The discovery of witchcraft proving that the compacts and contracts of witches with devils and all infernal spirits or familiars are but erroneous novelties and imaginary conceptions : also discovering, how far their power extendeth in killing, tormenting, consuming, or curing the bodies of men, women, children, or animals by charms, philtres, periapts, pentacles, curses, and conjurations : wherein likewise the unchristian practices and inhumane dealings of searchers and witch-tryers upon aged, melancholly, and superstitious people, in extorting confessions by terrors and tortures, and in devising false marks and symptoms, are notably detected ... : in sixteen books / by Reginald Scot ... ; whereunto is added an excellent Discourse of the nature and substance of devils and spirits, in two books : the first by the aforesaid author, the second now added in this third edition ... conducing to the compleating of the whole work, with nine chapters at the beginning of the fifteenth [sic] book of The discovery.

A Charm for the Bots in a Horse.

YOu must both say and do thus upon the diseased Horse three dayes toge∣ther, before the Sun-rising: In Nomine Pa ✚ tris & fi ✚ lii & spiritus ✚ sancti; Exorcizo te vermem per Deum Pa ✚ trem, & fi ✚ lium & spiritum ✚ sanctum: that is, In the Name of God the Father, the Son, and the Holy Ghost, I conjure thee O Worm, by God the Father, the Son, and the Holy-Ghost; that thou neither eat nor drink the flesh, blood or bones of this Horse; and that thou hereby mayst be made as patient as Job, and as good as Saint John Baprist, when he baptized Christ in Jordan. In Nomine Pa ✚ tris & Filii & Spirituus ✚ Sancti. And then say three Pater-nosters, and three Aves, in the right ear of the Horse, to the glory of the Holy Trinity. Do ✚ minus Fili ✚ us Spiri ✚ tus Mari ✚ a.

There are also divers Books imprinted, as it should appear, with the authority of the Church of Rome, wherein are contained many medicinal Prayers, not only against all diseases of Horses, but also for every impediment and fault in a Horse: insomuch as if a shoe fall off in the midst of his journey, there is a Prayer to warrant your Horses hoof, so as it shall not break, how far soever he be from the Smiths forge.

Item, The Duke Alba his Horse was consecrated, or canonized in the Low-Countries, at the solemn Mass; wherein the Popes-Bull, and also his Charm was published (which I will hereafter recite) he in the mean time sitting as Vice-roy with his consecrated standart in his hand, till Mass was done.

Notes

• The Smiths will can them small thanks for this prayer.