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Sadducismus debellatus: or, A true narrative of the sorceries and witchcrafts exercis'd by the devil and his instruments upon Mrs. Christian Shaw, daughter of Mr. John Shaw, of Bargarran in the county of Renfrew in the west of Scotland, from Aug. 1696 to Apr. 1697.

Title: Sadducismus debellatus: or, A true narrative of the sorceries and witchcrafts exercis'd by the devil and his instruments upon Mrs. Christian Shaw, daughter of Mr. John Shaw, of Bargarran in the county of Renfrew in the west of Scotland, from Aug. 1696 to Apr. 1697. Containing the journal of her sufferings, as it was exhibited and prov'd by the voluntary confession of some of the witches, and other unexceptionable evidence, before the commissioner appointed by the Privy Council of Scotland to enquire into the same. Collected from the records. Together with reflexions upon witchcraft in general, and the learned arguments of the lawyers, on both sides, at the trial of seven of those witches, who were condemned: and some passages which happened at their execution ...
Publication: London, Printed for H. Newman, and A. Bell, 1698.

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4 p. l., 60 p.; 21.5 cm. (4to.).

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"Practically identical with the Edinburgh version [A true narrative of the sufferings and relief of a young girle ... Edinburgh, 1698] but the phraseology is modified throughout."--Ferguson: witchcraft literature of Scotland, 33. "The particulars ... were collected by John MacGilchrist, town-clerk of Glasgow, and embodied in a pamphlet written by Mr Francis Grant."--Sharpe, C.K. A historical account of ... witchcraft in Scotland. London, 1884. p. 171-172.

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*KC 1698 (Grant, F. Sadducismus debellatus)

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44030694

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38603728

Title

Sadducismus debellatus: or, A true narrative of the sorceries and witchcrafts exercis'd by the devil and his instruments upon Mrs. Christian Shaw, daughter of Mr. John Shaw, of Bargarran in the county of Renfrew in the west of Scotland, from Aug. 1696 to Apr. 1697. Containing the journal of her sufferings, as it was exhibited and prov'd by the voluntary confession of some of the witches, and other unexceptionable evidence, before the commissioner appointed by the Privy Council of Scotland to enquire into the same. Collected from the records. Together with reflexions upon witchcraft in general, and the learned arguments of the lawyers, on both sides, at the trial of seven of those witches, who were condemned: and some passages which happened at their execution ...

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London, Printed for H. Newman, and A. Bell, 1698.

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Imperfect: outer edges (p. 33-60) cropped.

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MacGilchrist, John.

Scotland. Renfrew, Commissioners for Enquiring into the Witchcrafts in the Sherriffdom of.

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*KC 1698 (Grant, F. Sadducismus debellatus)

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