[89] ‘Historical Essay concerning Witchcraft,’ 1720.
[90] Introduction to Potts’s ‘Discovery of Witches,’ edited by James Crossley, Esq. Chetham Society. 1845.
[91] Conjuration or invocation of any evil spirit was felony without benefit of clergy; so also to consult, covenant with, entertain, feed, or reward any evil spirit, or to take up any dead body for charms or spells; to use or practise witchcrafts, enchantment, charm, or sorcery, so that any one was lamed, killed, or pined, was felony without benefit of clergy, to be followed up by burning. Then ‘The Country Justice’ goes on to give the legal signs of a witch, and those on which a magistrate might safely act, as legal “discoveries.” She was to be found and proved by insensible marks; by teats; by imps in various shapes, such as toads, mice, flies, spiders, cats, dogs, &c.; by pictures of wax or clay; by the accusations of the afflicted; by her apparition seen by the afflicted as coming to torment them; by her own sudden or frequent inquiries at the house of the sick; by common report; by the accusations of the dying; and the bleeding of the corpse at her touch; by the testimony of children; by the afflicted vomiting pins, needles, straw, &c.; in short, by all the foolery, gravely formularized, to be found in the lies and deceptions hereafter related.
[92] Thomas Wright’s ‘Narrative of Sorcery and Magic.’ Southey’s Ballad.
[93] Thomas Wright’s ‘Narrative of Sorcery and Magic,’ and ‘Trial of Dame Alice Kyteler.’
[94] Idem.
[95] ‘Introduction to the Narrative of the Proceedings against Dame Alice Kyteler.’ By Thomas Wright. 1843.
[96] Wright’s ‘Narrative of Sorcery and Magic.’ 1851.
[97] Reginald Scot.
[98] Reginald Scot. Dr. Hutchinson.