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Ibid., xii. 58.

Ibid., xii. 60.

Registry of Wills, Archdeaconry of Norwich.

Burnet, Hist. of Reformation, part ii, book i, § 12.

British Museum Additional MS. 35184, Household Account, 1553.

Series i, vol. ii, p. 292.

Ed. 1622, p. 219.

Troilus, book iii, 1069.

Julius Caesar, I. ii.

Tempest, I. ii.

All’s Well that Ends Well, IV. iii.

Tempest, IV. i.

As You Like It, IV. i.

Dr. Johann Weyer, der erster Bekämpfer des Hexenwahns, Bonn, 1885, 2nd ed., Berlin, 1896. Also J. Geffcken, ‘Dr. Johann Weyer’ in Monatshefte der Comenius Gesellschaft 3, 1904; J. Janssen and L. Pastor, Geschichte des deutschen Volkes, 8 vols., Freiburg im Breisgau, 1898-1903, viii. 600 ff.

Jean Hardouin (Harduinus), Collectio regia maxima conciliorum graecorum et latinorum, 12 vols., Paris, 1715, i. 1506; H. C. Lea, History of the Inquisition of the Middle Ages, 2nd ed., 3 vols., London, 1906, iii. 494; W. G. Soldan and H. Heppe, Geschichte der Hexenprocesse, 2 vols., Stuttgart, 1880, i. 132.

Lea, loc. cit., iii. 414.

Soldan and Heppe, loc. cit., i. 128, 139.

See also Lea, loc. cit., iii. 434, on this mildness of the Church up to the fourteenth century.

Soldan and Heppe, loc. cit., i. 136.

Lea, loc. cit., i. 91.

The Paulicians were accused of teaching that the devil created this world, but seem merely to have taken such texts as John xii. 31, xiv. 30; 2 Cor. iv. 4 ‘in their plain and obvious sense’. F. C. Conybeare, Key of Truth, A Manual of the Paulician Church of Armenia, Oxford, 1898, 46.

The term ‘Cathari’ was said to come ‘from their kissing Lucifer under the tail in the shape of a cat’. Lea, loc. cit., iii. 495.

Lea, loc. cit., i. 105, ii. 334, &c. The main evidence is Conrad of Marburg’s report to Pope Gregory XI, 1233: ‘A tissue of inventions’, but ‘apparently doubted by no one’.

Quodlibet, xi. 10; Soldan and Heppe, loc. cit., i. 143; Lea, loc. cit., iii. 415.

H. Institoris and J. Sprenger, Malleus Maleficarum, editio princeps, Cologne, 1486, and frequently reprinted until the end of the seventeenth century. See especially pars 1, quaestio 2.

J. Diefenbach, Der Hexenwahn, Mainz, 1886, p. 299.

The story of Elinor Shaw and Mary Philips, as well as many other accounts of witchcraft, may be read in two volumes entitled Rare and Curious Tracts illustrative of the History of Northamptonshire, Northampton, 1876 and 1881.

F. Hutchinson, Historical Essay, London, 1718, cap. iv.