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away. Isabel Robey, caused illness. 1616. Enfield, Middlesex. Agnes Berrye, laming and causing to languish. 1616. King's Lynn. Mary Smith, hanged for causing four people to languish. 1616. Leicester. Nine women hanged for bewitching a boy. Six more condemned on same charge, but pardoned by command of king. Mixed Cases. 1607. Bakewell. Our evidence as to the Bakewell witches is too incomplete to assure us that they were not accused of killing by witchcraft. 1612. Northampton. Agnes Brown and Joane Vaughan were indicted for bewitching Master Avery and Mistress Belcher, "together with the body of a young child to the death." C.--LIST OF CASES OF WITCHCRAFT, 1558-1718, WITH REFERENCES TO SOURCES AND LITERATURE.[1] 1558. John Thirkle, "taylour, detected of conjuringe," to be examined. _Acts of Privy Council_, n. s., VII, 6. ---- Several persons in London charged with conjuration to be sent to the Bishop of London for examination. _Ibid._, 22. 1559. Westminster. Certain persons examined on suspicion, including probably Lady Frances Throgmorton. _Cal. St. P., Dom., 1547-1580_, 142. c. 1559. Lady Chandos's daughter accused and imprisoned with George Throgmorton. Brit Mus., Add. MSS., 32,091, fol. 176. 1560. Kent. Mother Buske of St. John's suspected by the church authorities. Visitations of Canterbury in _Archaeologia Cantiana_, XXVI, 31. 1561. Coxe, alias Devon, a Romish priest, examined for magic and conjuration, and for celebrating mass. Cal. St. _P., Dom., 1547-1580_, 173. ---- London. Ten men brought before the queen and council on charge of "trespass, contempt, conjuration and sorceries." Punished with the pillory and required to renounce such practices for the future. From an extract quoted in Brit. Mus., Sloane MSS., 3,943, fol. 19. 1565. Dorset. Agnes Mondaye to be apprehended for bewitching Mistress Chettell. _Acts P. C._, n. s., VII, 200-201. 1565-1573. Durham. Jennet Pereson accused to the church authorities. _Depositions ... from ... Durham_ (Surtees Soc.), 99. 1566. Chelmsford, Essex. Mother Waterhouse hanged; Alice Chandler hanged, probably at this time; E
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