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ded, and he appeered preſently in his true ſhape & likenes, hauing in his hand a ſtaffe as one walking toward the Cittie, but the hunters whoſe eyes was ſtedfaſtly bent vpon the beaſt, and ſeeing him in the ſame place metamorphoſed contrary to their expectation: it wrought a wonderfull amazement in their mindes, and had it not beene that they knewe the man ſo ſoone as they ſawe him, they had ſurely taken the ſame to haue beene ſome 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 houſe, and finding him to be the man indeede, and no deluſion or phantaſticall motion, they had him incontinent before the Maieſtrates to be examined.
Thus being apprehended, he was ſhortly after put to the racke in the Towne of Bedbur, but fearing the torture, he volluntarilye confeſſed his whole life, and made knowen the villanies which he had committed for the ſpace of xxv. yeeres, alſo he cōfeſſed how by Sorcery he procured of the Deuill a Girdle, which beeing put on, he forth-
