the
end of the chapter. And M. Phillippo Ludwigus Elich _Quaest._
8. And that it is no new rite, read the practice of Canidia,
_Epod. Horat. lib. ode_ 5, and Lucan, _lib._ 6, whose
admirable verses I can never be weary to transcribe:--

Nec cessant a caede manus, si sanguine vivo
Est opus, erumpat jugulo qui primus aperto.
Nec refugit caedes, vivum si sacra cruorem
Extaque funereae poscunt trepidantia mensae.
Vulnere si ventris, non qua natura vocabat,
Extrahitur partus calidus ponendus in aris;
Et quoties saevis opus est, et fortibus umbris
Ipsa facit maneis. Hominum mors omnis in usu est.

_Ben Johnson's Works, by Gifford_, vol. vii. p. 130.

L 2 _a_ 2. "_They said they would annoint themselues._"] Ben Jonson
informs us:

When they are to be transported from place to place, they
use to anoint themselves, and sometimes the things they ride
on. Beside Apul. testimony, see these later, _Remig.
Daemonolatriae lib._ 1. _cap._ 14. _Delrio, Disquis. Mag. l._
2. _quaest._ 16. _Bodin Daemonoman. lib._ 2 _c._ 14. _Barthol.
de Spina. quaest. de Strigib. Phillippo Ludwigus Elich.
quaest._ 10. _Paracelsus in magn. et occul. Philosophia_,
teacheth the confection. _Unguentum ex carne recens natorum
infantium, in pulmenti, forma coctum, et cum herbis
somniferis, quales sunt Papaver, Solanum, Cicuta_, &c. And
_Giov. Bapti. Porta, lib._ 2. _Mag. Natur. cap._ 16.--_Ben
Jonson's Works by Gifford_, vol. vii. p. 119.

L 3 _a_. "_Did carrie her into the loft._"] There is something in this
strange tissue of incoherencies, for knavery has little variety, which
forcibly reminds us of the inventions of Elizabeth Canning, who ought
to have lived in the days when witchcraft was part of the popular
creed. What an admirable witch poor old Mary Squires would have made,
and how brilliantly would her persecutor have shone in the days of the
Baxters and Glanvilles, who acquitted herself so creditably in those
of the Fieldings and the Hills.

L 4 _b_ 1. "_Robert Hovlden, Esquire._"] This individual would be of
the ancient family of Holden, of Holden, the last male heir of which
died without issue, 1792. (See Whitaker's _Whalley_, 418.)

L 4 _b_ 2. "_Sir John Southworth._"] In this family the manor of
Samlesbury remained for three hundred and fifty years. This was,
probably, the John (for the pedigree contained in Whita