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164 ACCOUNT OF REPUTED WITCHES, &C.
case, it was discovered that the woman had long been a
reputed witch.
George Ripley who wrote several books on mathema-
tics, and William Blackney, D.D. were about this time
accounted necromancers. The same charge was likewise
preferred against John Trithemius, abbott of Spanheim in
Germany, and a man of great learning.
1515. About this time, according to the testimony of
the Jesuit Delrio, five hundred were executed at Geneva,
in three months. It is very probable that in this number
were many poor Waldenses, who were denominated by the
Catholics, Protestant witches and wizzards.
Forty-eight were burned at Ravensburg in Germany
in five years.
1520. Multitudes were about this period burned' in
France. One Triscula told Charles IX. that there were
many thousands of witches in his kingdom.
1523. Pope Adrian VI. enforced his predecessor’s bull
concerning witchcraft, and extended the powers of the
inquisitors.
1524. About this time one thousand were burned in one
year in the diocese of Como, in Italy, and one hundred
annually for several successive years.
1534. Elizabeth Barron, the maid of Kent, fell into
strange trances, and spoke in a manner so very superior
to her ordinary conversation, that many thought her fits
were supernatural. At length inveighing against the
king’s marriage, she was apprehended, and confessed
herself an impostor. She was hanged, together with
seven men, who had prompted and aided her in the de-
ception.
1536. Forty witches are said to have renewed a plague
at Cassalis, in Italy, by besmearing the posts -of the
doors with an ointment and powder.
1541.
case, it was discovered that the woman had long been a
reputed witch.
George Ripley who wrote several books on mathema-
tics, and William Blackney, D.D. were about this time
accounted necromancers. The same charge was likewise
preferred against John Trithemius, abbott of Spanheim in
Germany, and a man of great learning.
1515. About this time, according to the testimony of
the Jesuit Delrio, five hundred were executed at Geneva,
in three months. It is very probable that in this number
were many poor Waldenses, who were denominated by the
Catholics, Protestant witches and wizzards.
Forty-eight were burned at Ravensburg in Germany
in five years.
1520. Multitudes were about this period burned' in
France. One Triscula told Charles IX. that there were
many thousands of witches in his kingdom.
1523. Pope Adrian VI. enforced his predecessor’s bull
concerning witchcraft, and extended the powers of the
inquisitors.
1524. About this time one thousand were burned in one
year in the diocese of Como, in Italy, and one hundred
annually for several successive years.
1534. Elizabeth Barron, the maid of Kent, fell into
strange trances, and spoke in a manner so very superior
to her ordinary conversation, that many thought her fits
were supernatural. At length inveighing against the
king’s marriage, she was apprehended, and confessed
herself an impostor. She was hanged, together with
seven men, who had prompted and aided her in the de-
ception.
1536. Forty witches are said to have renewed a plague
at Cassalis, in Italy, by besmearing the posts -of the
doors with an ointment and powder.
1541.