CHAP. IX.
A conclusion of the first book, wherein is fore-shewed the tyrannicall cruelty of witch-mongers and inquisitors, with a request to the rea∣der to peruse the same.
ANd because it may appeare unto the world what trecherous and faithlesse dealing, what extreame and intolerable tyranny, what grosse and fond absurdities, what unnatural and uncivil discourtesie, what cankerd and spitefull malice, what outragious and barbarous cruelty, what lewd and false packing, what cunning and crafty intercepting, what bald and pievish interpretations, what abominable and devilish inventions; and what ••lat and plaine knavery is practised against these old women; I will set down the whole order of the inquisition, to the everlasting, in∣excusable, and apparent shame of all witch-mongers. Neither will I insert any private or doubtfull dealings of theirs; or such as they can ei∣ther deny to be usuall, or justly cavill at; but such as are published and renewed in all ages, since the commencement of popery, established by laws, pactised by inquisitors, priviledged by princes, commended by doctors, confirmed by popes, councels, decrees, and canons; and finally be left of all witch-mongers; to wit, by such as attribute to old women, and such like creatures, the power of the Creator. I pray you therefore, though it be tedious and intolerable (as you would be heard in your miserable calamities) so heare with compassion, their accusations, examinations, matters given in evidence, confessions, presumptions, interrogatories, conjurations, cautions, crimes, tortures and condem∣nations, devised and practised usually against them.