A GUIDE

TO GRAND-JURY MEN,

DIVIDED INTO TWO BOOKS:

In the first part is the author's best advice to them on what to do before they bring in a True Bill original: Billa vera; a legal term indicating that a grand jury finds enough evidence to proceed to a full trial in cases of witchcraft. It also includes a Christian direction for those who are too inclined, whenever they face any setback original: "every cross", to think themselves bewitched.

In the second part is a treatise concerning witches, both good Referring to "white witches" or "cunning folk" who claimed to use magic for healing or finding lost items and bad, and how they may be known, convicted original: "evicted"; in this legal context it means to be proven guilty or legally overcome, and condemned, with many details related to that subject.

The second edition original: "Addition".

K By Richard Bernard of Batcombe.

Proverbs 17:15

He who justifies the wicked, and he who condemns the just; both of them are an abomination to the Lord.
You shall therefore inquire, make search, and ask diligently, whether it is the truth and the thing is certain, Deuteronomy 13:14.

H. M.

LONDON,

Printed by Felix Kingston for Edward Blackmore,

and are to be sold at his shop in St. Paul's

Churchyard. 1630.