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ACCOUNT OF REPUTED WITCHES, &C. 163
we give power to the inquisitors, &c. to convict, im-
prison and punish, &c.”
From the time of this extraordinary bull, the number
of executions continued to increase, particularly in places
where the Waldenses and Protestants were most numerous,
The same observation is made by the Jesuit Delrio, who
gives several reasons why Protestants should be so very
much in the power of the devil.
1485. Cumanus burned forty poor women for witches,
in the country of Burlia, in one year. He caused them
first to be shaved, that they might be searched for marks.
He continued these persecutions in the following years,
and great numbers fled the country.
About this time, as we are informed by Alcial, a cele-
brated lawyer, one inquisitor burned one hundred in
Piedmont, and proceeded in his pious duty, till the people
rose and drove him out of the country.
1488. A violent tempest of thunder and lightning in
Constance, destroyed the corn for four leagues round.
The people accused one Anne Mindelen, and another
female named Agnes, of being the cause of this cala-
mity. They confessed and wTere burned.
About this time, says H. Institor, one of the inquisi-
tors came to a certain town that was almost desolated by
plague and famine. It was there reported, that a certain
woman, buried not long before, was eating up her wind-
ing sheet, and that the plague would not cease till she
had made an end of it. This matter being taken into
consideration, Scultetus with the chief magistrate of the
city opened the grave, and found that she had actually
swallowed and devoured one half of her winding-sheet.
Scultetus, moved with horror, drew his sword, cut off
her head, and threw it into a ditch. On this, the plague
immediately ceased, and the inquisition sitting on the
y 2 case,
we give power to the inquisitors, &c. to convict, im-
prison and punish, &c.”
From the time of this extraordinary bull, the number
of executions continued to increase, particularly in places
where the Waldenses and Protestants were most numerous,
The same observation is made by the Jesuit Delrio, who
gives several reasons why Protestants should be so very
much in the power of the devil.
1485. Cumanus burned forty poor women for witches,
in the country of Burlia, in one year. He caused them
first to be shaved, that they might be searched for marks.
He continued these persecutions in the following years,
and great numbers fled the country.
About this time, as we are informed by Alcial, a cele-
brated lawyer, one inquisitor burned one hundred in
Piedmont, and proceeded in his pious duty, till the people
rose and drove him out of the country.
1488. A violent tempest of thunder and lightning in
Constance, destroyed the corn for four leagues round.
The people accused one Anne Mindelen, and another
female named Agnes, of being the cause of this cala-
mity. They confessed and wTere burned.
About this time, says H. Institor, one of the inquisi-
tors came to a certain town that was almost desolated by
plague and famine. It was there reported, that a certain
woman, buried not long before, was eating up her wind-
ing sheet, and that the plague would not cease till she
had made an end of it. This matter being taken into
consideration, Scultetus with the chief magistrate of the
city opened the grave, and found that she had actually
swallowed and devoured one half of her winding-sheet.
Scultetus, moved with horror, drew his sword, cut off
her head, and threw it into a ditch. On this, the plague
immediately ceased, and the inquisition sitting on the
y 2 case,