[543]. In 1609 a terrible commission scourged the regions round Bordeaux and Labourt in Western France. See P. de l’Ancre, Tableau de l’inconstance den Mauvais Anges, 1612. Under Louis XIV. the lurid Chambre Ardente was set up in 1679, and lasted till 1682. La Reynie, the Lieutenant-General of Police, was an active inquisitor. See F. Funck-Brentano, Princes and Poisoners; G. Maidment, trans. London, 1901.
[544]. Cautio Criminalis, 1631.
[545]. Saducisimis Triumphatus, 1681.
[546]. In Dutch, 1681; French translation, Le Monde enchanté. Amsterdam, 1684.
[547]. The Certainty of the World of Spirits. London, 1691.
[548]. The Wonders of the Invisible World: Observations upon the Nature, the Number, and the Operations of the Devils.
[549]. R. Calef, More Wonders of the Invisible World. London, 1700.
[550]. D. Neal, History of New England.—“The prisons were hardly able to hold the number of the accused.”
[551]. As it did as late as 1861, round the little village of Morzines in Savoy; see A Constans, Une Relation sur une épidémie d’hystério-démonopathie. Paris, 1863.
Dr. R. Madden gives a long account of various historical outbreaks in his Phantasmata, chap. x. “Maniacal Epidemics, etc.” London, 1857.