Note 581 — Chapter VII · WITCHCRAFT.

Du Clercq, Liv. IV. ch. 6, 11, 14, 28.—A copy of Jean Taincture’s tract is in the Bib. Roy. de Bruxelles, MSS. No. 2296.—About this time Jeannin, a peasant of Inchy, was executed at Cambrai, and at Lille Catharine Patée was condemned as a witch, but escaped with banishment, and the same was the case with Marguerite d’Escornay at Nivelles. One unfortunate, Noel Fern of Amiens, became insane on the subject, and after wandering over the land, accused himself at Mantes of belonging to the accursed sect. He was burned August 26, 1460. His wife, whom he had implicated, escaped sharing his fate by an appeal to the Parlement—Duverger, La Vauderie dans les États de Philippe le Bon, pp. 52-3, 84.