coke mutton be case mich James in the common plea call another sorcerer and  enchanter be not actionable a action upon the case be bring against mutton for  call the plaintiff sorcerer and enchanter who plead not guilty and it be find  against he to the damage of sixpence and it be hold by the whole court in the  common plea that no action lie for the say word for sortilegium be rei juturi  per sort investigation et soothsayer sive sortilegista be who per sort going  to be prnwaciat Inchantry be v erbis or rebus adjundis to some degree prter  naturan act  whereof the poet say song Circe associate to move Ulyssis see e  one be take in Southwark with the bead and visage of a dead man and with a  book of sorcery in his mail and he be bring into the king bench before knevet  justice but no indictment be frame against he for which the clerk make he  swear that he shall never after commit any sorcery and he be send to prison  and the bead and the book be burn at Tuthil at the charge of the prisoner and  the ancient law be as it appear by Britton that those who be attaint of  sorcery be burn but the law be not such at this day but he who be convict of  such imposture and deceit shall be fine and imprison and it be say that it be  adjudge that if one call another witch that a action will not lie for it be  too general et to say Latin sorcerer but if one say she be a witch and have  bewitch such a one to death a action upon the case lie if in truth he be dead  a conjuration be derive of these word con and law et particularly to say when  many men in alicuj ruin jurant and in the statute of Elizabeth cap it be take  for invocation of any evil and wicked spirit I e be conjurar word conception  elsewhere evil et unjust spiritus the same be make felony a but witchcraft  enchantment charm or sorcery be not felony if by they any person be not kill  or die so that conjuration be word conceplis to turn the war thither  malosetiniquos spirilus to some degree to make well to dedicate c but a witch  who work any thing by a evil spirit do not make any conjuration or invocation  by any powerful name of the devil but the wicked spirit come to her familiar  and therefore it be call a familiar but if a man be call a conjuror or a witch  he shall not have any action upon the case unless that he say that he be a  conjuror of the devil or of any evil or wicked spirit or that one be a witch  and that he have bewitch any one to death as be before say and note that first  statute which be make against conjuration witchcraft sorcery and enchantment  be the Act of h c and by it they be make felony in certain case special but  that Act be repeal by the statute of e c and it seem all the former statute  against witchcraft be now repeal a this can now be law Vid note a a this be  alter by stat Geo c by which Act no prosecution can be carry on against any  person for conjuration witchcraft c Vid black command coke report er p