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1664. Somerset. A ”h.e.l.lish knot” of witches (Hutchinson says twelve) accused before justice of the peace Robert Hunt. His discovery stopped by ”some of them in authority.” Glanvill, _Sadducismus Triumphatus_, pt. ii, 256-257. But see case of Elizabeth Style above.

1664. Somerset. A witch condemned at the a.s.sizes. She may have been one of those brought before Hunt. _Cal.

St. P., Dom., 1663-1664_, 552.

1664. Bury St. Edmunds, Suffolk. Rose Cullender and Amy Duny condemned. _A Tryal of Witches at ... Bury St. Edmunds_ (1682).

1664. Newcastle. Jane Simpson, Isabell Atcheson and Katharine Curry accused before the mayor. _York Depositions_, 124.

1664. York. Alice Huson and Doll Dilby tried. Both made confessions. Copied for _A Collection of Modern Relations_ (see p. 52) from a paper written by the justice of the peace, Corbet.

1665. Wilts. Jone Mereweather of Weeke in Bishop's Cannings committed. _Hist. MSS. Comm. Reports_, _Various_, I, 147.

1665. Newcastle. Mrs. Pepper accused before the mayor.

_York Depositions_, 127.

1665. Three persons convicted of murder and executed for killing a supposed witch. Joseph Hunter, _Life of Heywood_ (London, 1842), 167-168, note.

1666. Lancas.h.i.+re. Four witches of Haigh examined, two committed but probably acquitted. _Cal. St. P., Dom., 1665-1666_, 225.

1667. Newcastle, Northumberland. Emmy Gaskin of Landgate accused before the mayor. _York Depositions_, 154.

1667. Norfolk. A fortune-teller or conjuror condemned to imprisonment. _Cal. St. P., Dom., 1667_, 30.

1667. Ipswich, Suffolk. Two witches possibly imprisoned.

Story doubtful. _Cal. St. P., Dom., 1667-1668_, 4.

1667. Devizes, Wilts. ”An old woman” imprisoned, charged with bewitching by making and p.r.i.c.king an image.

Blagrave, _Astrological Practice_ (London 1689), 90, 103.

1667. Lancas.h.i.+re. Widow Bridge and her sister, Margaret Loy, both of Liverpool, accused. _The Moore Rental_ (Chetham Soc., 1847), 59-60.

1668. Durham. Alice Armstrong of Strotton tried, but almost certainly acquitted. Tried twice again in the next year with the same result. Sykes, _Local Records_, II, 369.

1668. Warwick. Many witches ”said to be in hold.” _Cal. St.

P., Dom., 1668-1669_, 25.

1669. Hertfords.h.i.+re. John Allen of Stondon indicted for calling Joan Mills a witch. _Hertfords.h.i.+re County Sessions Rolls_, I, 217.

1670. Yorks.h.i.+re. Anne Wilkinson acquitted. _York Depositions_, 176 and note.

1670. Latton Wilts. Jane Townshend accused. _Hist. MSS.

Comm. Reports, Various_. I, 150-151.

1670. Wilts. Elizabeth Peac.o.c.k acquitted. See Inderwick's list of witch trials in the western circuit, in his _Sidelights on the Stuarts_ (London, 1888), 190-194.

Hereafter the reference ”Inderwick” will mean this list. See also above, p. 269, note.

1670. Devons.h.i.+re. Elizabeth Eburye and Aliena Walter acquitted.

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