A Treatise of Witchcraft
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About This Book
The trial account is framed by Roberts’ general beliefs about witchcraft, organised in the form of 9 ‘propositions’. He adds his opinion on key arguments in demonology such as why women are disproportionately accused of witchcraft; and the source of a witch’s powers (which Roberts believes to be the devil, whose own powers in turn are permitted by God). Roberts has clearly read widely, citing most of the main witchcraft writers from England and Europe, and backing his arguments with diverse sources such as the Bible and classical literature.
Chapters (107)(click to expand)
- A Treatise of Witchcraft.
- Wherein sundry Propositions are laid
- downe, plainely discouering the wickednesse of that damnable Art, with diuerse other speciall points
- With a true Narration of the Witch-
- crafts which Mary Smith, wife of Henry Smith Glouer, did practise: Of her contract vocally made between the
- ¶ To the right Worshipful Mai- ster Iohn Atkin Maior, the Re-
- To the Reader.
- A TREATISE OF THE CONFESSION AND
- EXECVTION OF MARY SMITH, CONVICTED OF WITCHCRAFT,
- The first Proposition.
- The second Proposition.
- The third Proposition.
- The fourth Proposition.
- The fifth Proposition.
- The sixt Proposition.
- The seuenth Proposition.
- A true Narration of some of those Witch-crafts which Marie wife of
- Henry Smith Glouer did practise, and of the hurts she hath done vnto sundry persons by the same:
- ¶ Her wicked practise against Iohn Orkton.
- ¶ Her Wicked practise against Elizabeth Hancocke.
- Her wicked practises against Cicely Balye.
- Her wicked practise against Edmund Newton.
- ¶ The eight Proposition, and first consequent.
- The ninth Proposition, and second Corrolary.
- FINIS.
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