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At Bilson in the Parish of Wolverhampton in Stafford-shire there was a Boy named William Perry, Son of Tho. Perry, who seemed to be bewitched or possessed with a Devil: (about thirteen years old, but of special wit above his age.) In his fits he seemed to be deaf, and blind, writhing his mouth aside, continually ⟨p. 186⟩groaning and panting, and when he was pricked, pinched, whipped, he seemed not to feel. He seemed to take no food that would digest, but with it cast up rags, thread, straw, pins, &c. his belly almost as flat as his back, his throat swelled and hard, his tongue stiff and rolled up towards the roof of his mouth, so that he seemed always dumb, save that once in a fortnight or three weeks he would speak a few words. It was thought he was bewitched by one Joan Cocks, because 1. He would discern when that woman was brought into the room, though it were secretly done, as was tried before the Grand Jury at Stafford. 2. He would not endure the repeating of the first verse of John, [In the beginning was the word, &c.] but other texts he would endure. When the Parents had been a while wearied with him, and the Country flocked in to see him, a Priest of the Romish Religion was invited to cure him. The Priest exorcised, him praying in Latin over him, hanging a stone about his neck, washing him with Holy water, Witch water, and anointing him with Holy Oil, &c. which seemed to ease him, and make him speak, and sometime cure him for the time. They Hallowed all his meat and drink: He would not so much as eat Raisins, or smell to flowers, unless they were blest by the Priest: He told them that while the Puritans stood by him he saw the Devil assault him in the shape of a black bird. The Priest requireth the chief fiend to show himself: then the boy puts out his tongue swelled: The Priest commandeth him to show the People by the sheet before him, how he would use those that dyed out of the Roman Catholic Church. Whereupon he pulls, and bites, and tosseth the sheet, till the people cry out and weep. Then he commandeth the Devil to tell him, how he did use Luther, Calvin and John Fox: and he playeth the same part more fiercely then before. Then the Priest commands him to show what power he had of a good Catholic that dyed out of mortal sin: and then he thrust down his arms, and hanged down his head, and trembled.

At Bilson in the Parish of Wolverhampton in Stafford-shire there was a Boy named William Perry, Son of Tho. Perry, who seemed to be bewitched or possessed with a Devil: (about thirteen years old, but of special wit above his age.) In his fits he seemed to be deaf, and blind, writhing his mouth aside, continually