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existed, he suspected theories about it were connected with popular superstition rather than scriptural sources. He distinguished between the workings of a
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An Admonition moving to Moderation, holding forth certain brief heads of wholesom advice to the late and yet immoderate Party
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Gaule took a legalistic and evidentiary approach to witchcraft. He argued for stringent standards of evidence, but also that
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Religious Thought in England, from the Reformation to the end of last century: a contribution to the history of theology
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Distractions, or the Holy Madnesse. Feruently (not Furiously) inraged against Euill Men, or against their Euills
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Practiqve Theories, or Votiue Speculations, vpon Iesvs Christs Prediction, Incarnation, Passion, Resurrection
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should be admitted because of the difficulty of conviction. His works were consulted at the time of the
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were operating in Huntingdonshire. As a result, and to expose the methods used by Hopkins, he wrote
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The Anatomy of Melancholy: Commentary up to part.1, sect.2, memb.3, subs.15, "Misery of schollers"
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and the spells of a witch, leaving some room for the former to operate in good conscience.
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Practiqve Theories, or Votiue Speculations vpon Abrahams Entertainment of the three Angels
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A Sermon of the Saints judging the World. Preached at the Assizes holden in Huntingdon
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Exploiting Erasmus: The Erasmian Legacy and Religious Change in Early Modern England
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Calendar of State Papers, Domestic Series, of the Reign of Charles II 1660–1661
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A Collection out of the best approved Authors, containing Histories of Visions
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A Defiance to Death. Being the Funebrious Commemoration of … Viscount Camden
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The Salem Witch Trials: A Day-By-Day Chronicle of a Community Under Siege
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Marks of an Absolute Witch: Evidentiary Dilemmas in Early Modern England
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Marks of an Absolute Witch: Evidentiary Dilemmas in Early Modern England
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The Practiqve Theorists Panegyrick. … A Sermon preached at Pauls-Crosse
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gave an account of Gaule's witch-theories and their discriminations;
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thought to accompany a witch. While he was convinced enough that
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Rhetoric, Science, & Magic in Seventeenth-Century England
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Gaule clashed with, and preached against, the self-appointed
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He studied at both Oxford and Cambridge, graduating B.A. at
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cleric, now remembered for his partially sceptical views on
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in 1623/4. For a time, he appears to have been employed by
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Select Cases of Conscience touching Witches and Witchcraft
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Select Cases of Conscience touching Witches and Witchcraft
815:. Longman, Orme, Brown, Green and Longmans. p. 74 220:, London, 1660, to which he prefixed a dedication to 54:, probably as chaplain. By 1629, he was chaplain to 279:, London, 1652. Another edition under the title of 668: 500:Witch Hunts in Europe and America: An Encyclopedia 451:History of Witchcraft in England from 1558 to 1718 710:The wonders of the invisible world, by C. Mather 103:. This took place around 1646, when Hopkins and 742:Narratives of the Witchcraft Cases 1648 to 1706 840:. University of Delaware Press. p. 204. 837:Early Modern Europe: From Crisis to Stability 187:, he took part in the presbyterian attack on 8: 1127:Prisoners and detainees of England and Wales 908:. University of Toronto Press. p. 230. 322:(online ed.). Oxford University Press. 167:regarded the account as distorted, however. 1043:. London: Smith, Elder & Co. 1885–1900. 976:. Cambridge University Press. p. 146. 503:. Greenwood Publishing Group. p. 231. 383:. London: Smith, Elder & Co. 1885–1900. 874:. Cambridge University Press. p. 45. 834:Philip Benedict; Myron P. Gutmann (2005). 745:. Kessinger Publishing. p. 216 note. 434:. H.M. Stationery Office. pp. 345–6. 571:. Ashgate Publishing, Ltd. p. 147. 537:. Ashgate Publishing, Ltd. p. 166. 454:. Kessinger Publishing. pp. 186–7. 420: 418: 319:Oxford Dictionary of National Biography 305: 118:Gaule himself followed the position of 61:Gaule's one preferment was as vicar of 1107:Alumni of Magdalene College, Cambridge 942:. Oxford University Press. p. 2. 311: 309: 1067:17th-century English Anglican priests 675:. Taylor Trade Publications. p.  667:Marilynne K. Roach (1 October 2004). 403:. Oxford University Press. p. 65 367: 365: 363: 195:. His views appeared in a rare work, 7: 973:Rethinking the Scientific Revolution 707:Cotton Mather; Robert Calef (1866). 392: 390: 251:, London, 1629. Frontispiece was by 970:Margaret J. Osler (13 March 2000). 782:. Strahan & Co. pp. 349–50 565:Orna Alyagon Darr (1 August 2011). 531:Orna Alyagon Darr (1 August 2011). 122:on witchcraft. He objected to the " 77:that he had been imprisoned by the 56:Baptist Hicks, 1st Viscount Campden 812:The Life of Taylor. Funeral sermon 636:Materialist Shakespeare: A History 73:, he claimed in a petition to the 52:Robert Bertie, 1st Earl of Lindsey 14: 1077:17th-century English male writers 1008:Religion and the Decline of Magic 902:Gregory D. Dodds (9 April 2009). 261:, &c., 3 parts, London, 1630. 1040:Dictionary of National Biography 1022: 380:Dictionary of National Biography 153:for criteria to apply to cases. 1132:People of the English Civil War 1122:English prisoners and detainees 871:Milton and the Idea of the Fall 713:. W. Elliot Woodward. pp.  599:Ryan J. Stark (15 April 2009). 397:Oxford Journals (Firm) (1866). 868:William Poole (10 June 2005). 316:Clark, Stuart. "Gaule, John". 232:Other writings by Gaule were: 160:Wonders of the Invisible World 22:(1603? – 1687) was an English 1: 605:. CUA Press. pp. 103–4. 1072:17th-century English writers 336:UK public library membership 203:on the same topic, from the 48:Magdalene College, Cambridge 1092:People from Great Staughton 482:Gaule, John (17 May 2014). 354:A Cambridge Alumni Database 199:(1657). He also criticised 1148: 356:. University of Cambridge. 497:William E. Burns (2003). 809:; Henry Jeanes (1839). 426:Mary Anne Everett Green 350:"Gaule, John (GL623J2)" 216: 214:, Gaule wrote a tract, 147:circumstantial evidence 99:active in East Anglia, 936:Robert Burton (1998). 639:. 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Index

Puritan
astrology
witchcraft
hermetic philosophy
Magdalene College, Cambridge
Robert Bertie, 1st Earl of Lindsey
Baptist Hicks, 1st Viscount Campden
Great Staughton
Huntingdonshire
Stuart Restoration
Parliament of England
Parliamentary army
Edward Whalley
witch-hunter
Matthew Hopkins
John Stearne
Valentine Wauton
William Perkins
swimming test
imp
familiar spirit
witchcraft
magician
circumstantial evidence
Salem witch trials
Cotton Mather
Wonders of the Invisible World
George Lincoln Burr
Henry Jeanes
Nathaniel Stephens

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