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_Heroid._ Ep. vi., l. 91.
See also "Grafton's Chronicle," p. 587, where it is laid to
the charge (among others) of Roger Bolinbrook, a cunning
necromancer, and Margery Jordane, the cunning Witch of Eye,
that they, at the request of Eleanor, Duchess of Gloucester,
had devised an image of wax, representing the king, (Henry
the Sixth,) which by their sorcery a little and a little
consumed; intending thereby in conclusion to waste and
destroy the king's person. Shakspeare mentions this, Henry
VI., P. II., act i., sc. 4.
It appears, from Strype's "Annals of the Reformation,", vol.
i., p. 8, under anno 1558, that Bishop Jewel, preaching
before the queen, said, "It may please your grace to
understand that witches and sorcerers within these few last
years are marvellously increased within your grace's realm.
Your grace's subjects pine away, even unto the death; their
colour fadeth, their flesh rotteth, their speech is
benumbed, their senses are bereft. I pray God they never
practise _further than upon the subject_." "This," Strype
adds, "I make no doubt was the occasion of bringing in a
bill, the next parliament, for making enchantments and
witchcraft felony.
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