New Castle, historic and picturesque . ick Inventions. The Contents hereof being mani-festly known to the Inhabitants of that Province, andPersons of other Provinces, and is upon record in hisMajesties Council Court held for that Province. 2, and pp. 16. London : Printed and are tobe sold by £. Whitlook near Stationers-Hall. 1698. I wish now I could quote the body of the pamphlet, since it isa very quaint narrative, full of realistic details, of parenthesesand amplifications, all in that grave, ingenious style, so pleasingand illusive, which the old English chroniclers were wont
New Castle, historic and picturesque . ick Inventions. The Contents hereof being mani-festly known to the Inhabitants of that Province, andPersons of other Provinces, and is upon record in hisMajesties Council Court held for that Province. 2, and pp. 16. London : Printed and are tobe sold by £. Whitlook near Stationers-Hall. 1698. I wish now I could quote the body of the pamphlet, since it isa very quaint narrative, full of realistic details, of parenthesesand amplifications, all in that grave, ingenious style, so pleasingand illusive, which the old English chroniclers were wont toemploy in the relation of marvels. The author appears to bequite as intent on inculcating the doctrine that witches andwitchcraft exist, as in telling his particular instance; he wishesto rectifle the depraved judgements and sentiments of disbe-lieving Persons, and says that his narrative will convince themof their error. It appears that the stone-throwing devil dealti-ather gently by the writer, never hurting, onlv alarming hiin;. HISTORIC AND PICTUBESQUE 45 and stones rolled across the hall and in his room only when hesat down • to touch his little musical instrument. It is pleasingto note tliat he had music, books and pictures in his rooms. Butothers received lapidary salutations of a much more tryingsort, so that their backs, shins and arms were black and stones varied in size from small pebbles (of which on oneoccasion a hatful! was picked up) to thirty pounds were hot, some cold; sometimes they shivered the windows,glass, lead and fastenings into flinders; at others into littlesquares of the size of a checker-board. Once one went throughthe glass, cutting a clean hole, like a bullet. These stonyDisturbances were accompanied by dismal whistlings. snortings, and a trampling as of colts feet. He finds bya strictly scientific process of numbering and marking suchstones as he could recover, that the same ones were employedover and over by the witch;
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