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List of all Event assertions around a specific date

ID Short Description Date City Parish Current County Old county Nation
43

Joan Upney confesses to sending her familiar toad to pinch and suck at John Harrolde's wife until she died. (8)

Appears in:
Anonymous. The Apprehension and Confession of Three Notorious Witches. London: 1589, 8

1584 East London  Dagenham  Essex  Essex  England 
485

Margaret Hooper allegedly acts as though bewitched. She comes home one day in a bad mood, speaking "much ildle talk," and grows increasingly irate when no one, especially her husband, will listen to her.(2)

Appears in:
Anonymous. A True and Most Dreadfull Discourse of a Woman Possessed with the Deuill who in the Likenesse of a Headlesse Beare Fetched her out of her Bedd. London: 1584, 2

1584 Durham    Durham  Dvrham  England 
486

Margaret Hooper has a fit during which she calls out to those around her, emphatically asking if they too could see the devil.(5)

Appears in:
Anonymous. A True and Most Dreadfull Discourse of a Woman Possessed with the Deuill who in the Likenesse of a Headlesse Beare Fetched her out of her Bedd. London: 1584, 5

1584 Durham    Durham  Dvrham  England 
487

A devil in the shape headless and tail-less bear appears to Stephen and Margaret Hooper and 'strokes' them.(5-6)

Appears in:
Anonymous. A True and Most Dreadfull Discourse of a Woman Possessed with the Deuill who in the Likenesse of a Headlesse Beare Fetched her out of her Bedd. London: 1584, 5-6

1584 Durham    Durham  Dvrham  England 
1129

Mother Baker claims to be able to identify the person who bewitched the young maid Stupenny.(146)

Appears in:
Scot, Reginald. Scot's Discovery of Witchcraft Proving the Common Opinions of Witches Contracting with Devils, Spirits, or Familiars. London: 1651, 146

1584     Kent  Cantia  England 
2240

Anne Beaver is indicted for allegedly practicing witchcraft upon Susan Mason, causing her death. Mason languished for eleven days and then died. (72-73)

Appears in:
Jeaffreson (editor), John Cordy . Middlesex County Records: Volume 2: 1603-25. Unknown: 1887, 72-73

1584 London  Edmonton  London, Greater  Middlesex  England