ABSTRACT
The pamphlet called The Examination of John Walsh before Master Thomas Williams, Commissary to the Reverend Father in God, William, Bishop of Excester [Exeter], Upon Certain Interrogatories Touching Witchcraft and Sorcery is a small ocatavo (collation A-A8v) printed by John Awdeley on 23 December 1566. The British Library copy is unique, and the only reprint I know of is in Barbara Rosen's edition of witchcraft pamphlets for the Stratfordupon-Avon series (1969). The pamphlet consists of two parts: 'The Printer to the Christian Reader' on the relation between witchcraft, superstition and papistry; and then The Examination of John Walsh' itself, on fifteen points concerning witchcraft. The pamphlet is not much noticed in accounts of English witchcraft: there are some references to it in C. L'Estrange Ewen's Witchcraft and Demonianism (1933), and in Keith Thomas's Religion and the Decline of Magic (1971).
