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...by authorities, by Divine and human laws, by experience, and by notable Decrees original: "Arreſts" — formal judgments or rulings from a high court of that great Parliament of Paris; wishing further to evince those among them who might have some doubt regarding Sorcery original: "Sortilege" — specifically the practice of harmful magic or divination, and to strip them of all incredulity and disbelief through their own Decrees, and to conquer and bring them back solely by their own means, knowing that they do not wish to defer to those of other Sovereign companies. This question is treated therein: namely, whether it is permissible for a good Judge to doubt Sorcery, and upon this doubt, to shield Witches from all punishment and not put them to death.

The eleventh is a prodigious story of a miserable Sacrilege, who, having obligated himself to the Devil to steal the Ciborium The vessel used to hold the consecrated bread of the Eucharist and the Holy Sacrament from the Altar in the Church of Saint Savior at Blaye, was burned by Decree of the Parliament of Bordeaux.

The twelfth consists of notable Decrees on all the high points and subjects of Sorcery, drawn for the most part from the Parliament of Paris, and very few from other Parliaments, having hardly wished to include foreign ones, except those which are so celebrated and notorious that entire books have been written about them, and which are so well known throughout all France that there is no way to doubt them.

Following the Decrees of the Sovereign Courts of France—to show the uniformity of Sorcery, and that the Devil makes Witches perform and operate the same features, the same assemblies and Sabbats, the same ceremonies, the same abominations and evil spells original: "malefices" throughout the entire world—I had placed and situated at the end an admirable treatise of two girls, one of whom took the title of Princess of Magic, named Marie des Sains, and the other was her companion, both Nuns of the Monastery of Saint Bridget in the city of