ABSTRACT

The Apprehension and confession of three notorious Witches was entered in the Stationers’ Register on 16 July 1589, to its publisher Thomas Lawe, and the quarto was printed for him by Edward Allde. The publication details have been cropped from the only surviving copy, in Lambeth Palace library. After a sharply condemnatory but stylistically fuzzy preface, which seems to refer only obliquely to witchcraft, it provides accounts of three witches probably based on their examinations. Finally, there is an account of their execution. The text used here is in Lambeth Palace library.