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<P>A Full and True ACCOUNT Both of the <HI>LIFE:</HI> And al&s;o the Manner and Method of carrying on the <HI>Delu&s;ions, Bla&s;phemies,</HI> and <HI>Notorious Cheats</HI> of <HI>Su&s;an Fowls.</HI> As the &s;ame was <HI>Contrived, Plotted, In|vented,</HI> and <HI>Managed</HI> by wicked <HI>Popi&s;h Prie&s;ts</HI> and other <HI>Papi&s;ts,</HI> with a <HI>De|&s;ign</HI> to <HI>&s;candalize</HI> our <HI>Church</HI> and <HI>Mi|ni&s;ters,</HI> by in&s;inuating that the <HI>Virtue of Ca&s;ting forth Devils,</HI> and <HI>Ea&s;ing Per|&s;ons Po&s;&s;e&s;s'd</HI> was only in the <HI>Power</HI> of their <HI>Church.</HI></P>
<P>As al&s;o, Of her TRYAL and <HI>Sentence</HI> at the <HI>Old&punc; Baily,</HI> the <HI>7th</HI> of this in&s;tant <HI>May,</HI> for <HI>Bla&s;pheming</HI> JESUS CHRIST, and <HI>Cur|&s;ing</HI> the LORD's PRAYER.</P>
<P>LONDON, Printed for <HI>J. Read</HI> in <HI>Fleet-&s;treet,</HI> 1608.</P>
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<HEAD>A full and True Account of the Fir&s;t Begining, and the man|ner and method of Carrying on the Delu&s;ions, Blaphemies, and notorious Cheats of <HI>Su&s;annah Fowles,</HI> &amp;c.</HEAD>
<P><HI>THo' by a wonderful Providence,</HI> God <HI>in his infinite Kindne&s;s to this our Nation has freed us from the Yoke and Tyranny of Popery, yet &s;uch are the re&s;t|le&s;s endeavours of the bu&s;y Agents and Incen|daries of</HI> Rome, <HI>that they &s;till privately lurk about like Wolves in Sheeps Cloathing, &s;eeking whom they may devour, of the&s;e it was of whom the Apo&s;tle &s;ays,</HI> they creep into Hou&s;es, and lead captive &s;illy women laden with Sins, <HI>&amp;c. The de&s;igns of the Je&s;uits are to bring a Scandal upon our Church and Church|men, that &s;o by di&s;gracing and le&s;&s;ening them they may the more commodiou&s;ly extol and mag+nifie them&s;elves, as evidently appears by their wicked tampering with one</HI> Su&s;annah Fowls
<PB N="3" REF="2"> <HI>a poor ignorant Woman, Wife to an hone&s;t Labourer in</HI> Hammer&s;mith, <HI>whom they per|&s;waded, for filthy Gain, to counterfeit her &s;elf Po&s;&s;e&s;t; that &s;o it might happen when the <GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 letter">n|deavours of our Prote&s;tant Divines fail'd, they of the Popi&s;h Communion, might &s;eem to have the virtue, power, and efficacy to Cast out Devils: But to be methodical.</HI></P>
<P>One <HI>Jordan</HI> a Papi&s;t, &s;eems to be the principal Promoter of this Bla&s;phemous Delu&s;ion, which, for &s;ome time pa&s;t, has made a great Rumour both in Town and Country. The pretences of this <HI>Fowle's</HI> Accomplices were, That upon &s;ome Di&s;|content &s;he had wi&s;hed &s;everal unlawful Wi&s;hes, &s;uch as, <HI>That the Devil might fetch her.</HI> Cur&s;ed her &s;elf, <HI>if &s;he would live &s;uch a Life,</HI> &amp;c. And &s;he upon being vi&s;ited &s;aid, She &s;aw an Apparition in the &s;hape of a Man, and afterwards &s;eem'd to be P<GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 letter">&s;&s;e&s;s'd with a Devil, and had &s;eeming|ly dreadful Fits, indeed very artificially counter&s;eited; and made a great noi<GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 letter">e at Prayers, &s;ometimes &s;he &s;aid the Devil ap|pear'd in one &s;hape, and then in <GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 letter">n<GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 letter">ther, and at the end of her Fits would com|monly make two or three di&s;mal Squeeks
<PB N="4" REF="3"> and &s;ay, <HI>Now he is gone.</HI></P>
<P>Nay, to &s;uch a hight was her Bla&s;phe|my grown, that on the <HI>1s.</HI> of <HI>January</HI> la&s;t, upon one of the Vi&s;iters repeating the Words <HI>Lord &s;ave us,</HI> &s;he &s;aid, <HI>I'll &s;ave you;</HI> and frequently upon reading the Lords Prayer, to her, &s;he &s;aid, <HI>Cur&s;e it, Dami it, Sink it;</HI> and upon repeating the Words, <HI>I believe in God the Father Allmigh|ty,</HI> &s;he &s;aid, that's me; and at repeating the Words, <HI>And in Je&s;us Chri&s;t his only Son,</HI> &s;he &s;aid <HI>that's my Son.</HI> At another time when the Words <HI>Lord &s;ave us,</HI> were again repeated to her, &s;he &s;aid, <HI>I'll &s;ave you, I came to &s;ave you all, for which I &s;hed my Blood.</HI> And always at the Naming of <HI>Je&s;us</HI> &s;he would &s;ay, <HI>Cur&s;e him, Cur&s;e him.</HI></P>
<P>Yet for all this our Prote&s;tant Divines were too knowing to be impos'd on by &s;uch feigned delu&s;ions, they fir&s;t ob&s;erv'd &s;he never chang'd her Countenance dur|ing the time of her Fits, which together with divers Methods which were us'd to make her believe they were at Prayers, when they were not, increa&s;ed the Be|lief &s;he was a Cheat.</P>
<P>She &s;aid, that &s;he had a Needle and P<GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 letter">per in writing given her by the Devil;
<PB N="5" REF="3"> and that &s;he had a Spell given her to put about her Neck by one <HI>Jordan</HI> a Papi&s;t, &s;ome of which Profe&s;&s;ion &s;he &s;aid had &s;ent to her &s;everal times, and told her &s;he would never be cured till the Men with hair Coats and bare Legs came from the <HI>Portugal</HI> Emba&s;&s;ador's: Which &s;ome of the Mini&s;ters, who were Vi&s;iters and E|vidence again&s;t the Pri&s;oner, declared, encrea&s;ed their belief that it was a trick of the Papi&s;ts to obtain the Credit of hav|ing done that which Prote&s;tants could not, <HI>viz.</HI> to ca&s;t out the Devil. It was al&s;o ob&s;erv'd that at repeating the Lords Prayer in Latin, &s;he did not fall into her Fits as u&s;ual when 'twas &s;aid in Engli&s;h, which was a further Confirmation of the Cheat,</P>
<P>To prove which more fully, one of her Vi&s;iters heated an Iron; and when the Mini&s;ter was at Prayer, and &s;he in her Fits as u&s;ual, even when &s;he pretend|ed to be in&s;en&s;ible, he put it to her Hand, which &s;he drew away from it as &s;oon as it touch'd her; and filling a Pipe of To|bacco, he blew the Smoke of it into her Face, which was like to have &s;tifled her: And afterwards di&s;gui&s;ing him&s;elf in an
<PB N="6" REF="4"> ugly dre&s;s, entered the Room where &s;he was alone; upon which &s;he immediately run out, &s;aying it was the Devil, and was much frightned; which was a fur|ther demon&s;tration &s;he was a Cheat. Af|ter which the Evidence threatning to knock her on the head if &s;he would not confe&s;s the Cheat, &s;he did it freely, and &s;aid 'twas purely to get money, which &s;he al&s;o own'd to &s;ome others of the Evi|dence,</P>
<P>After all this, being had before a Ju|&s;tice, her Mittimus was made, and &s;he &s;ent to <HI>Newgate:</HI> and on <HI>Saturday</HI> the <HI>7th</HI> of <HI>May</HI> 1698. &s;he was Indicted at the Se&s;&s;ions Hou&s;e in the <HI>Old-Baily,</HI> for utter|ing Bla&s;phemous Words again&s;t <HI>Je&s;us Chri&s;t,</HI> and Cur&s;ing and Damning the Lords Prayer.</P>
<P>The pri&s;oner in her Defence &s;aid, that great Troubles had occa&s;ioned her to fall into a di&s;t<GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 letter">acted condi|tion, and that &s;he knew not what &s;he did; that &s;he did verily believe &s;he was either troubled with a De|vil,
<PB N="7" REF="4"> or bewitchd; that <HI>Jordan</HI> the papi&s;t had given her things both in|wardly and outwardly; and that what &s;he had confe&s;t, was only to avoid being carried to pri&s;on. But all this being look'd upon as frivo|lous and eva&s;ion, and the Evidence being very full and clear, the Jury brought her in Guilty.</P>
<P><HI>She was &s;entenc'd by the Court to pay a Fine of 100 Marks, and to lie in Pri&s;on till it be paid; to &s;tand three times on the Pillory, <HI>viz.</HI> at the <HI>May|pole</HI> in the <HI>Strand,</HI> at <HI>Cha|ringcro&s;s,</HI> and at <HI>Hammer|&s;mith;</HI> and &s;o to find Surety for her good Behaviour fro a Twelve-month.</HI></P>
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<P>As to what remains further to be &s;poken, tho' the fore-mention'd Ac|count will make the greate&s;t part in Hi&s;tory, He<GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 letter"> pa<GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 letter">ents were good &s;o|ber, and hone&s;t Livers, but too neg+ligent of &s;ea&s;oning her tender years with the &s;ound principles of our ex|cellent Faith, which gave her Ene|mies too ea&s;y a Victory over her and I have rea&s;on to believe, he Marriage-&s;tate was too unadvized|ly ru&s;h'd in to, without a due con|&s;ideration how it would entangl<GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 letter"> her in the World, which was the occa&s;ion of her making &s;ome hor+rid Wi&s;hes and Imprecations. To conclude, I heartily advize, all pa|rents to give their Children Chri|&s;tian Education, and all per&s;ons o<GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 letter"> what &s;tation &s;oever, not to moc<GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 letter"> or prophane the Almighty, for Hi<GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 letter"> Vengeance will certainly, &s;ooner o<GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 letter"> later &s;everely over-take them.</P>
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