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c. 1680. Derbys.h.i.+re. Elizabeth Hole of Wingerworth accused and committed for charging a baronet with witchcraft.

J. C. c.o.x, _Three Centuries of Derbys.h.i.+re Annals_, II, 90.

1680. Yorks.h.i.+re, Elizabeth Fenwick of Longwitton acquitted.

_York Depositions_, 247.

1682. London. Jane Kent acquitted. _A Full and True Account ... but more especially the Tryall of Jane Kent for Witchcraft_ (1682).

1682. Surrey. Joan b.u.t.ts acquitted. _Strange and Wonderfull News from Yowell in Surry_ (1681); _An Account of the Tryal and Examination of Joan Buts_ (1682).

1682. Devons.h.i.+re. Temperance Lloyd acquitted on one indictment, found guilty on another. Susanna Edwards and Mary Trembles found guilty. All three executed.

Inderwick; North, _Life of North_, 130; see also app. A, -- 6, above.

1682-88. Northumberland. Margaret Stothard of Edlingham accused. E. Mackenzie, _History of Northumberland_, II, 33-36.

1683. London. Jane Dodson acquitted. _An Account of the Whole Proceedings at the Sessions Holden at the Sessions House in the Old Baily ..._ (1683).

1683. Somerset. Elenora, Susannah, and Marie Harris, and Anna Clarke acquitted. Inderwick.

1684. Devons.h.i.+re. Alicia Molland found guilty. Inderwick.

1685. Devons.h.i.+re. Jane Vallet acquitted on three indictments.

Inderwick.

temp. Carol. II. Devons.h.i.+re. Agnes Ryder of Woodbury accused, probably committed. A. H. A. Hamilton, _Quarter Sessions chiefly in Devon_ (London, 1878), 220.

temp. Carol. II. Ipswich, Suffolk. A woman in prison. William Drage, _Daimonomageia_, 11.

temp. Carol. II. Herts. Two suspected witches of Baldock ducked. _Ibid._, 40.

temp. Carol. II. St. Albans, Herts. Man and woman imprisoned.

Woman ducked. _Ibid._

temp. Carol. II. Taunton Dean, Somerset. Man acquitted.

North, _Life of North_, 131.

1685-86. Malmesbury, Wilts. Fourteen persons accused, among whom were the three women, Peac.o.c.k, Tilling and Witch.e.l.l, who had been tried in 1672. Eleven set at liberty; Peac.o.c.k, Tilling and Witch.e.l.l kept in prison awhile, probably released eventually. _Gentleman's Magazine_, 1832, pt. I, 489-492.

1686. Somerset. Honora Phippan acquitted on two indictments.

Inderwick.

1686. Cornwall. Jane Noal, alias Nickless, alias Nicholas, and Betty Seeze committed to Launceston gaol for bewitching a fifteen-year-old boy. We know from Inderwick that Jane Nicholas was acquitted. _A True Account of ... John Tonken of Pensans in Cornwall_ (1686).

1687. York. Witch condemned, probably reprieved. _Memoirs and Travels of Sir John Reresby_ (London, 1812), 329.

1687. Dorset. Dewnes Knumerton and Elizabeth Hengler acquitted.

Inderwick. For examination of first see Roberts, _Southern Counties_, 525-526.

1687. Wilts. M. Parle acquitted. Inderwick.

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