the statement.

---- Middlesex. Elizabeth Ducke of Harmondsworth
acquitted. _Middlesex County Records_, I, 94.

---- Great Yarmouth, Norfolk. Katharine Smythe acquitted.
Henry Harrod, "Notes on the Records of the Corporation
of Great Yarmouth," in _Norfolk Archaeology_,
IV, 248.

1577. Seaford, Sussex. Joan Wood presented by the grand
jury. M. A. Lower, "Memorials of Seaford," in
Sussex Archaeological Soc., _Collections_, VII, 98.

---- Middlesex. Helen Beriman of Laleham acquitted.
_Middlesex County Records_, I, 103.

---- Essex. Henry Chittam of Much Barfield to be tried
for coining false money and conjuring. _Acts P. C._,
n. s., IX, 391; X, 8, 62.

1578. Prescall, Sanford, and "one Emerson, a preiste," suspected
of conjuration against the queen. The first
two committed. _Id._, X, 382; see also 344, 373.

---- Evidence of the use of sorcery against the queen discovered.
_Cal. St. P., Spanish, 1568-1579_, 611; see
also note to Ben Jonson's _Masque of Queenes_ (London,
Shakespeare Soc., 1848), 71.

---- Sussex. "One Tree, bailiff of Lewes, and one Smith
of Chinting" to be examined. _Acts P. C._, n. s., X, 220.

1579. Chelmsford, Essex. Three women executed. Mother
Staunton released because "no manslaughter objected
against her." _A Detection of damnable driftes._

---- Abingdon, Berks. Four women hanged; at least two
others and probably more were apprehended. _A
Rehearsall both straung and true of ... acts committed
by Elisabeth Stile ..._; _Acts P. C._, n. s.,
XI, 22; Scot, _Discoverie of Witchcraft_, 10, 51, 543.

---- Certain persons suspected of sorcery to be examined
by the Bishop of London. _Acts P. C._, n. s., XI, 36.

---- Salop, Worcester, and Montgomery. Samuel Cocwra
paid for "searching for certen persons suspected
for conjuracion." _Ibid._, 292.

---- Southwark. Simon Pembroke, a conjurer, brought to the
parish church of St. Saviour's to be tried by the
"ordinarie judge for those parties," but falls dead
before the opening of the trial. Holinshed, _Chronicles_
(ed. of 1586-1587), III, 1271.

---- Southampton. Widow Walker tried by the leet jury,
outcome unknown. J. S. Davies, _History of Southampton_
(Southam