‘Some Months after, my Lord Chief Justice _Holt_ past Sentence upon him, That he should suffer Imprisonment a Year, and stand in the Pillory three Times.’ The last case of witchcraft in England, where a so-called witch was tried and condemned by judge and jury (although she was not executed), was that of Jane Wenham in 1712. I am aware that another and later case is cited in 1716 of one Mrs. Hicks and her daughter, said to have been executed at Huntingdon, for ‘selling their souls to the devil, making their neighbours vomit pins, and raising a storm by which a certain ship was almost lost’; but as no one yet has been able to find any record of this case, I beg leave to doubt its existence. But Jane Wenham’s was a _cause célèbre_. She lived at Walkern, a village in Hertfordshire, about four miles from Stevenage. The account of the proceedings at her trial is very long, so that I shall only give two or three of the informations laid against her: ‘_Matthew Gilston_, of the Parish of _Walkerne_, says upon Oath, that, on _New Years Day_ last past, he carrying Straw upon a Fork from Mr. _Gardiner’s_ Barn, met _Jane Wenham_, who asked him for some Straw, which he refused to give her; then she said she would take some, and accordingly took some away from this Informant. ‘And farther, this Informant saith, that on the 29th of _Jan._ last, when this Informant was threshing in the Barn of his Master, _John Chapman_, an Old Woman in a Riding-hood, or Cloak, he knows not which, came to the Barn Door, and asked him for a Penyworth of Straw; he told her he could give her none, and she went away, Muttering. ‘And this Informant saith, that after the Woman was gone, he was not able to work, but ran out of the Barn, as far as a place called _Munders-Hill_, (which is about Three Miles from _Walkerne_) and asked at a House there for a Penyworth of Straw, and they, refusing to give him any, he went farther, to some Dung-heaps, and took some Straw from thence, and pull’d off his Shirt, and brought it Home in his Shirt; he knows not what mov’d him to this, but says he was forc’d to it, he knows not how.