such names as Elemauzer, Pyewacket, Peck
in the Crown, Griezel Greedigut, &c., which, however, one of our great
word-masters, Charles Dickens, would find no difficulty in doing, and
which certainly have no very infernal sound in them.

[132] Baxter, Hutchinson, &c.

[133] Baxter.

[134] Tract.

[135] 'The Laws against Witches.' Published by Authority, 1645.

[136] 'Collection of Modern Relations.'

[137] 'The Devil's Delusion.' 1649.

[138] Baxter.

[139] Baxter's 'Certainty of the World of Spirits.'

[140] 'A Prodigious and Tragicall History of the Arraignment, Tryall,
Confession, and Condemnation of six Witches at Maidstone, in Kent, at the
Assizes held there in July, Fryday 30, this present year 1652. Before the
Right Honourable Peter Warburton, one of the Justices of the Common Pleas.
Collected from the Observations of E. G. Gent, a learned Person, present
at their Conviction and Condemnation, and digested by H. F. Gent.' London:
Printed for Richard Harper in Smithfield, 1652.

[141] A true Relation of one Mrs. Atkins, a Mercer's Wife in Warwick, who
was strangely carried away from her house in July last, and hath not since
been heard of.

[142] Dr. George More's 'Antidote to Atheism.' Dr. Lamb's 'Darling.' By
James Bower. 1653.

[143] Glanvil's 'Saducismus Triumphatus.'

[144] Reginald Scot.

[145] 'Collection of Modern Relations.'

[146] Glanvil

[147] Glanvil.

[148] Glanvil.

[149] Tract; Published 1682.

[150] Baxter's 'World of Spirits.'

[151] 'Hartfordshire Wonder; or, Strange News from Ware.' London. Printed
for John Clark, at the Bible and Harp, in West-Smith-Field, near the
Hospital Gate. 1669.

[152] Boulton's 'Compleat History of Magick.'

[153] Baxter, Hutchinson.

[154] Dr. Hutchinson.

[155] That date seems wrong: ought it not to be 1699?

[156] Boulton's 'Compleat History of Magick.' Dr. Hutchinson's 'Historical
Essay.'

[157] Surrey in Lancashire.

[158] A Tract of one leaf in a collection of trials.

[159] Various Tracts--and 'Thomas Wright's Narrative.'

[160] Thomas Wright.

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