Note 420 — Chapter XIV

This is stated on the authority of the article on Witchcraft in Knight's Cyclopædia.

Hutchinson says, of the thousands of executions for witchcraft in 250 years, he had ascertained only about 140 cases in England. Other writers placed the numbers higher. Some estimates appear absurdly extravagant; for example, that in Barrington's Observations on the More Ancient Statutes.