Constantine, who just wanted to spend a nice week relaxing with his favourite vigilante, is dragged into the middle of it. Small water staining to interior. First Edition. Stanford Libraries' official online search tool for books, media, journals, databases, government documents and more. There was an error retrieving your Wish Lists. This is a nineteenth-century reprint, with additional introduction by James Crossley, of Thomas Potts' The Wonderfull Discoverie of Witches in the Countie of Lancaster, first published in 1613.Potts' text, commissioned by the court at the time, is an account of a series of English witch trials that took place on 18th and 19th August 1612, commonly known as the Lancashire witch trials. Richard Gallis snr owned the Garter Inn, but died in 1574, leaving a life interest jointly to his sons Richard jnr (d. 1603) and James, a ‘lunatic’, following the death of his wife, Alice. There are very few remaining records of the assize courts for Warwickshire, which dealt with capital crimes such as witchcraft in Shakespeare’s day. Thank you for your support to help care for the world's greatest Shakespeare heritage and keep his story alive. Scot later wrote an account of his involvement in the trial, referring to the charge of witchcraft as “ridiculous”, writing that “...the name of a witch is so odious, and his power so feared among the common people, that is the honestest bodie living chance to be arraigned thereupon, she shall hardlie exacape condemnation”. They are used as ‘‘a topic, a metaphor, a joke, a story, a half-formulated reference point, a piece of the plot.’’ So in Anthony and Cleopatra, an embittered Anthony calls Cleopatra a ‘witch.’ Othello is no witch but he is accused of using ‘witchcraft’ to seduce Desdemona. Others reflected more sober concerns with the supposed plague of day-to-day acts of malicious witchcraft. Great gift for word lovers! He was once mayor of Windsor. You're listening to a sample of the Audible audio edition. Blue top text block edge. His sister was married to Richard Needham, one of the clerks of St. George’s chapel, Windsor. Light foxing to text block edges. This is a used book. The second half of his book goes on to explain how tricks are carried out without the aid of any magic at all. Numerous small tears to the edges and larger tears to the spine, the largest of which being approx 20mm. One particularly outraged believer was King James VI of Scotland, who was subsequently inspired to write his own treatise, Daemonologie, in 1597. There are a number of angles from which Scot makes his attack; a list (by no means complete) is given below: Something went wrong. One of the purported witches, after being arrested by Neville, is tried and executed in 1578-9. CC-BY-4.0 via Wikimedia Commons. Illustrated jacket over dark blue cloth with gold lettering to spine. Then shew the same to the beholders, willing them to remember it: then shuffle the cards, or let anie other shuffle them;for you know the car already, and therefore may at anie time tell them what card they saw: which nevertheless would be done with great circumstance and shew of difficultie.”. Your recently viewed items and featured recommendations, Select the department you want to search in. The Wonderfull Discoverie of Witches in the Countie of Lancaster is the account of a series of English witch trials that took place on 18–19 August 1612, commonly known as the Lancashire witch trials. Pages remain clear with light tanning and foxing throughout and some occasional marking. Please consider the environment before printing, All text is © British Library and is available under Creative Commons Attribution Licence except where otherwise stated, The Tiger Who Came to Tea by Judith Kerr: sketches and original artwork, Sean's Red Bike by Petronella Breinburg, illustrated by Errol Lloyd, Unfinished Business: The Fight for Women's Rights, The fight for women’s rights is unfinished business, Get 3 for 2 on all British Library Fiction, All Discovering Literature: Shakespeare & Renaissance collection items, Why you need to protect your intellectual property, John Dee's spirit mirror (14th–16th century), Galleries, Reading Rooms, Shop and Catering Opening Times Vary, pp.