[16] When these horrors were thus versified, it is not wonderful to find them “improved” by the preachers of the time. At Riga, in 1626, there appeared ‘Nine Select Witch Sermons, by Hermann Sampsonius, superintendent at Riga,’ and many others in the course of that century.
[17] Criminal Law. Tit. x.
[18] Records of Justiciary. Trial of the Master of Orkney.
[19] Calef’s Journal.
[20] Cobbett’s State Trials.
[21] Trial of Bartie Paterson. Records of Scottish Justiciary. Dec. 18, 1607.
[22] In Wenham’s case, Mr. Chauncy deposed that a cat belonging to Jane Wenham had come and knocked at his door at night, and that he had killed it. This was founded on evidence at the trial.
[23] Rec. of Just. 1613, Dec. 1.
[24] See the ‘Neue Necrologie der Deutschen, 1823,’ for an account of these remarkable appearances.
[25] Divina et Vera Metaphysica.