Annis Dell is executed at the Hartford Assizes in Hertfordshire on August 4,1606 after being found guilty of murdering Anthony James Jr. and for mutilating Elizabeth James by cutting out her tongue. (19-20)

Johane Harrison is tried for witchcraft in Hertfordshire in August, 1606.(18)

Johane Harrison is executed in Hertfordshire on August 4, 1606 after being found guilty of witchcraft.(24)

Jane Stretton of Ware, Hartford suffers from "strange and extraordinary fits." When medicine is applied to her "as it is usual for the Tooth-Ach," it does not help, but rather causes her to be "more violently tortured still then before." It is believed that Jane Stretton suffers from "Witchcraft and such Diabolical means." This is further confirmed by the sightings of devils and imps (Anonymous 24), "sometimes in the shape of a Toad, at other times it resembled a Frog," while at yet other times it is in the form of a mouse. These imps and devils torment Jane Stretton for nine months. She is also incapable of taking any sustenance, safe "surrups and such like liquid ingredients." She is never dispossessed. (1)

George Dell is executed in Hertfordshire on 4 August,1606 after being found guilty of murdering Anthony James Jr. and participating in the mutilation of Elizabeth James.(24)

John Winnick is examined before Justice Robert Bernard, and alleges in his confession that he was visited by a bear-like spirit about the size of a rabbit (Anonymous 130) around Midsummer 29 years before. He had lost a purse containing 7 shillings, and was cursing the loss while working in the barn when Anonymous 130 appeared to him. Anonymous 130 offered to see that the purse was returned to him if he would renounce God and Christ, and worship it instead; Winnick agreed, and was instructed to return to the same place the next day.(3)

John Winnick alleged in his confession that the day after the bear-like spirit (Anonymous 130) first appeared to him, he returned to the barn and found his purse on the floor. When he picked it up, Anonymous 130 appeared again, and Winnick "fell downe upon his knees and said, my Lord and God I thanke you." Anonymous 130 said that it had brought two other spirits with it, one like a white cat (Anonymous 131) and one like a grey coney (Anonymous 132), and that Winnick was to worship them as well. Anonymous 130 promised that Winnick would never lack for food, that Anonymous 131 would hurt anyone he desired, and that Anonymous 132 would hurt any animal he desired. Anonymous 130 also said it must have Winnick's soul when he died, and some blood to seal the covenant. When Winnick agreed, Anonymous 130 pricked him on the head; thereafter all three would come to him daily to suck from his body.(3-4)

George and Annis Dell cut out Elizabeth James' tongue after tricking her into a false sense of security by kindly mentioning her mother and father (who they murdered). Elizabeth James begins to cry and make noise after her tongue is gone, at which time Annis Dell threatens to kill her if she is not quiet.(6-7)

Jane Stretton, a twenty year old woman from Ware, is unaware of a fight her father, Thomas Stretton, has had with a cunning man (Anonymous 487). She is visited by the cunning man's wife (Anonymous 322), who offers the young woman "a pot of drink." Innocently, Jane Stretton drinks from this, and is soon after "taken with violent rageing fits, which torment her greviously." However, she does not suspect her fits are caused by Anonymous 322 yet.(3-4)

Jane Stretton has a strange and violent fit shortly after giving her neighbour's wife (Anonymous 322) a pin. Anonymous 322 is the wife of a cunning man (Anonymous 487), who was in an argument with Jane Stretton's father Thomas Stretton. This fit is worse than any she experienced before. Her "body swells like a bladder puft up with wind ready to burst," and her limbs are completely distorted. She goes to her Neighbour's house, where "her head being intoxicated by the violency of her fits, she falls down against the door and beats it open," and lies on the floor. (4)

Jane Stretton continues having fits for a space of six months, which "increased violently." She cannot eat and does not pass stool. People from all over come to see her and this "wonder." This great influx of people causes Thomas Stretton to move his daughter to the house of John Wood, a neighbour, in order "to purchase some quietness." However, during this time, friends and relations of Jane Stretton begin to suspect that her illness "proceeded from more then an ordinary cause."(5 - 6)

Jane Stretton continues to suffer from fits that prevent her from eating. Flax and Hair seems to "fall down upon a white sheet that was laid over her bed." Her tongue is found to often "hang or loll out of her Mouth," which upon being seen seems to have flax, hair, and thread points to be placed on it. When these are removed, "two flames in resemblance of fire, the one of a red colour, the other blew," and eleven pins, all crooked and distorted, come out of Jane Stretton's mouth. These events cause even more people to come and visit with Jane Stretton. (6)

John Winnick alleges in his confession that only sent out his familiars to cause mischief once. That one time, he sent the bear-spirit (Anonymous 130) to harass a maidservant (Anonymous 88) of Mr. Say's into stealing food from her master for him.(4)

Ellen Shepheard is examined before Justice Robert Bernard and Nicholas Pedley, in which she alleges that she was first visited by a spirit five years ago. She claims that she was swearing and cursing about the way her children had been fighting, and that a spirit appeared to her in the shape of a small, iron-grey rat. This rat-spirit demanded she come with it, but she sent it away saying "I will not, avoid Satan."(9)

Ellen Shepherd alleges in her confession that, shortly after her first encounter with the rat-spirit, she went into the field and there was cursing, fretting and blaspheming, which attracted the spirit to come back. This time, it had three other rat-spirits with it, and demanded she forsake God and Christ to take it and its companions as her gods instead, promising happiness if she complied. Shepherd consented to this, and to allowing the spirits to take her soul when she died. She also granted them her blood, and thereafter they had often sucked from her on and about her hips.(9-10)

Ellen Shepherd alleges in her confession that she never used the rat-spirits to torment anything, and that they had not brought her happiness. (10)

Ellen Shepherd alleges in her confession that the rat-spirits had been tormenting her that afternoon, since she had been brought in for the examination. She intended to end her habit of cursing and swearing.(10)

A poor and base woman and suspected witch (Anonymous 229) is sent to prison in Wisbech for allegedly being "the first mover of the mutiny" according to a complaint made to the Earl of Bedford. The woman (Anonymous 229) and the other accused (Anonymous 230) are said to be so miserably poor and base that they cannot appear before Lords.(150)

Anonymous 229 allegedly puts a curse on messengers (Anonymous 231) who passed by her house in a boat.()

A waterman (Anonymous 232) is "stricken with such a lamentable crick in his back that he was constrained to get help" soon after the messengers (Anonymous 231) are allegedly cursed by Anonymous 229.(150)

Anonymous 249 is allegedly executed as a witch in Cambridge in the county of Cambridgshire in 1645. Proof of her crime is provided by the fact that she keeps "a tame Frogge in a Box for sport and Phantasie." This frog must have been read as her familiar; in owning a familiar she was by default a witch. (135)

Elizabeth James regains the ability to speak four years after George and Annis Dell cut out her tongue. She is miraculously able to testify against Annis and George Dell at the Hartford Assizes. Her testimony leads to the Dells being convicted despite their vehement denial and consequently, they are executed. (17-18)