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List of all Event assertions around a specific oldcounty

ID Short Description Date City Parish Current County Old county Nation
422

A woman from Old Gravel Lane (Anonymous 19) allegedly has a fit after a meeting of Anabaptists. Upon returning home from the meeting, and with the intention of repeating the notes she had taken at the sermon to her husband (Anonymous 482), she suddenly speaks "Noises of another nature, seeming to be the pulling Mewes or Shreamings of three young Kitlings." Immediately after, Anonymous 19 is also struck with blindness. It becomes obvious that the woman is possessed, as she is taken with "strange and unusual Gestures, and involuntary Motions both of her Tongue and other Members."(2-3)

Appears in:
Anonymous. News from Old-Gravel Lane. London: 1675, 2-3

1675, March 21       Unknown  England 
423

A woman from Old-Gravel lane (Anonymous 19) allegedly has a fit during which she cannot eat because her throat closes up. She thus refuses to eat with her husband (Anonymous 482) and friends, and the spirit (Anonymous 240) possessing her admits that he would choke her should she try to eat. After, whenever she attempted to eat, she could not swallow, because "the Vessels of her throat were stopped."(4)

Appears in:
Anonymous. News from Old-Gravel Lane. London: 1675, 4

1675, March 22       Unknown  England 
424

A woman from Old-Gravel lane (Anonymous 19) is allegedly possessed, drawing ministers (Anonymous 483) and others to visit her out of both curiosity and charity. The spirit (Anonymous 240) possessing Anonymous 19 speaks with these witnesses. When asked who sent the spirit to possess the woman, it replied that it was sent by "a Woman below." (Anonymous 239). When asked why he was sent, the spirit answered it was to prevent the woman from "perswading her Husband (Anonymous 482) to be Baptized." The spirit expressed his desire to possess the woman for as long as he could. It is believed that the spirit is the Devil himself.(3)

Appears in:
Anonymous. News from Old-Gravel Lane. London: 1675, 3

1675, March 22       Unknown  England 
695

Doctor Burcot allegedly purchased a familiar from Thomas Hilles, aka Feats "whereby he thought to have wrought miracles, or rather to have gained good store of money."(107)

Appears in:
Scot, Reginald. Scot's Discovery of Witchcraft Proving the Common Opinions of Witches Contracting with Devils, Spirits, or Familiars. London: 1651, 107

1651       Unknown  England 
1196

Bartholomew Hobson, the reputed witch-finder, is imprisoned and executed. He is allegedly responsible for the execution of approximately 220 men and women across Scotland and England.(116)

Appears in:
Gardiner, Ralph . England's Grievance Discovered. Unknown: 1796, 116

1610       Unknown  England 
1257

John Webster accuses Dr. Casaubon of being a sworn witchmonger.(8)

Appears in:
Webster, John. The Displaying of Supposed Witchcraft. London: 1677, 8

1677       Unknown  England 
1258

John Webster claims denying a witch can transform into an animal, that she does not make a visible covenant with the Devil and allow him to suck on her body, or that she does not have carnal relations with the Devil, does not in itself deny the existence of witches.(10-11)

Appears in:
Webster, John. The Displaying of Supposed Witchcraft. London: 1677, 10-11

1677       Unknown  England 
1259

John Webster claims that some witchcraft accusers counterfeit symptoms of witchcraft, including strange fits, diseases, and vomiting, in order to seek revenge on others, by accusing said people of causing these misfortunes. (iii-iv)

Appears in:
Webster, John. The Displaying of Supposed Witchcraft. London: 1677, iii-iv

1677       Unknown  England 
1497

Mary Prowting allegedly bewitches Anne Waldron. Anne Waldron becomes ill.(477)

Appears in:
Great Britain. Royal Commission on Historical Manuscripts, . Calendar of State Papers, Domestic Series, Reign of Charles: 1633-1634. Vol 6. Unknown: 1635, 477

1635, November 13       Unknown  England 
1498

Mary Prowting is indicted for allegedly bewitching Anne Waldron. (477)

Appears in:
Great Britain. Royal Commission on Historical Manuscripts, . Calendar of State Papers, Domestic Series, Reign of Charles: 1633-1634. Vol 6. Unknown: 1635, 477

1635, November 13       Unknown  England 
1499

Anne Waldron allegedly fakes her convulsions and fasting. She confesses to the deception.(477)

Appears in:
Great Britain. Royal Commission on Historical Manuscripts, . Calendar of State Papers, Domestic Series, Reign of Charles: 1633-1634. Vol 6. Unknown: 1635, 477

1635, November 13       Unknown  England 
2963

A woman from Old Gravel Lane (Anonymous 19) is allegedly possessed by the Devil. The day after being prevented from eating by the spirit possessing her, the woman is visited by Divines (Anonymous 484). The spirit possessing her (Anonymous 240) threatens to throw the woman into water, "and so destroy her." He also threatens to make the divines present sick, and declared that "Prayers were not effectual, save only in [the] Pulpit." The woman remained possessed.(4)

Appears in:
Anonymous. News from Old-Gravel Lane. London: 1675, 4

1675, March 23       Unknown  England