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Name Description Original Text
Sir HumphreyA man from Stapenhill in the county of Staffordshire, described as a justice who scratches Alice Gooderidge in an attempt to cure Thomas Darling of his fits and illness.(9)The Iustices examined her concerning the bewitching of the Boy, but she would confesse nothing. Then sir Humfrey tooke her to the boy, and asked him whether this were shee that thus bewitched him: he answered that it was surely shee: then did sir Humfrey did him scratch her[.]()