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, Lady, 214-215

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

Prestall, John, 25, 387, 397

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

Rhymes, Witch, 24, 76

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

Risden, 188 n., 406

Rivet, John, 166

Roach, Clara, 418

Roberts, Alexander, 227, 231, 235.
Cited, 117 n., 231 n., 399.

Roberts, Elizabeth, 394, 410

Roberts, George, cited, 279 n., 385, 417

Roberts, Joan, 407

Robey, Isabel, 384

Robinson, Edmund, 146-157, 298, 323

Robson, Jane, 401

Rochester, 63, 388

Rodes, Sara, 218

Rogers, Lydia, 366, 411

Roper, Margaret, 75, 390

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

Royston, 109, 111

Ruceulver, 404

Rushock, 412

Russel, Margaret, 400

Rutland, Earl of. See Manners

Rutlandshire, 411

Rutter, Elizabeth, 383, 399

Ryder, Agnes, 417

Rye, 116, 383, 397, 405

Rylens, Martha, 416

Ryley, Josia, 393

Rymer, cited, 7

S., Alice, 52 n., 394

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 John's, Kent, 385, 389

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

Sandwich, 401, 403, 418

Sanford, 387

Sawyer, Elizabeth, trial of, 108 n., 112, 136 n., 383, 400

Scarborough, 219, 409

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, John, cited, 391, 393

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.

Shadbrook, 350, 393, 394

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, Elleine, 39 n., 40

Smith, Gilbert, 399

Smith, Mary, 231, 358, 384, 399

Smith, Sir Thomas, 25 n., 385

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

Southton, 415, 416

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

Staunton, Mother, 39 n., 387

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

Stothard, Margaret, 259, 416

Stow, John, cited, 59 n., 350

Stowmarket, 183, 404

Stranger, Dorothy, 279, 413

Strangridge, Old, 238

Strassburg, 15 n.

Stratford-at-Bow, 406, 407

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

Style, Elizabeth, 280, 413