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1596-1597. Leicester. Mother Cooke hanged. Mary Bateson, _Records of the Borough of Leicester_ (Cambridge, 1899), III, 335.

1596-1597. Lancaster. Hartley condemned and executed.

John Darrel, _True Narration_ (in the _Somers Tracts_, III), 175, 176; George More, _A True Discourse concerning the certaine possession ... of 7 persons ... in Lancas.h.i.+re_, 18-22; John Darrel, _Detection of that sinnful ... discours of Samuel Harshnet_, 40.

1597. Nottingham. Thirteen or more accused by Somers, at least eight of whom were put in gaol. All but two discharged. Alice Freeman tried at the a.s.sizes and finally acquitted. John Darrel, _Detection of that sinnful ... discours of Samuel Harshnet_, 109-111; _An Apologie or defence of the possession of William Sommers_, L-L 3; Samuel Harsnett, _Discovery of the Fraudulent Practises of John Darrel_, 5, 102, 140-141, 320-322.

1597. St. Lawrence, Kent. Sibilla Ferris suspected by the church authorities. _Archaeol. Cant._, XXVI, 12.

1597. Nottingham. William Somers accused of witchcraft as a ruse to get him into the house of correction.

Darrel, _A True Narration of the ... Vexation ...

of seven persons in Lancas.h.i.+re_, in _Somers Tracts_, III, 184; also his _Brief Apologie_ (1599), 17.

1597. Yorks.h.i.+re. Elizabeth Melton of Collingham condemned, pardoned. _Cal. St. P., Dom._, 1595-1597, 400.

1597. Lancas.h.i.+re. Alice Brerely of Castleton condemned, pardoned. _Ibid._, 406.

1597. Middles.e.x. Agnes G.o.dfrey of Enfield held by the justice of the peace on 10 bail. _Middles.e.x County Records_, I, 237.

1597. St. Andrew's in Holborne, Middles.e.x. Josia Ryley arraigned. ”Po se mortuus in facie curie,” _i. e._ _Posuit se moriturum._ _Ibid._, 225.

1597. Middles.e.x. Helen Spokes of St. Giles-in-the-Fields acquitted. _Ibid._, 239.

1598. Berwick. Richard Swynbourne's wife accused. John Scott, _History of Berwick_ (London, 1888), 180.

1598. St. Peter's, Kent. Two women suspected by the church officials; one of them presented again the next year.

_Archaeol. Cant._, XXVI, 46.

1598. King's Lynn. Elizabeth Housegoe executed. Mackerell, _History and Antiquities of King's Lynn_, 232.

1599. Bury St. Edmunds, Suffolk. Jone Jordan of Shadbrook tried. Darrel, _A Survey of Certaine Dialogical Discourses_, 54.

1599. Bury St. Edmunds, Suffolk. Joane Nayler tried. _Ibid._

1599. Bury St. Edmunds, Suffolk. Oliffe Bartham of Shadbrook executed. _The Triall of Maist. Dorrel_, 92-98.

1599. London. Anne Kerke of Bokes-wharfe executed at ”Tiburn.” _The Triall of Maist. Dorrel_, 99-103.

1600. Hertford. A ”notable witch” committed to the gaol at Hertford. _Hist. MSS. Comm. Reports, Cecil MSS._, pt. X, 310.

1600. Rosa Bexwell pardoned. Bodleian, Tanner MSS., CLXVIII, fol. 104.

1600. Norfolk. Margaret Fraunces committed for a long time. Probably released by justice of the peace on new evidence. _Hist. MSS. Comm. Reports_, X, pt.

II (Gawdy MSS.), 71. See also below, pp. 400, 401.

1600. Ipswich, Suffolk. Several conjurers suspected. _Cal.

St. P., Dom._, 1598-1601, 523.

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