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ID Short Description Date City Parish Current County Old county Nation
2913

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)

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1599, June Stradbrook  Stradebroke  Suffolk  Suffolk  England 
2914

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)

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1599, June Bury St. Edmunds  Bury St. Edmunds  Suffolk  West Suffolk  England 
2917

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)

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1599, June Stradbrook  Stradebroke  Suffolk  Suffolk  England 
2918

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)

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1599, June Stradbrook  Stradebroke  Suffolk  Suffolk  England 
2919

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)

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1599, June Stradbrook  Stradebroke  Suffolk  Suffolk  England 
2920

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)

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1599, June Stradbrook  Stradebroke  Suffolk  Suffolk  England 
2921

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)

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1599, June Stradbrook  Stradebroke  Suffolk  Suffolk  England 
2922

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)

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1599, June Stradbrook  Stradebroke  Suffolk  Suffolk  England