Notes
[[419].]
Susannah Martin and Bridget Bishop.
[[420].]
At pp. 223-236, above.
[[421].]
Timothy Swan, aged thirty, died early in February, 1692/3 (N. E. Hist. and Gen. Reg., II. 380; Mrs. Bailey, Historical Sketches of Andover, p. 237).
[[423].]
I. e., Satan (see Rev. xii.
10).
[[424].]
Deserving of consideration.
[[425].]
The famous witch-hunt in which Matthew Hopkins was the leading spirit
(1645-1646).
[[426].]
What is in thought is doubtless the boast of Nicolas Remy (Remigius), on
the title-page of his Dœmonolatreia (1595),
that his book rests on the trials of nine hundred, put to death for witchcraft within
fifteen years; but this was in Lorraine, not yet a part of France, though in close
relations with it.
[[427].]
Lib. VI., cap. 20, of this notable book by which the eminent Rhenish
physician Wierus (Johann Weyer, 1515-1588) gave to the zeal of the witch-haters
its first effective check. This passage, however, he borrows bodily from the Parergon Juris (VIII. 22) of an earlier opponent of witch
persecution, the Italian jurist Andrea Alciati.
[[428].]
I. e., those crazed more than criminal:
hellebore was counted a cure for insanity.
[[429].]
See p. 416, note 5. “Burton” has merely
inserted into his Kingdom of Darkness (pp. 148-159)
the contents of the contemporary True and Exact
Relation (1645) which narrates this Essex persecution.
[[430].]
The following chapters (V.-XVII.) are devoted to the nature of witchcraft
and the proper means for its detection.
