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...the other. I wish to God that my efforts might so prevail with the Churchwardens—who are bound by a solemn oath—that they would make it a matter of conscience to report to you, the Ecclesiastical Judges, both the witches themselves and all those who seek them out. Impunity breeds the license to sin original Latin: Impunitas peccandi licentiam peperit.
Yet the evils arising from this, affecting both bodies and souls, cannot be expressed enough. I hope I do not need many words to request your diligent care in suppressing such foul and damnable practices. For I know that wise men understand things quickly once they are said, and those who are busy with their own important work do not like to be pressured original Latin: citò dicta & percipiunt sapientes, & viris rerum suarum satagentibus non placet urgeri. And what need...