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Updated: June 19, 2025
After his examination by Harsnet in 1602, Mainy seems to have sunk into the insignificant position which he was so calculated to adorn, and nothing more is heard of him; so the references to him must be accidental merely.
The following are the chief parts of the account given by Harsnet of the exorcism of Mainy by Weston a most extraordinary transaction, said to be taken from Weston's own account of the matter.
But more interesting, and more important for the present purpose, are the cases of possession that were dealt with by Father Parsons and his colleagues in 1585-6, and of which Dr. Harsnet gave such a highly spiced and entertaining account in his "Declaration of Egregious Popish Impostures," first published in the year 1603.
The performances which Harsnet examined into took place chiefly in the house of Lord Vaux at Hackney, and of one Peckham at Denham, in the end of the year 1585 and the beginning of 1586.
Here is a specimen of the "nicknames" which had so potent an effect, if Harsnet is to be credited:
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