PRIZE ESSAYS OF THE AMERICAN HISTORICAL ASSOCIATION
1909 To this Essay was awarded the Herbert Baxter Adams Prize
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 ).
B. LIST OF PERSONS SENTENCED TO DEATH FOR WITCHCRAFT DURING
C. LIST OF CASES OF WITCHCRAFT, 1558-1718, WITH REFERENCES TO SOURCES AND LITERATURE. [1]
INDEX.
