Argentine

Argentine, which means "silver", is a common descriptive term for those lesser magicians who practised during the decline of English magic — men of much inferior power to the great Aureate or "Golden Age" magicians who had flourished during the reign of John Uskglass. Their time is often referred to as the Silver Age.

Some Argentine magicians, despite their pretensions, were in fact unable to perform any magic at all (see Gregory Absalom).

List of Argentine magicians

• Gregory Absalom (1507–99)
• Maria Absalom (mid-16th–late 17th centuries)
• Jacques Belasis (1526–1604)
• Richard Chaston (16th century)
• Nicholas Goubert (1535–78)
• Loveday Ingham (15th century)
• Thomas Lanchester (1518–90)
• Paris Ormskirk (1496–1587)
• Francis Pevensey (16th century)
• William Thorpe (15th century)
• Peter Watershippe (1409–61?)