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IN “The Wonderful Discoverie of Witches in the Countie of Lancaster” we have one of the most authentic documents in the whole literature of witchcraft. It was written as an account of the trial of a number of witches arraigned at an assize held at Lancaster in 1612 by the Clerk to the Court, Thomas Potts, at the request of the two judges before whom the case was tried, and was revised by one of them. It is, therefore, of the highest authority. The book was completed and entered on the Stationers' Register before the end of the same year, and is dated 1613. Not unnaturally it is of great rarity, while the reprint by the Chetham Society, edited by James rossley in 1845, is not often available. Mr. Harrison's reprint, which follows the original exactly, is therefore cordially to be welcomed in view of the recently revived interest in the subject of witchcraft.
The Trial of the Lancaster Witches, A.D. MDCXII.
Edited with an Introduction By G. B. Harrison. Pp. xlvii + 188. (London: Peter Davies, 1929.) 10s. 6d. net.
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The Lancashire Witches. Nature 124, 678–680 (1929). https://doi.org/10.1038/124678a0
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