Part 39 (2/2)
1645-46. Cambridges.h.i.+re. Several accused, at least one or two of whom were executed. Ady, _Candle in the Dark_, 135; Stearne, 39, 45; H. More, _Antidote against Atheisme_, 128-129. This may have been what is referred to in Glanvill's _Sadducismus Triumphatus_, pt. ii, 208-209.
1646. Northamptons.h.i.+re. Several witches hanged. One died in prison. Stearne, 11, 23, 34-35.
1646. Huntingdons.h.i.+re. Many accused, of whom at least ten were examined and several executed, among them John Wynnick. One woman swam and was released. John Davenport, _Witches of Huntingdon_ (London, 1646); H. More, _Antidote against Atheisme_, 125; Stearne, 11, 13, 17, 19, 20-21, 39, 42.
1646. Bedfords.h.i.+re. Elizabeth Gurrey of Risden made confession.
Stearne says a Huntingdons.h.i.+re witch confessed that ”at Tilbrooke bushes in Bedfords.h.i.+er ... there met above twenty at one time.” Huntingdons.h.i.+re witches seem meant, but perhaps not alone.
Stearne, 11, 31.
c. 1646. Yarmouth, Norfolk. Stearne mentions a woman who suffered here. Stearne, 53.
1646. Heptenstall, Yorks.h.i.+re. Elizabeth Crossley, Mary Midgley, and two other women examined before two justices of the peace. _York Depositions_, 6-9.
1647. Ely, Cambridges.h.i.+re. Stearne mentions ”those executed at Elie, a little before Michaelmas last, ...
also one at Chatterish there, one at March there, and another at Wimblington there, now lately found, still to be tryed”; and again ”one Moores wife of Sutton, in the Isle of Elie,” who ”confessed her selfe guilty” and was executed; and yet again ”one at Heddenham in the Isle of Ely,” who ”made a very large Confession” and must have paid the penalty. Stearne, 17, 21, 37; Gibbons, _Ely Episcopal Records_ (Lincoln, 1891), 112-113.
1647. Middles.e.x. Helen Howson acquitted. _Middles.e.x County Records_, III, 124.
1648. Middles.e.x. Bill against Katharine Fisher of Stratford-at-Bow ignored. _Middles.e.x County Records_, III, 102.
1648. Norwich, Norfolk. Two women burnt. P. Browne, _History of Norwich_ (Norwich, 1814), 38.
1649. Worcester. A Lancas.h.i.+re witch said to have been tried; perhaps remanded to Lancas.h.i.+re. _A Collection of Modern Relations._ The writer says that he received the account from a ”Person of Quality” who attended the trial.
1649. Middles.e.x. Elizabeth Smythe of St. Martin's-in-the-Fields acquitted. _Middles.e.x County Records_, III, 191.
1649. Middles.e.x. Dorothy Brumley acquitted. _Ibid._
1649. St. Albans. John Palmer and Elizabeth Knott said to have been hanged for witches. _The Divels Delusion_ (1649).
1649. Berwick. Thirty women, examined on the accusation of a Scotch witch-finder, committed to prison.
Whitelocke, _Memorials_, III, 99; John Fuller, _History of Berwick_ (Edinburgh, 1799), 155-156, giving extracts from the Guild Hall Books; John Sykes, _Local Records_ (Newcastle, 1833), I, 103-105.
1649. Gloucester. Witch tried at the a.s.sizes. _A Collection of Modern Relations_, 52.
1649-50. Yorks.h.i.+re. Mary Sykes and Susan Beaumont committed and searched. The former acquitted, bill against the latter ignored. _York Depositions_, 28.
1649-50. Durham. Several witches at Gateshead examined, and carried to Durham for trial; ”a grave for a witch.” Sykes, _Local Records_, I, 105; or _Denham Tracts_ (Folk-Lore Soc.), II, 338.
1649-50. Newcastle. Thirty witches accused. Fourteen women and one man hanged, together with a witch from the county of Northumberland. Ralph Gardiner, _England's Grievance_ (London, 1655), 108; Sykes, _Local Records_, I, 103; John Brand, _History and Antiquities of Newcastle_ (London, 1789), II, 477-478; Whitelocke, _Memorials_, III, 128; _Chronicon Mirabile_ (London, 1841), 92.
1650. Yorks.h.i.+re. Ann Hudson of Skipsey charged. _York Depositions_, 38, note.
1650. c.u.mberland. A ”discovery of witches.” Sheriff perplexed.
_Cal. St. P., Dom., 1650_, 159.
1650. Derbys.h.i.+re. Ann Wagg of Ilkeston committed for trial. J. C. c.o.x, _Three Centuries of Derbys.h.i.+re Annals_, II, 88.
1650. Middles.e.x. Joan Roberts acquitted. _Middles.e.x County Records_, III, 284.
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