[46] See Hist. MSS. Comm. Reports, XIII, 4 (Rye), pp. 136-137, 139-140, 144, 147-148.
[47] See Alexander Roberts, A Treatise of Witchcraft ... (London, 1616), dedicated to the "Maior and Aldermen."
[48] M. A. Richardson, Table Book (London, 1841-1846), I, 245.
[49] North Riding Record Soc., Quarter Sessions Records, I, 58.
[50] "... neither had they authoritie to compell her to goe without a Constable."
[51] Brit. Mus., Add. MSS., 36,674, fol. 148. This is a brief description of "how to discover a witch." It recommends the water ordeal and cites the case of Mr. Enger and Mary Sutton.
[52] In the case of three of these four we know only that they were sentenced.
[53] Before the Flower case at Lincoln came the Willimot-Baker cases at Leicester. The Bedford trial resembled much the Northampton trial of the previous year.