A History of Witchcraft in England from 1558 to 1718Notestein, Wallace
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A History of Witchcraft in England from 1558 to 1718
Notestein, Wallace
Witchcraft -- England -- History
1607. Rye, Kent.
Two women entertained spirits, "to gain wealth."
1612. Lancaster.
John and Jane Bulcock, making to waste away. It
was testified against them that at Malking Tower they
consented to murder, but this was apparently not in the
indictment. Acquitted, but later convicted.
Alizon Device, caused to waste away.
Isabel Robey, caused illness.
1616. Enfield, Middlesex.
Agnes Berrye, laming and causing to languish.
1616. King's Lynn.
Mary Smith, hanged for causing four people to languish.
1616. Leicester.
Nine women hanged for bewitching a boy. Six more
condemned on same charge, but pardoned by command
of king.
Mixed Cases.
1607. Bakewell.
Our evidence as to the Bakewell witches is too incomplete
to assure us that they were not accused of killing
by witchcraft.
1612. Northampton.
Agnes Brown and Joane Vaughan were indicted for
bewitching Master Avery and Mistress Belcher, "together
with the body of a young child to the death."
C.--LIST OF CASES OF WITCHCRAFT, 1558-1718, WITH REFERENCES TO SOURCES
AND LITERATURE.[1]
1558. John Thirkle, "taylour, detected of conjuringe," to be
examined. _Acts of Privy Council_, n. s., VII, 6.
---- Several persons in London charged with conjuration to
be sent to the Bishop of London for examination.
_Ibid._, 22.
1559. Westminster. Certain persons examined on suspicion,
including probably Lady Frances Throgmorton. _Cal.
St. P., Dom., 1547-1580_, 142.
c. 1559. Lady Chandos's daughter accused and imprisoned
with George Throgmorton. Brit Mus., Add. MSS.,
32,091, fol. 176.
1560. Kent. Mother Buske of St. John's suspected by the
church authorities. Visitations of Canterbury in
_Archæologia Cantiana_, XXVI, 31.
1561. Coxe, alias Devon, a Romish priest, examined for magic
and conjuration, and for celebrating mass. Cal. St.
_P., Dom., 1547-1580_, 173.
---- London. Ten men brought before the queen and council
on charge of "trespass, contempt, conjuration and
sorceries." Punished with the pillory and required
to renounce such practices for the future. From an
extract quoted in Brit. Mus., Sloane MSS., 3,943,
fol. 19.
1565. Dorset. Agnes Mondaye to be apprehended for bewitching
Mistress Chettell. _Acts P. C._, n. s., VII,
200-201.
1565-1573. Durham. Jennet Pereson accused to the church
authorities. _Depositions ... from ... Durham_ (Surtees
Soc.), 99.
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