rshire and
Rutland Notes and Queries_, I, 247.

1620. Padiham, Lancashire. Witches in prison. _House and
Farm Accounts of the Shuttleworths_, pt. II. (Chetham
Soc., 1856), 240.

1620. Staffordshire. Woman accused on charges of the "boy
of Bilson" acquitted. _The Boy of Bilson_ (London,
1622); Arthur Wilson, _Life and Reign of James I_,
107-112; Webster, _Displaying of Supposed Witchcraft_,
274-275.

1621. Edmonton, Middlesex. Elizabeth Sawyer hanged. _The
wonderfull discoverie of Elizabeth Sawyer_, by
Henry Goodcole (1621).

1621. Middlesex. Anne Beaver, accused of murder on six
counts, acquitted. _Middlesex County Records_, II,
72-73. Acquitted again in 1625. _Ibid._, III, 2.

1622. York. Six women indicted for bewitching Edward Fairfax's
children. At April assizes two were released
upon bond, two and probably four discharged. At
the August assizes they were again acquitted. Fairfax,
_A Discourse of Witchcraft_ (Philobiblon Soc.,
London, 1858-1859).

1622. Middlesex. Margaret Russel, alias "Countess," committed
to Newgate by Sir Wm. Slingsby on a charge
by Lady Jennings of injuring her daughter. Dr. Napier
diagnosed the daughter's illness as epilepsy.
Brit. Mus., Add. MSS., 36,674, fol. 134.

1623. Yorkshire. Elizabeth Crearey of North Allerton sentenced
to be set in the pillory once a quarter. Thirsk
Quarter Sessions Records in _North Riding Record
Society_ (London, 1885), III, 177, 181.

1624. Bristol. Two witches said to have been executed. John
Latimer, _The Annals of Bristol in the Seventeenth
Century_ (Bristol, 1900), 91. Latimer quotes from
another "annalist."

temp. Jac. I? Two women said to have been hanged. Story
doubtful. Edward Poeton, _Winnowing of White
Witchcraft_ (Brit. Mus., Sloane MSS., 1,954), 41-42.

temp. Jac. I. Norfolk. Joane Harvey accused for scratching
"an olde witche" there, "Mother Francis nowe
deade." Mother Francis had before been imprisoned
at Norwich. Brit. Mus., Add. MSS., 28,223, fol. 15.

temp. Jac. I. Warwickshire. Coventry haunted by "hellish sorcerers."
"The pestilent brood" also in Cheshire.
Thomas Cooper, _The Mystery of Witchcraft_ (1617),13, 16.

temp. Ja