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48 while he was at dinner, and carried into the air, three times round about the town of Maſcon, in the ſight of many ſpectators, to whom he cried out, Help, help my friends; ſo that the whole town ſtood amazed thereat; yea, the remembrance of this ſtrange accident continued in the minds of the inhabitants in and about that country long after with horror. It was reported, that this wretch had given himſelf to the devil, and had provided ſtore of holy bread (as they called it) which he always carried about with him thinking thereby to ſecure himſelf from him; but it ſerved to little purpoſe, as the ſequel declared.

IX. About the year 1437, Charles VII. being King of France, Sir Giles of Britain, high conſtable of France, was accuſed for having murdered above an hundred and threeſcore infants, and women with child, with whoſe blood he writ, or cauſed be written, books full of conjuration, hoping by ſuch abominable practices to obtain great preferment, but it happened quite contrary to his expectation; for being convicted of theſe horrible crimes, (it being the divine will that ſuch groſs and horrid iniquities ſhould not go unpuniſhed) he was condemned to be hanged and burnt to death, which was accordingly executed upon him at Nants by the authority of the Duke of Brittany.—Beard's Theatre

X. Johan. Mirandula ſaith, that there was in his time a conjurer, who promiſed to preſent to a curious, but no very wiſe prince, the ſiege of Troy, and Hector and Achilles fighting together as if they were alive upon a ſtage, but he could not be ſo good as his word; for while he was practiſing his