---- Somerset. Henry Fize of Westpenner, detected in conjuration, brought before the privy council. _Ibid._, 34. ---- Essex. "Sondery persones" charged with sorceries and conjuration. _Acts P. C._, XII, 29, 34. 1581. Randoll and four others accused for "conjuring to know where treasure was hid in the earth." Randoll and three others found guilty. Randoll alone executed. Holinshed, _Chronicles_ (London, 1808), IV, 433. 1581. Padstow, Cornwall. Anne Piers accused of witchcraft. Examination of witnesses. _Cal. St. P., Dom., 1581-1590_, 29. See also _Acts P. C._, n. s., XIII, 228. 1581. Rochester, Kent. Margaret Simmons acquitted. Scot, _Discoverie_, 5. 1581-82. Colchester, Essex. Annis Herd accused before the "spiritual Courte." _Witches taken at St. Oses_, 1582. 1582. St. Osyth, Essex. Sixteen accused, one of whom was a man. How many were executed uncertain. It seems to have been a tradition that thirteen were executed. Scot wrote that seventeen or eighteen were executed. _Witches taken at St. Oses_, 1582; Scot, _Discoverie_, 543. 1582 (or before). "T. E., Maister of Art and practiser both of physicke, and also in times past, of certeine vaine sciences," condemned for conjuration, but reprieved. Scot, _Discoverie_, 466-469. 1582. Middlesex. Margery Androwes of Clerkenwell held in bail. _Middlesex County Records_, I, 133. 1582. Durham. Alison Lawe of Hart compelled to do penance. _Denham Tracts_ (Folk-Lore Soc.), II, 332. 1582. Kent. Goodwife Swane of St. John's suspected by the church authorities. _Archæol. Cant._, XXVI, 19. 1582-83. Nottingham. A certain Batte examined before the "Meare" of Nottingham. _Hist. MSS. Comm. Reports_, XII, pt. 4, 147. 1582-83. King's Lynn. Mother Gabley probably hanged. Excerpt from parish register of Wells in Norfolk, in the _Gentleman's Magazine_, LXII (1792), 904. 1583. Kingston-upon-Hull, Yorkshire. Three women tried, one sentenced to a year's imprisonment and the pillory. J. J. Sheahan, _History of Kingston-upon-Hull_ (London, 1864), 86. 1583. Colchester, Essex. Two women sentenced to a year in prison and to four appearances in the pillory. E. L. Cutts, Colchester (London, 1888), 151. Henry Harrod, _Report on the Records of Colchester_ (Colchester, 1865), 17; App., 14. 1583. St. Peter's, Kent. Ellen Bamfield suspected by the church authorities. _Archæol. Cant._, XXVI, 45. 1584. Great Yarmouth, Norfolk. Elizabeth Butcher (punished before) and Joan Lingwood condemned to be hanged. C. J. Palmer, _History of Great Yarmouth_, I, 273. 1584. Staffordshire. An indictment preferred against Jeffrey Leach. _Cal. St. P., Dom., 1581-1590_, 206.