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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