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                              A
                   Treatise of Witchcraft.

             Wherein sundry Propositions are laid
     downe, plainely discouering the wickednesse of that
      damnable Art, with diuerse other speciall points
     annexed, not impertinent to the same, such as ought
       diligently of euery Christian to be considered.

          _With a true Narration of the Witch-crafts_
      which _Mary Smith_, wife of _Henry Smith_ Glouer,
   did practise: Of her contract vocally made between the
 Deuill and her, in solemne termes, by whose meanes she hurt
      sundry persons whom she enuied: Which is confirmed
  by her owne confession, and also from the publique Records
     of the Examination of diuerse vpon their oathes: And
     _lastly, of her death and execution, for the same;_
          _which was on the twelfth day of Ianuarie_
                         _last past_.

        By ALEXANDER ROBERTS B.D. and Preacher of Gods
            Word at _Kings-Linne_ in _Norffolke_.


     EXOD. 22. 18.
     _Thou shalt not suffer a Witch to liue._

   Impium est a nos illis esse Remissos, quos c[oe]