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Answ.
If _Satan's_ kingdome be divided against it selfe, how shall it stand?
Querie 2.
_If he never went so farre as is before mentioned, yet for
certaine he met with the Devill, and cheated him of his Booke,
wherein were written all the Witches names in_ England, _and if
he looks on any Witch, he can tell by her countenance what she
is; so by this, his helpe is from the Devill._
Answ.
If he had been too hard for the devill and got his book, it had been
to his great commendation, and no disgrace at all: and for judgement
in _Phisiognomie_, he hath no more then any man else whatsoever.
Quer. 3.
_From whence then proceeded this his skill? was it from his
profound learning, or from much reading of learned Authors
concerning that subject?_
Answ.
From neither of both, but from experience, which though it be meanly
esteemed of, yet the surest and safest way to judge by.
Quer. 4.
_I pray where was this experience gained? and why gained by him
and not by others?_
Answ.
The Discoverer never travelled far for it, but in _March_ 1644 he had
some seven or eight of that horrible sect of Witches living in the
Towne where he lived, a Towne in Essex called _Maningtree_, with
divers other adjacent Witches of other towns, who every six weeks in
the night (being alwayes on the Friday night) had their meeting close
by his house and had their severall solemne sacrifices there offered
to the _Devill_, one of which this discoverer heard speaking to her
_Imps_ one night, and bid them goe to another Witch, who was thereupon
apprehended, and searched, by women who had for many yeares knowne the
Devills marks, and found to have three teats about her, which honest
women have not: so upon command from the _Justice_ they were to keep
her from sleep two or three nights, expecting in that time to see her
_familiars_, which the fourth night she called in by their severall
names, and told them what shapes, a quarter of an houre before they
came in, there being ten of us in the roome, the first she called was
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