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

  • Zachary Taylor
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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    This is moderate, for in the Infor~ illation , before Mr. Bradyll , it is aimed: as fait as a Grey-hound. Son would run upon his Hands and Feet together, as faft as mofl Men could run upon their Feet alone, and his Body would‘ be fometimes fo heavy, that two or threeftrong Men could hardly lift it up\ at other times as light, as a bag o f Feathers. John Walmfley of Harwood, in the laid County of Lane after, depofeth, That he hath feen the faid ft. Dugdale in a Fit held in a Chair by 6 Men ; and while his Feet were off the Ground, he hath leaped up in the Chair 2 or 3 Hours together, as faft as a Man could ordinarily count any thing ; and hath fo fweated through his Cloaths, that it hath flood Fke a Dew upon them. Moreover this Deponent hath taken the faid ft Dugdale by his Shcoe, betwixt this Deponents formoft Finger and his Thumb, ano¬ ther taking him at his Head, and lifting him up, this Deponent cou’d not think he weighed 6 pounds. And further, this Deponent faith, That Mr. Jolly, the Minifter, fending word by him to the faid ft*s Father that the jMinifters would be at his Houfe called Surey fuch,a Day ; this Deponent, going the fame Day he was fpoken to with his Errahd, the faid ft, declared it before this Deponent mentioned it; as likewife what Minifters would be there. And furthermore this Deponent, upon his Oath, faith, That the faid ft Dugdale in fome of his Fits, opening his Hand, hath received written Papers into it, none of the By-ltanders knowing how they came thither, which the faid ft Dugdale had given People that were about him : Alfo the faid Deponent haths feen him fhuffle Rufhes, like Cards, and play Games on them, astho’he had been playing with fome other Perfon, with whom he had chid about the Cafts, curling and fwearing in his Play; * This is not and then faid, * Do not Gamefters thus ? He likewife play’d with Rufhes as in the idor- they had been Dice, ufing exadlly feveral Expreffions belonging to fbre°Mr! that Play ; faying, f People think this is laid on me for my Sins, but I never Bradyll but was a Gamefter in my Life ; neither do I kjiow how to play at fuch Games 9 n\Mr‘ when out of my Fits. And the faid ft Dugdale did likewife play at per>off.red Bowls, making Bowls of Rufhes; and when he had thrown the Jack, he at Darken, faid, I muft now throw my Gill; then running a good way, as tho’ he f)Tfrom S5* ha^ Been running afrer a Bowl, fwearing, Run, run ; Flee, flee ; Hold a Mr .Jolly's Byafs. Sometimes he catch’d up Rufhes, as tho5 they had been Bowls, Paper. fwearing, * Sirrah, ft and out of the way, or Til kiiock cut your Brains ; ad- Jt'p’*4 ding, ^ never was a Bowler; but do not Gentlemen do thus ? And this Depo- fcr. nent faith, that the faid ft Dugdale had feveral Fits, after his being threatned with being brought before a Juftice of Peace. And once being in his laft Fit, when this Deponent was prefent, he declared, His affliction was through Obfejfton, and in a Combination, which fhould never be difeovered, whilft the World endured. And this Deponent hath feen him in a Fit, as in a great Argument with fomething he could not fee, and then hath been . . , . , , taken up and thrown backwards, fet upon his Head, fo ftood rill he was pull'd down by one Fletcher. Dugdale the Father. But Will. Live- Alio this Deponent hath heard him Curfe and fay, in his Information b fore the Ju- Swear, his Gefture being fo terrible it would have dancing on his Feet three Yards from lighted a Man to come near him ; and yet, in a the wall of the Earn, was as loon as moments time after, in fuch a Fear, that he hath fought
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