Butts acquitted. _Strange and Wonderfull
News from Yowell in Surry_ (1681); _An Account
of the Tryal and Examination of Joan Buts_ (1682).
1682. Devonshire. Temperance Lloyd acquitted on one indictment,
found guilty on another. Susanna Edwards
and Mary Trembles found guilty. All three executed.
Inderwick; North, _Life of North_, 130; see
also app. A, Sec. 6, above.
1682-88. Northumberland. Margaret Stothard of Edlingham
accused. E. Mackenzie, _History of Northumberland_,
II, 33-36.
1683. London. Jane Dodson acquitted. _An Account of the
Whole Proceedings at the Sessions Holden at the
Sessions House in the Old Baily ..._ (1683).
1683. Somerset. Elenora, Susannah, and Marie Harris, and
Anna Clarke acquitted. Inderwick.
1684. Devonshire. Alicia Molland found guilty. Inderwick.
1685. Devonshire. Jane Vallet acquitted on three indictments.
Inderwick.
temp. Carol. II. Devonshire. Agnes Ryder of Woodbury accused,
probably committed. A. H. A. Hamilton,
_Quarter Sessions chiefly in Devon_ (London, 1878), 220.
temp. Carol. II. Ipswich, Suffolk. A woman in prison. William
Drage, _Daimonomageia_, 11.
temp. Carol. II. Herts. Two suspected witches of Baldock
ducked. _Ibid._, 40.
temp. Carol. II. St. Albans, Herts. Man and woman imprisoned.
Woman ducked. _Ibid._
temp. Carol. II. Taunton Dean, Somerset. Man acquitted.
North, _Life of North_, 131.
1685-86. Malmesbury, Wilts. Fourteen persons accused, among
whom were the three women, Peacock, Tilling and
Witchell, who had been tried in 1672. Eleven set at
liberty; Peacock, Tilling and Witchell kept in prison
awhile, probably released eventually. _Gentleman's
Magazine_, 1832, pt. I, 489-492.
1686. Somerset. Honora Phippan acquitted on two indictments.
Inderwick.
1686. Cornwall. Jane Noal, alias Nickless, alias Nicholas,
and Betty Seeze committed to Launceston gaol for
bewitching a fifteen-year-old boy. We know from
Inderwick that Jane Nicholas was acquitted. _A
True Account of ... John Tonken of Pensans in
Cornwall_ (1686).
1687. York. Witch condemned, probably reprieved. _Memoirs
and Travels of Sir John Reresby_ (London, 1812), 329.
1687. Dorset. Dewnes Knumerton and
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