A wonderfull and strange miracle or Gods just vengeance against the cavaliers Declaring how Mr. Andrew Stonsby, a cavalier under the command of the Lord Mohone at Listelleth in Cornwall, at the signe of the Dolphin, dranke a health to the devill. Daring him to come and pledge him, with many blasphemmous imprecations. Also how the devill appeared to him at that instant, so that he was distracted, and died raving and blaspheming, to the terrour and amazement of all the behoulders. Attested by Mr. Adam Nicholson, Cler. P. & Co. Mr. Dudley Silvester, clericus. Mr. William Holtonford, master of the inne, and many other sufficient and wel-affected gentlemen. From Listelleth, October the 30th 1642.
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- A wonderfull and strange miracle or Gods just vengeance against the cavaliers Declaring how Mr. Andrew Stonsby, a cavalier under the command of the Lord Mohone at Listelleth in Cornwall, at the signe of the Dolphin, dranke a health to the devill. Daring him to come and pledge him, with many blasphemmous imprecations. Also how the devill appeared to him at that instant, so that he was distracted, and died raving and blaspheming, to the terrour and amazement of all the behoulders. Attested by Mr. Adam Nicholson, Cler. P. & Co. Mr. Dudley Silvester, clericus. Mr. William Holtonford, master of the inne, and many other sufficient and wel-affected gentlemen. From Listelleth, October the 30th 1642.
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- Hadfred, John.
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- London :: Printed for Henry Hutton,
- 1642.
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- Stonesby, Andrew, d. 1642.
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"A wonderfull and strange miracle or Gods just vengeance against the cavaliers Declaring how Mr. Andrew Stonsby, a cavalier under the command of the Lord Mohone at Listelleth in Cornwall, at the signe of the Dolphin, dranke a health to the devill. Daring him to come and pledge him, with many blasphemmous imprecations. Also how the devill appeared to him at that instant, so that he was distracted, and died raving and blaspheming, to the terrour and amazement of all the behoulders. Attested by Mr. Adam Nicholson, Cler. P. & Co. Mr. Dudley Silvester, clericus. Mr. William Holtonford, master of the inne, and many other sufficient and wel-affected gentlemen. From Listelleth, October the 30th 1642." In the digital collection Early English Books Online. https://name.umdl.umich.edu/A86322.0001.001. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed May 4, 2025.