[8] Webster, op. cit., 277.
[9] The boy, in his first examinations at London, said he had made up the story himself.
[10] It is a curious thing that one of the justices of the peace was John Starchie, who had been one of the bewitched boys of the Starchie family at Cleworth in 1597. See above, ch. IV. See Baines, Lancaster, ed. of 1868-1870, I, 204.
[11] This incident is related by Webster, op. cit., 276-278. Webster tells us that the boy was yet living when he wrote, and that he himself had heard the whole story from his mouth more than once. He appends to his volume the original deposition of the lad (at Padiham, February 10 1633/4).
[12] These are given in the same deposition, but the deposition probably represents the boy's statement at the assizes.
[13] The father had been a witness at the Lancashire trials in 1612. See Baines, Lancaster, ed. of 1868-1870, I, 204-205.
[14] That is, of course, so far as we have evidence. It is a little dangerous to hold to absolute negatives.
[15] Webster, op. cit., 277. Pelham on May 16, 1634, wrote: "It is said that 19 are condemned and ... 60 already discovered." Cal. St. P., Dom., 1634-1635, 26.
[16] It had been reported in London that witches had raised a storm from which Charles had suffered at sea. Pelham's letter, ibid.
[17] Ibid., 77. See also Council Register (MS.), Charles I, vol. IV, p. 658.