and
witchcraft felony." One of the bishop's strong expressions
is, "_These eyes have seen_ most evident and manifest marks
of their wickedness."

It appears from the same work, vol. iv., p. 6, sub anno
1589, that "one Mrs. Dier had practised conjuration against
the queen, to work some mischief to her majesty; for which
she was brought into question: and accordingly her words and
doings were sent to Popham, the queen's attorney, and
Egerton, her solicitor, by Walsingham, the secretary, and
Sir Thomas Heneage, her vice-chamberlain, for their
judgment, whose opinion was that Mrs. Dier was not within
the compass of the statute touching witchcraft, for that she
did no act, and spake certain lewd speeches tending to that
purpose, but neither set figure nor made pictures." _Ibid._,
vol. ii., p. 545, sub anno 1578, Strype says: "Whether it
were the effect of magic, or proceeded from some natural
cause, but the queen was in some part of this year under
excessive anguish _by pains of her teeth_, insomuch that she
took no rest for divers nights, and endured very great
torment night and day."

Andrews, in his "Continuation of Henry's History of Great
Britain," 4to, p. 93, tells us, speaking of Ferdinand, Earl
of Derby, who in the reign of Queen Elizabeth died by
poison, "The credulity of the age attributed his death to
witchcraft. The disease was odd, and operated as a perpetual
emetic; and a _waxen image, with hair like that of the
unfortunate earl_, found in his chamber, reduced every
suspicion to certainty."

"The wife of Marshal d'Ancre was apprehended, imprisoned,
and beheaded for a witch, upon a surmise that she had
inchanted the queen to dote upon her husband; and they say
the young king's picture was found in her closet, in virgin
wax, with one leg melted away. When asked by her judges what
spells she had made use of to gain so powerful an ascendancy
over the queen, she replied, 'that ascendancy only which
strong minds ever gain over weak ones.'" Seward's "Anecdotes
of some Distinguished Persons," &c., vol. ii., p. 215.

Blagrave, in his "Astrological Practice of Physick," p. 89,
observes that "the way which the witches usually take for to
afflict man or beast in this kind is, as I conceive, done by
image or model