De
Imbecillitate
Diaboli Homil.
Cambridge History of English Literature - 1908 - v07
The Character of a London Diurnall.
a
11 Feb. 1645. The Great Assizes holden in Parnassus by Apollo and his
Assessors, at which Sessions are arraigned, Mercurius Britanicus,
Mercurius Aulicus, etc. , etc. By George Wither.
29 April 1647. Cleiveland, J. The Character of a Moderate Intelligencer.
20 June 1648. A muzzle for Cerberus and his three whelps Mercurius
Elenticus, Bellicus, and Melancholicus, barking against Patriots and
Martialists. With critical reflections on the revolt of Inchiquin in
Ireland. By Mercurio-Mastix Hibernicus.
7 Feb. 1651. The Hue and Cry after those rambling protonotaries of the
times, Mercurius Elenticus, Britanicus, Melancholicus and Aulicus.
(In verse. )
3 Sept. 1652. The Weepers; or, the bed of Snakes broken, etc. , and Six
cupping glasses, clapt to the cloven feet of the six dæmons, who govern
the times by turns from Munday to Saturday annually. (By Samuel
Sheppard. )
28 Nov. 1653. Cleiveland, J. A Character of a Diurnall Maker.
Registers of the Stationers Company. 1554-1640. Transcript by Arber, E.
1875.
(Note. A further transcript from 1640 onwards is now in preparation
by Plomer, H. R. , and will shortly be published. )
MODERN WRITERS
Previous to the publication of the catalogue of the Thomason tracts, in
1908, information on the pamphlet literature of the period described was,
necessarily, most defective and erroneous. Authorities deemed worthless are
omitted.
Andrews, Alexander. The History of British Journalism, from the foundation
of the newspaper press in England, to the repeal of the Stamp Act in
1855; with sketches of press celebrities. 1859.
Bibliotheca Lindesiana. Collations and Notes, no. 5. Catalogue of English
Newspapers, 1641-1666. Privately printed. 1901.
Catalogue of the Pamphlets, Books, Newspapers, and Manuscripts relating
to the Civil War, the Commonwealth, and Restoration. Collected by
George Thomason. 1640-61.
Printed by order of the trustees of the British Museum, 2 vols. , 1908.
(Vol. 11, pp. 371-440 contains a valuable index to the Newspapers' (sic)
arranged for each month, in a way which enables the reader to find
individual numbers without difficulty. )
Chalmers, George. The life of Thomas Ruddiman. 1794. [Contains the
first catalogue of newspapers. Defective and erroneous. ]
Couper, W. J. The Edinburgh Periodical Press. Edinburgh, 1908.
Jackson, Mason. The Pictorial Press, its Origin and Progress. 1885.
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503
Macaulay, T. B. The History of England from the accession of James II,
vol. v, chap. III, pp. 386 ff. 1849–61. (On newsletters and newspapers
of the restoration. )
Masson, David. The life of John Milton. 6 vols. 1859-60. [Imperfectly
informed as regards royalists and the restoration. ]
Nichols, J. Literary Anecdotes of the Eighteenth Century. 1812-15. Vols.
IV, VIII, and ix contain a list of early newspapers which supplements
Chalmers.
Plomer, H. R. A Dictionary of the Booksellers and Printers who were at
work in England, Scotland and Ireland from 1641 to 1667. Bibliographical
Society. 1907.
Timperley, C. H. Encyclopaedia of Literary and Typographical Anecdote.
1842. (The second edition of his Dictionary of Printers and Printing. )
[This is still useful. ]
Williams, J. B. The Newsbooks and Letters of News of the Restoration.
English Historical Review. April 1908.
A History of English Journalism to the foundation of the Gazette. 1908.
The truth about Cromwell's Massacre at Drogheda. Dublin Review.
April 1910.
CHAPTER XVI
THE ADVENT OF MODERN THOUGHT IN
POPULAR LITERATURE
THE WITCH CONTROVERSY
Eastern and Biblical Authorities
The Bible (Old and New Testaments and Apocrypha; see concordance). In
Sota 9 a (written c. 200 A. D. though the legend is probably much older) and in
Beresh. Rabba 18, the devil is impelled to tempt Eve by jealousy and lust.
Beresh. 42 ascribes the birth of Cain to intercourse between Satan and Eve.
See Hastings, D. B. v, p. 409, col. 2; Weber, System der Altsynagog. Paläst.
Theol. 54; Blau, Das altjädische Zauberwesen, 1898; Conybeare, F. C. ,
Myths, Magic and Morals, 1910. Idea of pact with Satan found in legend of
St Basilius, bp of Caesarea (370-9), and in legend of Theophilus (c. 540 A. D. ),
trans, by Paulus Diaconus and versified by Roswitha of Gandersheim.
Classical Sources
Instances of sorcery, evil eye, etc. will be found in Vergil, Buc. VIII,
64 ff. ; Aen. IV, VII; Juvenal, Sat. x, 41, 42, 53; Horace, Epodes, v; Sat.
1, viii, 17 ff. ; Lucan, Pharsalia, vi; Ovid, Fasti, 11, 571; Appuleius, de
Magia Orat. pp. 37, 62-64 (ed. Bipont) and Metamorphoses, passim; Petronius,
Satyricon; Tacitus, Annals, II and 111; Suetonius, Calig. III.
Post-Classical Sources
Albertini, Arnaldus. De agnoscendis assertionibus catholicis et haereticis.
c. 1540.
Albertus, Magnus (d. 1289). Commentaria, I. 4, dist. 34, An maleficii
impedimento aliquis potest impediri a potentia coeundi, and, De somno et
vigilia, 11, c. 5.
Ambrosius de Vignate. Tractatus de Haereticis. C. 1468.
## p. 504 (#520) ############################################
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Arles, Martin de. Tractatus de superstitionibus contra maleficia seu sortilegia
quae hodie vigent in orbe terrarum. 1515.
Augustinus, St. De Genesi ad literam (401–415); De Natura daemonum,
cap. III-VI; De civitate Dei (413-426), xv (426).
Bacon, Roger (1214-94). Epistola de secretis operibus artis et natura et de
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and Magick. 1597, 1659. Rptd Brewer's Opera Inedita, 523 ff.
Basin, Bernard. Tractatus de artibus magicis ac majorum maleficiis. 1482.
Biel, Gabriel. Supplementum in 28 distinctiones ultimas quarti magistri
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Bodin, Jean. Démonomanie. 1580.
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Caietanus, Thomas. De Maleficiis. 1500.
Cassinis, Samuel de. Question de le strie. 1505.
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Comensis, Bernard. Tractatus de strigiis. 1508.
d'Autun, Jacques. L'incrédulité sçavante et la crédulité ignorante. 1674.
Daneau, L. Les Sorciers, dialogue très utile et nécessaire pour ces temps.
1574.
de Bergamo, Jordanus. Quaestio de strigis. 1476.
Del Rio, M. A. Disquisitionum magicarum libri vi quibus continentur
accurata curiosarum artium et vanarum superstitionum confutatio. 1599.
Delancre, P. Tableau de l'inconstance des mauvais anges et démons. 1612.
L'incrédulité et mécréance du sortilège pleinement convaincues. 1622.
Della Mirandola, J. F. P. Strix sive de ludificatione daemonum. 1523.
Errores Gazariorum seu illorum, qui scobam vel baculum equitare probantur.
1450.
Evenius, Sigismund. Dissertatio physica de magia. 1512.
Felix, Minucius. Octavius, 111, 7, 8. c. 200.
Fontaine, Jacques. Discours des marques des sorciers et de la réelle
possession. 1611.
Geiler, Johann. Die Emeis. Dies ist das Buch von der Omeissen. 1516.
Gerson, J. Tractatus de erroribus circa artem magicam. Opp. ed. 1494.
Gervasius of Tilbury. Otia imperialia. c. 1214.
Goulart, S. Thrésor des histoires admirables. 1610.
Grillandus, Paulus. Tractatus de hereticis et sortilegiis, omnifariam coita
eorumque penis. c. 1525.
Hales, Alexander of (d. 1245). Summa universae theologiae. Coloniae, 1622.
Hedelin, Francois (Abbé d'Aubignac). Des Satyres, Brutes, Monstres et
Demons. 1627.
Heisterbach, Caesarius. Dialogus Miraculorum. c. 1225. Rptd Strange,
1861; Meister, Dr A. , 1901.
Hieronymus, S. Vita S. Pauli primi eremitae. c. 400.
Hinkmar. De divortio Lotharii et Thetbergae. 860.
Hispalensis, Isidor. Origines. c. 630. Opp. Coloniae, 1617.
Hochstraten, Jacob von. Quam graviter peccent quaerentes auxilium a
maleficis. 1510.
Institoris, H. Dialogus de Pythonicis Mulieribus. 1489.
Jacquerius, Nicholaus. Flagellum haereticorum fascinariorum. c. 1458, ptd
1581.
Jauer, Nicolaus von. Tractatus de superstitionibus. 1405.
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505
La Vauderye de Lyonois en brief. c. 1460.
Lactantius (d. 320-330). Divina Instituta, 11, 9, v, 22.
Le Franc, Martin. Champion des Dames. 1440.
Leloyer, P. -L. Des Spectres. 1588.
Licosthenes, Conrad. De prodigiis et ostentis. 1557.
Lombardus, Petrus. Liber Sententiarum. 1150.
Mamoris, Peter. Flagellum maleficorum. c. 1462.
Mapes, W. De Nugis Curialium. c. 1180.
Maurus, Rabanus. De Universo. 845. Opp. Coloniae, 1627.
Mechlinia, Johannes de. Utrum perfecta dei opera possint impediri demonis
malicia. c. 1450.
Middleton, Richard of (d. 1308). In quartum sententiarum solutae quaestiones.
Venetiis, 1509.
Molitoris, Ulrich. De lamiis et phitonicis mulieribus, teutonice unholden vel
hexen. 1489.
Murner, Thomas. Tractatus de phitonico contractu. 1499.
Naudé, Gabriel. Apologie pour les grands hommes soupçonnés de magie.
1625. Trans. The History of Magick. Written in French by
G. Naudaeus, Englished by John Davies. 1657.
Niderus, Johannes. Fornicarius. 1337.
Origen (185–254). Homil. xv, 5, 6.
Paré, Ambrose. Deux livres de Chirurgie. 1573. (Eng. trans. by Johnson,
T. 1649. )
Ponzinibius, F. De Lamiis. 1520.
Prierias, Silvester. De strigimagarum demonumque mirandis libri tres. 1520.
Regino Prumiensis. Libri duo de synodalibus causis et disciplinis ecclesi-
asticis. c. 906. Ed. Wasserschleben, F. G. A. 1840.
Repertorium perutile de pravitate hereticorum. 1494.
Richalmus, B. (Reichhelm). Liber de Insidiis Daemonum. c. 1270.
Salisbury, John of. Policraticus. Ed. Webb, C. C. I. 2 vols. Oxford.
Scotus, Dun (d. 1308).
a
11 Feb. 1645. The Great Assizes holden in Parnassus by Apollo and his
Assessors, at which Sessions are arraigned, Mercurius Britanicus,
Mercurius Aulicus, etc. , etc. By George Wither.
29 April 1647. Cleiveland, J. The Character of a Moderate Intelligencer.
20 June 1648. A muzzle for Cerberus and his three whelps Mercurius
Elenticus, Bellicus, and Melancholicus, barking against Patriots and
Martialists. With critical reflections on the revolt of Inchiquin in
Ireland. By Mercurio-Mastix Hibernicus.
7 Feb. 1651. The Hue and Cry after those rambling protonotaries of the
times, Mercurius Elenticus, Britanicus, Melancholicus and Aulicus.
(In verse. )
3 Sept. 1652. The Weepers; or, the bed of Snakes broken, etc. , and Six
cupping glasses, clapt to the cloven feet of the six dæmons, who govern
the times by turns from Munday to Saturday annually. (By Samuel
Sheppard. )
28 Nov. 1653. Cleiveland, J. A Character of a Diurnall Maker.
Registers of the Stationers Company. 1554-1640. Transcript by Arber, E.
1875.
(Note. A further transcript from 1640 onwards is now in preparation
by Plomer, H. R. , and will shortly be published. )
MODERN WRITERS
Previous to the publication of the catalogue of the Thomason tracts, in
1908, information on the pamphlet literature of the period described was,
necessarily, most defective and erroneous. Authorities deemed worthless are
omitted.
Andrews, Alexander. The History of British Journalism, from the foundation
of the newspaper press in England, to the repeal of the Stamp Act in
1855; with sketches of press celebrities. 1859.
Bibliotheca Lindesiana. Collations and Notes, no. 5. Catalogue of English
Newspapers, 1641-1666. Privately printed. 1901.
Catalogue of the Pamphlets, Books, Newspapers, and Manuscripts relating
to the Civil War, the Commonwealth, and Restoration. Collected by
George Thomason. 1640-61.
Printed by order of the trustees of the British Museum, 2 vols. , 1908.
(Vol. 11, pp. 371-440 contains a valuable index to the Newspapers' (sic)
arranged for each month, in a way which enables the reader to find
individual numbers without difficulty. )
Chalmers, George. The life of Thomas Ruddiman. 1794. [Contains the
first catalogue of newspapers. Defective and erroneous. ]
Couper, W. J. The Edinburgh Periodical Press. Edinburgh, 1908.
Jackson, Mason. The Pictorial Press, its Origin and Progress. 1885.
## p. 503 (#519) ############################################
Chapter XV
503
Macaulay, T. B. The History of England from the accession of James II,
vol. v, chap. III, pp. 386 ff. 1849–61. (On newsletters and newspapers
of the restoration. )
Masson, David. The life of John Milton. 6 vols. 1859-60. [Imperfectly
informed as regards royalists and the restoration. ]
Nichols, J. Literary Anecdotes of the Eighteenth Century. 1812-15. Vols.
IV, VIII, and ix contain a list of early newspapers which supplements
Chalmers.
Plomer, H. R. A Dictionary of the Booksellers and Printers who were at
work in England, Scotland and Ireland from 1641 to 1667. Bibliographical
Society. 1907.
Timperley, C. H. Encyclopaedia of Literary and Typographical Anecdote.
1842. (The second edition of his Dictionary of Printers and Printing. )
[This is still useful. ]
Williams, J. B. The Newsbooks and Letters of News of the Restoration.
English Historical Review. April 1908.
A History of English Journalism to the foundation of the Gazette. 1908.
The truth about Cromwell's Massacre at Drogheda. Dublin Review.
April 1910.
CHAPTER XVI
THE ADVENT OF MODERN THOUGHT IN
POPULAR LITERATURE
THE WITCH CONTROVERSY
Eastern and Biblical Authorities
The Bible (Old and New Testaments and Apocrypha; see concordance). In
Sota 9 a (written c. 200 A. D. though the legend is probably much older) and in
Beresh. Rabba 18, the devil is impelled to tempt Eve by jealousy and lust.
Beresh. 42 ascribes the birth of Cain to intercourse between Satan and Eve.
See Hastings, D. B. v, p. 409, col. 2; Weber, System der Altsynagog. Paläst.
Theol. 54; Blau, Das altjädische Zauberwesen, 1898; Conybeare, F. C. ,
Myths, Magic and Morals, 1910. Idea of pact with Satan found in legend of
St Basilius, bp of Caesarea (370-9), and in legend of Theophilus (c. 540 A. D. ),
trans, by Paulus Diaconus and versified by Roswitha of Gandersheim.
Classical Sources
Instances of sorcery, evil eye, etc. will be found in Vergil, Buc. VIII,
64 ff. ; Aen. IV, VII; Juvenal, Sat. x, 41, 42, 53; Horace, Epodes, v; Sat.
1, viii, 17 ff. ; Lucan, Pharsalia, vi; Ovid, Fasti, 11, 571; Appuleius, de
Magia Orat. pp. 37, 62-64 (ed. Bipont) and Metamorphoses, passim; Petronius,
Satyricon; Tacitus, Annals, II and 111; Suetonius, Calig. III.
Post-Classical Sources
Albertini, Arnaldus. De agnoscendis assertionibus catholicis et haereticis.
c. 1540.
Albertus, Magnus (d. 1289). Commentaria, I. 4, dist. 34, An maleficii
impedimento aliquis potest impediri a potentia coeundi, and, De somno et
vigilia, 11, c. 5.
Ambrosius de Vignate. Tractatus de Haereticis. C. 1468.
## p. 504 (#520) ############################################
504
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Aquinas, Thomas. Summa Theologica. 1274. Pars Prima, quaest. L-LXIV,
cx-cxiv, Prima Secundae, quaest. LXXY-LXXX, Secunda Secundae,
XCIV, xcv. Rptd Paris, 1880.
Arles, Martin de. Tractatus de superstitionibus contra maleficia seu sortilegia
quae hodie vigent in orbe terrarum. 1515.
Augustinus, St. De Genesi ad literam (401–415); De Natura daemonum,
cap. III-VI; De civitate Dei (413-426), xv (426).
Bacon, Roger (1214-94). Epistola de secretis operibus artis et natura et de
nullitate magiae. Ptd Theatrum chimicum. Nürnberg, 1732. Trans.
The Mirror of Alchymy. 1597. Discovery of the Miracles of Art, Nature
and Magick. 1597, 1659. Rptd Brewer's Opera Inedita, 523 ff.
Basin, Bernard. Tractatus de artibus magicis ac majorum maleficiis. 1482.
Biel, Gabriel. Supplementum in 28 distinctiones ultimas quarti magistri
sententiarum. c. 1486. Basel, 1520.
Bodin, Jean. Démonomanie. 1580.
Burchard Wormaciensis. Decretorum libri xx. c. 1020. Coloniae, 1548.
Caietanus, Thomas. De Maleficiis. 1500.
Cassinis, Samuel de. Question de le strie. 1505.
Chrysostom, St (347–407).
De Imbecillitate Diaboli Homil. 1, no. 6.
Comensis, Bernard. Tractatus de strigiis. 1508.
d'Autun, Jacques. L'incrédulité sçavante et la crédulité ignorante. 1674.
Daneau, L. Les Sorciers, dialogue très utile et nécessaire pour ces temps.
1574.
de Bergamo, Jordanus. Quaestio de strigis. 1476.
Del Rio, M. A. Disquisitionum magicarum libri vi quibus continentur
accurata curiosarum artium et vanarum superstitionum confutatio. 1599.
Delancre, P. Tableau de l'inconstance des mauvais anges et démons. 1612.
L'incrédulité et mécréance du sortilège pleinement convaincues. 1622.
Della Mirandola, J. F. P. Strix sive de ludificatione daemonum. 1523.
Errores Gazariorum seu illorum, qui scobam vel baculum equitare probantur.
1450.
Evenius, Sigismund. Dissertatio physica de magia. 1512.
Felix, Minucius. Octavius, 111, 7, 8. c. 200.
Fontaine, Jacques. Discours des marques des sorciers et de la réelle
possession. 1611.
Geiler, Johann. Die Emeis. Dies ist das Buch von der Omeissen. 1516.
Gerson, J. Tractatus de erroribus circa artem magicam. Opp. ed. 1494.
Gervasius of Tilbury. Otia imperialia. c. 1214.
Goulart, S. Thrésor des histoires admirables. 1610.
Grillandus, Paulus. Tractatus de hereticis et sortilegiis, omnifariam coita
eorumque penis. c. 1525.
Hales, Alexander of (d. 1245). Summa universae theologiae. Coloniae, 1622.
Hedelin, Francois (Abbé d'Aubignac). Des Satyres, Brutes, Monstres et
Demons. 1627.
Heisterbach, Caesarius. Dialogus Miraculorum. c. 1225. Rptd Strange,
1861; Meister, Dr A. , 1901.
Hieronymus, S. Vita S. Pauli primi eremitae. c. 400.
Hinkmar. De divortio Lotharii et Thetbergae. 860.
Hispalensis, Isidor. Origines. c. 630. Opp. Coloniae, 1617.
Hochstraten, Jacob von. Quam graviter peccent quaerentes auxilium a
maleficis. 1510.
Institoris, H. Dialogus de Pythonicis Mulieribus. 1489.
Jacquerius, Nicholaus. Flagellum haereticorum fascinariorum. c. 1458, ptd
1581.
Jauer, Nicolaus von. Tractatus de superstitionibus. 1405.
## p. 505 (#521) ############################################
Chapter XVI
505
La Vauderye de Lyonois en brief. c. 1460.
Lactantius (d. 320-330). Divina Instituta, 11, 9, v, 22.
Le Franc, Martin. Champion des Dames. 1440.
Leloyer, P. -L. Des Spectres. 1588.
Licosthenes, Conrad. De prodigiis et ostentis. 1557.
Lombardus, Petrus. Liber Sententiarum. 1150.
Mamoris, Peter. Flagellum maleficorum. c. 1462.
Mapes, W. De Nugis Curialium. c. 1180.
Maurus, Rabanus. De Universo. 845. Opp. Coloniae, 1627.
Mechlinia, Johannes de. Utrum perfecta dei opera possint impediri demonis
malicia. c. 1450.
Middleton, Richard of (d. 1308). In quartum sententiarum solutae quaestiones.
Venetiis, 1509.
Molitoris, Ulrich. De lamiis et phitonicis mulieribus, teutonice unholden vel
hexen. 1489.
Murner, Thomas. Tractatus de phitonico contractu. 1499.
Naudé, Gabriel. Apologie pour les grands hommes soupçonnés de magie.
1625. Trans. The History of Magick. Written in French by
G. Naudaeus, Englished by John Davies. 1657.
Niderus, Johannes. Fornicarius. 1337.
Origen (185–254). Homil. xv, 5, 6.
Paré, Ambrose. Deux livres de Chirurgie. 1573. (Eng. trans. by Johnson,
T. 1649. )
Ponzinibius, F. De Lamiis. 1520.
Prierias, Silvester. De strigimagarum demonumque mirandis libri tres. 1520.
Regino Prumiensis. Libri duo de synodalibus causis et disciplinis ecclesi-
asticis. c. 906. Ed. Wasserschleben, F. G. A. 1840.
Repertorium perutile de pravitate hereticorum. 1494.
Richalmus, B. (Reichhelm). Liber de Insidiis Daemonum. c. 1270.
Salisbury, John of. Policraticus. Ed. Webb, C. C. I. 2 vols. Oxford.
Scotus, Dun (d. 1308).
