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.

Darrell.

It is very true that is said here of a fit that So. had before cer∣taine weomen, and is as true that the same day or day before he had an other in the garden before M. Freeman and some other: vpon the sight whereof, because of his greuous beating of himself, with his face groueling and tongue thrust into the moulds, wallowing, & foming, he the said M. Freeman affirmed, that he had the falling sicknesse, and this was presently bruited throughout Nottingham. If So. were weary of his relapse or pretending to be reposs••ssed. that is of counterfeyting, & said vnto Cooper, that his desire was to be at S. Ioanes, and that so at the l••ngth he might be quiet an•• giue ouer his counterfeyting, as is said in this very page, and in the lea••e before why did he fall to the doinge of his tricks againe after he was at S. Ioanes? It is absurd to say that

he did thus, because the weomen did bemone him for the weomen being remoued or as Cooper deposeth page 193. put ••ut of the house, and so de¦parted, he was st••ll at his tricks: It cannot therefore be that he did at this time his tricks because of the ••eomen: neither becaus be thought men tooke some pleasure to behold him, and for that cause himself in the a••ti••ge of them. Neither can it be that Shepheard and Cooper did threaē him, that the weomē or any other might see, that they could make him leaue his tricks, and all his knauery: seeinge the weomen were gone home, and they two alone with Som. in his fit, when they did threaten him. Moreouor, it is confessed that So. at S••m Ioanes in a fit, being threatned by Co••per to be whipped, and by Shepheard to be pin¦ched with a paire of knipknaps, did therevpon presently leaue his tricks, and had no more fits, whilest he was at S. Ioanes: It cannot therefore be that So. left his counterf••yting, because he grew (a) weary thereof, and did of himselfe goe to S. Ioanes to be (a) quyet, and that he confessed so∣much to Cooper before he came to S. Ioanes, as the Disc. affirmeth page 152. and 178. And this is the 11. time the Discouerer is conuinced by his Discouery.

VVe are besides to obserue heere, first that this confession of counterfeyting was got, by one Nich. Shepheard, and Iohn Cooper two very dissolute and infamous men. I remember in a certificate made by one of Nott. to the Arch-bishop of York, wherevnto many of the chief of Nott. subscribed, there were these wordes vsed concerninge these honest men, that t••ey were twoo rak••shames, the better of them hauing bene twise (o) araigned. 2. that these were fit instrumentes for Sathan to worke by, 3. that Som. confession of counterfeytinge was not voluntary, but extorted & by threats compassed.

Notes

• pag 152. & 178.
• pag. 19••. See then good reader 〈◊〉〈◊〉 this Dis••o crosieth & entangleth him∣selfe for yf this ••••pposed coun∣t••rfeyt. did giue oue•• his trickes: for th••eates o••∣feare, how then did he grow we ar•• of them, or did volunta••••ly reu••e himselfe to be quiet.
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  and yet 〈◊〉〈◊〉 good ••u∣ough against Darrell.