ooderidge_ (1597).

1596-1597. Leicester. Mother Cooke hanged. Mary Bateson,
_Records of the Borough of Leicester_ (Cambridge,
1899), III, 335.

1596-1597. Lancaster. Hartley condemned and executed.
John Darrel, _True Narration_ (in the _Somers Tracts_,
III), 175, 176; George More, _A True Discourse
concerning the certaine possession ... of 7 persons
... in Lancashire_, 18-22; John Darrel, _Detection
of that sinnful ... discours of Samuel Harshnet_, 40.

1597. Nottingham. Thirteen or more accused by Somers, at
least eight of whom were put in gaol. All but two
discharged. Alice Freeman tried at the assizes and
finally acquitted. John Darrel, _Detection of that
sinnful ... discours of Samuel Harshnet_, 109-111;
_An Apologie or defence of the possession of William
Sommers_, L-L 3; Samuel Harsnett, _Discovery
of the Fraudulent Practises of John Darrel_, 5, 102,
140-141, 320-322.

1597. St. Lawrence, Kent. Sibilla Ferris suspected by the
church authorities. _Archaeol. Cant._, XXVI, 12.

1597. Nottingham. William Somers accused of witchcraft as
a ruse to get him into the house of correction.
Darrel, _A True Narration of the ... Vexation ...
of seven persons in Lancashire_, in _Somers Tracts_,
III, 184; also his _Brief Apologie_ (1599), 17.

1597. Yorkshire. Elizabeth Melton of Collingham condemned,
pardoned. _Cal. St. P., Dom._, 1595-1597, 400.

1597. Lancashire. Alice Brerely of Castleton condemned,
pardoned. _Ibid._, 406.

1597. Middlesex. Agnes Godfrey of Enfield held by the justice
of the peace on L10 bail. _Middlesex County Records_, I, 237.

1597. St. Andrew's in Holborne, Middlesex. Josia Ryley
arraigned. "Po se mortuus in facie curie," _i. e._
_Posuit se moriturum._ _Ibid._, 225.

1597. Middlesex. Helen Spokes of St. Giles-in-the-Fields
acquitted. _Ibid._, 239.

1598. Berwick. Richard Swynbourne's wife accused. John
Scott, _History of Berwick_ (London, 1888), 180.

1598. St. Peter's, Kent. Two women suspected by the church
officials; one of them presented again the next year.
_Archaeol. Cant._, XXVI, 46.

1598. King's Lynn. Elizabeth Housegoe executed. Mackerell,
_History and Antiquities of King's Lynn_, 232.

1599. Bu