requeded to come: it cannot be that ° p. was infir ucled of me by ipeaking to others in his hearing, thofe thinges that I ment he(hoiildpracHfe. Pedicles, it is againde common fence that I fhould i.ndruit him alter this manner, if that were true that the Difc. find So. arfirme to be true, I meane that I had bene fcholing of him beefore at 4fhhy, andpryuatly alfo inflruBedhim at Nott, For he hauing bene ( as they' fay ) foure or fyue y'eares learning his tricks and hauing had them alfo in writing from me, he coulde not ( fure ) be to leame them when he fhoulde act them. Againe it had bene ex- treame folly or rather madnes in vs both, that hauing fo long time Sc opportunity to teach and iearne in, could finde out none, but deferr it vnrill the very indant they were to be pra&ifed. Thus the Difcon. himfelfe may lee, that his errcnmfutnccs albeit they be many, are too weake and inlufficient to proue my teachings