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Title: Discovery of Witches
The Wonderfull Discoverie of Witches in the Countie of Lancaster

Author: Thomas Potts

Editor: James Crossley

Release Date: April 25, 2006 [eBook #18253]

Language: English

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Remains Historical & Literary Connected with the Palatine Counties
of Lancaster and Chester

Published by the Chetham Society.

Vol. VI.

Printed for the Chetham Society.
M.DCCC.XLV.

[Illustration: THE CHETHAM SOCIETY]

Council.

EDWARD HOLME, ESQ., M.D., PRESIDENT.
REV. RICHARD PARKINSON, B.D., CANON OF MANCHESTER, VICE-PRESIDENT.
THE HON. & VERY REV. WILLIAM HERBERT, DEAN OF MANCHESTER.
GEORGE ORMEROD, ESQ., D.C.L., F.R.S., F.S.A., F.G.S., SEDBURY PARK.
SAMUEL HIBBERT WARE, ESQ., M.D., F.R.S.E., EDINBURGH.
REV. THOMAS CORSER, M.A.
REV. GEORGE DUGARD, M.A.
REV. C.G. HULTON, M.A.
REV. J. PICCOPE, M.A.
REV. F.R. RAINES, M.A., F.S.A., MILNROW PARSONAGE, NEAR ROCHDALE.
JAMES CROSSLEY, ESQ.
JAMES HEYWOOD, ESQ., F.R.S.
WILLIAM LANGTON, ESQ., TREASURER.
WILLIAM FLEMING, ESQ., M.D., HON. SECRETARY.

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POTTS'S DISCOVERY OF WITCHES

In the County of Lancaster,

Reprinted from the Original Edition of 1613.

With an Introduction and Notes, by JAMES CROSSLEY, ESQ.

Printed for the Chetham Society.
M.DCC.XLV.
Manchester:
Printed by Charles Simms and Co.

INTRODUCTION.

Were not every chapter of the history of the human mind too precious
an inheritance to be willingly relinquished,--for appalling as its
contents may be, the value of t