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Infobox English Skeptics vs. Proponents of Witchcraft Prosecution

| partof = Early Modern Period in England and its Colonies

| = Supporters of Witchcraft Prosecution (with year of important works)

James I (1597, 1604 statute, 1604-11 KJV translation), John Darrell (1590s), William Perkins (1608, posthumous), Richard Bernard (1627), Matthew Hopkins (1647), Joseph Glanvill (1668, 1681), Henry More (1681), Increase Mather (1684), Richard Baxter (1691), Cotton Mather (1689, 1692), Richard Boulton (1715, 1722)

| = Skeptics of Witchcraft Prosecution (with year of important works)

Reginold Scot (1584), Samuel Harsnett (1599,1603), Thomas Ady (1656), Robert Calef (1700), Francis Hutchinson (1718)

In 1735 an act of parliament repealed the 1604 act of James I, and making it a crime to accuse another of witchcraft.

Misc other skeptics John Gaule (1649?), Thomas Shadwell (1689),

Misc other supporters John Sterne (1649?),