72 n., 403

Peckham, Sir George, 74 n.

Pelham, 151 n.

Pellican, cited, 15 n.

Pemberton, Sir Francis, 277

Pembroke, Simon, 387

Pembroke Hall, Cambridge, 89

Pendle Hill, or Forest, 121, 147, 315, 397

Pepper, Mrs., 259, 413

Pepys, Samuel, 309

Pereson, Jennet, 385

_Perfect Diurnal, A_, cited, 403

Perkins, William, 227-230, 240, 241, 242, 243

Perry, William, the "boy of Bilston," 140-142

Peter Martyr, 16 n.

Peter, R. and O. B., cited, 218 n., 409

Peterson, Joan, case of, 213-215, 408

Petty treason, its penalty not to be confused with that of witchcraft, 182

Phillips, Goody, 183

Phillips, John, 346, 351

Phillips, Mary, 382

Phippan, Honora, 417

Pickering, Gilbert, 47, 131 n.

Pickering, Sir Gilbert, 131 n.

Pickering, Henry, 48

Pickering, Thomas, 228 n.

Pickerings, the, 348

Pico della Mirandola, 286

Piers, Anne, 388

Pike, L. O., cited, 7

Pillory, punishment of, 30, 55, 104, 114

Pilton, Margaret, 398

Pinder, Rachel, 30 n., 59, 88, 351, 386

Pitcairn, Robert, cited, 95 n.

Plato, 238

_Pleasant Treatise of Witches, A_, 296

Plummer, Colonel, 328 n.

Poeton, Edward, cited, 400

Pole, Arthur, 25

Pole, Edmund, 25

Pollock and Maitland, cited, 6 and n., 7 n.

Popham, Sir John, 354

Potts, Thomas, 112, 113, 116, 125, 129, 130, 249, 357-358, 361.
Cited, 105-128 n., _passim_, 397, 398

Powell, Sir John, 272 n., 314, 320, 324, 327-328, 329, 330, 335, 374

Powell, Lady, 214-215

Powell, William, 346

Powle, ----, 409

Powstead, 404

Pregnancy, plea of, in delay of execution, 50, 96

Prentice, Joan, 348

Presbyterian party, its part in Hopkins crusade, 195-201

Prestall, John, 25, 387, 397

Preston, Jennet, 111 n., 112, 129, 249, 383, 398

Price, Joan, 409

Privy Council, its dealings with sorcerers, in the later Middle Ages,
4-10;
its campaign against conjurers under Elizabeth, 26-27;
the Abingdon trials, 27-28, 30 n.;
the Chelmsford trials, 34;
Dee's case, 53-54;
Darrel's, 87;
its part in the statute of James I, 103;
in the Lancashire trials of 1633, 152, 155, 156;
in the Somerset cases of 1664, 273.
_See also Acts of the Privy Council_ and _Council Register_.

_Protestant Post Boy, The_, 374

Prowting, Mary, 402

Queen's College, Cambridge, 143, 348

R., G., 374

R., H., 390

Rainsford, Sir Richard, 260, 268-269, 269-270