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Page iv
... Witches of Warboys , arraigned , convicted , and executed at the last Assizes at Huntingdon , for the bewitching of the five daughters of Robert Throckmorton , Esquire , and divers other persons with sundrie Devilish and grievous ...
... Witches of Warboys , arraigned , convicted , and executed at the last Assizes at Huntingdon , for the bewitching of the five daughters of Robert Throckmorton , Esquire , and divers other persons with sundrie Devilish and grievous ...
Page ix
... witch supporters , and made the " hell - broth boil and bubble " anew , and in- creased the witch furor to downright fanaticism , by the publication of his Demo - manie , a work in which 66 Learning , blinded first and then beguiled ...
... witch supporters , and made the " hell - broth boil and bubble " anew , and in- creased the witch furor to downright fanaticism , by the publication of his Demo - manie , a work in which 66 Learning , blinded first and then beguiled ...
Page xv
... witches : finallie , if you shall perceiue that I haue faithfullie and trulie deliuered and set downe the condition and state of the witch , and also of the witchmonger , and haue confuted by reason and lawe , and by the word of God it ...
... witches : finallie , if you shall perceiue that I haue faithfullie and trulie deliuered and set downe the condition and state of the witch , and also of the witchmonger , and haue confuted by reason and lawe , and by the word of God it ...
Page xviii
... witch - mongers , ” so that that very powerful party were to a man opposed to him . Vigorous , therefore , as was his onslaught , its effect soon passed by ; and when on the accession of James , the statute which so long disgraced our ...
... witch - mongers , ” so that that very powerful party were to a man opposed to him . Vigorous , therefore , as was his onslaught , its effect soon passed by ; and when on the accession of James , the statute which so long disgraced our ...
Page xx
... Witches and Witchcraft , by John Gaule , Preacher of the Word at Great Haughton , in the county of Hun- tingdon , " 1646 , 24mo . ) which gives us all the casuistry applicable to witch- craft . We can almost forgive Gaule's fundamental ...
... Witches and Witchcraft , by John Gaule , Preacher of the Word at Great Haughton , in the county of Hun- tingdon , " 1646 , 24mo . ) which gives us all the casuistry applicable to witch- craft . We can almost forgive Gaule's fundamental ...
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aforefaid Afsifes againſt alias Chattox Alice Nutter Alizon Alizon Deuice amongſt Angliæ Anne Redferne Anne Whittle Arraignement and Triall Barre bewitched Bromley Bulcock Caftle Caſtle Cheshire confeffeth confession Countie of Lancaster courfe Court daughter death deliuered Deuill devil Dogge Efquire ELIZABETH DEVICE Ellen Bierley Euidence Examinat Examinate further faith Examinates faid faid Anne faid Iennet faid mother faid Spirit fame fayd fayth felfe fhall fhee fhould fome Forreft of Pendle fuch giue Grand-mother hath haue houfe houſe Iames Deuice Iennet Bierley Indictment Iohn Iudge Iuftices of Peace Iurie James John John Webster kill laft Lancashire Lancre Late Lancashire Witches Lister Lord Mafter Maiefties Iuftices Malking-Tower Manchester neuer old Demdike Pendle witches practifes prefent Preston Prifoner receiue reft Reginald Scot Robert Nutter Rochdale ROGER NOWEL Samlesburie ſhe ſhee Southworth thee thefe theſe thing Thomas thou Tryall vpon wife Witchcraft wpon
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Page xxxiii - I do love these ancient ruins. We never tread upon them but we set Our foot upon some reverend history; And, questionless, here in this open court, Which now lies naked to the injuries Of stormy weather, some men lie...
Page xxix - Woe unto them! for they have gone in the way of Cain, and ran greedily after the error of Balaam for reward, and perished in the gainsaying of Core.
Page cclxxi - Cause I am poor, deform'd, and ignorant, And like a bow buckled and bent together, By some more strong in mischiefs than myself, Must I for that be made a common sink, For all the filth and rubbish of men's tongues To fall and run into ? Some call me Witch, And being ignorant of myself, they go About to teach me how...
Page xxiv - Peace;" and he that putteth not into their mouths, they even prepare war against him : therefore night shall be unto you, that ye shall not have a vision ; and it shall be dark unto you, that ye shall not divine; and the sun shall go down over the prophets, and the day shall be dark over them.
Page xxiv - Therefore night shall be unto you, that ye shall not have a vision ; and it shall be dark unto you, that ye shall not divine; and the sun shall go down over the prophets, and the day shall be dark over them. Then shall the seers be ashamed, and the diviners confounded : yea, they shall all cover their lips; for there is no answer of God.
Page xxxi - And Divers persons under a passive Delusion of Melancholy and Fancy. But that there is a Corporeal League made betwixt the Devil and the Witch...
Page cclxxi - Forespeaks their cattle, doth bewitch their corn, Themselves, their servants, and their babes at nurse : This they enforce upon me ; and in part Make me to credit it.* BANKS, a Farmer, enters.
Page xxix - For of this sort are they which creep into houses, and lead captive silly women laden with sins, led away with divers lusts, ever learning, and never able to come to the knowledge of the truth. Now as Jannes and Jambres withstood Moses, so do these also resist the truth : men of corrupt minds, reprobate concerning the faith. But they shall proceed no further: for their folly shall be manifest unto all men, as theirs also was.
Page cclxix - He that justifieth the wicked, and he that condemneth the just, even they both are abomination to the Lord.
Page xxix - These are spots in your feasts of charity, when they feast with you, feeding themselves without fear: clouds they are without water, carried about of winds; trees whose fruit withereth, without fruit, twice dead, plucked up by the roots; Raging waves of the sea, foaming out their own shame; wandering stars, to whom is reserved the blackness of darkness for ever.