lead: for then another puting blacke lead into his mouth, shall their by
be made able to foame also which I thinke non of vnderstanding will
affirme: and triall therof may soone be made: 3 we speake of a ••••ming
in the time of his first possession, now foaming, and then foaming, spe¦cially
in great abundance the day of his dispossession: and this blacke
lead from whence his foaming should come, he had onely once in his
mouth, when he was at Garlands house, as is plaine by the depositions
concerning the same, which was almost 20. weekes after the foaming
wee speake off. Now although blacke lead may peradventure haue
such an odd mysticall qualitie as is pretended, yet it could not (sure)
cause him to foame, so long and so many weekes before he had it. For
theiris no body that deposeh to any blacke lead: then and if he had
had any we should no doubt haue heard of it: nay So. himselfe depos¦eth
no such thinge: but by this deposition we may rather coniecture,
that if the diuell caused not his foaming, but himselfe, then it came by
rolling a stone or soape in his mouth, for so saith he I taught him to doe,
that he might the better foame, But how doth the Discouerer proue
that Somers foaming came of blacke lead? besides Somers testimonie,
by the depositions of two witnesses. In one fitte I saw William Somers
(saith Edmond Garland) froath at the movth very much, so as the foame
roaped downe into his necke: and at on time I found a peece of blacke lead
in his mouth. He doth not say, and at the same time, vz. that he foam∣ed,
I found a peece et: but, and at one time I found et: meaninge, another
time. So that by this deposition it should seeme, that Somers foamed
not when the blacke lead was in his mouth. From hence then we can
no more conclude that So. foaming came from this peece of blacke lead
in his mouth, then from the morsels of bread, and gobbetes of fleshe,
which he likewise hath had in his mouth. But George Richardson depos¦eth
more fully: In a fitt he foamed (saith he) excedingly, and I hereing a∣kind
of grating of some what betwixt his teeth, tould Garland the boyes kee¦per:
whervpon Garland taking him by the heaire of the head, and I by his
mouth, we shooke out of his mouth a pecce of blacke lead.
Darrell.
I will not stand heare to shew the falshod of mans deposition, but
onely I aske, what and if So. instead of the black lead, had in his mouth
a stone, or pine? had the same caused his foaming both at that time, &
lo••ge before? For I doubt not but that either of these hath as we•••• that
vertue and workinge quallitie in it as blacke lead hath: I am tru••e a∣shamed
to vse so many wordes about that which deserueth rather to
be laughed at, then answered: but the folly of these who beleeiuinge
this haue in good earnest obiected it against me, as a matter of ••o∣ment,
hath thus farr constrained me.