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Mother Sutton and Mary Sutton.

1616. Middles.e.x.

Elizabeth Rutter.

1616. Middles.e.x.

Joan Hunt.

1619. Lincoln.

Margaret and Philippa Flower.

1621. Edmonton.

Elizabeth Sawyer.

2.--Not Charged with Causing Death (so far as shown by records).

1607. Rye, Kent.

Two women entertained spirits, ”to gain wealth.”

1612. Lancaster.

John and Jane Bulc.o.c.k, making to waste away. It was testified against them that at Malking Tower they consented to murder, but this was apparently not in the indictment. Acquitted, but later convicted.

Alizon Device, caused to waste away.

Isabel Robey, caused illness.

1616. Enfield, Middles.e.x.

Agnes Berrye, laming and causing to languish.

1616. King's Lynn.

Mary Smith, hanged for causing four people to languish.

1616. Leicester.

Nine women hanged for bewitching a boy. Six more condemned on same charge, but pardoned by command of king.

Mixed Cases.

1607. Bakewell.

Our evidence as to the Bakewell witches is too incomplete to a.s.sure us that they were not accused of killing by witchcraft.

1612. Northampton.

Agnes Brown and Joane Vaughan were indicted for bewitching Master Avery and Mistress Belcher, ”together with the body of a young child to the death.”

C.--LIST OF CASES OF WITCHCRAFT, 1558-1718, WITH REFERENCES TO SOURCES AND LITERATURE.[1]

1558. John Thirkle, ”taylour, detected of conjuringe,” to be examined. _Acts of Privy Council_, n. s., VII, 6.

---- Several persons in London charged with conjuration to be sent to the Bishop of London for examination.

_Ibid._, 22.

1559. Westminster. Certain persons examined on suspicion, including probably Lady Frances Throgmorton. _Cal.