and conjuration, and for celebrating mass. Cal. St.
_P., Dom., 1547-1580_, 173.
---- London. Ten men brought before the queen and council
on charge of "trespass, contempt, conjuration and
sorceries." Punished with the pillory and required
to renounce such practices for the future. From an
extract quoted in Brit. Mus., Sloane MSS., 3,943,
fol. 19.
1565. Dorset. Agnes Mondaye to be apprehended for bewitching
Mistress Chettell. _Acts P. C._, n. s., VII,
200-201.
1565-1573. Durham. Jennet Pereson accused to the church
authorities. _Depositions ... from ... Durham_ (Surtees
Soc.), 99.
1566. Chelmsford, Essex. Mother Waterhouse hanged; Alice
Chandler hanged, probably at this time; Elizabeth
Francis probably acquitted. _The examination and
confession of certaine Wytches at Chensforde._ For
the cases of Elizabeth Francis and Alice Chandler
see also _A detection of damnable driftes,_ A iv, A
v, verso.
---- Essex. "Boram's wief" probably examined by the
archdeacon. W. H. Hale, _A Series of Precedents
and Proceedings in Criminal Causes, 1475-1640,
extracted from the Act Books of Ecclesiastical
Courts in the Diocese of London_ (London, 1847),
147.
1569. Lyme, Dorset. Ellen Walker accused. Roberts, _Southern
Counties_, 523.
1570. Essex. Malter's wife of Theydon Mount and Anne
Vicars of Navestock examined by Sir Thomas Smith.
John Strype, _Life of Sir Thomas Smith_ (ed. of Oxford,
1820), 97-100.
1570-1571. Canterbury. Several witches imprisoned. Mother
Dungeon presented by the grand jury. _Hist. MSS.
Comm. Reports_, IX, pt. 1, 156 b; Wm. Welfitt,
"Civis," _Minutes collected from the Ancient Records
of Canterbury_ (Canterbury, 1801-1802), no. VI.
---- ---- Folkestone, Kent. Margaret Browne, accused of
"unlawful practices," banished from town for seven
years, and to be whipped at the cart's tail if found
within six or seven miles of town. S. J. Mackie,
_Descriptive and Historical Account of Folkestone_
(Folkestone, 1883), 319.
1574. Westwell, Kent. "Old Alice" [Norrington?] arraigned
and convicted. Reginald Scot, _Discoverie of Witchcraft_,
130-131.
---- Middlesex. Joan Ellyse of Westminster convicted on
several indictments for witchcraft and sentenced to
be hanged. _Middlesex County Records_, I, 84.
c. 1574. Jane Thorneton accused by Rachel Pinder, who
however confessed to fraud. _Discloysing of a late
counterfeyted possession._
1575. Burntwood, Staffordshire. Mother Arnold hanged at
Barking. From the title of a pamphlet mentioned
by Lowndes: _The Examination and Confession of a
notorious Witch named Mother Arnold, alias Whitecote,
alias Glastonbury, at the Assise of Burntwood
in July, 1574; who was hanged for Witchcraft at
Barking, 1575._ Mrs. Linton, Witch Stories, 153,
says that many were hanged at this time, but I cannot
find authority for the statement.
---- Middlesex. Elizabeth Ducke of Harmondsworth
acquitted. _Middlesex County Records_, I, 94.
---- Great Yarmouth, Norfolk. Katharine Smythe acquitted.
Henry Harrod, "Notes on the Records of the Corporation
of Great Yarmouth," in _Norfolk Archaeology_,
IV, 248.
1577. Seaford, Sussex. Joan Wood presented by the grand
jury. M. A. Lower, "Memorials of Seaford," in
Sussex Archaeological Soc., _Collections_, VII, 98.
---- Middlesex. Helen Beriman of Laleham acquitted.
_Middlesex County Records_, I, 103.
---- Essex. Henry Chittam of Much Barfield to be tried
for coining false money and conjuring. _Acts P. C._,
n. s., IX, 391; X, 8, 62.
1578. Prescall, Sanford, and "one Emerson, a preiste," suspected
of conjuration against the queen. The first
two committed. _Id._, X, 382; see also 344, 373.
---- Evidence of the use of sorcery against the queen discovered.
_Cal. St. P., Spanish, 1568-1579_, 611; see
also note to Ben Jonson's _Masque of Queenes_ (London,
Shakespeare Soc., 1848), 71.
---- Sussex. "One Tree, bailiff of Lewes, and one Smith
of Chinting" to be examined. _Acts P. C._, n. s., X, 220.
1579. Chelmsford, Essex. Three women executed. Mother
Staunton released because "no manslaughter objected
against her." _A Detection of damnable driftes._
---- Abingdon, Berks. Four women hanged; at least two
others and probably more were apprehended. _A
Rehearsall both straung and true of ... acts committed
by Elisabeth Stile ..._; _Acts P. C._, n. s.,
XI, 22; Scot, _Discoverie of Witchcraft_, 10, 51, 543.
---- Certain persons suspected of sorcery to be examined
by the Bishop of London. _Acts P. C._, n. s., XI, 36.
---- Salop, Worcester, and Montgomery. Samuel Cocwra
paid for "searching for certen persons suspected
for conjuracion." _Ibid._, 292.
---- Southwark. Simon Pembroke, a conjurer, brought to the
parish church of St. Saviour's to be tried by the
"ordinarie judge for those parties," but falls dead
before the opening of the trial. Holinshed, _Chronicles_
(ed. of 1586-1587), III, 1271.
---- Southampton. Widow Walker tried by the leet jury,
outcome unknown. J. S. Davies, _History of Southampton_
(Southampton, 1883), 236.
1579-1580. Shropshire. Mother Garve punished in the corn
market. Owen and Blakeway, _History of Shrewsbury_,
I, 562.
1580. Stanhope, Durham. Ann Emerson accused by the
church officials. _Injunctions ... of ... Bishop of
Durham_ (Surtees Soc.), 126.
---- Bucks. John Coleman and his wife examined by four
justices of the peace at the command of the privy
council. They were probably released. _Acts P. C._, n.
s., XI, 427; XII, 29.
---- Kent. Several persons to be apprehended for conjuration.
_Id._, XII, 21-23.
---- Somerset. Henry Harrison and Thomas Wadham, suspected
of conjuration, to appear before the privy
council. _Ibid._, 22-23.
---- Somerset. Henry Fize of Westpenner, detected in conjuration,
brought before the privy council. _Ibid._, 34.
---- Essex. "Sondery persones" charged with sorceries and
conjuration. _Acts P. C._, XII, 29, 34.
1581. Randoll and four others accused for "conjuring to
know where treasure was hid in the earth." Randoll
and three others found guilty. Randoll alone
executed. Holinshed, _Chronicles_ (London, 1808),
IV, 433.
1581. Padstow, Cornwall. Anne Piers accused of witchcraft.
Examination of witnesses. _Cal. St. P., Dom., 1581-1590_,
29. See also _Acts P. C._, n. s., XIII, 228.
1581. Rochester, Kent. Margaret Simmons acquitted. Scot,
_Discoverie_, 5.
1581-82. Colchester, Essex. Annis Herd accused before the
"spiritual Courte." _Witches taken at St. Oses_, 1582.
1582. St. Osyth, Essex. Sixteen accused, one of whom was a
man. How many were executed uncertain. It seems
to have been a tradition that thirteen were executed.
Scot wrote that seventeen or eighteen were executed.
_Witches taken at St. Oses_, 1582; Scot, _Discoverie_, 543.
1582 (or before). "T. E., Maister of Art and practiser both of
physicke, and also in times past, of certeine vaine
sciences," condemned for conjuration, but reprieved.
Scot, _Discoverie_, 466-469.
1582. Middlesex. Margery Androwes of Clerkenwell held in
bail. _Middlesex County Records_, I, 133.
1582. Durham. Alison Lawe of Hart compelled to do penance.
_Denham Tracts_ (Folk-Lore Soc.), II, 332.
1582. Kent. Goodwife Swane of St. John's suspected by the
church authorities. _Archaeol. Cant._, XXVI, 19.
1582-83. Nottingham. A certain Batte examined before the
"Meare" of Nottingham. _Hist. MSS. Comm. Reports_,
XII, pt. 4, 147.
1582-83. King's Lynn. Mother Gabley probably hanged. Excerpt
from parish register of Wells in Norfolk, in
the _Gentleman's Magazine_, LXII (1792), 904.
1583. Kingston-upon-Hull, Yorkshire. Three women tried,
one sentenced to a year's imprisonment and the pillory.
J. J. Sheahan, _History of Kingston-upon-Hull_
(London, 1864), 86.
1583. Colchester, Essex. Two women sentenced to a year
in prison and to four appearances in the pillory. E.
L. Cutts, Colchester (London, 1888), 151. Henry
Harrod, _Report on the Records of Colchester_ (Colchester,
1865), 17; App., 14.
1583. St. Peter's, Kent. Ellen Bamfield suspected by the
church authorities. _Archaeol. Cant._, XXVI, 45.
1584. Great Yarmouth, Norfolk. Elizabeth Butcher (punished
before) and Joan Lingwood condemned to be
hanged. C. J. Palmer, _History of Great Yarmouth_,
I, 273.
1584. Staffordshire. An indictment preferred against Jeffrey
Leach. _Cal. St. P., Dom., 1581-1590_, 206.
1584. "The oulde witche of Ramsbury" and several other
"oulde witches and sorcerers" suspected. _Cal. St.
P., Dom., 1581-1590_, 220.
1584. York. Woman, indicted for witchcraft and "high
treason touching the supremacy," condemned. _Cal.
St. P., Dom., Add. 1580-1625_, 120-121.
1584. Middlesex. Elizabeth Bartell of St. Martin's-in-the-Fields
acquitted. _Middlesex County Records_, I, 145.
1585. Middlesex. Margaret Hackett of Stanmore executed.
From titles of two pamphlets mentioned by Lowndes,
_The severall Facts of Witchcrafte approved on Margaret
Haskett ..._ 1585, and _An Account of Margaret
Hacket, a notorious Witch ..._ 1585.
1585. Middlesex. Joan Barringer of "Harroweelde" (Harrow
Weald) acquitted. _Middlesex County Records_,
I, 157.
1585. Dorset. John Meere examined. _Cal. St. P., Dom.,
1581-90_, 246-247.
1585-86. Alnwick, Northumberland. Two men and two women
committed to prison on suspicion of killing a sheriff.
_Denham Tracts_, II, 332; _Cal. S. P., Dom., Add. 1580-1625_, 168.
1586. Eckington, Derbyshire. Margaret Roper accused. Discharged.
Harsnett, _Discovery of the Fraudulent
Practises of John Darrel_, 310.
1586. Faversham, Kent. Jone Cason [Carson] tried before
the mayor, executed. Holinshed, _Chronicles_ (1586-1587),
III, 1560.
1587. Great Yarmouth, Norfolk. Helena Gill indicted. C. J.
Palmer, _History of Great Yarmouth_, 273. H. Harrod
in _Norfolk Archaeology_, IV, 248, assigns this to
1597, but it is probably a mistake.
c. 1588. A woman at R. H. said to have been imprisoned and
to have died before the assizes. Gifford, _Dialogue_
(London, 1603), C.
1589. Chelmsford, Essex. Three women hanged. _The apprehension
and confession of three notorious Witches._
1589. Several persons to be examined about their dealings in
conjuration with an Italian friar. _Acts P. C._, n. s.,
XVII, 31-32.
1589. Mrs. Deir brought into question for sorcery against
the queen. Charge dismissed. Strype, _Annals of
the Reformation_ (London, 1709-1731), IV, 7-8.
1590. Mrs. Dewse suspected of attempting to make use of conjurors.
_Cal. St. P., Dom._, 1581-1590, 644.
1590. John Bourne, a "sorcerer and seducer," arrested. _Acts
P. C._, n. s., XVIII, 373.
1590. Berwick. A Scottish witch imprisoned. John Scott,
_History of Berwick_ (London, 1888), 180; _Archaeologia_,
XXX, 172.
1590. Norfolk. Margaret Grame accused before justice of the
peace. Neighbors petition in her behalf. _Hist. MSS.
Comm. Reports, Various_, II, 243-244.
1590. King's Lynn. Margaret Read burnt. Benjamin Mackerell,
_History and Antiquities ... of King's Lynn_,
(London, 1738), 231.
1590. Edmonton, Middlesex. Certain men taken for witchcraft
and conjuring. Bloodhound used in pursuit
of them. _Cal. St. P., Dom._, 1581-1590, 689.
1590-91. Hertfordshire. Indictment of Joan White for killing.
_Hertfordshire County Session Rolls_, I, 4.
1591. John Prestall suspected. _Cal. St. P., Dom._, 1591-1594,
17-19.
1591. Middlesex. Stephen Trefulback of Westminster given
penalty of statute, _i. e._, probably pillory. _Middlesex
County Records_, I, 197.
1592. Colchester, Essex. Margaret Rand indicted by grand
jury. Brit. Mus., Stowe MSS., 840, fol. 42.
1592. Yorkshire. "Sara B. de C." examined. West, _Symboleography_,
pt. II (London, 1594), ed. of 1611, fol.
134 verso (reprinted in _County Folk-Lore_, Folk-Lore
Soc., 135). Whether the "S. B. de C. in comit.
H." whose indictment in the same year is printed
also by West may possibly be the same woman can
not be determined.
1592. Yorkshire. Margaret L. de A. examined. _Ibid._
1593. Warboys, Huntingdonshire. Mother, daughter and
father Samuel executed. _The most strange and
admirable discoverie of the three Witches of Warboys._
1593. See also John Darrel, _A Detection of
that sinnful ... discours of Samuel Harshnet_, 20-21,
39-40, 110. Harsnett, _Discovery of the Fraudulent
Practises of John Darrel_, 93, 97.
1594. Jane Shelley examined for using sorcerers to find the
time of the queen's death. _Hist. MSS. Comm., Cecil._, pt. V, 25.
1595. St. Peter's Kent. Two women presented by the church
authorities. Still suspected in 1599. _Archaeol. Cant._, XXVI, 46.
1595. Woodbridge, Suffolk. Witches put in the pillory.
_County Folk-Lore, Suffolk_ (Folk-Lore Soc., London, 1895), 193.
1595. Jane Mortimer pardoned for witchcraft. Bodleian,
Tanner MSS., CLXVIII, fol. 29.
1595. Near Bristol, Somerset. Severall committed for the
Earl of Derby's death. _Hist. MSS. Comm. Reports_,
IV, app., 366 b. See also E. Baines's _Lancaster_
(London, 1870), 273-274 and note.
1595. Barnet and Braynford, Herts. Three witches executed.
From title of pamphlet mentioned by Lowndes,
_The Arraignment and Execution of 3 detestable
Witches, John Newell, Joane his wife, and Hellen
Calles: two executed at Barnett and one at Braynford_,
1 Dec. 1595.
1596 (or before). Derbyshire. Elizabeth Wright (mother
of Alice Gooderidge) several times summoned before
the justice of the peace on suspicion. _The
most wonderfull and true Storie of ... Alse Gooderidge_
(1597).
1596. Burton-upon-Trent, Derbyshire. Alice Gooderidge tried
at Derby, convicted. Died in prison. Harsnett, _Discovery
of the fraudulent Practises of John Darrel;
John Darrel, Detection of that sinnful ... discours
of Samuel Harshnet_, 38, 40; _The most wonderfull
and true Storie of ... Alse Gooderidge_ (1597).
1596-1597. Leicester. Mother Cooke hanged. Mary Bateson,
_Records of the Borough of Leicester_ (Cambridge,
1899), III, 335.
1596-1597. Lancaster. Hartley condemned and executed.
John Darrel, _True Narration_ (in the _Somers Tracts_,
III), 175, 176; George More, _A True Discourse
concerning the certaine possession ... of 7 persons
... in Lancashire_, 18-22; John Darrel, _Detection
of that sinnful ... discours of Samuel Harshnet_, 40.
1597. Nottingham. Thirteen or more accused by Somers, at
least eight of whom were put in gaol. All but two
discharged. Alice Freeman tried at the assizes and
finally acquitted. John Darrel, _Detection of that
sinnful ... discours of Samuel Harshnet_, 109-111;
_An Apologie or defence of the possession of William
Sommers_, L-L 3; Samuel Harsnett, _Discovery
of the Fraudulent Practises of John Darrel_, 5, 102,
140-141, 320-322.
1597. St. Lawrence, Kent. Sibilla Ferris suspected by the
church authorities. _Archaeol. Cant._, XXVI, 12.
1597. Nottingham. William Somers accused of witchcraft as
a ruse to get him into the house of correction.
Darrel, _A True Narration of the ... Vexation ...
of seven persons in Lancashire_, in _Somers Tracts_,
III, 184; also his _Brief Apologie_ (1599), 17.
1597. Yorkshire. Elizabeth Melton of Collingham condemned,
pardoned. _Cal. St. P., Dom._, 1595-1597, 400.
1597. Lancashire. Alice Brerely of Castleton condemned,
pardoned. _Ibid._, 406.
1597. Middlesex. Agnes Godfrey of Enfield held by the justice
of the peace on L10 bail. _Middlesex County Records_, I, 237.
1597. St. Andrew's in Holborne, Middlesex. Josia Ryley
arraigned. "Po se mortuus in facie curie," _i. e._
_Posuit se moriturum._ _Ibid._, 225.
1597. Middlesex. Helen Spokes of St. Giles-in-the-Fields
acquitted. _Ibid._, 239.
1598. Berwick. Richard Swynbourne's wife accused. John
Scott, _History of Berwick_ (London, 1888), 180.
1598. St. Peter's, Kent. Two women suspected by the church
officials; one of them presented again the next year.
_Archaeol. Cant._, XXVI, 46.
1598. King's Lynn. Elizabeth Housegoe executed. Mackerell,
_History and Antiquities of King's Lynn_, 232.
1599. Bury St. Edmunds, Suffolk. Jone Jordan of Shadbrook
tried. Darrel, _A Survey of Certaine Dialogical
Discourses_, 54.
1599. Bury St. Edmunds, Suffolk. Joane Nayler tried. _Ibid._
1599. Bury St. Edmunds, Suffolk. Oliffe Bartham of Shadbrook
executed. _The Triall of Maist. Dorrel_, 92-98.
1599. London. Anne Kerke of Bokes-wharfe executed at
"Tiburn." _The Triall of Maist. Dorrel_, 99-103.
1600. Hertford. A "notable witch" committed to the gaol
at Hertford. _Hist. MSS. Comm. Reports, Cecil
MSS._, pt. X, 310.
1600. Rosa Bexwell pardoned. Bodleian, Tanner MSS.,
CLXVIII, fol. 104.
1600. Norfolk. Margaret Fraunces committed for a long
time. Probably released by justice of the peace on
new evidence. _Hist. MSS. Comm. Reports_, X, pt.
II (Gawdy MSS.), 71. See also below, pp. 400, 401.
1600. Ipswich, Suffolk. Several conjurers suspected. _Cal.
St. P., Dom._, 1598-1601, 523.
1601. Bishop Burton, York. Two women apprehended for
bewitching a boy. Brit. Mus., Add. MSS., 32,496,
fol. 42 b.
1601. Middlesex. Richard Nelson of St. Katharine's arraigned.
_Middlesex County Records_, I, 260.
1601. Nottingham. Ellen Bark presented at the sessions.
_Records of the Borough of Nottingham_, IV, 260-261.
1602. Middlesex. Elizabeth Roberts of West Drayton indicted
on three charges, acquitted. _Middlesex
County Records_, I, 212.
1602. Saffron Walden, Essex. Alice Bentley tried before the
quarter sessions. Case probably dismissed. Darrel,
_A Survey of Certaine Dialogical Discourses_, 54.
temp. Eliz. Northfleet, Kent. Pardon to Alice S. for bewitching
a cow and pigs. Bodleian, Rawlinson MSS., C 404, fol. 205 b.
temp. Eliz. Woman condemned to prison and pillory. Gifford,
_Dialogue concerning Witches_ (1603), L 4 verso.
temp. Eliz. Cambridge. Two women perhaps hanged at this
time. Henry More, _Antidote to Atheisme_, III. But
see 1605, Cambridge.
temp. Eliz. Mother W. of W. H. said to have been executed.
Gifford, _Dialogue concerning Witches_, D 4 verso--E.
temp. Eliz. Mother W. of Great T. said to have been hanged.
_Ibid._, C 4.
temp. Eliz. Woman said to have been hanged. _Ibid._, L 3-L 3 verso.
temp. Eliz. Two women said to have been hanged. _Ibid._, I 3 verso.
1602-1603. London. Elizabeth Jackson sentenced, for bewitching
Mary Glover, to four appearances in the pillory
and a year in prison. John Swan, _A True and Breife
Report of Mary Glover's Vexation_; E. Jorden, _A
briefe discourse of ... the Suffocation of the
Mother_, 1603; also a MS., _Marie Glover's late woefull
case ... upon occasion of Doctor Jordens discourse
of the Mother, wherein hee covertly taxeth,
first the Phisitiones which judged her sicknes a vexation
of Sathan and consequently the sentence of
Lawe and proceeding against the Witche who was
discovered to be a meanes thereof, with A defence
of the truthe against D. J. his scandalous Impugnations_,
by Stephen Bradwell, 1603. Brit. Mus., Sloane
MSS., 831. An account by Lewis Hughes, appended
to his _Certaine Grievances_ (1641-2), is quoted
by Sinclar, _Satan's Invisible World Discovered_
(Edinburgh, 1685), 95-100; and hence Burton (_The
Kingdom of Darkness_) and Hutchinson (_Historical
Essay concerning Witchcraft_) assign a wrong date.
1603. Yorkshire. Mary Pannel executed for killing in 1593.
Mayhall, _Annals of Yorkshire_ (London, 1878), I,
58. See also E. Fairfax, _A Discourse of Witchcraft_,
179-180.
1603. Great Yarmouth, Norfolk. Ales Moore in gaol on suspicion.
C. J. Palmer, _History of Great Yarmouth_, II, 70.
1604. Wooler, Northumberland. Katherine Thompson and
Anne Nevelson proceeded against by the Vicar General
of the Bishop of Durham. Richardson, _Table
Book_, I, 245; J. Raine, _York Depositions_, 127, note.
1605. Cambridge. A witch alarm. Letters of Sir Thomas
Lake to Viscount Cranbourne, January 18, 1604/5,
and of Sir Edward Coke to Viscount Craybourne,
Jan. 29, 1604/5, both in Brit. Mus., Add. MSS., 6177,
fol. 403. This probably is the affair referred to in
_Cal. St. P., Dom._, 1603-1610, 218. Nor is it impossible
that Henry More had this affair in mind when
he told of two women who were executed in Cambridge
in the time of Elizabeth (see above, temp.
Eliz., Cambridge) and was two or three years astray
in his reckoning.
1605. Doncaster, York. Jone Jurdie of Rossington examined.
Depositions in _Gentleman's Magazine_, 1857, pt. I, 593-595.
1606. Louth, Lincolnshire. "An Indictment against a Witche."
R. W. Goulding, _Louth Old Corporation Records_
(Louth, 1891), 54.
1606. Hertford. Johanna Harrison and her daughter said to
have been executed. This rests upon the pamphlet
_The Most Cruell and Bloody Murther_, ... See appendix
A, Sec. 3.
1606. Richmond, Yorkshire. Ralph Milner ordered by quarter
sessions to make his submission at Mewkarr
Church. _North Riding Record Society_, I, 58.
1607. Middlesex. Alice Bradley of Hampstead arraigned on
four bills, acquitted. _Middlesex County Records_,
II, 8.
1607. Middlesex. Rose Mersam of Whitecrosse Street acquitted.
_Ibid._, II, 20.
1607. Bakewell, Derby. Several women said to have been executed
here. See Robert Simpson, _A Collection of
Fragments illustrative of the History and Antiquities
of Derby_ (Derby, 1826), 90; Glover, _History of
Derby_ (ed. Thos. Noble, 1833), pt. I, vol. II, p. 613;
J. C. Cox, _Three Centuries of Derbyshire Annals_,
II, 88. For what purports to be a detailed account
of the affair see W. Andrews, _Bygone Derbyshire_,
180-184.
1607-11. Rye, Sussex. Two women condemned by local
authorities probably discharged upon interference
from London. _Hist. MSS. Comm. Reports_, XIII,
pt. 4, 136-137, 139-140, 147-148.
1608. Simon Read pardoned. _Cal. St. P., Dom._, 1603-1610, 406.
1610. Norfolk. Christian[a] Weech, pardoned in 1604, now
again pardoned. _Ibid._, 96, 598. Was this the Christiana
Weekes of Cleves Pepper, Wilts, who in 1651
and 1654 was again and again accused of telling
where lost goods were? See _Hist. MSS. Comm.
Reports, Various_, I, 120.
1610. Middlesex. Agnes Godfrey of Enfield, with four bills
against her, acquitted on three, found guilty of killing.
File containing sentence lost. _Middlesex County
Records_, II, 57-58. Acquitted again in 1621. _Ibid._,
79, 80.
1610. Leicestershire. Depositions taken by the sheriff concerning
Randall and other witches. _Hist. MSS.
Comm. Reports_, XII, pt. 4 (_MSS. of the Duke of
Rutland_), I, 422.
1611. Carnarvon. Story of witchcraft "committed on six
young maids." Privy Council orders the Bishop of
Bangor and the assize judges to look into it. _Cal.
St. P., Dom., 1611-1618_, 53.
1611. Wm. Bate, indicted twenty years before for practising
invocation, etc., for finding treasure, pardoned. _Ibid._, 29.
1611. Thirsk, Yorkshire. Elizabeth Cooke presented by quarter
sessions for slight crime related to witchcraft.
_North Riding Record Soc._, I, 213.
1612. Lancaster. Margaret Pearson, who in 1612 was sentenced
to a year's imprisonment and the pillory, had
been twice tried before, once for killing, and once for
bewitching a neighbor. Potts, _Wonderfull Discoverie
of Witches in the countie of Lancaster_
(Chetham Soc., 1845).
1612. Lancaster. Ten persons of Pendle sentenced to death,
one to a year's imprisonment; eight acquitted including
three women of Salmesbury. Potts, _Wonderfull
Discoverie of Witches_, Chetham Soc., 1845.
But _cf._ Cooper's words (_Mystery of Witchcraft,
1617_), 15.
1612. York. Jennet Preston sentenced to death. Potts,
_Wonderfull Discoverie of Witches_.
1612. Northampton. At least four women and one man
hanged. Many others accused, one of whom died in
gaol. _The Witches of Northamptonshire_, 1612; also
Brit Mus., Sloane MSS., 972, fol. 7.
1613. Bedford. Mother Sutton and Mary Sutton, her daughter,
of Milton Miles hanged. _Witches Apprehended,
Examined and Executed_, 1613. See app. A, Sec. 3,
for mention of another pamphlet on the same subject,
_A Booke of the Wytches lately condemned and
executed_. See also _The Wonderful Discoverie of ...
Margaret and Phillip Flower_, preface, and Richard
Bernard, _Guide to Grand Jurymen_, III.
1613. Wilts. Margaret Pilton of Warminster, accused at
quarter sessions, probably released. _Hist. MSS.
Comm. Reports, Various_, I, 86-87.
1614. Middlesex. Dorothy Magick of St. Andrew's in Holborn
sentenced to a year's imprisonment and four
appearances in the pillory. _Middlesex County Records_,
II, 91, 218.
1615. Middlesex. Joan Hunt of Hampstead, who had been,
along with her husband, twice tried and acquitted,
and whose accuser had been ordered to ask forgiveness,
sentenced to be hanged. _Middlesex County
Records_, II, lii, 95, 110, 217-218.
1616. Leicester. Nine women hanged on the accusation of a
boy. Six others accused, one of whom died in prison,
five released after the king's examination of the
boy. Robert Heyrick's letters from Leicester, July
16 and October 15, 1616, reprinted in the _Annual
Register_, 1800, p. 405. See also _Cal. S. P., Dom.,
1611-1618_, 398, and William Kelly, _Royal Progresses
in Leicester_ (Leicester, 1855), pt. II, 15.
1616. King's Lynn, Norfolk. Mary Smith hanged. Alexander
Roberts, _Treatise of Witchcraft_ (London, 1616);
Mackerell, _History and Antiquities of King's Lynn_, 233.
1616. Middlesex. Elizabeth Rutter of Finchley, for laming
and killing three persons, sentenced to be hanged.
_Middlesex County Records_, II, 108, 218.
1616. Middlesex. Margaret Wellan of London accused "upon
suspition to be a witch." Andrew Camfield held in
L40 bail to appear against her. _Middlesex County
Records_, II, 124-125.
1617. Middlesex. Agnes Berrye of Enfield sentenced to be
hanged. _Ibid._, 116, 219.
1617. Middlesex. Anne Branche of Tottenham arraigned on
four counts, acquitted. _Ibid._, 219.
1618. Middlesex. Bridget Meakins acquitted. _Ibid._, 225.
1619. Lincoln. Margaret and Philippa Flower hanged. Their
mother, Joan Flower, died on the way to prison.
_The Wonderful Discoverie of the Witchcrafts of
Margaret and Phillip Flower_; J. Nichols, _History
and Antiquities of the County of Leicester_ (1795-1815),
II, pt. I, 49; _Cal. St. P., Dom., 1619-1623_, 129;
_Hist. MSS. Comm. Reports, Rutland MSS._, IV, 514.
1619. Leicester. Three women, Anne Baker, Joan Willimot,
Ellen Green, accused and confessed. Doubtless executed.
_The Wonderful Discoverie of the Witchcrafts
of Margaret and Phillip Flower_.
1619. Middlesex. Agnes Miller of Finchley acquitted. _Middlesex
County Records_, II, 143-144.
1620. London. "One Peacock, sometime a schoolmaster and
minister," for bewitching the king, committed to the
Tower and tortured. Williams, _Court and Times
of James I_, II, 202; _Cal. St. P., Dom., 1619-1623_, 125.
1620. Leicester. Gilbert Smith, rector of Swithland, accused of
witchcraft among other things. _Leicestershire and
Rutland Notes and Queries_, I, 247.
1620. Padiham, Lancashire. Witches in prison. _House and
Farm Accounts of the Shuttleworths_, pt. II. (Chetham
Soc., 1856), 240.
1620. Staffordshire. Woman accused on charges of the "boy
of Bilson" acquitted. _The Boy of Bilson_ (London,
1622); Arthur Wilson, _Life and Reign of James I_,
107-112; Webster, _Displaying of Supposed Witchcraft_,
274-275.
1621. Edmonton, Middlesex. Elizabeth Sawyer hanged. _The
wonderfull discoverie of Elizabeth Sawyer_, by
Henry Goodcole (1621).
1621. Middlesex. Anne Beaver, accused of murder on six
counts, acquitted. _Middlesex County Records_, II,
72-73. Acquitted again in 1625. _Ibid._, III, 2.
1622. York. Six women indicted for bewitching Edward Fairfax's
children. At April assizes two were released
upon bond, two and probably four discharged. At
the August assizes they were again acquitted. Fairfax,
_A Discourse of Witchcraft_ (Philobiblon Soc.,
London, 1858-1859).
1622. Middlesex. Margaret Russel, alias "Countess," committed
to Newgate by Sir Wm. Slingsby on a charge
by Lady Jennings of injuring her daughter. Dr. Napier
diagnosed the daughter's illness as epilepsy.
Brit. Mus., Add. MSS., 36,674, fol. 134.
1623. Yorkshire. Elizabeth Crearey of North Allerton sentenced
to be set in the pillory once a quarter. Thirsk
Quarter Sessions Records in _North Riding Record
Society_ (London, 1885), III, 177, 181.
1624. Bristol. Two witches said to have been executed. John
Latimer, _The Annals of Bristol in the Seventeenth
Century_ (Bristol, 1900), 91. Latimer quotes from
another "annalist."
temp. Jac. I? Two women said to have been hanged. Story
doubtful. Edward Poeton, _Winnowing of White
Witchcraft_ (Brit. Mus., Sloane MSS., 1,954), 41-42.
temp. Jac. I. Norfolk. Joane Harvey accused for scratching
"an olde witche" there, "Mother Francis nowe
deade." Mother Francis had before been imprisoned
at Norwich. Brit. Mus., Add. MSS., 28,223, fol. 15.
temp. Jac. I. Warwickshire. Coventry haunted by "hellish sorcerers."
"The pestilent brood" also in Cheshire.
Thomas Cooper, _The Mystery of Witchcraft_ (1617),13, 16.
temp. Jac. I. Norwich. Witches probably accused for illness
of a child. Possibly Mother Francis was one of
them. Cooper, _ibid._, "Epistle Dedicatorie."
1626. Taunton, Somerset. Edmund Bull and Joan Greedie
accused. Brit. Mus., Add. MSS., 36,674, fol. 189;
Wright, _Narratives of Sorcery and Magic_, II, 139-143.
See also Richard Bernard, _Guide to Grand
Jurymen_, "Epistle Dedicatorie."
1627. Durham. Sara Hathericke and Jane Urwen accused
before the Consistory Court. _Folk-Lore Journal_
(London, 1887), V, 158. Quoted by Edward Peacock
from the records of the Consistory Court of Durham.
1627. Linneston, Lancaster. Elizabeth Londesdale accused.
Certificate of neighbors in her favor. _Hist. MSS.
Comm. Reports_, XIV, pt. 4 (_Kenyon MSS._), 36.
1628. Leepish, Northumberland. Jane Robson committed.
Mackenzie, _History of Northumberland_ (Newcastle,
1825), 36. Mackenzie copies from the Mickleton MS.
1630. Lancaster. A certain Utley said to have been hanged
for bewitching Richard Assheton. E. Baines, _Lancaster_
(ed. of 1868-1870), II, 12.
1630. Sandwich, Kent. Woman hanged. Wm. Boys, _Collections
for an History of Sandwich in Kent_ (Canterbury,
1792), 707.
c. 1630. Wilts. "John Barlowes wife" said to have been executed.
MS. letter of 1685-86 printed in the _Gentleman's
Magazine_, 1832, pt. I, 405-410.
1633. Louth, Lincolnshire. Witch alarm; two searchers appointed.
One witch indicted. Goulding, _Louth
Old Corporation Records_, 54.
c. 1633. Lancaster. The father and mother of Mary Spencer
condemned. _Cal. S. P., Dom., 1634-1635_, 79.
1633. Norfolk. Woman accused. No arrest made. _Hist.
MSS. Comm. Reports_, X, pt. 2 (_Gawdy MSS._), p. 144.
1633-34. Lancaster. Several witches, probably seventeen,
tried and condemned. Reprieved by the king. For
the many references to this affair see above, chap.
VII, footnotes.
1634. Yorkshire. Four women of West Ayton presented for
telling "per veneficationem vel incantationem"
where certain stolen clothes were to be found.
Thirsk Quarter Sessions Records in _North Riding
Record Society_, IV, 20.
1635. Lancaster. Four witches condemned. Privy Council
orders Bishop Bridgeman to examine them. Two
died in gaol. The others probably reprieved. _Hist.
MSS. Comm. Reports_, XII, 2 (_Cowper MSS._, II),
77, 80.
1635. Leicester. Agnes Tedsall acquitted. _Leicestershire and
Rutland Notes and Queries_, I, 247.
1635. ----. Mary Prowting, who was a plaintiff before the
Star Chamber, accused of witchcraft. Accuser, who
was one of the defendants, exposed. _Cal. St. P.,
Dom., 1635_, 476-477.
c. 1637. Bedford. Goodwife Rose "ducked," probably by officials.
Wm. Drage, _Daimonomageia_ (London, 1665), 41.
1637. Staffordshire. Joice Hunniman committed, almost certainly
released. _Hist. MSS. Comm. Reports_, II, App., 48 b.
1637-38. Lathom, Lancashire. Anne Spencer examined and
probably committed. _Hist. MSS. Comm. Reports_,
XIV, 4 (_Kenyon MSS._), 55.
1638. Middlesex. Alice Bastard arraigned on two charges.
Acquitted. _Middlesex County Records_, III, 112-113.
1641. Middlesex. One Hammond of Westminster tried and
perhaps hanged. John Aubrey, _Remaines of Gentilisme
and Judaisme_ (Folk-Lore Soc.), 61.
temp. Carol I. Oxford. Woman perhaps executed. This
story is given at third hand in _A Collection of Modern
Relations_ (London, 1693), 48-49.
temp. Carol, I. Somerset. One or more hanged. Later the
bewitched person, who may have been Edmund Bull
(see above, _s. v._ 1626, Taunton), hanged also as a
witch. Meric Casaubon, _Of Credulity and Incredulity_
(London, 1668), 170-171.
temp. Carol. I? Taunton Dean. Woman acquitted. North,
_Life of North_, 131.
1642. Middlesex. Nicholas Culpepper of St. Leonard's, Shoreditch,
acquitted. _Middlesex County Records_, III, 85.
1643. Newbury, Berks. A woman supposed to be a witch
probably shot here by the parliament forces. _A
Most certain, strange and true Discovery of a Witch_
... 1643; _Mercurius Aulicus_, Oct. 1-8, 1643; _Mercurius
Civicus_, Sept. 21-28, 1643; _Certaine Informations_,
Sept. 25-Oct. 2, 1643; _Mercurius Britannicus_,
Oct. 10-17, 1643.
1644. Sandwich, Kent. "The widow Drew hanged for a
witch." W. Boys, _Collections for an History of
Sandwich_, 714.
1645 (July). Chelmsford, Essex. Sixteen certainly condemned,
probably two more. Possibly eleven or twelve more
at another assize. _A true and exact Relation ...
of ... the late Witches ... at Chelmesford_ (1645);
Arthur Wilson, in Peck, _Desiderata Curiosa_, II,
76; Hopkins, _Discovery of Witches_, 2-3; Stearne,
_Confirmation and Discovery of Witchcraft_, 14, 16,
36, 38, 58, etc.; _Signes and Wonders from Heaven_
(1645), 2; "R. B." _The Kingdom of Darkness_
(London, 1688). The fate of the several Essex
witches is recorded by the _True and Exact Relation_
in marginal notes printed opposite their depositions
(but omitted in the reprint of that pamphlet in Howell's
_State Trials_). "R. B.," in _The Kingdom of
Darkness_, though his knowledge of the Essex cases
is ascribed to the pamphlet, gives details as to the
time and place of the executions which are often in
strange conflict with its testimony.
1645 (July). Norfolk. Twenty witches said to have been
executed. Whitelocke, _Memorials_, I, 487. _A Perfect
Diurnal_ (July 21-28, 1645) says that there has been
a "tryall of the Norfolke witches, about 40 of them
and 20 already executed." _Signes and Wonders from
Heaven_ says that "there were 40 witches arraigned
for their lives and 20 executed."
1645. Bury St. Edmunds, Suffolk. Sixteen women and two
men executed Aug. 27. Forty or fifty more probably
executed a few weeks later. A very large number
arraigned. A manuscript (Brit. Mus., Add.
MSS., 27,402, fol. 104 ff.) mentions over forty true
bills and fifteen or more bills not found. _A True
Relation of the Araignment of eighteene Witches at
St. Edmundsbury_ (1645); Clarke, _Lives of Sundry
Eminent Persons_, 172; _County Folk-Lore, Suffolk_
(Folk-Lore Soc.), 178; Ady, _A Candle in the Dark_,
104-105, 114; _Moderate Intelligencer_, Sept. 4-11,
1645; _Scottish Dove_, Aug. 29-Sept. 6, 1645.
Stearne mentions several names not mentioned in
the _True Relation_--names probably belonging to
those in the second group of the accused. Of
most of them he has quoted the confession without
stating the outcome of the cases. They are
Hempstead of Creeting, Ratcliffe of Shelley, Randall
of Lavenham, Bedford of Rattlesden, Wright
of Hitcham, Ruceulver of Powstead, Greenliefe of
Barton, Bush of Barton, Cricke of Hitcham, Richmond
of Bramford, Hammer of Needham, Boreham
of Sudbury, Scarfe of Rattlesden, King of
Acton, Bysack of Waldingfield, Binkes of Haverhill.
In addition to these Stearne speaks of Elizabeth
Hubbard of Stowmarket. Two others from
Stowmarket were tried, "Goody Mils" and "Goody
Low." Hollingsworth, _History of Stowmarket_
(Ipswich, 1844), 171.
1645. Melford, Suffolk. Alexander Sussums made confession.
Stearne, 36.
1645. Great Yarmouth, Norfolk. At least nine women indicted,
five of whom were condemned. Three women
acquitted and one man. Many others presented. C.
J. Palmer, _History of Great Yarmouth_, I, 273-274.
_Hist. MSS. Comm. Reports_, IX, App., pt. I, 320 a;
Henry Harrod in _Norfolk Archaeol._, IV, 249-251.
1645. Cornwall. Anne Jeffries confined in Bodmin gaol and
starved by order of a justice of the peace. She
was said to be intimate with the "airy people" and
to cause marvellous cures. We do not know the
charge against her. Finally discharged. William
Turner, _Remarkable Providences_ (London, 1697),
ch. 82.
1645. Ipswich, Suffolk. Mother Lakeland burnt. _The Lawes
against Witches_ (1645).
1645. King's Lynn, Norfolk. Dorothy Lee and Grace Wright
hanged. Mackerell, _History and Antiquities of
King's Lynn_, 236.
1645. Aldeburgh, Norfolk. Seven witches hanged. Quotations
from the chamberlain's accounts in N. F.
Hele, _Notes or Jottings about Aldeburgh_, 43-44.
1645. Faversham, Kent. Three women hanged, a fourth tried,
by the local authorities. _The Examination, Confession,
Triall and Execution of Joane Williford, Joan
Cariden and Jane Hott_ (1645).
1645. Rye, Sussex. Martha Bruff and Anne Howsell ordered
by the "mayor of Rye and others" to be put to the
ordeal of water. _Hist. MSS. Comm. Reports_, XIII,
pt. 4, 216.
1645. Middlesex. Several witches of Stepney accused. _Signes
and Wonders from Heaven_, 2-3.
1645-46. Cambridgeshire. Several accused, at least one or
two of whom were executed. Ady, _Candle in the
Dark_, 135; Stearne, 39, 45; H. More, _Antidote
against Atheisme_, 128-129. This may have been
what is referred to in Glanvill's _Sadducismus Triumphatus_,
pt. ii, 208-209.
1646. Northamptonshire. Several witches hanged. One died
in prison. Stearne, 11, 23, 34-35.
1646. Huntingdonshire. Many accused, of whom at least
ten were examined and several executed, among
them John Wynnick. One woman swam and was
released. John Davenport, _Witches of Huntingdon_
(London, 1646); H. More, _Antidote against Atheisme_,
125; Stearne, 11, 13, 17, 19, 20-21, 39, 42.
1646. Bedfordshire. Elizabeth Gurrey of Risden made confession.
Stearne says a Huntingdonshire witch confessed
that "at Tilbrooke bushes in Bedfordshier
... there met above twenty at one time." Huntingdonshire
witches seem meant, but perhaps not alone.
Stearne, 11, 31.
c. 1646. Yarmouth, Norfolk. Stearne mentions a woman
who suffered here. Stearne, 53.
1646. Heptenstall, Yorkshire. Elizabeth Crossley, Mary
Midgley, and two other women examined before two
justices of the peace. _York Depositions_, 6-9.
1647. Ely, Cambridgeshire. Stearne mentions "those executed
at Elie, a little before Michaelmas last, ...
also one at Chatterish there, one at March there,
and another at Wimblington there, now lately found,
still to be tryed"; and again "one Moores wife of
Sutton, in the Isle of Elie," who "confessed her
selfe guilty" and was executed; and yet again "one
at Heddenham in the Isle of Ely," who "made a
very large Confession" and must have paid the
penalty. Stearne, 17, 21, 37; Gibbons, _Ely Episcopal
Records_ (Lincoln, 1891), 112-113.
1647. Middlesex. Helen Howson acquitted. _Middlesex County
Records_, III, 124.
1648. Middlesex. Bill against Katharine Fisher of Stratford-at-Bow
ignored. _Middlesex County Records_, III, 102.
1648. Norwich, Norfolk. Two women burnt. P. Browne,
_History of Norwich_ (Norwich, 1814), 38.
1649. Worcester. A Lancashire witch said to have been tried;
perhaps remanded to Lancashire. _A Collection of
Modern Relations._ The writer says that he received
the account from a "Person of Quality" who
attended the trial.
1649. Middlesex. Elizabeth Smythe of St. Martin's-in-the-Fields
acquitted. _Middlesex County Records_, III, 191.
1649. Middlesex. Dorothy Brumley acquitted. _Ibid._
1649. St. Albans. John Palmer and Elizabeth Knott said to
have been hanged for witches. _The Divels Delusion_ (1649).
1649. Berwick. Thirty women, examined on the accusation
of a Scotch witch-finder, committed to prison.
Whitelocke, _Memorials_, III, 99; John Fuller, _History
of Berwick_ (Edinburgh, 1799), 155-156, giving extracts
from the Guild Hall Books; John Sykes,
_Local Records_ (Newcastle, 1833), I, 103-105.
1649. Gloucester. Witch tried at the assizes. _A Collection of
Modern Relations_, 52.
1649-50. Yorkshire. Mary Sykes and Susan Beaumont committed
and searched. The former acquitted, bill
against the latter ignored. _York Depositions_, 28.
1649-50. Durham. Several witches at Gateshead examined,
and carried to Durham for trial; "a grave for a
witch." Sykes, _Local Records_, I, 105; or _Denham
Tracts_ (Folk-Lore Soc.), II, 338.
1649-50. Newcastle. Thirty witches accused. Fourteen
women and one man hanged, together with a witch
from the county of Northumberland. Ralph Gardiner,
_England's Grievance_ (London, 1655), 108;
Sykes, _Local Records_, I, 103; John Brand, _History
and Antiquities of Newcastle_ (London, 1789), II,
477-478; Whitelocke, _Memorials_, III, 128; _Chronicon
Mirabile_ (London, 1841), 92.
1650. Yorkshire. Ann Hudson of Skipsey charged. _York
Depositions_, 38, note.
1650. Cumberland. A "discovery of witches." Sheriff perplexed.
_Cal. St. P., Dom., 1650_, 159.
1650. Derbyshire. Ann Wagg of Ilkeston committed for
trial. J. C. Cox, _Three Centuries of Derbyshire
Annals_, II, 88.
1650. Middlesex. Joan Roberts acquitted. _Middlesex County
Records_, III, 284.
1650. Stratford-at-Bow, Middlesex. Witch said to have been
apprehended, but "escaped the law." Glanvill,
_Sadducismus Triumphatus_, pt. ii, Relation XX.
1650. Middlesex. Joan Allen sentenced to be hanged. _Middlesex
County Records_, III, 284. _The Weekly Intelligencer_,
Oct. 7, 1650, refers to the hanging of a witch
at the Old Bailey, probably Joan.
1650. Leicester. Anne Chettle searched and acquitted. Tried
again two years later. Result unknown. _Leicestershire
and Rutland Notes and Queries_, I, 247; James
Thompson, _Leicester_ (Leicester, 1849), 406.
1650. Alnwick. Dorothy Swinow, wife of a colonel, indicted.
Nothing further came of it. _Wonderfull News from
the North_ (1650).
1650. Middlesex. Elizabeth Smith acquitted. _Middlesex
County Records_, III, 284.
c. 1650-60. St. Alban's, Herts. Two witches suspected and
probably tried. Drage, _Daimonomageia_ (1665), 40-41.
1651. Yorkshire. Margaret Morton acquitted. _York Depositions_, 38.
1651. Middlesex. Elizabeth Lanam of Stepney acquitted.
_Middlesex County Records_, III, 202, 285.
1651. Colchester, Essex. John Lock sentenced to one year's
imprisonment and four appearances in the pillory.
Brit. Mus., Stowe MSS., 840, fol. 43.
1652. Yorkshire. Hester France of Huddersfield accused before
the justice of the peace. _York Depositions_, 51.
1652. Maidstone, Kent. Six women hanged, others indicted.
_A Prodigious and Tragicall History of the Arraignment
... of six Witches at Maidstone ..._ by
"H. F. Gent.," 1652; _The Faithful Scout_, July 30-Aug.
7, 1652; Ashmole's Diary in _Lives of Ashmole
and Lilly_ (London, 1774), 316.
1652. Middlesex. Joan Peterson of Wapping acquitted on
one charge, found guilty on another, and hanged.
_Middlesex County Records_, III, 287; _The Witch of
Wapping_; _A Declaration in Answer to several lying
Pamphlets concerning the Witch of Wapping_; _The
Tryall and Examinations of Mrs. Joan Peterson_;
_French Intelligencer_, Apr. 6-13, 1652; _Mercurius
Democritus_, Apr. 7-14, 1652; _Weekly Intelligencer_,
April 6-13, 1652; _Faithful Scout_, Apr. 9-16, 1652.
1652. London. Susan Simpson acquitted. _A True and Perfect
List of the Names of those Prisoners in Newgate_
(London, 1652).
1652. Worcester. Catherine Huxley of Evesham, charged
with bewitching a nine-year-old girl, hanged. Baxter,
_Certainty of the World of Spirits_ (London, 1691),
44-45. Baxter's narrative was sent him by "the now
Minister of the place."
1652. Middlesex. Temperance Fossett of Whitechapel acquitted.
_Middlesex County Records_, III, 208, 288.
1652. Middlesex. Margery Scott of St Martin's-in-the-Fields
acquitted. _Ibid._, 209.
1652. Scarborough, Yorkshire. Anne Marchant or Hunnam
accused and searched. J. B. Baker, _History of
Scarborough_ (London, 1882), 481, using local
records.
1652. Durham. Francis Adamson and ---- Powle executed.
Richardson, _Table Book_, I, 286.
1652. Exeter, Devonshire. Joan Baker committed. Cotton,
_Gleanings ... Relative to the History of ... Exeter_
(Exeter, 1877), 149.
1652. Wilts. William Starr accused and searched. _Hist.
MSS. Comm. Reports_, _Various_, I, 127.
1652-53. Cornwall. A witch near Land's End accused, and
accuses others. Eight sent to Launceston gaol. Some
probably executed (see above, p. 218 and footnotes
24, 25). _Mercurius Politicus_, Nov. 24-Dec. 2,
1653; R. and O. B. Peter, _The Histories of Launceston
and Dunheved_ (Plymouth, 1885), 285. See
also Burthogge, _Essay upon Reason and the Nature
of Spirits_ (London, 1694), 196.
1653. Wilts. Joan Baker of the Devizes makes complaint
because two persons have reported her to be a witch.
_Hist. MSS. Comm. Reports_, _Various_, I, 127. Is this
the Joan Baker of Exeter mentioned a few lines
above?
1653. Wilts. Joan Price of Malmesbury and Elizabeth Beeman
of the Devizes indicted, the latter committed
to the assizes. _Ibid._
1653. Yorkshire. Elizabeth Lambe accused. _York Depositions_, 58.
1653. Middlesex. Elizabeth Newman of Whitechapel acquitted
on one charge, found guilty on another, and
sentenced to be hanged. _Middlesex County Records_,
III, 217, 218, 289.
1653. Middlesex. Barbara Bartle of Stepney acquitted. _Ibid._, 216.
1653. Leeds, Yorkshire. Isabel Emott indicted for witchcraft
upon cattle. _Hist. MSS. Comm. Reports_, IX, pt. 1, 325 b.
1653. Salisbury, Wilts. Anne Bodenham of Fisherton Anger
hanged. _Doctor Lamb Revived_; _Doctor Lamb's
Darling_; _Aubrey, Folk-Lore and Gentilisme_ (Folk-Lore
Soc.), 261; Henry More, _An Antidote against
Atheisme_, bk. III, chap. VII.
1654. Yorkshire. Anne Greene of Gargrave examined. _York
Depositions_, 64-65.
1654. Yorkshire. Elizabeth Roberts of Beverley examined.
_Ibid._, 67.
1654. Wilts. Christiana Weekes of Cleves Pepper, who had
been twice before accused in recent sessions, charged
with telling where lost goods could be found.
"Other conjurers" charged at the same time.
_Hist. MSS. Comm. Reports_, _Various_, I, 120. See
above, 1610, Norfolk.
1654. Exeter. Diana Crosse committed. Cotton, _Gleanings
... Relative to the History of ... Exeter_, 150.
1654. Wilts. Elizabeth Loudon committed on suspicion.
_Hist. MSS. Comm. Reports_, _Various_, I, 129.
1654. Whitechapel, Middlesex. Grace Boxe, arraigned on three
charges, acquitted. Acquitted again in 1656. _Middlesex
County Records_, III, 223, 293.
1655. Yorkshire. Katherine Earle committed and searched.
_York Depositions_, 69.
1655. Salisbury. Margaret Gyngell convicted. Pardoned by
the Lord Protector. F. A. Inderwick, _The Interregnum_,
188-189.
1655. Bury St. Edmunds, Suffolk. Mother and daughter
Boram said to have been hanged. Hutchinson, _An
Historical Essay concerning Witchcraft_, 38.
1656. Yorkshire. Jennet and George Benton of Wakefield
examined. _York Depositions_, 74.
1656. Yorkshire. William and Mary Wade committed for
bewitching the daughter of Lady Mallory. _York
Depositions_, 75-78.
1657. Middlesex. Katharine Evans of Fulham acquitted.
_Middlesex County Records_, III, 263.
1657. Middlesex. Elizabeth Crowley of Stepney acquitted,
but detained in the house of correction. _Middlesex
County Records_, III, 266, 295.
1657. Gisborough, Yorkshire. Robert Conyers, "gent.," accused.
_North Riding Record Society_, V, 259.
1658. Exeter. Thomas Harvey of Oakham, Rutlandshire,
"apprehended by order of Council by a party of
soldiers," acquitted at Exeter assizes, but detained
in custody. _Cal. St. P., Dom., 1658-1659_, 169.
1658. Chard, Somerset. Jane Brooks of Shepton Mallet
hanged. Glanvill, _Sadducismus Triumphatus_ (1681),
pt. ii, 120-122. (Glanvill used Hunt's book of
examinations). J. E. Farbrother, _Shepton Mallet;
notes on its history, ancient, descriptive and natural_
(1860), 141.
1658. Exeter. Joan Furnace accused. Cotton, _Gleanings ...
Relative to the History of ... Exeter_, 152.
1658. Yorkshire. Some women said to have been accused by
two maids. The woman "cast" by the jury. The
judges gave a "respite." Story not entirely trustworthy.
_The most true and wonderfull Narration
of two women bewitched in Yorkshire ..._ (1658).
1658. Wapping, Middlesex. Lydia Rogers accused. _A More
Exact Relation of the most lamentable and horrid
Contract which Lydia Rogers ... made with the
Divel_ (1658). See app. A, Sec. 5, for another tract.
1658. Northamptonshire. Some witches of Welton said to
have been examined. Glanvill, _Sadducismus Triumphatus_
(1681), pt. ii, 263-268.
1658. Salisbury, Wilts. The widow Orchard said to have
been executed. From a MS. letter of 1685-86,
printed in the _Gentleman's Magazine_, 1832, pt. I,
405-410.
1659. Norwich, Norfolk. Mary Oliver burnt. P. Brown,
_History of Norwich_, 39. Francis Blomefield, _An
Essay towards a Topographical History of the
County of Norfolk_ (London, 1805-1810), III, 401.
1659. Middlesex. Elizabeth Kennett of Stepney accused. _Middlesex
County Records_, III, 278, 299.
1659. Hertfordshire. "Goody Free" accused of killing by
witchcraft. _Hertfordshire County Sessions Rolls_,
I, 126, 129.
1659-1660. Northumberland. Elizabeth Simpson of Tynemouth
accused. _York Depositions_, 82.
1660. Worcester. Joan Bibb of Rushock received L20 damages
for being ducked. _Gentleman's Magazine_, 1856,
pt. I, 39, from a letter of J. Noake of Worcester,
who used the Townshend MSS.
1660. Worcester. A widow and her two daughters, and a
man, from Kidderminster, tried. "Little proved."
Copied from the Townshend MSS. by Nash, in his
_Collections for the History of Worcestershire_ (1781-1799),
II, 38.
1660. Newcastle. Two suspected women detained in prison.
Extracts from the Municipal Accounts of Newcastle-upon-Tyne
in M. A. Richardson, _Reprints of Rare
Tracts ... illustrative of the History of the Northern
Counties_ (Newcastle, 1843-1847), III, 57.
1660. Canterbury, Kent. Several witches said to have been
executed. W. Welfitt ("Civis"), _Minutes of Canterbury_
(Canterbury, 1801-1802), no. X.
c. 1660. Sussex. A woman who had been formerly tried at
Maidstone watched and searched. MS. quoted in
_Sussex Archaeol. Collections_, XVIII, 111-113; see
also Samuel Clarke, _A Mirrour or Looking Glasse
both for Saints and Sinners_, II, 593-596.
1661. Hertfordshire. Frances Bailey of Broxbourn complained
of abuse by those who believed her a witch.
_Hertfordshire County Sessions Rolls_, I, 137.
1661. Newcastle. Jane Watson examined before the mayor.
_York Depositions_, 92-93.
1661. Newcastle. Margaret Catherwood and two other
women examined before the mayor. _Ibid._, 88.
1663. Somerset. Elizabeth Style died before execution. Glanvill,
_Sadducismus Triumphatus_, pt. ii, 127-146. For
copies of three depositions about Elizabeth Style,
see _Gentleman's Magazine_, 1837, pt. ii, 256-257.
1663. Taunton, Somerset. Julian Cox hanged. Glanvill,
_Sadducismus Triumphatus_, pt. ii, 191-198.
1663-64. Newcastle. Dorothy Stranger accused before the
mayor. _York Depositions_, 112-114.
1664. Somerset. A "hellish knot" of witches (Hutchinson
says twelve) accused before justice of the peace
Robert Hunt. His discovery stopped by "some of
them in authority." Glanvill, _Sadducismus Triumphatus_,
pt. ii, 256-257. But see case of Elizabeth Style above.
1664. Somerset. A witch condemned at the assizes. She may
have been one of those brought before Hunt. _Cal.
St. P., Dom., 1663-1664_, 552.
1664. Bury St. Edmunds, Suffolk. Rose Cullender and Amy
Duny condemned. _A Tryal of Witches at ... Bury
St. Edmunds_ (1682).
1664. Newcastle. Jane Simpson, Isabell Atcheson and Katharine
Curry accused before the mayor. _York Depositions_, 124.
1664. York. Alice Huson and Doll Dilby tried. Both made
confessions. Copied for _A Collection of Modern Relations_
(see p. 52) from a paper written by the justice
of the peace, Corbet.
1665. Wilts. Jone Mereweather of Weeke in Bishop's Cannings
committed. _Hist. MSS. Comm. Reports_, _Various_, I, 147.
1665. Newcastle. Mrs. Pepper accused before the mayor.
_York Depositions_, 127.
1665. Three persons convicted of murder and executed for
killing a supposed witch. Joseph Hunter, _Life of
Heywood_ (London, 1842), 167-168, note.
1666. Lancashire. Four witches of Haigh examined, two
committed but probably acquitted. _Cal. St. P., Dom.,
1665-1666_, 225.
1667. Newcastle, Northumberland. Emmy Gaskin of Landgate
accused before the mayor. _York Depositions_, 154.
1667. Norfolk. A fortune-teller or conjuror condemned to
imprisonment. _Cal. St. P., Dom., 1667_, 30.
1667. Ipswich, Suffolk. Two witches possibly imprisoned.
Story doubtful. _Cal. St. P., Dom., 1667-1668_, 4.
1667. Devizes, Wilts. "An old woman" imprisoned, charged
with bewitching by making and pricking an image.
Blagrave, _Astrological Practice_ (London 1689),
90, 103.
1667. Lancashire. Widow Bridge and her sister, Margaret
Loy, both of Liverpool, accused. _The Moore Rental_
(Chetham Soc., 1847), 59-60.
1668. Durham. Alice Armstrong of Strotton tried, but almost
certainly acquitted. Tried twice again in the next
year with the same result. Sykes, _Local Records_, II, 369.
1668. Warwick. Many witches "said to be in hold." _Cal. St.
P., Dom., 1668-1669_, 25.
1669. Hertfordshire. John Allen of Stondon indicted for calling
Joan Mills a witch. _Hertfordshire County Sessions Rolls_, I, 217.
1670. Yorkshire. Anne Wilkinson acquitted. _York Depositions_,
176 and note.
1670. Latton Wilts. Jane Townshend accused. _Hist. MSS.
Comm. Reports, Various_. I, 150-151.
1670. Wilts. Elizabeth Peacock acquitted. See Inderwick's
list of witch trials in the western circuit, in his
_Sidelights on the Stuarts_ (London, 1888), 190-194.
Hereafter the reference "Inderwick" will mean
this list. See also above, p. 269, note.
1670. Devonshire. Elizabeth Eburye and Aliena Walter acquitted.
Inderwick.
1670. Somerset. Anne Slade acquitted on two indictments.
Inderwick.
1670. Bucks. Ann Clarke reprieved. _Cal. St. P., Dom., 1670_, 388.
1671. Devonshire. Johanna Elford acquitted. Inderwick.
1671. Devonshire. Margaret Heddon acquitted on two indictments.
Inderwick.
1671. Falmouth. Several witches acquitted. _Cal. St. P., Dom.,
1671_, 105, 171. Perhaps identical with the three, two
men and a woman, mentioned by Inderwick as acquitted
in Cornwall.
1672. Somerset. Margaret Stevens acquitted on two indictments.
Inderwick.
1672. Devonshire. Phelippa Bruen acquitted on four indictments.
Inderwick.
1672. Wilts. Elizabeth Mills acquitted on two indictments.
Inderwick.
1672. Wilts. Elizabeth Peacock, who had been acquitted two
years before, acquitted on five indictments. Judith
Witchell acquitted on two, found guilty on a third.
She and Ann Tilling sentenced to execution. They
must have been reprieved. Inderwick; _Gentleman's
Magazine_, 1832, pt. II, p. 489-492.
1673. Yorkshire, Northumberland, and Durham. At least
twenty-three women and six men accused to various
justices of the peace by Ann Armstrong, who confessed
to being present at witch meetings, and who
acted as a witch discoverer. Some of those whom
she accused were accused by others. Margaret Milburne,
whom she seems not to have mentioned, also
accused, _York Depositions_, 191-202.
1674. Northampton. Ann Foster said to have been hanged
for destroying sheep and burning barns by witchcraft.
_A Full and True Relation of The Tryal, Condemnation,
and Execution of Ann Foster_ (1674).
1674. Middlesex. Elizabeth Row of Hackney held in bail for
her appearance at Quarter Sessions. _Middlesex
County Records_, IV, 42-43.
1674. Southton, Somerset. John and Agnes Knipp acquitted.
Inderwick.
1674? (see above, p. 269, note). Salisbury. Woman acquitted,
but kept in gaol. North, _Life of North_, 130, 131.
1674-75. Lancashire. Joseph Hinchcliffe and his wife bound
over to appear at the assizes. He committed suicide
and his wife died soon after. _York Depositions_,
208; Oliver Heywood's _Diary_ (1881-1885), I, 362.
1675. Southton, Somerset. Martha Rylens acquitted on five
indictments. Inderwick.
1676. Devonshire. Susannah Daye acquitted. Inderwick.
1676. Cornwall. Mary Clarkson acquitted. Inderwick.
c. 1679. Ely, Cambridgeshire. Witch condemned, but reprieved.
Hutchinson, _Historical Essay concerning Witchcraft_, 41.
c. 1680. Somerset. Anna Rawlins acquitted. Inderwick.
c. 1680. Derbyshire. Elizabeth Hole of Wingerworth accused
and committed for charging a baronet with witchcraft.
J. C. Cox, _Three Centuries of Derbyshire Annals_, II, 90.
1680. Yorkshire, Elizabeth Fenwick of Longwitton acquitted.
_York Depositions_, 247.
1682. London. Jane Kent acquitted. _A Full and True Account
... but more especially the Tryall of Jane Kent for
Witchcraft_ (1682).
1682. Surrey. Joan Butts acquitted. _Strange and Wonderfull
News from Yowell in Surry_ (1681); _An Account
of the Tryal and Examination of Joan Buts_ (1682).
1682. Devonshire. Temperance Lloyd acquitted on one indictment,
found guilty on another. Susanna Edwards
and Mary Trembles found guilty. All three executed.
Inderwick; North, _Life of North_, 130; see
also app. A, Sec. 6, above.
1682-88. Northumberland. Margaret Stothard of Edlingham
accused. E. Mackenzie, _History of Northumberland_,
II, 33-36.
1683. London. Jane Dodson acquitted. _An Account of the
Whole Proceedings at the Sessions Holden at the
Sessions House in the Old Baily ..._ (1683).
1683. Somerset. Elenora, Susannah, and Marie Harris, and
Anna Clarke acquitted. Inderwick.
1684. Devonshire. Alicia Molland found guilty. Inderwick.
1685. Devonshire. Jane Vallet acquitted on three indictments.
Inderwick.
temp. Carol. II. Devonshire. Agnes Ryder of Woodbury accused,
probably committed. A. H. A. Hamilton,
_Quarter Sessions chiefly in Devon_ (London, 1878), 220.
temp. Carol. II. Ipswich, Suffolk. A woman in prison. William
Drage, _Daimonomageia_, 11.
temp. Carol. II. Herts. Two suspected witches of Baldock
ducked. _Ibid._, 40.
temp. Carol. II. St. Albans, Herts. Man and woman imprisoned.
Woman ducked. _Ibid._
temp. Carol. II. Taunton Dean, Somerset. Man acquitted.
North, _Life of North_, 131.
1685-86. Malmesbury, Wilts. Fourteen persons accused, among
whom were the three women, Peacock, Tilling and
Witchell, who had been tried in 1672. Eleven set at
liberty; Peacock, Tilling and Witchell kept in prison
awhile, probably released eventually. _Gentleman's
Magazine_, 1832, pt. I, 489-492.
1686. Somerset. Honora Phippan acquitted on two indictments.
Inderwick.
1686. Cornwall. Jane Noal, alias Nickless, alias Nicholas,
and Betty Seeze committed to Launceston gaol for
bewitching a fifteen-year-old boy. We know from
Inderwick that Jane Nicholas was acquitted. _A
True Account of ... John Tonken of Pensans in
Cornwall_ (1686).
1687. York. Witch condemned, probably reprieved. _Memoirs
and Travels of Sir John Reresby_ (London, 1812), 329.
1687. Dorset. Dewnes Knumerton and Elizabeth Hengler acquitted.
Inderwick. For examination of first see
Roberts, _Southern Counties_, 525-526.
1687. Wilts. M. Parle acquitted. Inderwick.
1687. Devonshire. Abigail Handford acquitted. Inderwick.
1689. Wilts. Margareta Young condemned but reprieved.
Christiana Dunne acquitted. Inderwick.
1690. Taunton, Somerset. Elizabeth Farrier (Carrier), Margaret
Coombes and Ann Moore committed. Coombes
died in prison at Brewton. The other two acquitted
at the assizes. Inderwick; Baxter, _Certainty
of the World of Spirits_, 74-75.
1692. Wilts. Woman committed. _Hist. MSS. Comm. Reports_,
_Various_, I, 160.
1693. Suffolk. Widow Chambers of Upaston committed, died
in gaol. Hutchinson, _Historical Essay concerning
Witchcraft_, 42.
1693-94. Devonshire. Dorothy Case acquitted on three indictments.
Inderwick.
1693-94. Devonshire. Katherine Williams acquitted. Inderwick.
1694. Bury St. Edmunds, Suffolk. Mother Munnings of Hartis
acquitted. Hutchinson, _op. cit._, 43.
1694. Somerset. Action brought against three men for swimming
Margaret Waddam. _Hist. MSS. Comm. Reports_, _Various_, I, 160.
1694. Ipswich, Suffolk. Margaret Elnore acquitted. Hutchinson, 44.
1694. Kent. Ann Hart of Sandwich convicted, but went free
under a general act of pardon. W. Boys, _Collections
for an History of Sandwich_, 718.
1694-95. Devonshire. Clara Roach acquitted. Inderwick.
1695. Launceston, Cornwall. Mary Guy or Daye acquitted.
Hutchinson, 44-45; Inderwick gives the name as
Maria Daye (or Guy) and puts the trial in Devonshire
in 1696.
1696. Devonshire. Elizabeth Horner acquitted on three indictments,
Hutchinson, 45; Inderwick. See also
letter from sub-dean Blackburne to the Bishop of
Exeter in Brand, _Popular Antiquities_ (ed. of 1905),
II, 648-649.
1698-99. Wilts. Ruth Young acquitted. Inderwick.
1700. Dorset. Anne Grantly and Margaretta Way acquitted.
Inderwick.
1700-10. Lancashire. A woman of Chowbent searched and
committed. Died before the assizes. MS. quoted by
Harland and Wilkinson, _Lancashire Folk-Lore_
(London, 1867), 207; also E. Baines, _Lancaster_,
II, 203.
1701. Southwark. Sarah Morduck, who had been before acquitted
at Guildford, and who had unsuccessfully appealed
to a justice in London against her persecutor,
tried and acquitted. Hutchinson, 46. _The
Tryal of Richard Hathaway_ (1702); _A Full and
True Account of the Apprehending and Taking of
Mrs. Sarah Moordike_ (1701); _A short Account of
the Trial held at Surry Assizes, in the Borough of
Southwark_ (1702). See above, app. A, Sec. 7.
1701. Kingston, Surrey. Woman acquitted. _Notes and
Queries_ (April 10, 1909), quoting from the _London
Post_ of Aug. 1-4, 1701.
1701-02. Devonshire. Susanna Hanover acquitted. Inderwick.
1702-03. Wilts. Joanna Tanner acquitted. Inderwick.
1704. Middlesex. Sarah Griffiths committed to Bridewell.
_A Full and True Account ... of a Notorious Witch_
(London, 1704).
1705. Northampton. Two women said to have been burned
here. Story improbable. See above, appendix A, Sec. 10.
1707. Somerset. Maria Stevens acquitted. Inderwick.
1712. Hertford. Jane Wenham condemned, but reprieved.
See footnotes to chapter XIII and app. A, Sec. 9.
1716. Huntingdon. Two witches, a mother and daughter,
said to have been executed here. Story improbable.
See above, app. A, Sec. 10.
1717. Leicester. Jane Clark and her daughter said to have
been tried. _Leicestershire and Rutland Notes and
Queries_, I, 247.
1717. Leicester. Mother Norton and her daughter acquitted.
Brit. Mus., Add. MSS., 35,838, fol. 404.
I am unwilling to close this work without an expression of my gratitude
to the libraries, on both sides of the sea, which have so generously
welcomed me to the use of their books and pamphlets on English
witchcraft--many of them excessively rare and precious. They have made
possible this study. My debt is especially great to the libraries of the
British Museum and of Lambeth Palace at London, to the Bodleian Library
at Oxford, and in America to the Boston Athenaeum and to the university
libraries of Yale and Harvard. To the unrivalled White collection at
Cornell my obligation is deepest of all.
[1] The references in this list, together with the account, in appendix
A, of the pamphlet literature of witchcraft, are designed to take the
place of a formal bibliography. That the list of cases here given is
complete can hardly be hoped. Crude though its materials compel it to
be, the author believes it may prove useful. He hopes in the course of
time to make it more complete, and to that end will gladly welcome
information respecting other trials.
INDEX.
Abbot, George, Archbishop of Canterbury, 141 n., 233-234
Abbott, Alice, 132 n.
Abingdon, 27, 347, 387
_Account of the ... Proceedings ... in the Old Baily_, cited, 416
Acton, 404
_Acts of the Privy Council_, cited, 26 n., 28 n., 30 n., 347, 384, 385,
388, 390
Adams, W. H. Davenport, cited, 188 n., 376
Adamson, Francis, 409
Addison, Joseph, 340-341
Ady, Thomas, 238, 241-242, 310.
Cited, 180, 184 n., 225 n., 404
Agrippa, Cornelius, 62
Aikin, Lucy, cited, 143 n.
Aldeburgh, 182, 183, 191 n., 193, 200 n., 405
Alene, case of, 13
Alfred the Great, 2
Allen, Joan, 408, 414
Alnwick, 390, 408
Altham, Sir James, 112, 113, 125
Anderson, Sir Edmund, 51, 56 n., 78, 84, 102, 350, 354, 355
Andrews, William, cited, 137 n., 396
Anne, Princess of Denmark, her marriage to James I, 94
_Annual Register_, cited, 141 n., 398
_Archaeologia_, cited, 10 n., 391
_Archaeologia Cantiana_, cited, 21 n., 29 n., 385, 389, 392, 393
Archer, John, 273, 282;
conducts Cox trial, 260-261
Armstrong, Ann, 281-282, 415
Arnold, Mother, 386
Ashmole, Elias, cited, 216, 365, 408
Ashmolean Museum, at Oxford, 216
Ashton, John, cited, 188 n., 351, 366, 376
Ashwell, John, 7
Aspine, Martha, 107
Assembly, the witch. _See_ Sabbath
Assheton, R., 158 n., 401
Atcheson, Isabell, 413
Aubrey, John, his credulity, 306.
Cited, 162 n., 212 n., 365, 402, 410
Audley, vicar of, 326
_Autobiography of Edward Underhill_, cited, 13 n.
Avery, "Master," 110, 130-132, 357, 384
B., R. _See_ Burton, Richard.
Bacon, Francis, 246-247.
Cited, 246 n., 247 n.
Baddeley, Richard, 141 n., 142 n., 359
Bailey, Frances, 412
Bailey, the Old, 108 n.
Baines, Edward, cited, 147 n., 149 n., 150 n., 158 n., 392, 401, 419
Baker, Alexander, 154
Baker, Anne, 133 n., 399
Baker, J. B., cited, 409
Baker, Joan, of Devizes, 217, 409
Baker, Joan, of Exeter, 409
Baker, Mother, 59-60
Bakewell, affair of, 137, 384, 396
Baldock, 417
Bamfield, Ellen, 389
Bamford, James, 353
Bancroft, Richard, as Bishop of London, 84-89;
as Archbishop of Canterbury, 88 n., 89, 233, 346, 353
Bangor, Bishop of, 397
Barber, Mary, 383
Bark, Ellen, 394
Barking, 386
Barlowe, wife of John, 401
Barnet, 392
Barringer, Joan, 390
Barrow, Dr., of Cambridge, 47
Barrow, Isaac, 308 and n., 311
Barrow, James, 256-237
Barrow, John, 256
Bartell, Elizabeth, 389
Bartham, Doll, 350
Bartham, Oliffe, 394
Bartle, Barbara, 410
Barton, 404
Barton, Elizabeth, the "Holy Maid of Kent," 58
Basel, 15 n.
Bastard, Alice, 402
Batcombe, 34, 236
Bate, William, 397
Bates, Dr., cited, 337 n.
Bateson, Mary, cited, 392
Bath and Wells, Bishop of, 162 n.
Bath and Wells, chancellor of the Bishop of, 235
Batte, 38
Baxter, Richard, 196, 316, 336-339.
Cited, 216 n., 337 n., 409, 418
Beaumont, John, 336, 339.
Cited, 273 n., 275 n.
Beaumont, Susan, 407
Beaver, Anne, 400
Bedford, Duchess of, 4, 9, 49
Bedford, trials at, no, 117, 135-136, 383, 398, 402, 404
Bedfordshire, 107, 115, 118, 119, 179 n., 187, 200 n., 406
Bee, Jesse, 349
Beeman, Elizabeth, 409
Beigel, H., 346
Bekker, Balthazar, 339
Bel and the Dragon, book of, 97
Belcher, Elizabeth, 130-132, 230, 357, 384
Belvoir Castle, witchcraft at, 132-134
Bennett, Elizabeth, 42-43
Bennett, Gervase, 219
Bentham, Thomas, Bishop of Coventry and Lichfield, 15 n.
Bentley, Alice, 394
Benton, George, 411
Benton, Jennet, 411
Beriman, Helen, 387
Berkhampstead, 257
Berks, 387, 403
Bernard, Richard, 165, 234-236, 241, 293, 303 n., 361, 401.
Cited, 398
Berrye, Agnes, 384, 399
Berwick, 201, 206, 207, 209, 252 n., 253, 391, 393, 407
Beverley, 410
Bexwell, Rosa, 52 n., 394
Bibb, Joan, 412
Bill, Arthur, 106-107, 132 n., 383
Bilson, boy of. _See_ Bilston
Bilson, Thomas, Bishop of Winchester, 234
Bilston, boy of, 140, 141-142, 151, 152, 323, 400
Binkes, Anne, 192 n., 404
Bishop Burton, 394
Bishop's Cannings, 413
Blackburne, Launcelot, 321, 418
Blackmail, charge of, 149, 153
Blagrave, Joseph, cited, 414
Blomefield, Francis, cited, 412
Bodenham, Anne, trial of, 210-213, 363, 410
Bodine (Bodin), 69 n.
Bodmin, 405
Bohemia, Queen of, 158
Bokes-wharfe, 394
Bolingbroke, Roger, 8, 9
Boram, mother and daughter, 411
Boram, wife of, 385
Boreham of Sudbury, 404
Bottesford, 134 n.
Boulton, Richard, 336, 339-340, 348
Bourne, John, 390
Bovet, Richard, 303 and n.
Bower, Edmond, 212, 216, 364, 365
Bowes, Lady, 356
Bowes, Sir Thomas, 167 n.
Boxe, Grace, 410
Boyle, Sir Robert, 337 and n.;
opinions of, 305-306 and n.
Boys, the Rev. Mr., 331-332
Boys, William, cited 401, 403, 418
Bracton, cited, 128 n.
Bradley, Alice, 396
Bradwell, Stephen, cited, 395
Bragge, Francis, 325-336, 373-375
Bramford, 404
Branche, Anne, 399
Brand, John, cited, 208 n., 321 n., 407
Brandeston, 175, 179 n., 379
Braynford, 392
Brerely, Alice, 393
Brereton, Sir William, 158.
Cited, 158 n.
Brewton, 418
Bridewell, 419
Bridge, widow, 414
Bridgeman, Henry, Bishop of Chester, 152-157, 402
Bridges, Agnes, 30 n., 59, 88 n., 351
Brightling, 282
Brinley, John, 303
Bristol, 118, 392, 400
Britannicus, 252
Britton, 5, 6.
Cited, 128
Brome, Richard, 159, 244, 306
Bromley, Sir Edward, 113, 125, 134
Brooks, Jane, 221, 222, 411
Brown, Agnes, trial of, 35, 36, 110, 115, 357, 384
Brown, Joan, 130, 131, 132, 357
Browne, Margaret, 386
Browne, P., cited, 406
Browne, Richard, 183 n.
Browne, Sir Thomas, 266-267, 305, 311
Broxbourn, 412
Bruen, Philippa, 415
Bruff, Martha, 405
Brumley, Dorothy, 406
Bucer, Martin, 15 n., 88 n.
Buckingham, George Villiers, Duke of, 134 n.
Buckinghamshire, 74, 388, 415
Bulcock, Jane and John, 383
Bull, Edmund, 401, 402
Bullinger, 15 n.
Burghley, William Cecil, Lord, 19 n., 25 n., 27
Burman, Charles, cited, 216 n.
Burnet, Bishop Gilbert, 248 n.
Cited, 268 n.
Burnham-Ulpe, 356
Burntwood, 386
Burr, George L., cited, 3 n.
Burthogge, Richard, 340.
Cited, 218 n., 409
Burton, Richard ("R. B."), 339 n.
Cited, 395, 403
Burton, Robert, 245
Burton, boy of, named by Ben Jonson, 92.
_See also_ Darling, Thomas
Burton-upon-Trent, 76, 85, 392
Bury, Thomas, 380
Bury St. Edmunds, 177-181, 192, 194, 200, 204, 261-267, 305, 321, 361,
378, 379, 393, 394, 404, 411, 413, 418
Bush, of Barton, 404
Buske, Mother, 385
Butcher, Elizabeth, 389
Butler's _Hudibras_ on Matthew Hopkins, 165, 194
Butts, Joan, trial of, 277, 416
Byett, William, 46 n.
Byles, Andrew, 35
Byrom, Margaret, 52
Bysack, of Waldingfield, 404
Calamy, Edmund, the elder, 178
_Calendar of Patent Rolls_, cited, 7 n.
_Calendar of the Proceedings of the Committee for the Advance of Money_,
cited, 164 n.
_Calendars of State Papers_, cited, 26 n. and _passim_
Calvin, 64, 65, 87 n.
Cambridge, 139, 179 n., 279, 396
Cambridge University, 48, 89, 228, 229, 235, 238, 276, 374;
Queen's College, 143, 348;
Christ's College, 227;
Emmanuel College, 228 n.;
Trinity College, 308
Cambridgeshire, 111, 184, 200 n., 331, 405, 406, 416
Camfield, Andrew, 399
Camfield, Benjamin, 303, 307
Canterbury, 201, 255, 385, 386, 412
Canterbury, Archbishop of.
_See_ Warham, William;
Cranmer, Thomas;
Parker, Matthew;
Grindall, Edmund;
Whitgift, John;
Bancroft, Richard;
Abbot, George
Carbury, John, Earl of, 339 n.
Cariden, Joan, 201 n., 405
Carnarvon, 118, 397
Carr, Robert, 232
Carrier, Elizabeth, 418
Carrington, John, 317, 319 n., 372
Carshoggil, laird of, 96
Carter, Richard, 170 n.
Casaubon, Meric, 238-240, 293-299, 307.
Cited, 240 n., 293 n., 294 n., 403
Cason, Joan, trial of, 54, 390
Castleton, 393
Cecil, William, Lord Burghley. _See_ Burghley
Celles, Cystley, 45
_Certaine Informations_, cited, 403
Chalmers, Alexander, cited, 328 n.
Chamberlain, letter of, 115 n.
Chambers, widow, 418
Chandler, Alice, case of, 38 n., 385
Chandler, Elizabeth, 187 n.
Chandler, Mary, 185
Chandler, R., 212
Chandos, daughter of Lady, 385
Chapbook, the witch, 33
Chard, 221, 411
Charles I, 146, 152, 154, 158, 161, 199, 234, 323;
growth of skepticism as to witches in his reign, 162-163
Charles II, 248, 254, 262, 276, 306;
witchcraft in his reign, 255
Charlewood, J., 350
Chatterish, 406
Chattox, Anne, 109, 121-122, 126 n., 127, 383
Chaucer, Geoffrey, 89
Chauncy, Arthur, 327
Chauncy, Sir Henry, 324, 326, 375
Chelmsford, 34-41, 43, 46, 166-174, 178, 188 n., 200, 204, 346, 363, 376,
378, 385, 387, 390, 400, 403;
trials of 1566 at, 34-38, 385;
trials of 1579 at, 38-40, 387;
trials of 1589 at, 40, 390;
trials of 1645 at, 166-174, 403
Cherrie, of Thrapston, case of, 184-185
Cheshire, 118, 232 n.
Chester, Bishop of. _See_ Bridgeman, Henry
Chettell, "Mistress," 385
Chettle, Anne, 218, 408
Chichester, Bishop of, 12.
_See also_ Harsnett, Samuel
Chinting, 387
Chishull, the Rev. Mr., 328
Chittam, Henry, 387
Chowbent, 419
Christ's College, Cambridge, 227
_Chronicon Mirabile_, cited, 208 n., 407
Church, the trials for sorcery under, 6-8;
statute of Henry VIII not aimed to limit, 10;
state ready to reclaim jurisdiction from, 24;
penalties under, 28, 30;
gradual transfer to state of witchcraft cases, 30-31
Clarke, of Keiston, 185-186
Clarke, Ann, 415, 417
Clarke, Elizabeth, 166-175
Clarke, Helen, 169
Clarke, Jane, 141-142, 419
Clarke, Sir Robert, 54
Clarke, Samuel, cited, 177, 307, 361, 404, 412
Clarke, William, his letter to Speaker Lenthall, 225 n.
Clarkson, Mary, 416
Clerkenwell, 389
Cleves, Pepper, 397, 410
Cleworth, 52, 149 n.
Clinton, Lord, 12
Clouues, William, 24 n.
Clutterbuck, Robert, cited, 328 n.
Cobbett, William, cited, 102 n.
Cobham, Eleanor, Duchess of Gloucester, 4, 8
Cobham, Lord, 12
Cock, Susan, 362, 376
Cocwra, Samuel, 387
Coke, Sir Edward, 102, 152, 228.
Cited, 128 n., 396
Colchester, 388, 389, 391, 408
Cole, Henry, Jewel's controversy with, 16 n.
Cole, Thomas, 34, 346
Coleman, John, 388
_Collection of Modern Relations_, 279, 339 n.
Cited, 146 n., 181 n., 402, 406, 407, 413
Collingham, 393
Coman, widow, case of, 331-332
Commission of Oyer and Terminer, 178, 192, 200
Committee of Both Kingdoms, 200
Commons' _Journal_, cited, 17 n., 103 n.
Conyers, Robert, 411
Cooke, Elizabeth, 397
Cooke, Mother, 392
Coombes, Margaret, 418
Cooper, C. H. and T., cited, 356
Cooper, John, 82 n.
Cooper, Thomas, 227, 231-232, 242.
Cited, 398, 401
Corbet, 413
Corbolt. _See_ Godbolt
Cornwall, 217, 218, 221, 224, 254, 276-277, 279, 320, 388, 405, 409, 415,
416, 417, 418
Cornwall, Henry, 170 n.
Cosyn, Edmund, 25
Cotta, John, 227, 229-231, 235, 237, 243.
Cited, 130 n., 230 n., 231 n.
Cotton, William, cited, 217 n., 221 n., 224 n., 409, 410, 411
Council of State, 215, 219, 225, 226
_Council Register_, cited, 152 n., 154 n., 155 n.
"Countess" (Margaret Russel), 400
_County Folk Lore, Suffolk_, cited, 165 n., 176 n., 179 n., 194 n., 392,
404
Court of High Commission, 84, 86-87
Coventry, 232 n., 400
Coventry and Lichfield, Bishop of. _See_ Bentham, Thomas
Coverdale, Miles, 15 n.
Coverley, Sir Roger de, 341
Cowper, Earl and Countess of, 328 n.
Cox, John Charles, cited, 137 n., 219 n., 324 n., 396
Cox, Julian, trial of, 260-261, 273, 282, 292, 310, 413
Cox, Richard, 15 n.
Coxe, Francis, trial of, 31 n., 351, 385
Cranbourne, Viscount, 115 n., 396
Cranmer, Thomas, Archbishop of Canterbury, 12, 58 n.
Crearey, Elizabeth, 400
Creeting, 404
Cricke, 404
_Criminal Chronology of York Castle_, cited, 224
Cromwell, Sir Henry, 48, 50
Cromwell, Lady, 48
Cromwell, Oliver, 48 n., 207, 212 n., 215, 219, 226, 237 n., 275
Cromwell, Richard, 220, 226
Cromwell, Thomas, 19
Crosse, Diana, 223-224, 410
Crossley, Elizabeth, 406, 411
Crossley, James, cited, 124 n., 147 n., 357, 380
Crouch, Nathaniel, 339 n.
Crump, Hannah, 257
Cruther, Joseph, 282
Cudworth, Ralph, 307
Cullender, Rose, 262, 310, 413
Culpepper, Nicholas, 403
Cumberland, 220, 224, 225, 407
Cunny, Joan, 347
Curry, Katharine, 413