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ID Short Description Date City Parish Current County Old county Nation
2727

Mother Alice Samuel and Agnes Samuel are committed to the Huntingdon Gaol to await the next Assizes. While imprisoned, Mother Samuel is suspected in the death of a Gaoler's servant and the "extreme sickness" of one of the Gaoler's children; the sickness is allegedly amended by scratching Mother Samuel.(59, 61)

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Anonymous. The Most Strange and Admirable Discouerie of the Three Witches of Warboys . Unknown: 1593, 59, 61

1592, December 29 Huntingdon Gaol    Huntingdonshire  Huntingdon  England 
2728

Agnes Samuel is imprisoned at Huntingdon Gaol alongside her mother Alice Samuel until the Sessions held on January 9, 1593. On that day, Robert Throckmorton made a request to bail Agnes and have her live in his home to see "whether any such evidences of guiltinesse would appeare against her, as had before appeared in the children against the mother." The Justices were reluctant to grant Agnes bail, but Throckmorton managed to convince them by the afternoon.(61-62)

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Anonymous. The Most Strange and Admirable Discouerie of the Three Witches of Warboys . Unknown: 1593, 61-62

1593, January 9 Huntingdon Gaol    Huntingdonshire  Huntingdon  England 
2804

The Jailor of Huntingdon gives deposition against Mother Alice Samuel alleging that one of his servants, Anonymous 445, became sick with tormenting fits after he chained her to her bedpost for unruly behavior. While in his fits, Anonymous 445 is said to have displayed the strength of two men and to have cried out against Mother Samuel. He died of this affliction about five or six days later. (111)

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Anonymous. The Most Strange and Admirable Discouerie of the Three Witches of Warboys . Unknown: 1593, 111

1593, April 5 Huntingdon Gaol    Huntingdonshire  Huntingdon  England 
2805

The Jailor of Huntingdon give deposition against Mother Alice Samuel alleging that she bewitched his son, Anonymous 446. He claims his son became sick with the same tormenting fits that his servant, Anonymous 445, was afflicted with, and did not mend until he brought the boy to Mother Samuel's cell to scratch her.(111)

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Anonymous. The Most Strange and Admirable Discouerie of the Three Witches of Warboys . Unknown: 1593, 111

1593, April 5 Huntingdon Gaol    Huntingdonshire  Huntingdon  England 
2811

The day after Mother Alice Samuel, Agnes Samuel and John Samuel are condemned to death, numerous "godly men" come to Huntingdon Gaol to "perswade the condemned parties to repentance, and to confesse their sinnes to the world, and crave pardon at Gods mercifull hands." Mother Samuel, when asked directly whether she bewitched Lady Cromwell, denies it. John, hearing her denial, tells her to "denie it not, but confesse the trueth: for thou didst it one way or other."(112)

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Anonymous. The Most Strange and Admirable Discouerie of the Three Witches of Warboys . Unknown: 1593, 112

1593, April 6 Huntingdon Gaol    Huntingdonshire  Huntingdon  England