Item, an equivocall or doubtfull answer is taken for a confession against a witch. ♦_L. non alienum eodem._♦ Item, _Bodin_ reporteth, that one confessed that he went out, or rather up into the aire, and was transported manie miles to the fairies danse, onelie bicause he would spie unto what place his wife went to hagging, and how she behaved hir selfe. Whereupon was much a doo among the inquisitors and lawyers, to discusse whether he should be executed with his wife or no. But it was concluded that he must die, bicause he bewraied not his wife: the which he forbare to doo, _Propter reverentiam honoris & familiæ_. ♦_L. de ætat. 5. nihil eodem. &c._♦ ♦_I. Bod. de dæmono. lib. 4. cap. 3._♦ Item, if a woman confesse freelie herein, before question be made; and yet afterward denie it: she is neverthelesse to be burned. Item, they affirme that this extremitie is herein used, bicause not one among a thousand witches is detected. And yet it is affirmed by _Sprenger_, in _M. Mal._ that there is not so little a parish, but there are manie witches knowne to be therein. The fift Chapter. _Presumptions, whereby witches are condemned._ If anie womans child chance to die at hir hand, so as no bodie knoweth how; it may not be thought or presumed that the mother killed it, except she be supposed a witch: and in that case it is otherwise, for she must upon that presumption be executed; except she can proove the negative or contrarie. ♦_I. Bod. de dæmono. lib. 4 cap. 4._♦ Item, if the child of a woman that is suspected to be a witch, be lacking or gone from hir; it is to be presumed, that she hath sacrificed it to the divell: except she can proove the negative or contrarie. Item, though in other persons, certeine points of their confessions may be thought erronious, and imputed to error: yet (in witches causes) all oversights, imperfections, and escapes must be adjudged impious and malicious, and tend to hir confusion and condemnation. Item, though a theefe be not said in lawe to be infamous in any other matter than in theft; yet a witch defamed of witchcraft is said to be defiled with all maner of faults and infamies universallie, though she were not condemned; but (as I said) defamed with the name of a witch. For rumors and reports are sufficient (saith _Bodin_) to condemne a witch. Item, if any man, woman, or child doo saie, that such a one is a witch; it is a most vehement suspicion (saith _Bodin_) and sufficient to bring hir to the racke: though in all other cases it be directlie against lawe. ♦_I. Bod. de dæmono. lib. 4. cap. 4._♦ Item, in presumptions and suspicions against a witch, the common brute or voice of the people cannot erre. ♦_L. decurionè de pœnis._ _Panorm. & Felin. in C. veniens. 1. de testib. parsi causa. 15 4._ _Lib. 4. numero. 12. usq; a 18._♦