_Stearne's (not Hearne's) Confirmation and Discovery of Witchcraft_ (Vol.
v., p. 416.).--Of this tract, inquired after by MR. CLARKE, and which is
certainly one of the most extraordinary of all the treatises on Witchcraft,
the only copy I ever saw is the one I possess, and which I have fully
described in the notes to Pott's _Discovery of Witches_, printed for the
Chetham Society, p. 4. The Rev. Author was no theorist, but a thoroughly
practical man; having been an agent in finding and bringing to justice 200
witches in the eastern counties. He has the subject so perfectly at his
fingers' ends, and discusses it so scientifically, that Hopkins sinks into
insignificance by the side of him. Pity it is that such a philanthropic
individual should have had occasion to complain: "In many places I never
received penny as yet, nor any am like, except that I should sue!!"