8-129. This may have been
what is referred to in Glanvill's _Sadducismus Triumphatus_,
pt. ii, 208-209.
1646. Northamptonshire. Several witches hanged. One died
in prison. Stearne, 11, 23, 34-35.
1646. Huntingdonshire. Many accused, of whom at least
ten were examined and several executed, among
them John Wynnick. One woman swam and was
released. John Davenport, _Witches of Huntingdon_
(London, 1646); H. More, _Antidote against Atheisme_,
125; Stearne, 11, 13, 17, 19, 20-21, 39, 42.
1646. Bedfordshire. Elizabeth Gurrey of Risden made confession.
Stearne says a Huntingdonshire witch confessed
that "at Tilbrooke bushes in Bedfordshier
... there met above twenty at one time." Huntingdonshire
witches seem meant, but perhaps not alone.
Stearne, 11, 31.
c. 1646. Yarmouth, Norfolk. Stearne mentions a woman
who suffered here. Stearne, 53.
1646. Heptenstall, Yorkshire. Elizabeth Crossley, Mary
Midgley, and two other women examined before two
justices of the peace. _York Depositions_, 6-9.
1647. Ely, Cambridgeshire. Stearne mentions "those executed
at Elie, a little before Michaelmas last, ...
also one at Chatterish there, one at March there,
and another at Wimblington there, now lately found,
still to be tryed"; and again "one Moores wife of
Sutton, in the Isle of Elie," who "confessed her
selfe guilty" and was executed; and yet again "one
at Heddenham in the Isle of Ely," who "made a
very large Confession" and must have paid the
penalty. Stearne, 17, 21, 37; Gibbons, _Ely Episcopal
Records_ (Lincoln, 1891), 112-113.
1647. Middlesex. Helen Howson acquitted. _Middlesex County
Records_, III, 124.
1648. Middlesex. Bill against Katharine Fisher of Stratford-at-Bow
ignored. _Middlesex County Records_, III, 102.
1648. Norwich, Norfolk. Two women burnt. P. Browne,
_History of Norwich_ (Norwich, 1814), 38.
1649. Worcester. A Lancashire witch said to have been tried;
perhaps remanded to Lancashire. _A Collection of
Modern Relations._ The writer says that he received
the account from a "Person of Quality" who
attended the trial.
1649. Middlesex. Elizabeth Smythe of St. Martin's-in-the-Fields
acquitt
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