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He spoke in full consciousness of strong support. It was for his opponents to assume the defensive. We have called John Webster's a great name in the literature of our subject, and we have given our reasons for so thinking. Yet it would be a mistake to suppose that he created any such sensation in his time as did his arch-opponent, Glanvill. His work never went into a second edition.
Held at bay by the practical sense of Henry, they had told on the more headstrong nature of his sons. Richard and John both held with Glanvill that the will of the prince was the law of the land; and to fetter that will by the customs and franchises which were embodied in the barons' claims seemed to John a monstrous usurpation of his rights.
Ibid., 309. Cal. St. P., Dom., 1671, 105, 171. We have two accounts of this affair: Strange and Wonderful News from Yowell in Surry , and An Account of the Tryal and Examination of Joan Buts . Roger North, op. cit., 131-132. York Depositions, 247. York Depositions, 112, 113. Drage, Daimonomageia, 12. For an account of her case, see Glanvill, Sadducismus Triumphatus, pt. ii, 127-146.
Glanvill was one of those latitudinarian clergymen, so common in the Anglican Church in the seventeenth century, who were convinced that religious faith must accord with reason, and were unwilling to abate in its favour any of reason's claims.
He then goes on to attribute the quarrels between Bishop Gilbert de Glanvill and the monks, and the church's losses through these, and its spoliation by King John's troops, to the same divine judgment.
We shall see that, before his time, as after it, precisely similar narratives attracted the notice of the curious. Glanvill generally tries to get his stories at first hand and signed by eye-witnesses. Lady Conway was not behind her guests in personal experiences. Her ladyship was concerned with a good old-fashioned ghost.
It is not hard to believe that Shadwell, the worldly Bishop Parker, and the polished Sir William Temple would fairly reflect the opinions of that class. So too the diarist Pepys, who found Glanvill "not very convincing." We can conceive how the ridicule of the supernatural might have become the fad of a certain social group.
Man doth not yield himself to the angels, nor unto death utterly, save only through the weakness of his feeble will. Joseph Glanvill. I cannot, for my soul, remember how, when, or even precisely where, I first became acquainted with the lady Ligeia. Long years have since elapsed, and my memory is feeble through much suffering.
Glanvill prints the trial from a document which he regards as official, but he did not take the trouble to trace Mr. Mr. Alfred Wallace quotes the tale, without citing his authority.
When Glanvill wrote, a little more than a century after the Conquest, the heir was bound to warrant the reasonable gifts of his ancestor to the grantees and their heirs; /3/ and if the effects of the ancestor were insufficient to pay his debts, the heir was bound to make up the deficiency from his own property. /4/ Neither Glanvill nor his Scotch imitator, the Regiam Majestatem, /5/ limits the liability to the amount of property inherited from the same source.