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See Hist. MSS. Comm. The Case of Witchcraft at Coggeshall, Essex, in the year 1699. Being the narrative of the Rev. By some Parker is given the credit. I cannot find the original authority. Inderwick, Sidelights on the Stuarts, 174, 175. In the last chapter we mentioned the controversy over Jane Wenham.
Cotton, Gleanings ... Relative to the History of ... Exeter, 150-152. James Raine, editor of York Depositions, writes that he has found no instance of the conviction of a witch. Preface, xxx. Inderwick, Interregnum, 188-189. Cal. St. P., Dom., 1650, 159. There are several secondary accounts of this affair. See F. Legge in Scottish Review, XVIII, 267. See also a tract in Brit. Mus.
Inderwick has given a good illustration of Hale's weakness of character: "I confess," he says, "to a feeling of pain at finding him in October, 1660, sitting as a judge at the Old Bailey, trying and condemning to death batches of the regicides, men under whose orders he had himself acted, who had been his colleagues in parliament, with whom he had sat on committees to alter the law."
But another possible consequence of the breaking down of the law may be suggested. Mr. Inderwick, who has looked much into English witchcraft, says that "from 1686 to 1712 ... the charges and convictions of malicious injury to property in burning haystacks, barns, and houses, and malicious injuries to persons and to cattle increased enormously."
Lord Penzance, as all lawyers know, and as the late Mr. Inderwick, K.C., has testified, was one of the first legal authorities of his day, famous for his "remarkable grasp of legal principles," and "endowed by nature with a remarkable facility for marshalling facts, and for a clear expression of his views."
It purports to tell the story of one of the cases that came up during Matthew Hopkins's career in 1645-1647. It has been universally accepted even by Thomas Wright, Ashton, W. H. D. Adams, and Inderwick. An examination shows, however, that it was made over from the Chelmsford pamphlet of 1645.
Lord Penzance, as all lawyers know, and as the late Mr. Inderwick, K.C., has testified, was one of the first legal authorities of his day, famous for his "remarkable grasp of legal principles," and "endowed by nature with a remarkable facility for marshaling facts, and for a clear expression of his views."
See, too, the words of Thomas Ady, A Candle in the Dark, 105. Cal. St. P., Dom., 1658-1659, 169. When the council of state, however, in 1652 had issued an act of general pardon, witchcraft had been specifically reserved, along with murder, treason, piracy, etc. Cal. St. P., Dom., 1651-1652, 106. Inderwick, Interregnum, 231.
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