performances which was brought before the Norfolk judges in 1646 or (more probably) in 1647. Hopkins printed a reply to this document shortly before his death,--The Discovery of Witches: in Answer to severall Queries, lately delivered to the Judges of Assize for the County of Norfolk. And now published by Matthew Hopkins, Witch-finder (London, 1647). The first “query,” as printed by Hopkins, was this:--“That he must needs be the greatest Witch, Sorcerer, and Wizzard himselfe, else hee could not doe it.” Cf. Wright, Narratives of Sorcery and Magic, II, 145 ff.; Lives of Twelve Bad Men, edited by Thomas Seccombe, London, 1894, p. 64; Ady, A Candle in the Dark, 1656, pp. 101-102; James Howell, as above (p. 8, note 7); Gough, British Topography, 1780, II, 254. [177] Legge, Scottish Review, XVIII, 273-274. Ady (A Candle in the Dark, 1656, p. 105) says: “A little before the Conquest of _Scotland_ (as is reported upon good intelligence) the Presbytery of _Scotland_ did, by their own pretended authority, take upon them to Summon, Convent, Censure, and Condemn people to cruel death for Witches and (as is credibly reported) they caused four thousand to be executed by Fire and Halter, and had as many in prison to be tried by them, when God sent his conquering Sword to suppress them.” The “conquest” to which Ady refers is Cromwell’s in 1650. It is well known that from 1640 to Cromwell’s invasion, witch prosecution ran riot in Scotland, but that during his supremacy there were very few executions in that country (see Legge, pp. 266-267). Cf. p. 8, note 6, above. [178] Die praktischen Folgen des Aberglaubens, p. 34. [179] Soldan, Geschichte der Hexenprozesse, ed. Heppe, I, 492. [180] Dæmonolatreia, Lugduni, 1595. [181] See p. 42, above. [182] Soldan, Geschichte der Hexenprozesse, ed. Heppe, II, 38 ff. [183] See the extraordinary enumeration in Roskoff, Geschichte des Teufels, Leipzig, 1869, II, 293 ff.; cf. S. Riezler, Geschichte der Hexenprozesse in Bayern, pp. 141 ff., 283 ff. [184] Potts, The Wonderfull Discoverie of Witches, 1613 (Chetham Society reprint). [185] Matthew Hopkins, Discovery of Witches, 1647, p. 3. [186] John Stearne, A Confirmation and Discovery of Witchcraft, 1648, p. 14. [187] Wright, Narratives of Sorcery and Magic, Chap. xxv. [188] Memorials, 1732, p. 163. [189] Page 450. [190] A Relation of the Diabolical Practices of above Twenty Wizards and Witches, 1697; Sadducismus Debellatus, 1698; A History of the Witches of Renfrewshire, 1877. A seventh committed suicide in prison.