"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]