[36] See above, note 21.
[37] North Riding Record Soc., Quarter Sessions Records (London, 1883, etc.), III, 181.
[38] Two of them, however, were issued to the same woman, one in 1604 and one in 1610.
[39] Hist. MSS. Comm. Reports, XIII, 4 (Rye), pp. 136-137, 139-140, 144, 147-148.
[40] The term "spinster" was sometimes used of a married woman.
[41] Cal. St. P., Dom., 1619-1623, 125, Chamberlain to Carleton, February 26, 1620: "Peacock, a schoolmaster, committed to the Tower and tortured for practising sorcery upon the King, to infatuate him in Sir Thos. Lake's business." This is one of those rare cases in which we know certainly that torture was used.
[42] Sir Thomas Lake to Viscount Cranbourne, January 20, 1604, Brit. Mus., Add. MSS., 6177, fol. 403.
[43] Cal. St. P., Dom., 1623-1625, 474, 485, 497.
[44] T. B. and T. J. Howell, State Trials (London, 1809-1818), II.
[45] See Potts, O 3 verso.