L. Cutts, Colchester (London, 1888), 151. Henry

Harrod, _Report on the Records of Colchester_ (Colchester, 1865), 17; App., 14. 1583. St. Peter's, Kent. Ellen Bamfield suspected by the church authorities. _Archæol. Cant._, XXVI, 45. 1584. Great Yarmouth, Norfolk. Elizabeth Butcher (punished before) and Joan Lingwood condemned to be hanged. C. J. Palmer, _History of Great Yarmouth_, I, 273. 1584. Staffordshire. An indictment preferred against Jeffrey Leach. _Cal. St. P., Dom., 1581-1590_, 206. 1584. "The oulde witche of Ramsbury" and several other "oulde witches and sorcerers" suspected. _Cal. St. P., Dom., 1581-1590_, 220. 1584. York. Woman, indicted for witchcraft and "high treason touching the supremacy," condemned. _Cal. St. P., Dom., Add. 1580-1625_, 120-121. 1584. Middlesex. Elizabeth Bartell of St. Martin's-in-the-Fields acquitted. _Middlesex County Records_, I, 145. 1585. Middlesex. Margaret Hackett of Stanmore executed. From titles of two pamphlets mentioned by Lowndes, _The severall Facts of Witchcrafte approved on Margaret Haskett ..._ 1585, and _An Account of Margaret Hacket, a notorious Witch ..._ 1585. 1585. Middlesex. Joan Barringer of "Harroweelde" (Harrow Weald) acquitted. _Middlesex County Records_, I, 157. 1585. Dorset. John Meere examined. _Cal. St. P., Dom., 1581-90_, 246-247. 1585-86. Alnwick, Northumberland. Two men and two women committed to prison on suspicion of killing a sheriff. _Denham Tracts_, II, 332; _Cal. S. P., Dom., Add. 1580-1625_, 168. 1586. Eckington, Derbyshire. Margaret Roper accused. Discharged. Harsnett, _Discovery of the Fraudulent Practises of John Darrel_, 310. 1586. Faversham, Kent. Jone Cason [Carson] tried before the mayor, executed. Holinshed, _Chronicles_ (1586-1587), III, 1560. 1587. Great Yarmouth, Norfolk. Helena Gill indicted. C. J. Palmer, _History of Great Yarmouth_, 273. H. Harrod in _Norfolk Archæology_, IV, 248, assigns this to 1597, but it is probably a mistake. c. 1588. A woman at R. H. said to have been imprisoned and to have died before the assizes. Gifford, _Dialogue_ (London, 1603), C. 1589. Chelmsford, Essex. Three women hanged. _The apprehension and confession of three notorious Witches._ 1589. Several persons to be examined about their dealings in conjuration with an Italian friar. _Acts P. C._, n. s., XVII, 31-32. 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; _Archæologia_, XXX, 172. 1590. Norfolk. Margaret Grame accused before justice of the peace. Neighbors petition 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, Middlesex. 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. Middlesex. Stephen Trefulback of Westminster given penalty of statute, _i. e._, probably pillory. _Middlesex County Records_, I, 197. 1592. Colchester, Essex. 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 Shelley 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. _Archæol. 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 title of pamphlet mentioned by Lowndes, _The Arraignment and Execution of 3 detestable Witches, John Newell, Joane his wife, and Hellen 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 assizes 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. _Archæol. 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. Middlesex. Agnes Godfrey of Enfield held by the justice of the peace on £10 bail. _Middlesex County Records_, I, 237. 1597. St. Andrew's in Holborne, Middlesex. Josia Ryley arraigned. "Po se mortuus in facie curie," _i. e._ _Posuit se moriturum._ _Ibid._, 225. 1597. Middlesex. 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. _Archæol. 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. 1601. Bishop Burton, York. Two women apprehended for bewitching a boy. Brit. Mus., Add. MSS., 32,496, fol. 42 b. 1601. Middlesex. Richard Nelson of St. Katharine's arraigned. _Middlesex County Records_, I, 260. 1601. Nottingham. Ellen Bark presented at the sessions. _Records of the Borough of Nottingham_, IV, 260-261. 1602. Middlesex. Elizabeth Roberts of West Drayton indicted on three charges, acquitted. _Middlesex County Records_, I, 212. 1602. Saffron Walden, Essex. Alice Bentley tried before the quarter sessions. Case probably dismissed. Darrel, _A Survey of Certaine Dialogical Discourses_, 54. temp. Eliz. Northfleet, Kent. Pardon to Alice S. for bewitching a cow and pigs. Bodleian, Rawlinson MSS., C 404, fol. 205 b. temp. Eliz. Woman condemned to prison and pillory. Gifford, _Dialogue concerning Witches_ (1603), L 4 verso. temp. Eliz. Cambridge. Two women perhaps hanged at this time. Henry More, _Antidote to Atheisme_, III. But see 1605, Cambridge. temp. Eliz. Mother W. of W. H. said to have been executed. Gifford, _Dialogue concerning Witches_, D 4 verso--E. temp. Eliz. Mother W. of Great T. said to have been hanged. _Ibid._, C 4. temp. Eliz. Woman said to have been hanged. _Ibid._, L 3-L 3 verso. temp. Eliz. Two women said to have been hanged. _Ibid._, I 3 verso. 1602-1603. London. Elizabeth Jackson sentenced, for bewitching Mary Glover, to four appearances in the pillory and a year in prison. John Swan, _A True and Breife Report of Mary Glover's Vexation_; E. Jorden, _A briefe discourse of ... the Suffocation of the Mother_, 1603; also a MS., _Marie Glover's late woefull case ... upon occasion of Doctor Jordens discourse of the Mother, wherein hee covertly taxeth, first the Phisitiones which judged her sicknes a vexation of Sathan and consequently the sentence of Lawe and proceeding against the Witche who was discovered to be a meanes thereof, with A defence of the truthe against D. J. his scandalous Impugnations_, by Stephen Bradwell, 1603. Brit. Mus., Sloane MSS., 831. An account by Lewis Hughes, appended to his _Certaine Grievances_ (1641-2), is quoted by Sinclar, _Satan's Invisible World Discovered_ (Edinburgh, 1685), 95-100; and hence Burton (_The Kingdom of Darkness_) and Hutchinson (_Historical Essay concerning Witchcraft_) assign a wrong date. 1603. Yorkshire. Mary Pannel executed for killing in 1593. Mayhall, _Annals of Yorkshire_ (London, 1878), I, 58. See also E. Fairfax, _A Discourse of Witchcraft_, 179-180. 1603. Great Yarmouth, Norfolk. Ales Moore in gaol on suspicion.