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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.
Mistris Peckham had a nightingale, which she kept in a cage, wherein Maister Dibdale took great delight, and would often be playing with it. The treatment to which, in consequence of his belief in possession, unfortunate persons like Mainy and Sommers, who were probably only suffering from some harmless form of mental disease, were subjected, was hardly calculated to effect a cure.
"A great search was made in the house to know how the said halter and knife-blades came thither, but it could not in any wise be found out, as it was pretended, till Master Mainy in his next fit said, as it was reported, that the devil layd them in the gallery, that some of those that were possessed might either hang themselves with the halter, or kill themselves with the blades."
John Gourlay, who has been the foremost man in the town for mainy years at least he used to be that I call upon Mr. Gourlay as the first to express an opinion on the subjeck." Wilson's hint to the Provost placed Gourlay in a fine dilemma. Stupid as he was, he was not so stupid as not to perceive the general advantage of the railway.
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