cordance with the provisions of the Common Law which considers the author of a crime equally worthy of punishment as the man who actually commits it. And from this it will appear that the stories told of witches are no fable.
But to make this still clearer, I have founded the following Examen upon certain trials which I have myself conducted, during the last two years, of several members of this sect, whom I have seen and heard and probed as carefully as I possibly could in order to draw the truth from them. And although I have been at pains to be brief, I think that I have touched upon the chief points of my subject, as may be seen from a glance at the list of the chapter headings.
At the end of this Examen, I have added a short instruction for Judges who find themselves in the same case, since they must not conduct themselves in such trials as they do in those of other crimes. In this I have had the assistance of the works of the
