A History of Witchcraft in England from 1558 to 1718
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PRIZE ESSAYS OF THE AMERICAN HISTORICAL ASSOCIATION
1909
To this Essay was awarded the Herbert Baxter Adams Prize in European History for 1909
A HISTORY OF WITCHCRAFT IN ENGLAND FROM 1558 TO 1718
PUBLISHED BY THE AMERICAN HISTORICAL ASSOCIATION Washington, 1911
Copyright, 1911 By The American Historical Association Washington, D.C.
THE LORD BALTIMORE PRESS BALTIMORE, M.D., U.S.A.
PREFACE.
CONTENTS.
CHAPTER I.
The Beginnings of English Witchcraft.
CHAPTER II.
Witchcraft under Elizabeth.
CHAPTER III.
Reginald Scot.
CHAPTER IV.
The Exorcists.
CHAPTER V.
James I and Witchcraft.
CHAPTER VI.
Notable Jacobean Cases.
CHAPTER VII.
The Lancashire Witches and Charles I.
CHAPTER VIII.
Matthew Hopkins.
CHAPTER IX.
Witchcraft during the Commonwealth and Protectorate.
CHAPTER X.
The Literature of Witchcraft from 1603 to 1660.
CHAPTER XI.
Witchcraft under Charles II and James II.
CHAPTER XII.
Glanvill and Webster and the Literary War over Witchcraft, 1660-1688.
CHAPTER XIII.
The Final Decline.
CHAPTER XIV.
The Close of the Literary Controversy.
APPENDICES.
A.—PAMPHLET LITERATURE.
§ 1.—Witchcraft under Elizabeth (see ch. II).
§ 2.—The Exorcists (see ch. IV).
§ 3.—James I and Witchcraft and Notable Jacobean Cases (see chs. V, VI).
§ 4.—Matthew Hopkins (see ch. VIII).
§ 5.—Commonwealth and Protectorate (see ch. IX).
§ 6.—Charles II and James II (see ch. XI).
§ 7.—The Final Decline, Miscellaneous Pamphlets (see ch. XIII).
§ 8.—The Surey Pamphlets (see ch. XIII).
§ 9.—The Wenham Pamphlets (see ch. XIII).
§ 10.—Criticism of the Northampton and Huntingdon Pamphlets of 1705 and 1716 (see ch. XIII, note 10).
B.—LIST OF PERSONS SENTENCED TO DEATH FOR WITCHCRAFT DURING THE REIGN OF JAMES I.
1.—Charged with Causing Death.
2.—Not Charged with Causing Death (so far as shown by records).
Mixed Cases.
C.—LIST OF CASES OF WITCHCRAFT, 1558-1718, WITH REFERENCES TO SOURCES AND LITERATURE.[1]
INDEX.
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