3 Robert Filmer, An Advertisement to the Jurymen of England, Touching Witches; Together with a Difference betywen an English and a Hebrew Witch (Royston, 1653); see also H[enry] F[ilmer], A Prodigious and Tragicall History of the Arraignment, Tryall … of Six Witches at Maidstone (1652). Similar attitudes appear in gentlemen-justices who sat on the Somerset bench. See T.G. Barnes, ed., “Somerset Assize Orders, 1629-1640,” SOMERSRS 65 (1959), 28.

4 David Woodman, White Magic and English Renaissance Drama (Rutherford, N.J., 1973).

5 An example of an English gentleman’s “fortune book” is the Henry Sturmy Fortune Book (1646), Ms. D 2375, GLOCRO; see also William Gregory, “Speculum Navitates,” Gainsborough Collection ms. 1655, LAO. Many other examples of this genre are to be found in English archives and country houses.