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Demonomanie des Sorciers, published in 1587, says,
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On half-proof or strong presumption, the judge may proceed to torture. The judge might, moreover, in his opinion, lie with impunity, and promise a suspected person a pardon on confession, without the intention of carrying it into effect. But this is not much from a man, who could cite with approval and even relish, the decision of a magistrate that a person