[40] Stearne, 11, speaks of 68 condemnations. On p. 14 he tells of 18 who were executed at Bury, but this may have referred to the first group only. A MS. history of Brandeston quoted in _County Folk Lore, Suffolk_ (Folk Lore Soc.), 178, says that Lowes was executed with 59 more. It is not altogether certain, however, that this testimony is independent. Nevertheless, it contains pieces of information not in the other accounts, and so cannot be ignored. [41] _Moderate Intelligencer_, September 4-11, 1645. [42] Howell, _Familiar Letters_ (I use the ed. of Joseph Jacobs, London 1890-1892) II, 506, 515, 551. The letters quoted are dated as of Feb., 1646 (1647), and Feb., 1647 (1648 of our calendar); but, as is well known, Howell's dates cannot be trusted. The first was printed in the volume of his letters published in 1647, the others in that published in 1650. [43] Joseph Hall, _Soliloquies_ (London, 1651), 52-53. [44] Thomas Ady, _Candle in the Dark_ (London, 1656), 101-105. [45] The Rev. John Worthington attended the trial. In mentioning it in his diary, he made no comment. _Diary and Correspondence of Dr. John Worthington_, I (Chetham Soc., no. 13, 1847), 22. [46] So, at least, says Whitelocke, _Memorials_, I, 487. [47] J. G. Nall, _Great Yarmouth and Lowestoft_ (London, 1867), 92, note, quotes from the Yarmouth assembly book. Nall makes very careless statements, but his quotations from the assembly book may be depended upon. [48] _Ibid._ [49] _Hist. MSS. Comm. Reports_, IX, pt. i, 320. [50] The _Collection of Modern Relations_ says that sixteen were hanged, but this compilation was published forty-seven years after the events: the number 6 had been changed to 16. One witch seems to have suffered later, see Stearne, 53. The statement about the 16 witches hanged at Yarmouth may be found in practically all accounts of English witchcraft, _e. g._, see the recent essay on Hopkins by J. O. Jones, in Seccombe's _Twelve Bad Men_, 60. They can all be traced back through various lines to this source. [51] H. Manship, _History of Great Yarmouth_, continued by C. J. Palmer (Great Yarmouth, 1854-1856), where the Yarmouth records about Hopkins are given in full. See also H. Harrod, in _Norfolk Archæology_ (Norfolk and Norwich Arch. Soc., 1847-1864), IV, 249. [52] _The Lawes against Witches and Conjuration ..._ (London, 1645), 4. J. O. Jones, in his account of Hopkins, _loc. cit._, says that "many were hanged or burned in Ipswich." I believe that no authority can be cited for this statement. [53] The first is in, _A True Relation of the Araignment of eighteene Witches_, 5. We of course do not know that the sentence was carried out. [54] The master of a ship had been "sutor" for her grandchild; _The Lawes against Witches_, 8. She was a "professour of Religion, a constant hearer of the Word for these many years." [55] _Ibid._ [56] _I. e., The Lawes against Witches_ (London, 1645). See below, appendix A, § 4.