whoops - make that vol 8.

… And the editor notes a swap of ‘God’ and ‘the Devil’ in one sentence, somewhere between manuscript and printed law report … which is definitely the stuff of academic nightmares!

just how witchcraft works ... when it is OK to call somebody a witch or sorcerer, plus a bit of the Odyssey and a throwback to a medieval case involving allegations of going in possession of a bag containing the face of a dead man and a book of sorcery.

In his note on a defamation case from 1609, Bean v. Mutton (great, though non-spooky, name!) in which Mr Mutton had been found to have called Mr Bean a sorcerer and enchanter, top ruff-wearer E. Coke gives us his inimitable stylings on the exact meanings of soothsaying and enchanting...