Item, there may alwaies be promised impunitie and favour to witches, that confesse and detect others; and for the contrarie, there may be threatnings and violence practised and used. Item, the little children of witches, which will not confesse, must be attached; who (if they be craftilie handled saith _Bodin_) will confesse against their owne mothers. Item, witches must be examined as suddenlie, and as unawares as is possible: the which will so amaze them, that they will confesse any thing, supposing the divell hath forsaken them; wheras if they should first be cōmitted to prison, the divell would temper with them, and informe them what to doo. Item, the inquisitor, judge, or examiner, must begin with small matters first. Item, they must be examined, whether their parents were witches or no: for witches (as these Doctors suppose) come by propagation. And _Bodin_ setteth downe this principle in witchcraft, to wit, _Si saga sit mater, sic etiam est filia_: howbeit the lawe forbiddeth it, _Ob sanguinis reverentiam_. ♦_I. Bod. lib. de dæmon. 4. cap. 4._ _L. parentes de testibus._♦ Item, the examiner must looke stedfastlie upon their eies: for they cannot looke directlie upon a mans face (as _Bodin_ affirmeth in one place, although in another he saith, that they kill and destroie both men and beasts with their lookes.) Item, she must be examined of all accusations, presumptions, and faults, at one instant; least sathan should afterwards dissuade hir from confession. Item, a witch may not be put in prison alone, least the divell dissuade hir from confession, through promises of her indemnitie. For (saith _Bodin_) some that have beene in the gaole have prooved to flie awaie, as they were woont to doo when they met with _Diana_ and _Minerva_, _&c._: and so brake their owne necks against the stone walles. Item, if anie denie hir owne confession made without torture, she is neverthelesse by that confession to be condemned, as in anie other crime. Item, the judges must seeme to put on a pittifull countenance and to mone them; saieng, that It was not they, but the divell that committed the murther, and that he compelled them to doo it; and must make them beleeve that they thinke them to be innocents. Item, if they will confesse nothing but upon the racke or torture; their apparell must be changed, and everie haire in their bodie must be shaven off with a sharpe razor. Item, if they have charmes for taciturnitie, so as they feele not the common tortures, and therefore confesse nothing: then some sharpe instrument must be thrust betwixt everie naile of their fingers and toes: which (as _Bodin_ saith) was king _Childeberts_ devise, and is to this daie of all others the most effectuall. For by meanes of that extreme paine, they will (saith he) confesse anie thing. ♦K. Childeberts cruell devise.♦