...reign, this statute was confirmed with fresh enactments, declaring that " all persons invoking an}' evil spirit, or consulting, covenanting with, entertaining,...feeding, or rewarding any evil spirit, or taking up dead bodics from their graves to be used in any witcheraft, sorcery, charm, or enchanti*, or -killing, or...

...witchcraft and sorcery to be felony without benefit of clergy ; and again by statute 1 Jac. I. c. 12. that all persons invoking any evil spirit, or consulting,...graves to be used in any witchcraft, sorcery, charm, or inchantment ; or killing or otherwise hurting any person by such infernal arts, should be guilty of...

...witchcraft and sorcery to be felony without benefit of clergy ; and again by statute 1 Jac. I. c. 12. that all persons invoking any evil spirit, or consulting,...graves to be used in any witchcraft, sorcery, charm, or inchantment; or killing or otherwise hurting any person by such infernal arts, should be guilty of...

...Jac. 1. c. 12, which enacts that all persons invoking any evil spirit, or consulting, convenanting with, entertaining, employing, feeding, or rewarding...bodies from their graves to be used in any witchcraft, soreery, charm, or enchantment; or killing or otherwise hurting any person by such infernal arts, shall...

...first James, making it " felony, without benefit of the clergy, under the penalty of death, the act of all persons invoking any evil spirit, or consulting,...entertaining, employing, feeding or rewarding any evil spirits ; or taking up dead bodies from their graves, to be used in any witchcraft, sorcery, charm,...

...the same class with heresy ; and condemning both to the flames." " By a statute of James the First, all persons, invoking any evil spirit, or consulting,...covenanting with, entertaining, employing, feeding, 1 The same author, though himself a Protestant, honestly remarks, that though the rack was employed...

...an evil spirit, or consulting, covenanting with, entertaining, employing, feeding, or rewarding my evil spirit, or taking up dead bodies from their graves...witchcraft, sorcery, charm or enchantment ; or killing or hurting any person by such infernal utj, should be guilty of felony without benefit of clergy, and...

...Sorcery to he felony without henefit of clergy. (2 o ) By statute 1 Jac. I. c. xii. it was ordered that all persons invoking any evil spirit, or consulting,...entertaining, employing, feeding, or rewarding any evil spirit 5 or taking up dead hodies from their graves to he used in any Witchcraft, Sorcery, charm, or enchantment,...

...benefit of the clergy, and the penalty of death, the act of all persons invoking any evil spirits ; or taking up dead bodies from their graves, to be used in any witcheraft, sorcery, charm, or enchantment ; or killing, or otherwise hurting any person by such infernal...

...a member of the House of Commons) the capital punishment was extended to " all persons invoking nn evil spirit, or consulting, covenanting with, entertaining,...in any witchcraft, sorcery, charm, or enchantment." There had been several prosecutions on these statutes in the reigns of James I. and Charles I., —...