John Rivet accuses Elizabeth Clarke of bewitching his wife (Mrs. Rivet). Rivet claims that his wife was taken sick and lame, withviolent fits, and was told by a cunning woman Mrs. Hoyve that two neighbors had cursed his wife. Rivet suspects Elizabeth Clarke and her mother because of the proximity of her home and the common knowledge that "Elizabeths mother and some other of her kinsfolke did suffer death for Witchcraft and murther."(5)

Anne Leech is tried and executed in the County of Essex, after being condemned as a witch "at the late Sessions, holden at Chelmesford," before Rovert, Earl of Warwick on the 29th of July, 1645.(Cover)