1577. Seaford, Sussex. Joan Wood presented by the grand jury. M. A. Lower, "Memorials of Seaford," in Sussex Archæological Soc., _Collections_, VII, 98. ---- Middlesex. Helen Beriman of Laleham acquitted. _Middlesex County Records_, I, 103. ---- Essex. Henry Chittam of Much Barfield to be tried for coining false money and conjuring. _Acts P. C._, n. s., IX, 391; X, 8, 62. 1578. Prescall, Sanford, and "one Emerson, a preiste," suspected of conjuration against the queen. The first two committed. _Id._, X, 382; see also 344, 373. ---- Evidence of the use of sorcery against the queen discovered. _Cal. St. P., Spanish, 1568-1579_, 611; see also note to Ben Jonson's _Masque of Queenes_ (London, Shakespeare Soc., 1848), 71. ---- Sussex. "One Tree, bailiff of Lewes, and one Smith of Chinting" to be examined. _Acts P. C._, n. s., X, 220. 1579. Chelmsford, Essex. Three women executed. Mother Staunton released because "no manslaughter objected against her." _A Detection of damnable driftes._ ---- Abingdon, Berks. Four women hanged; at least two others and probably more were apprehended. _A Rehearsall both straung and true of ... acts committed by Elisabeth Stile ..._; _Acts P. C._, n. s., XI, 22; Scot, _Discoverie of Witchcraft_, 10, 51, 543. ---- Certain persons suspected of sorcery to be examined by the Bishop of London. _Acts P. C._, n. s., XI, 36. ---- Salop, Worcester, and Montgomery. Samuel Cocwra paid for "searching for certen persons suspected for conjuracion." _Ibid._, 292. ---- Southwark. Simon Pembroke, a conjurer, brought to the parish church of St. Saviour's to be tried by the "ordinarie judge for those parties," but falls dead before the opening of the trial. Holinshed, _Chronicles_ (ed. of 1586-1587), III, 1271. ---- Southampton. Widow Walker tried by the leet jury, outcome unknown. J. S. Davies, _History of Southampton_ (Southampton, 1883), 236. 1579-1580. Shropshire. Mother Garve punished in the corn market. Owen and Blakeway, _History of Shrewsbury_, I, 562. 1580. Stanhope, Durham. Ann Emerson accused by the church officials. _Injunctions ... of ... Bishop of Durham_ (Surtees Soc.), 126. ---- Bucks. John Coleman and his wife examined by four justices of the peace at the command of the privy council. They were probably released. _Acts P. C._, n. s., XI, 427; XII, 29. ---- Kent. Several persons to be apprehended for conjuration. _Id._, XII, 21-23. ---- Somerset. Henry Harrison and Thomas Wadham, suspected of conjuration, to appear before the privy council. _Ibid._, 22-23.