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ID Short Description Date City Parish Current County Old county Nation
118

Cicely Balye criticized Mary Smith for doing an inadequate job sweeping. In retribution, Smith called Bayle "a great fattail'd sow," but promised that her "fatnesse should shortly be pulled." (57)

Appears in:
Holland, Henry. A Treatise Against Witchcraft. Cambridge: 1590, 57

1616     Norfolk  Norfolk  England 
739

Thomas Becke and Joseph Coysh allege in their depositions that they heard Anne Desborough confess to naming the brown mouse Tib, and the mouse with the white belly Jone. Tib's purpose was to hurt men, and Jone's purpose to hurt cattle. They would appear to her daily to suck blood from the places where marks had been found.(11)

Appears in:
Davenport, John. The Witches of Huntingdon. London: 1646, 11

1616   Titchmarsh  Northamptonshire  Northamptonshire  England 
751

Thomas Becke alleges in his deposition that Anne Desborough confessed to a second visitation by the brown mouse-spirit, this time in the company of another mouse-spirit with a white belly, slightly smaller than the first. The brown mouse-spirit told her that the spirits were to stay with her, and must suck her blood. Desborough agreed to allow them her blood. This visitation is not included in Joseph Coysh's account of her confession.(10-11)

Appears in:
Davenport, John. The Witches of Huntingdon. London: 1646, 10-11

1616   Titchmarsh  Northamptonshire  Northamptonshire  England 
752

Thomas Becke and Joseph Coysh give deposition before Justice Nicholas Pedley alleging that they heard Anne Desborogh confess to having been visited by a mouse-spirit 30 years before, while living in Tichmarch. The mouse-spirit, which was brown and slightly larger than a real mouse, came to her while she was asleep, and nipped her on her breast to wake her. It then demanded she give it part of her soul. Desborough was terrified by this and prayed to God, which caused the mouse-spirit to leave. (10)

Appears in:
Davenport, John. The Witches of Huntingdon. London: 1646, 10

1616   Titchmarsh  Northamptonshire  Northamptonshire  England 
753

Thomas Becke and Joseph Coysh give deposition alleging that Anne Desborough agreed to allow two mouse-spirits, one brown, and one with a white belly, to suck her blood and have her soul upon her death. She also agreed to forsake God and Christ. (11)

Appears in:
Davenport, John. The Witches of Huntingdon. London: 1646, 11

1616   Titchmarsh  Northamptonshire  Northamptonshire  England 
1421

The morning after an altercation where Mary Smith threatens Cecily Bayle, Bayle awakes to discover a great cat on her chest and Mary Smith in her room. Immediately "after [she] fell sicke, languished, and grew exceeding leane." Her suffering continued for six months and was only finally relieved when she quit her job and moved. (55-57)

Appears in:
Roberts, Alexander. A Treatise of Witchcraft. London: 1616, 55-57

1616     Norfolk  Norfolk  England 
1422

Mary Smith, angry with Edmund Newton for his success in the trade of Holland cheese, was threatening her business. She allegedly appeared to Newton in the dead of the night, and "whisked about his face (as he lay in bed) a wet cloath of very loathsome sauour," as a means of threatening him or contaminating him (with illness/ malefic magic, or both).(57- 60)

Appears in:
Roberts, Alexander. A Treatise of Witchcraft. London: 1616, 57- 60

1616     Norfolk  Norfolk  England 
1423

Edmund Newton sees the vision of "one cloathed in russet with a little bush beard," who promised to heal the sore on his leg. Perceiving that this being came from Mary Smith and seeing that he "had clouen feet," Newton refused to be healed by the man, and it disappeared instantaneously. (57-60)

Appears in:
Roberts, Alexander. A Treatise of Witchcraft. London: 1616, 57-60

1616     Norfolk  Norfolk  England 
1424

Allegedly tormented by a familiar Toad and familiar Crabs sent by Mary Smith, Newton had one of his servants put the toad "into the fire, where it made a groaning noyse for one quarter of an houre before it was consume." Elsewhere, Mary Smith allegedly endured simultaneous "torturing paines, testifying the felt griefe by her out-cryes." (57- 60)

Appears in:
Roberts, Alexander. A Treatise of Witchcraft. London: 1616, 57- 60

1616     Norfolk  Norfolk  England 
1425

Edmund Newton suffers from a "madnesse or phrensie," the "ioynts and parts of his body were benummed, besides other pains and greifes." By the time of publication, Newton is "not yet freed, but continueth in great weakenesse, disabled to performe any labour, whereby hee may get sufficient and competent maintenance." (57- 60)

Appears in:
Roberts, Alexander. A Treatise of Witchcraft. London: 1616, 57- 60

1616     Norfolk  Norfolk  England 
1426

Edmund Newton, on the counsel of others, attempts to scratch Mary Smith as a a means of undoing her witchcraft. He finds, however, that he could not hurt her; his nails turned "like feathers" at the attempt.(57-60)

Appears in:
Roberts, Alexander. A Treatise of Witchcraft. London: 1616, 57-60

1616     Norfolk  Norfolk  England 
1427

Henry Smith stops Elizabeth Hancocke as she travels home and, seeming in jest, accuses her of stealing his wife Mary Smith's hen. Smith herself arrives and repeats the accusation adding, that she "wished that the bones thereof might sticke in her throat, when she should eate the same." Hancocke, seeing the hen she was accused of stealing roosting in the thatch of the shop door, in "some passion and angry manner," wished "the pox to light vpon" Mary Smith. (50-51)

Appears in:
Roberts, Alexander. A Treatise of Witchcraft. London: 1616, 50-51

1616     Norfolk  Norfolk  England 
1428

Elizabeth Hancocke begins to suffer from a strange, debilitating illness within four hours of cursing at Mary Smith. Although she could still eat, she felt "pinched at the heart, and felt a sodaine weaknesse in all the parts of her body," a sensation which lasted for three weeks. In the moments she felt well enough to stand, Smith would taunt and curse her again, asking "the poxe light vpon you, can you yet come to the doore?"(51-52)

Appears in:
Roberts, Alexander. A Treatise of Witchcraft. London: 1616, 51-52

1616     Norfolk  Norfolk  England 
1429

Elizabeth Hancocke, at the sight of Mary Smith, falls into a fit. Throughout the rest of the day and night she suffered extreme pains across her whole body, tore at her hair, became distraught and bereaved of her senses, and was mysteriously tossed about and lifted off bed, all the while she thought Mary Smith stood in the room glowering at her.(52)

Appears in:
Roberts, Alexander. A Treatise of Witchcraft. London: 1616, 52

1616     Norfolk  Norfolk  England 
1430

Edward Drake, Elizabeth Hancocke's father, visits a local wizard or cunningman, who diagnoses Elizabeth's illness as bewitchment and names Mary Smith as the culprit by showing Drake a black glass where he sees her image. He then instructs Drake on how to make a witch-cake, (by mixing Hancocke's urine with flour, baking the loaf, and covering it with an ointment and a powder). The cake was to be split, applied to her heart and back, and a paper (with a spell on it?) was also meant to be laid on her. (52-54)

Appears in:
Roberts, Alexander. A Treatise of Witchcraft. London: 1616, 52-54

1616     Norfolk  Norfolk  England 
1431

Elizabeth Hancocke recovers after six weeks of torments after her father administers a counter-magic remedy prescribed by a local wise-man.(53-54)

Appears in:
Roberts, Alexander. A Treatise of Witchcraft. London: 1616, 53-54

1616     Norfolk  Norfolk  England 
1432

A Great Cat (a pet cum familiar of Mary Smith's) appears at Hancocke's home. Despite being stabbed with a sword, beaten over the head with a staff, and thrown in a sack, the cat does not die. It is finally stashed under the stairs, where it disappears of its own accord. (54)

Appears in:
Roberts, Alexander. A Treatise of Witchcraft. London: 1616, 54

1616     Norfolk  Norfolk  England 
1433

After he hit her son (allegedly with cause) Mary Smith cursed John Orkton and "wished in a most earnest and bitter manner, that his fingers might rotte off." He lost his appetite, grew weak, and fell ill with a mysterious disease which lasted approximately eight months. His fingers and toes grew gangerous and were amputated.(48-50)

Appears in:
Roberts, Alexander. A Treatise of Witchcraft. London: 1616, 48-50

1616     Norfolk  Norfolk  England 
1434

John Orkton visits a surgeon (Anonymous 201) in Yarmouth hoping to find a cure for the purification of his flesh. Although the surgeon was believed to have considerable skill, no remedy he applied lasted more than a day. The surgeon's remedies were not taking care of Orkton's ailment. At the time of publication, Orkton was still "rotting."(48-50)

Appears in:
Roberts, Alexander. A Treatise of Witchcraft. London: 1616, 48-50

1616 Yarmouth    Norfolk  Norfolk  England 
1435

Henry Smith allegedly curses Thomas Younges, after he tries to call in an old debt owed to his new wife. Three days later Younges "fell sicke, and was tortured with exceeding and massacring griefes."(58-59)

Appears in:
Roberts, Alexander. A Treatise of Witchcraft. London: 1616, 58-59

1616 Yarmouth    Norfolk  Norfolk  England 
1436

Thomas Young visits a number of "sundry learned and experienced Physitians in Norwich." Despite following their advice, he does not recover from his (supernatural) suffering. (58-59)

Appears in:
Roberts, Alexander. A Treatise of Witchcraft. London: 1616, 58-59

1616 Norwich    Norfolk  Norfolk  England 
1815

John Smyth begins to have "dyvars wonderful straunge fyts," where he exhibited inhuman strength so that he could not be held down and where he would beat himself, administering anywhere from fifty to three hundred blows to his body. Smyth was miraculously unhurt by these efforts. (271)

Appears in:
Nichols, John . A Letter from Alderman Robert Heyrick, of Leicester, to his brother Sir William, in the year 1616. London: 1898, 271

1616 Husbands Bosworth    Leicestershire  Leicestershire  England 
1816

While in his foaming fits, John Smith allegedly is able to "contract his whole Body, within the Compass of a Joyn'd-stool, and write in Hebrew, and Greek Characters."(6-9)

Appears in:
Osborne, Francis. A Miscellany of Sundry Essayes, Paradoxes, and Problematicall Discourses, Letters and Characters. London: 1659, 6-9

1616 Husbands Bosworth    Leicestershire  Leicestershire  England 
1817

John Smyth exhibits a attributes of the six familiar spirits (a horse, a dog, a cat, pullemar, a fish, and a code) which allegedly possess and bewitch him. When the horse "tormented him, he woold whinny; when the cat tormented him, he would cry like a cat, &c."(271)

Appears in:
Nichols, John . A Letter from Alderman Robert Heyrick, of Leicester, to his brother Sir William, in the year 1616. London: 1898, 271

1616 Husbands Bosworth    Leicestershire  Leicestershire  England 
1818

Six of the nine women accused of bewitching John Smyth in July 1616 are made to recite a bit of counter-magic to call back the spirits which that allegedly sent to plague and torment Symth. If they spoke this charm (which identified them as a witches), "I such a one chardge the hors, yf I be a wiche, that thou com forthe of the chilld," Smyth would be at peace, and fall asleep; if they did not, he would become agitated.(271)

Appears in:
Nichols, John . A Letter from Alderman Robert Heyrick, of Leicester, to his brother Sir William, in the year 1616. London: 1898, 271

1616 Husbands Bosworth    Leicestershire  Leicestershire  England