Mixed Cases.
1607. Bakewell.
Our evidence as to the Bakewell witches is too incomplete to assure us that they were not accused of killing by witchcraft.
1612. Northampton.
Agnes Brown and Joane Vaughan were indicted for bewitching Master Avery and Mistress Belcher, "together with the body of a young child to the death."
[C.—LIST OF CASES OF WITCHCRAFT, 1558-1718, WITH REFERENCES TO SOURCES AND LITERATURE.][1]
1558. John Thirkle, "taylour, detected of conjuringe," to be examined. Acts of Privy Council, n. s., VII, 6. ---- Several persons in London charged with conjuration to be sent to the Bishop of London for examination. Ibid., 22.
1559. Westminster. Certain persons examined on suspicion, including probably Lady Frances Throgmorton. Cal. St. P., Dom., 1547-1580, 142.
c. 1559. Lady Chandos's daughter accused and imprisoned with George Throgmorton. Brit Mus., Add. MSS., 32,091, fol. 176.
1560. Kent. Mother Buske of St. John's suspected by the church authorities. Visitations of Canterbury in Archæologia Cantiana, XXVI, 31.
1561. Coxe, alias Devon, a Romish priest, examined for magic 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 Archæology, IV, 248.
1577. Seaford, Sussex. Joan Wood presented by the grand jury. M. A. Lower, "Memorials of Seaford," in Sussex Archæological 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. Archæol. 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. Archæol. 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 Archæology, 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; Archæologia, 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. Archæol. 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. Archæol. 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 £10 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. Archæol. 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, § 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, § 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 £40 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 Archæol., 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, § 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 £20 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 Archæol. 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, § 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, § 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, § 10.
1707. Somerset. Maria Stevens acquitted. Inderwick.
1712. Hertford. Jane Wenham condemned, but reprieved. See footnotes to chapter XIII and app. A, § 9.
1716. Huntingdon. Two witches, a mother and daughter, said to have been executed here. Story improbable. See above, app. A, § 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 Athenæum 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.]
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]
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]
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]
Archæologia, cited, [10 n.], [391]
Archæologia 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]
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, J. B., cited, [409]
Baker, Joan, of Devizes, [217], [409]
Baker, Joan, of Exeter, [409]
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, 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]
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, 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]
Bernard, Richard, [165], [234]-[236], [241], [293], [303 n.], [361], [401].
Cited, [398]
Berwick, [201], [206], [207], [209], [252 n.], [253], [391], [393], [407]
Beverley, [410]
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]
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]
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]
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]
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
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]
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]
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]
Chester, Bishop of. See [Bridgeman, Henry]
Chettell, "Mistress," [385]
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, 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]
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]
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.]
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 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]
Cushman, L. W., cited, [244 n.]
Damages awarded accused, [324]
Danvers, Sir John, [215]
Darcy, Brian, [41], [42], [44 n.], [45], [46 n.], [348]
Darling, Thomas, [76]-[78], [80], [85]
Darrel, John, [74]-[87], [92], [138], [255], [315], [349], [352]-[356].
Cited, [391], [392], [393], [394]
Davenport, John, [187 n.], [362]
Daventry, [251]
Davies, J. S., cited, [8 n.]
Daye, Mary, [418]
Daye, Susannah, [416]
Deir, Mrs., [390]
Dekker, Thomas, [244].
Cited, [112 n.], [359]
Del Rio, [234]
Demdike, Old (Elizabeth Southerns), [121]-[128]
Denham, [74 n.]
Denham, Sir John, [235]
Denham Tracts, cited, [30 n.], [219 n.], [389], [390], [407]
Denton, [360]
Derby, [392]
Derby, Archdeacon of, [83]
Derby, Earl of, [392]
Derbyshire, [52], [81], [118], [137], [219], [324], [390], [392], [396], [407]
Descartes, [238]
Devell, Mother, [28 n.]
Device, Alizon, [111 n.], [384]
Device, Elizabeth, [108 n.], [122]-[126], [383]
Device, James, [126]-[127], [383]
Device, Jennet, [113], [126]-[127]
Devonshire, [254], [277], [409], [414]-[419]
Dewse, Mrs., [390]
Diary, A, or an Exact Journall, cited, [174 n.]
Dickonson, Frances, [147], [152]-[160]
Dilby, Doll, [413]
Distribution of witchcraft, [118]-[119], [146], [224], [254]-[255]
Doctrine of Devils, The, [296]-[297], [302 n.]
Dodgson, Nathan, [256]
Dodson, Jane, [416]
Doncaster, [396]
Dorrington, Doctor, [50 n.]
Dorset, [385], [390], [417], [419]
Dorset, Marquis of, [12]
Drage, William, [367].
Cited, [256]-[258 n.], [279 n.], [402], [408], [417]
Drew, widow, [403]
Ducke, Elizabeth, [386]
Dugdale, Richard, [315]-[320], [329], [373]
Duncane, Geillis, torture of, [95]
Dungeon, Mother, [386]
Dunne, Christiana, [418]
Duny, Amy, trial of, [262]-[267], [310], [413]
Durham, [119], [146], [210], [218], [219 n.], [388], [389], [395], [401], [407], [409], [414], [415]
Durham, Bishop of, [12];
his Injunctions, cited, [388]
Durham, Depositions ... from the Court of, cited, [21 n.], [29 n.], [385]
Durham, vicar-general of the Bishop of, [117]
Dutten, Mother, [28 n.]
E., T., "Maister of Art," [388]
Earle, Katherine, [223], [410]
East Anglia, [51], [119], [184], [197], [255]
Eburye, Elizabeth, [414]
Eckington, [390]
Edlingham, [416]
Edmonds, Mr., [235 n.]
Edmonton, [108], [112], [136 n.], [383], [391], [400]
Edward I, [6]
Edwards, Susanna, [271]-[272], [368]-[369], [416]
Elford, Johanna, [415]
Elizabeth, [35]-[92], [93];
number of executions in her reign compared with number under James, [105]-[106];
spectral evidence in her reign, [110];
distribution of witch cases, [118]
Ellyse, Joan, [386]
Elnore, Margaret, [418]
Ely, [189], [279], [406], [416]
Ely, Bishop of, [12], [15 n.], [234]
Emerson, a priest, [387]
Emerson, Ann, [388]
Emott, Isabel, [410]
Emmanuel College, Cambridge, [228 n.]
Endor, witch of, Scot's explanation of, [62];
Filmer's explanation of, [241];
Muggleton's explanation of, [295];
Webster's explanation of, [298]
Enger, Master, [110]-[111], [117], [118] and [n.], [135]-[136]
Essex, [26], [41], [70 n.], [90 n.], [119], [146], [158], [166]-[174], [192], [195], [228 n.], [331]-[332], [337], [385], [387], [388], [389], [390], [391], [394], [403], [408]
Essex, Countess of, [144 n.], [232]-[234]
Essex, Earl of, [234]
Ettrick, Anthony, [365]
Evans, Katharine, [411]
Evesham, [409]
Exeter, [31 n.], [216], [221], [223], [270]-[272], [278], [320]-[321], [409], [410], [411]
Exeter, Bishop of, [418]
Exeter College, Oxford, [285]
Eye, witch of, [4]
Fairclough, Samuel, [166 n.], [177], [178]
Fairfax, Edward, [111], [144]-[145], [249]-[250], [358], [359].
Cited, [102 n.], [142 n.], [250 n.], [395], [400]
Fairfax, Sir Thomas, [360]
Faithful Scout, The, cited, [213 n.], [216], [365], [408]
Falmouth, [415]
Farbrother, J. E., cited, [411]
Farington Papers, cited, [155 n.]
Farnworth, Richard, [240 n.]
Farrier, Elizabeth, [118]
Faversham, [54], [201], [390], [405]
Female juries, [108], [113], [171], [264], [271], [279], [330]
Fenner, Edward, in Warboys trials, [49]-[50]
Fenwick, Elizabeth, [279], [416]
Ferris, Sibilla, [393]
Filmer, Sir Robert, [238], [241].
Cited, [241 n.]
Finchingfield, [228 n.]
Finchley, [399]
Fisher, Katharine, [406]
Fishwick, cited, [372]
Fize, Henry, [388]
Flagellum Dæmonum, [79 n.]
Fleta, [5]
Flower, Joan and her daughters (Margaret and Philippa), case of, [115], [119 n.], [132]-[134], [383], [399]
Fludd, Robert, [286]
Foljambe, Mrs. See [Bowes, Lady]
Folk Lore Journal, The, cited, [24 n.], [401]
Folkestone, [386]
Ford, John, [359]
Fortescue, Sir Anthony, case of, [25]
Fortescue, Sir John, [34], [346]
"Foscue, Master." See [Fortescue, Sir John]
Fossett, Temperance, [409]
Foster, Ann, trial of, [282], [415]
Fowles, Susanna, case of, [323 n.]
Foxcroft, H. C., cited, [341 n.]
France, Hester, [408]
Francis, Elizabeth, her two trials, [35]-[40], [385]
Frankfort, [15 n.]
Frankland, Richard, [316], [319]
Fraunces, Margaret, [394]
Free, Goody, [412]
Freeman, Mary, [83]
French Intelligencer, cited, [213 n.], [215 n.], [408]
Fulham, [411]
Fuller, John, cited, [207 n.], [407]
Fuller, Thomas, cited, [90 n.], [139 n.], [140 n.], [143], [144]
Fustis Dæmonum, cited, [79 n.]
Gabley, Mother, [389]
Gaddesden, Little, [256]
Gairdner, James, cited, [9 n.]
Gallis, Richard, [347]
Gardiner, Mr. and Mrs., [324]
Gardiner, the Rev. Mr., [375]
Gardiner, Catherine, [132 n.]
Gardiner, Ralph, cited, [208], [209 n.], [407]
Gargrave, [410]
Garve, Mother, [387]
Gaskin, Emmy, [414]
Gateshead, [210], [219 n.], [407]
Gaule, John, [165], [174]-[175], [186]-[187], [192], [196], [236]-[237], [241], [242]
Gee, John, cited, [139 n.]
Geneva, [14], [15], [87 n.], [233]
Gentleman's Magazine, cited, [95 n.], [143 n.], [160 n.], [269 n.], [279 n.], [359], [367], [389], [396], [401], [412], [413], [415], [417]
Gerard, Sir Gilbert, [34], [346]
Gerish, W. B., cited, [375]
Gibbons, A., cited, [189 n.], [406]
Gibson, "Coz.," [222]
Gifford, George, [54], [57 n.], [70]-[72], [242], [243].
Cited, [390], [394], [395]
Gill, Helena, [390]
Gilston, [328 n.]
Gilston, Matthew, [335]
Gisborough, [411]
Glance of a witch, instances of, [111], [112], [135]
Glanvill, Joseph, [101], [196 n.], [238], [273]-[276], [285]-[293], [297], [299], [300], [303], [306], [307], [309], [310], [314], [327], [336], [337].
Cited, [221 n.], [222 n.], [251 n.], [260 n.], [308 n.], [405], [408], [411], [413]
Globe theatre, The, [159]
Gloucester, Duchess of, [4], [8]
Gloucester, Richard of, [9]
Glover, Mary, [138], [355], [395]
Glover, Stephen, cited, [396]
Goldsmith, Mr., [332]
"Good Witches," [21]-[27], [29], [220], [229], [259]-[260]
Gooderidge, Alse, [76]-[78], [349], [392]
Gooding, Elizabeth, [169]-[170]
Gough, Richard, [375]
Goulding, R. W., cited, [396], [401]
Gordon, Rev. Alexander, cited, [317 n.], [319 n.]
Grainge, William, [360]
Grame, Margaret, [391]
"Grantam's curse," [88]
Grantly, Anne, [419]
"Great T.," "Mother W. of," [395]
Great Yarmouth, [181], [386].
See also [Yarmouth]
Greedie, Joan, [401]
Green, Ellen, [399]
Greene, Anne, [410]
Greene, Ellen, [133 n.]
Greenleife, Mary (of Alresford), [170]-[171]
"Greenliefe of Barton," [404]
Greenslet, Ferris, cited, [286 n.]
Greenwel, Thomas, [371]
Greenwich, [154]
Grevell, Margaret, [44]
Griffiths, Sarah, [419]
Grimes, Mr., [332]
Grimston, Sir Harbottle, [167 n.]
Grindall, Edmund, Bp. of London, then Abp. of Canterbury, [15 n.]
Guildford, [322]
Guilford, Baron. See [Francis North]
Gurney, Elizabeth, [406]
Guy, Mary, [418]
Gyngell, Margaret, [225], [410]
Habakkuk, transportation of, [97]
Hackett, Margaret, [390]
Hackney, [415]
Haigh, [414]
Hale, Sir Matthew, [67], [261]-[268], [283], [304], [321], [334], [336], [337], [339 n.], [367]
Hale, William H., cited, [10 n.], [21 n.], [22 n.], [29 n.], [385]
Halifax, Marquis of, opinion of, [341]
Hall, John, [352]
Hall, Joseph, Bishop, [180]
Halliwell-Phillips, J. O., [142 n.], [306 n.]
Hallybread, Rose, [362], [376]
Hallywell, Henry, [303] and [n.], [304], [307]
Hamilton, A. H. A., cited, [417]
Hammer, [404]
Hammersmith, case at, [323 n.]
Hammond, of Westminster, [402]
Hampton Court, [13]
Handford, Abigail, [418]
Hanover, Susanna, [419]
Hansen, J., cited, [3 n.]
Harington, Sir John, [140 n.]
Harland and Wilkinson, cited, [419]
Harmondsworth, [386]
Harris, Alice, [132 n.]
Harris, Eleonora, [417]
Harris, Elizabeth, [201 n.]
Harris, Marie, [417]
Harris, Susannah, [419]
Harrison, Mr., [44]
Harrison, Henry, [388]
Harrison, Johanna, of Royston, [108]-[109], [111], [135], [383], [396]
Harrison, Margaret, [356]
Harrison, William, [367]
Harrod, H., cited, [182 n.], [386], [389], [390], [405]
Harrogate, [360]
Harrow, Weald, [390]
Harsnett, Samuel, later Abp. of York, [12], [51], [85]-[92], [138], [227], [233], [349], [353]-[356].
Cited, [390]-[393]
Hart, [389]
Hart, Anne, [418]
Hart, Prudence, [170]
Hart Hall, Oxford, [57]
Hartis, [418]
Hartley, Edmund, [52], [79]-[80], [392]
Harvey, Gabriel, [69 n.]
Harvey, Joane, [400]
Harvey, Thomas, [411]
Harvey, William, [154], [160]-[162]
Harwood, Goodwife, [256]
Hatfield Peverel, [41]
Hathaway, Richard, [322]-[324], [371]
Hathericke, Sara, [401]
Hatsell, Sir Henry, [323]
Haverhill, [404]
Hazlitt, W. C., cited, [350]-[352], [368]
Heddenham, [406]
Heddon, Margaret, [415]
Hele, N. F., cited, [183 n.], [191 n.], [200 n.], [405]
Hemloke, Sir Henry, [324]
Hempstead, [404]
Hengler, Elizabeth, [417]
Henry VIII, [20], [30], [58 n.]
See also [Statutes].
Heptenstall, [406]
Herbert, Sir Edward, [311 n.]
Hereford, Bishop of, [12], [15 n.]
Hertford, trials at [134]-[135], [314], [324]-[330], [383], [394], [396], [419]
Hertfordshire, [118], [367], [374], [391], [392], [408], [412], [414], [417]
Hertfordshire County Sessions, Rolls, cited, [21 n.], [221 n.], [391], [412], [414]
Hewitt, Katherine, [383]
Heylyn, Peter, cited, [143 n.]
Heywood, Oliver, [256], [307], [316], [319].
Cited, [416]
Heywood, Thomas, [306 n.];
play of, [158]-[159];
opinions expressed in play of, [244]-[245].
Cited, [244 n.]
Hicke, Mr., [379]
Hinchcliffe, Joseph, [416]
Hist. MSS. Comm. Reports, cited, [114 n.], and passim thereafter
Hitcham, [404]
Hitchin, [367]
Hobart, Sir Henry, [134]
Hobbes, Thomas, [241], [246]-[249], [291], [307]
Hole, Elizabeth, case of, [324]
Holinshed, cited, [54]-[55], [59 n.], [350], [387], [388], [390]
Holland, Henry, [72 n.]
Hollingsworth, A. G., cited, [183 n.], [404]
Holt, Sir John, [267];
nullified statute of James I;
gave repeated acquittals, [320]-[323];
his ruling on the water ordeal, [332]
Homes, Nathaniel, opinions of, [240].
Cited, [240 n.]
Hooke, William, [45 n.]
Hopkins, James, [164]
Hopkins, Matthew, [164]-[205], [339], [376], [378]
Hopwood, Mr., [79 n.]
Horace, [89]
Horner, Elizabeth, [321]-[322], [418]
Houghton, Lord, [359]
Housegoe, Elizabeth, [393]
Howard, Henry, later Earl of Northampton, [352]
Howell, James, [180], [195], [245]
Howell, T. B. and T. J., cited, [116 n.], [144 n.], [233 n.]
Howsell, Anne, [405]
Howson, Helen, [406]
Hubbard, Elizabeth, [404]
Huddersfield, [408]
Hudson, Ann, [407]
Hulton, John, [209]
Humphrey, of Gloucester, Duke, [8]
Hunnam, Anne, [409]
Hunniman, Joice, [162 n.], [402]
Hunt, widow, [45 n.]
Hunt, Robert, [260], [273], [411], [413]
Hunter, Joseph, cited, [92 n.], [256 n.], [413]
Huntingdon, [49]-[51], [185 n.], [200 n.], [237 n.], [314 n.], [348], [362], [375], [383], [419]
Huntingdonshire, [47]-[51], [185]-[187], [192], [236], [348], [375]-[383], [405]
Huson, Alice, [413]
Hutchinson, Francis, [175], [195]-[198], [313], [321], [331], [340]-[343], [355], [375], [380], [381].
Cited, [11 n.], [179 n.], [321]-[323 n.], [328 n.], [395], [411], [413], [416], [418]
Huxley, Catherine, [216], [409]
Ilkeston, [407]
Images, alleged use of in witchcraft, [6], [59]-[60], [109]-[110], [125]-[127]
Incendiarism ascribed to witchcraft, [282]-[283], [333]
Inderwick, F. A., cited, [201 n.], [225 n.], [226 n.], [268 n.], [269 n.], [270 n.], [311 n.], [333], [376], [410], [414]-[419]
Ipswich, [164], [175], [182], [320], [394], [405], [414], [417], [418]
Jackson, Elizabeth, [138], [355], [395]
James I, [69], [90 n.], [93]-[119], [130], [132], [134], [137]-[145], [146], [165], [189], [203], [227], [228], [229 n.], [232], [234], [241]-[242], [247], [250], [254], [255], [260], [267], [276], [312], [314], [331].
His Scottish experience, [93]-[96];
his Dæmonologie, [97]-[101];
his statute and its effect, [101]-[109];
distribution of witchcraft in his realm, [118]-[119];
his changing attitude, [138]-[145]
James II, [308]
James, G. P. R., cited, [340 n.], [342 n.]
Jeffreys, George, Baron, [311 n.]
Jeffries, Anne, [405]
Jenkinson, Helen, [383]
Jennings, Lady, [400]
Jeopardy, neglect of legal restriction on, [128] and [n.], [145 n.]
Jewel, John, Bishop of Salisbury, [15]-[17]
Joan of Arc, [230]
Johnson, Margaret, [154], [156], [157], [159]
Johnson, W. S., cited, [244 n.]
Johnstone, James, [341]
Jollie, Thomas, [316]-[319], [329], [372]-[373]
Jones, J. O., cited, [164 n.], [181 n.], [182 n.], [188 n.]
Jonson, Ben, [91]-[92], [244], [387]
Jordan, Jane, [393]
Jorden, Dr. Edward, [138], [355], [395]
Jurdie, Jone, [396]
Keiston, [185]
Kelly, William, cited, [141 n.], [398]
Kelyng, Sir John, [265], [267], [305]
Kemp, Ursley, trial of, [41], [43]
Kennet, Elizabeth, [412]
Kent, [21 n.], [54], [57], [60], [119], [201], [255], [350], [383], [385], [386], [388], [389], [390], [392], [393], [394], [401], [403], [405], [408], [412], [416], [418]
Kent, Holy Maid of. See [Barton, Elizabeth]
Kerke, Anne, [394]
Kerke, Joan, [51]
Kidderminster, [412]
Kimbolton, [186]
King, of Acton, [404]
King, Peter, [380]
King's Lynn, [54], [116]-[117], [183], [231], [358], [384], [389], [391], [393], [399], [405]
Kingston, [419]
Kingston-upon-Hull, [389]
Kittredge, G. L., cited, [298], [301], [383]
Knipp, Agnes and John, [415]
Knott, Elizabeth, [208 n.], [407]
Knowles, Sir William, [154]
Knumerton, Dewnes, [417]
Lake, Sir Thomas, [115 n.], [396]
Lakeland, Mother, [182], [200 n.], [381], [405]
Laleham, [387]
Lambe, Dr., [211]
Lambe, Elizabeth, [410]
Lambeth, [354]
Lanam, Elizabeth, [408]
Lancashire, [52], [78]-[81], [92], [108]-[113], [115]-[116], [118], [120]-[130], [146]-[160], [307], [314]-[319], [393], [399], [402], [406], [414], [416], [419];
Starchie affair, [78]-[81], [92];
trials of 1612, [120]-[130];
trials of 1634, [146]-[156];
Dugdale affair of 1689, [315]-[319]
Lancaster, [120], [151], [156], [158], [171], [224], [229 n.], [273], [383], [392], [397], [401], [402]
Lancaster, chancellor of the Duchy of, [152 n.]
Landgate, [414]
Landis, Margaret, [362], [376]
Land's End, [217]-[218], [409]
Langton, Walter, [6]
Lathom, [402]
Latimer, John, cited, [400]
Latton, [414]
Launceston, [218 n.], [409], [418]
Lavenham, [404]
Law, John, [111 n.]
Law, T. G., cited, [74 n.], [87 n.], [353]
Lawe, Alison, [389]
Lea, H. C., his definition of a witch, [4].
Cited, [3 n.], [99 n.]
Leach, Jeffrey, [389]
Lecky, W. E. H., [196]
Lee, Dorothy, [405]
Leech, Anne, [170], [174], [379]
Leepish, [401]
Legge, cited, [138 n.], [225 n.]
Leicester, [54], [119 n.], [120], [140]-[141], [218], [330]-[331], [384], [392], [398], [399], [402], [408], [419]
Leicester, Records of the Borough of, cited, [54 n.]
Leicestershire, [51], [118], [133 n.], [146], [359], [397]
Leicestershire and Rutland, Notes and Queries, cited, [218 n.], [399], [402], [408], [419]
Levingston, Anne, [214]
Lewes, [387]
Lichfield, Bishop of (Walter Langton), [6];
(Thomas Morton), [141]-[142], [152]
Liebermann, F., cited, [2 n.]
Lincoln, [118], [119 n.], [120];
trials of 1618-1619, [132], [383], [399]
Lincoln, Bishop of, [7], [8], [12], [49], [50]
Lingwood, Joan, [389]
Linneston, [401]
Linton, Mrs. Lynn, cited, [29 n.], [95 n.], [386]
Lister, Mr., [111 note], [112], [129]
Little Gaddesden, [256]
Liverpool, [414]
Lloyd, Temperance, [271]-[272], [368]-[369], [416]
Lloyd, William, Bishop of Worcester, [340]
Lloynd's wife, [150]
Lock, John, [408]
Locke, John, [340]
Lodge, Edmund, cited, [139 n.]
Lodge, Sir Oliver, [238]
Londesdale, Elizabeth, [401]
London, [9], [25], [26], [30 n.], [51], [59], [154], [159], [160], [173], [177], [210 n.], [216], [277]-[278], [309], [320], [322], [323], [329], [384], [385], [394], [395], [399], [409], [416]
London, Bishop of, [8], [9 n.], [12], [30 n.], [84], [384], [387].
See also [Grindall, E.];
[Bancroft, R.]
London Post, cited, [419]
Long, Sir James, [268]
Lords' Journal, cited, [102 n.], [103 n.]
Lord's Prayer, testing of witches by, [40], [80], [271], [282], [326]
Loudon, Elizabeth, [410]
Low, Goody, [404]
Lower, M. A., cited, [386]
Lowes, John, case of, [165 n.], [175]-[179], [197], [378], [379]
Lowndes, cited, [347], [350], [359], [364], [386], [390], [392]
Loy, Margaret, [414]
Lucas, Hugh, [112]
Luther, Martin, attitude of, towards exorcism, [87 n.]
Lyme, [385]
Lynn. See [King's Lynn]
Mackenzie, E., cited, [259 n.], [401], [416]
Mackerell, Benjamin, cited, [391], [393], [399], [405]
Mackie, S. J., cited, [386]
Magazine of Scandall, cited, [176 n.], [197 n.]
Magick, Dorothy, [398]
Maidstone, cases at, [215]-[216], [238], [241], [283], [408], [412]
Maitland, S. R., cited, [353]
Malborne, Sir John, book of, [63]
Malking Tower, meeting of witches at, [113], [123]-[129], [147], [148], [383]
Mallory, Lady Elizabeth, [223], [411]
Malmesbury, alarm at, [269]-[270], [409], [417]
Malter, wife of, [385]
Manchester, [79]
Manners, Francis, Earl of Rutland, [132]-[134], [359]
Manners, Lord Francis, [133], [134 n.]
Manners, Lord Henry, [134 n.]
Manners, Lady Katherine, [134 n.]
Manningtree, [164], [165], [173], [193], [194]
Mansfield, [75]
Manship, cited, [182 n.]
Manwood, Sir Roger, [56]
Marchant, Anne, [409]
Margaret, Mother, [28 n.]
Marks, use of as a test of witchcraft, [36], [40], [45], [77], [99], [108], [151], [154]-[155], [156]-[157], [167], [190], [218], [229], [230], [242], [243], [264], [284], [330]
Martin, Dr., [323]
Mary, Queen of Scots, [18], [25], [26], [53]
Mascon, Demon of, [306], [337 n.]
Mason, of Faversham, [54]
Mason, James, and his opinions, [229 n.]
Massachusetts, trials in, [50], [264], [316], [382]
Mathers, the (Cotton and Increase), [316], [336]
Mayhall, John, cited, [395]
Meakins, Bridget, [399]
Meere, John, [390]
Melford, [404]
Melton, Elizabeth, [393]
Mercurius Aulicus, cited, [403]
Mercurius Civicus, cited, [360], [403]
Mercurius Democritus, cited, [213 n.], [251 n.], [408]
Mercurius Politicus, cited, [218 n.], [409]
Mereweather, Jone, [413]
Merlin, [230]
Merril, Goodman, [171 n.]
Merriman, R. B., cited, [74 n.]
Mersam, Rose, [396]
Mewkarr Church, [396]
Middlesex, [51], [74], [118], [146], [174], [201], [208 n.], [220], [224], [225], [278], [383]-[387], [389]-[394], [396]-[400], [402], [403], [405]-[412], [415], [419]
Middlesex County Records, cited, [21 n.], [220 n.], [386], and passim thereafter
Middleton, Thomas, [244]
Midgley, Mary, [406]
Midwife as a witch, [21] and [n.], [41], [258]-[259]
Milburne, Jane, [279]
Milburne, Margaret, [415]
Miller, Agnes, [399]
Mills, Elizabeth, [415]
Mills, Joan, [414]
Milnes, R. Monckton, [102 n.], [359]
Mils, Goody, [404]
Milton, Miles, [398]
Mistley-cum-Manningtree, [164 n.]
Moderate Intelligencer, its opinion of the Bury executions in 1645, [179]-[180].
Cited, [177 n.], [180 n.], [404]
Molland, Alicia, [417]
Mompesson affair, [273], [276], [310]
Mondaye, Agnes, [385]
Montague, James, Bp. of Winchester, [97 n.]
Montgomery, [387]
Moone, Margaret, [170 n.]
Moordike, Sarah, case of, [322]-[324], [419]
Moore, wife of, [189 n.], [406]
Moore, Ales, [395]
Moore, Ann, [418]
Moore, Mary, [363]
Moore Rental, The, cited, [414]
Morduck, Sarah. See [Moordike]
More, George, [81], [84]-[85], [353], [354].
Cited, [78 n.], [79 n.], [80 n.], [392]
More, Henry, [238]-[240], [243], [262], [286], [297], [303], [307], [309], [310].
Cited, [211 n.], [239], [394], [396], [405], [410]
More, Sir Thomas, [59 n.]
Mortimer, Jane, [52 n.], [392]
Morton, Margaret, [408]
Morton, Thomas, Bishop of Lichfield, [141 n.], [142], [152]
Much, Barfield, [387]
Muggleton, Lodowick, and witchcraft, [295], [298], [307], [309].
Cited, [295 n.]
Munnings, Mother, trial of, [321], [418]
Muschamp, Mrs., [210], [218], [253], [363]
Muschamp, George, [209], [210]
Nall, J. G., cited, [181 n.]
Napier, Dr., [400]
Napier, Barbara, [96]
Nash, J. R., cited, [412]
Nash, Thomas, cited, [69 n.]
Navestock, [385]
Naylor, Joane, [394]
Needham, [404]
Nelson, Richard, [394]
Nevelson, Anne, [395]
New England. See [Massachusetts]
New Romney, [59]
Newbury, [403]
Newcastle, [201], [207]-[208], [259], [279], [281], [407], [412], [413], [414]
Newgate, A True and Perfect List of the Prisoners in, cited, [409]
Newman, Ales, [45 n.]
Newman, Elizabeth, [410]
Newman, William, [45 n.]
Newton, Isaac, [308]
Nicholas (or Nickless), Jane, [417]
Nichols, John, cited, [134 n.], [141 n.], [399]
Nicholson, Brinsley, [58], [62], [70 n.]
Nicolas, Sir Harris, cited, [8 n.]
Noake, J., [412]
Noal, Jane, [417]
Norfolk, [193], [200 n.], [231], [253], [337], [356], [386], [389]-[391], [394], [395], [397], [399]-[401], [403]-[406], [410], [412], [414]
Norfolk Archæology, cited, [182], [386], [390], [405]
Norrington, Alice, [59], [386]
Norrington, Mildred, [59], [62]
North, Francis, Baron Guilford, [269 n.], [271], [272], [278], [305], [311]
North, Roger, [267].
Cited, [261 n.], [269 n.], [271 n.], [278 n.], [403], [416], [417]
North Allerton, [400]
North Riding (of Yorkshire), [117]
North Riding Record Society, [114 n.], [117 n.], [162 n.]
Northampton, [106]-[112], [115], [118], [119 n.], [120], [130]-[132], [184], [229], [230], [255], [314 n.], [357], [375]-[383], [415], [419]
Northampton, Henry Howard, Earl of, [352]
Northamptonshire, [184], [200 n.], [282], [331], [405], [411]
Northamptonshire Handbook, [381]-[382]
Northamptonshire Historical Collections, [381]
Northfield, Thomas, [7]
Northfleet, [394]
Northumberland, [52], [146], [208 n.], [209], [210], [220], [224], [282], [390], [395], [401], [407], [412], [414], [415], [416]
Norton, mother and daughter, [330], [333], [419]
Norwich, [7 n.], [400], [401], [406], [412]
Norwich, Bishop of, [7 n.], [8], [15 n.], [89]
Notes and Queries, cited, [164 n.], [321 n.], [380], [418], [419]
Nottingham, [75], [81]-[86], [118], [315], [389], [393], [394]
Nottingham, Records of the Borough of, cited, [394]
Nowell, Roger, [123]
Nutter, Alice, trial of, [113], [116], [126]-[127], [383]
Nutter, Christopher, [127]
Nutter, Robert, [128]
Oakham, [411]
Ogle, Henry, [208], [209], [259 n.]
Oliver, Mary, [412]
Onslow, Speaker, [268]
Orchard, widow, [412]
Orchard, N., [296 n.]
Oriel College, Oxford, [294]
Orme, W., cited, [337 n.]
Osborne, Francis, [143]-[144], [245]-[246], [291].
Cited, [141 n.], [143], [246 n.]
Owen, John, cited, [287 n.]
Owen, and Blakeway, cited, [21 n.], [387]
Oxford, Samuel Parker, Bishop of, [308], [309]
Oxford, [15], [63], [146 n.], [216], [285], [402]
Oxford University, [131], [216], [285];
Hart Hall, [57];
Oriel College, [294];
Trinity College, [131]-[132]
Pacy, Mr., [265]
Padston, [388]
Palmer, C. J., cited, [182 n.], [389], [390]
Palmer, John, [208 n.]
Paracelsus, [286]
Paris, University of, formulated theory concerning pacts with Satan, [3]
Parker, Matthew, Archbishop of Canterbury, [30], [88 n.]
Parker, Samuel, Bishop of Oxford, [308], [309]
Parker, Thomas, Earl of Macclesfield, [314], [320], [330]-[331], [332 n.], [380]
Parkhurst, John, Bishop of Norwich, [15 n.]
Parle, M., [417]
Parliamentary History, cited, [12 n.], [102 n.]
Peacock, a schoolmaster, tortured, [115 n.], [399]
Peacock, Edward, [401]
Peacock, Elizabeth, [269], [270], [414], [415], [417]
Pearson, Margaret, [397]
Pechey, Joan, [45 n.]
Peck, Francis, cited, [172 n.], [403]
Peckham, Sir George, [74 n.]
Pelham, [151 n.]
Pellican, cited, [15 n.]
Pemberton, Sir Francis, [277]
Pembroke, Simon, [387]
Pembroke Hall, Cambridge, [89]
Pendle Hill, or Forest, [121], [147], [315], [397]
Pepys, Samuel, [309]
Pereson, Jennet, [385]
Perfect Diurnal, A, cited, [403]
Perkins, William, [227]-[230], [240], [241], [242], [243]
Perry, William, the "boy of Bilston," [140]-[142]
Peter Martyr, [16 n.]
Peter, R. and O. B., cited, [218 n.], [409]
Peterson, Joan, case of, [213]-[215], [408]
Petty treason, its penalty not to be confused with that of witchcraft, [182]
Phillips, Goody, [183]
Phillips, Mary, [382]
Phippan, Honora, [417]
Pickering, Gilbert, [47], [131 n.]
Pickering, Sir Gilbert, [131 n.]
Pickering, Henry, [48]
Pickering, Thomas, [228 n.]
Pickerings, the, [348]
Pico della Mirandola, [286]
Piers, Anne, [388]
Pike, L. O., cited, [7]
Pillory, punishment of, [30], [55], [104], [114]
Pilton, Margaret, [398]
Pinder, Rachel, [30 n.], [59], [88], [351], [386]
Pitcairn, Robert, cited, [95 n.]
Plato, [238]
Pleasant Treatise of Witches, A, [296]
Plummer, Colonel, [328 n.]
Poeton, Edward, cited, [400]
Pole, Arthur, [25]
Pole, Edmund, [25]
Pollock and Maitland, cited, [6] and [n.], [7 n.]
Popham, Sir John, [354]
Potts, Thomas, [112], [113], [116], [125], [129], [130], [249], [357]-[358], [361].
Cited, [105]-[128 n.], passim, [397], [398]
Powell, Sir John, [272 n.], [314], [320], [324], [327]-[328], [329], [330], [335], [374]
Powell, William, [346]
Powle, ——, [409]
Powstead, [404]
Pregnancy, plea of, in delay of execution, [50], [96]
Prentice, Joan, [348]
Presbyterian party, its part in Hopkins crusade, [195]-[201]
Prestall, John, [25], [387], [397]
Preston, Jennet, [111 n.], [112], [129], [249], [383], [398]
Price, Joan, [409]
Privy Council, its dealings with sorcerers, in the later Middle Ages, [4]-[10];
its campaign against conjurers under Elizabeth, [26]-[27];
the Abingdon trials, [27]-[28], [30 n.];
the Chelmsford trials, [34];
Dee's case, [53]-[54];
Darrel's, [87];
its part in the statute of James I, [103];
in the Lancashire trials of 1633, [152], [155], [156];
in the Somerset cases of 1664, [273].
See also [Acts of the Privy Council] and [Council Register].
Protestant Post Boy, The, [374]
Prowting, Mary, [402]
Queen's College, Cambridge, [143], [348]
R., G., [374]
R., H., [390]
Rainsford, Sir Richard, [260], [268]-[269], [269]-[270], [304]
Rames, Nicholas, wife of, [279]
Ramsay, Sir J. R., cited, [9 n.]
Ramsbury, [389]
Rand, Margaret, [391]
Randall, [397]
Randall, of Lavenham, [404]
Randoll, [388]
Ratcliffe, [404]
Ratcliffe, Agnes, [136 n.]
Rattlesden, [404]
Rawlins, Anna, [416]
Raymond, Sir Thomas, [260], [270]-[271], [271]-[272], [278], [283], [304], [321]
Read, Joan, [217]
Read, Margaret, [391]
Read, Simon, [397]
Redfearne, Anne, [126 n.], [127]-[128], [383]
Redman, [258]
Repington, Philip, Bp. of Lincoln, [7]
Reresby, Sir John, [272 n.], [305], [311].
Cited, [417]
Rich, Robert, Earl of Warwick, [172], [178], [200]
Richard III, [9]
Richardson, M. A., cited, [117 n.], [219 n.], [395], [409], [412]
Richmond, of Bramford, [404]
Richmond (Yorkshire), [396]
Richmond and Lenox, Duke of, [287]
Rivet, John, [166]
Roach, Clara, [418]
Roberts, Alexander, [227], [231], [235].
Cited, [117 n.], [231 n.], [399].
Roberts, Elizabeth, [394], [410]
Roberts, George, cited, [279 n.], [385], [417]
Roberts, Joan, [407]
Robey, Isabel, [384]
Robinson, Edmund, [146]-[157], [298], [323]
Robson, Jane, [401]
Rodes, Sara, [218]
Rose, Goodwife, [402]
Rossington, [396]
Rous, Francis, [240]
Row, Elizabeth, [415]
Roxburghe Club, cited, [95 n.]
Royal Society, the, [275], [285], [286], [305], [306], [308]-[309]
Ruceulver, [404]
Rushock, [412]
Russel, Margaret, [400]
Rutland, Earl of. See [Manners]
Rutlandshire, [411]
Rutter, Elizabeth, [383], [399]
Ryder, Agnes, [417]
Rye, [116], [383], [397], [405]
Rylens, Martha, [416]
Ryley, Josia, [393]
Rymer, cited, [7]
Sabbath, the Witch, [3], [113],[123]-[124], [148], [166], [170], [186], [239], [273], [281]-[282]
Saffron Walden, [394]
Saint Alban's, [208 n.], [252 n.], [363], [407], [408], [417]
Saint Andrew's in Holborne, [393], [398]
Saint Giles's, Northampton, [382]
Saint Giles-in-the-Fields, [393]
Saint John's, Kent, [385], [389]
Saint Katharine's, [394]
Saint Lawrence, [393]
Saint Leonard's, Shoreditch, [403]
Saint Martin's-in-the-Fields, [389], [406], [409]
Saint Mary's, Nottingham, [83]
Saint Osyth's, [41]-[46], [58], [70], [125], [388]
Saint Paul's, [13];
public penance in, [59]
Saint Paul's, Dean of, [11 n.]
Saint Peter's, Kent, [389], [392], [393]
Saint Saviour's, Southwark, [387]
Salem. See [Massachusetts]
Salisbury, [212], [225], [268], [270]-[271], [410], [412]
Salisbury, Bishop of. See [Jewel, John]
Salmesbury, witches of, [128]-[129], [398]
Salop (Shropshire), [387]
Sammon, Margerie, [43], [44], [45 n.]
Sampson, Agnes, torture of, [95]
Samuel, Agnes, [49]
Samuel, Alice, trial of, [47]-[51]
Samuel, John, [49]
Samuel, Mother. See [Alice Samuel]
Samuels, the (of Warboys), [109], [391]
Sanford, [387]
Sawyer, Elizabeth, trial of, [108 n.], [112], [136 n.], [383], [400]
Scarfe, of Rattlesden, [404]
Schwebel, Johann, [15 n.]
Scory, John, Bishop of Hereford, [15 n.]
Scot, Margery, [409]
Scot, Reginald, [51], [55], [57]-[72], [89], [90], [97], [142], [160], [227], [228]-[231], [235], [239], [241], [242], [243], [249], [291], [294 n.], [296], [298], [301], [310], [312], [342].
Cited, [20 n.], [28 n.], [46 n.], [296 n.], [347], [348], [386], [387], [388]
Scot, Sir Thomas, [56]
Scotland, Register of the Privy Council of, cited [96 n.]
Scotland and the Commonwealth, cited, [225]
Scots-Hall, [57]
Scott, John, cited, [391], [393]
Scott, Sir Walter, [196], [275].
Cited, [199 n.], [366]
Scottish Dove, The, cited, [404]
Seaford, [386]
Seccombe, Thomas, cited, [164 n.], [181 n.]
Seeze, Betty, [417]
Selden, John, [246]-[248], [262].
Cited, [247 n.], [248 n.]
Serjeantson, Rev. R. M., [382]
Sewel, William, [296 n.]
Shadbrook, [350], [393], [394]
Shadwell, Thomas, [121], [309];
his opinions, [306]-[307]
Shakespeare, William, used Harsnett, [91];
allusions in Twelfth Night of, [92];
his witch-lore, [243]
Shalock, Anthony, [171 n.]
Shaw, Elinor, [382]
Sheahan, J. J., cited, [389]
Shelley, [404]
Shelley, Jane, [391]
Shepton, Mallet, [411]
Sherlock, Thomas, [374]
Ship Tavern, at Greenwich, [154]
Shore, Jane, [9]
Shoreditch, [403]
Shrewsbury, Earl of, [12], [19 n.], [26]
Shrewsbury, Duke of, [341]
Shropshire (Salop), [387]
Shuttleworths, House and Farm Accounts of the, cited, [399]
Simmons, Margaret, [388]
Simpson, Elizabeth, [412]
Simpson, Jane, [413]
Simpson, Robert, cited, [396]
Simpson, Susan, [409]
Sinclar (or Sinclair), George, cited, [355], [366], [395]
Skipsey, [407]
Slade, Anne, [414]
Slingsby, Sir William, [400]
Smith, of Chinting, [387]
Smith, Charlotte Fell, cited, [53 n.]
Smith, Elizabeth, [408]
Smith, Gilbert, [399]
Smith, Mary, [231], [358], [384], [399]
Smith, Sir Thomas, [25 n.], [385]
Smithfield, [9]
Smythe, Elizabeth, [406]
Smythe, Katharine, [386]
Somers, William, [51], [81]-[86], [92], [315], [353], [393]
Somerset, [146], [220], [222], [224], [234], [254], [260], [273], [280], [285], [293], [320], [388], [392], [393], [401], [402], [411], [413]-[419]
Somerset, the protector, repeal of felonies during his protectorate, [12];
attitude of, [13]
Sorcery, distinguished from witchcraft, [3]-[4]
Southampton, [387]
Southampton, Earl of, [12]
Southcole, Justice, [346]
Southcote, John, [34]
Southerns, Elizabeth. See [Demdike]
Southwark, [164], [256], [277], [321], [323], [387], [419]
Southwell, Thomas, [8]
Southworth. See [Master Thompson]
Sowerbutts, Grace, part in Salmesbury cases, [128]-[129], [139], [140], [151]
Spectator, The, [341 n.]
Spectral evidence, [110]-[111], [131 n.], [184], [218], [221]-[222], [235]-[236], [263]-[264], [279], [279 n.]
Speier, [15 n.]
Spencer, Anne, [402]
Spencer, Mary, [152], [157], [159], [160], [401]
Spokes, Helen, [393]
Staffordshire, [118], [141], [146], [386], [389], [400], [402]
Stanford Rivers, [34]
Stanhope, [388]
Stanmore, [390]
Star Chamber, Dee examined by the, [52]
Starchie, Mrs., [79 n.]
Starchie, John, [149 n.]
Starchie, Nicholas, children of, [78]-[81], [158]
Starr, William, [409]
Stationers' Registers, cited, [347], [350], [352], [358]
Statutes:
1 Edward VI, cap. xii (repeal of felonies), [12];
3 Henry VIII, cap. xi, [10 n.];
33 Henry VIII, cap. viii, [10]-[12];
5 Elizabeth, cap. xvi, [5], [14], [15], [17], [101]-[102];
1 James I, cap. xii, [102]-[104], [314]
Staunton, Mother, [39 n.], [387]
Stearne, John, [164]-[205] passim (in text and [notes]), [339], [361], [362], [404].
Cited, [403]-[406].
Stebbing, Henry, [335], [374], [375]
Steele, Sir Richard, [342]
Stephen, Sir J. F., cited, [10 n.], [11 n.]
Stephen, Leslie, cited, [287 n.]
Stephens, Edward, [339 n.]
Stepney, [405], [408], [410], [411], [412]
Sterland, Mr., [83]
Stevens, Margaret, [415]
Stevens, Maria, [419]
Stoll, Elmer, cited, [244 n.]
Stonden, [414]
Stothard, Margaret, [259], [416]
Stow, John, cited, [59 n.], [350]
Stranger, Dorothy, [279], [413]
Strangridge, Old, [238]
Strassburg, [15 n.]
Stratford-at-Bow, [406], [407]
Strotton, [414]
Strutt, the Rev. Mr., [326], [327], [375]
Strype, John, cited, [16 n.], [17 n.], [25 n.], [26 n.], [27 n.], [385], [390]
Stuart, Charles, Duke of Richmond and Lenox, [287]
Studley Hall, [223]
Style, Elizabeth, [280], [413]
Sudbury, [404]
Suffolk, [164], [165 n.], [175], [176 n.], [183], [194], [195], [197], [224], [337], [350], [379], [392], [393], [394], [404], [405], [411], [413], [414], [417], [418]
Suffolk Institute of Archæology, Proceedings of, [176 n.]
Surey, affair of. See [Dugdale]
Sussex, [282], [386], [387], [397], [405], [412]
Sussex Archæological Collections, [283 n.], [386], [412]
Sussums, Alexander, [404]
Sutton, [406]
Sutton, Mary, [110]-[111], [118 n.], [136], [383], [398]
Sutton, Mother, [107]-[108], [115], [117], [135]-[136], [358], [383], [398]
Swan, John, [90 n.], [355].
Cited, [395]
Swan Inn, Maidstone, [215]
Swane, Goodwife, [389]
Swinow, Colonel, [209]
Swinow, Dorothy, [209]-[210], [211], [408]
Swithland, [399]
Swynbourne, Richard, wife of, [393]
Sykes, John, cited, [30 n.], [407], [414]
T., R., [295]
Talbot, Charles, Duke of Shrewsbury, [341]-[342]
Talbot, George, Earl of Shrewsbury, [19 n.], [26]
Tanner, Joanna, [419]
Tatler, The, [342 n.]
Taunton, [234], [235], [260], [401], [403], [413], [417], [418]
Taylor, Robert, [170]
Taylor, Zachary, [317]-[318], [329], [372], [373]
Tedsall, Agnes, [402]
Tedworth, affair of, [274]-[276], [303 n.]
Tempest, Henry, [218]
Temple, Sir William, [309]
Tendering, John, [46 n.]
Test of bleeding of dead body, [112], [301];
of repetition of certain words, [49], [109];
of thatch-burning, [112];
of swimming (see [Water, ordeal of])
Theodore of Tarsus, [2]
Therfield, [374]
Theydon, Mount, [385]
Thievery and Witchcraft, [122], [222], [326]
Thirple, [374]
Thirsk, [397]
Thompson, James, cited, [201 n.], [408]
Thompson, Katherine, [395]
Thompson, Master, [129]
Thorne, Anne, accuser of Jane Wenham, [324]-[330], [334]-[336]
Thorneton, Jane, [386]
Thorpe, Benjamin, cited, [2 n.]
Throckmorton, Sir Robert, [47], [50]
Throckmortons, the, [348]
Throgmorton, George, [385]
Throgmorton, Lady Frances, [384]
Tichmarsh, [131 n.]
Tilbrooke-bushes, [188 n.]
Tilling, Ann, [269]-[270], [415], [417]
Tolbooth, the, [96]
Torture, of Alse Gooderidge, [77];
by the bootes, [96];
of Peacock, [115 n.], [203];
perhaps used at Lincoln, [134];
unknown to English law, [167];
of Lowes, by walking, [176]-[177];
Hopkins's and Stearne's theory and practice as to, [202]-[204];
advocated by Perkins, [229];
by scratching, [330];
by swimming (see [Water, ordeal of])
Tottenham, [399]
Towns, independent jurisdiction of, [54]-[55], [116]-[117], [201]
Townshend, Jane, [414]
Tradescant, John, [216]
Transportation of witches through the air, [3], [97], [239], [246]
Treasure-seekers, [20]
Tree, [387]
Trefulback, Stephen, [391]
Trelawny, Sir Jonathan, Bishop of Exeter, [321]
Trembles, Mary, [271]-[272], [368]-[369], [416]
Trinity College, Oxford, [131]-[132];
Master of. See [Isaac Barrow]
Turner, William, cited, [405]
Twelfth Night, allusions in, [92]
Two Terrible Sea-Fights, cited, [225 n.]
Tynemouth, [412]
Underhill, Edward, Autobiography of, cited, [13]
Upaston, [418]
Upney, Joan, [347]
Upsala, [94]
Urwen, Jane, [401]
Utley, hanged at Lancaster, [158], [401]
Uxbridge, [74 n.]
Vairus, Leonardus, [58 n.]
Vallet, Jane, [417]
Van Helmont, [286]
Varden, J. T., cited, [194 n.]
Vaughan, Joan, [384]
Vaughans, the two (Henry and Thomas), [286]
Vaux, Lord, [74 n.]
Vetter, Theodor, cited, [15 n.]
Vicars, Anne, [383]
Vickers, K. H., cited, [9 n.]
Victoria History of Essex, cited, [90 n.]
Virley, John, [7]
W., Mother, of Great T., [395]
W., Mother, of W. H., [395]
"W. W." and the St. Osyth's pamphlet, [46], [62 n.]
Waddam, Margaret, [418]
Wade, William, [221], [223], [411]
Wadham, Thomas, [388]
Wagg, Ann, [407]
Wagstaffe, John, [294]-[295], [297]
Waldingfield, [404]
Walker, widow, [387]
Walker, Ellen, [385]
Walker, John (another), cited, [361]
Walkerne, [325]
Wallis, Joane, [185 n.], [187 n.]
Walsh, John, trial of, [31 n.]
Walter, Aliena, [414]
Walter, Sir John, [235]
Walton, Colonel Valentine, [187], [237 n.]
Wanley, Nathaniel, [307].
Cited, [308 n.]
Warboys, trials at, [47]-[51], [109 n.], [131], [143], [160], [185], [221], [229 n.], [391]
Warburton, Sir Peter, [142]
Warburton, Peter, [215]
Warden of the Cinque Ports, [116]
Warham, William, Abp. of Canterbury, [58 n.]
Warminster, [398]
Warwick, Earl of. See [Rich]
Washington, Sir John, [185]
"Watching" of witches, practised by Hopkins and Stearne, [167];
Gaule's description, [175];
Stearne's explanation, [190];
Stearne's description, [202];
probably practised on Elizabeth Style, [280];
practised on a Sussex woman, [283]
Water, ordeal of, James recommends it, [99];
its use on the Continent, [99 n.];
in reign of James, [106]-[108], [118 n.], [132];
stopped in Suffolk, [178];
in Huntingdonshire, [187];
its use by Hopkins and Stearne, [191]-[192];
story that Hopkins was put to it, [194];
use at Faversham, [201 n.];
Perkins's opinion, [228];
Cotta's, [230];
Bernard's, [235];
Ady's, [242];
its decline, [243], [284];
increased use of it as an illegal process, [315], [331];
forbidden in Jane Wenham's case, [326];
at Leicester, [330];
in Essex, [331]-[332];
by Holt or Parker, [332];
by Addison's Sir Roger de Coverley and his chaplain, [341]
Waterhouse, Mother Agnes, trial of, [35]-[38], [40 n.], [45], [385]
Waterhouse, Joan, [36]
Watson, Jane, [413]
Way, Margaretta, [419]
Wayt, Mrs., [174]
Webb, Mrs., [269]
Webb, Goodwife, [39]
Webster, John, [141], [147 n.], [148]-[151], [151], [268], [297]-[303], [314].
Cited, [306 n.], [359], [400]
Weech, Christian, [397]
Weeke, [413]
Weekes, Christiana, [397], [410]
Weekly Intelligencer, cited, [213 n.], [408]
Weight, Mrs., [174]
Welfitt, William, cited, [412]
Wellam, Margaret, [399]
Wells, [389]
Wells, Archdeacon of, [235]
Wenham, [164]
Wenham, Jane, trial of, [324]-[330], [380], [381], [419];
controversy over, [334]-[336];
her trial the occasion of Hutchinson's book, [342]-[343]
Wentworth, Lord, [12]
West, Andrew, [44]
West, Anne, [169], and [n.], [171]
West, Rebecca, [169], [170], [171], [362], [376]
West, William, cited, [352], [391]
West Ayton, [402]
West Drayton, [394]
West Riding, Yorkshire, [256]
Westminster, disputation of, [16 n.];
cases at, [139], [384], [386], [391], [402]
Weston, Father, [74 n.], [87], [352]
Westpenner, [388]
Westwell, Old Alice of, [59], [386]
Weyer (Wier, Wierus), Johann, [62], [79 n.], [97], [229 n.]
Whitaker, Thomas D., cited, [147 n.]
White, Joan, [391]
Whitecrosse Street, [396]
Whitgift, John, Archbishop of Canterbury, [74], [84], [88 n.]
Whitehall, [134]
Whitelocke, Bulstrode, [226], [252 n.]
Cited, [172 n.], [179 n.], [181 n.], [201 n.], [206 n.], [207 n.], [403], [407]
Wickham, William, Bishop of Lincoln, [50]
Widdowes, Thomas, cited, [366]
Widdrington, Thomas, [207 n.]
Wier, Wierus. See [Weyer]
Wigan, [156]
Wildridge, T. T., cited, [137 n.]
Wilkins, David, cited, [10 n.]
Wilkinson, Anne, [414]
Williams, Katherine, [418]
Williams, Robert, cited, [399]
Williford, Joan, [201 n.], [405]
Willimot, Joan, [119 n.], [133 n.], [399]
Wilson, Alice, [109 n.]
Wilson, Arthur, [143 n.], [172 n.], [173].
Cited, [359], [400], [403]
Wilts, [146], [211], [224], [268], [269 n.], [274], [285], [397], [398], [401], [409], [410], [412]-[414], [417]-[419]
Wimblington, [406]
Winch, Sir Humphrey, [142]
Winchester, Bishop of. See [Thomas Bilson], and [James Montague]
Winchester Park, [257 n.]
Windebank, Secretary, [152], [155]
Windsor, Dean of, and Abingdon trials, [28]
Wingerworth, [416]
Witchall, Judith, [269], [270], [415], [417]
Witchfinder, Darrel as a, [75]-[83];
Hopkins as a, [165]-[205];
a Scotch pricker as a, [206]-[208];
Ann Armstrong as a, [281]-[282]
Wolsey, Thomas, Abp. of York, [19], [59 n.]
Women, proportion of to men in indictments for witchcraft, [114];
of wives to spinsters and to widows, [114]-[115]
Wood, Anthony à, cited, [295 n.], [366]
Wood, Joan, [386]
Woodbridge, [392]
Woodbury, [417]
Woodhouse, Doctor, [257]
Woodstock, [275]
Wooler, [395]
Worcester, [7], [216], [376], [387], [406], [409], [412]
Worcester, Bishop of, [12], [340]
Worcestershire, [208 n.]
Worthington, John, cited, [180 n.]
Wright, Elizabeth, [76], [78 n.], [392]
Wright, Grace, [405]
Wright, Katherine, [75], [85], [353]
Wright, Thomas, [100], [188 n.], [376].
Cited, [2 n.], [6 n.], [7 n.], [9 n.], [19 n.], [25 n.], [95 n.], [100 n.], [147 n.], [401]
Wrottesley, Lord, [162 n.]
Wylde, John, [212]
Wynnick, John, [185 n.], [187 n.], [405]
Yarmouth, [54], [181], [183], [199], [201], [263], [406].
See also [Yarmouth, Great]
Yarmouth, Great, [389], [390], [395], [404]
York, [111], [112], [119], [129], [144], [218], [220], [229 n.], [249], [383], [389], [394], [398], [400], [413], [417]
York, Archbishop of, [83]
York Castle, [258]
York Depositions, [218 n.]
Cited, passim thereafter
Yorkshire, [52], [118], [144], [146], [149]-[150], [210], [221], [222], [223], [254], [256], [278], [352], [383], [389], [391], [393], [395]-[397], [400], [402], [406]-[411], [414]-[416]
Yorkshire Notes and Queries, cited, [257 n.]
Young, Margareta, [418]
Young, Ruth, [418]
Zurich, [14], [15 n.], [87 n.]
Zurich Letters, cited, [17 n.]
Zweibrücken, [15 n.]