ID | Short Description | Date | City | Parish | Current County | Old county | Nation |
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680 | Elizabeth Sawyer gives a full confession after her conviction to Minister Henry Goodcole while imprisoned at Newgate Gaol. Goodcole records their conversation and presents it in full in a question-and-answer dialogue format.(C1)
Appears in:
Goodcole, Henry. The Wonderful Discovery of Elizabeth Sawyer a Witch Late of Edmonton. London: 1621, C1
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1621, April 17 | London (Newgate Prison) | London, City of | London | England | |
685 | Elizabeth Sawyer alleges in her confession to Henry Goodcole that the Devil first came to her when she was cursing, swearing and blaspheming. The first words he said to her were "Oh! haue I now found you cursing, swearing, and blaspheming? now you are mine." He bid her not to fear him, and told her he would not harm her but rather do whatever mischief she asked of him. If she asked him to do harm to man or beast, he would vex them to death for her.(C1-C2)
Appears in:
Goodcole, Henry. The Wonderful Discovery of Elizabeth Sawyer a Witch Late of Edmonton. London: 1621, C1-C2
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1621, April 17 | London (Newgate Prison) | London, City of | London | England | |
686 | Elizabeth Sawyer alleges in her confession to Henry Goodcole that the Devil would bring her word of the harm he did on her behalf within a week. He would scratch and pinch people and cattle for her, or cause their death. She claims that she "was the cause of those two nurse-childrens death, for the which I was now indited and acquited, by the Iury." However, she denied any involvement in the death of Agnes Radcliffe.(C2-C3)
Appears in:
Goodcole, Henry. The Wonderful Discovery of Elizabeth Sawyer a Witch Late of Edmonton. London: 1621, C2-C3
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1621, April 17 | London (Newgate Prison) | London, City of | London | England | |
687 | Elizabeth Sawyer alleges in her confession to Henry Goodcole that she had been acquainted with the Devil for eight years, and that he would come to her three times a week. He would often take the form of a white or black dog. They would talk on his arrival; he would ask after her well-being, what he should do for her, and threaten to tear her to pieces if she did not give him her soul and body.(C3-C4)
Appears in:
Goodcole, Henry. The Wonderful Discovery of Elizabeth Sawyer a Witch Late of Edmonton. London: 1621, C3-C4
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1621, April 17 | London (Newgate Prison) | London, City of | London | England | |
688 | Elizabeth Sawyer alleges in her confession to Henry Goodcole that she granted the Devil her soul and body, and to seal the promise, gave him permission to suck blood from her. She told Goodcole that "The place where the Diuell suckt my bloud was a little aboue my fundiment, and that place chosen by himselfe; and in that place by continuall drawing, there is a thing in the forme of a Teate, at which the diuell would sucke mee. And I asked the Diuell why hee would sucke my bloud, and hee sayd it was to nourish him." He would put his head under her petticoat to do so, would suck for a quarter-hour at a time, and it caused her no pain. (C3-C4)
Appears in:
Goodcole, Henry. The Wonderful Discovery of Elizabeth Sawyer a Witch Late of Edmonton. London: 1621, C3-C4
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1621, April 17 | London (Newgate Prison) | London, City of | London | England | |
689 | Elizabeth Sawyer alleges in her confession to Henry Goodcole that she named the Devil Tom, and that he would bark at her when he had done the mischief she'd asked of him. When she named him, "he promised to doe for me whatsoeuer I should require of him."(C4)
Appears in:
Goodcole, Henry. The Wonderful Discovery of Elizabeth Sawyer a Witch Late of Edmonton. London: 1621, C4
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1621, April 17 | London (Newgate Prison) | London, City of | London | England | |
690 | Elizabeth Sawyer alleges in her confession to Henry Goodcole that, despite what numerous children had claimed, she did not have two white ferrets she fed on white bread and milk, and the white thing that had been seen running through the thatch of her house was an ordinary ferret. She knew of no spirits or devils that took the form of ferrets.(C4)
Appears in:
Goodcole, Henry. The Wonderful Discovery of Elizabeth Sawyer a Witch Late of Edmonton. London: 1621, C4
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1621, April 17 | London (Newgate Prison) | London, City of | London | England | |
691 | Elizabeth Sawyer alleges in her confession to Henry Goodcole that, when the Devil found her praying to Jesus Christ, he forbade her to continue. Instead, he told her to pray to him using a Latin prayer he taught her: "Santibicetur nomen tuum. Amen." She said she had never heard those words from anyone else, that she knew no other Latin, and that she did not know the meaning of it.(D1)
Appears in:
Goodcole, Henry. The Wonderful Discovery of Elizabeth Sawyer a Witch Late of Edmonton. London: 1621, D1
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1621, April 17 | London (Newgate Prison) | London, City of | London | England | |
1123 | Mary Glover is pricked inside her nostril during a fit with a hot pin to see if she is pretending to be possessed. She remains unresponsive to this stimuli.(93, 96)
Appears in:
Sinclair, George. Satan's Invisible World Discovered. Edinburgh: 1685, 93, 96
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1603 | London (Newgate Prison) | London, City of | London | England | |
1139 | Margaret Russell (aka The Countess) is examined by Sir William Slingsby on charges of having bewitched Elizabeth Jennings. At the end of the examination, he has her put in Newgate Prison.()
Appears in:
Unknown, . The Bewitchment of Elizabeth Jennings. British Library MS Add. 36674, fols. 134-7. Foster, Donald W., ed. "The Bewitchment of Elizabeth Jennings." Normalized text, ed. D. Foster (1999), from British Library MS Add. 36674, fols. 134-7. Poughkeepsie, NY: Vassar College, 1999.: 1622,
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1622, April 25 | London (Newgate Prison) | London, City of | London | England | |
1144 | Margaret Russell is temporarily released from Newgate prison to speak with Anne and Henry Goodcole.()
Appears in:
Unknown, . The Bewitchment of Elizabeth Jennings. British Library MS Add. 36674, fols. 134-7. Foster, Donald W., ed. "The Bewitchment of Elizabeth Jennings." Normalized text, ed. D. Foster (1999), from British Library MS Add. 36674, fols. 134-7. Poughkeepsie, NY: Vassar College, 1999.: 1622,
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1622, April 26 | London (Newgate Prison) | London, City of | London | England | |
1305 | Edmund Robinson Jr. is imprisonned for reasons of which he is allegedly initially unaware. He learns that the reason is a petition from Mr. Duxbury acting on behalf of Mr. Dickenson who wanted Robinson imprisoned for having falsely accused his wife.(153)
Appears in:
Bruce (Editor), John. Calendar of State Papers Domestic Series: Charles I, 1634-5. Unknown: 1864, 153
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1634 | London (Newgate Prison) | London, City of | London | England | |
2382 | Elizabeth Sawyer alleges in her confession to Henry Goodcole that it had been three weeks since she had last seen the Devil. He had not visited her in prison, and she had lost her fear of him.(D1)
Appears in:
Goodcole, Henry. The Wonderful Discovery of Elizabeth Sawyer a Witch Late of Edmonton. London: 1621, D1
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1621, April 17 | London (Newgate Prison) | London, City of | London | England | |
2383 | Elizabeth Sawyer alleges in her confession to Henry Goodcole that she would stroke the Devil's back when he visited her and he would contentedly wag hits tail. His size and colour varied: He would be small and white when she prayed, and the rest of the time bigger and black.(D1-D2)
Appears in:
Goodcole, Henry. The Wonderful Discovery of Elizabeth Sawyer a Witch Late of Edmonton. London: 1621, D1-D2
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1621, April 17 | London (Newgate Prison) | London, City of | London | England | |
2384 | Elizabeth Sawyer alleges in her confession to Henry Goodcole that she was confessing to avoid shame, that everything she had said was the truth before God. She added, at the end of the confession, "I doe it to cleere my conscience, and now hauing done it, I am the more quiet, and the better prepared, and willing thereby to suffer death; for I haue no hope at all of my life, although I must confesse, I would liue longer if I might."(D2)
Appears in:
Goodcole, Henry. The Wonderful Discovery of Elizabeth Sawyer a Witch Late of Edmonton. London: 1621, D2
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1621, April 17 | London (Newgate Prison) | London, City of | London | England | |
2385 | Elizabeth Sawyer is executed April 19, 1621 at Newgate Prison. Just before her execution, Henry Goodcole reads her confession back to her before the audience come to witness her death. She affirms the confession as accurate, and asks all present to pray to God for forgiveness for her sins.(D2-D3)
Appears in:
Goodcole, Henry. The Wonderful Discovery of Elizabeth Sawyer a Witch Late of Edmonton. London: 1621, D2-D3
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1621, April 19 | London (Newgate Prison) | London, City of | London | England | |
2623 | Elizabeth Jackson, a woman from London, is "arraigned and condemned at Newgate," for the bewitchment of Mary Glover, the fourteen-year old daughter of a merchant from Thames Street in London. Mary Glover allegedly suffers from fits when she is in the same room as Elizabeth Jackson, which eventually progress to fits every second day.(12)
Appears in:
Hughes, Lewes. Certaine grievances, or the errours of the service-booke; plainely layd open. London: 1641, 12
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1602 | London (Newgate Prison) | London, City of | London | England | |
2898 | A witness, M. Lewis Hughes, comes forth at Elizabeth Jackson's trial, a woman accused of bewitching the fourteen year old girl Mary Glover, in order to provide evidence against Elizabeth Jackson. This is the second piece of evidence this witness provides. Hughes is a preacher, who went to speak with Elizabeth Jackson while she was in prison, but he could "by no meanes cause her, to rehearse the beliefe," of God and Jesus Christ. Further, she refused of her own accord to say, "Deliver us from evill."(Fol. 34r)
Appears in:
Bradwell, Stephen. Mary Glover's Late Woeful Case. Unknown: 1603, Fol. 34r
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1602, December 1 | London (Newgate Prison) | London, City of | London | England |