Excommunicat persons, partakers of the falt, infants, wicked servants, and runnawaies are to be admitted to beare witnesse against their dames in this mater of witchcraft: bicause (saith _Bodin_ the champion of witchmoongers) none that be honest are able to detect them. Heretikes also and witches shall be received to accuse, but not to excuse a witch. And finallie, the testimonie of all infamous persons in this case is good and allowed. Yea, one lewd person (saith _Bodin_) may be received to accuse and condemne a thousand suspected witches. And although by lawe, a capitall enimie may be challenged; yet _James Sprenger_, and _Henrie Institor_, (from whom _Bodin_, and all the writers that ever I have read, doo receive their light, authorities and arguments) saie (upon this point of lawe) that The poore frendlesse old woman must proove, that hir capitall enimie would have killed hir, and that hee hath both assalted & wounded hir; otherwise she pleadeth all in vaine. If the judge aske hir, whether she have anie capitall enimies; and she rehearse other, and forget hir accuser; or else answer that he was hir capitall enimie, but now she hopeth he is not so: such a one is nevertheles admitted for a witnes. And though by lawe, single witnesses are not admittable; yet if one depose she hath bewitched hir cow; another, hir sow; and the third, hir butter: these saith (saith _M. Mal._ and _Bodin_) are no single witnesses; bicause they agree that she is a witch. ♦_Mal. Malef. quest. 5. pa. 3._ _I. Bod. lib. 4. cap. 2, de dæmon._♦ ♦_Arch. in C. alle. accusatus. in §. lz. super. verba._♦ ♦_I. Bod. lib. 4. cap. 1. de dæmon._♦ ♦_Mal. malef quest. 56. pa. 3, & quæ. 5, part. 3._♦ ♦_Ibidem._♦ ♦_Que. 7. act 2._♦ ♦[Redupl.]♦ The second Chapter. _The order of examination of witches by the inquistors._ Women suspected to be witches, after their apprehension may not be suffered to go home, or to other places, to seek suerties: for then (saith _Bodin_) the people would be woorse willing to accuse them; for feare least at their returne home, they worke revenge upon them. In which respect _Bodin_ commendeth much the _Scottish_ custome and order in this behalfe: where (he saith) a hollowe peece of wood or a chest is placed in the church, into the which any bodie may freelie cast a little scroll of paper, wherein may be conteined the name of the witch, the time, place, and fact, &c. And the same chest being locked with three severall locks, is opened everie fifteenth daie by three inquisitors or officers appointed for that purpose; which keepe three severall kaies. And thus the accuser need not be knowne, nor shamed with the reproch of slander or malice to his poore neighbour. ♦The Scottish custōe of accusing a witch.♦ Item, there must be great persuasions used to all men, women, and children, to accuse old women of witchcraft.