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ID Short Description Date City Parish Current County Old county Nation
310

Elizabeth Weed alleges in her examination before Justices Robert Bernard and Nicholas Pedley that the Devil had appeared to her in the form of a young man 21 years before, along with two spirits in the form of puppies. The Devil asked her to renounce God and Christ, which she did, and told her she must sign a covenant giving him her soul at the end of 21 years. In exchange, he would give her his services to do mischief as she required him.(1-2)

Appears in:
Davenport, John. The Witches of Huntingdon. London: 1646, 1-2

1625 Catworth  Catworth  Cambridgeshire  Huntingdonshire  England 
311

Elizabeth Weed alleged in her confession that the spirit in the form of a young man returned to her a week later at about 10 o'clock at night with a paper and asked if she was willing to seal their covenant. When she said she was, he pricked her under her left arm to draw blood, and had her sign with the blood. The spot pricked became a large lump. After she signed, the spirit bedded her for the first time, and the two puppy spirits joined them in bed to suckle from her.(1-2)

Appears in:
Davenport, John. The Witches of Huntingdon. London: 1646, 1-2

1625 Catworth  Catworth  Cambridgeshire  Huntingdonshire  England 
312

Joan Williford alleges during her confession that she had promised her soul to the Devil twenty years before. She gave some of her blood to him, and he used it to write the covenant between them. In exchange, he agreed to be her servant for 20 years; this contract was nearly expired at the time of Willford's trial.(1-2)

Appears in:
Anonymous. The Examination, Confession, Trial, and Execution, of Joane Williford, Joan Cariden, and Jane Hott. London: 1645, 1-2

1625 Faversham  Feversham  Kent  Kent  England 
730

Elizabeth Weed alleges in her confession that the spirit in the form of a young man and the two puppy spirits became her familiars. She named the white puppy Lilly and the black puppy Priscill; Lilly's purpose was to hurt men, women and children, while Priscill's purpose was to hurt cattle. The purpose of the man-spirit was to "lye with her carnally, when and as often as she desired, and that hee did lye with her in that manner very often."(2)

Appears in:
Davenport, John. The Witches of Huntingdon. London: 1646, 2

1625 Catworth  Catworth  Cambridgeshire  Huntingdonshire  England 
748

Peter Slater gives a statement before Justice Robert Bernard, alleging that his wife had a falling out with Francis Moore 21 years before. Not long after, his wife gave birth to their child, and a week after the birth his wife suddenly got sick and died. He says that ever since that day, he has suspected Moore of witchcraft.(6)

Appears in:
Davenport, John. The Witches of Huntingdon. London: 1646, 6

1625 Catworth  Catworth  Cambridgeshire  Huntingdonshire  England 
1940

Mrs. and Mr. Rawbood, having moved into a house formerly occupied by Margaret Moone (they had offered her landlord ten shillings more rent), "never [did] thrive after,' but were always "lame of sick untill they died."(27)

Appears in:
H., F.. A True and Exact Relation of the severall Informations, Examinations, and Confessions of the late Witches, arraigned and executed in the County of Essex. . London: 1645, 27

1625   Thorpe-le-Soken  Essex  Essex  England 
1941

Margaret Moone curses Mr. and Mrs. Rawbood after they take possession of a house she had lived in, saying "they (meaning the said Rawbood and his wife) had as good they had not medled with the house."(27)

Appears in:
H., F.. A True and Exact Relation of the severall Informations, Examinations, and Confessions of the late Witches, arraigned and executed in the County of Essex. . London: 1645, 27

1625   Thorpe-le-Soken  Essex  Essex  England 
1942

Mrs Rawbood, having moved into Margaret Moone's home, and suspecting the act has made her possessed, found herself, "a little before it was time to go to Church" one Easter day, suddenly "so filled with Lice" described as "long, and lean, and not like other Lice," that they "might have been swept off her cloaths with a stick."()

Appears in:
H., F.. A True and Exact Relation of the severall Informations, Examinations, and Confessions of the late Witches, arraigned and executed in the County of Essex. . London: 1645,

1625   Thorpe-le-Soken  Essex  Essex  England 
1964

Lionel Jefferson is allegedly bewitched by Hatting; he dies twenty four days later. (http://seax.essexcc.gov.uk/result_details.asp?DocID=341182)

Appears in:
Essex Record Office, . Calendar of Essex Assize Records. Online. http://seax.essexcc.gov.uk: 2011, http://seax.essexcc.gov.uk/result_details.asp?DocID=341182

1625 Ramsey    Essex  Essex  England 
2065

Joan Cooper sometime during her twenty years as a practicing witch, claims to have acquired "three Familiars, two like Mouses, and the third like a Frog: The names of the two like Mouses, are Jack, and the other Prickeare, and the name of the third like a Frog, is Frog"(38)

Appears in:
H., F.. A True and Exact Relation of the severall Informations, Examinations, and Confessions of the late Witches, arraigned and executed in the County of Essex. . London: 1645, 38

1625 Great Holland    Essex  Essex  England