A faithful narrative of the wonderful and extraordinary fits which Mr. Tho. Spatchet (late of Dunwich and Cookly) was under by witchcraft, or, A mysterious providence in his even unparallel'd fits with an account of his first falling into, behaviour under, and (in part) deliverance out of them : wherein are several remarkable instances of the gracious effects of fervent prayer / the whole drawn up and written by Samuel Petto ... who was an eye-witness of a great part ; with a necessary preface.

Title

A faithful narrative of the wonderful and extraordinary fits which Mr. Tho. Spatchet (late of Dunwich and Cookly) was under by witchcraft, or, A mysterious providence in his even unparallel'd fits with an account of his first falling into, behaviour under, and (in part) deliverance out of them : wherein are several remarkable instances of the gracious effects of fervent prayer / the whole drawn up and written by Samuel Petto ... who was an eye-witness of a great part ; with a necessary preface.

Author

Petto, Samuel, 1624?-1711.

Publication

London :: Printed for John Harris ...,

1693.

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Subject terms

Spatchet, Thomas.

Witchcraft -- England.

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"A faithful narrative of the wonderful and extraordinary fits which Mr. Tho. Spatchet (late of Dunwich and Cookly) was under by witchcraft, or, A mysterious providence in his even unparallel'd fits with an account of his first falling into, behaviour under, and (in part) deliverance out of them : wherein are several remarkable instances of the gracious effects of fervent prayer / the whole drawn up and written by Samuel Petto ... who was an eye-witness of a great part ; with a necessary preface." In the digital collection Early English Books Online. https://name.umdl.umich.edu/A54590.0001.001. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed May 1, 2025. content_copy

Contents

• approbation
• title page
• license
• ADVERTISEMENT.
• A Preface to the Christian Reader.
• A Letter to a Friend.
• Chap. I. Of the Lineage, Birth, and former place of abode of Mr. Tho∣mas Spatchet, together with some remarkble Providences he met with, in Infancy, and afterwards.
• Chap. II. Of his Fits, their beginning and continuance for some time; Benumming, Shaking, Skipping.
• Chap. III. Of oter Swingling, and Wringing Fits.
• Chap. IV. Of other Fits disabling for eating of his meat, and some continuing twelve hours; also Kneading Fits.
• Chap. V. Of a Witch Confessing privaty her ▪ and esti∣mony offered before others, yet nothing done again Her.
• Chap. VI. Of his Dumb fits, also of Shackling and other fits: especi∣ally hindring him in travelling▪
• Chap. VII. Of things of more general observation in the tim of his Fits, and not Limitted to any particular one, but Common to more.
• Chap. VIII. Of his Fits a little before and at the Death of the Witch, and his gradual freedom since, with his Condition at Present.
• A Postscript.
• ERRATA.
• Advertisement.