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.
Darrell:

In my answere to the 8 chap: of my 2 booke, I haue shewed, that howsoeuer Sathan doth (no doubt) ordinarilie depriue those he pos∣sesseth in their sites, of their internall and externall senses, yet not all wayes, but can and doth by his slyghts so order the matter, as that the possessed haue many times their senses & vnderstanding in as good measure as those that are not possessed, a thinge that I haue allwayes held, and neuer sence I came to any iudgment affirmed the contrarie. Vnlesse therfore the Disc. had proued that So: in all his fits had his per fecte sences and vnderstanding, (which he neither doth nor by any pos∣sibilitie can doe) he saith nothing at all against my assertion, but fight¦eth with his owne shadow, & confuteth a forgerie of his owne, which he faslye chargeth vpon me.