n. _Leicestershire
and Rutland Notes and Queries_, I, 247; James
Thompson, _Leicester_ (Leicester, 1849), 406.
1650. Alnwick. Dorothy Swinow, wife of a colonel, indicted.
Nothing further came of it. _Wonderfull News from
the North_ (1650).
1650. Middlesex. Elizabeth Smith acquitted. _Middlesex
County Records_, III, 284.
c. 1650-60. St. Alban's, Herts. Two witches suspected and
probably tried. Drage, _Daimonomageia_ (1665), 40-41.
1651. Yorkshire. Margaret Morton acquitted. _York Depositions_, 38.
1651. Middlesex. Elizabeth Lanam of Stepney acquitted.
_Middlesex County Records_, III, 202, 285.
1651. Colchester, Essex. John Lock sentenced to one year's
imprisonment and four appearances in the pillory.
Brit. Mus., Stowe MSS., 840, fol. 43.
1652. Yorkshire. Hester France of Huddersfield accused before
the justice of the peace. _York Depositions_, 51.
1652. Maidstone, Kent. Six women hanged, others indicted.
_A Prodigious and Tragicall History of the Arraignment
... of six Witches at Maidstone ..._ by
"H. F. Gent.," 1652; _The Faithful Scout_, July 30-Aug.
7, 1652; Ashmole's Diary in _Lives of Ashmole
and Lilly_ (London, 1774), 316.
1652. Middlesex. Joan Peterson of Wapping acquitted on
one charge, found guilty on another, and hanged.
_Middlesex County Records_, III, 287; _The Witch of
Wapping_; _A Declaration in Answer to several lying
Pamphlets concerning the Witch of Wapping_; _The
Tryall and Examinations of Mrs. Joan Peterson_;
_French Intelligencer_, Apr. 6-13, 1652; _Mercurius
Democritus_, Apr. 7-14, 1652; _Weekly Intelligencer_,
April 6-13, 1652; _Faithful Scout_, Apr. 9-16, 1652.
1652. London. Susan Simpson acquitted. _A True and Perfect
List of the Names of those Prisoners in Newgate_
(London, 1652).
1652. Worcester. Catherine Huxley of Evesham, charged
with bewitching a nine-year-old girl, hanged. Baxter,
_Certainty of the World of Spirits_ (London, 1691),
44-45. Baxter's narrative was sent him by "the now
Minister of the place."
1652. Middlesex. Temperance Fossett of Whitechapel acquitted.
_Middlesex County Records_, III, 208, 288.
1652. Middlesex. Margery Scott of St Martin's-in-the-Fields
acqu
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