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Four Centuries of Witch Beliefs (RLE Witchcraft)
About this book
Originally published in 1947, it is the essential purpose of this book to investigate attitudes of leading Elizabethan and Stuart statesmen, ask whether witchcraft was of any importance in seventeenth-century English history, or even influenced the Great Rebellion. The reader is placed in possession of the more pertinent passages from the arguments used to support or discredit belief in witchcraft.
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INDEX
ABBOT, George (1562–1633), Archbishop of Canterbury, 43, 90, 96, 100
Abingdon, Berks, 18, 77
Abergavenny, Monmouthshire, 192
Aberystruth, Monmouthshire, 192
Act of General Pardon and Oblivion (1651–2), 145–6
Acts (xxix. 13), 52
Acts and Monuments, The (John Foxe, 1563), 23, 24
Acts of Parliament, 13, 14, 15, 40, 41, 42, 82, 138, 145, 174, 188, 192, 193, 194, 195
A Declaration of Egregious Popish Impostures (Harsnett, 1603), 77
Addison, Joseph (1672–1719), 64
Advertisement to the Jury-men of England (Filmer, 1653), 77
Ady, Thomas, 102, 178–0
Agrippa, Henry-Cornelius (1486– 1535), 60
Alabaster, Dr. William (1567–1640), 103
Albigenses, 12
Altham, Sir James (d. 1617), 105
America, 12, 108, 117
Amsterdam, 111
Anæsthetic spots, 47, 160
Anatomie of Sorcery (Mason, 1612), 38, 52–4
Anatomy of Melancholy (Burton), 72, 73
Anderson, Sir Edmund (1530–1605), 22, 39
Andrews, Lancelot (1555–1626), 64–5
Annales of England (Stowe, 1592), 21
Annals of the Reformation (Strype), 20
Anne of Denmark (1574–1619), 41
Anne, Queen (d. 1714), 187
Antidote against Atheism, An (Henry More, 1653), 175
Antipas: A Solemn Appeal (1821), 194
Apollonius of Tyana (a Neo-Pythagorean philosopher born a few years before the Christian era), 186
Apologia pro Ecclesia Anglicana (Jewel, 1562), 19
Apology against a Pamphlet (Milton), 171
Apparitions, 30, 106, 107, 109, 175, 183, 185, 193
Armada, The Spanish (1588), 32
Arminianism, 63, 64, 65, 71, 80, 122–123, 124
Arminius, Jacobus (1560–1609), 63
Army, Parliamentarian, 145–9, 163, 188
Arthur, John, 181
Ashton (Assheton), Ralph, 142–3
Richard, 143
Ashurst, William, ...
Table of contents
- Cover
- Halftitle
- Title
- Copyright
- Contents
- Preface
- I. The Growth of Witch-Mania in Europe at the End of the Middle Ages
- II. The Introduction of Continental Witch-Beliefs into England, 1558–88
- III. The First Period of the Great Witch-Scare, 1588–1618
- IV. James I’s Renunciation of His Belief in Witchcraft
- V. The Attempts of James I and Charles I to Extinguish Witch-Mania, 1618–42
- VI. Indignation Aroused by the Protection of Witches, 1618–42
- VII. Parliament and Witchcraft, 1625–49
- VIII. The Second Period of the Great Witch Scare 1642–9
- IX. Oliver Cromwell and Witchcraft
- X. Conclusion
- Bibliography
- Index