John Darrell
John Darrell (born 1562 in or near
Exorcist
Darrell was a sizar of Queens' College, Cambridge.[3] In 1586 he was called to help by Isabel Foljambe and he exorcised a girl in Derbyshire, and published an account of his work. In 1596–1597 he conducted further exorcisms, mainly at St Mary's Church, Nottingham, where he was appointed curate by Robert Aldridge, but also in Lancashire, where with others he exorcised demons from seven members of the household of Nicholas Starkey in Tyldesley on 17 and 18 March 1597,[2] and in Staffordshire. Many were sceptical about these cases, especially when Darrell claimed he knew of 13 witches in the town.
Prosecution
Because of the intense public interest and the fierce arguments in Nottingham,
Darrell was deprived of holy orders and sent to prison, but released in 1599.
See also
References
- ^ Charles William Sutton (1888). "Darrel, John". In Dictionary of National Biography. 14. London. p. 67.
- ^ doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/7168. (Subscription or UK public library membershiprequired.)
- ^ "Darrell, John (DRL575J)". A Cambridge Alumni Database. University of Cambridge.
Further reading
- Benjamin Brook, The lives of the Puritans: containing a biographical account of those divines who distinguished themselves in the cause of religious liberty, from the reformation under Queen Elizabeth, to the Act of uniformity in 1662, Volume 2, J. Black, 1813, pp. 117–122.[1]
- Marion Gibson, Possession, Puritanism and Print: Darrell, Harsnett, Shakespeare and the Elizabethan Exorcism Controversy, London: Pickering and Chatto, 2006, ISBN 9781851965397
- Peter Lake and Michael C. Questier, Conformity and orthodoxy in the English church 1560-1660, Boydell & Brewer, 2000, ISBN 0-85115-797-1, chap.2
- ISBN 0-415-08762-7, p. 189
- Corinne Holt Sawyer (1962). The case of John Darrell. Minister and Exorcist. University of Florida Press.
- J. A. Sharpe, The bewitching of Anne Gunter: a horrible and true story of deception, witchcraft, murder, and the King of England, Taylor & Francis, 2000, ISBN 0-415-92692-0, p. 148
- Keith Thomas, Religion and the Decline of Magic (Penguin Books: Harmondsworth, Middlesex, 1973 [1971]), pp. 576–580 and passim
- Brendan C. Walsh, The English Exorcist: John Darrell and the Shaping of Early Modern English Protestant Demonology, New York; NY: Routledge, 2021, ISBN 9780367894016
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- ^ Brook, B. (Benjamin). (1813). The lives of the Puritans: containing a biographical account of those divines who distinguished themselves in the cause of religious liberty, from the reformation under Queen Elizabeth, to the Act of uniformity in 1662. London: Printed for J. Black.