[1035] De Magor. Dæmonomania, Basil. 1581, pp. 372, 385.
[1036] Binsfeldi Tract. de Confess. Malefic. pp. 287-94 (Ed. 1623). He argues that, as the proceeding was unlawful, confessions obtained by means of it were of no legal weight.
[1037] Wieri op. cit. p. 589.
[1038] Godelmanni de Magis Lib. III. cap. v. §§ 30, 35.
[1039] P. Burgmeister Dissert. de Probat. per aquam, etc. Ulmæ, 1680, § 44. Burgmeister adopts the explanation of Binsfeld to account for the cases in which witches floated.
[1040] Königswarter, op. cit. p. 176.—Bochelli Decr. Eccles. Gallicanæ, Paris, 1609, p. 1211.
[1041] “Porro, nostra memoria, paucis abhinc annis, solebant judices reos maleficii accusatos mergere, pro certo habentes incertum crimen hac ratione patefieri.”—Notæ ad Legem Salicam.
[1042] Tanquam aqua suum in sinum eos non admitteret, qui excussa baptismi aqua se omni illius sacramenti beneficio ultro orbarunt.—Dæmonologiæ Lib. III. cap. vi.
[1043] Rogers’ Scotland, Social and Domestic, p. 266 (Grampian Club, 1869).
[1044] Dissert. Inaug. de Torturis Th. XVIII. § xi. Basil. 1661.