The exorcist John Darrell was supported by Arthur Hildersham in the case of Thomas Darling ; Samuel Harsnett, a sceptic on witchcraft and possession, attacked Darrell.

Schools in the area include Chigwell Primary School, Limes Farm Infants & Junior School, West Hatch High School and most notably Chigwell School, a public school, which was founded from a bequest by Samuel Harsnett, Archbishop of York, in 1629, among whose many famous past pupils are William Penn, who later went on to found Pennsylvania, and actor Sir Ian Holm.

Samuel Harsnett ( or Harsnet ) ( June 1561 – May 1631 ), born Samuel Halsnoth, was an English writer on religion and Archbishop of York from 1629.

As the chaplain to Bishop Bancroft, Harsnett was commissioned to write a treatise condemning the 1590s exorcisms of John Darrell, having sat on the 1598 commissions which investigated his activities.

It was formally founded in 1629 by Samuel Harsnett, Archbishop of York and Vice-Chancellor of Cambridge University, and began with 16 " poor, clever " scholars.

Other possible sources are the anonymous play King Leir ( published in 1605 ); A Mirror for Magistrates ( 1574 ), by John Higgins ; The Malcontent ( 1604 ), by John Marston ; The London Prodigal ( 1605 ); Arcadia ( 1580 – 1590 ), by Sir Philip Sidney, from which Shakespeare took the main outline of the Gloucester subplot ; Montaigne's Essays, which were translated into English by John Florio in 1603 ; An Historical Description of Iland of Britaine, by William Harrison ; Remaines Concerning Britaine, by William Camden ( 1606 ); Albion's England, by William Warner, ( 1589 ); and A Declaration of egregious Popish Impostures, by Samuel Harsnett ( 1603 ), which provided some of the language used by Edgar while he feigns madness.

* June – Samuel Harsnett, Archbishop of York ( d. 1631 )

Coke interviewed Hayward's licensing cleric, Samuel Harsnett, who complained that the dedication had been " foisted " on him by Devereux.

In March 1587 Harsnett became headmaster of Colchester Royal Grammar School.

A brass of Harsnett can be found in St Mary's Church, Chigwell, although it has been moved from its original position over his grave.

Here lies Samuel Harsnett once vicar of this church, first unworthy bishop of Chichester, then more unworthy bishop of Norwich, finally most unworthy archbishop of York ; he died on the 25th day in May in the year of our Lord 1631.

Harsnett is noted for his sceptical attitude towards demons and witchcraft.

In this way, Harsnett sought natural explanations for supposedly supernatural phenomena.

* In 1670 he married Carola Harsnett, daughter of Sir Roger Harsnett ; they had two children.

In the judgment of Chief of Staff Scott it was ironic that the draft policy of a Democratic President, aimed at Germany, had to be pushed through the House of Representatives by the ranking minority member of the Military Affairs Committee -- a Republican Jew born in Germany!!

Mr. Justice Black was one of the minority that rested on the Article 1, power.

for still others, mostly of the nineteenth-century immigration, it was Roman Catholicism, and for a small minority it was Eastern Orthodoxy.

The 1899 act mentioned above was replaced in 1997 — until then the government had stated there were no ethnic minority groups.

During his minority, Afonso V was placed under the regency of his mother in accordance with a will of his late father.

His mother, Maria Christina of Austria, was appointed regent during his minority.

Democracy was far from being the normal style of governance and the beliefs on which it was based were in effect a minority opinion.

It was commonly thought that most individuals were homozygous for the " wild type " allele at most gene loci, and that any alternative ' mutant ' allele was found in homozygous form in a small minority of " affected " individuals, often as genetic diseases, and more frequently in heterozygous form in " carriers " for the mutant allele.

Adoptionism, sometimes called dynamic monarchianism, is a minority Christian belief that Jesus was adopted as God's Son either at his baptism, his resurrection, or his ascension.

As in 1852 Derby's was a minority government, dependent on the division of its opponents for survival.

Instead a minority Labour government was formed under Harold Wilson but with no formal support from Thorpe.

The most recent minority Blue Angel pilot was LCDR Keith Hoskins on the 2000 team.

Because it was a minority church of widely differing traditions in a non-Christian culture ( except in Kerala, where Christianity has a long history ), practice varied wildly.

During the Middle Ages, most of the remainder of Europe was Christianized, with Christians also being a sometimes large religious minority in the Middle East, North Africa, Ethiopia and parts of India.

The constitution concentrated authority in the national government, more precisely, in the hands of the president, who was elected by a tiny minority.

The Croatian constitution was passed in December, 1990 categorizing Serbs as a minority group along with other ethnic groups.

Theodora, widow of the Emperor Theophilus ( died 842 ), acted as regent during the minority of her son Michael III, who was said to have been introduced to dissolute habits by her brother Bardas.

During the 2008 Canadian parliamentary dispute, two of Canada's opposition parties signed an agreement to form what would become the country's second coalition government since Confederation if the minority Conservative government was defeated on a vote of non-confidence ; unseating Stephen Harper as Prime Minister.

This was the case during Britannicus ' minority.

There was a revival in the 1890s, but from then onwards, croquet was always a minority sport, with national individual participation amounting to a few thousand players.

Cobden believed that military expenditures worsened the welfare of the state and benefited a small but concentrated elite minority, summing up British imperialism, which he believed was the result of the economic restrictions of mercantilist policies.

Joe Purvis was thinking back many years.

The Gap looming before him -- the place where had confronted Jack English on that day so many years ago -- was his exit from all that had meaning to him.

Although it was dark as usual I could see that the hall had only recently contained a great many people.

For Matilda, it was the first she had known in many a night.

Her name was L'Turu and she told me many things.

Hell, I gave him the first decent job he ever had, six, seven -- how many years ago was it, Rob ''??

Then there was no saying how many times the marine had blown his nose on the handkerchief.

All but the most rabid of Confederate flag wavers admit that the Old Southern tradition is defunct in actuality and sigh that its passing was accompanied by the disappearance of many genteel and aristocratic traditions of the reputedly languid ante-bellum way of life.

Though his election was interpreted by many Southerners as the forerunner of a dangerous shift in the federal balance in favor of the Union, Lincoln himself proposed no such change in the rights the Constitution gave the states.

Once, then -- for how many years or how few does not matter -- my world was bound round by fences, when I was too small to reach the apple tree bough, to twist my knee over it and pull myself up.

The street that is full now of traffic and parked cars then and for many years drowsed on an August afternoon in the shade of the curbside trees, and silence was a weight, almost palpable, in the air.

Prohibition was the law of the land, but it was unpopular ( how many of us oldsters took up drinking in prohibition days, drinking was so gay, so fashionable, especially in the sophisticated Northeast!!

The contents of this 195-page document would become known to many before it would become known to the man it was written about.

`` The entire object of the press conference was to clarify the problem of the list, since many in the press were querying the U.N. about it.

It seems to me now, in a long backward glance, that many of the Hetman's conceits and odd actions -- together with his grim posture when brandishing the hatchet in the name of Mr. Hearst -- were keyed with the tragedy which was to close over him one day.

The sneers at Hearst changed to concern when it was seen that he had strong support in many parts of the country.

As the field on which my tent was pitched was a favorite natural playground for the kids of the neighborhood, I had made many friends among them, taking part in their after-school games and trying desperately to translate Grimm's Fairy Tales into an understandable French as we gathered around the fire in front of the tent.

`` Mr. Wolfe had been in declining health for many years and death was not unexpected ''.

it was demonstrated, many critics would later point out, in the length of his novels.

the pope was playing a dangerous game, with so many balls in the air at once that a misstep would bring them all about his ears, and his only hope was to temporize so that he could take advantage of every change in the delicate balance of European affairs.