[19] For an account of this case see Francis Hutchinson, Historical Essay on Witchcraft (London, 1718), 43. Hutchinson had made an investigation of the case when in Bury, and he had also Holt's notes of the trial.
[20] Hutchinson had Holt's notes on this case, as on the preceding; ibid., 45. Blackburne's letter is printed in Notes and Queries, 1st series, XI, 498-499, and reprinted in Brand, Popular Antiquities (1905), II, 648-649.
[21] See The Tryal of Richard Hathaway, ... For endeavouring to take away the Life of Sarah Morduck, For being a Witch ... (London, 1702), and A Full and True Account of the Apprehending and Taking of Mrs. Sarah Moordike, ... accused ... for having Bewitched one Richard Hetheway ...; see also Hutchinson, op. cit., 224-228.
[22] Ibid., 226.
[23] A somewhat similar case at Hammersmith met with the same treatment, if the pamphlet account may be trusted. Susanna Fowles pretended to be possessed in such a way that she could not use the name of God or Christ. The application of a red-hot iron to her head in the midst of her fits was drastic but effectual. She cried out "Oh Lord," and so proved herself a "notorious Lyar." She was sent to the house of correction, where, reports the unfeeling pamphleteer, "She is now beating hemp." Another pamphlet, however, gives a very different version. According to this account, Susan, under Papist influences, pretended to be possessed in such a way that she was continually blaspheming. She was indicted for blasphemy, fined, and sentenced to stand in the pillory. (For the graphic titles of these contradictory pamphlets and of a folio broadside on the same subject, see appendix A, § 7).
[24] Probably not by any court verdict, but through the privy council.
[25] See J. C. Cox, Three Centuries of Derbyshire Annals (London, 1890), II, 90.
[26] Jane Wenham (broadside); see also A Full and Impartial Account of the Discovery of Sorcery and Witchcraft, Practis'd by Jane Wenham ... (London, 1712).
[27] This narrative is given in great detail in A Full and Impartial Account. It is of course referred to in nearly all the other pamphlets.
[28] Jane Wenham (broadside) see also A Full and Impartial Account, 12.