sacrilegiously torn from its resting-place beneath the High Altar and burned to ashes in a mighty pyre.
A second work by Boguet which was highly esteemed was an exhaustive treatise upon the Burgundian code: “In Consuetudines generales Comitatus Burgundiae obseruationes … authore Henrico Boguet. Lugduni, J. Pillehotte, 4to. 1604.” These Commentaries long held their place as a legal text-book and a standard manual of reference. A second edition was published, octavo, at Besançon in 1725. But the book by which Henry Boguet is now generally known, although, curiously enough, as we shall have occasion to see a little later, it has become a volume of the very last rarity, is the famous Discours des Sorciers; An Examen of Witches.
The bibliography of the Discours des Sorciers is extremely intricate and difficult, so that the date of the first edition has not been exactly fixed even by such painstaking and eminent bibliographers as Albert Caillet,
