| Anonymous 284 | A man from Suffolk who was allegedly bewitched to death along with the rest of his family: his wife and five children, by an old woman (Anonymous 271), who was later tried, convicted, and condemned to death at a session in Bury St. Edmunds, Suffolk in 1645. (Cover, 3) | A true relation of the araignment of eighteene vvitches. that were tried, convicted, and condemned, at a sessions holden at St. Edmunds-bury in Suffolke, and there by the iudge and iustices of the said sessions condemned to die, and so were executed the 27. day of August 1645. As also a list of the names of those that were executed, and their severall confessions before their executions. VVith a true relation of the manner how they find them out. The names of those that were executed. Mr. Lowes parson of Branson. Thomas Evered a cooper with Mary his wife. Mary Bacon. Anne Alderman. Rebecca Morris. Mary Fuller. Mary Clowes. Margery Sparham Katherine Tooley. Sarah Spinlow. Iane Limstead. Anne Wright. Mary Smith. Iane Rivert. Susan Manners. Mary Skipper. Anne Leech.
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One old woman confessed that she had beene a Witch the space of above fifty yeares, in which time she also confest that she had done many very wicked things in bewitching Cattell, Corne &c. but above all that she had bewitched seven persons of one family to death to wit, a man together with his wife and five childrens and that also she had her Jmpes which came to her in severall shapes.() |