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The second part of Glanvill's Sadducismus Triumphatus is full of these depositions. For a full account of this affair see Glanvill's Sadducismus Triumphatus, pt. ii, preface and Relation I. Glanvill had investigated the matter and had diligently collected all the evidence. He was familiar also with what the "deriders" had to say, and we can discover their point of view from his answers.
"The Sadducismus Triumphatus," which he published, is probably the ablest book ever published in defense of the superstition, and although men of the ability of Henry More, the famous philosopher Casaubon, the learned Dean of Canterbury, Boyle and Cudworth, came to his defense, the delusion was fast losing ground.
York Depositions, 191-201. For a complete account of the Julian Cox case see Glanvill, Sadducismus Triumphatus, pt. ii, 191-209. Sussex Archaeological Collections, XVIII, 111-113. In an earlier chapter we followed the progress of opinion from James I to the Restoration.
Henry More was no Puritan; and his letter to Glanvil, prefixed to the third edition of the "Sadducismus Triumphatus," was written in 1678, only fourteen years before the trials at Salem. Bekker's "Bezauberte Welt" was published in 1693; and in the Preface he speaks of the difficulty of overcoming "the prejudices in which not only ordinary men, but the learned also, are obstinate."
The Perrys were probably not of the best repute. The mother, Joan, was supposed to be a witch. This charge was seldom brought against popular well-living people. How intense was the fear of witches, at that date, we know from the stories and accounts of trials in Glanvil's Sadducismus Triumphatus.
See above pp. 121, 158-160, 244-245. See above, pp. 238-239. See above, p. 256 and note. London, 1678; see pp. 515-518. Glanvill, Sadducismus Triumphatus, 80. By the eighties it is very clear that the justices were ceasing to press charges against witches. In an article to be published separately.
See, for example, ibid., 88-89. Ibid., 25-27. Sadducismus Triumphatus, 39. Ibid., 52-53. Ibid., 78. Nevertheless he took up some of Scot's points. Sadducismus Triumphatus, Preface. Sadducismus Triumphatus, pt. ii, 3. See ibid., pt. ii, Relation VIII. London, 1668.
Here he anticipates the arguments which Glanvil sets forth in Sadducismus Triumphatus. Writing on the belief in witchcraft Glanvil says, "We have the attestation of thousands of eye and ear witnesses, and these not of the easily-deceivable vulgar only, but of wise and grave discerners; and that when no interest could oblige them to agree together in a common Lye.
To convince them, the learned and Reverend Joseph Glanvil wrote his well-known work, "Sadducismus Triumphatus," and "The Collection of Relations;" the first part intended as a philosophical inquiry into witchcraft, and the power of the devil "to assume a mortal shape;" the latter containing what he considered a multitude of well-authenticated modern instances.
We do not know that the woman was excused, but the case was before Henry Ogle and we may fairly guess the outcome. Glanvill, Sadducismus Triumphatus, pt. ii, 191-209. This is the estimate of him by North, who adds: "and he knew it." Roger North, Life of the Rt. Hon. Diary and Correspondence of Dr. John Worthington, II, pt. In his Religio Medici. Ibid., IV, 389. Roger North, op. cit., 61.
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