Mother Lakeland is burned to death on September 9, 1645. She is condemned for murdering her husband and for several others by witchcraft.(8)

Rose Cullender and Amy Denny are jointly indicted at the assizes held at Bury St. Edmonds in Suffolk. The trial is presided over by Sir Matthew Hale, Lord Chief Baron of His Majesties Court of Exchequer, and lasts four days. They are charged with bewitching Elizabeth Durent, Ann Durent, Jane Bocking, Susan Chandler, William Durent, Elizabeth Pacy, and Deborah Pacy.(1)

Mother Lakeland confesses to murdering her husband, Anonymous 45. After making a pact with the Devil, Lakeland bewitches her husband, causing him to suffer in misery for a while and then die.(7-8)

Mother Lakeland confesses to sending one of her familiars that appears in the shape of a dog to torment Mr. Lawrence and his child. The familiar torments Mr. Lawrence first and kills him, and then torments and kills the child.(8)

Mother Lakeland confesses to sending a mole familiar to torment and kill Mrs. Jenings, after she refused to lend Lakeland a pin. Lakeland was also trying to avoid paying off a debt of one shilling.(8)

Mother Lakeland allegedly sent one of her imps to kill Mr. Beale. The imp only succeeded in tormenting him, forcing him to live as his body rots.(8)

Aubrey Grinset confesses she made league with the Devil, and has been a witch for over twenty years.(18-19)

Aubrey Grinset confesses to afflicting Thomas Spatchet and several others.(17-18)

Aubrey Grinset confesses to bewitching John Collet of Cookly and Henry Winson of Walpoole to death. She lured John Collet and his household out of their home, by calling out that there was the biggest snake anyone had ever seen, and used the opportunity to get close to him; he died two days later. She provides no details on Henry Winson's demise.(19)

Aubrey Grinset confesses that the Devil appeared to her repeatedly, first in the form of a handsome young man and later in the form of a greyish-black cat or kitten, and that she allowed him to suck blood from a teat on her body.(19)

Aubrey Grinset is searched by an anonymous jury of women (Anonymous 166) after her confession. They find a teat exactly where she said it would be, but her body is otherwise whole.(20)

A woman from Suffolk (Anonymous 23) allegedly bewitches a pregnant woman after being offered only half a piece of bread. Soon after that, woman gives birth to two pieces of deformed flesh.(4)

Doll Bartham allegedly sends toads to torment Joan Jorden in her bed and prevent her from from sleeping. Jorden throws the first toad into the middle of the room, but it comes back and sits croaking by her bed. She then throws it out the window.(92)

Doll Bartham is arraigned before the Lord Chief Justice of England at S. Edmondsbury in Suffolk and condemned for the bewitchment of Joan Jorden. She is executed on July 12, 1599.(92)

Anonymous 26 appears to his sweetheart a month after he was thought dead, and carries her over forty miles to her father's house in two hours.(441)

Alexander Nyndge allegedly has a fit witnessed by his entire family in which his chest and body swell, his eyes bulge and his back curls toward his belly; his brother Edward Nyndge, a Master of Arts, decides this must be the work of an evil spirit. Edward reads from Scripture over Alexander, and charges the Spirit by the death and Passion of Christ to declare itself; the spirit responds by strangely affecting Alexander's face. Once the fit has passed, Alexander reports that the spirit is afraid of Edward.(A3)

Alexander Nyndge is allegedly afflicted with a wide variety of fits during his possession. The spirit causes him to use strange and idle gestures while laughing or dancing until he is thought to be mad, to refuse meat for extended periods until he begins to waste away, to shake as if with ague, and for a strange flapping noise to be heard from within his body. In the bed, the spirit's influence would cause him to curl up in a heap under the covers, bounce up from the bed, and beat himself against the bedstead or floor; at these times, he would need to be restrained to prevent him from hurting himself. The swelling fits also continued, joined by the appearance of a strange lump moving just under his skin.(A4)

Edward Nyndge begins to have Alexander Nyndge prayed over, and requests their father William Nyndge to gather the neighbors to assist. Alexander would be set in a chair and, while being prayed over, and allegedly have fits in which he would be cast to the ground, or fall. He would draw back his lips, gnash his teeth, wallow and foam, while the spirit caused his body to be monstrously transformed. During these fits, Edward Nyndge and Thomas Wakefield would lay hands on Alexander, set him back in the chair, and together hold him in place while others continued praying.(A4 - A5)

Edward Nyndge allegedly conjures the spirit within Alexander Nyndge, invoking the name of Jesus Christ and charging the spirit to speak with him. The spirit responds by causing a swelling in Alexander's chest and throat, and drawing his belly in toward his spine, but finally speaks after more prayer. Its voice is deep and hollow, and when pressed as to why it is tormenting Alexander, replies "I come for his Soule." It also acknowledges itself as fallen, referring to Christ as he who was its redeemer.(A4)

The spirit possessing Alexander Nyndge allegedly struggles within him, declaring that it will "have his Soule and body too" and torments and disfigures Alexander more terribly than before. Alexander is forced to shriek, and the spirit causes him to fight back with such strength that it takes four or five men to hold him despite being bound to the chair; these exertions do not cause him to pant. He cries copiously, laughs, and shrills with his mouth closed. The spirit also flings him to the ground.(A4)

William Nyndge Jr., brother to Edward Nyndge and Alexander Nyndge, allegedly provokes the spirit by declaring that "Wee will keepe him from th[ee] tho[u] foule Spirit, in spite of thy Nose." This causes the spirit to give both William and Edward terrible looks, which Edward responds to by leading the company present, about 40 people, in the Lord's Prayer and others. The spirit, speaking in a voice similar to Alexander's, replies "There bee other good Prayers." Edward denounces its claim, and the spirit roars fearfully, stretching Alexander's neck toward the fire.(A4 - A5)

Mother Lakeland is approached by the Devil. He tells her that if she will serve him, she shall never want again. After approaching her with this offer on several occasions, Mother Lakeland consents, at which point receives three imps, two little dogs, and a mole from the Devil.(7)

Anne Durent, Susan Chandler and Elizabeth Pacy allegedly arrive at Bury St. Edwards for the trial of Rose Cullender and Amy Denny in good health, but the morning of the trial fall into violent fits accompanied by shrieking and are thus rendered unable to give deposition before the court. When they finally recover, all three are said to be struck dumb for the duration of the trial.(4-5)

Dorothy Durent gives deposition alleging that Amy Denny bewitched her infant son William, causing him to be afflicted with strange fits. She says that she had argued with Denny after leaving William in Denny's care with explicit instructions not to give him suck, only to return home and find out that Denny had done so. Denny threatened Durent, and told her "she had as good to have done otherwise than to have found fault with her." That same night, William had his first fit.(5-8)

Dorothy Durent gives deposition stating that she followed Dr. Jacob's advice to hang William's blanket in the chimney corner. She alleges that when she went to wrap William in the blanket that night, a great toad fell out and ran up and down the hearth. She had a youth of her household catch the toad and hold it in the fire with tongs. As soon as the toad was in the fire, it made a "made a great and horrible Noise, and after a space there was a flashing in the Fire like Gun-powder, making a noise like the discharge of a Pistol, and thereupon the Toad was no more seen nor heard." When the Court asked whether there was any residue of the toad left in the fire, Dorothy said that after the flash and noise, not a thing remained of the creature.(8-10)

Dorothy Durent alleges in her deposition that the day after the toad fell out of William's blanket and she had it burnt, Amy Denny's niece (Anonymous 389), a neighbor of Durent's, told her that Denny was "in a most lamentable condition having her face all scorched with fire, and that she was sitting alone in her House, in her smock without any fire." Durent says that she called on Denny herself, and found her exactly as Denny's niece had said - "her Face, her Leggs, and Thighs, which this Deponent saw, seemed very much scorched and burnt with Fire." When asked how she came by the burns, Denny replied that she must thank Durent for her condition, and that Durent would live to see some of her children dead.(10-11)

Dorothy Durent alleges in her deposition that, after her son William recovered from his fits, her ten-year-old daughter Elizabeth became afflicted with similar fits. Dorothy reports that Elizabeth complained she had seen apparitions of Amy Denny during her fits, and that Denny was the cause of her afflictions.(11-12)

Dorothy Durent reports in her deposition that her daughter Elizabeth died following her illness, and claims it came to pass two days after Denny predicted Elizabeth's demise. Durent accuses Denny of having bewitched Elizabeth to death, alleging that Denny "hath been long reputed to be a Witch, and a person of very evil behaviour, whose Kindred and Relations have been many of them accused for Witchcraft, and some of them have been Condemned."(11-13)

Dorothy Durent alleges in her deposition that she became strangely lame soon after her daughter Elizabeth died. When questioned about it in court, she claimed that she had not needed crutches prior to that time save for when she was pregnant.(13-14)

Dorothy Durent is allegedly cured of her lameness at the moment Amy Denny is pronounced guilty of witchcraft. She is seen to return home without the use of her crutches.(13-15)

Elizabeth Pacy is brought to court to give indictment against Amy Denny for Denny's alleged bewitchment of Elizabeth and her younger sister Deborah, but Pacy is unable to speak and lays senseless and motionless on a cushion at court. Although she is said to have come to herself after a while, she can neither see nor speak.(15-16)

Sir Matthew Hale, the judge presiding over the court, instructs that Amy Denny to be privately brought before Elizabeth Pacy. Though Pacy is in an insensible state and her eyes are shut, she reacts immediately when Denny touches her hand, leaping up and scratching Denny until she draws blood. Pacy must be removed from Denny, and thereafter continues to make angry motions in Denny's direction.(16-17)

Samuel Pacy gives deposition in court alleging that, the previous October, his younger daughter Deborah suddenly became lame, and remained so for seven days. On the seventh day, Amy Denny came to the Pacy home and attempted to buy herrings. She was sent away three times; the third time she left grumbling discontentedly. At the same moment, Pacy claims Deborah was taken with violent fits of extreme pain in her stomach, as if pricked by pins, and shrieked dreadfully. (18-20)

Samuel Pacy alleges in his deposition that he consulted with a local physician, Dr. Feavor, on the matter of Deborah's fits. He reports that Dr. Feavor observed Deborah in her fits but could not diagnose her affliction. Dr. Feavor corroborates Pacy's report in his own deposition.(20)

Samuel Pacy alleges in his deposition that Deborah cried out during her fits that Amy Denny appeared to her as an apparition, and that Denny was responsible for her affliction; Pacy used this to have Denny thrown in the stocks.(20-21)

Samuel Pacy gives deposition that his older daughter, Elizabeth Pacy, began to have fits two days after Amy Denny was thrown in the stocks. Elizabeth's mouth could not be opened to let her breathe, and Pacy is forced to have one of her teeth broken out so she can get air. Not long after, Deborah Pacy is similarly afflicted, and must also have a tooth tapped out. Both girls claim to have seen apparitions of Amy Denny, accompanied by an unknown woman whose appearance and clothes they describe, during their fits.(22-23)

Samuel Pacy gives deposition alleging that his daughters Elizabeth and Deborah Pacy have numerous violent fits over a two month period. During these fits, their bodies become so sore they cannot be touched, go lame on one side, or lose sight or hearing. At the end of each fit, they each were said to cough up phlegm intermixed with pins and nails.(23-25)

Samuel Pacy alleges in his deposition that he would have his daughters Elizabeth and Deborah read from the New Testament in between fits and observed that "they would read till they came to the Name of Lord, or Jesus, or Christ; and then before they could pronounce either of the said Words they would suddenly fall into their fits. But when they came to the Name of Satan, or Devil, they would clap their Fingers upon the Book, crying out, This bites, but makes me speak right well." The girls claim that Amy Denny has told them they must not name the Lord or Jesus, and claim that Denny appeared to them along with Rose Cullender during their fits, threatening them with torments ten times worse if they told what they had seen or heard.(25-26)

Dr. Thomas Browne of Norwich gives deposition in court as an expert witness. In his opinion, Elizabeth Pacy, Deborah Pacy, Elizabeth Durent, Ann Durent, Jane Bocking and Susan Chandler are indeed bewitched, citing a recent Danish example of witchment. He claims that bewitchment is menstrual hysteria that has been heightened by the Devil in cooperation with witches.(44-45)

Margaret Arnold, Samual Pacy's sister, gives deposition stating that she had the care of Elizabeth and Deborah Pacy for a time during their bewitchment. She alleges that she thought they had been faking the vomiting of pins and nails, and had all pins removed from their clothing upon their arrival at her home, but that they had nevertheless vomited pins several times in her presence. She said the girls had claimed to have the pins forced on them by bees and flies.(27-31)

Margaret Arnold gives deposition alleging that, while her nieces Elizabeth and Deborah Pacy were in her care, they would claim to see mice, and once a duck, catch them and throw them into the fire. Though Arnold could not see the creatures herself, she heard one screech like a rat when it hit the fire, and saw another make a flash like gunpowder.(29, 31-32)

Edmund Durent gives deposition in court alleging that, after his wife refused to sell Rose Cullender herrings, his daughter Ann Durent became afflicted with pain like the pricking of pins in her stomach, and had swooning fits. In between fits, Ann claimed to have seen Cullender's apparition threaten to torment her. Ann is also said to have vomited pins, which Edward presented in court as evidence. Ann's fits continued until the trial.(33-35)

Diana Bocking gives deposition alleging that her daughter Jane Bocking has suffered fits since February, in which she has stomach pains like the pricking of pins, swoons, can eat little or no food, and daily vomits crooked pins. Diana claims that she has found more pins and a lath-nail clenched in Jane's fists after Jane is seen to catch at the air with her hands. Jane is also said to talk to unseen persons, complain that Rose Cullender and Amy Denny appeared to her, and be stricken dumb. Diana produced the pins and lath-nail as evidence in court.(35-38)

Mary Chandler alleges in her deposition that the morning after she had searched Rose Cullender, her daughter Susan Chandler saw an apparition of Cullender take her hand. Susan is said to have fallen sick to her stomach shortly thereafter, having fits in which she saw apparitions of Rose Cullender with a large dog, vomited pins and was stricken with blindness or dumbness. (40-42)

Susan Chandler is allegedly called into the court to give deposition against Rose Cullender, but falls into a fit and must be carried out. Struck dumb, the only words she can get out are "burn her." (41-42)

Mary Chandler gives deposition stating that she, along with five other women, were hired to search Rose Cullender after Sir Edmund Bacon, Justice of the Peace for Suffolk, granted a warrant at the request of Samuel Pacy. Mary says that Cullender cooperated with the search, and alleges that once Cullender had been stripped naked she was found to have four teats: A large one about an inch long on her lower belly, and three smaller ones on her privy parts. Mary reports that the larger teat looked recently sucked, had a hole in its tip, and exuded a milky substance when handled. (38-40)

Sargent Earl, Sargent Banard, and Sargent Keeling attend Amy Denny and Rose Cullender's trial; Sargent Keeling is said to be dissatisfied with with evidence presented. While convinced the children were indeed possessed, he is not convinced that Denny and Cullender were responsible, and argued that prosecuting based on the imaginings of the afflicted puts everyone in danger for then anyone could imagine a crime and accuse an innocent party. Keeling particularly objected to Elizabeth Pacy's reaction to Denny's touch while blindfolded being taken as proof of bewitchment.(43)

John Soam gives deposition in court that one day during the harvest, he drove three carts past Rose Cullender's home and one hit her window. He says that Cullender was irate at the damage, and alleges that she threatened him. He claims that the offending cart overturned two or three times that day and stuck in the town gate despite having more than enough clearance, forcing Soam to have a gatepost cut down to free it. Once he managed to get the cart into the yard, he could not get it near the place where he needed to unload his corn. When he and others tried to unload it well away from the place, it proved to be a great and tiring labour. They were forced to stop when people who came to help all developed sudden nosebleeds. The next morning, Soam returned to the cart and was able to unload it without any trouble at all.(51-54)

Robert Sherringham gives deposition in court that his cart had smashed into Rose Cullender's home, breaking part of the house; he claims that that she threatened him when she saw the damage and told him his horses would suffer for it. Sure enough, all four died a short time later.(54-55)

Robert Sherringham gives deposition alleging that Rose Cullender is responsible for the death of all his all his piglets, a persistent lameness in his limbs, and for plaguing him with "a great Number of Lice of an extraordinary bigness." He says that he was forced to burn all his clothes to be rid of the lice.(54-55)

Richard Spencer gives deposition in court claiming that he overheard Amy Denny say that "the Devil would not let her rest until she were Revenged" on Ann Sandeswell.(55)

Ann Sandeswell gives deposition in court alleging that, seven or eight years ago, she had bought a number of geese from Amy Denny but had not yet brought them home, and that Denny threatened to destroy them if she didn't come pick them up. A few days later, all the geese were dead.(55-56)

Ann Sandeswell gives deposition that shortly after Amy Denny destroys some geese Sandeswell had bought from her, Denny became a tenant of Sandeswell's husband Cornelius. Sandeswell alleges that Denny told Cornelius that the chimney on the house would fall if it wasn't looked after, to which he replied that the chimney was new and payed her no heed. Not long after, the chimney fell as predicted.(55-56)

Ann Sandeswell gives deposition alleging that a quarter-barrel of fish she had ordered from her brother was discovered to have fallen into the ocean when Sandeswell went to collect it. She had requested Amy Denny's company, and Denny rebuffed her. Her brother told her that he had been unable to keep the fish in the boat, that he had never before seen the like, and that no-one else's goods had been lost.(56-57)

The Jury finds Amy Denny and Rose Cullender guilty on thirteen counts of witchcraft and Justice Matthew Hale sentences them to hang. The date of execution is set for March 17, 1662. Though they are urged to confess prior to their execution, both refuse. Hale was later revealed to be hesitant to acquit or pardon, lest he countenance a disbelief in witchcraft, and thus in Christianity.(59-60, 61-62)

The morning after Rose Cullender and Amy Denny are sentenced, Samuel Pacy, Elizabeth Pacy, Deborah Pacey, Mary Chandler and Susan Chandler visit the home of Lord Chief Baron Matthew Hale. All three children are allegedly in good health, though Susan is said to still be thin and wan. Samuel Pacy reports that his daughters were restored to their speech and health within half an hour of the convictions. Susan Chandler allegedly had pains in her stomach that night, however. (60-61)

Alice Huson and Doll Bilby are searched as witches, at the behest of Henry Corbet. His daughter, Faith Corbet, had accused both women of bewitching her for over four years.(55-56)

Doll Bilbly, during her re-examination as a witch (done at the behest of Henry Corbet) confesses to bewitching Faith Corbet.(55-56)

Thomas Spatchet allegedly loses the ability to speak. He later regains his voice, but then loses it again, this pattern repeating for the rest of the day. The loss of speech coincides with a grinding pain at the crown of his head. (4-5, 18)

Thomas Spatchet allegedly suffers from benumbing fits, during which he appears lifeless. His limbs become heavy and hang down, his eyes shut and do not open, and his teeth clench together; these paralyzing fits can continue for two or three hours.(5, 18)

Thomas Spatchet allegedly suffers from shaking fits. These fits would start off moderately, like a palsy, then become violent. They are said to start at his head and progress down his body, with only one part shaking at a time and the rest still, until it reached his legs, and then his whole body would shake violently.(6, 18)

Thomas Spatchet allegedly suffers from dancing fits, during which his legs and feet move with agility and harmony. His feet strike the ground as if they are bells ringing or are striking out a drumbeat, but Spatchet is said to have no previous musical talent.(6, 18)

Thomas Spatchet's fits allegedly escalate. They are said to occur every fifteen minutes to half an hour, four to twenty times a day, for weeks and months on end. The more there are in a day, the shorter each individual fit is said to be, and he hardly has one day in a month or five weeks without a fit.(6-7, 18)

Thomas Spatchet allegedly suffers from skipping or jumping fits, where his feet come close together, move up and down, and side to side; these fits are said to continue until he has no strength left in his legs and has to rest.(7, 18)

Thomas Spatchet allegedly loses the ability to speak whenever he tries to pray or attempts to participate in his religious duties. He is able to go a little way, but soon falters and fails.(5, 18)

Thomas Spatchet allegedly suffers from wringing fits, during which his hands lay over one another, with one hand wringing the other, moving about his body and winding about furniture. These fits were said to last half an hour and were not accompanied by shaking. When his hands were done, his head would be affected, and then his body until he would be wrung around or almost off his chair.(8, 9, 18)

Aubrey Grinset confesses to murdering John Collet of Cookly and Henry Winson of Walpoole through bewitchment.(19)

Thomas Spatchet is allegedly cured of his violent fits and inability to travel when Aubrey Grinset dies in prison. This is seen as confirmation that she is a witch.(28)

Doctor Harvey, "although very learned otherwise," will not confirm or deny the existence of witches.(282-283)

Doctor Harvey explains that he went to a house on the edge of town where there allegedly lived a witch (Anonymous 154). When he first arrived, the woman seemed very suspicious, but when Harvey claimed to be a wizard she warmed up and reaffirmed this because of Harvey's allegedly "magical face."(283)

The old woman (Anonymous 154) puts out a saucer of milk and calls her familiar (for Dr. Harvey) which appears to her immediately in the shape of a toad.(285)

Doctor Harvey sends the woman off to get some ale. While she is away, Doctor Harvey captures her toad by throwing some milk as the old woman had done and opens it up using his scalpel to examine its entrails and determine whether it is different from a normal toad.(285)

Harvey notes that this toad is anatomically normal. He concludes the witch's purported familiar was an ordinary toad, tamed by the old woman.(285)

Doctor Harvey concludes that the old woman (Anonymous 154) had tamed an ordinary toad and then come to believe that it was a familiar. (285)

The old woman (Anonymous 154) attacks Doctor Harvey when she discovers he has killed her toad. In an effort to get her to stop, he tells her he is the king's physician sent to find out whether or not she is a witch.(286)

A witch (Anonymous 194) sends her maid (Anonymous 195) to fetch a handful of herbs; she returns home, late having spent time with her lover, but with a handful of herbs, regardless. The maid (Anonymous 195) witnesses her mistress (Anonymous 194) cutting the herbs and strewing them about the room. The next morning the witchs husband (Anonymous 196) finds twelve or fourteen dead hogs in his yard, which he believes is the work of his wife (Anonymous 194) and the maid (Anonymous 195). It may be, however, that Anonymous 195's sweetheart pointed her to the wrong herbs, and seeking to cover up the grievous mistake, the story shifts to the suspicious actions of he mistress scattering the herbs. (4-5)

Thomas Paman confesses to having feigned mental illness and bewitchment, and having assaulted alleged witch Alice Read who had been sent to see him by Sir Martin Stuteville.(198-199)

Mr. Lowes Parson of Branson in Suffolke commits "many other most hanous, wicked, and accursed acts" with the help of six imps which visit him daily.(3)

Mr. Lowes Parson of Branson in Suffolke "preached about threescore sermons after he had made his Covenent with the Devill," thereby engaging in anti-Catholic activities and working with the Devil.(3)

Mr. Lowes Parson of Branson in Suffolke is found to have a teat on the crown of his head, and two under his tongue. This confirms his "Covenant with the Devill."(3)

Mr. Lowes Parson of Branson in Suffolke confesses to bewitching a ship near Harwidge, raising "blusterous windes," which sink the ship and kill all passengers.(3)

Mr. Lowes Parson confesses "that he had done many other most hanous, wicked, and accursed acts," with the help of six imps which are his daily visitors. (3)

Mr. Lowes Parson is put on trial for witchcraft in Branson in Suffolk, being both tried and convicted. He allegedly bewitched a ship, capsizing it and drowning the crew; had the help of six imps to cause mischief, and "he had done many other more hanous, wicked, and accursed acts." He is one among eighteen witches at the session.(3)

Mr. Lowes Parson is convicted by the judge and justices at a "sessions holden at St. Edmunds-bury in Suffolke," and he is condemned to death for witchcraft. Mr. Lowes Parson had confessed to: bewitching a ship, sinking it and all its passengers, and many other "accursed acts" through the help of six imps. He is one among eighteen witches at the session.()

Mr. Lowes Parson is executed on the 27th of August, 1645 after confessing to witchcraft. Mr. Lowes Parson confessed to: bewitching a ship, sinking it and all its passengers; and causing "accursed acts" with the help of six imps. ()

Thomas and Mary Evererd, both employed in a Brewhouse at Halsworth, bewtiched beer, "and that the odiousnesse of the infectious stinke of it was such & so intollerable that by the noysomnesse of the smel or tast many people dyed." (3-4)

Thomas Evererd, a Cooper, and his wife Mary perpetrate "many other mischiefes" that they "acted by their witchcrafts and damnable Sorceries." This happens in a brewhouse where they work in Halesworth, Suffolk.()

Thomas and Mary Evererd of Halesworth, Suffolk, "had their impes to whom they gave suck."(3-4)

The cooper Thomas Evererd, and his wife Mary, who both work in a brewhouse in Halesworth confess that "they had bewitched Beere in that Brewhouse," causing such an "infectious stinke" that it caused many people to die. (3-4)

Thomas and Mary Evererd of Halesworth, Suffolk confess to many "mischiefes they had perpetrated and acted by their witchcrafts and damnable Sorceries."(3-4)

Thomas Evererd and his wife Mary of Halesworth, Suffolk confess that they had impes "to whom they gave suck."(3-4)

Thomas Evererd, a cooper from Halesworth, Suffolk, as well as his wife Mary are tried for witchcraft "at a sessions holden at St. Edmunds-bury in Suffolke." They had previously confessed to: bewitching beer at the brewery they worked at, killing several people; various mischiefs; and having several imps. They are two among eighteen witches at the sessions.(Cover, 3-4)

The cooper Thomas Evererd and his wife Mary are convicted of witchcraft and executed the 27th of August, 1645, in St. Edmunds-bury in Suffolke. (Cover, 3-4)

Mary Bacon is tried for witchcraft at a "sessions holden at St. Edmunds-bury in Suffolke." She is one among eighteen witches at the sessions.(Cover)

Anne Alderman of Suffolk is tried for witchcraft "at a sessions holden at St. Edmunds-bury in Suffolke." She is one among eighteen witches at the sessions.(Cover)

Rebecca Morris of Suffolk is tried for witchcraft at "a sessions holden at St. Edmunds-bury in Suffolke." She is one among eighteen witches at the sessions.(Cover)

Mary Fuller is tried at "a sessions holden at St. Edmunds-bury in Suffolke," for witchcraft. She is one among eighteen witches at the sessions.(Cover)

Mary Clowes is tried as a witch "at a sessions holden at St. Edmunds-bury in Suffolke." She is one among eighteen witches present at the sessions.(Cover)

Margery Sparham is tried for witchcraft "at a sessions holden at St. Edmunds-bury in Suffolke." She is one among eighteen witches tried. (Cover)

Katherine Tooley is tried as a witch "at a sessions holden at St. Edmunds-bury in Suffolke." She is one among eighteen witches at the sessions.(1645)

Sarah Spinlow is one among eighteen witches tried for witchcraft, at a "sessions holden at St. Edmunds-bury in Suffolke."(Cover)

Ian Limstead is tried for witchcraft "at a sessions holden at St. Edmunds-bury in Suffolke." He is one among eighteen witches at the session.(Cover)

Anne Wright is tried for witchcraft "at a sessions holden at St. Edmunds-bury in Suffolke." She is one among eighteen witches present at the sessions.(Cover)

Mary Smith is one among eighteen witches present "at a sessions holden at St. Edmunds-bury in Suffolke." She is tried for witchcraft.(Cover)

Ian Rivert is tried for witchcraft at a "sessions holden at St. Edmunds-bury in Suffolke." He is one of eighteen witches at the sessions.(Cover)

Susan Manners is tried at a "sessions holden in St. Edmunds-bury in Suffolke," for witchcraft. She is one among eighteen witches at the sessions.(Cover)

Mary Skipper is tried for witchcraft "at a sessions holden at St. Edmunds-bury in Suffolke." She is one of eighteen witches at the sessions.(Cover)

Anne Leech is tried for witchcraft at a "sessions holden at St. Edmunds-bury in Suffolke." She is one among eighteen witches at the sessions. (Cover)

Thomas Evererd and his wife Mary are convicted of witchcraft, and condemned to death by "the judges and justices of the said sessions," which took place at "St. Edmunds-bury in Suffolke." They had previously confessed to: bewitching beer at the brewery they worked at, killing several people; various mischiefs; and having several imps. They are two among eighteen witches at the sessions.(Cover)

Mary Bacon is convicted and condemned to death "by the judge and justices" for witchcraft, at the sessions at Bury St. Edmonds, in Suffolk. She is one of eighteen witches condemned at that session.(Cover)

Mary Bacon is executed for witchcraft on the 27th day of August, 1645, at Bury St. Edmunds, Suffolk. She is one among eighteen witches executed that day.(Cover)

Anne Alderman is convicted and condemned to death by "the judge and justices" for witchcraft, at the sessions at Bury St. Edmonds, in Suffolk. She is one of eighteen witches condemned at that session.(Cover)

Anne Alderman is executed for witchcraft on the 27th day of August, 1645, at Bury St. Edmunds, Suffolk. She is one among eighteen witches executed that day.(Cover)

Rebecca Morris is convicted and condemned to death "by the judge and justices" for witchcraft, at the sessions at Bury St. Edmonds, in Suffolk. She is one of eighteen witches condemned at that session.(Cover)

Rebecca Morris is executed for witchcraft on the 27th day of August, 1645, at Bury St. Edmunds, Suffolk. She is one among eighteen witches executed that day.(Cover)

Mary Fuller is convicted and condemned to death "by the judge and justices" for witchcraft, at the sessions at Bury St. Edmonds, in Suffolk. She is one of eighteen witches condemned at that session.(Cover)

Mary Fuller is executed for witchcraft on the 27th day of August, 1645, at Bury St. Edmunds, Suffolk. She is one among eighteen witches executed that day.(Cover)

Mary Clowes is convicted and condemned to death "by the judge and justices" for witchcraft, at the sessions at Bury St. Edmonds, in Suffolk. She is one of eighteen witches condemned at that session.(Cover)

Mary Clowes is executed for witchcraft on the 27th day of August, 1645, at Bury St. Edmunds, Suffolk. She is one among eighteen witches executed that day.(Cover)

Margery Sparham is convicted and condemned to death "by the judge and justices" for witchcraft, at the sessions at Bury St. Edmonds, in Suffolk. She is one of eighteen witches condemned at that session.(Cover)

Margery Sparham is executed for witchcraft on the 27th day of August, 1645, at Bury St. Edmunds, Suffolk. She is one among eighteen witches executed that day.(Cover)

Katherine Tooley is convicted and condemned to death "by the judge and justices" for witchcraft, at the sessions at Bury St. Edmonds, in Suffolk. She is one of eighteen witches condemned at that session.(Cover)

Katherine Tooley is executed for witchcraft on the 27th day of August, 1645, at Bury St. Edmunds, Suffolk. She is one among eighteen witches executed that day.(Cover)

Sarah Spinlow is convicted and condemned to death "by the judge and justices" for witchcraft, at the sessions at Bury St. Edmonds, in Suffolk. She is one of eighteen witches condemned at that session.(Cover)

Sarah Spinlow is executed for witchcraft on the 27th day of August, 1645, at Bury St. Edmunds, Suffolk. She is one among eighteen witches executed that day.(Cover)

Ian Limstead is convicted and condemned to death "by the judge and justices" for witchcraft, at the sessions at Bury St. Edmonds, in Suffolk. He is one of eighteen witches condemned at that session.(Cover)

Ian Limstead is executed for witchcraft on the 27th day of August, 1645, at Bury St. Edmunds, Suffolk. He is one among eighteen witches executed that day.(Cover)

Anne Wright is convicted and condemned to death "by the judge and justices" for witchcraft, at the sessions at Bury St. Edmonds, in Suffolk. She is one of eighteen witches condemned at that session.(Cover)

Anne Wright is executed for witchcraft on the 27th day of August, 1645, at Bury St. Edmunds, Suffolk. She is one among eighteen witches executed that day.(Cover)

Mary Smith is convicted and condemned to death "by the judge and justices" for witchcraft, at the sessions at Bury St. Edmonds, in Suffolk. She is one of eighteen witches condemned at that session.(Cover)

Mary Smith is executed for witchcraft on the 27th day of August, 1645, at Bury St. Edmunds, Suffolk. She is one among eighteen witches executed that day.(Cover)

Ian Rivert is convicted and condemned to death "by the judge and justices" for witchcraft, at the sessions at Bury St. Edmonds, in Suffolk. He is one of eighteen witches condemned at that session.(Cover)

Susan Manners is convicted and condemned to death "by the judge and justices" for witchcraft, at the sessions at Bury St. Edmonds, in Suffolk. She is one of eighteen witches condemned at that session.(Cover)

Mary Skipper is convicted and condemned to death "by the judge and justices" for witchcraft, at the sessions at Bury St. Edmonds, in Suffolk. She is one of eighteen witches condemned at that session.(Cover)

Anne Leech is convicted and condemned to death "by the judge and justices" for witchcraft, at the sessions at Bury St. Edmonds, in Suffolk. She is one of eighteen witches condemned at that session.(Cover)

Ian Rivert is executed for witchcraft on the 27th day of August, 1645, at Bury St. Edmunds, Suffolk. He is one among eighteen witches executed that day.(Cover)

Susan Manners is executed for witchcraft on the 27th day of August, 1645, at Bury St. Edmunds, Suffolk. She is one among eighteen witches executed that day.(Cover)

Mary Skipper is executed for witchcraft on the 27th day of August, 1645, at Bury St. Edmunds, Suffolk. She is one among eighteen witches executed that day.(Cover)

Anne Leech is executed for witchcraft on the 27th day of August, 1645, at Bury St. Edmunds, Suffolk. She is one among eighteen witches executed that day.(Cover)

An old woman (Anonymous 271) "had done many very wicked things" by bewitching cattle and corn. She is one among eighteen witches on trial at Bury St. Edmunds in Suffolk.(4)

An old woman (Anonymous 271) bewitched "seven persons of one family to death." The family consisted of one man (Anonymous 284), his wife (Anonymous 285), and their five children (Anonymous 286, Anonymous 287, Anonymous 288, Anonymous 289, Anonymous 290). The old woman was one of eighteen witches on trial in Bury St. Edmunds, Suffolk.(4)

An old woman (Anonymous 271) has imps come to her "in severall shapes." She is one among eighteen witches on trial at Bury St. Edmunds.(4)

An old woman (Anonymous 271), one among eighteen witches on trial at Bury St. Edmonds, Suffolk, confesses "she had beene a Witch the space of above fifty yeares," during which time she bewitched cattle and corn. (4)

An old woman (Anonymous 271) confesses to bewitching seven people of one family to death, "a man together with his wife and five children." She is one among eighteen witches on trial at Bury St. Edmunds, Suffolke. (4)

An old woman (Anonymous 271) confesses to having several imps "which came to her in severall shapes." She is one among eighteen witches on trial at Bury St. Edmunds, Suffolk. (4)

A woman, described as "another of the women witches" (Anonymous 272), who "had beene a Witch above five and twenty yeares," bewitched a child (Anonymous 283) to death. She is one among eighteen witches at a session held in Bury St. Edmunds, Suffolk.(4)

A woman, described as "another of the women witches" (Anonymous 272), one among eighteen at a session at Bury St. Edmunds, Suffolk, bewitched a "great store of Cattle," causing the owners to be hindered by either the death or the "unserviceablenesse of them"(4)

A woman, described as "another of the women witches" (Anonymous 272), one among eighteen at a session at Bury St. Edmunds, Suffolk, bewitched "standing corne," causing great losses to the owners, as they could not "benefit of there long, hard, and by her made, fruitlesse labours."(4)

A woman, described as "another of the women witches" (Anonymous 272) confesses she "had beene a Witch above five and twenty yeares," during which time among "many other such like evill deeds" she bewitched a child (Anonymous 283) to death. She is one among eighteen witches at a session held in Bury St. Edmunds, Suffolk.(4)

A woman, described as "another of the women witches" (Anonymous 272), one among eighteen at a session at Bury St. Edmunds, Suffolk, confessed to bewitching a "great store of Cattle," causing hardship to the owners who "were much impoverished" by the death of their stock, or their "unserviceablenesse."(4)

A woman described as "another of the women witches" (Anonymous 272), one among eighteen at a session at Bury St. Edmunds, Suffolk, confessed to bewitching "standing corne," causing great losses to the owners, as they could not "benefit of there long, hard, and by her made, fruitlesse labours."(4)

Thomas Evererd, and his wife Mary, both workers at a brewhouse in Halesworth, Suffolk are convicted of witchcraft and condemned to death by "the judge and justices" of "a sessions holden at St. Edmunds-bury in Suffolke." They are guilty of: bewitching beer, causing the death of many; mischief through witchcraft; and giving suck to imps. (Cover, 3-4)

Four searchers from the county of Suffolk, two men (Anonymous 277 and Anonymous 278) searchers to search men suspected to be witches, and two women searchers (Anonymous 279 and Anonymous 280) to search women suspected to be witches, examine eighteen suspected witches at a session in Bury St. Edmunds: Mr. Lowes Parson, Thomas Evererd and his wife Mary, Mary Bacon, Anne Alderman, Rebecca Morris, Mary Fuller, Mary Clowes, Margery Sparham, Katherine Tooley, Sarah Spinlow, Ian Limstead, Anne Wright, Mary Smith, Ian Rivert, Susan Manners, Mary Skipper, and Anne Leech. They were all found "to have Teats or Dugs which their Impes used to suck so often as they came to them." These teats were found all over their bodies. Imps visited "in the shape of Mice, sometimes in the shape of Kitens, sometimes in the shape of Snayles, and other-while in the shape of Snakes, Hornets, Waspes, and divers other shapes."(4-6)

A woman (Anonymous 273), one of 120 being held in prison at Bury St. Edmunds, Suffolk, had "carnall copulation with the Devill," before her husband died. She conceived twice by the Devil, but as soon as the offspring was born, "they run away in most horrid long and ugly shapes."(5)

A woman (Anonymous 273), one of 120 being held in prison at Bury St. Edmunds, Suffolk, confesses that she had "carnall copulation with the Devill," before her husband died, and by this deed, she conceived twice by the Devil, but as soon as the offspring was born, "they run away in most horrid long and ugly shapes."(5)

A woman, described as "another of these witches" (Anonymous 274) from Suffolk held a grudge against a gentleman(Anonymous 281) and his wife (Anonymous 282), for "they seemed discontented at her comming often to their house." She sends one of her imps "in the likenesses of a little black smoth dog" to play with their young son and only child (Anonymous 275). (5)

A woman, described as "another of these witches" (Anonymous 274) from Suffolk sends her imp "in the likenesse of a little black smoth dog" to play with the son (Anonymous 275) of a gentleman (Anonymous 281) and his wife(Anonymous 282) whom she held a grudge against; the imp "brought the child to a water side, and there drowned the said child to the great grief of the parents." (5)

A woman, described as "another of these witches" (Anonymous 274) from Suffolk confessed to sending one of her imps "in the likenesse of a little black smoth dog" to play with the young son (Anonymous 275) of a gentleman (Anonymous 281) and his wife (Anonymous 282) to whom she felt a grudge, as they were unhappy with her frequent visits.(5)

A woman, described as "another of these witches" (Anonymous 274) from Suffolk confessed at a session in Bury St. Edmund to sending her imp to play with the child (Anonymous 275) of a gentleman (Anonymous 281) and his wife (Anonymous 282) to whom she felt a grudge; and the imp "brought the child to a water side, and there drowned the said child to the great grief of the parents." (5)

A woman, described as "one witch" (Anonymous 276) in prison at Bury St. Edmunds was very penitent for her "lewd and abominable indevours" and asked to have "petitions put up to divers godly Ministers that they would be pleased to pray in their severall Congregations" so that her imps can no longer harm others.(5)

Anne Leech of Mistley, Suffolk confesses to sending her gray imp with Elizabeth Clarke's black imp and Elizabeth Gooding's white imp, to "kill a black Cowe and a white Cowe of Mr. Edwards." (7)

Anne Leech of Mistley, Suffolk confesses she sent some thirty years before 1645 a gray Imp to kill two horses of Mr. Bragge of Mistley, "which were killed accordingly."(7)

Anne Leech of Mistley, Suffolk allegedly sent a white imp, and Elizabeth Gooding a black imp, "to destroy the child of the said Mr. Edwards." This crime is also attributed to Elizabeth Clarke and Margaret Moone.(7)

Anne Leech of Mistley, Suffolk exchanges a white imp, a gray imp, and a black imp between herself and her sister-in-law, one Anne, the wife of Robert Pearce of Stoke in Suffolk, so that "these Jmpes went commingly from one two another, and did mischiefe where ever they went."(7)

Anne Leech of Mistley, Suffolk confesses that she and her sister-in-law, Anne, the wife of Robert Pearce of Stoke in Suffolk, exchanged a white imp, a gray imp, and a black imp between themselves, so that "these Jmpes went commingly from one two another, and did mischiefe where ever they went."(7)

Anne Leech of Mistley, Suffolk confesses that if she did "not send and imploy" her imps to do mischief, her health suffered. Conversely, if her imps were "imployed, she was healthfull and well."(7)

Anne Leech, a woman from Mistley, Suffolk, confesses that imps came to her and "did usually suck those teats which were found about the private parts of her body."(7)

Anne Leech of Mistley, Suffolk confesses that her imps often spoke to her, "and told her, she should never feele hell torments, and that they spake to her in an hollow voyee, which she plainly understood."(7)

Anne Leech of Mistley, Suffolk sent her gray imp to Elizabeth Kirk of Manningtree, Sufflk, so that "Elizabeth lanhished by the space of one whole year, untill she dyed."(7-8)

Anne Leech of Mistley, Suffolk confesses to sending her gray imp to Elizabeth Kirk to destroy her, "and upon the sending of the said Jmpe, the said Elizabeth lanhished by the space of one whole year, untill she dyed."(7-8)

Anne Leech of Mistley, Suffolk took offense from Elizabeth Kirk of Manningtree, Suffolk when Elizabeth refused to share a comb. This causes Anne Leech to send a gray imp "to destroy her."(8)

Anne Leech of Mistley, Suffolk confesses to sending her gray imp "to kill the daughter of the widow Rawlyns" And further, this Examinant saith, that long since, but the exact time she cannot remember, she sent her gray Imp to kill the daughter of the widow Rawlyns of Misley aforesaid; and the reason was, because this Examinant was put out of her Farm, and the said widow Rawlyns put in, where shee dwelleth at this present.(8)

Anne Leech of Mistley, Suffolk confesses to knowledge of the "sending of an Jmpe by the aforesaid Elizabeth Gooding, to vex and torment Mary the wife of John Tayler of Mannyntree." Elizabeth Gooding does so for Mary Tayler "refused to give the said Elizabeth some Beeregood."(8)

Anne Leech of Mistley, Suffolk confesses that "Elizabeth Gooding, and one Anne West of Lawford widow, met together at the house of the said Elizabeth Clarke, where there was a Booke read, wherein she thinks there was no goodnesse."(8)

Thomas Spatchet allegedly becomes entirely unable to participate in acts of worship or attend any religious service, ask for a blessing for his meat or give thanks for it without falling into a benumbing or violent fit.(7-8, 18)

Thomas Spatchet allegedly suffers from daily shaking fits that start first thing in the morning and continue until 6 or 7 o'clock in the evening. These fits are said to prevent him from eating until the evening, when he must eat a morsel at a time while walking lest he lose his ability to speak, be unable to rise again, or be unable to keep his seat. This continued for 16 or 17 weeks.(9)

Thomas Spatchet allegedly receives a ten-day respite from his fits due to the prayers of people who sympathize with his condition. After those ten days, his fits are said to return, but now no more than eight a week, where before he suffered eight to twelve a day.(9-10, 18)

Thomas Spatchet is allegedly granted freedom from shaking and wringing fits, attributed to prayers on his behalf, for a period of twenty-two weeks. He continued to suffer benumbings, but is able to participate to a degree in religious life again. Persons deeply affected by his condition prayed over him while he had a violent fit until he lay quiet again. During this period, he was able to read Scripture and other books for as long as an hour, and write mostly without weariness.(11-12, 18)

Thomas Spatchet allegedly has three weeks without fits, except when he tries to eat his meat. He is left unable to eat more than four morsels at a time before being rendered unable to move or speak, and often with the last morsel trapped in his mouth. When afflicted, he cannot take any other food or refreshment except a little beer or thin broth, and is soon brought low and famished. After a few weeks, he is able to eat nine or ten morsels at a time, and as of the next day is able to eat his fill if he is fast about it, but suffers violent fits after eating for two more weeks.(14, 18)

Thomas Spatchet is allegedly afflicted with Roaring Howling Fits, accompanied by all manner of bodily contortions if he lay back upon his bed, and fears he will bring harm to others. These roaring fits come after ten hours of shaking, and last for two hours, in which he roared, howled or barked like a dog and would be left hoarse. On the days he is so afflicted, he is unable to eat until they are done, and fears that he will become raging mad and attack others.(14-16, 18)

Thomas Spatchet allegedly suffers from kneading fits, attributed to Aubrey Grinset. During these fits, he would be cast into heaviness and benumbment, as if asleep, but be aware of others in the room and hear them if they spoke. While benumbed, he would feel a blow on his breast, side or shoulder, and then a kneading like his flesh were bread until he became sore. There would be an intermission, and the kneading would repeat, until he seemed to be near death, but would revive. At times, he seemed to catch a hand, and was sometimes able to bring it to his mouth and bite it. Once he thought he had bitten a thumb, and at the same time Aubrey Grinset was observed to wear an unusually large shoe on one foot. When she was searched, Aubrey's toe was found to have an impression on it as if sawn at. After biting the hand, the kneading fits ceased for a year.()

Thomas Spatchet allegedly suffers from fits in which he feels like he is being is grasped in arms while someone gropes his crotch, attributed to Aubrey Grinset. These fits are infrequent, but he finds them particularly troubling and frightening.(17, 18)

Audrey Grinset confesses to Thomas Spatchet that she employed an imp, and that she had sent it to him to cause his fits. She expresses remorse for having done so, for he had been kind to her, and says that Devil would not let her be until she had. Grinset adds, however, that she had no part in his roaring fits.(18-19)

Aubrey Grinset is searched a second time by an anonymous jury of women (Anonymous 166), a few days after the first time. On this search, she is found to be covered in scratches, like those left by briars and thorns. It is thought that the Devil has been tormenting her for her confession, for a rumbling noise has been heard from her prison, and she has been seen wandering in distant places at night.(20)

Aubrey Grinset is called before some unnamed Gentlemen (Anonymous 314), and some Credible Persons (Anonymous 317) give testimony corroborating her confessions of having a familiar and causing deaths. Depositions are taken, but the testimonies are not sufficient. It is decided that nothing can be done under the law, and she is sent home. Nonetheless, it is clear that she is of sound mind and knew what she was doing when she confessed, and that her confessions cannot be discounted.(20)

Aubrey Grinset is questioned once again, by two unknown Gentlemen (Anonymous 314), and she again confesses how she became a witch and how she hurt Thomas Spatchet. However, this time she does not confess to causing the deaths of John Collet and Henry Winson, and outright denies some things she had confessed to before.(19-20)

Thomas Spatchet is urged to scratch Aubrey Grinset, but he is too tender-hearted though his fits continue. Instead, it is said that he took comfort in Scripture and was content to leave any acts of vengeance to God.(20)

Thomas Spatchet allegedly suffers from fits that prevent him from traveling, attributed to Aubrey Grinset, in which his feet would be as if nailed to the ground or his legs buckle under him, he would lose all strength, or find himself violently moved in a direction he did not wish to go. These fits are said to have stopped on Aubrey Grinset's death.(21-23, 28, 18)

Thomas Spatchet is observed in his fits by a Professing Physick (Anonymous 320) and is prescribed physick for them. This physick seems to increase the frequency and violence of his fits, such that he stops taking it for two years, though his violent fits continue until eight weeks before Aubrey Grinset's death. The Professing Physick concludes that his violent fits are no ordinary contraction of nerves, but rather a continual motion that sometimes ends with him stretched out like a dead man. The Professing Physick also observes that at the times when Spatchet's fits prevent him from eating, he becomes weak but is spared from losing much weight or muscle.(26, 27)

Aubrey Grinset dies, and it is alleged that her death frees Thomas Spatchet from his violent fits and restraint from travel.(27, 28)

A week before Aubrey Grinset's death, Mr. R., a conformist, invites Thomas Spatchet to visit her. When Spatchet tries to get close to her, he is prevented from setting one foot in front of the other, and is forced to make curtseys and similar actions all the way back again.(27)

Mr. R. visits Aubrey Grinset in Thomas Spatchet's place, and tells Spatchet of what transpired after. He alleges that the skin on her hands and arms has been torn, with hardly a finger's breadth spared. She would not confess any witchery to him, but only that she had made an agreement with the Devil, and that it was too later for her to repent of it for she was damned. He asked her what the two cudgels on her bed were for, to which she answered that they were to fight the Devil for his misuse of her. She told him that when she was alone, the Devil would come to her and drag her out of the bed and under it until someone in the house heard the noise and found her bloody.(27-28)

Aubrey Grinset alleges shortly before her death that there are others who have Thomas Spatchet in hand, and thus he would not be entirely free when she died.(28)

Thomas Spatchet continues to suffer fits for the rest of his life, as Aubrey Grinset had warned. The fits are infrequent, often weeks in between. He continues to have difficulty praying.(28, Postscript)

Edward Nyndge allegedly has Peter Bencham, Curate of the Town, conjure the spirit possessing Alexander Nyndge so he might force it to declare its name and origins. The spirit tells Edward that its name is Aubon, and it is from Ireland, and, when the fourth chapter of St. Matthew is read, claims that God is its master, and Aubon is His Disciple. (A5)

Edward Nyndge allegedly reads the eighth chapter of St. Luke, in which Christ calls out Devils, causing Aubon to cry out and monstrously deform and horribly torment Alexander Nyndge. Following the reading, the crowd prays for God to removed the spirit; Edward had a window opened so it may depart, and shortly thereafter Alexander's body is said to have returned to its proper shape. Alexander leaped up, saying "Hee is gone, he is gone, Lord I thanke thee." (A5)

Alexander Nyndge has another fit at four in the morning, despite his seeming dispossession that evening, in which his body trembles. Edward Nyndge tells him to repeat "Speake for mee my Saviour Jesus Christ;" though Alexander continues trembling, his belly swells only a little bit. After half an hour, Edward has him read from the Bible and leads him in a prayer.(A5 - A6)

Alexander Nyndge allegedly suffers a fit of disfigurement and swelling the morning after he had been thought dispossessed; Edward Nyndge bids to stand firm to his hope of salvation. Aubon causes the ear Edward had spoken into to shrivel like an unripe walnut. At this sight, Edward calls Peter Bencham, Curate of the Town, to the house and sets him to read Scripture aloud while Edward addressed consolations to Alexander's remaining ear. Aubon is finally successfully conjured to depart and cease tormenting Alexander.(A7)

Dorothy Durent gives deposition alleging that, despite Amy Denny's dire prediction that she would live to see some of her children dead, baby William recovered immediately after the toad was burnt, and was still living at the time of the assizes.(11)

Dorothy Durent alleges in her deposition that she went to the apothecary one day to get something to help her daughter Elizabeth with her fits and returned to find Amy Denny in her house. When she asked Denny what she was doing there, Denny claimed to be checking on Elizabeth to give her water. Durent, angry to have Denny in her house, thrust her out, at which time Denny said to her "You need not be so angry, for your Child will not live long."(11-12)

Samuel Pacy alleges in his deposition that, while Amy Denny was in the stocks, Alice Letteridge and Jane Buxton approached her, demanded to know the cause of Deborah Pacy's affliction, and told Denny that she was suspected to be the cause herself. Denny replied that Pacy was making a great deal of fuss over his daughter, and that when her child had suffered a similar affliction, she had tapped out a tooth to feed it. Letteridge and Buxton confirmed this account in their own depositions.(21-22)

Margaret Arnold gave deposition in court that Elizabeth and Deborah Pacy claimed to see Rose Cullender and Amy Denny after their fits. On one occasion, Deborah said that Amy Denny had tried to convince her to commit suicide. At another, both girls cried out complaining that Cullender and Denny had set their imps on them, and demanded to know why they didn't torment them themselves.(32-33)

A young boy at the age of eleven years old, from Walsham-le-Willows, in the county of Suffolk, named William Withers is made "an instrument giuen to vs by the prouidence of God," meant to make the people of the village aware of their sins, when on the 24th of December, he falls into a trance "the space of tenne dayes." During this trance, he takes no sustenance, and causes great "greefe of his parentes," as well as "admiration of the beholders." At the end of these ten days, he "came to him selfe againe."(7)

Upon waking from a trance which lasted ten days, and during which time he took no sustenance, the eleven year old boy William Withers begins to speak after twenty-four hours. When he speaks, he "declareth most straunge and rare thinges, which are to come, and hath continued the space of three weeks." Generally, his prophecies relate to praising God, and are told in a "voyce seemeth to bee of such power that all the bedde shaketh."(Cover)

The preacher, Mr. Gatton, comes from Barrow in Suffolk to visit the eleven year old child, William Withers in Walsham-le-Willows, after the boy allegedly woke from a ten day trance, able to "declareth most straunge and rare things, which are to come." After speaking to the boy, he found him "perfect in the Scriptures." He supports all the counsel the boy gives, to "rouze vs vp from our sinnes."(9-10)

Master Ashley, Esquire, "a Gentleman of greate credite and worship," comes to Walsham-le-Willows with some of his men, to "heare and behold" the eleven year old child William Withers who after ten days in a trance without speaking or sustenance, awoke to "declareth most straunge and rare thinges, which are to come." The child singles out the servant, "one Smith" and then "spake vnto him vehemently," and told him that he should mourn for his sins for being so vain and "in such abhominable pride to pranke vp himselfe like the diuels darling, the very father of pride and lying" by wearing "great and monstrous ruffes," or be subject to "euerlasting tormentes in hell fire." This was Smith's second warning, and upon hearing it, "as one prickt in conscience, he sorrowed & wept for his offence." He took the cloth band from around his neck, and cut it into pieces using a knife, and vowed never to wear anything like it again.(10-12)

The child William Withers is visited by two "right worshipfull and vertuous knights," Sir William Spring and Sir Robert [...]armine, after the child emerges from a ten day trance which he neither spoke nor had sustenance during, but awoke to "declareth most straunge and rare thinges, which are to come." They find his words true, and believe he is an instrument of God.(10)

Proof that real bewitchment happens, in support of John Darrell's claims that he has dispossessed genuinely possessed people, is presented in the form of a report detailing Doll Bartham's alleged bewitchment of Joan Jordan.(90-92)

Doll Barthram allegedly has a falling out with Joan Jorden. Jorden refused to give her some goods belonging to her master, Symon Fox, and Barthram bewitched her in revenge.(92)

Joan Jorden is allegedly visited by a second toad a few days after Doll Barthram sent the first. Jorden has this one removed from her chamber and burnt.(92-93)

Doll Barthram allegedly sends a third and final toad to torment Joan Jorden. Jorden, having been advised to burn this one herself, picks it up and carries it out of her chamber, but falls down the stairs along the way and is knocked unconscious. Her employer, Symon Fox, takes the toad and puts it in the fire on her behalf. When it begins to burn, a flame appears at the foot of the stairs, and burns so fiercely it seems to threaten the house, but causes no damage.(92-93)

A spirit in the shape of a cat, answering to the name of Gyles, allegedly begins to torment Joan Jorden. He comes into her room around 11 o'clock at night "first scraping on the wals, then knocking, after that shufling in the rushes: and then (as his vsuall maner was) he clapped the maide on the cheekes about halfe a skore times as to awake her; and, (as oft times els he did) he kissed her 3. or 4. times and slauered on her." He then lies on her breast and presses her until she cannot speak. Later, he holds "her handes that she could not stirre, and restrayned her voice that she could not answer."(93)

The spirit Gyles also allegedly appears to Joan Jorden in the shape of "a thick darke substance about a foote high; like to a sugar lofe, white on the top." He speaks in an audible voice, witnessed by numerous people who hear both Gyles and Joan speaking at the same time and become convinced it is not counterfeited. These witnesses include John Sheereman and Symon Fox.(94)

The spirit Gyles also allegedly appears to Joan Jorden in the shape of "a thick darke substance about a foote high; like to a sugar lofe, white on the top." He speaks in an audible voice, witnessed by numerous people who hear both Gyles and Joan speaking at the same time and become convinced it is not counterfeited. These witnesses include John Sheereman and Symon Fox.(94)

The spirit Gyles allegedly answers onlookers' questions. He claims that he comes for Joan Jorden's life, that he will kill her the next day, and that fellow familiar J. will tear her to pieces. He adds that he will take Jorden's soul, in addition to her life. When John Sheereman tells him he shall not have Jorden's life, Gyles says he will have Sheereman's instead.(94-95)

Doll Barthram is imprisoned for witchcraft. While she is imprisoned, her familiar Gyles allegedly claims to have been in her service for 10 or 20 years.(94-95)

The familiar Gyles claims that Doll Bartham ordered him and fellow familiars Tom and J. to kill Caver's wife. Gyles initially tried to drown her by leading her into a flooded ditch, but the water only went up to her chin. They hung her instead. Tom put the rope "vnder her chaps, not about her neck: and the noose was so bigge, that three mens heds might haue slipt through it at once." (95-96)

The spirit Gyles claims that he "killed a child, in the womb of the mother, by nipping out the braines; and that hee entred into another partie and killed him, by tearing his heart in peeces" at Doll Bartham's orders. His claim is supported by the woman's delivery of a stillborn child and the man's strange death not long after.(96)

The spirit Gyles claims that he "ould kill Ione, and teare Iohn Sheereman in pieces; that he was their God; and that he would not be content with the life of Ioane only, but would haue also the liues of Fox, his wife, children, and cattell, and that by the commaundement of Doll Bartharm."(96)

Doll Bartham allegedly bewitches Joan Jorden, causing her to have fits and be possessed. Jorden is seen to have a lump the size of a man fist moving around her body and settle at her throat. When bound to a chair for being unruly in her fits, she struggles so hard it breaks, and requires six men to wrestle her into and keep her in another chair. (96-97)

Joan Jorden is visited once again by the spirit Gyles, who heralds his arrival with "a great stroke on the bordes, like the fall of a greate stone." This awakens Jorden, who cries for help; a thick shadow is then seen to go up her bed. Moments later, she is violently thrown out of the bed and against the wall. She is found under the bed, and it takes four men to pull her out again due to her unnatural weight. Her eyes are seen to sink into her head, her head bends backwards almost to her hips, she lays as dead, and her mouth his stuck shut. She does not respond even when a dry rush is put into her nostrils, nor when aqua vitae is poured down her throat.(97-98)

Joan Jordan is heard to cry out " Barthram, thou hast killed mee" while in the throes of a fit. This is witnessed by numerous onlookers.(98)

A minister from Suffolk (Anonymous 475) affirmed that "one of the poor women that was hanged for a VVitch (Anonymous 476) at Berry Assizes, in the year 1645" sent her imps (Anonymous 235) into the army in order to kill "Parliament Souldiers," and others to kill "King's Souldiers." She also allegedly sent her imps to a man's (Anonymous 477) crop of corn, causing it die. This witch allegedly confessed to these crimes. (114)

A young man (Anonymous 479) from Suffolk finds himself allegedly bewitched for some time. The witch (Anonymous 480) responsible for his circumstance was executed for it.(7)