Reginald, a very judicious writer in the sixteenth century, was the younger son of Sir John Scot of Scoothall, near Sheppey, in Kent. He studied at Hart Hall in the University of Oxford, after which he retired to Sheppey, where he lived a studious life, and died in 1599. He published the Perfect Platform of a Hop-Garden; and a book entitled the Discovery of Witchcraft, 1584, in which he showed that all the relations concerning magicians and witches are chimerical. This admirable work was not only censured by King James I. in his Daemonology, but by several eminent divines, among whom we may mention Meric Casaubon, and Glanvil, author of the Sceptics Scientifica. All the copies of this obnoxious book that could be found were committed to the flames.