A History of Witchcraft in England from 1558 to 1718 Part 43

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.

1700-10. Lancas.h.i.+re. A woman of Chowbent searched and committed. Died before the a.s.sizes. MS. quoted by Harland and Wilkinson, _Lancas.h.i.+re Folk-Lore_ (London, 1867), 207; also E. Baines, _Lancaster_, II, 203.

1701. Southwark. Sarah Morduck, who had been before acquitted at Guildford, and who had unsuccessfully appealed to a justice in London against her persecutor, tried and acquitted. Hutchinson, 46. _The Tryal of Richard Hathaway_ (1702); _A Full and True Account of the Apprehending and Taking of Mrs. Sarah Moordike_ (1701); _A short Account of the Trial held at Surry a.s.sizes, in the Borough of Southwark_ (1702). See above, app. A, -- 7.

1701. Kingston, Surrey. Woman acquitted. _Notes and Queries_ (April 10, 1909), quoting from the _London Post_ of Aug. 1-4, 1701.

1701-02. Devons.h.i.+re. Susanna Hanover acquitted. Inderwick.

1702-03. Wilts. Joanna Tanner acquitted. Inderwick.

1704. Middles.e.x. Sarah Griffiths committed to Bridewell.

_A Full and True Account ... of a Notorious Witch_ (London, 1704).

1705. Northampton. Two women said to have been burned here. Story improbable. See above, appendix A, -- 10.

1707. Somerset. Maria Stevens acquitted. Inderwick.

1712. Hertford. Jane Wenham condemned, but reprieved.

See footnotes to chapter XIII and app. A, -- 9.

1716. Huntingdon. Two witches, a mother and daughter, said to have been executed here. Story improbable.

See above, app. A, -- 10.

1717. Leicester. Jane Clark and her daughter said to have been tried. _Leicesters.h.i.+re and Rutland Notes and Queries_, I, 247.

1717. Leicester. Mother Norton and her daughter acquitted.

Brit. Mus., Add. MSS., 35,838, fol. 404.

I am unwilling to close this work without an expression of my grat.i.tude to the libraries, on both sides of the sea, which have so generously welcomed me to the use of their books and pamphlets on English witchcraft--many of them excessively rare and precious. They have made possible this study. My debt is especially great to the libraries of the British Museum and of Lambeth Palace at London, to the Bodleian Library at Oxford, and in America to the Boston Athenaeum and to the university libraries of Yale and Harvard. To the unrivalled White collection at Cornell my obligation is deepest of all.

[1] The references in this list, together with the account, in appendix A, of the pamphlet literature of witchcraft, are designed to take the place of a formal bibliography. That the list of cases here given is complete can hardly be hoped. Crude though its materials compel it to be, the author believes it may prove useful. He hopes in the course of time to make it more complete, and to that end will gladly welcome information respecting other trials.