A History of Witchcraft in England from 1558 to 1718 Part 36

1589. Mrs. Deir brought into question for sorcery against the queen. Charge dismissed. Strype, _Annals of the Reformation_ (London, 1709-1731), IV, 7-8.

1590. Mrs. Dewse suspected of attempting to make use of conjurors.

_Cal. St. P., Dom._, 1581-1590, 644.

1590. John Bourne, a "sorcerer and seducer," arrested. _Acts P. C._, n. s., XVIII, 373.

1590. Berwick. A Scottish witch imprisoned. John Scott, _History of Berwick_ (London, 1888), 180; _Archaeologia_, x.x.x, 172.

1590. Norfolk. Margaret Grame accused before justice of the peace. Neighbors pet.i.tion in her behalf. _Hist. MSS.

Comm. Reports, Various_, II, 243-244.

1590. King's Lynn. Margaret Read burnt. Benjamin Mackerell, _History and Antiquities ... of King's Lynn_, (London, 1738), 231.

1590. Edmonton, Middles.e.x. Certain men taken for witchcraft and conjuring. Bloodhound used in pursuit of them. _Cal. St. P., Dom._, 1581-1590, 689.

1590-91. Hertfordshire. Indictment of Joan White for killing.

_Hertfordshire County Session Rolls_, I, 4.

1591. John Prestall suspected. _Cal. St. P., Dom._, 1591-1594, 17-19.

1591. Middles.e.x. Stephen Trefulback of Westminster given penalty of statute, _i. e._, probably pillory. _Middles.e.x County Records_, I, 197.

1592. Colchester, Ess.e.x. Margaret Rand indicted by grand jury. Brit. Mus., Stowe MSS., 840, fol. 42.

1592. Yorkshire. "Sara B. de C." examined. West, _Symboleography_, pt. II (London, 1594), ed. of 1611, fol.

134 verso (reprinted in _County Folk-Lore_, Folk-Lore Soc., 135). Whether the "S. B. de C. in comit.

H." whose indictment in the same year is printed also by West may possibly be the same woman can not be determined.

1592. Yorkshire. Margaret L. de A. examined. _Ibid._

1593. Warboys, Huntingdonshire. Mother, daughter and father Samuel executed. _The most strange and admirable discoverie of the three Witches of Warboys._ 1593. See also John Darrel, _A Detection of that sinnful ... discours of Samuel Harshnet_, 20-21, 39-40, 110. Harsnett, _Discovery of the Fraudulent Practises of John Darrel_, 93, 97.

1594. Jane Sh.e.l.ley examined for using sorcerers to find the time of the queen's death. _Hist. MSS. Comm., Cecil._, pt. V, 25.

1595. St. Peter's Kent. Two women presented by the church authorities. Still suspected in 1599. _Archaeol. Cant._, XXVI, 46.

1595. Woodbridge, Suffolk. Witches put in the pillory.

_County Folk-Lore, Suffolk_ (Folk-Lore Soc., London, 1895), 193.

1595. Jane Mortimer pardoned for witchcraft. Bodleian, Tanner MSS., CLXVIII, fol. 29.

1595. Near Bristol, Somerset. Severall committed for the Earl of Derby's death. _Hist. MSS. Comm. Reports_, IV, app., 366 b. See also E. Baines's _Lancaster_ (London, 1870), 273-274 and note.

1595. Barnet and Braynford, Herts. Three witches executed.

From t.i.tle of pamphlet mentioned by Lowndes, _The Arraignment and Execution of 3 detestable Witches, John Newell, Joane his wife, and h.e.l.len Calles: two executed at Barnett and one at Braynford_, 1 Dec. 1595.

1596 (or before). Derbyshire. Elizabeth Wright (mother of Alice Gooderidge) several times summoned before the justice of the peace on suspicion. _The most wonderfull and true Storie of ... Alse Gooderidge_ (1597).

1596. Burton-upon-Trent, Derbyshire. Alice Gooderidge tried at Derby, convicted. Died in prison. Harsnett, _Discovery of the fraudulent Practises of John Darrel; John Darrel, Detection of that sinnful ... discours of Samuel Harshnet_, 38, 40; _The most wonderfull and true Storie of ... Alse Gooderidge_ (1597).

1596-1597. Leicester. Mother Cooke hanged. Mary Bateson, _Records of the Borough of Leicester_ (Cambridge, 1899), III, 335.

1596-1597. Lancaster. Hartley condemned and executed.

John Darrel, _True Narration_ (in the _Somers Tracts_, III), 175, 176; George More, _A True Discourse concerning the certaine possession ... of 7 persons ... in Lancashire_, 18-22; John Darrel, _Detection of that sinnful ... discours of Samuel Harshnet_, 40.

1597. Nottingham. Thirteen or more accused by Somers, at least eight of whom were put in gaol. All but two discharged. Alice Freeman tried at the a.s.sizes and finally acquitted. John Darrel, _Detection of that sinnful ... discours of Samuel Harshnet_, 109-111; _An Apologie or defence of the possession of William Sommers_, L-L 3; Samuel Harsnett, _Discovery of the Fraudulent Practises of John Darrel_, 5, 102, 140-141, 320-322.

1597. St. Lawrence, Kent. Sibilla Ferris suspected by the church authorities. _Archaeol. Cant._, XXVI, 12.

1597. Nottingham. William Somers accused of witchcraft as a ruse to get him into the house of correction.

Darrel, _A True Narration of the ... Vexation ...

of seven persons in Lancashire_, in _Somers Tracts_, III, 184; also his _Brief Apologie_ (1599), 17.

1597. Yorkshire. Elizabeth Melton of Collingham condemned, pardoned. _Cal. St. P., Dom._, 1595-1597, 400.

1597. Lancashire. Alice Brerely of Castleton condemned, pardoned. _Ibid._, 406.

1597. Middles.e.x. Agnes G.o.dfrey of Enfield held by the justice of the peace on 10 bail. _Middles.e.x County Records_, I, 237.

1597. St. Andrew's in Holborne, Middles.e.x. Josia Ryley arraigned. "Po se mortuus in facie curie," _i. e._ _Posuit se moriturum._ _Ibid._, 225.

1597. Middles.e.x. Helen Spokes of St. Giles-in-the-Fields acquitted. _Ibid._, 239.

1598. Berwick. Richard Swynbourne's wife accused. John Scott, _History of Berwick_ (London, 1888), 180.

1598. St. Peter's, Kent. Two women suspected by the church officials; one of them presented again the next year.

_Archaeol. Cant._, XXVI, 46.

1598. King's Lynn. Elizabeth Housegoe executed. Mackerell, _History and Antiquities of King's Lynn_, 232.

1599. Bury St. Edmunds, Suffolk. Jone Jordan of Shadbrook tried. Darrel, _A Survey of Certaine Dialogical Discourses_, 54.

1599. Bury St. Edmunds, Suffolk. Joane Nayler tried. _Ibid._

1599. Bury St. Edmunds, Suffolk. Oliffe Bartham of Shadbrook executed. _The Triall of Maist. Dorrel_, 92-98.

1599. London. Anne Kerke of Bokes-wharfe executed at "Tiburn." _The Triall of Maist. Dorrel_, 99-103.

1600. Hertford. A "notable witch" committed to the gaol at Hertford. _Hist. MSS. Comm. Reports, Cecil MSS._, pt. X, 310.

1600. Rosa Bexwell pardoned. Bodleian, Tanner MSS., CLXVIII, fol. 104.

1600. Norfolk. Margaret Fraunces committed for a long time. Probably released by justice of the peace on new evidence. _Hist. MSS. Comm. Reports_, X, pt.

II (Gawdy MSS.), 71. See also below, pp. 400, 401.

1600. Ipswich, Suffolk. Several conjurers suspected. _Cal.

St. P., Dom._, 1598-1601, 523.