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 strangely affected when the first verse of St. John's Gospel was read unto her in our translation, was tame and quiet whilst the same was pronounced in Greek, her English devil, belike, understanding no other language. The frequency of such forged possessions, wrought such an alteration upon the judgement of King James, that he, receding from what he had written in his Demonologie, grew first diffident of, and then flatly to deny the working of witches and devils, as but falsehoods and delusions."

The manners of Charles the Second's reign began under James the First. "Divers sects and particular titles past unpunished, nor regarded, as the sect of the Roaring Boys, Boneventors, Bravadors, Quarterors, and such like, being persons prodigall, and of great expence, who having runne themselves into debt, were constrained to run into factions to defend themselves from danger of the