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---- Suss.e.x. ”One Tree, bailiff of Lewes, and one Smith of Chinting” to be examined. _Acts P. C._, n. s., X, 220.

1579. Chelmsford, Ess.e.x. Three women executed. Mother Staunton released because ”no manslaughter objected against her.” _A Detection of d.a.m.nable driftes._

---- Abingdon, Berks. Four women hanged; at least two others and probably more were apprehended. _A Rehearsall both straung and true of ... acts committed by Elisabeth Stile ..._; _Acts P. C._, n. s., XI, 22; Scot, _Discoverie of Witchcraft_, 10, 51, 543.

---- Certain persons suspected of sorcery to be examined by the Bishop of London. _Acts P. C._, n. s., XI, 36.

---- Salop, Worcester, and Montgomery. Samuel Cocwra paid for ”searching for certen persons suspected for conjuracion.” _Ibid._, 292.

---- Southwark. Simon Pembroke, a conjurer, brought to the parish church of St. Saviour's to be tried by the ”ordinarie judge for those parties,” but falls dead before the opening of the trial. Holinshed, _Chronicles_ (ed. of 1586-1587), III, 1271.

---- Southampton. Widow Walker tried by the leet jury, outcome unknown. J. S. Davies, _History of Southampton_ (Southampton, 1883), 236.

1579-1580. Shrops.h.i.+re. Mother Garve punished in the corn market. Owen and Blakeway, _History of Shrewsbury_, I, 562.

1580. Stanhope, Durham. Ann Emerson accused by the church officials. _Injunctions ... of ... Bishop of Durham_ (Surtees Soc.), 126.

---- Bucks. John Coleman and his wife examined by four justices of the peace at the command of the privy council. They were probably released. _Acts P. C._, n.

s., XI, 427; XII, 29.

---- Kent. Several persons to be apprehended for conjuration.

_Id._, XII, 21-23.

---- Somerset. Henry Harrison and Thomas Wadham, suspected of conjuration, to appear before the privy council. _Ibid._, 22-23.

---- Somerset. Henry Fize of Westpenner, detected in conjuration, brought before the privy council. _Ibid._, 34.

---- Ess.e.x. ”Sondery persones” charged with sorceries and conjuration. _Acts P. C._, XII, 29, 34.

1581. Randoll and four others accused for ”conjuring to know where treasure was hid in the earth.” Randoll and three others found guilty. Randoll alone executed. Holinshed, _Chronicles_ (London, 1808), IV, 433.

1581. Padstow, Cornwall. Anne Piers accused of witchcraft.

Examination of witnesses. _Cal. St. P., Dom., 1581-1590_, 29. See also _Acts P. C._, n. s., XIII, 228.

1581. Rochester, Kent. Margaret Simmons acquitted. Scot, _Discoverie_, 5.

1581-82. Colchester, Ess.e.x. Annis Herd accused before the ”spiritual Courte.” _Witches taken at St. Oses_, 1582.

1582. St. Osyth, Ess.e.x. Sixteen accused, one of whom was a man. How many were executed uncertain. It seems to have been a tradition that thirteen were executed.

Scot wrote that seventeen or eighteen were executed.

_Witches taken at St. Oses_, 1582; Scot, _Discoverie_, 543.

1582 (or before). ”T. E., Maister of Art and practiser both of physicke, and also in times past, of certeine vaine sciences,” condemned for conjuration, but reprieved.

Scot, _Discoverie_, 466-469.

1582. Middles.e.x. Margery Androwes of Clerkenwell held in bail. _Middles.e.x County Records_, I, 133.

1582. Durham. Alison Lawe of Hart compelled to do penance.

_Denham Tracts_ (Folk-Lore Soc.), II, 332.

1582. Kent. Goodwife Swane of St. John's suspected by the church authorities. _Archaeol. Cant._, XXVI, 19.