A History of Witchcraft in England from 1558 to 1718 Part 42

Inderwick.

1670. Somerset. Anne Slade acquitted on two indictments.

Inderwick.

1670. Bucks. Ann Clarke reprieved. _Cal. St. P., Dom., 1670_, 388.

1671. Devons.h.i.+re. Johanna Elford acquitted. Inderwick.

1671. Devons.h.i.+re. Margaret Heddon acquitted on two indictments.

Inderwick.

1671. Falmouth. Several witches acquitted. _Cal. St. P., Dom., 1671_, 105, 171. Perhaps identical with the three, two men and a woman, mentioned by Inderwick as acquitted in Cornwall.

1672. Somerset. Margaret Stevens acquitted on two indictments.

Inderwick.

1672. Devons.h.i.+re. Phelippa Bruen acquitted on four indictments.

Inderwick.

1672. Wilts. Elizabeth Mills acquitted on two indictments.

Inderwick.

1672. Wilts. Elizabeth Peac.o.c.k, who had been acquitted two years before, acquitted on five indictments. Judith Witch.e.l.l acquitted on two, found guilty on a third.

She and Ann Tilling sentenced to execution. They must have been reprieved. Inderwick; _Gentleman's Magazine_, 1832, pt. II, p. 489-492.

1673. Yorks.h.i.+re, Northumberland, and Durham. At least twenty-three women and six men accused to various justices of the peace by Ann Armstrong, who confessed to being present at witch meetings, and who acted as a witch discoverer. Some of those whom she accused were accused by others. Margaret Milburne, whom she seems not to have mentioned, also accused, _York Depositions_, 191-202.

1674. Northampton. Ann Foster said to have been hanged for destroying sheep and burning barns by witchcraft.

_A Full and True Relation of The Tryal, Condemnation, and Execution of Ann Foster_ (1674).

1674. Middles.e.x. Elizabeth Row of Hackney held in bail for her appearance at Quarter Sessions. _Middles.e.x County Records_, IV, 42-43.

1674. Southton, Somerset. John and Agnes Knipp acquitted.

Inderwick.

1674? (see above, p. 269, note). Salisbury. Woman acquitted, but kept in gaol. North, _Life of North_, 130, 131.

1674-75. Lancas.h.i.+re. Joseph Hinchcliffe and his wife bound over to appear at the a.s.sizes. He committed suicide and his wife died soon after. _York Depositions_, 208; Oliver Heywood's _Diary_ (1881-1885), I, 362.

1675. Southton, Somerset. Martha Rylens acquitted on five indictments. Inderwick.

1676. Devons.h.i.+re. Susannah Daye acquitted. Inderwick.

1676. Cornwall. Mary Clarkson acquitted. Inderwick.

c. 1679. Ely, Cambridges.h.i.+re. Witch condemned, but reprieved.

Hutchinson, _Historical Essay concerning Witchcraft_, 41.

c. 1680. Somerset. Anna Rawlins acquitted. Inderwick.

c. 1680. Derbys.h.i.+re. Elizabeth Hole of Wingerworth accused and committed for charging a baronet with witchcraft.

J. C. c.o.x, _Three Centuries of Derbys.h.i.+re Annals_, II, 90.

1680. Yorks.h.i.+re, Elizabeth Fenwick of Longwitton acquitted.

_York Depositions_, 247.

1682. London. Jane Kent acquitted. _A Full and True Account ... but more especially the Tryall of Jane Kent for Witchcraft_ (1682).

1682. Surrey. Joan b.u.t.ts acquitted. _Strange and Wonderfull News from Yowell in Surry_ (1681); _An Account of the Tryal and Examination of Joan Buts_ (1682).

1682. Devons.h.i.+re. Temperance Lloyd acquitted on one indictment, found guilty on another. Susanna Edwards and Mary Trembles found guilty. All three executed.

Inderwick; North, _Life of North_, 130; see also app. A, -- 6, above.

1682-88. Northumberland. Margaret Stothard of Edlingham accused. E. Mackenzie, _History of Northumberland_, II, 33-36.

1683. London. Jane Dodson acquitted. _An Account of the Whole Proceedings at the Sessions Holden at the Sessions House in the Old Baily ..._ (1683).

1683. Somerset. Elenora, Susannah, and Marie Harris, and Anna Clarke acquitted. Inderwick.

1684. Devons.h.i.+re. Alicia Molland found guilty. Inderwick.

1685. Devons.h.i.+re. Jane Vallet acquitted on three indictments.

Inderwick.

temp. Carol. II. Devons.h.i.+re. Agnes Ryder of Woodbury accused, probably committed. A. H. A. Hamilton, _Quarter Sessions chiefly in Devon_ (London, 1878), 220.

temp. Carol. II. Ipswich, Suffolk. A woman in prison. William Drage, _Daimonomageia_, 11.

temp. Carol. II. Herts. Two suspected witches of Baldock ducked. _Ibid._, 40.

temp. Carol. II. St. Albans, Herts. Man and woman imprisoned.

Woman ducked. _Ibid._

temp. Carol. II. Taunton Dean, Somerset. Man acquitted.

North, _Life of North_, 131.

1685-86. Malmesbury, Wilts. Fourteen persons accused, among whom were the three women, Peac.o.c.k, Tilling and Witch.e.l.l, who had been tried in 1672. Eleven set at liberty; Peac.o.c.k, Tilling and Witch.e.l.l kept in prison awhile, probably released eventually. _Gentleman's Magazine_, 1832, pt. I, 489-492.

1686. Somerset. Honora Phippan acquitted on two indictments.

Inderwick.

1686. Cornwall. Jane Noal, alias Nickless, alias Nicholas, and Betty Seeze committed to Launceston gaol for bewitching a fifteen-year-old boy. We know from Inderwick that Jane Nicholas was acquitted. _A True Account of ... John Tonken of Pensans in Cornwall_ (1686).

1687. York. Witch condemned, probably reprieved. _Memoirs and Travels of Sir John Reresby_ (London, 1812), 329.

1687. Dorset. Dewnes Knumerton and Elizabeth Hengler acquitted.

Inderwick. For examination of first see Roberts, _Southern Counties_, 525-526.

1687. Wilts. M. Parle acquitted. Inderwick.