[21] "In Cheshire and Coventry," he tells us. "Hath not Coventrie," he asks (p. 16), "beene usually haunted by these hellish Sorcerers, where it was confessed by one of them, that no lesse than three-score were of that confedracie?... And was I not there enjoyned by a necessity to the discoverie of this Brood?" [22] For the whole case see Howell, _State Trials_, II. [23] See article on Bernard in _Dict. Nat. Biog._ [24] See below, appendix C, list of witch cases, under 1626. [25] See _Guide to Grand-Jurymen_, Dedication. [26] _Ibid._, 11-12. [27] _Ibid._, 53. [28] _Ibid._, 214. [29] This he did on the authority of a repentant Mr. Edmonds, of Cambridge, who had once been questioned by the University authorities for witchcraft. _Ibid._, 136-138. [30] _Guide to Grand-Jurymen_, 22-28. [31] He was "for the law, but agin' its enforcement." [32] _Select Cases of Conscience Touching Witches and Witchcraft_ (London, 1646). [33] _Ibid._, 92. [34] _Ibid._, 94, 97. That Gaule was a Puritan, as has been asserted, appears from nothing in his book. If he dedicated his _Select Cases_ to his townsman Colonel Walton, a brother-in-law of Cromwell, and his _Mag-astro-mancer_ (a later diatribe against current superstitions) to Oliver himself, there is nothing in his prefatory letters to show him of their party. Nor does the tone of his writings suggest a Calvinist. That in 1649 we find Gaule chosen to preach before the assizes of Huntingdon points perhaps only to his popularity as a leader of the reaction against the work of Hopkins. [35] _Antidote to Atheisme_, 129. [36] _Ibid._, 127-130. [37] _Ibid._, ch. VIII, 134. [38] _Ibid._, 135. [39] See p. 118. This _Treatise_ was first published in 1655. Four years later, in 1659, he published _A True and faithful Relation of what passed ... between Dr. John Dee, ... and some spirits_. In the preface to this he announced his intention of writing the work which he later published as _Of Credulity and Incredulity_. [40] In passing we must mention Richard Farnworth, who in 1655 issued a pamphlet called _Witchcraft Cast out from the Religious Seed and Israel of God_. Farnworth was a Quaker, and wrote merely to warn his brethren against magic and sorcery. He never questioned for a moment the facts of witchcraft and sorcery, nor the Devil's share in them. As for the witches, they were doomed everlastingly to the lake of fire. [41] _Dæmonologie and Theologie. The first, the Malady ..., The Second, The Remedy_ (London, 1650). [42] _Ibid._, 42. [43] _Ibid._, 16. [44] See the Introduction to the _Advertisement_. [45] Filmer noted further that the Septuagint translates the Hebrew word for witch as "an Apothecary, a Druggister, one that compounds poysons." [46] London, 1656.