ed. _Middlesex County Records_, III, 191.
1649. Middlesex. Dorothy Brumley acquitted. _Ibid._
1649. St. Albans. John Palmer and Elizabeth Knott said to
have been hanged for witches. _The Divels Delusion_ (1649).
1649. Berwick. Thirty women, examined on the accusation
of a Scotch witch-finder, committed to prison.
Whitelocke, _Memorials_, III, 99; John Fuller, _History
of Berwick_ (Edinburgh, 1799), 155-156, giving extracts
from the Guild Hall Books; John Sykes,
_Local Records_ (Newcastle, 1833), I, 103-105.
1649. Gloucester. Witch tried at the assizes. _A Collection of
Modern Relations_, 52.
1649-50. Yorkshire. Mary Sykes and Susan Beaumont committed
and searched. The former acquitted, bill
against the latter ignored. _York Depositions_, 28.
1649-50. Durham. Several witches at Gateshead examined,
and carried to Durham for trial; "a grave for a
witch." Sykes, _Local Records_, I, 105; or _Denham
Tracts_ (Folk-Lore Soc.), II, 338.
1649-50. Newcastle. Thirty witches accused. Fourteen
women and one man hanged, together with a witch
from the county of Northumberland. Ralph Gardiner,
_England's Grievance_ (London, 1655), 108;
Sykes, _Local Records_, I, 103; John Brand, _History
and Antiquities of Newcastle_ (London, 1789), II,
477-478; Whitelocke, _Memorials_, III, 128; _Chronicon
Mirabile_ (London, 1841), 92.
1650. Yorkshire. Ann Hudson of Skipsey charged. _York
Depositions_, 38, note.
1650. Cumberland. A "discovery of witches." Sheriff perplexed.
_Cal. St. P., Dom., 1650_, 159.
1650. Derbyshire. Ann Wagg of Ilkeston committed for
trial. J. C. Cox, _Three Centuries of Derbyshire
Annals_, II, 88.
1650. Middlesex. Joan Roberts acquitted. _Middlesex County
Records_, III, 284.
1650. Stratford-at-Bow, Middlesex. Witch said to have been
apprehended, but "escaped the law." Glanvill,
_Sadducismus Triumphatus_, pt. ii, Relation XX.
1650. Middlesex. Joan Allen sentenced to be hanged. _Middlesex
County Records_, III, 284. _The Weekly Intelligencer_,
Oct. 7, 1650, refers to the hanging of a witch
at the Old Bailey, probably Joan.
1650. Leicester. Anne Chettle searched and acquitted. Tried
again two years later. Result unknow
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