uildford, and who had unsuccessfully appealed
to a justice in London against her persecutor,
tried and acquitted. Hutchinson, 46. _The
Tryal of Richard Hathaway_ (1702); _A Full and
True Account of the Apprehending and Taking of
Mrs. Sarah Moordike_ (1701); _A short Account of
the Trial held at Surry Assizes, in the Borough of
Southwark_ (1702). See above, app. A, Sec. 7.
1701. Kingston, Surrey. Woman acquitted. _Notes and
Queries_ (April 10, 1909), quoting from the _London
Post_ of Aug. 1-4, 1701.
1701-02. Devonshire. Susanna Hanover acquitted. Inderwick.
1702-03. Wilts. Joanna Tanner acquitted. Inderwick.
1704. Middlesex. Sarah Griffiths committed to Bridewell.
_A Full and True Account ... of a Notorious Witch_
(London, 1704).
1705. Northampton. Two women said to have been burned
here. Story improbable. See above, appendix A, Sec. 10.
1707. Somerset. Maria Stevens acquitted. Inderwick.
1712. Hertford. Jane Wenham condemned, but reprieved.
See footnotes to chapter XIII and app. A, Sec. 9.
1716. Huntingdon. Two witches, a mother and daughter,
said to have been executed here. Story improbable.
See above, app. A, Sec. 10.
1717. Leicester. Jane Clark and her daughter said to have
been tried. _Leicestershire and Rutland Notes and
Queries_, I, 247.
1717. Leicester. Mother Norton and her daughter acquitted.
Brit. Mus., Add. MSS., 35,838, fol. 404.
I am unwilling to close this work without an expression of my gratitude
to the libraries, on both sides of the sea, which have so generously
welcomed me to the use of their books and pamphlets on English
witchcraft--many of them excessively rare and precious. They have made
possible this study. My debt is especially great to the libraries of the
British Museum and of Lambeth Palace at London, to the Bodleian Library
at Oxford, and in America to the Boston Athenaeum and to the university
libraries of Yale and Harvard. To the unrivalled White collection at
Cornell my obligation is deepest of all.
[1] The references in this list, together with the account, in appendix
A, of the pamphlet literature of witchcraft, are designed to take the
place of a formal bibliography. That the list of cases here given is
complete can hardly be hoped. Crude though its materials compel it to
be, the aut
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