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Published by the Robert Boyle Project, Department of History, Classics and Archaeology, Birkbeck, University of London, Malet Street, London, WC1E 7HX, UK © Michael Hunter All rights reserved ISBN: 978-0-9551608-4-4 British Library Cataloguing in Publication Data. A catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library Designed by Roger Gaskell Copies of this book may be downloaded as a PDF file from the Robert Boyle Website, www.bbk.ac.uk/boyle For further information contact the Robert Boyle Project or email m.hunter@bbk.ac.uk
CONTENTS Introduction vii Appendix 1: Sloane’s covering letter to the abbé Bignon xix Appendix 2: Bignon’s commentary on Sloane’s Memoir of Beaumont Appendix 3: Passage overlapping with Sloane’s account of the xxii witches’ sabbat in his Memoir of Beaumont xxiv Textual note xxv Abbreviations xxv Text and translation of Sloane’s Memoir of Beaumont 1 Acknowledgments 21 LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS Frontispiece. Mezzotint portrait of Sir Hans Sloane by John Faber jun. after Thomas Murray, 1728. British Museum 1902,1011.1877. Fig. 1. The first page of the fair copy of Sloane’s Memoir of Beaumont, Bibliothèque Nationale de France, Fonds Français 22,229, fol. 258. ix Fig. 2. The title page of John Beaumont’s Historical, Physiological and Theological Treatise of Spirits, Apparitions, Witchcrafts and other Magical Practices (1705). Wellcome Library, London, 12783/B. xi Fig. 3. Engraved portrait of the Moroccan ambassador, Muhammad ibn Haddu, by Robert White after Sir Godfrey Kneller, 1682. British Museum 1849,0315.97. xii Fig. 4. Engraved portrait of Jean-Paul Bignon, by Gérard Edelinck after Lucrèce-Catherine de la Roue, 1700. British Museum R,6.231. xiv
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