[26] _Leicestershire and Rutland Notes and Queries_ (Leicester, 1891, etc.), I, 247. [27] James Raine, ed., _A Selection from the Depositions in Criminal Cases taken before the Northern Magistrates, from the Originals preserved in York Castle_ (Surtees Soc., no. 40, 1861), 28-30. Cited hereafter as _York Depositions_. [28] Yet in 1650 there had been a scare at Gateshead which cost the rate payers £2, of which a significant item was 6 d. for a "grave for a witch." _Denham Tracts_ (Folk Lore Soc.), II, 338. At Durham, in 1652, two persons were executed. Richardson, _Table Book_ (London, 1841), I, 286. [29] J. C. Cox, _Three Centuries of Derbyshire Annals_ (London, 1890), II, 88. Cox, however, thinks it probable that she was punished. [30] It is of course not altogether safe to reason from the absence of recorded executions, and it is least safe in the time of the Civil Wars and the years of recovery. [31] _Middlesex County Records_, ed. by J. C. Jeaffreson (London, 1892), III, 295; _Hist. MSS. Comm. Reports, Various_, I, 129. [32] _York Depositions_, 74. [33] _Hertfordshire County Sessions Rolls_, compiled by W. J. Hardy (Hertford, 1905), I, 126. It is not absolutely certain in the second case that the committal was to the house of correction. [34] _York Depositions_, 76-77. [35] Joseph Glanvill, _Sadducismus Triumphatus_ (London, 1681), pt. ii, 122. [36] Cotton, _Gleanings ... relative to the History of ... Exeter_, 152. [37] In the famous Warboys case of 1593 it was the witch's presence that relieved the bewitched of their ailments. [38] _York Depositions_, 64-67. [39] Glanvill, _Sadducismus Triumphatus_, pt. ii, 120-121. [40] _Hist. MSS. Comm. Reports, Various_, I, 120. [41] _York Depositions_, 69. [42] _Ibid._, 75-78. [43] See the story of Anne Bodenham. [44] Cotton, _Gleanings ... Relative to the History of ... Exeter_, 150-152. [45] James Raine, editor of _York Depositions_, writes that he has found no instance of the conviction of a witch. Preface, xxx. _The Criminal Chronology of York Castle, with a Register of Criminals capitally Convicted and Executed_ (York, 1867), contains not a single execution for witchcraft. [46] Inderwick, _Interregnum_, 188-189. [47] _Cal. St. P., Dom._, 1650, 159. [48] There are several secondary accounts of this affair. See F. Legge in _Scottish Review_, XVIII, 267. But a most important primary source is a letter from Clarke to Speaker Lenthall, published by the Scottish History Society in its volume on _Scotland and the Commonwealth_ (Edinburgh, 1895), 367-369. See also a tract in Brit. Mus. Thomason collection, _Two Terrible Sea Fights_ (London, 1652). See, too, the words of Thomas Ady, _A Candle in the Dark_, 105. [49] _Cal. St. P., Dom., 1658-1659_, 169. [50] When the council of state, however, in 1652 had issued an act of general pardon, witchcraft had been specifically reserved, along with murder, treason, piracy, etc. _Cal. St. P., Dom., 1651-1652_, 106.