SOURCE: An indictment filed against Lilly, in The Last of the Astrologers, 1715. Reprint by The Folklore Society, 1974, pp. 106-07.

The following is the text of the indictment filed against Lilly in 1654, charging him with unlawfully giving judgement on some stolen goods.

The Jurors for the Lord Protector of the Common Wealth of England, Scotland and Ireland & c. upon their Oaths do present, That William Lilly, late of the Parish of St. Clements Danes, in the County of Middlesex, Gent. not having the Fear of God before his Eyes, but being moved and seduced by the Instigation of the Devil, the 10th Day of July, in the Year of our Lord, 1654, at the Parish aforesaid, in the County aforesaid, wickedly, unlawfully and deceitfully, did take upon him, the said William Lilly, by Inchantment, Charm and Sorcery, to tell and declare to one Anne East, the Wife of Alexander East...