[11] Benjamin Thorpe, _Monumenta Ecclesiastica_, II. p. 34. London, 1840. The _Liber Pœnitentialis_ was first published complete by Wasserschleben in 1851; a convenient edition is Migne, _P.L._ XCIX. [12] _Calendar of State Papers._ Domestic, 1584. [13] Sir Walter Scott, _Demonology and Witchcraft_, Letter V, gives the narrative of this case, but in the light of later research his version must be slightly corrected. [14] Pitcairn. I. pt. ii. p. 162. [15] _Proceedings of the Society of Antiquaries of Scotland_, New Series, vol. X. Edinburgh. [16] Sir James Melville, _Memoirs_. Bannatyne Club, Edinburgh. pp. 395-6. [17] London. “for _William Wright_.” N.D. [1591]. The woodcut is on the title-page verso, and signature [c.ij.] verso. The pages are not numbered. [18] _Flying Ointments._ _Apud_ Miss Murray’s _Witch-Cult in Western Europe_, p. 279. It may be noted that the scandals of the Black Mass under Louis XIV were closely concerned with wholesale accusations of poisoning. La Voisin was a notorious vendor of toxic philtres. The possibility of poisoning the King, the Dauphin, Colbert and others was frequently debated. [19] Dio Cassius. XLIX. 43. p. 756. ed. Sturz. [20] _Idem._ LII. 36. p. 149. [21] Suetonius. _Augustus._ 31. [22] Tacitus. _Annales._ II. 32. _More prisco._ “Ut eum infelici arbori alligatum uirgis cædi, et postremo securi percuti iuberent.” Muret. [23] XII. 32. [24] Suetonius. _Vitellius._ 14. [25] Dio Cassius. LXVI. 10. [26] _La Magie et la Sorcellerie._ Paris. (1912.) I. p. 33. [27] _Memoirs of Extraordinary Popular Delusions_, II. p. 117. [28] The dates are as inaccurate as the statements. Giovanni Battista Cibò was elected Pope 29 August, 1484; and the Bull was issued in the December of that year, not in 1488. [29] _Rise and Influence of Rationalism in Europe_, c. 1. [30] _Dictionary of Universal Biography._ VIII. (1890). [31] A more detailed treatment will be found in the present writer’s _The Geography of Witchcraft_, where the Bull is given _in extenso_. [32] _Epist._, c.n. 1. [33] _Hom._, XLVI. c. 1. [34] _Sententianum_, III. iv. nn. 4-6. [35] Theodosius II. _Nouellæ_, tit. III. A.D. 438. [36] Uanissimus [Priscillianus] et plus iusto inflatior profanarum rerum scientia: quin et magicas artes ab adolescentia cum exercuisse creditum est. Sulpicius Severus. II. 47. [37] H. C. Lea in his _History of the Inquisition in the Middle Ages_, (1888) I. 215, asserts that Leo I justified the act, and that successive edicts against heresy were due to ecclesiastical influence. This is the exact opposite of historical truth, and the writer has not hesitated to transfer words of the Emperor to the Pope. [38] In a sermon published in 1896 by Dom Morin _Revue benédictine_, c. xiii. p. 205.