[26] Ibid., 11-12.
[27] Ibid., 53.
[28] Ibid., 214.
[29] This he did on the authority of a repentant Mr. Edmonds, of Cambridge, who had once been questioned by the University authorities for witchcraft. Ibid., 136-138.
[30] Guide to Grand-Jurymen, 22-28.
[31] He was "for the law, but agin' its enforcement."
[32] Select Cases of Conscience Touching Witches and Witchcraft (London, 1646).
[33] Ibid., 92.
[34] Ibid., 94, 97. That Gaule was a Puritan, as has been asserted, appears from nothing in his book. If he dedicated his Select Cases to his townsman Colonel Walton, a brother-in-law of Cromwell, and his Mag-astro-mancer (a later diatribe against current superstitions) to Oliver himself, there is nothing in his prefatory letters to show him of their party. Nor does the tone of his writings suggest a Calvinist. That in 1649 we find Gaule chosen to preach before the assizes of Huntingdon points perhaps only to his popularity as a leader of the reaction against the work of Hopkins.
[35] Antidote to Atheisme, 129.