A Historical Account of the Belief in Witchcraft in ScotlandHamilton, Adams & Company, 1884 - 268 pages |
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Page 253 - Be sober, be vigilant ; because your adversary the devil, as a roaring lion, walketh about, seeking whom he may devour: whom resist stedfast in the faith, knowing that the same afflictions are accomplished in your brethren that are in the world.
Page 124 - •'The Beautiful Lady Diana Rich, Daughter to the Earl of Holland, as she was walking in her Father's Garden at Kensington, to take the fresh Air before Dinner, about Eleven a Clock, being then very well, met with her own Apparition, Habit, and every thing, as in a Looking-glass. About a Month after, she died of the Small-pox. And 'tis said, that her Sister, the Lady Isabella. (Thiiine,) saw the like of herself also before she died. This Account I had from a Person of Honour.
Page 57 - ... her maister, to the intent that hee might the better trie and finde out the truth of the same...
Page 215 - And near the stroke of twelve, she rose and sate herself down in a great chair with arms, and presently fetching a strong breathing or two, immediately expired, and was so suddenly cold, as was much wondered at by the physician and surgeon. She died at Waltham in Essex, three miles from Chelmsford, and the letter was sent to Sir Charles at his house in Warwickshire...
Page 55 - Kirke to a number of notorious Witches. With the true examinations of the said Doctor and witches, as they uttered them in the presence of the Scottish king.
Page 63 - Scotland ; this done, there did arise such a tempest in the sea as a greater hath not been seen...
Page 256 - Satan's Invisible World discovered; or, a choice Collection of modern Relations; Proving evidently, against the Atheists of this present Age, that there are Devils, Spirits, Witches and Apparitions, from authentic Records, Attestations of Witnesses, and undoubted Verity.
Page 214 - Sir Charles Lee, by his first lady, had only one daughter, of which she died in childbirth ; and when she died, her sister, the lady Everard, desired to have the education of the child ; and she was by her very well educated till she was marriageable ; and a match was concluded for her with sir William Perkins, but was then prevented in an extraordinary manner. Upon a Thursday night, she thinking she saw...
Page 167 - Boat, two miles beneath Lanark, especially at the Mains, on the water of Clyde, many people gathered together for several afternoons, where there were showers of bonnets, hats, guns, and swords, which covered the trees and the ground ; companies of men in arms marching in order upon the...
Page 213 - Our grove was the Daphne for the ladies and their gallants to walke in, and many times my lady Isabella Thynne (she lay at Balliol College) would make her entrey with a theorbo or lute played before her.