[151] A Tryal of Witches ... at Bury St. Edmonds ... 1664, London, 1682, pp. 18, 20, 23, 26, 29, 34, 38 (Sir Matthew Hale’s case); York Depositions, pp. 124-125.
[152] Glanvill, ed. 1682, pp. 103-104, 109 (ed. 1726, p. 291).
[153] Calendar of State Papers, Domestic Series, 1667-1668, p. 4; York Depositions, p. 154.
[154] York Depositions, p. 176.
[155] Ann Tilling’s case, Gentleman’s Magazine for 1832, Part I, CII, 489 ff.; Inderwick, Side-Lights on the Stuarts, 2d ed., 1891, pp. 171-172, 191.
[156] York Depositions, pp. 192, 202-203.
[157] The same, p. 247.
[158] Margaret Stothard’s case, The Monthly Chronicle of North-Country Lore and Legend, [II] 1888, p. 395.
[160] F. Hutchinson, Historical Essay, 1718, pp. 44-45 (ed. 1720, pp. 61-62). There is a very interesting account of the second of these trials (that of Elizabeth Horner or Turner) in a letter to the Bishop of Exeter from Archdeacon (?) Blackburne, who attended at the bishop’s request. This letter, dated Sept. 14, 1696, has been printed by Mr. T. Quiller-Couch in Notes and Queries, 1st Series, XI, 498-499, and again in Brand’s Popular Antiquities, ed. Hazlitt, III, 103-104. The spectral evidence comes out clearly. Of Holt, Blackburne remarks: “My Lord Chief Justice by his questions and manner of summing up the Evidence seem’d to me to believe nothing of witchery at all.”