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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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