Notes
[[41]]
I. e.,these witches have no need, as do others (see p.
104), to make images, or puppets, in the likeness of those they wish
to torment, and then by torturing the puppets to inflict the same
tortures on those they represent: these witches have only to act, and
their victims are preternaturally compelled to the same action.
[[42]What]
is meant is clearly not the collection of English statutes
compiled by Joseph Keeble, or Keble, (1632-1710). Often printed (1676,
1681, 1684, 1695, 1706), this seems to have been standard in the colonies as at home;
but it contains absolutely nothing but the text of the statutes in
force, “with the titles of such as are expired, repealed,
altered, or out of use,” and at the end an analytical table of
subjects.” The work really meant is Keble's An Assistance to Justices of the Peace (London,
1683, 1689). This work, however, borrows its pages on witchcraft (pp.
217-220) from the older manuals of Lambarde, West, and Dalton; and the
passage in question is one compiled by Michael Dalton, for the later
editions of his The Countrey Justice, from
Thomas Potts's Discoverie of Witches (1613)
and Richard Barnard's Guide to Grand-Jury Men
(1627). For aid in this identification, and for a transcript of these
pages from the Harvard copy of Keble, the editor is indebted to Mr.
David M. Matteson.
