B 2 b 1. “Gouldshey,”] so commonly pronounced, but more properly Goldshaw, or Goldshaw Booth.

B 2 b 2. “The spirit answered, his name was Tibb.”] Bernard, who is learned in the nomenclature of familiar spirits, gives, in his Guide to Grand Jurymen, 1630, 12mo, the following list of the names of the more celebrated familiars of English witches.  “Such as I have read of are these:  Mephistophiles, Lucifer, Little Lord, Fimodes, David, Jude, Little Robin, Smacke, Litefoote, Nonsuch, Lunch, Makeshift, Swash, Pluck, Blue, Catch, White, Callico, Hardname, Tibb, Hiff, Ball, Puss, Rutterkin, Dicke, Prettie, Grissil, and Jacke.”  In the confession of Isabel Gowdie, a famous Scotch witch, (in Pitcairne’s Trials, vol. iii. page 614,) we have the following catalogue of attendant spirits, rather, it must be confessed, a formidable band.  “The names of our Divellis, that waited upon us, ar thes:  first, Robert the Jakis; Sanderis, the Read Roaver; Thomas the Fearie; Swain, the Roaring Lion; Thieffe of Hell; Wait upon Hirself; Mak Hectour; Robert the Rule; Hendrie Laing; and Rorie.  We would ken them all, on by on, from utheris.  Some of theim apeirit in sadd dunn, som in grasse-grein, som in sea-grein, and some in yallow.”  Archbishop Harsnet, in his admirable Declaration of Popish Impostures, under the pretence of casting out Devils, 1605, 4to, a work unsurpassed for rich humour and caustic wit, clothed in good old idiomatic English, has a chapter “on the strange names of these devils,” in which he observes, (p. 46,) “It is not amiss that you be acquainted with these extravagant names of devils, least meeting them otherwise by chance you mistake them for the names of tapsters, or juglers.”  Certainly, some of the names he marshalls in array smell strongly of the tavern.  These are some of them:  Pippin, Philpot, Modu, Soforce, Hilco, Smolkin, Hillio, Hiaclito, Lustie Huffe-cap, Killico, Hob, Frateretto, Fliberdigibbet, Hoberdidance, Tocobatto, and Lustie Jollie Jenkin.

B 2 b 3. “About Day-light Gate.”] Day-light Gate, i.e.  Evening, the down gate of daylight.  See Promptuarium Parvulorum, (edited by Way for the Camden Society,) page 188, “Gate down, or downe gate of the Sunne or any other planet.”—­Occasus.  Palgrave gives, “At the sonne gate downe; sur le soleil couchant.”

B 3 a 1. “The said Deuill did get blood vnder her left arme.”] It would seem (see Elizabeth Device’s Examination afterwards) as if some preliminary search were made, in the case of this poor old woman, for the marks which were supposed to come by the sucking or drawing of the Spirit or Familiar.  Most probably her confession was the result of this and other means of annoyance and torture employed in the usual unscrupulous manner, upon a blind woman of eighty.  Of those marks supposed to be produced by the sucking of the Spirit or Familiar, the most curious and scientific (if the word may be