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Beaumont (John). Gleanings of antiquities, containing iii. Some notes concerning familiar spirits. London: Printed for J. Roberts, near the Oxford Arms, in Warwick Lane. 1724. 8vo. pp. vii. 206.}}

Beaumont (John). An historical, physiological, and theological treatise of spirits, apparitions, witchcrafts, and other magical practices, containing an account of the genii or familiar spirits, both good and bad, that are said to attend men in this life, and what sensible perceptions some persons have had of them (particularly the author's own experience for many years), also of apparitions of spirits after death, divine dreams, divinations, second-sighted persons, &c., likewise the power of witches and the reality of other magical operations clearly asserted, with a refutation of