Relation of one Anne Arthur._ 1684/5.
One leaf, folio.
_Strange newes from Shadwell, being a ... relation of the death of Alice
Fowler, who had for many years been accounted a witch._ London, 1685. 4
pp. In the library of the Earl of Crawford. I have not seen it.
_A True Account of a Strange and Wonderful Relation of one John Tonken,
of Pensans in Cornwall, said to be Bewitched by some Women: two of which
on Suspition are committed to Prison_, London, 1686. In the Bodleian.
This narrative is confirmed by Inderwick's records.
_News from Panier Alley; or a True Relation of Some Pranks the Devil
hath lately play'd with a Plaster Pot there_, London, 1687. In the
Bodleian. A curious tract. No trial.
Sec. 7.--The Final Decline, Miscellaneous Pamphlets (see ch. XIII).
_A faithful narrative of the ... fits which ... Thomas Spatchet ... was
under by witchcraft ..., 1693._ Unimportant.
_The Second Part of the Boy of Bilson, Or a True and Particular Relation
of the Imposter Susanna Fowles, wife of John Fowles of Hammersmith in
the Co. of Midd., who pretended herself to be possessed_, London, 1698.
_A Full and True Account Both of the Life: And also the Manner and
Method of carrying on the Delusions, Blasphemies, and Notorious Cheats
of Susan Fowls, as the same was Contrived, Plotted, Invented, and
Managed by wicked Popish Priests and other Papists._
_The trial of Susannah Fowles, of Hammersmith, for blaspheming Jesus
Christ, and cursing the Lord's Prayer ..._, London, 1698.
These three pamphlets tell the story of a woman who was "an impostor and
Notorious Lyar"; they have little to do with witchcraft. See above, ch.
XIII, note 23.
_The Case of Witchcraft at Coggeshall, Essex, in the year 1699. Being
the Narrative of the Rev. J. Boys, Minister of the Parish._ Printed from
his manuscript in the possession of the publisher (A. Russell Smith),
London, 1901.
_A True and Impartial Account of the Dark and Hellish Power of
Witchcraft, Lately Exercised on the Body of the Reverend Mr. Wood,
Minister of Bodmyn. In a Letter from a Gentleman there, to his Friend in
Exon, in Confirmation thereof_, Exeter, 1700.
_A Full and True Account of the Apprehending and Taking of Mrs. Sarah
Moordike, Who is accused for a Witch, Being taken near Paul's Wharf ...
for haveing Bewitched one Richard Hetheway.... With her Examination
before the Right Worshipful Sir Thomas Lane, Sir Owen Buckingham, and
Dr. Hambleton in Bowe-lane._ 17
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