1603. London. Elizabeth Jackson sentenced, for bewitching
Mary Glover, to four appearances in the pillory
and a year in prison. John Swan, _A True and Breife
Report of Mary Glover's Vexation_; E. Jorden, _A
briefe discourse of ... the Suffocation of the
Mother_, 1603; also a MS., _Marie Glover's late woefull
case ... upon occasion of Doctor Jordens discourse
of the Mother, wherein hee covertly taxeth,
first the Phisitiones which judged her sicknes a vexation
of Sathan and consequently the sentence of
Lawe and proceeding against the Witche who was
discovered to be a meanes thereof, with A defence
of the truthe against D. J. his scandalous Impugnations_,
by Stephen Bradwell, 1603. Brit. Mus., Sloane
MSS., 831. An account by Lewis Hughes, appended
to his _Certaine Grievances_ (1641-2), is quoted
by Sinclar, _Satan's Invisible World Discovered_
(Edinburgh, 1685), 95-100; and hence Burton (_The
Kingdom of Darkness_) and Hutchinson (_Historical
Essay concerning Witchcraft_) assign a wrong date.
1603. Yorkshire. Mary Pannel executed for killing in 1593.
Mayhall, _Annals of Yorkshire_ (London, 1878), I,
58. See also E. Fairfax, _A Discourse of Witchcraft_,
179-180.
1603. Great Yarmouth, Norfolk. Ales Moore in gaol on suspicion.
C. J. Palmer, _History of Great Yarmouth_, II, 70.
1604. Wooler, Northumberland. Katherine Thompson and
Anne Nevelson proceeded against by the Vicar General
of the Bishop of Durham. Richardson, _Table
Book_, I, 245; J. Raine, _York Depositions_, 127, note.
1605. Cambridge. A witch alarm. Letters of Sir Thomas
Lake to Viscount Cranbourne, January 18, 1604/5,
and of Sir Edward Coke to Viscount Craybourne,
Jan. 29, 1604/5, both in Brit. Mus., Add. MSS., 6177,
fol. 403. This probably is the affair referred to in
_Cal. St. P., Dom._, 1603-1610, 218. Nor is it impossible
that Henry More had this affair in mind when
he told of two women who were executed in Cambridge
in the time of Elizabeth (see above, temp.
Eliz., Cambridge) and was two or three years astray
in his reckoning.
1605. Doncaster, York. Jone Jurdie of Rossington examined.
Depositions in _Gentleman's M
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