Based upon a wealth of primary sources and a life of research in the field, this history provides a fascinating discussion of the development of the House of Commons during the early years of Stuart rule. Mr. Notestein was completing work on the manuscript at his death in 1969. The basic issues characterizing the confrontations between James I and the Commons are examined, including the matters of royal prerogatives that were increasingly questioned by the Commons in the period 1604-1610. To these are added the awkward problems attendant upon the prospective Union of England and Scotland...

Contents: Beginnings of English Witchcraft; Witchcraft Under Elizabeth; Reginald Scot; Exorcists; James I and Witchcraft; Notable Jacobean Cases; Lancashire Witches and Charles I; Matthew Hopkins; Witchcraft During the Commonwealth and Protectorate; Literature of Witchcraft from 1603 to 1660; Witchcraft Under Charles II and James II; Glanvill and Webster and the Literary War Over Witchcraft 1660-1688; Final Declines; Close of the Literary Controversy.

Contents: Beginnings of English Witchcraft; Witchcraft Under Elizabeth; Reginald Scot; Exorcists; James I and Witchcraft; Notable Jacobean Cases; Lancashire Witches and Charles I; Matthew Hopkins; Witchcraft During the Commonwealth and Protectorate; Literature of Witchcraft from 1603 to 1660; Witchcraft Under Charles II and James II; Glanvill and Webster and the Literary War Over Witchcraft 1660-1688; Final Declines; Close of the Literary Controversy.

Excerpt from preface:
This study of witchcraft has been limited to a period of about one hundred and sixty years in English history. The year 1558 has been chosen as the starting point because almost immediately after the accession of Elizabeth there began the movement for a new law, a movement which resulted in the statute of 1563. With that statute the history of the persecution of witches gathers importance. The year 1718 has been selected as a concluding date because that year was marked by the publication of Francis Hutchinsons notable attack upon the belief. Hutchinson levelled a final...

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