16Ibid., 940.
1 John Josselyn, An Account of Two Voyages to New-England, ed. Paul J. Lindholdt (1674, rpt. Hanover, 1988), 20; Edward Eggleston, The Transit of Civilization from England to America in the Seventeenth Century (1900, rpt. Boston, 1959), 15; Staines is a suburb of London, now very near to Heathrow Airport.
2 Writing generally upon the subject of magic in 16th- and 17th-century England, historian Keith Thomas observes that “sometimes they were parasitic upon Christian teaching; sometimes they were in sharp rivalry to it.” Religion and the Decline of Magic (New York, 1971), ix.