A History of Witchcraft in England from 1558 to 1718 Part 37

1601. Bishop Burton, York. Two women apprehended for bewitching a boy. Brit. Mus., Add. MSS., 32,496, fol. 42 b.

1601. Middles.e.x. Richard Nelson of St. Katharine's arraigned.

_Middles.e.x County Records_, I, 260.

1601. Nottingham. Ellen Bark presented at the sessions.

_Records of the Borough of Nottingham_, IV, 260-261.

1602. Middles.e.x. Elizabeth Roberts of West Drayton indicted on three charges, acquitted. _Middles.e.x County Records_, I, 212.

1602. Saffron Walden, Ess.e.x. Alice Bentley tried before the quarter sessions. Case probably dismissed. Darrel, _A Survey of Certaine Dialogical Discourses_, 54.

temp. Eliz. Northfleet, Kent. Pardon to Alice S. for bewitching a cow and pigs. Bodleian, Rawlinson MSS., C 404, fol. 205 b.

temp. Eliz. Woman condemned to prison and pillory. Gifford, _Dialogue concerning Witches_ (1603), L 4 verso.

temp. Eliz. Cambridge. Two women perhaps hanged at this time. Henry More, _Antidote to Atheisme_, III. But see 1605, Cambridge.

temp. Eliz. Mother W. of W. H. said to have been executed.

Gifford, _Dialogue concerning Witches_, D 4 verso--E.

temp. Eliz. Mother W. of Great T. said to have been hanged.

_Ibid._, C 4.

temp. Eliz. Woman said to have been hanged. _Ibid._, L 3-L 3 verso.

temp. Eliz. Two women said to have been hanged. _Ibid._, I 3 verso.

1602-1603. London. Elizabeth Jackson sentenced, for bewitching Mary Glover, to four appearances in the pillory and a year in prison. John Swan, _A True and Breife Report of Mary Glover's Vexation_; E. Jorden, _A briefe discourse of ... the Suffocation of the Mother_, 1603; also a MS., _Marie Glover's late woefull case ... upon occasion of Doctor Jordens discourse of the Mother, wherein hee covertly taxeth, first the Phisitiones which judged her sicknes a vexation of Sathan and consequently the sentence of Lawe and proceeding against the Witche who was discovered to be a meanes thereof, with A defence of the truthe against D. J. his scandalous Impugnations_, by Stephen Bradwell, 1603. Brit. Mus., Sloane MSS., 831. An account by Lewis Hughes, appended to his _Certaine Grievances_ (1641-2), is quoted by Sinclar, _Satan's Invisible World Discovered_ (Edinburgh, 1685), 95-100; and hence Burton (_The Kingdom of Darkness_) and Hutchinson (_Historical Essay concerning Witchcraft_) a.s.sign a wrong date.

1603. Yorks.h.i.+re. Mary Pannel executed for killing in 1593.

Mayhall, _Annals of Yorks.h.i.+re_ (London, 1878), I, 58. See also E. Fairfax, _A Discourse of Witchcraft_, 179-180.

1603. Great Yarmouth, Norfolk. Ales Moore in gaol on suspicion.

C. J. Palmer, _History of Great Yarmouth_, II, 70.

1604. Wooler, Northumberland. Katherine Thompson and Anne Nevelson proceeded against by the Vicar General of the Bishop of Durham. Richardson, _Table Book_, I, 245; J. Raine, _York Depositions_, 127, note.

1605. Cambridge. A witch alarm. Letters of Sir Thomas Lake to Viscount Cranbourne, January 18, 1604/5, and of Sir Edward c.o.ke to Viscount Craybourne, Jan. 29, 1604/5, both in Brit. Mus., Add. MSS., 6177, fol. 403. This probably is the affair referred to in _Cal. St. P., Dom._, 1603-1610, 218. Nor is it impossible that Henry More had this affair in mind when he told of two women who were executed in Cambridge in the time of Elizabeth (see above, temp.

Eliz., Cambridge) and was two or three years astray in his reckoning.

1605. Doncaster, York. Jone Jurdie of Rossington examined.

Depositions in _Gentleman's Magazine_, 1857, pt. I, 593-595.

1606. Louth, Lincolns.h.i.+re. "An Indictment against a Witche."

R. W. Goulding, _Louth Old Corporation Records_ (Louth, 1891), 54.

1606. Hertford. Johanna Harrison and her daughter said to have been executed. This rests upon the pamphlet _The Most Cruell and b.l.o.o.d.y Murther_, ... See appendix A, -- 3.

1606. Richmond, Yorks.h.i.+re. Ralph Milner ordered by quarter sessions to make his submission at Mewkarr Church. _North Riding Record Society_, I, 58.

1607. Middles.e.x. Alice Bradley of Hampstead arraigned on four bills, acquitted. _Middles.e.x County Records_, II, 8.

1607. Middles.e.x. Rose Mersam of Whitecrosse Street acquitted.

_Ibid._, II, 20.

1607. Bakewell, Derby. Several women said to have been executed here. See Robert Simpson, _A Collection of Fragments ill.u.s.trative of the History and Antiquities of Derby_ (Derby, 1826), 90; Glover, _History of Derby_ (ed. Thos. n.o.ble, 1833), pt. I, vol. II, p. 613; J. C. c.o.x, _Three Centuries of Derbys.h.i.+re Annals_, II, 88. For what purports to be a detailed account of the affair see W. Andrews, _Bygone Derbys.h.i.+re_, 180-184.

1607-11. Rye, Suss.e.x. Two women condemned by local authorities probably discharged upon interference from London. _Hist. MSS. Comm. Reports_, XIII, pt. 4, 136-137, 139-140, 147-148.

1608. Simon Read pardoned. _Cal. St. P., Dom._, 1603-1610, 406.

1610. Norfolk. Christian[a] Weech, pardoned in 1604, now again pardoned. _Ibid._, 96, 598. Was this the Christiana Weekes of Cleves Pepper, Wilts, who in 1651 and 1654 was again and again accused of telling where lost goods were? See _Hist. MSS. Comm.

Reports, Various_, I, 120.

1610. Middles.e.x. Agnes G.o.dfrey of Enfield, with four bills against her, acquitted on three, found guilty of killing.

File containing sentence lost. _Middles.e.x County Records_, II, 57-58. Acquitted again in 1621. _Ibid._, 79, 80.

1610. Leicesters.h.i.+re. Depositions taken by the sheriff concerning Randall and other witches. _Hist. MSS.

Comm. Reports_, XII, pt. 4 (_MSS. of the Duke of Rutland_), I, 422.

1611. Carnarvon. Story of witchcraft "committed on six young maids." Privy Council orders the Bishop of Bangor and the a.s.size judges to look into it. _Cal.

St. P., Dom., 1611-1618_, 53.

1611. Wm. Bate, indicted twenty years before for practising invocation, etc., for finding treasure, pardoned. _Ibid._, 29.

1611. Thirsk, Yorks.h.i.+re. Elizabeth Cooke presented by quarter sessions for slight crime related to witchcraft.

_North Riding Record Soc._, I, 213.

1612. Lancaster. Margaret Pearson, who in 1612 was sentenced to a year's imprisonment and the pillory, had been twice tried before, once for killing, and once for bewitching a neighbor. Potts, _Wonderfull Discoverie of Witches in the countie of Lancaster_ (Chetham Soc., 1845).

1612. Lancaster. Ten persons of Pendle sentenced to death, one to a year's imprisonment; eight acquitted including three women of Salmesbury. Potts, _Wonderfull Discoverie of Witches_, Chetham Soc., 1845.

But _cf._ Cooper's words (_Mystery of Witchcraft, 1617_), 15.

1612. York. Jennet Preston sentenced to death. Potts, _Wonderfull Discoverie of Witches_.

1612. Northampton. At least four women and one man hanged. Many others accused, one of whom died in gaol. _The Witches of Northamptons.h.i.+re_, 1612; also Brit Mus., Sloane MSS., 972, fol. 7.

1613. Bedford. Mother Sutton and Mary Sutton, her daughter, of Milton Miles hanged. _Witches Apprehended, Examined and Executed_, 1613. See app. A, -- 3, for mention of another pamphlet on the same subject, _A Booke of the Wytches lately condemned and executed_. See also _The Wonderful Discoverie of ...

Margaret and Phillip Flower_, preface, and Richard Bernard, _Guide to Grand Jurymen_, III.

1613. Wilts. Margaret Pilton of Warminster, accused at quarter sessions, probably released. _Hist. MSS.

Comm. Reports, Various_, I, 86-87.

1614. Middles.e.x. Dorothy Magick of St. Andrew's in Holborn sentenced to a year's imprisonment and four appearances in the pillory. _Middles.e.x County Records_, II, 91, 218.

1615. Middles.e.x. Joan Hunt of Hampstead, who had been, along with her husband, twice tried and acquitted, and whose accuser had been ordered to ask forgiveness, sentenced to be hanged. _Middles.e.x County Records_, II, lii, 95, 110, 217-218.

1616. Leicester. Nine women hanged on the accusation of a boy. Six others accused, one of whom died in prison, five released after the king's examination of the boy. Robert Heyrick's letters from Leicester, July 16 and October 15, 1616, reprinted in the _Annual Register_, 1800, p. 405. See also _Cal. S. P., Dom., 1611-1618_, 398, and William Kelly, _Royal Progresses in Leicester_ (Leicester, 1855), pt. II, 15.