1. George Lyman Kittredge, Witchcraft in Old and New England (Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1928), 335. He continues, ‘No English work on the subject had a more powerful influence’.
2. Glanvill, Saducismus triumphatus (1681), 169–71. Reproduced on p. viii of this volume, Hogarth’s print also features the drummer of Tedworth, surmounting the thermometer on the right of the picture.
3. The lower estimate is given by E. William Monter, ‘The Pedestal and the Stake: Courtly Love and Witchcraft,’ in Becoming Visible, ed. R. Bridenthal & C. Koonz (Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1977), 130.
4. the higher by G.R. Quaife, Godly Zeal and Furious Rage: The Witch in Early Modern Europe (New York: St. Martin’s Press, 1987) 79. Brian Levack gives a figure of 60,000 in The Witch-Hunt in Early Modern Europe (New York: Longmans, 1987), 19–21.
5. Boguet, Discours des Sorciers (Lyon, 1602), Dedication to the Vicar-General of Besançon, XXXIV: ‘There are witches by the thousand everywhere, multiplying upon the earth even as worms in a garden’.