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ID Short Description Date City Parish Current County Old county Nation
607

Mildred Norrington begins to have fits; she roars, cries, gnashes her teeth, makes terrible gestures and expression, and is so strong she can not be held down by four men. She can not, or will not speak.(71)

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1574 Westwall  Westwell  Kent  Kent  England 
611

Mildred Norrington is successfully dispossessed. Roger Newman and John Brainford were able to, through prayer, compel Partner to depart. Norrington confirms this by crying 'he is gone'.(72-73)

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1574 Westwall  Westwell  Kent  Kent  England 
612

Partner confesses stealing of meat, drink, and corn from "Petmans, at Farmes, at Millens, at Fullers, and in every house, at the behest of Old Alice.(72)

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1574 Westwall  Westwell  Kent  Kent  England 
2950

A woman (Anonymous 469) at Westwell in Kent, "had so perfectly this imposture of speaking in the Belly," an act of pretending to have been possessed by the Devil, "that many Ministers were deceived by her." These ministers "came and talked so long with that Devil, and charged him in the name of God to go out of her." The woman claimed some "poor people for Witches," responsible for her alleged possession. However, two Justices of the Peace, Mr. Thomas Wooton, and Mr. George Darrel exposed her con.(78 - 79)

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1655 Westwall  Westwell  Kent  Kent  England