A History of Witchcraft in England from 1558 to 1718 Part 35
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---- Suss.e.x. "One Tree, bailiff of Lewes, and one Smith of Chinting" to be examined. _Acts P. C._, n. s., X, 220.
1579. Chelmsford, Ess.e.x. Three women executed. Mother Staunton released because "no manslaughter objected against her." _A Detection of d.a.m.nable driftes._
---- Abingdon, Berks. Four women hanged; at least two others and probably more were apprehended. _A Rehearsall both straung and true of ... acts committed by Elisabeth Stile ..._; _Acts P. C._, n. s., XI, 22; Scot, _Discoverie of Witchcraft_, 10, 51, 543.
---- Certain persons suspected of sorcery to be examined by the Bishop of London. _Acts P. C._, n. s., XI, 36.
---- Salop, Worcester, and Montgomery. Samuel Cocwra paid for "searching for certen persons suspected for conjuracion." _Ibid._, 292.
---- Southwark. Simon Pembroke, a conjurer, brought to the parish church of St. Saviour's to be tried by the "ordinarie judge for those parties," but falls dead before the opening of the trial. Holinshed, _Chronicles_ (ed. of 1586-1587), III, 1271.
---- Southampton. Widow Walker tried by the leet jury, outcome unknown. J. S. Davies, _History of Southampton_ (Southampton, 1883), 236.
1579-1580. Shrops.h.i.+re. Mother Garve punished in the corn market. Owen and Blakeway, _History of Shrewsbury_, I, 562.
1580. Stanhope, Durham. Ann Emerson accused by the church officials. _Injunctions ... of ... Bishop of Durham_ (Surtees Soc.), 126.
---- Bucks. John Coleman and his wife examined by four justices of the peace at the command of the privy council. They were probably released. _Acts P. C._, n.
s., XI, 427; XII, 29.
---- Kent. Several persons to be apprehended for conjuration.
_Id._, XII, 21-23.
---- Somerset. Henry Harrison and Thomas Wadham, suspected of conjuration, to appear before the privy council. _Ibid._, 22-23.
---- Somerset. Henry Fize of Westpenner, detected in conjuration, brought before the privy council. _Ibid._, 34.
---- Ess.e.x. "Sondery persones" charged with sorceries and conjuration. _Acts P. C._, XII, 29, 34.
1581. Randoll and four others accused for "conjuring to know where treasure was hid in the earth." Randoll and three others found guilty. Randoll alone executed. Holinshed, _Chronicles_ (London, 1808), IV, 433.
1581. Padstow, Cornwall. Anne Piers accused of witchcraft.
Examination of witnesses. _Cal. St. P., Dom., 1581-1590_, 29. See also _Acts P. C._, n. s., XIII, 228.
1581. Rochester, Kent. Margaret Simmons acquitted. Scot, _Discoverie_, 5.
1581-82. Colchester, Ess.e.x. Annis Herd accused before the "spiritual Courte." _Witches taken at St. Oses_, 1582.
1582. St. Osyth, Ess.e.x. Sixteen accused, one of whom was a man. How many were executed uncertain. It seems to have been a tradition that thirteen were executed.
Scot wrote that seventeen or eighteen were executed.
_Witches taken at St. Oses_, 1582; Scot, _Discoverie_, 543.
1582 (or before). "T. E., Maister of Art and practiser both of physicke, and also in times past, of certeine vaine sciences," condemned for conjuration, but reprieved.
Scot, _Discoverie_, 466-469.
1582. Middles.e.x. Margery Androwes of Clerkenwell held in bail. _Middles.e.x County Records_, I, 133.
1582. Durham. Alison Lawe of Hart compelled to do penance.
_Denham Tracts_ (Folk-Lore Soc.), II, 332.
1582. Kent. Goodwife Swane of St. John's suspected by the church authorities. _Archaeol. Cant._, XXVI, 19.
1582-83. Nottingham. A certain Batte examined before the "Meare" of Nottingham. _Hist. MSS. Comm. Reports_, XII, pt. 4, 147.
1582-83. King's Lynn. Mother Gabley probably hanged. Excerpt from parish register of Wells in Norfolk, in the _Gentleman's Magazine_, LXII (1792), 904.
1583. Kingston-upon-Hull, Yorks.h.i.+re. Three women tried, one sentenced to a year's imprisonment and the pillory.
J. J. Sheahan, _History of Kingston-upon-Hull_ (London, 1864), 86.
1583. Colchester, Ess.e.x. Two women sentenced to a year in prison and to four appearances in the pillory. E.
L. Cutts, Colchester (London, 1888), 151. Henry Harrod, _Report on the Records of Colchester_ (Colchester, 1865), 17; App., 14.
1583. St. Peter's, Kent. Ellen Bamfield suspected by the church authorities. _Archaeol. Cant._, XXVI, 45.
1584. Great Yarmouth, Norfolk. Elizabeth Butcher (punished before) and Joan Lingwood condemned to be hanged. C. J. Palmer, _History of Great Yarmouth_, I, 273.
1584. Staffords.h.i.+re. An indictment preferred against Jeffrey Leach. _Cal. St. P., Dom., 1581-1590_, 206.
1584. "The oulde witche of Ramsbury" and several other "oulde witches and sorcerers" suspected. _Cal. St.
P., Dom., 1581-1590_, 220.
1584. York. Woman, indicted for witchcraft and "high treason touching the supremacy," condemned. _Cal.
St. P., Dom., Add. 1580-1625_, 120-121.
1584. Middles.e.x. Elizabeth Bartell of St. Martin's-in-the-Fields acquitted. _Middles.e.x County Records_, I, 145.
1585. Middles.e.x. Margaret Hackett of Stanmore executed.
From t.i.tles of two pamphlets mentioned by Lowndes, _The severall Facts of Witchcrafte approved on Margaret Haskett ..._ 1585, and _An Account of Margaret Hacket, a notorious Witch ..._ 1585.
1585. Middles.e.x. Joan Barringer of "Harroweelde" (Harrow Weald) acquitted. _Middles.e.x County Records_, I, 157.
1585. Dorset. John Meere examined. _Cal. St. P., Dom., 1581-90_, 246-247.
1585-86. Alnwick, Northumberland. Two men and two women committed to prison on suspicion of killing a sheriff.
_Denham Tracts_, II, 332; _Cal. S. P., Dom., Add. 1580-1625_, 168.
1586. Eckington, Derbys.h.i.+re. Margaret Roper accused. Discharged.
Harsnett, _Discovery of the Fraudulent Practises of John Darrel_, 310.
1586. Faversham, Kent. Jone Cason [Carson] tried before the mayor, executed. Holinshed, _Chronicles_ (1586-1587), III, 1560.
1587. Great Yarmouth, Norfolk. Helena Gill indicted. C. J.
Palmer, _History of Great Yarmouth_, 273. H. Harrod in _Norfolk Archaeology_, IV, 248, a.s.signs this to 1597, but it is probably a mistake.
c. 1588. A woman at R. H. said to have been imprisoned and to have died before the a.s.sizes. Gifford, _Dialogue_ (London, 1603), C.
1589. Chelmsford, Ess.e.x. Three women hanged. _The apprehension and confession of three notorious Witches._
1589. Several persons to be examined about their dealings in conjuration with an Italian friar. _Acts P. C._, n. s., XVII, 31-32.
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