Licence: Public Domain Mark
Credit: Sales catalogue 44: Marks and Co. Source: Wellcome Collection.
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![WITCHCRAFT. SOMMERS, of NOTTINGHAM, Being possessed with a Devill ; Shewing How he afflicted, woodcut on title, First EDITION, 4 leaves, including title-page, neatly inlaid, sm. 4to., Printed at London by Tho: Harper and are to be sold by Henry Walker in Gracious street neare Eastcheap, 1641 The Christie Miller copy of this rare tract was sold for £26. VEXATION by the DEVIL, of 7 Persons in LANCASHIRE, and WILLIAM SOMERS, of NOTTINGHAM: Wherein the Doctrine of Possession and Dispossession of Demoniakes out of the Word of God is particularly applyed unto SOMERS, and these workes of God. First EDITION, neatly inlaid, sm. 4to., no place or printer [ ? London], 1600 Short Title Catalogue, No. 6288. Only 3 copies located, namely British Museum, Bodleian Library, and Huntingdon Library. Collation: Title and Prefatory Matter 106 + leaf of faults and corrections, A-I in fours, K-S intwos. The running headlines of some leaves have been very neatly restored in manuscript facsimile. DARRELL (Rev. JOHN) An APOLOGIE, or DEFENCE of the possession of being so, by prayer and fasting, the uncleane spirit may be cast out, neatly Contemporary signature of John Reeve on title. EXTREMELY RARE. Not recorded in Short Title Catalogue, and no copy sold by auction during the past 35 years. It was most likely secretly printed as it does not appear in the registers of the Stationers Company. Collation : Title and Dedication [viii pages] + pages 1-40 (verso blank), Signatures A-I and K-L in fours. THREE ITEMS TOGETHER IN ONE VOLUME, sm. 4to., OLD CALF (joints weak), 1598-1641 & 1 OO/-/- John Darrell began to figure as an exorcist in 1586, when he pretended to cast out an evil spirit from Catherine Wright, of Ridgway Lane, Derbyshire. : ‘ 3 apprentice, and shortly after his arrival was appointed preacher of St. Mary’s in that town, and his fame drew crowded congregations to listen to his tales of devils and possession. He was prohibited from preaching in 1598. Subsequently was brought before Bancroft, bishop of London, and S. Harsnett, his Chaplain, when Somers, Catherine Wright, and Mary Cooper confessed that they had been instructed in their simulations by Darrell. Having been brought before the commissioners and examined house.](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b30858215_0058.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
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