A Book of Magic, with Instructions for Invoking Spirits
From Anonymous, A Book of Magic, with Instructions for Invoking Spirits
A good construction for a spiritte
Para1I conjure thee spirit etcetera which are heere before mee by the father the sonne
& the holy ghoast & by these names of God + Saday + Tetragramaton + Tetragramay +
Adday + Algramay + by all the names of God that thou gave noe power to hurte nor resiste
vs neither in our harte, soule, nor bodye, neither to disobey vs nor to departe from
our sighte vntill you geve vs an Aunswere to all our interrogatories, without anie
lyenge deceipte, crafte or falsehood, & I conjure thee spirit in the name of Sainte
Mary the Virgin Mother of Iesu Christes by the heade of your prince, by my christianitie,
& by the mighty goverment that our Lord Iesus Christ hath over vs that you nor none
for you have power to hinder my sight, but that I maie see & knowe you in the faire
forme of a child of 3 yeeres of age soe that you mayest have noe power to departe
from the sight vntill thou be licensed by mee, In the name of the father & the sonne
& the holy ghost. Amen. finis.
for the grounde
Para2In the name of our Lord Iesus Christ & by his license I conjure thee wicked spirit
& all thy fellowes if any more be with thee, by the vertue of the father, the sonne
& the holy ghost 3 persones & one God, & by the vertue of our blessed Ladye the virgine
& all other saintes & virgines, & by the 9 orders of Angells which are ministers vnto
the Majestie of our Lord Iesus Christ viz Gabriell, Raphaell, Cherubines, & Seraphines,
Trones, dominations, principates potestates, with all their fellowshipe & by all the
vertues & mighty powers of heaven & earth, & by the vertue & power of the sea & all
that therin is, & by the vertue of Salomones seal scepter & ringe here present & by
the virginitie of saint katherine, saint margarett, saint barbara, & all the rest
holie vnpolluted virgins & saintes, & by the vertue of the dreadfull daye of Iudgment,
& by the vertue of all patriarcks, prophetts, Apostles Martires confessoures, & by
the vertue of the 4 Evangelists Mathewe, Marcke, Luke, & Iohn, I bind you spirrit
or spirrits by all the holie waies that the Apostles followed our Lord Iesus Christ,
& I conjure you spirrit or spirrits in any be here within this ground or within an
100 foote especially by these holy & hye names of our Lord Iesus Christ + Agios +
otheos + yskyros + Athanatos + panton + craton + etysus + Emanuell + Tetragramaton
+ by the vertue of the blessed sacrament of the alter, & by the vertue of the 7 sacraments
& by the vertue of all holy prayers & words that ever the greate prieste Aaron or
anie other prieste of his order sayed or spake, that you spirit or spirits by this
my adjurement & conjuration, & Immediatly flye from hence & being departed, to come
hither vntill 15 dayes from this present howere be fully completed & ended./ & that
thoue or you spirites goe & departe hence from this ground so farr of that thou spirrit
or spirrits neither see vs nor heare vs, & that to a place where God will that you
be agreeable to his good pleasure, & our salvacion & also that duringe the tyme of
our worckinge here now at anie other tyme & in anie other place noe trouble nor molestacion
happen or chaunce either to me or anie of my fellowes now presente, & therto I conjure
thee spirit or spirits by the vertue of the holy name + Ebrea + Stulpha + Alpha +
Draco + & by the vertue of the blessed passyon of our Lord Iesus Christ, & by the
vertue of his blessed blood that he bleed in the sayed his holy passion, & namely
by the greate vertue of the water & blood that came & yssued from his hart, & by the
vertue of the speare that pearcinge his side it made the same wounde also I conjure
thee or your spirits by the vertue of the crowne wherwith he was crowned, & by the
vertue of the 3 nayles wherwith his hands & feet were to the crosse fastened, & by
the scourges that his tender & blessed bodye was scourged with, & by the blessed sacred
words that he spake on the crosse + heloy heloy + Lamazabatham + deus meus deus meus
vtquid derelequisti me, alsoe I conjure thee spirrit or you spirrits by our Lord Iesus
Christ glorious resurrection, & by the steappes he tooke when he harrowed hell, &
by the vertue of his wonder full asscention into heaven, & by his sittinge one the
right hande of his father, & by his comminge at the laste day to Iudgment where in
all shall rise as well the good as bad, the happie as vnhappie, the saved as damned,
& the mercy shewed to Mary Magdalene & by the vertue of the holy ghost that he sent
downe to his Apostles, & by the vertue of the assumption of our Lady Saint Marye &
by all hir vertues & by all that God made, & by the vertue that God gave to words,
hearbes & stones & each other thinge as well in heaven as in earth, as in the sea
as without the sea, Iterum I conjure thee spirrit or you spirrits in the name of our
Lord God which Moyses bare in his fore heade & Aaron one his brest, alsoe I conjure
thee spirrit & spirrites what kinde so ever yee bee of fiere, water, earth, or ayere,
malginaunt or Infernally by all the conjurations Invocations vincles & Lycenses that
ever Cyprian, Salomon, Alexander, Aristotle, Bacon, Bungi, Lumbarte, Wale Cornelius
or any other spake or wrote, & by the dreade that thou spirit or you spirits have
in thine or your Lord, & by the vertue of the 4 Kinges of the ayere & theyre 4 princes
vnder them, & by the love & dread that thou & you have in our Lord Iesus Christ to
whom all knees doe bowe, I conjure thee spirit or you spirits by the vertue of this
conjuration & all others in this book conteyned, & by the vertue of all the conjurations
that ever were made are made or shalbe made that thou spirit or you spirits which
be keepers of this treasure heere hidden or layed that you obaye me & my conjuration
& that by the vertue & power of our Lord Iesus Christ & that you neither trouble nor
molest me nor my fellowes, nor hurtt me nor them, neither in bodye nor in soule, but
as verely but as verely [sic] as our Lord Iesus Christ saied to his disciples, Pax
vobis soe verely peace be between thee spirit & thy fellowes if there be anie, & peace
be betweene thee and thy fellowes & vs, & I charge thee they fellowes & vs that thou
or yee flee from this grounde, & from the treasure hidd or layed in this grounde,
& that you doe not drawe it nor move it noe waye out of the place where nowe it is
nor alter nor chaunge it by noe delusion nor crafte, & that in the paine of endles
damnation & the paine of the greate curse that God shalle give at the greate day of
dome, Iterum I conjure thee or you spirits that your trouble nor vexe me nor my fellowes
in the time of our worckinge & that by all the holy words before rehearsed that thou
spirrit or spirrits from hence peaceably in all haste departed goe for the space &
tyme of 15 days & 15 nightes even from this selfe same howere thou or yee do exempt
your selves & goe & remaine in the place whervnto God hath & shall appointe you, &
without returning duringe the saied tyme to trouble molest or grieve me or any of
vs with worde fantasye vision or illusion, either with fyer water winde or blassing,
but to suffer vs to take it & carrie it awaye & applie it to what vse we shall thincke
it most meete without your molestacion, either wakinge or sleepinge, eatinge or drinckinge,
restinge or walkinge, now present or in tyme to come, whervnto I conjure thee or you
spirits by the vertue of all that wordes that ever Christ spake or man wrote, in this
conjuration rehearsed or hereafter may be rehearsed I charge & commande you o thou
spirit or you spirrits, & that by the vertue power & might of God the father his word
& holy spirit, & as certainly as the promised seed brake the serpents heade & as Mary
the Virgine have the seed & as Eline the most Christian Queene found the holy crosse,
even soe sertainly wee maye finde that we seeke fore here hidd or layed & the same
processe & enjoye even to the good pleasure of God, the profitt of the poore, & to
the salvation of our owne soules whevnto I say Amen./ fiat fiat fiat.
Prosopography
Andrew Griffin
Andrew Griffin is an associate professor in the department of English and an affiliate
professor in the department of Theater and Dance at the University of California,
Santa Barbara. He is general editor (text) of Queen’s Men Editions. He studies early
modern drama and early modern historiography while serving as the lead editor at the
EMC Imprint. He has co-edited with Helen Ostovich and Holger Schott Syme Locating the Queen’s Men (2009) and has co-edited The Making of a Broadside Ballad (2016) with Patricia Fumerton and Carl Stahmer. His monograph, Untimely Deaths in Renaissance Drama: Biography, History, Catastrophe, was published with the University of Toronto Press in 2019. He is editor of the
anonymous The Chronicle History of King Leir (Queen’s Men Editions, 2011). He can be contacted at griffin@english.ucsb.edu.
Anonymous
Christopher Matusiak
Christopher Matusiak (Friar Bacon and Friar Bungay) is an Associate Professor of English at Ithaca College in New York where he teaches
courses on Shakespeare and early modern drama. His research on seventeenth-century
theatre management at the Drury Lane Cockpit has appeared in Early Theatre and Medieval and Renaissance Drama in England, and in Shakespeare Quarterly on the use of John Aubrey’s manuscripts in studies of Shakespeare’s life. He is currently
writing a book (with Eva Griffith) about Christopher Beeston and the Cockpit playhouse,
and researching another on the persistence of illegal stage-playing during the English
Civil Wars, Shakespearean Actors and their Playhouses in Civil War London. He also prepared REED London: The Cockpit-Phoenix: an edited collection of seventeenth-century manuscripts and printed documents illustrating
the history of the Cockpit-Phoenix playhouse in Drury Lane (for The Records of Early English Drama). He can be contacted at cmatusiak@ithaca.edu.
Helen Ostovich
Helen Ostovich, professor emerita of English at McMaster University, is the founder
and general editor of Queen’s Men Editions. She is a general editor of The Revels Plays (Manchester University Press); Series
Editor of Studies in Performance and Early Modern Drama (Ashgate, now Routledge),
and series co-editor of Late Tudor and Stuart Drama (MIP); play-editor of several
works by Ben Jonson, in Four Comedies: Ben Jonson (1997); Every Man Out of his Humour (Revels 2001); and The Magnetic Lady (Cambridge 2012). She has also edited the Norton Shakespeare 3 The Merry Wives of Windsor Q1602 and F1623 (2015); The Late Lancashire Witches and A Jovial Crew for Richard Brome Online, revised for a 4-volume set from OUP 2021; The Ball, for the Oxford Complete Works of James Shirley (2021); The Merry Wives of Windsor for Internet Shakespeare Editions, and The Dutch Courtesan (with Erin Julian) for the Complete Works of John Marston, OUP 2022. She has published
many articles and book chapters on Jonson, Shakespeare, and others, and several book
collections, most recently Magical Transformations of the Early Modern English Stage with Lisa Hopkins (2014), and the equivalent to book website, Performance as Research in Early English Theatre Studies: The Three Ladies of London in Context containing scripts, glossary, almost fifty conference papers edited and updated to
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Special Issue on Marston, Early Theatre 23.1 (June 2020). She can be contacted at ostovich@mcmaster.ca.
Janelle Jenstad
Janelle Jenstad is a Professor of English at the University of
Victoria, Director of The Map
of Early Modern London, and Director of Linked Early Modern Drama
Online. With Jennifer Roberts-Smith and Mark Kaethler, she
co-edited Shakespeare’s Language in Digital Media: Old
Words, New Tools (Routledge). She has edited John Stow’s
A Survey of London (1598 text) for MoEML
and is currently editing The Merchant of Venice
(with Stephen Wittek) and Heywood’s 2 If You Know Not
Me You Know Nobody for DRE. Her articles have appeared in
Digital Humanities Quarterly, Elizabethan Theatre, Early Modern
Literary Studies, Shakespeare
Bulletin, Renaissance and
Reformation, and The Journal of Medieval
and Early Modern Studies. She contributed chapters to Approaches to Teaching Othello (MLA); Teaching Early Modern Literature from the Archives
(MLA); Institutional Culture in Early Modern
England (Brill); Shakespeare, Language, and
the Stage (Arden); Performing Maternity in
Early Modern England (Ashgate); New
Directions in the Geohumanities (Routledge); Early Modern Studies and the Digital Turn (Iter);
Placing Names: Enriching and Integrating
Gazetteers (Indiana); Making Things and
Drawing Boundaries (Minnesota); Rethinking
Shakespeare Source Study: Audiences, Authors, and Digital
Technologies (Routledge); and Civic
Performance: Pageantry and Entertainments in Early Modern
London (Routledge). For more details, see janellejenstad.com.
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Joey Takeda is LEMDO’s Consulting Programmer and Designer, a role he
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Project Manager, 2020–2021. Assistant Project Manager, 2019–2020. Textual Remediator
and Encoder, 2019–2021. Kate LeBere completed her BA (Hons.) in History and English
at the University of Victoria in 2020. During her degree she published papers in The Corvette (2018), The Albatross (2019), and PLVS VLTRA (2020) and presented at the English Undergraduate Conference (2019), Qualicum History
Conference (2020), and the Digital Humanities Summer Institute’s Project Management
in the Humanities Conference (2021). While her primary research focus was sixteenth
and seventeenth century England, she completed her honours thesis on Soviet ballet
during the Russian Cultural Revolution. She is currently a student at the University
of British Columbia’s iSchool, working on her masters in library and information science.
Martin Holmes
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UVicʼs Humanities Computing and Media Centre for
over two decades, and has been involved with dozens
of Digital Humanities projects. He has served on
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their degree, they worked as a teaching assistant with the University of Victoriaʼs
Department of Hispanic and Italian Studies. Their primary research was on gender and
sexuality in early modern Europe and Latin America.
Peter Cockett
Peter Cockett is an associate professor in the Theatre and Film Studies at McMaster
University. He is the general editor (performance), and technical co-ordinating editor
of Queen’s Men Editions. He was the stage director for the Shakespeare and the Queen’s Men project (SQM),
directing King Leir, The Famous Victories of Henry V, and Friar Bacon and Friar Bungay (2006) and he is the performance editor for our editions of those plays. The process
behind those productions is documented in depth on his website Performing the Queen’s Men. Also featured on this site are his PAR productions of Clyomon and Clamydes (2009) and Three Ladies of London (2014). For the PLS, the University of Toronto’s Medieval and Renaissance Players,
he has directed the Digby Mary Magdalene (2003) and the double bill of George Peele’s The Old Wives Tale and the Chester Antichrist (2004). He also directed An Experiment in Elizabethan Comedy (2005) for the SQM project and Inside Out: The Persistence of Allegory (2008) in collaboration with Alan Dessen. Peter is a professional actor and director
with numerous stage and screen credits. He can be contacted at cockett@mcmaster.ca.
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Junior Programmer 2019–2020. Research Associate 2020–2021. Tracey received her PhD
from the Department of English at the University of Victoria in the field of Science
and Technology Studies. Her research focuses on the algorhythmics of networked communications. She was a 2019–2020 President’s Fellow in Research-Enriched
Teaching at UVic, where she taught an advanced course on
Artificial Intelligence and Everyday Life.Tracey was also a member of the Map of Early Modern London team, between 2018 and 2021. Between 2020 and 2021, she was a fellow in residence at the Praxis Studio for Comparative Media Studies, where she investigated the relationships between artificial intelligence, creativity, health, and justice. As of July 2021, Tracey has moved into the alt-ac world for a term position, while also teaching in the English Department at the University of Victoria.
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