Muriel C. McClendon is Assistant Professor of History at the University of California, Los Angeles. She is the author of "The Quiet Reformation: Magistrates and the Emergence of Protestantism in Tudor Norwich" (Stanford, 1999). Joseph P. Ward teaches history at the University of Mississippi. He is the author of "Metropolitan Communities: Trade Guilds, Identity, and Change in Early Modern England" (Stanford, 1997). Michael MacDonald is Professor of History at the University of Michigan. His most recent book is "Witchcraft and Hysteria in Elizabethan England" (editor).