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ID Short Description Date City Parish Current County Old county Nation
785

William Harrison is allegedly knocked down and robbed by Widow Perry and her sons (Anonymous 92 and Anonymous 93). Widow Perry and her sons throw Harrison into a pit they had dug stones out of, but he does not remain there long.(6)

Appears in:
Anonymous. The Power of Witchcraft being a Most Strange but True Relation of the Most Miraculous and Wonderful Deliverance of One Mr. William Harrison. London: 1662, 6

1662 London  Cambden  London, Greater  London  England 
788

Widow Perry and her sons (Anonymous 92 and Anonymous 93) are apprehended on the suspicion of robbing and murdering William Harrison.(6)

Appears in:
Anonymous. The Power of Witchcraft being a Most Strange but True Relation of the Most Miraculous and Wonderful Deliverance of One Mr. William Harrison. London: 1662, 6

1662 London  Cambden  London, Greater  London  England 
789

Widow Perry and her sons (Anonymous 92 and Anonymous 93) are arraigned and found guilty of robbing and murdering William Harrison.(6)

Appears in:
Anonymous. The Power of Witchcraft being a Most Strange but True Relation of the Most Miraculous and Wonderful Deliverance of One Mr. William Harrison. London: 1662, 6

1662 London  Cambden  London, Greater  London  England 
790

Widow Perry is executed by hanging at Broadway Hills in Cambden after being found guilty of robbing and murdering William Harrison.(6-7)

Appears in:
Anonymous. The Power of Witchcraft being a Most Strange but True Relation of the Most Miraculous and Wonderful Deliverance of One Mr. William Harrison. London: 1662, 6-7

1662 London  Cambden  London, Greater  London  England 
791

Widow Perry's son (Anonymous 92) is executed by hanging at Broadway Hill in Cambden after being found guilty of robbing and murdering William Harrison.(6-7)

Appears in:
Anonymous. The Power of Witchcraft being a Most Strange but True Relation of the Most Miraculous and Wonderful Deliverance of One Mr. William Harrison. London: 1662, 6-7

1662 London  Cambden  London, Greater  London  England 
792

Widow Perry's son (Anonymous 93), a former servant of William Harrison, is executed by being hanged in chains at Broadway Hill in Cambden after being found guilty of robbing and murdering William Harrison. Anonymous 93's remains are left hanging for others to see.(6-7)

Appears in:
Anonymous. The Power of Witchcraft being a Most Strange but True Relation of the Most Miraculous and Wonderful Deliverance of One Mr. William Harrison. London: 1662, 6-7

1662 London  Cambden  London, Greater  London  England 
796

Widow Perry and her sons (Anonymous 92 and Anonymous 93) deny accusations that claim they robbed and murdered William Harrison. Perry and her sons predict that Harrison will be seen again in seven years time.(7)

Appears in:
Anonymous. The Power of Witchcraft being a Most Strange but True Relation of the Most Miraculous and Wonderful Deliverance of One Mr. William Harrison. London: 1662, 7

1662 London  Cambden  London, Greater  London  England 
2363

Mr. Hopkins, the chief magistrate of Bewdley and a member of parliament, complains that he is "oft pained as he thought with the Spleen," but he was "not at all Melancholy." Mr. Hopkins confesses to being "possest (meaning, I think Bewitcht," which is dismissed as Mr. Hopkins being "Fanciful and Melancholy." However, Mr. Hopkins maintains his claims to be true, and he never "shew any Melancholy."(59-60)

Appears in:
Baxter, Richard. The Certainty of the Worlds of Spirits and, Consequently, of the Immortality of Souls. London: 1691, 59-60

1662 Bewdley  Bewdley  Worcestershire  Worcestershire  England 
2364

Mr. Hopkins suffers for a long time from pain "as he thought with the Spleen," which he also believed to caused by "possession" or by being "bewitcht" as he "shewed no Melancholy." Eventually, Mr. Hopkins dies, but before doing so, "a piece of Wood came down into the rectum intestinum," which had to be "pull[ed] out with their Fingers." His wife thought it to be "the length of ones finger," and that both Mr. Hopkins and his wife "were sure he never swallowed any such thing." It is believed he was afflicted by Satan.(60)

Appears in:
Baxter, Richard. The Certainty of the Worlds of Spirits and, Consequently, of the Immortality of Souls. London: 1691, 60

1662 Bewdley  Bewdley  Worcestershire  Worcestershire  England