Statistics for occurrence #1 of “Sir Thomas Browne” in chapter 8 of Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Atlantic Essays:
... had all made it a capital crime.
There had been laws against it in England for a hundred years. Bishop Jewell had complained to Queen Elizabeth of the alarming increase of witches and sorcerers.
Sir Thomas Browne had pronounced it flat atheism to doubt them.
High legal and judicial authorities, as Dalton, Keeble, Sir Matthevw Hale, had described this crime as definitely and seriously as any other.
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