at another assize. _A true and exact Relation ...
of ... the late Witches ... at Chelmesford_ (1645);
Arthur Wilson, in Peck, _Desiderata Curiosa_, II,
76; Hopkins, _Discovery of Witches_, 2-3; Stearne,
_Confirmation and Discovery of Witchcraft_, 14, 16,
36, 38, 58, etc.; _Signes and Wonders from Heaven_
(1645), 2; "R. B." _The Kingdom of Darkness_
(London, 1688). The fate of the several Essex
witches is recorded by the _True and Exact Relation_
in marginal notes printed opposite their depositions
(but omitted in the reprint of that pamphlet in Howell's
_State Trials_). "R. B.," in _The Kingdom of
Darkness_, though his knowledge of the Essex cases
is ascribed to the pamphlet, gives details as to the
time and place of the executions which are often in
strange conflict with its testimony.

1645 (July). Norfolk. Twenty witches said to have been
executed. Whitelocke, _Memorials_, I, 487. _A Perfect
Diurnal_ (July 21-28, 1645) says that there has been
a "tryall of the Norfolke witches, about 40 of them
and 20 already executed." _Signes and Wonders from
Heaven_ says that "there were 40 witches arraigned
for their lives and 20 executed."

1645. Bury St. Edmunds, Suffolk. Sixteen women and two
men executed Aug. 27. Forty or fifty more probably
executed a few weeks later. A very large number
arraigned. A manuscript (Brit. Mus., Add.
MSS., 27,402, fol. 104 ff.) mentions over forty true
bills and fifteen or more bills not found. _A True
Relation of the Araignment of eighteene Witches at
St. Edmundsbury_ (1645); Clarke, _Lives of Sundry
Eminent Persons_, 172; _County Folk-Lore, Suffolk_
(Folk-Lore Soc.), 178; Ady, _A Candle in the Dark_,
104-105, 114; _Moderate Intelligencer_, Sept. 4-11,
1645; _Scottish Dove_, Aug. 29-Sept. 6, 1645.

Stearne mentions several names not mentioned in
the _True Relation_--names probably belonging to
those in the second group of the accused. Of
most of them he has quoted the confession without
stating the outcome of the cases. They are
Hempstead of Creeting, Ratcliffe of Shelley, Randall
of Lavenham, Bedford of Rattlesden, Wright
of Hit