nity, and most jealous loyalty to the truth. And so, although Bodin, Nicolas Remy, De Lancre had all written more copiously and were all three famous names, senators of no mean eminence and proved sagacity, it was the code of Henry Boguet, “The Manner of Procedure of a Judge in a Case of Witchcraft,”—“a book precious as gold,” it has been called—which was actually adopted in general practice by most local Parliaments and puisne courts, and that without any reflection upon or intended criticism of the digests and pandects compiled by most learned and most honourable legists and justiciaries, but because Boguet had in his seventy Articles codified the statutes and rulings, the methods and the regulations, most concisely, most clearly, and with the greater felicity.
Of the life of Henry Boguet, unfortunately very little is known. A native of Pierre-Court, which is a bailiwick of Gray in Franche-Comté, he was born about the middle of the
