| Essex Jurors (3) | One of a group of jurors in the case against Margaret Stanton. They find, contrary to the Justice of Peace, that Margaret Stanton used witchcraft to kill a gelding worth 3 and a cow worth 40s.(http://seax.essexcc.gov.uk/result_details.asp?intOffSet=0&intThisRecordsOffSet=0) | The jurors present that Margery Stanton of Wimbish, spinster, being a common enchantress and witch as well of men as of beasts and other things, and excrcising art of witcheraft and enhancement, not having God before her eyes but led by diabolical istigation, on the above date, of her malice aforethought, cunningly bewitched and enchanted a white gelding worth 3 and a cow worth 40s. at Wimbish aforesaid, by reason of which enchantment and witchcraft the said gelding and cow languished from the above date untill 24 August then next following when they died, and so the jurors say that said Margery killed the said gelding and cow, contrary to the peace etc.() |