em. Two
died in gaol. The others probably reprieved. _Hist.
MSS. Comm. Reports_, XII, 2 (_Cowper MSS._, II),
77, 80.

1635. Leicester. Agnes Tedsall acquitted. _Leicestershire and
Rutland Notes and Queries_, I, 247.

1635. ----. Mary Prowting, who was a plaintiff before the
Star Chamber, accused of witchcraft. Accuser, who
was one of the defendants, exposed. _Cal. St. P.,
Dom., 1635_, 476-477.

c. 1637. Bedford. Goodwife Rose "ducked," probably by officials.
Wm. Drage, _Daimonomageia_ (London, 1665), 41.

1637. Staffordshire. Joice Hunniman committed, almost certainly
released. _Hist. MSS. Comm. Reports_, II, App., 48 b.

1637-38. Lathom, Lancashire. Anne Spencer examined and
probably committed. _Hist. MSS. Comm. Reports_,
XIV, 4 (_Kenyon MSS._), 55.

1638. Middlesex. Alice Bastard arraigned on two charges.
Acquitted. _Middlesex County Records_, III, 112-113.

1641. Middlesex. One Hammond of Westminster tried and
perhaps hanged. John Aubrey, _Remaines of Gentilisme
and Judaisme_ (Folk-Lore Soc.), 61.

temp. Carol I. Oxford. Woman perhaps executed. This
story is given at third hand in _A Collection of Modern
Relations_ (London, 1693), 48-49.

temp. Carol, I. Somerset. One or more hanged. Later the
bewitched person, who may have been Edmund Bull
(see above, _s. v._ 1626, Taunton), hanged also as a
witch. Meric Casaubon, _Of Credulity and Incredulity_
(London, 1668), 170-171.

temp. Carol. I? Taunton Dean. Woman acquitted. North,
_Life of North_, 131.

1642. Middlesex. Nicholas Culpepper of St. Leonard's, Shoreditch,
acquitted. _Middlesex County Records_, III, 85.

1643. Newbury, Berks. A woman supposed to be a witch
probably shot here by the parliament forces. _A
Most certain, strange and true Discovery of a Witch_
... 1643; _Mercurius Aulicus_, Oct. 1-8, 1643; _Mercurius
Civicus_, Sept. 21-28, 1643; _Certaine Informations_,
Sept. 25-Oct. 2, 1643; _Mercurius Britannicus_,
Oct. 10-17, 1643.

1644. Sandwich, Kent. "The widow Drew hanged for a
witch." W. Boys, _Collections for an History of
Sandwich_, 714.

1645 (July). Chelmsford, Essex. Sixteen certainly condemned,
probably two more. Possibly eleven or twelve more