CONTENTS.

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Preface[v]
CHAPTER I.
The Beginnings of English Witchcraft[1]
CHAPTER II.
Witchcraft under Elizabeth[33]
CHAPTER III.
Reginald Scot[57]
CHAPTER IV.
The Exorcists[73]
CHAPTER V.
James I and Witchcraft[93]
CHAPTER VI.
Notable Jacobean Cases[120]
CHAPTER VII.
The Lancashire Witches and Charles I[146]
CHAPTER VIII.
Matthew Hopkins[164]
CHAPTER IX.
Witchcraft during the Commonwealth and Protectorate[206]
CHAPTER X.
The Literature of Witchcraft from 1603 to 1660[227]
CHAPTER XI.
Witchcraft under Charles II and James II[254]
CHAPTER XII.
Glanvill and Webster and the Literary War over Witchcraft, 1660-1688[284]
CHAPTER XIII.
The Final Decline[313]
CHAPTER XIV.
The Close of the Literary Controversy[334]
Appendices[345]
A. Pamphlet Literature[345]
B. List of Persons Sentenced to Death for Witchcraft during the Reign of James I[383]
C. List of Cases of Witchcraft, 1558-1717, with References to Sources and Literature[384]
Index[421]

CHAPTER I.