A History of Witchcraft in England from 1558 to 1718Notestein, Wallace
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A History of Witchcraft in England from 1558 to 1718
Notestein, Wallace
Witchcraft -- England -- History
[2] Joseph Hunter, _Life of Heywood_ (London, 1842), 167, and Heywood's
_Diaries_, ed. J. H. Turner (Brighouse, 1881-1885), I, 199; III, 100.
Heywood, who was one of the leading Dissenters of his time, must not be
credited with extreme superstition. In noting the death of a boy whom
his parents believed bewitched, he wrote, "Oh that they saw the lords
hand." _Diary_, I, 287.
[3] William Drage, _Daimonomageia_ (London, 1665), 32-38.
[4] _The Lord's Arm Stretched Out, ... or a True Relation of the
wonderful Deliverance of James Barrow ..._ (London, 1664).
[5] Compare Drage, _op. cit._, 36, 39, 42, with _The Lord's Arm
Stretched Out_, 17. Mary Hall, whose cure Drage celebrates, had friends
among the Baptists. Drage seems to connect her case with those of Barrow
and Hannah Crump, both of whom were helped by that "dispirited people"
whom the author of _The Lord's Arm Stretched Out_ exalts.
[6] Drage, _op. cit._, 34.
[7] _Yorkshire Notes and Queries_, I (Bradford, 1885), 26. But a
physician in Winchester Park, whom Hannah Crump had consulted, had asked
five pounds to unbewitch her.
[8] Drage, _op. cit._, 39.
[9] _York Depositions_, 127.
[10] See E. Mackenzie, _History of Northumberland_ (Newcastle, 1825),
II, 33-36. We do not know that the woman was excused, but the case was
before Henry Ogle and we may fairly guess the outcome.
[11] Glanvill, _Sadducismus Triumphatus_, pt. ii, 191-209.
[12] This is the estimate of him by North, who adds: "and he knew it."
Roger North, _Life of the Rt. Hon. Francis North, Baron of Guilford ..._
(London, 1742), 62-63.
[13] _Diary and Correspondence of Dr. John Worthington_, II, pt. I
(Chetham Soc., no. 36, 1855), 155.
[14] In his _Religio Medici_. See _Sir Thomas Browne's Works_ (ed. S.
Wilkin, London, 1851-1852), II, 43.
[15] _Ibid._, IV, 389.
[16] Roger North, _op. cit._, 61.
[17] Inderwick has given a good illustration of Hale's weakness of
character: "I confess," he says, "to a feeling of pain at finding him in
October, 1660, sitting as a judge at the Old Bailey, trying and
condemning to death batches of the regicides, men under whose orders he
had himself acted, who had been his colleagues in parliament, with whom
he had sat on committees to alter the law." _Interregnum_, 217-218.
[18] _Hist. MSS. Comm. Reports_, XIV, 9, p. 480.
[19] Bishop Burnet, in his _Life and Death of Sir Matthew Hale_ (London,
1682), does not seem to have felt called upon to mention the Bury trial
at all. See also Lord Campbell, _Lives of the Chief Justices_ (London,
1849), I, 563-567.
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