denounced  him  as  a   wlzitrd.     For  Three  thousand  sufl'ered  for  this  im-

this,  rather  than  for  the  atlieism  in  puted  crime  under  the  Long  Parlia-

his  work  entitled    De  atlmirandi*  ment.    ilirorthainptonaljirc  and  Hunt-

JTafunFarcniiis,  ho  was  burnt  in  1619.  ingdon    preserved  the    sujicrstition

When  brought  to  the  stake,  a  priest,  longer  than  any  other  counties.    Two

or  olBcial  in  att«uilance,  desired  him  pretended  witches  were  exci'uted  at

to  ask  "  pardon  of  Goil,  of  the  King,  Northampton    in    1705,    while    the

and    of    justice."      Tho    hardened  Spectator  was  in  course  of  publication

maniac  replied,  "  I  don't  believe  in  in  London,  and  five  others  some  years

God,  I  never  ofl'ended  the  King,  and  afterwards.     In  1716,    Mrs.    Hicks

I  wish  justice  was  at  the  devil."    A  and  her  daughter,  a  child  of  nine

contradiction  of  his  own  syatcm ;  a  years  of  age,  were  hanged  as  witches

mao  who  denies  a  great  Creator  can-  at  Huntingdon.     In  ticotland  thou-

not  serimisly  give  credit  to  an  arch  aands   sufiered      The    last  was    at

destroyer.  Bomoch,  in  1722.    The  laws  against

Wo  still  see  horse-shoes,  owls,  witchcraft  had  lain  dormant  for  many
hawka,  &c.,  nailed  on  thit  doors  of  years,  when  an  ignorant  or  malicious
old  barns.  Tiiwe  BU|)poscd  ciiarms  person  attempting  to  revive  them  by
pLgainst  soroery  were  used  even  in  nuding  a  bill  against  a.  poor  old
nigan  times,  and  dato  back  to  tho  woman  in  Surrey,  they  were  for-
Itomans.  Persons  accn^cd  of  witch-  mally  repealed,  in  the  tenth  year  of
craft  liave  bci-n  sulyoctcd  to  the  most  George  the  Second,  a.d.  1736.
