The Discoverie Of Witchcraft: Being A Reprint Of The First Edition Published In 1584 (Classic Reprint)

Excerpt From The Discoverie Of Witchcraft: Being A Reprint Of The First Edition Published In 1584 In The Biographical Portion Of This Introduction, Besides A Supposi Tion Or Two Of My Own, Which From His Writings Seem To Me Highly Probable, There Have Been Given Notices Of His Pedigree, Age, And Marriages, Matters Hitherto Unknown Or Misstated, And For Which I Would At Once Record My Indebtedness To Edmund Ward Oliver, Esq. This Gentleman Having Taken An Interest In Investigating These Ques Tions, And Being A Perfect Stranger To Me, Wrote And Offered The Results Of His Inquiries So Soon As He Had Learnt That I Was Engaged With This Reprint, And Has Since Most Obligingly Answered The Various Questions That I Have Had Occasion To Put To Him. A Copy Of ScotS Will Has Been Also For The First Time Published, And Some Notes And A Glossary Added. Were I To Have Imitated The Learned Editors Of Former Days, I Should Have Added, Not Some, But Exhaustive Notes On Every Point, Gathered From Every Known And Unknown Source; But I Have Con Fined Myself To Explanation, Or To Making A Few Remarks On The Text, Giving Also The AuthorS Agreement With, Or Obligations To Wier, So Far As I Knew Them, And ShakespeareS And MiddletonS Obligations To Himself; My Reason For Not Entering Into Greater Details Being That I Am No Student Of The Pseudo-Science Of Witchcraft, But A Student Only Of What Is Useful, And True, And Good. About The Publisher Forgotten Books Publishes Hundreds Of Thousands Of Rare And Classic Books. Find More At This Book Is A Reproduction Of An Important Historical Work. Forgotten Books Uses State-Of-The-Art Technology To Digitally Reconstruct The Work, Preserving The Original Format Whilst Repairing Imperfections Present In The Aged Copy. In Rare Cases, An Imperfection In The Original, Such As A Blemish Or Missing Page, May Be Replicated In Our Edition. We Do, However, Repair The Vast Majority Of Imperfections Successfully; Any Imperfections That Remain Are Intentionally Left To Preserve The State Of Such Historical Works.