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Updated: August 8, 2024
Thomas Ady, who in 1656 issued his Candle in the Dark, mentioned the "Berry Assizes" and remarked that some credulous people had published a book about it. He thought criticism deserved for taking the evidence of the gaoler, whose profit lay in having the greatest possible number executed. We have already described Hopkins as a man of action.
There is said to be no darkness in the world sufficient to conceal objects entirely; but here there was, in addition to the attenuated beam, the white dress of Ady, and the bed where Kalee lay. Janet had described it, and the table and the chair: what more than the bare walls was there to describe? Nothing.
He looked over the dark abode, up at the moon, then at the prostrate Ady, and thought of the distance between that prisoner and the gay palace where she was brought up, with its paradise of flowers, and aromas, and singing birds of gold and azure far away, far away. And then that blood-written oath oh, so literally fulfilled and obeyed! But the thought was evanescent from very fear.
"Naw, Miss Ady, dinna turn awa' fram a puir body, that was overtook ance or twice with the whiskey, when a was tired and worrit for want o' sleep. I wad nae ha' hurt a hair o' the gentelman's head. An' I wad like the preevaleege o' wrappin' some blankets round him an' puttin' some bottles o' hot water to his feet".
He felt that a great part of the evidence used was worth little or nothing. Thomas Ady's Candle in the Dark was published three years later. Even more than Filmer, Ady was a disciple of Scot. But he was, indeed, a student of all English writers on the subject and set about to answer them one by one.
An instant served for some communication between her and Janet. Then a shrill scream from Ady, a running hither and thither on the part of the male figure, and at length, darting into the wood, he disappeared. Aminadab now saw Janet go into the house. Was all over? Aminadab could not tell. Ady still hung round the Cradle. She even circled it like a hovering ghost. At length she neared the door.
I said, God forgive me, that I had seen it in the dung-pit, and that George had carted it away. 'And didn't know de value! cried Ady. 'Worth de necklace of diamonds; and both she and Kalee broke out into such a yell as made the house ring. Yet with all this, Kalee still loved the gloomy man.
At the same instant Ady rose, as if disturbed, and ran to the house. Yet the moaning did not cease. It seemed interminable; or, if to be terminated by the absence of Ady, the sufferer did not know she was gone. And oh, these wails! Aminadab fled and took them along with him, nor did they ever leave him.
"Shure, and I will, if ye say so, Miss Ady". The poor shiftless thing having placed the baby on the floor again, began to stir about and make ready. Adèle sat poking and turning over the chubby little Johnny with her foot.
They were compelled to offer explanations of the mysteries of witchcraft, they were ready enough to make admissions; but they were nevertheless sticking closely to the main doctrines. It is a pleasure to turn to the writings of two men of somewhat bolder stamp, Robert Filmer and Thomas Ady.
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