The possibility and reality of magick, sorcery, and witchcraft, demostrated. Or, A vindication of a compleat history of magick, sorcery, and witcraft. In answer to Dr. Hutchinson's Historical essay ... In two parts. Part I. Containing an examination and answer of the positions laid down in that book. Part II. An essay of the nature of material and immaterial substances .. (1722)
Boulton, Richard, b. 1676 or 7 · London: Printed for J. Roberts .. · leaf 6
PREFACE TO THE READER. AV.I.NG formerly wrote aCom.pleat Hiftory of Ma-gick,, Sorcery^ and Witch*craft; containing a Colle-dion of the mod Authentick, and nonebut well attefted Relations, of the Pra-ctice of thofe Diabolical Arts^ and ha-A z. , ving. … iv The Preface ving given an Account in the Preface andIntroduction, of the Defon and Ufeful-nefi of that Hiflory, (to which I referthe Reader,) which was dcfigned for theService and Good of Mankind • not onlyby reprefenting the Barbarity and perni-cious Effeds of fuch wicked Practices*but alio to…
