Errata : ERRATA The following corrections have been made in the text of the original: {The pagination for "Newes from Scotland" starts here at page 1. In the Bodley Head reprint this follows page 82.--jbh} {p. 1}
To The Reader : TO THE READER. THE MANIFOLDE vntruthes which is spread abroade, concerning the detestable actions and apprehension of those Witches wherof this Historye following truely entreateth, hath caused me to publish the same in print: and the rather for that sundrie written Copies are lately dispersed...
Newes From Scotland.Title Page : NEWES FROM SCOTLAND declaring the damnable life and death of DOCTOR FIAN, a notable SORCERER (1591) {p. 2} NOTE THE ORIGINAL of this text is in the Bodleian Library (Douce F. 210). The text ("not the Preface") is reproduced line for line and page for page. Pages in the original are not numbered...
Newes From Scotland.Original Title Page : NEWES FROM SCOTLAND, Declaring the Damnable life and death of Doctor Fian, a notable Sorcerer, who was burned at Edenbrough in Ianuary laft. 1591. Which Doctor was regefter to the Diuell that fundry times preached at North Barrick Kirke, to a number of notorious Witches. With the true examinations...
The Seconde Booke : THE SECONDE BOOKE OF DMONOLOGIE ARGVMENT. The description of Sorcerie an Witch-craft in speciall. CHAP. I. ARGV. Proued by the Scripture, that such a thing can be: And the reasones refuted of all such as would call it but an imagination and Melancholicque humor. PHILOMATHES. NOW Since yee haue...
The First Booke : DAEMONOLOGIE, IN FORME Of Ane Dialogue FIRST BOOKE. CHAP. I. ARGVMENT. Proven by the Scripture, that these vnlawfull artes in genere, have bene and may be put in practise. PHILOMATHES and EPISTEMON reason the matter. PHILOMATHES. I AM surely verie glad to haue mette with you this daye, for I am...
Newes From Scotland : A TRUE DISCOURSE, OF THE APPREHENSION OF SUNDRYE Witches lately taken in Scotland: wherof some are executed, and some are yet imprisoned. With a particuler recitall of their examinations, "taken in the presence of the Kinges Maiestie". GOd by his omnipotent power, hath at al times and daily doth...
Introduction To The Bodley Head Edition : INTRODUCTION THE Dmonologie of King James, the Sixth of Scotland and First of England, was written, as the Royal author states in his Preface, to prove that 'the assautes of Sathan are most certainly practized, there is, too, much to interest the theologian and the psychologist, whilst...
The Thirde Booke : THE THIRDE BOOKE OF DMONOLOGIE ARGVMENT. The description of all these kindes of Spirites that troubles men or women. The conclusion of the whole Dialogue. CHAP. I. ARGV. The diuision of spirites in foure principall kindes. The description of the first kinde of them, called Spectra" & "vmbr...
Preface : THE PREFACE TO THE READER. THE fearefull aboundinge at this time in this countrie, of these detestable slaues of the Deuill, the Witches or enchaunters, hath moved me (beloued reader) to dispatch in post, this following treatise of mine, not in any wise (as I protest) to serue for a shew of my...
Title Page : DMONOLOGIE BY KING JAMES THE FIRST (1597) And NEWES FROM SCOTLAND (1591) declaring the Damnable Life and death of Doctor FIAN, a notable Sorcerer who was burned at Edenbrough in January last. from ELIZABETHAN AND JACOBEAN QUARTOS EDITED BY G. B. HARRISON {verso} from the series BODLEY HEAD QUARTOS...
Original Title Page : DMONOLOGIE, IN FORME Of A Dialogue, DIUIDED INTO THREE BOOKES. EDINBVRGH PRINTED BY ROBERT WALDE-GRAUE Printer To The Kings Majestie. An. 1597 Cum Privilegio Regio {original title page} {p. x} {p. xi}
