ID | Short Description | Date | City | Parish | Current County | Old county | Nation |
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444 | William Laud's life and death are allegedly foretold in chapters thirteen and fifteen of the Revelation of John.(1)
Appears in:
Anonymous. A Prophecie of the Life, Reigne, and Death of William Laud. London: 1644, 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)
Appears in:
Sterne, John. A Confirmation and Discovery of Witchcraft Containing these Severall Particulars. London: 1648, 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)
Appears in:
Sterne, John. A Confirmation and Discovery of Witchcraft Containing these Severall Particulars. London: 1648, 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)
Appears in:
Sterne, John. A Confirmation and Discovery of Witchcraft Containing these Severall Particulars. London: 1648, 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)
Appears in:
Hale, Matthew. A Collection of Modern Relations of Matter of Fact Concerning Witches & Witchcraft. London: 1693, 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)
Appears in:
Anonymous. A True Relation of the Araignment of Eighteene Witches. London: 1645, 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)
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, 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. ()
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,
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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)
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, 26
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1644 | Manningtree | Manningtree | Essex | Essex | England |