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List of all Event assertions around a specific date

ID Short Description Date City Parish Current County Old county Nation
444

William Laud's life and death are allegedly foretold in chapters thirteen and fifteen of the Revelation of John.(1)

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1644 Canterbury    Kent  Kent  England 
939

Elizabeth Bradwell allegedly created a wax image of John Moulton, thrust a nail in the images head, and buried the image, as a means of slow, languishing, bewitchment(53-54)

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1644 Yarmouth    Norfolk  Norfolk  England 
940

Matthew Hopkins looked for the wax image which Elizabeth Bradwell allegedly buried in a graveyard to bewitch John Moulton. The image is never found, but child soon recovered and 'grew lusty again' (53-54)

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1644 Yarmouth    Norfolk  Norfolk  England 
941

Elizabeth Bradwell allegedly confessed to John Sterne, that she has made and uses wax images; she remains anonymous in his text.(53-54)

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1644 Yarmouth    Norfolk  Norfolk  England 
942

Elizabeth Bradwell allegedly signs her name, in blood, in the devil's book. (46-47)

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1644 Yarmouth    Norfolk  Norfolk  England 
1758

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)

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1644     Suffolk  Suffolke  England 
1913

Anne Leech allegedly bewitches two of Richard Edwards' cows. She accomplished this simply by walking by Richard Edwards' pasture. A black cow fell down as she passed; a white cow died one day after its fellow, dieing on the same spot. Edwards has an autopsy performed on the cows, but "no disease discovered, which might occasion their death."(10-11)

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1644 Manningtree  Manningtree  Essex  Essex  England 
1933

Annaball Durrant, after the death of her child, is seized with labor-like pains which last for seven or eight months. ()

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1644 Wivenhoe    North Eastern Essex  Essex  England 
1944

Margaret Moone and Elizabeth Clarke are accused of bewitching John Edwards, the infant son of Mr. Richard Edwards to death. This crime is also blamed on Anne Leech and Elizabeth Gooding.(26)

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1644 Manningtree  Manningtree  Essex  Essex  England