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ID Short Description Date City Parish Current County Old county Nation
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Elizabeth Chandler, during her examination before Justices Robert Bernard and Nicholas Pedley, alleges that she is a victim, not a witch. She claims that she has been visited numerous times by a spirit in the night, which makes a roaring and a puffing, and leaves her sore at the bottom of her belly. Chandler adds that "she did never willingly invoke or imploy the same, but hath prayed to God to deliver her therfrom."(7-8)

Appears in:
Davenport, John. The Witches of Huntingdon. London: 1646, 7-8

1646, April 7   Keiston  Cambridgeshire  Huntingdonshire  England 
770

Elizabeth Chandler, during her examination, denies ever striking Mary Darnell's daughter Katherine or ever sending a spirit to harm the child. She also says that Darnell's spoiled pot of furmity was not her doing.(8)

Appears in:
Davenport, John. The Witches of Huntingdon. London: 1646, 8

1646, April 7   Keiston  Cambridgeshire  Huntingdonshire  England 
771

Elizabeth Chandler alleges during her examination that she had a falling out with Mary Darnell, during which Darnell turned her into a duck. She claims that her visitations from the roaring apparition began about six months later.(8)

Appears in:
Davenport, John. The Witches of Huntingdon. London: 1646, 8

1646, April 7   Keiston  Cambridgeshire  Huntingdonshire  England 
772

Elizabeth Chandler, during her examination, is questioned about whether she has two imp familiars named Beelzebub and Trullibub. Chandler denies having any familiars; she claims that Beelzebub is what she calls a log of wood, and Trullibub her name for a stick.(8)

Appears in:
Davenport, John. The Witches of Huntingdon. London: 1646, 8

1646, April 7   Keiston  Cambridgeshire  Huntingdonshire  England