The Surey impostor : being an answer to a late fanatical pamphlet, entituled The Surey demoniack / By Zach. Taylor.

  • Taylor, Zachary, 1653-1705.
Date:
1697
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Credit: The Surey impostor : being an answer to a late fanatical pamphlet, entituled The Surey demoniack / By Zach. Taylor. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    SDcmontack. Narrative. Goofe-quill, had been (tuck near an Inch deep into it, and at the bottom of it fomething bubbled and flafh’d up¬ wards, and round about it was a Circle of about a Straws breadth, and brown colour, and harder to the touch of his Nail than other parts of the Apple, and on the other tide of the Apple was juft fuch another hole, all the other feeming fair and found, excepting the faid holes, which were almoft oppolite one to the other, and he not conceiving how or why the faid holes were made, and fo not knowing but the Apple might be mif- chievous if eaten, did neither eat it, nor throw it away, left fome other fhould eat it; whence not knowing but that Satan might aim at fome harm to him, as before was caution¬ ed, he ftaid at a Friends houfe that Night, and got about Ten a Clock next Morning into that part of a Common or Foreft, which was with¬ in Ten Miles of his home, into which he was mifd ire died by an Old Wo¬ man that he met with on the Read, in which Level or Plain place, his Mare that was of high mettle and excellent for a Journey, did flop and circled about fuch a compafs of the faid place, as was about Twelve Roods long and Four broad, whence ihe could not be got either forwards, or backwards, or fidewards by his urmoft endeavours, from the faid I cn a Clock till four a Clock, when he obferving Night to be near left her, and not knowing that any Houfe was near, refolved on the dire&eft way homewards that he could, walking over Hills and (hallow Rivers, about Six or Seven Miles before he found a Houfe, where his coming occalion a ' frequent Meetings in thofe parts at- terwardsj as they eameftly defired; Letter. Corn. Apy ip pa Trithem, &c.) I re- folv’d ro keep the Apple from any ones eating it, concluding as I after found it, that it was Death to eat it * hence learning they had a defign againft me , according as Dicky had threatned on l-Vednefday Night, crying, That he’d be my Death, he’d perplex and vex me, he d not only tire the Minifters , but make a fool of them, for’that he’d forbear Poffefling Dicky for one Quarters and fo th’ Minifters wou’d think they’d difpofleft him that Thurfday $ / and fo wou’d keep the next Meeting by way of Thankfgiving, but he d befool them by Re-entring him at the end o’th’ Quarter. I took up my Lodgings that Night at a Friends - houfe, that fo my Night-travel might not expofe me to their further Machi¬ nations. But defigning to be at Lan~ cajier next day by Noon, or One a Clock, I fet out early on Fryday Morning ; had not gone above two Miles in a Road that I knew well, having Ridden it oft before, but an Old Woman bid me turn on my right Hand, I fuppofing that (he had known, and ■ directed me fome nearer way, went about three Miles or more in that Foreft way, till at laft my very good Mare, wou’d not ftep one foot neither forward, nor backward, nor fideways, nor one way nor another ; endeavouring to make her follow me, I broke my Bridle twice by pulling her, was then fore puzled to catch her again, and to piece the Bridle with Belt, Garters, &c. Thus I wreftled, tugg’d with her till about Four a Clock of that fhort Freezing Friday, yet con’d not force her by Whip and Spur, off that one fpot or parcel qf plain Foreft ground 5 then Night coming