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THE
LANCASHIRE WITCHES.
gC Romance of gentile forest.
by
WILLIAM HARRISON AINSWORTH, ESQ.
Sir Jeffery— Is there a justice in Lancashire has so much skill in witches as I have ? Nay, I'll speak a proud word, you shall turn me loose against any Witch-finder in Europe. I'd make an ass of Hopkins if he were alive.
SUADWELL.
IN THREE VOLUMES.
VOL. in.
[the author reserves to himself the right of issuing a german translation in prussia.]
LONDON: HENRY COLBURN, PUBLISHER,
GREAT MARLBOROUGH STREET.
1849.