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Inderwick.

1670. Somerset. Anne Slade acquitted on two indictments.

Inderwick.

1670. Bucks. Ann Clarke reprieved. _Cal. St. P., Dom., 1670_, 388.

1671. Devons.h.i.+re. Johanna Elford acquitted. Inderwick.

1671. Devons.h.i.+re. Margaret Heddon acquitted on two indictments.

Inderwick.

1671. Falmouth. Several witches acquitted. _Cal. St. P., Dom., 1671_, 105, 171. Perhaps identical with the three, two men and a woman, mentioned by Inderwick as acquitted in Cornwall.

1672. Somerset. Margaret Stevens acquitted on two indictments.

Inderwick.

1672. Devons.h.i.+re. Phelippa Bruen acquitted on four indictments.

Inderwick.

1672. Wilts. Elizabeth Mills acquitted on two indictments.

Inderwick.

1672. Wilts. Elizabeth Peac.o.c.k, who had been acquitted two years before, acquitted on five indictments. Judith Witch.e.l.l acquitted on two, found guilty on a third.

She and Ann Tilling sentenced to execution. They must have been reprieved. Inderwick; _Gentleman's Magazine_, 1832, pt. II, p. 489-492.

1673. Yorks.h.i.+re, Northumberland, and Durham. At least twenty-three women and six men accused to various justices of the peace by Ann Armstrong, who confessed to being present at witch meetings, and who acted as a witch discoverer. Some of those whom she accused were accused by others. Margaret Milburne, whom she seems not to have mentioned, also accused, _York Depositions_, 191-202.

1674. Northampton. Ann Foster said to have been hanged for destroying sheep and burning barns by witchcraft.

_A Full and True Relation of The Tryal, Condemnation, and Execution of Ann Foster_ (1674).

1674. Middles.e.x. Elizabeth Row of Hackney held in bail for her appearance at Quarter Sessions. _Middles.e.x County Records_, IV, 42-43.

1674. Southton, Somerset. John and Agnes Knipp acquitted.

Inderwick.

1674? (see above, p. 269, note). Salisbury. Woman acquitted, but kept in gaol. North, _Life of North_, 130, 131.

1674-75. Lancas.h.i.+re. Joseph Hinchcliffe and his wife bound over to appear at the a.s.sizes. He committed suicide and his wife died soon after. _York Depositions_, 208; Oliver Heywood's _Diary_ (1881-1885), I, 362.

1675. Southton, Somerset. Martha Rylens acquitted on five indictments. Inderwick.

1676. Devons.h.i.+re. Susannah Daye acquitted. Inderwick.

1676. Cornwall. Mary Clarkson acquitted. Inderwick.

c. 1679. Ely, Cambridges.h.i.+re. Witch condemned, but reprieved.

Hutchinson, _Historical Essay concerning Witchcraft_, 41.

c. 1680. Somerset. Anna Rawlins acquitted. Inderwick.