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A Treatise of Witchcraft by Alexander Roberts
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[Footnote o: _Anonymus de Mosaicarum & Romanarum legum collatione
titulo. 15._]

[Footnote p: _Constitutiones criminales Caroli 5^i. à Georgio Ramo
edita cap. 44. 109. & 177_ Such are exempted from all benefit of
those pardons which Princes vse to giue to other malefactors.
_Fornerius ad legem 236. in Titulo de verborum significatione,
vide illum nam multa erudite scribit, ad propositum nostrum
pertinentia._]

Thirdly, God willeth those should bee put to death, who by Diabolical
and vnlawfull Arts, do endeuour to helpe or harme others, whether in act
they performe the same, or purpose with intention, conceiuing and
thinking they can do it, with ranke Witches must needs be marshalled;
and therefore iustly subiect to deserued punishment.

Fourthly, all Idolaters are to dye by diuine appointment, _Deu. 17. 5_.
But I thinke no mans forehead is so brasen, that will stand Proctor, and
plead guiltlesse for these sort of people, who deuote themselues wholly
to the Diuell, though neuer so closely, and with great and cautelous
secresie: and no doubt God therefore was reuenged of the Templars, and
their detestable wickednesse practised in darknesse and obscurity, who
all[q] perished, as it were, in a moment for the same; of which at the
full we may be informed in our owne ancient histories.

[Footnote q: _Anno Domini_ 1312. whose order began 1123. _Thomas
Walsingham_ in the life of K. _Edward_ the 2^d, in his English
history, an in his _Hypodigma Neustri[e,]_.]

Fifthly, they doe solicite others to be of their profession (which is
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