By Peter Elmer
Witchcraft, Witch-hunting, and Politics in Early glossy England constitutes a wide-ranging and unique assessment of where of witchcraft and witch-hunting within the broader tradition of early glossy England. in line with a mass of recent proof extracted from quite a number documents, either neighborhood and nationwide, it seeks to narrate the increase and decline of trust in witchcraft, along the felony prosecution of witches, to the broader political tradition of the interval. construction at the seminal paintings of students similar to Stuart Clark, Ian Bostridge, and Jonathan Barry, Peter Elmer demonstrates how realized dialogue of witchcraft, in addition to the pains of these suspected of the crime, have been formed by means of spiritual and political imperatives within the interval from the passage of the witchcraft statute of 1563 to the repeal of many of the legislation on witchcraft. within the strategy, Elmer sheds new mild upon a number of concerns in terms of the position of witchcraft in English society, together with the tricky dating among puritanism and witchcraft in addition to the method of decline.
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The dispute between the two factions in the borough had its origins in the attempt by William Southland, mayor in 1581, to oust William Epps (uncle of Thomas) and his supporters from the government of the town. Epps served as mayor of New Romney on three occasions: 1576–77, 1581–82, 1583–84. His wife, Mary, who supposedly suffered bewitchment, was the daughter of Laurence Stuppeny. 14 Scot, Discoverie, 130–1. 15 Clark, English Provincial Society, 172. Both men later represented the Kentish puritans at the Dedham Presbyterian conference in 1587 and suffered at the hands of Whitgift’s commissary as a result: Collinson, Elizabethan Puritan Movement, 321; LPL, MS 2014, fo.
The claim is repeated in Wootton’s article on Scot in the ODNB. To a large extent, as Wootton admits, the evidence for Scot’s membership of the Family of Love is tenuous, largely based as it is on the contribution made by the jobbing writer Abraham Fleming to Scot’s Discoverie. At the same time Scot is known to have made a minor contribution to Fleming’s 1587 edition of Holinshed’s Chronicles. Wootton argues that what links the two men is their putative membership of the elusive sect known as the Family of Love.
36 W. , A True and Just Recorde of the Information, Examination and Confession of All the Witches, taken at S. Oses in the Countie of Essex (London, 1582), B6v. ), Early Modern Witches, 72; P. Almond, England’s First Demonologist: Reginald Scot and The Discoverie of Witchcraft (London, 2011), 18. OUP CORRECTED PROOF – FINAL, 1/12/2015, SPi Witchcraft, Religion, and the State in Elizabethan and Jacobean England 29 English Catholics through the taint of using sorcery to commit high treason against the Queen and so push religious moderates toward his own more militant brand of Protestantism.
