Reginald Scot
Reginald Scot | |
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Born | 1538 |
Died | 9 October 1599 England | (aged 60–61)
Occupation(s) | Author, politician |
Known for | The Discoverie of Witchcraft |
Reginald Scot (or Scott) (c. 1538 – 9 October 1599) was an Englishman and
Life
He was son of Richard Scot, second son of
When about seventeen, Scot entered
Scot married at Brabourne, on 11 October 1568, Jane Cobbe of Cobbes Place, in the parish of Aldington. By her he had a daughter Elizabeth, who married Sackville Turnor of Tablehurt, Sussex. Subsequently, Scot married a second wife, a widow named Alice Collyar, who had a daughter called Mary by her former husband.
Scot made his own will (drawing it with his own hand) on 15 September 1599. He died at Smeeth on 9 October following, and was probably buried in the church of St. Mary the Virgin, Brabourne, with his first wife Jane. His small properties about Brabourne, Aldington, and Romney Marsh he left to his widow. The last words of his will run: "Great is the trouble my poor wife hath had with me, and small is the comfort she hath received at my hands, whom if I had not matched withal I had not died worth one groat."
Doctrine and espoused belief
In the Discoverie, Scot aligns himself with
A late twentieth-century historian argues that Scot was likely influenced by, and perhaps a member of, the Family of Love.[6] An intriguing clue to this theory is the name Abraham Fleming written backwards (Gnimelf Maharba) in Scot's lengthy bibliography in the front pages of the Discoverie.
Works
About hops cultivation
In 1574 he published his Perfect Platform of a Hop-garden, and necessary instructions for the making and maintenance thereof, with Notes and Rules for Reformation of all Abuses. The work, which is dedicated to Serjeant William Lovelace of Bethersden in Kent, is the first practical treatise on hop culture in England; the processes are illustrated by woodcuts. Scot, according to a statement of the printer, was out of London while the work was going through the press. A second edition appeared in 1576, and a third in 1578.
About witchcraft and magic
His work on witchcraft was
References
- ^ Wycliffe, John (1842). An Apology for Lollard Doctrines. London: Camden Society. p. 92.
- ^ Scot, Reginald (1584). Discoverie of Witchcraft. Brome. p. 2.
- ^ Scot,Discoverie, pp. 65–66, 97.
- ^ HC Erik Midelfort, Witch Hunting in Southwest Germany (Stanford, 1972) pp. 56–66. Also by Midelfort, see 1971 essay, Witchcraft and Religion in Sixteenth-Century Germany, The Formation and Consequences of Orthodoxy.
- ^ Scot,Discoverie, pp. 9, 11, 19, 77, 78. ff.
- ^ David Wootton, Reginald Scot/ Abraham Fleming/ The Family of Love, Languages of Witchcraft, ed. Stuart Clark. (New York, 2001) pp. 119–138.
- OCLC 1236259508.)
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Attribution
- This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: "Scott, Reginald". Dictionary of National Biography. London: Smith, Elder & Co. 1885–1900.
Further reading
Other publications:
- Haight, Anne Lyon (1978). Banned Books, 387 B.C. to 1978 A.D.. updated and enl. by Chandler B. Grannis (4th ed.). New York: R.R. Bowker. ISBN 0-8352-1078-2.
- Leland L. Estes Reginald Scot and His "Discoverie of Witchcraft": Religion and Science in the Opposition to the European Witch Craze, Church History, Vol. 52, No. 4 (Dec. 1983), pp. 444–456.
- Philip C. Almond. England's First Demonologist: Reginald Scot and 'The Discoverie of Witchcraft'. (London: 2011)
External links
- Media related to Reginald Scott at Wikimedia Commons
- 1584 edition of Discoverie
- 1886 edition of Discoverie, with introduction and notes by Brinsley Nicholson
- Excerpts from books I and XV of The Discovery of Witchcraft from history.hanover.edu
- Full text of book XV from the Esoteric Archives
- James I vs Reginald Scot, or the history of an auto-da-fé
- 1876 Genealogy of Scott Family by James Renat Scott
- The Discouerie of Witchcraft From the McManus-Young Collection in the Rare Book and Special Collection Division at the Library of Congress
- A Perfite Platforme of a Hoppe Garden From the English Printing Collection in the Rare Book and Special Collection Division at the Library of Congress
- Scot's discovery of witchcraft From the McManus-Young Collection in the Rare Book and Special Collection Division at the Library of Congress
- Hutchinson, John (1892). . Men of Kent and Kentishmen (Subscription ed.). Canterbury: Cross & Jackman. p. 119-120.