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The Project Gutenberg eBook, The Discovery of Witches, by Matthew Hopkins This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and with almost no restrictions whatsoever. You may copy it, give it away or re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included with this eBook or online at www.gutenberg.net Title: The Discovery of Witches Author: Matthew Hopkins Release Date: November 10, 2004 [eBook #14015] Language: English Character set encoding: ISO-646-US (US-ASCII) ***START OF THE PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK THE DISCOVERY OF WITCHES*** E-text prepared by Feorag NicBhride, Andrea Ball, and the Project Gutenberg Online Distributed Proofreading Team Transcriber's note: In Quer. 11, point 3, 'confession of a With' corrected to 'confession of a Witch'. Note that all are Queries with the exception of Quest. 13. THE DISCOVERY OF WITCHES IN Answer to severall QUERIES, LATELY Delivered to the Judges of Assize for the County of NORFOLK And now published by MATTHEW HOPKINS, Witch-finder FOR the Benefit of the whole KINGDOME M. DC. XLVII. EXOD. 22.18. Thou shalt not suffer a witch to live. Certaine _Queries_ answered, which have been and are likely to be objected against MATTHEW HOPKINS, in his way of finding out _Witches_. Querie 1. _That he must needs be the greatest Witch, Sorcerer, and Wizzard himselfe, else hee could not doe it._ Answ. If _Satan's_ kingdome be divided against it selfe, how shall it stand? Querie 2. _If he never went so farre as is before mentioned, yet for certaine he met with the Devill, and cheated him of his Booke, wherein were written all the Witches names in_ England, _and if he looks on any Witch, he can tell by her countenance what she is; so by this, his helpe is from the Devill._ Answ. If he had been too hard for the devill and got his book, it had been to his great commendation, and no disgrace at all: and for judgement in _Phisiognomie_, he hath no more then any man else whatsoever. Quer. 3. _From whence then proceeded this his skill? was it from his profound learning, or from much reading of learned Authors concerning that subject?_ Answ. From neither of both, but from experience, which though it be meanly esteemed of, yet the surest and safest
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