True Discourse.
15Ibid.
16John Dee, A True and Faithful Relation of What Passed for Many Years between Dr John Dee and Some Spirits, ed. Meric Casaubon (London: n.p., 1659); Honorius of Thebes and the Angel Hocrohel, Liber Iuratus Honorii, ed. Gösta Hedegärd (Stockholm: Almqvist & Wiksell, 2002). The artefacts are on display at the British Museum.
17Darrell, True Narration.
18More, True Discourse.
19Ibid.
20Darrell, True Narration.
21More, True Discourse.
22Ibid.
23Ibid.
24Ibid.
25Ibid.
26Darrell, True Narration.
27More, True Discourse.
28Heinrich Cornelius Agrippa, ‘Book One, Chapter 1’, Three Books of Occult Philosophy, trans. James Freake (London: n.p., 1651).
29Emma Wilby, Cunning Folk and Familiar Spirits (Brighton: Sussex Academic, 2005).
30Honorius and Hocrohel, Liber Iuratus, 61; my translation. For the date, see Robert Mathiesen, ‘A Thirteenth-Century Ritual to Attain the Beatific Vision from The Sworn Book of Honorius of Thebes’, in Conjuring Spirits, ed. Claire Fanger (Stroud: Sutton, 1998) 145–47.
31A. C. Crombie, Robert Grosseteste and the Origins of Experimental Science 1100–1700 (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1953).
32Honorius and Hocrohel, Liber Iuratus, 66; my translation.
33Ibid., 127, 143; my translation.
34Dee, True and Faithful Relation, 232.
35Ibid., 13.
36Unpublished manuscript from the library of the Plymouth artist Robert Lenkiewicz. After his death in 2002 it was sold at auction and is now in the Folger Shakespeare Library (ms V.b.26 (2)).
37Anon, The Examination of John Walsh (spelling modernized) (London: John Awdely, 1566).
38Ibid.
39Moses Pitt, letter to the bishop of Gloucester, published as An Account of One Ann Jefferies (London: Richard Cumberland, 1696).
40King James I, Daemonologie (spelling modernized) (Edinburgh: Robert Waldegrave, 1597), third book, chapter V.
41Ibid.
42Emma Wilby, The Visions of Isobel Gowdie (Eastbourne: Sussex Academic, 2010).
43Hans Dieter Betz, ed., The Greek Magical Papyri in Translation, Volume One: Texts, trans. E. N. O’Neil (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1996), 91.
44Ibid., 78.
45Thomas Potts, The Wonderfull Discoverie of Witches in the Countie of Lancaster (London: W. Stansby, 1613), R3v.
46For more on the Pendle case and early modern magic, see Joyce Froome, Wicked Enchantments: A History of the Pendle Witches and Their Magic (Lancaster: Palatine Books, 2010).
47More, True Discourse.
48Pitt, letter to the bishop of Gloucester.
49See Wilby, Cunning Folk.
50King James, Daemonologie, third book, chapter V; first book, chapters III and IV.
51See, for example, John Aubrey, ‘Visions in a Beryl or Crystal’, in Miscellanies (London: John Russell Smith, 1721).
52John Webster, The Displaying of Supposed Witchcraft (London: J. M., 1677), Appendix; John Bruce, ed., Calendar of State Papers, Domestic Series, 1634–1635 (London: Longman, 1864), 77–79.
53Susan Maria Ffarington, ed., The Farington Papers (Manchester: Chetham Society, 1856), 27.
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