te." Story not entirely trustworthy.
_The most true and wonderfull Narration
of two women bewitched in Yorkshire ..._ (1658).
1658. Wapping, Middlesex. Lydia Rogers accused. _A More
Exact Relation of the most lamentable and horrid
Contract which Lydia Rogers ... made with the
Divel_ (1658). See app. A, Sec. 5, for another tract.
1658. Northamptonshire. Some witches of Welton said to
have been examined. Glanvill, _Sadducismus Triumphatus_
(1681), pt. ii, 263-268.
1658. Salisbury, Wilts. The widow Orchard said to have
been executed. From a MS. letter of 1685-86,
printed in the _Gentleman's Magazine_, 1832, pt. I,
405-410.
1659. Norwich, Norfolk. Mary Oliver burnt. P. Brown,
_History of Norwich_, 39. Francis Blomefield, _An
Essay towards a Topographical History of the
County of Norfolk_ (London, 1805-1810), III, 401.
1659. Middlesex. Elizabeth Kennett of Stepney accused. _Middlesex
County Records_, III, 278, 299.
1659. Hertfordshire. "Goody Free" accused of killing by
witchcraft. _Hertfordshire County Sessions Rolls_,
I, 126, 129.
1659-1660. Northumberland. Elizabeth Simpson of Tynemouth
accused. _York Depositions_, 82.
1660. Worcester. Joan Bibb of Rushock received L20 damages
for being ducked. _Gentleman's Magazine_, 1856,
pt. I, 39, from a letter of J. Noake of Worcester,
who used the Townshend MSS.
1660. Worcester. A widow and her two daughters, and a
man, from Kidderminster, tried. "Little proved."
Copied from the Townshend MSS. by Nash, in his
_Collections for the History of Worcestershire_ (1781-1799),
II, 38.
1660. Newcastle. Two suspected women detained in prison.
Extracts from the Municipal Accounts of Newcastle-upon-Tyne
in M. A. Richardson, _Reprints of Rare
Tracts ... illustrative of the History of the Northern
Counties_ (Newcastle, 1843-1847), III, 57.
1660. Canterbury, Kent. Several witches said to have been
executed. W. Welfitt ("Civis"), _Minutes of Canterbury_
(Canterbury, 1801-1802), no. X.
c. 1660. Sussex. A woman who had been formerly tried at
Maidstone watched and searched. MS. quoted in
_Sussex Archaeol. Collections_, XVIII, 111-113; see
also Samuel Clarke, _A Mirro
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