Page:The Damnable Life and Death of One Stubbe Peeter.djvu/18

, and he appeered preently in his true hape & likenes, hauing in his hand a taffe as one walking toward the Cittie, but the hunters whoe eyes was tedfatly bent vpon the beat, and eeing him in the ame place metamorphoed contrary to their expectation: it wrought a wonderfull amazement in their mindes, and had it not beene that they knewe the man o oone as they awe him, they had urely taken the ame to haue beene ome Deuill in a mans likenes, but for as much as they knewe him to be an auncient dweller in the Towne, they came vnto him, and talking with him they brought him by communication home to his owne houe, and finding him to be the man indeede, and no deluion or phantaticall motion, they had him incontinent before the Maietrates to be examined.

Thus being apprehended, he was hortly after put to the racke in the Towne of Bedbur, but fearing the torture, he volluntarilye confeed his whole life, and made knowen the villanies which he had committed for the pace of xxv. yeeres, alo he cōfeed how by Sorcery he procured of the Deuill a Girdle, which beeing put on, he