The Discoverie of Witchcraft

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PREFACE

INTRODUCTION.

The Epistle To the Honorable, mine especiall good A. ii. A.

The summe of everie chapter con- teined in the sixteene bookes

The first Booke.

The second Booke. 19 13

The third Booke. 40 35

The fourth Booke. 73 85

The fift Booke. 89 69

The sixt Booke. 111 84

The seventh Booke. 126 94

The eight Booke. 156 115

The ninth Booke. 167 123

The tenth Booke. 177 130

The eleventh Booke. 189 138

The twelfe Booke. 216 156

The xiii. Booke. 287

The xiiii. Booke. 353 249

The xv. Booke. 376

The xvi. Booke. 470

A Discourse upon divels and spirits, 489 351[2]. and first of

[ Appendix I. ]

[ Appendix II. ]

SHAKESPEARE NOTINGS.

MIDDLETON'S "WITCH".

EXTRACTS FROM WIER.

GENERAL NOTINGS ON SCOT'S TEXT.

GLOSSARY.

Edited
WITH EXPLANATORY NOTES, GLOSSARY, AND INTRODUCTION
BY
BRINSLEY NICHOLSON, M.D.
DEPUTY INSPECTOR GENERAL

LONDON
ELLIOT STOCK, 62 PATERNOSTER ROW, E.C.

1886

This edition of Scot’s Discoverie consists
of 250 copies only.—E. S.

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DEDICATION.

To the Memory
OF
H.R.H. PRINCE LEOPOLD, DUKE OF ALBANY,
UNTIMELY TAKEN FROM US,
THIS WORK OF AN ELIZABETHAN ENGLISHMAN,
AND OF A KINDRED SPIRIT,
WHOSE HONESTY, INTELLIGENCE, AND COMPASSION
FOUGHT AGAINST THE CRUEL SUPERSTITION
AND IGNORANCE OF HIS AGE,
IS,
BY ROYAL PERMISSION AND WITH REGRETFUL ESTEEM,
DEDICATED BY
THE EDITOR.

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                           

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