Pinder, Rachel, 30 n., 59, 88, 351, 386
Pitcairn, Robert, cited, 95 n.
Plato, 238
Pleasant Treatise of Witches, A, 296
Plummer, Colonel, 328 n.
Poeton, Edward, cited, 400
Pole, Arthur, 25
Pole, Edmund, 25
Pollock and Maitland, cited, 6 and n., 7 n.
Popham, Sir John, 354
Potts, Thomas, 112, 113, 116, 125, 129, 130, 249, 357-358, 361.
Cited, 105-128 n., passim, 397, 398
Powell, Sir John, 272 n., 314, 320, 324, 327-328, 329, 330, 335, 374
Powell, William, 346
Powle, ——, 409
Powstead, 404
Pregnancy, plea of, in delay of execution, 50, 96
Prentice, Joan, 348
Presbyterian party, its part in Hopkins crusade, 195-201
Preston, Jennet, 111 n., 112, 129, 249, 383, 398
Price, Joan, 409
Privy Council, its dealings with sorcerers, in the later Middle Ages, 4-10;
its campaign against conjurers under Elizabeth, 26-27;
the Abingdon trials, 27-28, 30 n.;
the Chelmsford trials, 34;
Dee's case, 53-54;
Darrel's, 87;
its part in the statute of James I, 103;
in the Lancashire trials of 1633, 152, 155, 156;
in the Somerset cases of 1664, 273.
See also Acts of the Privy Council and Council Register.
Protestant Post Boy, The, 374
Prowting, Mary, 402
Queen's College, Cambridge, 143, 348
R., G., 374
R., H., 390
Rainsford, Sir Richard, 260, 268-269, 269-270, 304
Rames, Nicholas, wife of, 279
Ramsay, Sir J. R., cited, 9 n.
Ramsbury, 389
Rand, Margaret, 391
Randall, 397
Randall, of Lavenham, 404
Randoll, 388
Ratcliffe, 404
Ratcliffe, Agnes, 136 n.
Rattlesden, 404
Rawlins, Anna, 416
Raymond, Sir Thomas, 260, 270-271, 271-272, 278, 283, 304, 321
Read, Joan, 217
Read, Margaret, 391
Read, Simon, 397
Redfearne, Anne, 126 n., 127-128, 383
Redman, 258
Repington, Philip, Bp. of Lincoln, 7
Reresby, Sir John, 272 n., 305, 311.
Cited, 417
Rich, Robert, Earl of Warwick, 172, 178, 200
Richard III, 9
Richardson, M. A., cited, 117 n., 219 n., 395, 409, 412
Richmond, of Bramford, 404
Richmond (Yorkshire), 396
Richmond and Lenox, Duke of, 287
Rivet, John, 166
Roach, Clara, 418
Roberts, Alexander, 227, 231, 235.
Cited, 117 n., 231 n., 399.
Roberts, George, cited, 279 n., 385, 417
Roberts, Joan, 407
Robey, Isabel, 384
Robinson, Edmund, 146-157, 298, 323
Robson, Jane, 401
Rodes, Sara, 218
Rose, Goodwife, 402
Rossington, 396
Rous, Francis, 240
Row, Elizabeth, 415
Roxburghe Club, cited, 95 n.
Royal Society, the, 275, 285, 286, 305, 306, 308-309
Ruceulver, 404
Rushock, 412
Russel, Margaret, 400
Rutland, Earl of. See Manners
Rutlandshire, 411
Ryder, Agnes, 417
Rylens, Martha, 416
Ryley, Josia, 393
Rymer, cited, 7
Sabbath, the Witch, 3, 113,123-124, 148, 166, 170, 186, 239, 273, 281-282
Saffron Walden, 394
Saint Alban's, 208 n., 252 n., 363, 407, 408, 417
Saint Andrew's in Holborne, 393, 398
Saint Giles's, Northampton, 382
Saint Giles-in-the-Fields, 393
Saint Katharine's, 394
Saint Lawrence, 393
Saint Leonard's, Shoreditch, 403
Saint Martin's-in-the-Fields, 389, 406, 409
Saint Mary's, Nottingham, 83
Saint Osyth's, 41-46, 58, 70, 125, 388
Saint Paul's, 13;
public penance in, 59
Saint Paul's, Dean of, 11 n.
Saint Peter's, Kent, 389, 392, 393
Saint Saviour's, Southwark, 387
Salem. See Massachusetts
Salisbury, 212, 225, 268, 270-271, 410, 412
Salisbury, Bishop of. See Jewel, John
Salmesbury, witches of, 128-129, 398
Salop (Shropshire), 387
Sammon, Margerie, 43, 44, 45 n.
Sampson, Agnes, torture of, 95
Samuel, Agnes, 49
Samuel, Alice, trial of, 47-51
Samuel, John, 49
Samuel, Mother. See Alice Samuel
Samuels, the (of Warboys), 109, 391
Sanford, 387
Sawyer, Elizabeth, trial of, 108 n., 112, 136 n., 383, 400
Scarfe, of Rattlesden, 404
Schwebel, Johann, 15 n.
Scory, John, Bishop of Hereford, 15 n.
Scot, Margery, 409
Scot, Reginald, 51, 55, 57-72, 89, 90, 97, 142, 160, 227, 228-231, 235, 239, 241, 242, 243, 249, 291, 294 n., 296, 298, 301, 310, 312, 342.
Cited, 20 n., 28 n., 46 n., 296 n., 347, 348, 386, 387, 388
Scot, Sir Thomas, 56
Scotland, Register of the Privy Council of, cited 96 n.
Scotland and the Commonwealth, cited, 225
Scots-Hall, 57
Scott, Sir Walter, 196, 275.
Cited, 199 n., 366
Scottish Dove, The, cited, 404
Seaford, 386
Seccombe, Thomas, cited, 164 n., 181 n.
Seeze, Betty, 417
Selden, John, 246-248, 262.
Cited, 247 n., 248 n.
Serjeantson, Rev. R. M., 382
Sewel, William, 296 n.
Shadwell, Thomas, 121, 309;
his opinions, 306-307
Shakespeare, William, used Harsnett, 91;
allusions in Twelfth Night of, 92;
his witch-lore, 243
Shalock, Anthony, 171 n.
Shaw, Elinor, 382
Sheahan, J. J., cited, 389
Shelley, 404
Shelley, Jane, 391
Shepton, Mallet, 411
Sherlock, Thomas, 374
Ship Tavern, at Greenwich, 154
Shore, Jane, 9
Shoreditch, 403
Shrewsbury, Earl of, 12, 19 n., 26
Shrewsbury, Duke of, 341
Shropshire (Salop), 387
Shuttleworths, House and Farm Accounts of the, cited, 399
Simmons, Margaret, 388
Simpson, Elizabeth, 412
Simpson, Jane, 413
Simpson, Robert, cited, 396
Simpson, Susan, 409
Sinclar (or Sinclair), George, cited, 355, 366, 395
Skipsey, 407
Slade, Anne, 414
Slingsby, Sir William, 400
Smith, of Chinting, 387
Smith, Charlotte Fell, cited, 53 n.
Smith, Elizabeth, 408
Smith, Gilbert, 399
Smith, Mary, 231, 358, 384, 399
Smithfield, 9
Smythe, Elizabeth, 406
Smythe, Katharine, 386
Somers, William, 51, 81-86, 92, 315, 353, 393
Somerset, 146, 220, 222, 224, 234, 254, 260, 273, 280, 285, 293, 320, 388, 392, 393, 401, 402, 411, 413-419
Somerset, the protector, repeal of felonies during his protectorate, 12;
attitude of, 13
Sorcery, distinguished from witchcraft, 3-4
Southampton, 387
Southampton, Earl of, 12
Southcole, Justice, 346
Southcote, John, 34
Southerns, Elizabeth. See Demdike
Southwark, 164, 256, 277, 321, 323, 387, 419
Southwell, Thomas, 8
Southworth. See Master Thompson
Sowerbutts, Grace, part in Salmesbury cases, 128-129, 139, 140, 151
Spectator, The, 341 n.
Spectral evidence, 110-111, 131 n., 184, 218, 221-222, 235-236, 263-264, 279, 279 n.
Speier, 15 n.
Spencer, Anne, 402
Spencer, Mary, 152, 157, 159, 160, 401
Spokes, Helen, 393
Staffordshire, 118, 141, 146, 386, 389, 400, 402
Stanford Rivers, 34
Stanhope, 388
Stanmore, 390
Star Chamber, Dee examined by the, 52
Starchie, Mrs., 79 n.
Starchie, John, 149 n.
Starchie, Nicholas, children of, 78-81, 158
Starr, William, 409
Stationers' Registers, cited, 347, 350, 352, 358
Statutes:
1 Edward VI, cap. xii (repeal of felonies), 12;
3 Henry VIII, cap. xi, 10 n.;
33 Henry VIII, cap. viii, 10-12;
5 Elizabeth, cap. xvi, 5, 14, 15, 17, 101-102;
1 James I, cap. xii, 102-104, 314
Stearne, John, 164-205 passim (in text and notes), 339, 361, 362, 404.
Cited, 403-406.
Stebbing, Henry, 335, 374, 375
Steele, Sir Richard, 342
Stephen, Sir J. F., cited, 10 n., 11 n.
Stephen, Leslie, cited, 287 n.
Stephens, Edward, 339 n.
Stepney, 405, 408, 410, 411, 412
Sterland, Mr., 83
Stevens, Margaret, 415
Stevens, Maria, 419
Stoll, Elmer, cited, 244 n.
Stonden, 414
Strangridge, Old, 238
Strassburg, 15 n.
Strotton, 414
Strutt, the Rev. Mr., 326, 327, 375
Strype, John, cited, 16 n., 17 n., 25 n., 26 n., 27 n., 385, 390
Stuart, Charles, Duke of Richmond and Lenox, 287
Studley Hall, 223