[39] After her release she was taken under the protection of Colonel Plummer of Gilston, who had followed the trial. Hutchinson, Historical Essay on Witchcraft, 130. On his death she was supported by the Earl and Countess of Cowper, and lived until 1730. Robert Clutterbuck, History and Antiquities of the County of Hertford (London, 1815-1827), II, 461, note.
[40] Witchcraft Farther Displayed, introduction.
[41] See the dedication to Justice Powell in The Case of the Hertfordshire Witchcraft Consider'd (London, 1712).
[42] A Full Confutation of Witchcraft: More particularly of the Depositions against Jane Wenham.... In a Letter from a Physician in Hertfordshire, to his Friend in London (London, 1712).
[43] The Case of the Hertfordshire Witchcraft Consider'd. For more as to these discussions see below, ch. XIV.
[44] It seems, however, that the efforts of Lady Frances —— to bring about Jane's execution in spite of the judge were feared by Jane's friends. See The Impossibility of Witchcraft, ... In which the Depositions against Jane Wenham ... are Confuted ... (London, 1712), 2d ed. (in the Bodleian), 36.
[45] See Brit. Mus., Add. MSS., 35,838, f. 404.
[46] They could "get no blood of them by Scratching so they used great pins and such Instruments for that purpose."
[47] See Hist. MSS. Comm. Reports, Various, I, 160; see also C. J. Bilson, County Folk Lore, Leicestershire and Rutland (Folk Lore Soc., 1895), 51-52.
[48] The Case of Witchcraft at Coggeshall, Essex, in the year 1699. Being the narrative of the Rev. J. Boys ... (London, 1901).