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1601. Bishop Burton, York. Two women apprehended for bewitching a boy. Brit. Mus., Add. MSS., 32,496, fol. 42 b.

1601. Middles.e.x. Richard Nelson of St. Katharine's arraigned.

_Middles.e.x County Records_, I, 260.

1601. Nottingham. Ellen Bark presented at the sessions.

_Records of the Borough of Nottingham_, IV, 260-261.

1602. Middles.e.x. Elizabeth Roberts of West Drayton indicted on three charges, acquitted. _Middles.e.x County Records_, I, 212.

1602. Saffron Walden, Ess.e.x. Alice Bentley tried before the quarter sessions. Case probably dismissed. Darrel, _A Survey of Certaine Dialogical Discourses_, 54.

temp. Eliz. Northfleet, Kent. Pardon to Alice S. for bewitching a cow and pigs. Bodleian, Rawlinson MSS., C 404, fol. 205 b.

temp. Eliz. Woman condemned to prison and pillory. Gifford, _Dialogue concerning Witches_ (1603), L 4 verso.

temp. Eliz. Cambridge. Two women perhaps hanged at this time. Henry More, _Antidote to Atheisme_, III. But see 1605, Cambridge.

temp. Eliz. Mother W. of W. H. said to have been executed.

Gifford, _Dialogue concerning Witches_, D 4 verso--E.

temp. Eliz. Mother W. of Great T. said to have been hanged.

_Ibid._, C 4.

temp. Eliz. Woman said to have been hanged. _Ibid._, L 3-L 3 verso.

temp. Eliz. Two women said to have been hanged. _Ibid._, I 3 verso.

1602-1603. London. Elizabeth Jackson sentenced, for bewitching Mary Glover, to four appearances in the pillory and a year in prison. John Swan, _A True and Breife Report of Mary Glover's Vexation_; E. Jorden, _A briefe discourse of ... the Suffocation of the Mother_, 1603; also a MS., _Marie Glover's late woefull case ... upon occasion of Doctor Jordens discourse of the Mother, wherein hee covertly taxeth, first the Phisitiones which judged her sicknes a vexation of Sathan and consequently the sentence of Lawe and proceeding against the Witche who was discovered to be a meanes thereof, with A defence of the truthe against D. J. his scandalous Impugnations_, by Stephen Bradwell, 1603. Brit. Mus., Sloane MSS., 831. An account by Lewis Hughes, appended to his _Certaine Grievances_ (1641-2), is quoted by Sinclar, _Satan's Invisible World Discovered_ (Edinburgh, 1685), 95-100; and hence Burton (_The Kingdom of Darkness_) and Hutchinson (_Historical Essay concerning Witchcraft_) a.s.sign a wrong date.

1603. Yorks.h.i.+re. Mary Pannel executed for killing in 1593.

Mayhall, _Annals of Yorks.h.i.+re_ (London, 1878), I, 58. See also E. Fairfax, _A Discourse of Witchcraft_, 179-180.

1603. Great Yarmouth, Norfolk. Ales Moore in gaol on suspicion.

C. J. Palmer, _History of Great Yarmouth_, II, 70.

1604. Wooler, Northumberland. Katherine Thompson and Anne Nevelson proceeded against by the Vicar General of the Bishop of Durham. Richardson, _Table Book_, I, 245; J. Raine, _York Depositions_, 127, note.

1605. Cambridge. A witch alarm. Letters of Sir Thomas Lake to Viscount Cranbourne, January 18, 1604/5, and of Sir Edward c.o.ke to Viscount Craybourne, Jan. 29, 1604/5, both in Brit. Mus., Add. MSS., 6177, fol. 403. This probably is the affair referred to in _Cal. St. P., Dom._, 1603-1610, 218. Nor is it impossible that Henry More had this affair in mind when he told of two women who were executed in Cambridge in the time of Elizabeth (see above, temp.

Eliz., Cambridge) and was two or three years astray in his reckoning.

1605. Doncaster, York. Jone Jurdie of Rossington examined.

Depositions in _Gentleman's Magazine_, 1857, pt. I, 593-595.

1606. Louth, Lincolns.h.i.+re. ”An Indictment against a Witche.”

R. W. Goulding, _Louth Old Corporation Records_ (Louth, 1891), 54.

1606. Hertford. Johanna Harrison and her daughter said to have been executed. This rests upon the pamphlet _The Most Cruell and b.l.o.o.d.y Murther_, ... See appendix A, -- 3.

1606. Richmond, Yorks.h.i.+re. Ralph Milner ordered by quarter sessions to make his submission at Mewkarr Church. _North Riding Record Society_, I, 58.