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By Reginald Scot. The complete text, and scans, is available at archive.org.
Daily entries from the 17th century London diary
By Reginald Scot. The complete text, and scans, is available at archive.org.
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Scot, Reginald, 1538?-1599.
The discovery of witchcraft: proving, that the compacts and contracts of witches with devils and all infernal spirits or familiars, are but erroneous novelties and imaginary conceptions. Also discovering, how far their power extendeth in killing, tormenting, consuming, o curing the bodies of men, women, children, or animals, by charms, philtres, periapts, pentacles, curses, and conjurations. Wherein likewise the unchristian practices and inhumane dealings of searchers and witch-tryers upon aged, melancholly, and superstitious people, ... are notably detected. ... In sixteen books. By Reginald Scot Esquire. Whereunto is added an excellent discourse of the nature and substance of devils and spirits, in two books: the first by the aforesaid author: the second now added in this third edition, as succedaneous to the former, and conducing to the compleating of the whole work: with nine chapters at the beginning of the fifteenth book of the discovery.
London : printed for A. Clark, and are to be sold by Dixy Page at the Turks-Head in Cornhill near the Royall Exchange, 1665.
fo., [18], 292, [14], 72, [2] p. : ill. ;
"A discourse concerning the nature and substance of devils and spirits." has separate title page, with imprint "printed in the year M.DC.LXV.", and begins new pagination with quire 3A. With a final contents leaf. [A variant of the edition with "Mris. Cotes’s near the Golden-Ball in Aldersgatestreet " in the imprint, Wing (CD-ROM, 1996), S945A]
Wing (CD-Rom, 1996), S945. PL 2046
Earlier editions in 1584, 1651, 1654