1649. Middlesex. Elizabeth Smythe of St. Martin's-in-the-Fields acquitted. Middlesex County Records, III, 191.
1649. Middlesex. Dorothy Brumley acquitted. Ibid.
1649. St. Albans. John Palmer and Elizabeth Knott said to have been hanged for witches. The Divels Delusion (1649).
1649. Berwick. Thirty women, examined on the accusation of a Scotch witch-finder, committed to prison. Whitelocke, Memorials, III, 99; John Fuller, History of Berwick (Edinburgh, 1799), 155-156, giving extracts from the Guild Hall Books; John Sykes, Local Records (Newcastle, 1833), I, 103-105.
1649. Gloucester. Witch tried at the assizes. A Collection of Modern Relations, 52.
1649-50. Yorkshire. Mary Sykes and Susan Beaumont committed and searched. The former acquitted, bill against the latter ignored. York Depositions, 28.
1649-50. Durham. Several witches at Gateshead examined, and carried to Durham for trial; "a grave for a witch." Sykes, Local Records, I, 105; or Denham Tracts (Folk-Lore Soc.), II, 338.
1649-50. Newcastle. Thirty witches accused. Fourteen women and one man hanged, together with a witch from the county of Northumberland. Ralph Gardiner, England's Grievance (London, 1655), 108; Sykes, Local Records, I, 103; John Brand, History and Antiquities of Newcastle (London, 1789), II, 477-478; Whitelocke, Memorials, III, 128; Chronicon Mirabile (London, 1841), 92.
1650. Yorkshire. Ann Hudson of Skipsey charged. York Depositions, 38, note.
1650. Cumberland. A "discovery of witches." Sheriff perplexed. Cal. St. P., Dom., 1650, 159.
1650. Derbyshire. Ann Wagg of Ilkeston committed for trial. J. C. Cox, Three Centuries of Derbyshire Annals, II, 88.
1650. Middlesex. Joan Roberts acquitted. Middlesex County Records, III, 284.
1650. Stratford-at-Bow, Middlesex. Witch said to have been apprehended, but "escaped the law." Glanvill, Sadducismus Triumphatus, pt. ii, Relation XX.
1650. Middlesex. Joan Allen sentenced to be hanged. Middlesex County Records, III, 284. The Weekly Intelligencer, Oct. 7, 1650, refers to the hanging of a witch at the Old Bailey, probably Joan.
1650. Leicester. Anne Chettle searched and acquitted. Tried again two years later. Result unknown. Leicestershire and Rutland Notes and Queries, I, 247; James Thompson, Leicester (Leicester, 1849), 406.
1650. Alnwick. Dorothy Swinow, wife of a colonel, indicted. Nothing further came of it. Wonderfull News from the North (1650).
1650. Middlesex. Elizabeth Smith acquitted. Middlesex County Records, III, 284.
c. 1650-60. St. Alban's, Herts. Two witches suspected and probably tried. Drage, Daimonomageia (1665), 40-41.
1651. Yorkshire. Margaret Morton acquitted. York Depositions, 38.
1651. Middlesex. Elizabeth Lanam of Stepney acquitted. Middlesex County Records, III, 202, 285.
1651. Colchester, Essex. John Lock sentenced to one year's imprisonment and four appearances in the pillory. Brit. Mus., Stowe MSS., 840, fol. 43.
1652. Yorkshire. Hester France of Huddersfield accused before the justice of the peace. York Depositions, 51.
1652. Maidstone, Kent. Six women hanged, others indicted. A Prodigious and Tragicall History of the Arraignment ... of six Witches at Maidstone ... by "H. F. Gent.," 1652; The Faithful Scout, July 30-Aug. 7, 1652; Ashmole's Diary in Lives of Ashmole and Lilly (London, 1774), 316.
1652. Middlesex. Joan Peterson of Wapping acquitted on one charge, found guilty on another, and hanged. Middlesex County Records, III, 287; The Witch of Wapping; A Declaration in Answer to several lying Pamphlets concerning the Witch of Wapping; The Tryall and Examinations of Mrs. Joan Peterson; French Intelligencer, Apr. 6-13, 1652; Mercurius Democritus, Apr. 7-14, 1652; Weekly Intelligencer, April 6-13, 1652; Faithful Scout, Apr. 9-16, 1652.
1652. London. Susan Simpson acquitted. A True and Perfect List of the Names of those Prisoners in Newgate (London, 1652).
1652. Worcester. Catherine Huxley of Evesham, charged with bewitching a nine-year-old girl, hanged. Baxter, Certainty of the World of Spirits (London, 1691), 44-45. Baxter's narrative was sent him by "the now Minister of the place."
1652. Middlesex. Temperance Fossett of Whitechapel acquitted. Middlesex County Records, III, 208, 288.
1652. Middlesex. Margery Scott of St Martin's-in-the-Fields acquitted. Ibid., 209.
1652. Scarborough, Yorkshire. Anne Marchant or Hunnam accused and searched. J. B. Baker, History of Scarborough (London, 1882), 481, using local records.
1652. Durham. Francis Adamson and —— Powle executed. Richardson, Table Book, I, 286.
1652. Exeter, Devonshire. Joan Baker committed. Cotton, Gleanings ... Relative to the History of ... Exeter (Exeter, 1877), 149.
1652. Wilts. William Starr accused and searched. Hist. MSS. Comm. Reports, Various, I, 127.
1652-53. Cornwall. A witch near Land's End accused, and accuses others. Eight sent to Launceston gaol. Some probably executed (see above, p. 218 and footnotes 24, 25). Mercurius Politicus, Nov. 24-Dec. 2, 1653; R. and O. B. Peter, The Histories of Launceston and Dunheved (Plymouth, 1885), 285. See also Burthogge, Essay upon Reason and the Nature of Spirits (London, 1694), 196.
1653. Wilts. Joan Baker of the Devizes makes complaint because two persons have reported her to be a witch. Hist. MSS. Comm. Reports, Various, I, 127. Is this the Joan Baker of Exeter mentioned a few lines above?
1653. Wilts. Joan Price of Malmesbury and Elizabeth Beeman of the Devizes indicted, the latter committed to the assizes. Ibid.
1653. Yorkshire. Elizabeth Lambe accused. York Depositions, 58.
1653. Middlesex. Elizabeth Newman of Whitechapel acquitted on one charge, found guilty on another, and sentenced to be hanged. Middlesex County Records, III, 217, 218, 289.
1653. Middlesex. Barbara Bartle of Stepney acquitted. Ibid., 216.
1653. Leeds, Yorkshire. Isabel Emott indicted for witchcraft upon cattle. Hist. MSS. Comm. Reports, IX, pt. 1, 325 b.
1653. Salisbury, Wilts. Anne Bodenham of Fisherton Anger hanged. Doctor Lamb Revived; Doctor Lamb's Darling; Aubrey, Folk-Lore and Gentilisme (Folk-Lore Soc.), 261; Henry More, An Antidote against Atheisme, bk. III, chap. VII.
1654. Yorkshire. Anne Greene of Gargrave examined. York Depositions, 64-65.
1654. Yorkshire. Elizabeth Roberts of Beverley examined. Ibid., 67.
1654. Wilts. Christiana Weekes of Cleves Pepper, who had been twice before accused in recent sessions, charged with telling where lost goods could be found. "Other conjurers" charged at the same time. Hist. MSS. Comm. Reports, Various, I, 120. See above, 1610, Norfolk.
1654. Exeter. Diana Crosse committed. Cotton, Gleanings ... Relative to the History of ... Exeter, 150.
1654. Wilts. Elizabeth Loudon committed on suspicion. Hist. MSS. Comm. Reports, Various, I, 129.
1654. Whitechapel, Middlesex. Grace Boxe, arraigned on three charges, acquitted. Acquitted again in 1656. Middlesex County Records, III, 223, 293.
1655. Yorkshire. Katherine Earle committed and searched. York Depositions, 69.
1655. Salisbury. Margaret Gyngell convicted. Pardoned by the Lord Protector. F. A. Inderwick, The Interregnum, 188-189.
1655. Bury St. Edmunds, Suffolk. Mother and daughter Boram said to have been hanged. Hutchinson, An Historical Essay concerning Witchcraft, 38.
1656. Yorkshire. Jennet and George Benton of Wakefield examined. York Depositions, 74.
1656. Yorkshire. William and Mary Wade committed for bewitching the daughter of Lady Mallory. York Depositions, 75-78.
1657. Middlesex. Katharine Evans of Fulham acquitted. Middlesex County Records, III, 263.
1657. Middlesex. Elizabeth Crowley of Stepney acquitted, but detained in the house of correction. Middlesex County Records, III, 266, 295.
1657. Gisborough, Yorkshire. Robert Conyers, "gent.," accused. North Riding Record Society, V, 259.
1658. Exeter. Thomas Harvey of Oakham, Rutlandshire, "apprehended by order of Council by a party of soldiers," acquitted at Exeter assizes, but detained in custody. Cal. St. P., Dom., 1658-1659, 169.
1658. Chard, Somerset. Jane Brooks of Shepton Mallet hanged. Glanvill, Sadducismus Triumphatus (1681), pt. ii, 120-122. (Glanvill used Hunt's book of examinations). J. E. Farbrother, Shepton Mallet; notes on its history, ancient, descriptive and natural (1860), 141.
1658. Exeter. Joan Furnace accused. Cotton, Gleanings ... Relative to the History of ... Exeter, 152.
1658. Yorkshire. Some women said to have been accused by two maids. The woman "cast" by the jury. The judges gave a "respite." Story not entirely trustworthy. The most true and wonderfull Narration of two women bewitched in Yorkshire ... (1658).
1658. Wapping, Middlesex. Lydia Rogers accused. A More Exact Relation of the most lamentable and horrid Contract which Lydia Rogers ... made with the Divel (1658). See app. A, § 5, for another tract.
1658. Northamptonshire. Some witches of Welton said to have been examined. Glanvill, Sadducismus Triumphatus (1681), pt. ii, 263-268.
1658. Salisbury, Wilts. The widow Orchard said to have been executed. From a MS. letter of 1685-86, printed in the Gentleman's Magazine, 1832, pt. I, 405-410.
1659. Norwich, Norfolk. Mary Oliver burnt. P. Brown, History of Norwich, 39. Francis Blomefield, An Essay towards a Topographical History of the County of Norfolk (London, 1805-1810), III, 401.
1659. Middlesex. Elizabeth Kennett of Stepney accused. Middlesex County Records, III, 278, 299.
1659. Hertfordshire. "Goody Free" accused of killing by witchcraft. Hertfordshire County Sessions Rolls, I, 126, 129.
1659-1660. Northumberland. Elizabeth Simpson of Tynemouth accused. York Depositions, 82.
1660. Worcester. Joan Bibb of Rushock received £20 damages for being ducked. Gentleman's Magazine, 1856, pt. I, 39, from a letter of J. Noake of Worcester, who used the Townshend MSS.
1660. Worcester. A widow and her two daughters, and a man, from Kidderminster, tried. "Little proved." Copied from the Townshend MSS. by Nash, in his Collections for the History of Worcestershire (1781-1799), II, 38.
1660. Newcastle. Two suspected women detained in prison. Extracts from the Municipal Accounts of Newcastle-upon-Tyne in M. A. Richardson, Reprints of Rare Tracts ... illustrative of the History of the Northern Counties (Newcastle, 1843-1847), III, 57.
1660. Canterbury, Kent. Several witches said to have been executed. W. Welfitt ("Civis"), Minutes of Canterbury (Canterbury, 1801-1802), no. X.
c. 1660. Sussex. A woman who had been formerly tried at Maidstone watched and searched. MS. quoted in Sussex Archæol. Collections, XVIII, 111-113; see also Samuel Clarke, A Mirrour or Looking Glasse both for Saints and Sinners, II, 593-596.
1661. Hertfordshire. Frances Bailey of Broxbourn complained of abuse by those who believed her a witch. Hertfordshire County Sessions Rolls, I, 137.
1661. Newcastle. Jane Watson examined before the mayor. York Depositions, 92-93.
1661. Newcastle. Margaret Catherwood and two other women examined before the mayor. Ibid., 88.
1663. Somerset. Elizabeth Style died before execution. Glanvill, Sadducismus Triumphatus, pt. ii, 127-146. For copies of three depositions about Elizabeth Style, see Gentleman's Magazine, 1837, pt. ii, 256-257.
1663. Taunton, Somerset. Julian Cox hanged. Glanvill, Sadducismus Triumphatus, pt. ii, 191-198.
1663-64. Newcastle. Dorothy Stranger accused before the mayor. York Depositions, 112-114.
1664. Somerset. A "hellish knot" of witches (Hutchinson says twelve) accused before justice of the peace Robert Hunt. His discovery stopped by "some of them in authority." Glanvill, Sadducismus Triumphatus, pt. ii, 256-257. But see case of Elizabeth Style above.
1664. Somerset. A witch condemned at the assizes. She may have been one of those brought before Hunt. Cal. St. P., Dom., 1663-1664, 552.
1664. Bury St. Edmunds, Suffolk. Rose Cullender and Amy Duny condemned. A Tryal of Witches at ... Bury St. Edmunds (1682).
1664. Newcastle. Jane Simpson, Isabell Atcheson and Katharine Curry accused before the mayor. York Depositions, 124.
1664. York. Alice Huson and Doll Dilby tried. Both made confessions. Copied for A Collection of Modern Relations (see p. 52) from a paper written by the justice of the peace, Corbet.
1665. Wilts. Jone Mereweather of Weeke in Bishop's Cannings committed. Hist. MSS. Comm. Reports, Various, I, 147.
1665. Newcastle. Mrs. Pepper accused before the mayor. York Depositions, 127.
1665. Three persons convicted of murder and executed for killing a supposed witch. Joseph Hunter, Life of Heywood (London, 1842), 167-168, note.
1666. Lancashire. Four witches of Haigh examined, two committed but probably acquitted. Cal. St. P., Dom., 1665-1666, 225.
1667. Newcastle, Northumberland. Emmy Gaskin of Landgate accused before the mayor. York Depositions, 154.
1667. Norfolk. A fortune-teller or conjuror condemned to imprisonment. Cal. St. P., Dom., 1667, 30.
1667. Ipswich, Suffolk. Two witches possibly imprisoned. Story doubtful. Cal. St. P., Dom., 1667-1668, 4.
1667. Devizes, Wilts. "An old woman" imprisoned, charged with bewitching by making and pricking an image. Blagrave, Astrological Practice (London 1689), 90, 103.
1667. Lancashire. Widow Bridge and her sister, Margaret Loy, both of Liverpool, accused. The Moore Rental (Chetham Soc., 1847), 59-60.
1668. Durham. Alice Armstrong of Strotton tried, but almost certainly acquitted. Tried twice again in the next year with the same result. Sykes, Local Records, II, 369.
1668. Warwick. Many witches "said to be in hold." Cal. St. P., Dom., 1668-1669, 25.
1669. Hertfordshire. John Allen of Stondon indicted for calling Joan Mills a witch. Hertfordshire County Sessions Rolls, I, 217.
1670. Yorkshire. Anne Wilkinson acquitted. York Depositions, 176 and note.
1670. Latton Wilts. Jane Townshend accused. Hist. MSS. Comm. Reports, Various. I, 150-151.
1670. Wilts. Elizabeth Peacock acquitted. See Inderwick's list of witch trials in the western circuit, in his Sidelights on the Stuarts (London, 1888), 190-194. Hereafter the reference "Inderwick" will mean this list. See also above, p. 269, note.
1670. Devonshire. Elizabeth Eburye and Aliena Walter acquitted. Inderwick.
1670. Somerset. Anne Slade acquitted on two indictments. Inderwick.
1670. Bucks. Ann Clarke reprieved. Cal. St. P., Dom., 1670, 388.
1671. Devonshire. Johanna Elford acquitted. Inderwick.
1671. Devonshire. Margaret Heddon acquitted on two indictments. Inderwick.
1671. Falmouth. Several witches acquitted. Cal. St. P., Dom., 1671, 105, 171. Perhaps identical with the three, two men and a woman, mentioned by Inderwick as acquitted in Cornwall.
1672. Somerset. Margaret Stevens acquitted on two indictments. Inderwick.
1672. Devonshire. Phelippa Bruen acquitted on four indictments. Inderwick.
1672. Wilts. Elizabeth Mills acquitted on two indictments. Inderwick.
1672. Wilts. Elizabeth Peacock, who had been acquitted two years before, acquitted on five indictments. Judith Witchell acquitted on two, found guilty on a third. She and Ann Tilling sentenced to execution. They must have been reprieved. Inderwick; Gentleman's Magazine, 1832, pt. II, p. 489-492.
1673. Yorkshire, Northumberland, and Durham. At least twenty-three women and six men accused to various justices of the peace by Ann Armstrong, who confessed to being present at witch meetings, and who acted as a witch discoverer. Some of those whom she accused were accused by others. Margaret Milburne, whom she seems not to have mentioned, also accused, York Depositions, 191-202.
1674. Northampton. Ann Foster said to have been hanged for destroying sheep and burning barns by witchcraft. A Full and True Relation of The Tryal, Condemnation, and Execution of Ann Foster (1674).
1674. Middlesex. Elizabeth Row of Hackney held in bail for her appearance at Quarter Sessions. Middlesex County Records, IV, 42-43.
1674. Southton, Somerset. John and Agnes Knipp acquitted. Inderwick.
1674? (see above, p. 269, note). Salisbury. Woman acquitted, but kept in gaol. North, Life of North, 130, 131.
1674-75. Lancashire. Joseph Hinchcliffe and his wife bound over to appear at the assizes. He committed suicide and his wife died soon after. York Depositions, 208; Oliver Heywood's Diary (1881-1885), I, 362.
1675. Southton, Somerset. Martha Rylens acquitted on five indictments. Inderwick.
1676. Devonshire. Susannah Daye acquitted. Inderwick.
1676. Cornwall. Mary Clarkson acquitted. Inderwick.
c. 1679. Ely, Cambridgeshire. Witch condemned, but reprieved. Hutchinson, Historical Essay concerning Witchcraft, 41.
c. 1680. Somerset. Anna Rawlins acquitted. Inderwick.
c. 1680. Derbyshire. Elizabeth Hole of Wingerworth accused and committed for charging a baronet with witchcraft. J. C. Cox, Three Centuries of Derbyshire Annals, II, 90.
1680. Yorkshire, Elizabeth Fenwick of Longwitton acquitted. York Depositions, 247.
1682. London. Jane Kent acquitted. A Full and True Account ... but more especially the Tryall of Jane Kent for Witchcraft (1682).
1682. Surrey. Joan Butts acquitted. Strange and Wonderfull News from Yowell in Surry (1681); An Account of the Tryal and Examination of Joan Buts (1682).
1682. Devonshire. Temperance Lloyd acquitted on one indictment, found guilty on another. Susanna Edwards and Mary Trembles found guilty. All three executed. Inderwick; North, Life of North, 130; see also app. A, § 6, above.
1682-88. Northumberland. Margaret Stothard of Edlingham accused. E. Mackenzie, History of Northumberland, II, 33-36.
1683. London. Jane Dodson acquitted. An Account of the Whole Proceedings at the Sessions Holden at the Sessions House in the Old Baily ... (1683).
1683. Somerset. Elenora, Susannah, and Marie Harris, and Anna Clarke acquitted. Inderwick.
1684. Devonshire. Alicia Molland found guilty. Inderwick.
1685. Devonshire. Jane Vallet acquitted on three indictments. Inderwick.
temp. Carol. II. Devonshire. Agnes Ryder of Woodbury accused, probably committed. A. H. A. Hamilton, Quarter Sessions chiefly in Devon (London, 1878), 220.
temp. Carol. II. Ipswich, Suffolk. A woman in prison. William Drage, Daimonomageia, 11.
temp. Carol. II. Herts. Two suspected witches of Baldock ducked. Ibid., 40.
temp. Carol. II. St. Albans, Herts. Man and woman imprisoned. Woman ducked. Ibid.
temp. Carol. II. Taunton Dean, Somerset. Man acquitted. North, Life of North, 131.
1685-86. Malmesbury, Wilts. Fourteen persons accused, among whom were the three women, Peacock, Tilling and Witchell, who had been tried in 1672. Eleven set at liberty; Peacock, Tilling and Witchell kept in prison awhile, probably released eventually. Gentleman's Magazine, 1832, pt. I, 489-492.
1686. Somerset. Honora Phippan acquitted on two indictments. Inderwick.
1686. Cornwall. Jane Noal, alias Nickless, alias Nicholas, and Betty Seeze committed to Launceston gaol for bewitching a fifteen-year-old boy. We know from Inderwick that Jane Nicholas was acquitted. A True Account of ... John Tonken of Pensans in Cornwall (1686).
1687. York. Witch condemned, probably reprieved. Memoirs and Travels of Sir John Reresby (London, 1812), 329.
1687. Dorset. Dewnes Knumerton and Elizabeth Hengler acquitted. Inderwick. For examination of first see Roberts, Southern Counties, 525-526.
1687. Wilts. M. Parle acquitted. Inderwick.
1687. Devonshire. Abigail Handford acquitted. Inderwick.
1689. Wilts. Margareta Young condemned but reprieved. Christiana Dunne acquitted. Inderwick.
1690. Taunton, Somerset. Elizabeth Farrier (Carrier), Margaret Coombes and Ann Moore committed. Coombes died in prison at Brewton. The other two acquitted at the assizes. Inderwick; Baxter, Certainty of the World of Spirits, 74-75.
1692. Wilts. Woman committed. Hist. MSS. Comm. Reports, Various, I, 160.
1693. Suffolk. Widow Chambers of Upaston committed, died in gaol. Hutchinson, Historical Essay concerning Witchcraft, 42.
1693-94. Devonshire. Dorothy Case acquitted on three indictments. Inderwick.
1693-94. Devonshire. Katherine Williams acquitted. Inderwick.
1694. Bury St. Edmunds, Suffolk. Mother Munnings of Hartis acquitted. Hutchinson, op. cit., 43.
1694. Somerset. Action brought against three men for swimming Margaret Waddam. Hist. MSS. Comm. Reports, Various, I, 160.
1694. Ipswich, Suffolk. Margaret Elnore acquitted. Hutchinson, 44.
1694. Kent. Ann Hart of Sandwich convicted, but went free under a general act of pardon. W. Boys, Collections for an History of Sandwich, 718.
1694-95. Devonshire. Clara Roach acquitted. Inderwick.
1695. Launceston, Cornwall. Mary Guy or Daye acquitted. Hutchinson, 44-45; Inderwick gives the name as Maria Daye (or Guy) and puts the trial in Devonshire in 1696.
1696. Devonshire. Elizabeth Horner acquitted on three indictments, Hutchinson, 45; Inderwick. See also letter from sub-dean Blackburne to the Bishop of Exeter in Brand, Popular Antiquities (ed. of 1905), II, 648-649.
1698-99. Wilts. Ruth Young acquitted. Inderwick.
1700. Dorset. Anne Grantly and Margaretta Way acquitted. Inderwick.
1700-10. Lancashire. A woman of Chowbent searched and committed. Died before the assizes. MS. quoted by Harland and Wilkinson, Lancashire Folk-Lore (London, 1867), 207; also E. Baines, Lancaster, II, 203.
1701. Southwark. Sarah Morduck, who had been before acquitted at Guildford, and who had unsuccessfully appealed to a justice in London against her persecutor, tried and acquitted. Hutchinson, 46. The Tryal of Richard Hathaway (1702); A Full and True Account of the Apprehending and Taking of Mrs. Sarah Moordike (1701); A short Account of the Trial held at Surry Assizes, in the Borough of Southwark (1702). See above, app. A, § 7.
1701. Kingston, Surrey. Woman acquitted. Notes and Queries (April 10, 1909), quoting from the London Post of Aug. 1-4, 1701.
1701-02. Devonshire. Susanna Hanover acquitted. Inderwick.
1702-03. Wilts. Joanna Tanner acquitted. Inderwick.
1704. Middlesex. Sarah Griffiths committed to Bridewell. A Full and True Account ... of a Notorious Witch (London, 1704).
1705. Northampton. Two women said to have been burned here. Story improbable. See above, appendix A, § 10.
1707. Somerset. Maria Stevens acquitted. Inderwick.
1712. Hertford. Jane Wenham condemned, but reprieved. See footnotes to chapter XIII and app. A, § 9.
1716. Huntingdon. Two witches, a mother and daughter, said to have been executed here. Story improbable. See above, app. A, § 10.
1717. Leicester. Jane Clark and her daughter said to have been tried. Leicestershire and Rutland Notes and Queries, I, 247.
1717. Leicester. Mother Norton and her daughter acquitted. Brit. Mus., Add. MSS., 35,838, fol. 404.
I am unwilling to close this work without an expression of my gratitude to the libraries, on both sides of the sea, which have so generously welcomed me to the use of their books and pamphlets on English witchcraft—many of them excessively rare and precious. They have made possible this study. My debt is especially great to the libraries of the British Museum and of Lambeth Palace at London, to the Bodleian Library at Oxford, and in America to the Boston Athenæum and to the university libraries of Yale and Harvard. To the unrivalled White collection at Cornell my obligation is deepest of all.
[1] The references in this list, together with the account, in appendix A, of the pamphlet literature of witchcraft, are designed to take the place of a formal bibliography. That the list of cases here given is complete can hardly be hoped. Crude though its materials compel it to be, the author believes it may prove useful. He hopes in the course of time to make it more complete, and to that end will gladly welcome information respecting other trials.
Abbot, George, Archbishop of Canterbury, 141 n., 233-234
Abbott, Alice, 132 n.
Account of the ... Proceedings ... in the Old Baily, cited, 416
Acton, 404
Acts of the Privy Council, cited, 26 n., 28 n., 30 n., 347, 384, 385, 388, 390
Adams, W. H. Davenport, cited, 188 n., 376
Adamson, Francis, 409
Ady, Thomas, 238, 241-242, 310.
Cited, 180, 184 n., 225 n., 404
Agrippa, Cornelius, 62
Aikin, Lucy, cited, 143 n.
Aldeburgh, 182, 183, 191 n., 193, 200 n., 405
Alene, case of, 13
Alfred the Great, 2
Altham, Sir James, 112, 113, 125
Anderson, Sir Edmund, 51, 56 n., 78, 84, 102, 350, 354, 355
Andrews, William, cited, 137 n., 396
Anne, Princess of Denmark, her marriage to James I, 94
Annual Register, cited, 141 n., 398
Archæologia, cited, 10 n., 391
Archæologia Cantiana, cited, 21 n., 29 n., 385, 389, 392, 393
Archer, John, 273, 282;
conducts Cox trial, 260-261
Arnold, Mother, 386
Ashmole, Elias, cited, 216, 365, 408
Ashmolean Museum, at Oxford, 216
Ashton, John, cited, 188 n., 351, 366, 376
Ashwell, John, 7
Aspine, Martha, 107
Assembly, the witch. See Sabbath
Atcheson, Isabell, 413
Aubrey, John, his credulity, 306.
Cited, 162 n., 212 n., 365, 402, 410
Audley, vicar of, 326
Autobiography of Edward Underhill, cited, 13 n.
Avery, "Master," 110, 130-132, 357, 384
B., R. See Burton, Richard.
Bacon, Francis, 246-247.
Cited, 246 n., 247 n.
Baddeley, Richard, 141 n., 142 n., 359
Bailey, Frances, 412
Bailey, the Old, 108 n.
Baines, Edward, cited, 147 n., 149 n., 150 n., 158 n., 392, 401, 419
Baker, Alexander, 154
Baker, J. B., cited, 409
Baker, Joan, of Devizes, 217, 409
Baker, Joan, of Exeter, 409
Bakewell, affair of, 137, 384, 396
Baldock, 417
Bamfield, Ellen, 389
Bamford, James, 353
Bancroft, Richard, as Bishop of London, 84-89;
as Archbishop of Canterbury, 88 n., 89, 233, 346, 353
Bangor, Bishop of, 397
Barber, Mary, 383
Bark, Ellen, 394
Barking, 386
Barlowe, wife of John, 401
Barnet, 392
Barringer, Joan, 390
Barrow, Dr., of Cambridge, 47
Barrow, Isaac, 308 and n., 311
Barrow, John, 256
Bartell, Elizabeth, 389
Bartham, Doll, 350
Bartham, Oliffe, 394
Bartle, Barbara, 410
Barton, 404
Barton, Elizabeth, the "Holy Maid of Kent," 58
Basel, 15 n.
Bastard, Alice, 402
Bate, William, 397
Bates, Dr., cited, 337 n.
Bateson, Mary, cited, 392
Bath and Wells, Bishop of, 162 n.
Bath and Wells, chancellor of the Bishop of, 235
Batte, 38
Baxter, Richard, 196, 316, 336-339.
Cited, 216 n., 337 n., 409, 418
Beaumont, John, 336, 339.
Cited, 273 n., 275 n.
Beaumont, Susan, 407
Beaver, Anne, 400
Bedford, trials at, no, 117, 135-136, 383, 398, 402, 404
Bedfordshire, 107, 115, 118, 119, 179 n., 187, 200 n., 406
Bee, Jesse, 349
Beeman, Elizabeth, 409
Beigel, H., 346
Bekker, Balthazar, 339
Bel and the Dragon, book of, 97
Belcher, Elizabeth, 130-132, 230, 357, 384
Belvoir Castle, witchcraft at, 132-134
Bennett, Gervase, 219
Bentham, Thomas, Bishop of Coventry and Lichfield, 15 n.
Bentley, Alice, 394
Benton, George, 411
Benton, Jennet, 411
Beriman, Helen, 387
Berkhampstead, 257
Bernard, Richard, 165, 234-236, 241, 293, 303 n., 361, 401.
Cited, 398
Berwick, 201, 206, 207, 209, 252 n., 253, 391, 393, 407
Beverley, 410
Bibb, Joan, 412
Bill, Arthur, 106-107, 132 n., 383
Bilson, boy of. See Bilston
Bilson, Thomas, Bishop of Winchester, 234
Bilston, boy of, 140, 141-142, 151, 152, 323, 400
Bishop Burton, 394
Bishop's Cannings, 413
Blackburne, Launcelot, 321, 418
Blackmail, charge of, 149, 153
Blagrave, Joseph, cited, 414
Blomefield, Francis, cited, 412
Bodenham, Anne, trial of, 210-213, 363, 410
Bodine (Bodin), 69 n.
Bodmin, 405
Bohemia, Queen of, 158
Bokes-wharfe, 394
Boram, mother and daughter, 411
Boram, wife of, 385
Boreham of Sudbury, 404
Bottesford, 134 n.
Boulton, Richard, 336, 339-340, 348
Bourne, John, 390
Bower, Edmond, 212, 216, 364, 365
Bowes, Lady, 356
Bowes, Sir Thomas, 167 n.
Boxe, Grace, 410
Boyle, Sir Robert, 337 and n.;
opinions of, 305-306 and n.
Boys, William, cited 401, 403, 418
Bracton, cited, 128 n.
Bradley, Alice, 396
Bradwell, Stephen, cited, 395