A Treatise of Witchcraft by Alexander Roberts
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page 92 of 100 (92%)
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without any other solemnity of proceeding at the onely accusation of a
Maide, without delay put one _Lemnia_ a witch to death: and it is memorable which _Ammianus[x] Marcellinus_ hath left in record, that one _Hilarius_, because hee committed his sonne yong, and not of mature yeares, to be taught and instructed vnto a Coniurer, was adjudged to die, and escaping from the hands of the executioner, who had negligently bound him, drawne by force out of the next church of the Christians to which hee fled as vnto a Sanctuary, and executed. [Footnote s: _Tacitus annalium li. 2. & consule Lipsium in suis ad eum cõmentarijs._] [Footnote t: _Valerius Maximus li. 6. ca 3. Remigius Dæmonolog. l. 3. c. *_] [Footnote u: _Demosthenes orat. 1. contra Aristogitonem._] [Footnote x: _Libr. 16._ not farre from the beginning.] The end of [y]_Varasolo_, a famous Inchantresse in Hungarie is dreadfull, who for her sundry witcheries was cast into prison, and there constrayned through extremity of hunger, to reare off and eate the flesh of her owne legges and armes, and at the last, impatient of further delay, there murthered herselfe, and shortned the span of her life. [Footnote y: _Bonfinius rerum Hungaricarum decadis 2. libr. 2._] But here I stay my hand, take it from the table, and the rather, because much hath already beene spoken to this purpose. Wherefore, for conclusion, I shut vp this whole Treatise with a remarkeable speech of a |
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