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St. P., Dom., 1547-1580_, 142.

c. 1559. Lady Chandos's daughter accused and imprisoned with George Throgmorton. Brit Mus., Add. MSS., 32,091, fol. 176.

1560. Kent. Mother Buske of St. John's suspected by the church authorities. Visitations of Canterbury in _Archaeologia Cantiana_, XXVI, 31.

1561. c.o.xe, alias Devon, a Romish priest, examined for magic and conjuration, and for celebrating ma.s.s. Cal. St.

_P., Dom., 1547-1580_, 173.

---- London. Ten men brought before the queen and council on charge of ”trespa.s.s, contempt, conjuration and sorceries.” Punished with the pillory and required to renounce such practices for the future. From an extract quoted in Brit. Mus., Sloane MSS., 3,943, fol. 19.

1565. Dorset. Agnes Mondaye to be apprehended for bewitching Mistress Chettell. _Acts P. C._, n. s., VII, 200-201.

1565-1573. Durham. Jennet Pereson accused to the church authorities. _Depositions ... from ... Durham_ (Surtees Soc.), 99.

1566. Chelmsford, Ess.e.x. Mother Waterhouse hanged; Alice Chandler hanged, probably at this time; Elizabeth Francis probably acquitted. _The examination and confession of certaine Wytches at Chensforde._ For the cases of Elizabeth Francis and Alice Chandler see also _A detection of d.a.m.nable driftes,_ A iv, A v, verso.

---- Ess.e.x. ”Boram's wief” probably examined by the archdeacon. W. H. Hale, _A Series of Precedents and Proceedings in Criminal Causes, 1475-1640, extracted from the Act Books of Ecclesiastical Courts in the Diocese of London_ (London, 1847), 147.

1569. Lyme, Dorset. Ellen Walker accused. Roberts, _Southern Counties_, 523.

1570. Ess.e.x. Malter's wife of Theydon Mount and Anne Vicars of Navestock examined by Sir Thomas Smith.

John Strype, _Life of Sir Thomas Smith_ (ed. of Oxford, 1820), 97-100.

1570-1571. Canterbury. Several witches imprisoned. Mother Dungeon presented by the grand jury. _Hist. MSS.

Comm. Reports_, IX, pt. 1, 156 b; Wm. Welfitt, ”Civis,” _Minutes collected from the Ancient Records of Canterbury_ (Canterbury, 1801-1802), no. VI.

---- ---- Folkestone, Kent. Margaret Browne, accused of ”unlawful practices,” banished from town for seven years, and to be whipped at the cart's tail if found within six or seven miles of town. S. J. Mackie, _Descriptive and Historical Account of Folkestone_ (Folkestone, 1883), 319.

1574. Westwell, Kent. ”Old Alice” [Norrington?] arraigned and convicted. Reginald Scot, _Discoverie of Witchcraft_, 130-131.

---- Middles.e.x. Joan Ellyse of Westminster convicted on several indictments for witchcraft and sentenced to be hanged. _Middles.e.x County Records_, I, 84.

c. 1574. Jane Thorneton accused by Rachel Pinder, who however confessed to fraud. _Discloysing of a late counterfeyted possession._

1575. Burntwood, Staffords.h.i.+re. Mother Arnold hanged at Barking. From the t.i.tle of a pamphlet mentioned by Lowndes: _The Examination and Confession of a notorious Witch named Mother Arnold, alias Whitecote, alias Glas...o...b..ry, at the a.s.sise of Burntwood in July, 1574; who was hanged for Witchcraft at Barking, 1575._ Mrs. Linton, Witch Stories, 153, says that many were hanged at this time, but I cannot find authority for the statement.

---- Middles.e.x. Elizabeth Ducke of Harmondsworth acquitted. _Middles.e.x County Records_, I, 94.

---- Great Yarmouth, Norfolk. Katharine Smythe acquitted.

Henry Harrod, ”Notes on the Records of the Corporation of Great Yarmouth,” in _Norfolk Archaeology_, IV, 248.

1577. Seaford, Suss.e.x. Joan Wood presented by the grand jury. M. A. Lower, ”Memorials of Seaford,” in Suss.e.x Archaeological Soc., _Collections_, VII, 98.

---- Middles.e.x. Helen Beriman of Laleham acquitted.

_Middles.e.x County Records_, I, 103.

---- Ess.e.x. Henry Chittam of Much Barfield to be tried for coining false money and conjuring. _Acts P. C._, n. s., IX, 391; X, 8, 62.

1578. Prescall, Sanford, and ”one Emerson, a preiste,” suspected of conjuration against the queen. The first two committed. _Id._, X, 382; see also 344, 373.

---- Evidence of the use of sorcery against the queen discovered.

_Cal. St. P., Spanish, 1568-1579_, 611; see also note to Ben Jonson's _Masque of Queenes_ (London, Shakespeare Soc., 1848), 71.

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