Casebooks

RN Goody Hopkins child sent to know wheath^r bewitched Ian 2|3|1. h {sic} hor 11. 20 ant m 1624 /the child p^rsent\

RN Clem Tarry wife

Clement Tarry chāberlyn to the Lord of Peterborough. for his wife Susan 50 y Aug. 25 ☉ h. 5. 30 p m. 1633

RN Margaret Burchmore. 32. of hanslop Iuly 5. die ♄. hor. 1. 20 p m. 1600 metuit maleficiū vx maritꝯ  vxore sine consensu /

Margaret Inges./

Alce Dodsley. mater illus {sic} venefic{a}|ij| arguebat^r

RN Katherin Persivall of old S{trat}ford 18 y. decēb. 9 h {sic} {hor} 4. 38 \50/ p m 16i5

RN Iohn Gadstone of Cole Brayfild 7. y. Iune 26 ☾ h. 9 ant m 1620 /An Capill suspected hath not come to church these 3 yeres\

vtrū patit^r maleficū

RN Iames Smyth of Broughton natus march 2i ☿ h. 3 p m 162i but his godfather m^r Wilson came in his behalfe affirming y^t the child was bewitched by an old {illeg}|b|ad womā of the towne Iuly 25 ☿ h 8 ant m 162i

RN A poor mā of London for his melanch wife who suadeth her self y^t I cā helpe her. Iune 26 ☿ h. 8 {illeg}|2|5 ant m 1622

mutch melanch supposeth |y^t| she is beworded & y^t I can helpe her./

RN Edw. Hawkins of Marston 5 y Ap 27 h {sic} hor. 8 ant m 1633 a palsy howse hanted had a Sigill

RN feb. 4 his wife his boy & his child strangly taken w^th vomyting feb. 4. h. 3. p m 1633. /the gearle dyed about y^t tyme\

RN Williā Morgan 6|7|. y the sonday aft^r lamas daye. & then lamas day was on frydaye about evening prayer. about 5 p m 1601. 1606. \August: 3. ☉ h. 5. 2|3|0/ 1600 {sic} p m 1600 hath bleede sinc very mutch. waterish blood. ✝ Margery Bagly suspected./

RN Iane Lightfoote nata vppon S^t Iames day about 3 in y^e morning was a {sic} last S^t Iames day a twelfmonth is very sick & lyeth strang & was not signed w^th the signe of the crou|s|se. it the child gnaweth 3 days ill.

RN Marg. Dixye \Maxye/ tooke away & kii|c|kd|e|d of the sticks of frō the firre {sic} march 12 ♀ h. 10. 45. ant m. 1624 /9 weekes sinc yest tormented\¹

old goody Dixye susp. this womā brought a few sticks & put it on the fire & burned

RN Michaell Ringborough caryed his Child Th: Ringborough. to Elis Garband house an alehouse to Drink & feareth lest she should hurt his child w^ch was neav^r well sinc could {illeg}|g|oe now loveth to lye all on the backe

RN Harry Clarke of Ashon 6 y. swollen in his face cryeth & skriketh. Ian 18 die ♀ h. 12 1. p m. 1600. metunt veneficiū

RN Iohn Marshe of Barnet 50 y. distempered in mind ob {l} {sic} veneficiū. et {vutpō} immisse in domū eius. feb. 18 die ☾ h. 8. ant m. 1600. filius  patre /Lunatice\

RN Mres Haynsworth of Stonystratford 35 y & as mutch as frō the 4 of August last was strangly taken at the hart & did swound often tymes almost Dead Decēb. 9. ☿ h 12 1618.

RN Georg Cockin of newp. 31. y mayed {sic} Decēb: 20: ☿ h. 12. 1620

16. y. troubled in mynd & discontented

raging

RN Edw. Pen of old Stratford a yere & halfe & 3 weekes this next sonday about six in the after noone borne. cane {sic} to me Apr. 24 h {sic} hor 11. 15 ant m 1624 on goody Clarke y^t dwelleth had {sic} by he & she Did curse the child 2. y. sinc & neaver sinc but scoureth cōtinually whatsoev^r it teaketh & breaketh out mutch

RN An Blisse /of floure\ a mad wench 26 y |borne on a thursday| Iune 26. h {sic} hor. 6. ant m 1624

sent her water¹

mater  filia

RN Elis: Baldwyn of Dagnoll by Edgborugh 40 y a mayd feb 4 ♂ h 9 ant m 1634 /cānot sleepe M^r Marsh wrote\

brayne troubled will kill her father & the child sayth y^t she must make her selfe away

eateth greedely to serve the Devill