Notes
[[431].]
“Black Witches, or Malefick Witches,” explains Hale a
little earlier, are those “who by their enchantments do call in the Devils
aid, for revenge, to do hurt to the bodies and health of their neighbours, or to
their cattle, goods, and the like. These are the persons commonly called Witches,
and against whom the spirits of men and the laws of men are most bent, for their
prosecution and punishment.”
[[432].]
I. e., “whenas”:
whereas.
[[435].]
Sir Edward Coke.
[[436].]
Such is the numbering of the original.
[[437].]
The story of Ahithophel is to be found in II Samuel xv.-xvii.
THE VIRGINIA CASE OF GRACE SHERWOOD, 1706
