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Several dissenting clergymen had opposed the publication of The Surey Demoniack, and had sought to have it suppressed. See The Lancashire Levite Rebuked, 2. Hutchinson had made an investigation of the case when in Bury, and he had also Holt's notes of the trial. Hutchinson had Holt's notes on this case, as on the preceding; ibid., 45.
George H. Jackson a negro, came forward and told a very plain straight-forward story of having driven, Jackson, Walling and Pearl Bryan in a surey drawn by a gray horse from Cincinnati to the scene of the murder.
"N. N.," in The Lancashire Levite Rebuked, also assumes that Carrington was the author. It is interesting that Zachary Taylor's father was a Non-Conformist; see The Lancashire Levite Rebuked, 2. London, 1697. The Devil Turned Casuist. A Vindication of the Surey Demoniack, 17.
The affair started at the village of Surey, near to the superstition-brewing Pendle Forest. The possessed boy, Richard Dugdale, was a gardener and servant about nineteen years of age. In April, 1689, he was seized with fits in which he was asserted to speak Latin and Greek and to preach against the sins of the place. Whatever his pretensions were, he seemed a good subject for exorcism.
He hastened to publish The Surey Impostor, in which, with a very good will, he made an assault upon the reality of Dugdale's fits, charged that he had been pre-instructed by the Catholics, and that the Non-Conformist clergymen were seeking a rich harvest from the miracles they should work. Self-glorification was their aim.
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