Format:
Online-Ressource (376 p)
ISBN:
9780415604635
Series Statement:
Routledge Library Editions: Witchcraft
Content:
Originally published in 1929, the author presents a formidable collection of facts, brought together in a scholarly manner. This is an examination of the general history of witchcraft, its changing laws and legal procedures, as well as methods of interrogation and punishment
Note:
Description based upon print version of record
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Cover; Witch Hunting and Witch Trials: The Indictments for Witchcraft from the Records of 1373 Assizen Held for the Home Circuit AD 1559-1736; Copyright; Contents; List of Illustrations; Preface; Introduction; Ancient Laws against Witchcraft; Chaucer and Wycliffe; Growth of Witchcraft; Archbishop Cranmer; Elizabeth's Injunctions; Ecclesiastical Cases; Acts of Parliament; Definition of Terms; Punishments for Witchcraft, England; Punishments for Witchcraft, Scotland; Punishments for Witchcraft, Ireland; Condition of Gaols; Further Punishments; Military Action
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Ratio of Death Sentences to ArraignmentsReprieves; Lesser Punishments; Suspicion; Pardons; Escapes; Accusations in Upper Circles; The Last Executions in England; Repeal of the Statute; The Courts and Jurisdiction; The Commission of Gaol Delivery, 1653; A Writ of Summons, 1653; The Circuits; Venues of the Assizes; The Judges; Procedure; Bail; An Information. 1647; An Examination, 1647; A Warrant, 1701; Recognizance of a Suspected Witch, 1578; Recognizance of a Witness, 1578; An Order for a Remand, 1656; Witnesses; Confessions; Coroners' Inquests; The Discovery of Witches
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Torture and III-TreatmentProfessional Witch-finders; Judge's Direction to the Jury; Records of Assizes; Home Circuit Documents; Presentments and Indictments; Sixteen Examples of Indictments; Notes on the Indictments; Endorsements and Annotations; Key to contracted Words; Gaol Calendars; Gaol Delivery Rolls; Ratio of Persons Hanged to Persons Indicted; Statistical Table; Rise and Decline of Witchcraft Prosecutions; List of Convicted Witches; Conditions in other Circuits; Estimate of Total Executions; Comparison of Witchcraft Belief with Modern Superstitions; Abstracts of Bills of Indictments
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AppendicesI. A Gaol Delivery Roll, 1645; II. Discovery of Witches. Dalton; III. Slander Actions; IV. List of Witches not mentioned in Indictments; V. A Scottish Indictment, 1633; VI. Depositions, Suffolk, 1645; VII. Depositions, Leicester, 171; VIII. Examination and confession of Witches atChelmsford, 1556; Index;
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9780203818992
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe Witch Hunting and Witch Trials
Language:
English
Keywords:
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