cted by the
church authorities. _Archaeol. Cant._, XXVI, 19.

1582-83. Nottingham. A certain Batte examined before the
"Meare" of Nottingham. _Hist. MSS. Comm. Reports_,
XII, pt. 4, 147.

1582-83. King's Lynn. Mother Gabley probably hanged. Excerpt
from parish register of Wells in Norfolk, in
the _Gentleman's Magazine_, LXII (1792), 904.

1583. Kingston-upon-Hull, Yorkshire. Three women tried,
one sentenced to a year's imprisonment and the pillory.
J. J. Sheahan, _History of Kingston-upon-Hull_
(London, 1864), 86.

1583. Colchester, Essex. Two women sentenced to a year
in prison and to four appearances in the pillory. E.
L. Cutts, Colchester (London, 1888), 151. Henry
Harrod, _Report on the Records of Colchester_ (Colchester,
1865), 17; App., 14.

1583. St. Peter's, Kent. Ellen Bamfield suspected by the
church authorities. _Archaeol. Cant._, XXVI, 45.

1584. Great Yarmouth, Norfolk. Elizabeth Butcher (punished
before) and Joan Lingwood condemned to be
hanged. C. J. Palmer, _History of Great Yarmouth_,
I, 273.

1584. Staffordshire. An indictment preferred against Jeffrey
Leach. _Cal. St. P., Dom., 1581-1590_, 206.

1584. "The oulde witche of Ramsbury" and several other
"oulde witches and sorcerers" suspected. _Cal. St.
P., Dom., 1581-1590_, 220.

1584. York. Woman, indicted for witchcraft and "high
treason touching the supremacy," condemned. _Cal.
St. P., Dom., Add. 1580-1625_, 120-121.

1584. Middlesex. Elizabeth Bartell of St. Martin's-in-the-Fields
acquitted. _Middlesex County Records_, I, 145.

1585. Middlesex. Margaret Hackett of Stanmore executed.
From titles of two pamphlets mentioned by Lowndes,
_The severall Facts of Witchcrafte approved on Margaret
Haskett ..._ 1585, and _An Account of Margaret
Hacket, a notorious Witch ..._ 1585.

1585. Middlesex. Joan Barringer of "Harroweelde" (Harrow
Weald) acquitted. _Middlesex County Records_,
I, 157.

1585. Dorset. John Meere examined. _Cal. St. P., Dom.,
1581-90_, 246-247.

1585-86. Alnwick, Northumberland. Two men and two women
committed to prison on suspicion of killing a sheriff.
_Denham Tracts_, II, 332; _Cal. S. P., Dom., Add. 1580-1625_, 168.

1586. Ec