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ID Short Description Date City Parish Current County Old county Nation
128

Elizabeth Harvey claims that if she was a witch, that she was made so by Marian Hocket.(30)

Appears in:
H., F.. A True and Exact Relation of the severall Informations, Examinations, and Confessions of the late Witches, arraigned and executed in the County of Essex. . London: 1645, 30

1645 Ramsey    Essex  Essex  England 
129

Marian Hockett denies any involvement with witchcraft.(28)

Appears in:
H., F.. A True and Exact Relation of the severall Informations, Examinations, and Confessions of the late Witches, arraigned and executed in the County of Essex. . London: 1645, 28

1645 Ramsey    Essex  Essex  England 
1964

Lionel Jefferson is allegedly bewitched by Hatting; he dies twenty four days later. (http://seax.essexcc.gov.uk/result_details.asp?DocID=341182)

Appears in:
Essex Record Office, . Calendar of Essex Assize Records. Online. http://seax.essexcc.gov.uk: 2011, http://seax.essexcc.gov.uk/result_details.asp?DocID=341182

1625 Ramsey    Essex  Essex  England 
1983

Sara Hatting is searched as a witch. Bridget Reynolds, the witch-searcher, claims Hatting has "foure Teats, or Bigges in those parts, almost an inch long, and as bigge as this Informants little finger."(30)

Appears in:
H., F.. A True and Exact Relation of the severall Informations, Examinations, and Confessions of the late Witches, arraigned and executed in the County of Essex. . London: 1645, 30

1645 Ramsey    Essex  Essex  England 
1984

Elizabeth Harvey is searched as a witch. Bridget Reynolds, the woman who searched her, claims she had "had three such Bigges, and about the said scantling."(30)

Appears in:
H., F.. A True and Exact Relation of the severall Informations, Examinations, and Confessions of the late Witches, arraigned and executed in the County of Essex. . London: 1645, 30

1645 Ramsey    Essex  Essex  England 
1985

Marion Hocket is searched as a witch; Bridget Reynolds can discover no witches marks on her. (30-31)

Appears in:
H., F.. A True and Exact Relation of the severall Informations, Examinations, and Confessions of the late Witches, arraigned and executed in the County of Essex. . London: 1645, 30-31

1645 Ramsey    Essex  Essex  England 
1987

Elizabeth Harvey allegedly claimed that Marion Hocket made her into a witch circa 1638 by making her have witch's mark. Hocket has allegedly brought her "three things were of a reddish color," which in pulling and sucking at her, "made her have the said marks or bigs," These familiars, which Harvey claimed she tried to send back, allegedly "tormented her in her bed, in the places aforesaid, as if they had pulled her in pieces."(31)

Appears in:
H., F.. A True and Exact Relation of the severall Informations, Examinations, and Confessions of the late Witches, arraigned and executed in the County of Essex. . London: 1645, 31

1638 Ramsey    Essex  Essex  England 
1988

A mysterious snake appears on a shelf Mrs. Stock's house, after her husband, Francis Stock, tells an enraged William Hatting that his wife was a "scolder." When Mrs. Stock "endeavoured to kill [it] with a Spade; and striking at it, the Snake suddenly vanished away, and could no where be found."(31-32)

Appears in:
H., F.. A True and Exact Relation of the severall Informations, Examinations, and Confessions of the late Witches, arraigned and executed in the County of Essex. . London: 1645, 31-32

1640 Ramsey    Essex  Essex  England 
1989

Mrs. Stock is is suddenly "taken sick with extraordinary fits, pains and burnings all over her body," after she attempts to kills a mysterious snake in her home. Within a week, in death-throws, she cries out that "Sarah [Hatting] was the cause of her death," and dies. The illness and death happened shortly after Francis Stock fights with William Hatting and insults his wife Sara Hatting and before the death of her two children, who perish in a similar manner shortly after Mrs. Stock.(31-32)

Appears in:
H., F.. A True and Exact Relation of the severall Informations, Examinations, and Confessions of the late Witches, arraigned and executed in the County of Essex. . London: 1645, 31-32

1640 Ramsey    Essex  Essex  England 
1990

Francis Stock's daughter dies "within two or three dayes after the death" of his wife. Stock suspects Sara Hatting is culpable for the child's suffering and death. The illness and death happened shortly after Francis Stock fights with William Hatting and insults his wife Sara Hatting and after Mrs. Francis attempts to kill a snakes which unexpectedly appeared in her home, but found upon administering a death blow, that the serpent has disappeared. This Stock daughter is the second to perish in her family; her mother's death precedes hers and a sibling dies shortly after her. (31-32)

Appears in:
H., F.. A True and Exact Relation of the severall Informations, Examinations, and Confessions of the late Witches, arraigned and executed in the County of Essex. . London: 1645, 31-32

1640 Ramsey    Essex  Essex  England 
2002

Francis Stock's child falls sick, appearing to catch the same disease which appears to have claimed its sister and mother, this child also dies. The illness and death happened shortly after Francis Stock fights with William Hatting and insults his wife Sara Hatting and after Mrs. Francis attempts to kill a snakes which unexpectedly appeared in her home, but found upon administering a death blow, that the serpent has disappeared. This Stock child is the third person to perish in its family; its mother and sister's death precedes this person's demise.(31-32)

Appears in:
H., F.. A True and Exact Relation of the severall Informations, Examinations, and Confessions of the late Witches, arraigned and executed in the County of Essex. . London: 1645, 31-32

1640 Ramsey    Essex  Essex  England 
2003

A verbal altercation between Francis Stock's servant, Anonymous 336, and John Hatting, son of William and Sara Hatting, turns into a physical altercation. The "very next day hee was taken sick, and so continued in a pining and languishing condition, crying out often of the said Sarah, that she had bewitched him, and was the cause of his death, which soon after ensued."(31, 32)

Appears in:
H., F.. A True and Exact Relation of the severall Informations, Examinations, and Confessions of the late Witches, arraigned and executed in the County of Essex. . London: 1645, 31, 32

1640 Ramsey    Essex  Essex  England 
2020

Sara Barton allegedly receives three familiars from her sister Marian Hockey; they were named Littleman, Pretty-man, and Dainty. (32)

Appears in:
H., F.. A True and Exact Relation of the severall Informations, Examinations, and Confessions of the late Witches, arraigned and executed in the County of Essex. . London: 1645, 32

1645 Ramsey    Essex  Essex  England 
2021

Marian Hocket allegedly slices off her witch's marks to avoid detection, according to her sister Sara Barton. (32)

Appears in:
H., F.. A True and Exact Relation of the severall Informations, Examinations, and Confessions of the late Witches, arraigned and executed in the County of Essex. . London: 1645, 32

1645 Ramsey    Essex  Essex  England 
2022

Having been promised that they would "do her good." Elizabeth Harvey allegedly receives three familiars from Marian Hocket. After receiving these familiars, "shee was very much pained in those parts of her body where the said teats or bigs were discovered by the said searchers."(33)

Appears in:
H., F.. A True and Exact Relation of the severall Informations, Examinations, and Confessions of the late Witches, arraigned and executed in the County of Essex. . London: 1645, 33

1645 Ramsey    Essex  Essex  England 
2680

Lady Cromwell returns to Ramsey after her encounter with Mother Alice Samuel. That night, she allegedly has nightmares in which a cat sent by Mother Samuel "offered to pulcke of all the skin and flesh from her armes & body." (32-33)

Appears in:
Anonymous. The Most Strange and Admirable Discouerie of the Three Witches of Warboys . Unknown: 1593, 32-33

1590, March 15 Ramsey    Essex  Essex  England 
2681

Lady Cromwell allegedly becomes sick after visiting the Throckmorton family and her confrontation with Mother Alice Samuel. She is afflicted by fits much like those of the Throckmorton children, in which she suffers pain and shakes in her limbs. She dies of it 15 months after her visit, remembering often that Mother Samuel said to her "Madam, I never hurt you as yet."(32-33)

Appears in:
Anonymous. The Most Strange and Admirable Discouerie of the Three Witches of Warboys . Unknown: 1593, 32-33

1590, March Ramsey    Essex  Essex  England