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A Candle in the Dark ( or, A Treatise Concerning the Nature of Witches and Witchcraft: Being Advice to Judges, Sheriffes, Justices of the Peace, and Grand-Jury-men, what to do, before they passe Sentence on such as are Arraigned for their Lives as Witches.) by Thomas Ady, published in 1655.
Thomas Ady was a physician who lived in the reign of King James I, and apart from his books, little else is known of him. Ady wrote this to augment Scot's Discoverie of Witchcraft and to further prove that those being accused of witchcraft were just magicians. Amongst other items, he explains how the conjurers (whom he calls "jugglers") did their tricks.