[66] Ibid., IV, 296.
[67] Selden, Table Talk (London, 1689). The book is supposed to have been written during the last twenty years of Selden's life, that is, between 1634 and 1654.
[68] Selden, Table Talk, s. v. "Witches."
[69] Nor did Selden believe in possessions. See his essay on Devils in the Table Talk.
[70] See article on Hobbes in Dict. Nat. Biog.
[71] See, for example, Bishop Burnet's History of his Own Time (Oxford, 1823), I, 172, 322-323.
[72] Leviathan (1651), 7. See also his Dialogue of the Common Laws of England, in Works (ed. of London, 1750), 626: "But I desire not to discourse of that subject; for, though without doubt there is some great Wickedness signified by those Crimes, yet have I ever found myself too dull to conceive the nature of them, or how the Devil hath power to do many things which Witches have been accused of." See also his chapter on Dæmonology in the Leviathan, in Works, 384.
[73] He continues, "Some doe maintaine (but how wisely let the wiser judge) that all Witchcraft spoken of either by holy writers, or testified by other writers to have beene among the heathen or in later daies, hath beene and is no more but either meere Cousinage [he had been reading Scot], or Collusion, so that in the opinion of those men, the Devill hath never done, nor can do anything by Witches." The Witches of Northamptonshire, ... A 4.
[74] Potts, The Wonderfull Discoverie ..., X 4 verso.
[75] Fairfax, A Discourse of Witchcraft (Philobiblon Soc.), 12.