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1687. Devons.h.i.+re. Abigail Handford acquitted. Inderwick.

1689. Wilts. Margareta Young condemned but reprieved.

Christiana Dunne acquitted. Inderwick.

1690. Taunton, Somerset. Elizabeth Farrier (Carrier), Margaret Coombes and Ann Moore committed. Coombes died in prison at Brewton. The other two acquitted at the a.s.sizes. Inderwick; Baxter, _Certainty of the World of Spirits_, 74-75.

1692. Wilts. Woman committed. _Hist. MSS. Comm. Reports_, _Various_, I, 160.

1693. Suffolk. Widow Chambers of Upaston committed, died in gaol. Hutchinson, _Historical Essay concerning Witchcraft_, 42.

1693-94. Devons.h.i.+re. Dorothy Case acquitted on three indictments.

Inderwick.

1693-94. Devons.h.i.+re. Katherine Williams acquitted. Inderwick.

1694. Bury St. Edmunds, Suffolk. Mother Munnings of Hartis acquitted. Hutchinson, _op. cit._, 43.

1694. Somerset. Action brought against three men for swimming Margaret Waddam. _Hist. MSS. Comm. Reports_, _Various_, I, 160.

1694. Ipswich, Suffolk. Margaret Elnore acquitted. Hutchinson, 44.

1694. Kent. Ann Hart of Sandwich convicted, but went free under a general act of pardon. W. Boys, _Collections for an History of Sandwich_, 718.

1694-95. Devons.h.i.+re. Clara Roach acquitted. Inderwick.

1695. Launceston, Cornwall. Mary Guy or Daye acquitted.

Hutchinson, 44-45; Inderwick gives the name as Maria Daye (or Guy) and puts the trial in Devons.h.i.+re in 1696.

1696. Devons.h.i.+re. Elizabeth Horner acquitted on three indictments, Hutchinson, 45; Inderwick. See also letter from sub-dean Blackburne to the Bishop of Exeter in Brand, _Popular Antiquities_ (ed. of 1905), II, 648-649.

1698-99. Wilts. Ruth Young acquitted. Inderwick.

1700. Dorset. Anne Grantly and Margaretta Way acquitted.

Inderwick.