[16] A Short Discoverie, 70.
[17] Triall of Witchcraft, 83-84.
[18] A Short Discoverie, 51-53.
[19] Triall of Witchcraft, 70.
[20] Roberts's explanation of the proneness of women to witchcraft deserves mention in passing. Women are more credulous, more curious, "their complection is softer," they have "greater facility to fall," greater desire for revenge, and "are of a slippery tongue." Treatise of Witchcraft, 42-43.
[21] "In Cheshire and Coventry," he tells us. "Hath not Coventrie," he asks (p. 16), "beene usually haunted by these hellish Sorcerers, where it was confessed by one of them, that no lesse than three-score were of that confedracie?... And was I not there enjoyned by a necessity to the discoverie of this Brood?"
[22] For the whole case see Howell, State Trials, II.
[23] See article on Bernard in Dict. Nat. Biog.
[24] See below, appendix C, list of witch cases, under 1626.
[25] See Guide to Grand-Jurymen, Dedication.