Dates

Question 1

Boy of Burtin

Answer 1

1597

Question 2

Pendle Swindle

Answer 2

1634

Question 3

Demon Drummer

Answer 3

1662

Question 4

Jane Wenham

Answer 4

1712

Question 5

John Holt appointed Lord Chief Justice

Answer 5

1689

Question 6

Scot’s “The Discoverie of Witchcraft”

Answer 6

1584

Question 7

Harsnett’s “A Discovery of the Fraudulent Practises of John Darrel”

Answer 7

1599

Question 8

Ady’s A Candle in the Dark

Answer 8

1656

Question 9

Webster’s “The Displaying of Supposed Witchcraft”

Answer 9

1677

Question 10

Bekker’s “The Enchanted World”

Answer 10

1691

Question 11

Cases that John Holt acquitted

Answer 11

1696 - Horner
1694 - Munnings
1695 - Launceston Case

Question 12

Repeal Witchcraft Act

Answer 12

1736

Question 13

Locke’s “Essay Concerning Human Understanding”

Answer 13

1690

Question 14

Newton’s “Principia Mathematica”

Answer 14

1687

Question 15

Bacon’s “Of the Proficience and Advancement of Learning Divine and Human”

Answer 15

1605

Question 16

Hobbes’s “De Corpore”

Answer 16

1655

Question 17

Daemonologie

Answer 17

1597

Question 18

Copernicus’ ‘Revolution of Heavenly Spheres’

Answer 18

1543

Question 19

Royal Society founded

Answer 19

1660

Question 20

North Berwick Witch Hunt

Answer 20

1590-91, 1597

Question 21

Gresham College founded

Answer 21

1597

Question 22

First Witchcraft Act

Answer 22

1542

Question 23

Second Witchcraft Act

Answer 23

1563

Question 24

Third Witchcraft Act

Answer 24

1604

Question 25

Malleus Maleficarum

Answer 25

1486

Question 26

Kepler’s ‘Astronomia Nova’

Answer 26

1609

Question 27

Galilei’s ‘Dialogue Concerning Two Chief World Systems’

Answer 27

1632

Question 28

Hobbes’s ‘De Homine’

Answer 28

1658