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Mary Glover begins having vehement and terrible fits during the second day of her dispossession, which is "her fitt day, being every second day." These fits differ somewhat from her regular symptoms in many ways. They begin later than usual, at two in the afternoon rather than at noon. Further, these fits are characterized by blindness "accompanied with a pale dead colour of face and eyes closed (yet so, as you might perceiue the whyte of them to be turned up)," and dumbness, but unlike previous fits, "shee never came to haue freedome of speech till the whole fitt was ended." Further symptoms of her fit include "an heaving or swellinge in the bellie, breast, and throat," the "wagging of her chappe," and the "deadnes of the left side, with inflexible sifnes, of legg, arme, hand, and fingers." These symptoms all hit her in no particular sequence and last several hours, so that there was no coherence with previous fits Mary Glover experienced. These changes in her usual fits allowed her to be more communicative while being more terrifying.(16-17)
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1602, December 16 |
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Mary Glover prays performatively during her dispossession. During this, her first prayer, she is pious, forgives Elizabeth Jackson, the woman believed to be responsible for bewitching her, and implores God to forgive Jackson, too. She begins praying once she obtains the ability to speak during a fit. The preacher, Mr. Evans, continues to pray for her while she prays, some hour and a half. During her prayer, Mary Glover is described as "her face ruddie coloured, and directed vpward, her eye liddes a little opened, her handes both at once, (but not ioyned together) continually lifted vp and presently falling downe at the end of every period or perfect petition," causing many of the women in the company of twenty four people presently around her to cry openly, as Mary Glover does herself. However, at the end of her prayer, Mary Glover is so exhausted, she lapses yet again into a fit.(25-28)
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1602, December 16 |
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Mary Glover, a fourteen year old girl from London experiences several fits on the second day of her dispossession. These fits grow worse while she is being prayed for the preachers Mr. Swan, and Mr. Barber. However, she begins to revive when an "ancient" preacher, M. Evans, begins to pray for her, in front of a company of twenty four witnesses, including the student of divinity, John Swan. During her fits, Mary Glover's body twists and distorts, grows stiff as iron as testified by the witness Mr. Badger, and her mouth opens and shuts "very often without uttering any worde, (and theruppon a preacher called it a dumb spirit)," her eyes shut, her belly "greatly swoalne," her breast "bulking up," and her throat swells. However, when she begins to revive, she "began againe to speake," a sign that the fight with the Devil is in her favour. She utters the words, "Once more, once more" with deliberation. This leads into her third prayer of the dispossession.(37-38)
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Mary Glover experiences her worst fit before dispossession. She appears demonic and monstrous; she spits, rages, looks as though she will devour her witnesses. While the preacher Mr. Evans prays over Mary Glover, asking God "to rebuke this foule malitious Devill," she barks froth at him. At other times, her body contorts and twists, and her voice "at this time was lowd, tearfull and very strange, proceedinge from the throat." Often, she made noises that were inhuman, such as "cheh cheh" or "keck keck," and "she did very often, & vehemently straine to vomitt." During this fit, the preacher, Mr. Bridger, prays on one side of her bed, "mentioninge the seed of the woman that should breake the Serpents head." As Mary Glover's fit progressed, she tossed her head, and turned her body side to side, and many of the company present (Anonymous 437) were "fearfull, as, her hucklebone standing vp in her bellie at the place of her navell." Mr. Glover, her father wept outright at his daughter's torment, however, John Swan reassures him that if Mary Glover's fits were not so violent, "I should not looke for deliuerance." As Mr. Lewis Hughes, another preacher, prays louder and louder, Mary Glover raged all the more, contorting her body and with foam and "her breath enteringe into his throat," while her eyes were shut and her eyebrows raised, making "her to looke the more ghastly." She becomes so strong in her fit, that she manages to lift Mr. Lewes who held her in his arms as well. Several witnesses cry out "Jesus helpe!" The preachers believe the increased violence of her fits are "but a token of Satan's ruine not farr of."(40 - 44)
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1602, December 16 |
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Mary Glover, a fourteen year old girl from London afflicted by fits thought to be caused by the woman, Elizabeth Jackson, is allegedly dispossessed. The preacher Mr. Skelton begins to pray, and having continued awhile, Mary Glover "did fall downe suddenlye into the chaire," where she no longer moved, and with "her head hanging downward," seemed to be dead. This is accentuated by the pale colour of her face, and that her eyes were shut, and her body stiff. The student of divinity, John Swan, believes during this time that he did see "a thing creeping vnder one of her eye liddes, of the bignes of a peason." Suddenly, she is revived from this state, as if "life came into her whole body." Her eyes open, her tongue came into its right place, and her hands raise up; all signs of dispossession. Mary Glover, with "chearfull countenance" cries out at this moment, "he is come, he is come! The comforter is come, O Lord thou hast delivered me!" The company witness to her dispossession (Anonymous 437) rejoices, and Mary Glover proceeds to tell many of them "he is come, he is come!" All believe she is dispossessed.(46-47)
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During the second day of the alleged dispossession of Mary Glover, during which there has been fasting and prayer performed by a company (Anonymous 437) including six preachers: Mr. Skelton, Mr. Swan, Mr. Lewis Hughes, Mr. Barber, Mr. Evans, and Mr. Bridger, Mary Glover's mother asks how she fares during the prayers. Mary Glover replies that "she felt payne in her body, & wept and prayed God to be mercifull vnto her, and to help her," but that she was willing to proceed with the exorcism. She rubs down her left side in pain.(13)
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1602, December 16 |
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The exorcism of the fourteen year old girl from London, Mary Glover and her alleged possession, continues for a second day, on Thursday, December 16, 1602, through prayer and fasting starting at seven in the morning. This takes place at Mistress Radcliff's house in Shoreditch, London, in a company of twenty four witnesses, including six preachers: Mr. Skelton, John Swan who is a student of divinity, Mr. Barber, Mr. Evans, Mr. Lewis Hughes, and Mr. Bridger. Mary Glover, while present at these prayers, is sickly, as one "bewrayed affliction of mynd, and toment of body." This is exemplified by "greife of body, or infirmity of mynde, or meditation, or by fayling of sight (which seemed sometimes so to be, by the rubbinge of her eyes with her hand)," forcing Mary Glover to be constantly supported by a woman there to help her. The company is invited to prayer and meditation, until eventually Mr. Lewis Hughes, one of the preachers, leads the company in a prayer, which consist of "1 a precept to call, 2 the partie on whome, 3 the time when, 4 the promise of deliuerance 5 a duetie thervppon to be yealded." Mary Glover weeps during this sermon. When Mr. Lewis Hughes finishes, the company "finde in themselues an extradordinarie presence, and supply of God his gracious and powerfull spirit in them."(8-10)
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1602, December 16 |
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The preacher, Mr. Evans, while present at the second day of the alleged dispossession of Mary Glover, a fourteen year old girl from London, leads a company of twenty four people including five other preachers: Mr. Skelton, Mr. Swan, Mr. Barber, Mr. Bridger and Mr. Lewis Hughes; in a series of prayers for Mary Glover.(13-14)
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1602, December 16 |
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During the second day of Mary Glover, a fourteen year old girl from London's alleged dispossession, during which a company of preachers and family pray and fast for the girl, Mr. Evans, the preacher leading the prayers, calls for "a little pawse," upon noticing that Mary Glover was "wax pale coloured, weepinge, and answeringe faintly." The rest of the company disperses to "refresh themselues," however, John Swan, a student of divinity, stays behind to record his observations. He then falls upon Mary Glover sitting, "weepinge bitterly, wringing her handes extreamly, complaining of vuacustomed payne, yea castinge out wordes of feare that God would not heare vs in calling on him for her so wretched a creature." John Swan attests that most "Doctour of Phisicke" claim that many are cured of strange diseases "even of the mother" as some doctors claim Mary Glover is, with the apprehension that prayer and fasting will cure them. However, the weepings and worries of Mary Glover as "she vttered wordes of doubt, distrust, yea, of dreadfull dispaire" is evidence that she suffered not from a disease.(14-15)
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1602, December 16 |
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After breaking from praying for a rest, a company of twenty four people, including six preachers: Mr. Skelton, Mr. Swan, Mr. Barber, Mr. Bridger and Mr. Lewis Hughes; resume praying for Mary Glover, a fourteen year old girl from London allegedly suffering from possession caused by the woman, Elizabeth Jackson. These prayers are led in turn by Mr. Bridger, Mr. Barber, who explains that the Church is practiced in the relief and recovery of cases such as Mary Glover's, and Mr. Lewis Hughes; these men are often described as "soldiers" in the fight against Satan during the dispossession.(17-18)
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1602, December 16 |
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The student of divinity, John Swan consults the preacher Mr. Lewe on observing during prayers that the fourteen year old girl, Mary Glover, who allegedly suffers from fits caused by possession. Mr. Lewe informs John Swan that he believes Mary Glover had "remained in reasonable good peace and ease" for some time after a violent fit during prayers, and he hoped that this would continue and that "Satan would steale away like a micher." John Swan admits that he would be happy if this did occur, but rather believes that considering the severity of Mary Glover's fits, Satan would "not be so gentle, as to begon without a partting blowe," especially considering that in recent times, Satan took fewer and fewer people by possession, and so was all the more violent with them. (21)
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1602, December 16 |
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On the second day of the dispossession of Mary Glover, a fourteen year old girl from London who alleged suffers from fits caused by the woman, Elizabeth Jackson, the girl Mary Glover began to recover from her first "unnatural fit" while Mr. Evans, a preacher, prayed. After "a good whyle," Mary Glover can feel her left side again, which is usually senseless during a fit, and the girl "began to gaspe, and to striue to speake." At first, her voice is soft, but becomes increasingly louder, until all present, including the student of divinity John Swan, could hear her saying, "Almost, Almost." A young gentleman who "is one of the Innes of Courte", Mr. Oliver, upon hearing her speak, was so overjoyed, he could barely speak. He claims it is the first time Mary Glover has ever been able to use "free libertie of speech" during a fit.(21 - 22)
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1602, December 16 |
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| 2585 |
After falling into a fit brought on by exhaustion during her first prayer on the second day of her dispossession, the prayers for the fourteen year old girl from London, Mary Glover, are led in turn by the preachers Mr. Swan, Mr. Skelton, and Mr. Evans. These prayers are carried on until Mary Glover, "though shee were deafe (as we thought) yea dumbe and blind, yet shee turned her body [...] with all violence and gasping," began to speak words again, a positive sign during a fit. At first her voice was soft, but became louder, until it was heard that she was saying "Once more, once more." Immediately after, she began her second prayer.(28 - 29)
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1602, December 16 |
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During the second day of the dispossession of Mary Glover, a fourteen year old girl from London allegedly suffering from fits caused by the woman, Elizabeth Jackson, the girl prays performatively during her dispossession for a second time. This prayer is said to have last longer than the first prayer, and her voice described as "waxing stronger" throughout the duration. Mary Glover calls upon God to forgive her sins, and those of others, and to grant her the strength to cast out Satan from within her. However, she collapses into a third fit, "which also grewe more greivious then the former."(32-33)
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1602, December 16 |
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Mary Glover prays performatively during her alleged dispossession. During this, her third prayer, she asks that God give her patience and faith to resist Satan. This prayer lasted longer than an hour and a half, and often "repeating thinges formerly mentioned," was deemed to be quite effective by John Swan, a student of divinity. Her prayer ended near six in the evening, and preceded the worst fit she would experience during her alleged dispossession.(38-39)
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1602, December 16 |
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Upon her dispossession, Mary Glover, a fourteen year old girl from London who suffers from an affliction thought to be brought on by the woman, Elizabeth Jackson, begins her fourth prayer. This fourth prayer is "a most sweet prayer of thanksgivinge," wherein she thanks God for granting her mercy, and asks to be made "like a new borne babe," so she may continue to resist Satan. Following this, when the girl's voice "grew weake", the company present at her dispossession (Anonymous 437) continues with prayers of their own thanks, led in turn by the preachers Mr. Skelton, Mr. Lewis Hughes and Mr. Bridger. Mr. Lewis Hughes was called upon to speak in particular, as he "had begun the day with prayer." A number of witnesses agree to take care and discretion in publishing "this great worke of God." The girl Mary Glover is reassured by her kinsman that she is "now againe one of us," as well as her father and her mother. The student of divinity, John Swan, speaks to her, and "bidd her grow in comforte and courage," reassuring her that "the mayne battle is fought," and that everything will get better from here on out. (48-49)
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1602, December 16 |
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Upon the alleged dispossession of Mary Glover, she cries out with "chearfull countenance" at this moment, "he is come, he is come! The comforter is come, O Lord thou hast delivered me!" Her father weeps when he hears this, believing he hears a miracle. He claims that "these were her Grandfathers words (Robert Glover) when he was at the stake in Smithfield, and the fire crackling about him," in the "Queen Mary days," when Robert Glover was burned for being Anglican.(47)
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17 records returned.