1. See Peter Elmer, ‘Towards a Politics of Witchcraft in Early Modern England’, in Stuart Clark (ed), Languages of Witchcraft: Narrative, Ideology and Meaning in Early Modern Culture (Hampshire, 2001): 101–18;
2. Andrew Sneddon, Witchcraft and Whigs: The Life of Bishop Francis Hutchinson (Manchester, 2008): 99, 125; Behringer, Witches and Witch-Hunts: 101–5.
3. See Ian Bostridge, Witchcraft and its Transformations, c.1650–c.1750 (Oxford, 1997): 36, and Clark, Thinking with Demons: vii–viii.
4. Brian P. Levack, The Witch-hunt in Early Modern Europe (Harlow, 3rd ed., 2006): 51.
5. Clark, Thinking with Demons: 527–30, 541; Sharpe, Witchcraft in Early Modern England: 18; idem, Instruments of Darkness, Chapters 1–3; Norman Cohn, Europe’s Inner Demons: the Demonisation of Christians in Medieval Christendom (London, 2nd ed., 1993): 144–7; Peter Burke, ‘The Comparative Approach to European Witchcraft’, in, Early Modern European Witchcraft: Centres and Peripheries: 440–1;