[15] E. g., Discoverie of Witchcraft, 5.
[16] Ibid., 466-469.
[17] Ibid., 5-6.
[18] Ibid., 15: "Howbeit you shall understand that few or none are throughlie persuaded, resolved, or satisfied, that witches can indeed accomplish all these impossibilities; but some one is bewitched in one point, and some is coosened in another, untill in fine, all these impossibilities, and manie mo, are by severall persons affirmed to be true."
[19] Discoverie, 472.
[20] Ibid., 7-8.
[21] Ibid., 8.
[22] It was one of the points made by "witchmongers" that the existence of laws against witches proved there were witches. This argument was used by Sir Matthew Hale as late as 1664. Scot says on that point: "Yet I confesse, the customes and lawes almost of all nations doo declare, that all these miraculous works ... were attributed to the power of witches. The which lawes, with the executions and judicials thereupon, and the witches confessions, have beguiled almost the whole world." Ibid., 220.
[23] Discoverie, 471, 472.
[24] Ibid., 512.