Nec cessant a caede manus, si sanguine vivo Est opus, erumpat jugulo qui primus aperto. Nec refugit caedes, vivum si sacra cruorem Extaque funereae poscunt trepidantia mensae. Vulnere si ventris, non qua natura vocabat, Extrahitur partus calidus ponendus in aris; Et quoties saevis opus est, et fortibus umbris Ipsa facit maneis. Hominum mors omnis in usu est. _Ben Johnson's Works, by Gifford_, vol. vii. p. 130. L 2 _a_ 2. "_They said they would annoint themselues._"] Ben Jonson informs us: When they are to be transported from place to place, they use to anoint themselves, and sometimes the things they ride on. Beside Apul. testimony, see these later, _Remig. Daemonolatriae lib._ 1. _cap._ 14. _Delrio, Disquis. Mag. l._ 2. _quaest._ 16. _Bodin Daemonoman. lib._ 2 _c._ 14. _Barthol. de Spina. quaest. de Strigib. Phillippo Ludwigus Elich. quaest._ 10. _Paracelsus in magn. et occul. Philosophia_, teacheth the confection. _Unguentum ex carne recens natorum infantium, in pulmenti, forma coctum, et cum herbis somniferis, quales sunt Papaver, Solanum, Cicuta_, &c. And _Giov. Bapti. Porta, lib._ 2. _Mag. Natur. cap._ 16.--_Ben Jonson's Works by Gifford_, vol. vii. p. 119. L 3 _a_. "_Did carrie her into the loft._"] There is something in this strange tissue of incoherencies, for knavery has little variety, which forcibly reminds us of the inventions of Elizabeth Canning, who ought to have lived in the days when witchcraft was part of the popular creed. What an admirable witch poor old Mary Squires would have made, and how brilliantly would her persecutor have shone in the days of the Baxters and Glanvilles, who acquitted herself so creditably in those of the Fieldings and the Hills. L 4 _b_ 1. "_Robert Hovlden, Esquire._"] This individual would be of the ancient family of Holden, of Holden, the last male heir of which died without issue, 1792. (See Whitaker's _Whalley_, 418.)