A detection of that sinnful, shamful, lying, and ridiculous discours, of Samuel Harshnet. entituled: A discouerie of the fravvdulent practises of Iohn Darrell wherein is manifestly and apparantly shewed in the eyes of the world. not only the vnlikelihoode, but the flate impossibilitie of the pretended counterfayting of William Somers, Thomas Darling, Kath. Wright, and Mary Couper, togeather with the other 7. in Lancashire, and the supposed teaching of them by the saide Iohn Darrell.
Darrel, John, b. ca. 1562.
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Yea but quoth the is• M. Dar: himselfe conseseth somwhat which tendeth to the confirmation of this his second conserence with Somers:* For beinge deposed he acknowledged, that he sent William Langford that morning t• take order for the presēt bringing of So. to Smales house, & that M. Lang sorde brought him word, that as soone as he speake of the boyes •emouinge, he was presently cast into asore fit. And againe, in his historie be hath these words: The boy was brought by 6 or 7 strong men, who had all of them enough to doe, to bringe him to the next conuenient and seemlye roome, to th• place of his aboade.
