1566. Chelmsford, Essex. Mother Waterhouse hanged; Alice Chandler hanged, probably at this time; Elizabeth Francis probably acquitted. _The examination and confession of certaine Wytches at Chensforde._ For the cases of Elizabeth Francis and Alice Chandler see also _A detection of damnable driftes,_ A iv, A v, verso. ---- Essex. "Boram's wief" probably examined by the archdeacon. W. H. Hale, _A Series of Precedents and Proceedings in Criminal Causes, 1475-1640, extracted from the Act Books of Ecclesiastical Courts in the Diocese of London_ (London, 1847), 147. 1569. Lyme, Dorset. Ellen Walker accused. Roberts, _Southern Counties_, 523. 1570. Essex. Malter's wife of Theydon Mount and Anne Vicars of Navestock examined by Sir Thomas Smith. John Strype, _Life of Sir Thomas Smith_ (ed. of Oxford, 1820), 97-100. 1570-1571. Canterbury. Several witches imprisoned. Mother Dungeon presented by the grand jury. _Hist. MSS. Comm. Reports_, IX, pt. 1, 156 b; Wm. Welfitt, "Civis," _Minutes collected from the Ancient Records of Canterbury_ (Canterbury, 1801-1802), no. VI. ---- ---- Folkestone, Kent. Margaret Browne, accused of "unlawful practices," banished from town for seven years, and to be whipped at the cart's tail if found within six or seven miles of town. S. J. Mackie, _Descriptive and Historical Account of Folkestone_ (Folkestone, 1883), 319. 1574. Westwell, Kent. "Old Alice" [Norrington?] arraigned and convicted. Reginald Scot, _Discoverie of Witchcraft_, 130-131. ---- Middlesex. Joan Ellyse of Westminster convicted on several indictments for witchcraft and sentenced to be hanged. _Middlesex County Records_, I, 84. c. 1574. Jane Thorneton accused by Rachel Pinder, who however confessed to fraud. _Discloysing of a late counterfeyted possession._ 1575. Burntwood, Staffordshire. Mother Arnold hanged at Barking. From the title of a pamphlet mentioned by Lowndes: _The Examination and Confession of a notorious Witch named Mother Arnold, alias Whitecote, alias Glastonbury, at the Assise of Burntwood in July, 1574; who was hanged for Witchcraft at Barking, 1575._ Mrs. Linton, Witch Stories, 153, says that many were hanged at this time, but I cannot find authority for the statement. ---- Middlesex. Elizabeth Ducke of Harmondsworth acquitted. _Middlesex County Records_, I, 94. ---- Great Yarmouth, Norfolk. Katharine Smythe acquitted. Henry Harrod, "Notes on the Records of the Corporation of Great Yarmouth," in _Norfolk Archæology_, IV, 248.