English Witchcraft 1560-1736 vol 1

This chronological collection charts the change in attitudes to witchcraft during the period 1560-1736, which culminates in the educated debate on the reality of witchcraft and the gradual decline in belief in witches and associated phenomena. Note on Copy-Texts, General Introduction, Introduction, Selected Bibliography of Secondary Sources, Henry Holland, A Treatise against Witchcraft; or, a Dialogue, wherein the greatest doubts concerning the sinne, are briif/y answered (Cambridge, 1590), William Perkins, A Discourse of the Damned Art of Witchcraft; so farre forth as it is revelealed in the Scriptures, and manifest I:J true Experience (Cambridge, 1608), Explanatory Notes