The Lancashire Witches: A Romance of Pendle Forest, Volume 1B. Tauchnitz, 1849 - London (England) |
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Page 149 - I trust will be long and prosperous, he hath passed a statute, whereby it is enacted 'that all persons invoking any evil spirit, or consulting, covenanting with, entertaining, employing, feeding, or rewarding any evil spirit. Or taking up dead bodies from their graves to be used in any witchcraft, sorcery, charm, or enchantment. Or killing or otherwise hurting any person by such infernal arts, shall be guilty of felony without benefit of clergy, and suffer death.
Page 53 - Et ab hoedis me sequestra. Statuens in parte dextra. Confutatis maledictis, Flammis acribus addictis, Voca me cum benedictis. Oro supplex et acclinis, Cor contritum quasi cinis : Gere curam mei finis. Lacrymosa dies ilia, Qua resurget ex favilla, Judicandus homo reus. Huic ergo parce Deus, Pie Jesu, Domine, Dona eis requiem.
Page 121 - Not a man in the country could ride harder, hunt deer, unkennel fox, unearth badger, or spear otter, better than he. And then, as to tippling, he would sit you a whole afternoon at the ale-house, and be the merriest man there, and drink a bout with every farmer present. And if the...
Page 102 - ... cheeks, that she might have been taken for a personification of May herself. She was indeed in the very May of life — the mingling of spring and...
Page 150 - I. c. 12, that all persons invoking any evil spirit, or consulting, covenanting with, entertaining, employing, feeding, or rewarding, any evil spirit; or taking up dead bodies from their graves to be used in any witchcraft, sorcery, charm, or enchantment; or killing or otherwise hurting any person by such infernal arts, should be guilty of felony without benefit of clergy, and suffer death.
Page 121 - And then, as to tippling, he would sit you a whole afternoon at the alehouse, and be the merriest man there, and drink a bout with every farmer present. And if the parson chanced to be out of hearing, he would never make a mouth at a round oath, nor choose a second expression when the first would serve his turn. Then, who so constant at church or lecture as Squire Nicholas — though he did...
Page 149 - ... examined, and if found innocent cleared ; if not, punished according to the statute. Our soverign lord the king holdeth witches in especial abhorrence, and would gladly see all such noxious vermin extirpated from the land, and it will rejoice me to promote his laudable designs. . . . He is never so pleased as when the truth of his tenets are proved by such secret offenders being brought to light, and duly punished.
Page 279 - She must come to, and she shall come to, and she must come whether she will or no.' Then he lays down the cushion before a woman, on which she kneels and he kisses her, singing, ' Welcom, Joan Sanderson, welcom, welcom.
Page 122 - Downham, possessed of a very athletic form, and a most vigorous constitution, which helped him, together with the prodigious exercise he took, through any excess. He had a sanguine complexion, with a broad, good-natured visage, which he could lengthen at will in a surprising manner. His hair was cropped close to his head, and the razor did daily duty over his cheek and chin, giving him the Roundhead look, some years later characteristic of the Puritanical party.
Page 121 - And then as to tippling, he would sit you a whole afternoon at the ale-house and be the merriest man there, and drink a bout with every farmer present. And, if the parson chanced to be out of hearing, he would never make a mouth of a round oath, nor choose a second expression when the first would serve his turn. Then who so constant at church or lecture as Squire Nicholas ? though he did sometimes snore at the long sermons of his cousin, the rector of...