Godfrey
Godfrey names 3 different subjects across the 6 encyclopedias on this shelf. Each is set out below.
Godfrey A priest of Provence
An Encyclopaedia of Occultism (1920)
A priest of Provence, who had seduced several women. One of them, a nun, to save herself, asserted that Godfrey had bewitched her. Arrested and imprisoned, he was tortured until he confessed that he was a magician, and that he had, by means of his breathing and other enchantments, corrupted this woman and several others. He was even induced, in his extreme agony, to speak of his presence at the Witches' Sabbath, and to give a long description of it. After these confessions had been cruelly extorted from the anguish of failing nature, the Parliament of Aix condemned him, on the 30th of April, 1611, to be burnt alive, as guilty of magic, sorcery, impiety, and abominable lust a sentence which was carried into execution without delay. This horrible affair gave rise to an adventure which has been related by the Abbé of Papon. 66 The process," said he, "contained many depositions upon the power of the demons. Several witnesses protested that after being anointed with a magic oil, Godfrey transported himself to the Sabbath, and afterwards returned to his chamber down the shaft of the chimney. One day, when these depositions had been read to the Parliament, and the imagination of the judges excited by a long recital of supernatural events, there was heard in the chimney an extraordinary noise, which suddenly terminated with the apparition of a tall black man. The judges thought it was the devil come to the rescue of his disciple, and fled away swiftly, with the exception of a councillor Thorton, their reporter, who, finding himself entangled in his desk, could not follow them. Terrified by what he saw, with trembling body and staring eyes, and repeatedly making the sign of the cross, he in his turn affrighted the pretended demon, who was at a loss to understand the magistrate's perturbation. Recovering from the embarrassment he made himself known, and proved to be a chimney sweeper who, after having swept the chimney of the Messieurs des Comptes, whose chimneys joined those of the Tournelle, had by mistake descended into the chamber of the Parliament."
Godfrey EDWARD SETTLE, an American soldier
Collier's New Encyclopedia (1921)
EDWARD SETTLE, an American soldier, born in Kalida, O., in 1843. He was educated in the public schools and at Vermilion Institute. He served throughout the Civil War as a priited vate and at the close entered the United States Military ry Academy from which he graduated in 1867. In the same year he was appointed 2d lieutenant. He rose through the various grades, becoming colonel of the 9th Cavalry in 1901, and brigadier-general in 1907. He saw much service against the Indians in the West and was awarded the Congressional Medal of Honor in 1877. He took part in all the campaigns under General Custer until the later's death. From 1879 to 1883 he was instructor of cavalry tactics at the United States Military Academy. He saw service in Cuba and in the Philippine Islands and was retired by operation of the law, in 1907. He wrote "Custer's Last Battle" (1892). He was a member of many military societies.
Godfrey HOLLIS, an American educator and engineer
Collier's New Encyclopedia (1921)
HOLLIS, an American educator and engineer, born at Lynn, Mass. in 1874. He graduated from Tufts College in 1895 and took p post-graduate courses at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and at Harvard. From 1898 to 1905 he engaged in teaching engineering, and from 1906 to 1910 was head of the department of science at the School of Practical Arts, in Boston. He was consulting engineer to the cities of Philadelphia, Atlantic City, and several private corporations, from 1910-1917. In 1913 he was chosen president of the Drexel Institute of Philadelphia. During the World War he was commissioner of the advisory committee of the Council of National Defense, and was in charge educe of its section of engineering and education. He was a member of many engineering societies. He wrote "The Man Who Ended War" (1908); "Elementary Chemistry" (1909); and "The Health of the City" (1910). He was a frequent contributor to engineering and scientific journals.
What Has Changed in the Last Century
The Provençal priest the 1920 Encyclopaedia of Occultism calls "Godfrey" is Louis Gaufridi, burned at Aix on 30 April 1611 after the possession scandal at the Ursuline convent centred on Madeleine de Demandolx; historians now treat the case not as evidence of sorcery but as a textbook example of confession extracted under torture amid convent hysteria, and France stopped prosecuting witchcraft as such after Louis XIV's edict of 1682. Collier's, writing in 1921, said Edward Settle Godfrey "took part in all the campaigns under General Custer until the latter's death" — he commanded Company K at the Little Bighorn in 1876 and survived with the Reno–Benteen contingent, and his 1877 Medal of Honor was for the Bear Paw fight against the Nez Perce; he died in 1932 and his eyewitness writings remain a much-cited source on the battle. Hollis Godfrey was still president of Drexel Institute when Collier's went to press; he left that post in the early 1920s, and the school is now Drexel University.
Written for this edition, 2026.