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ID Short Description & Text Name Preferred Name Person Type
323

A "a younge mayden"from Upton, in the parish of West Ham, Essex, daughter of Katherine Malpas Senior. Katherine was allegedly taught by Thomas Saunders (described as a yeoman), his wife Elizabeth, and her own mother, to "counterfeite and fayne her selfe [to] be bewitched and possessed with an evill spirite, and to counterfeite and fayine certaine strange fitts and traunce." She allegedly woulde have a risinge upp in her stomacke to the bignes of a halfe penny loafe & would beat her heade against the wainscotte & would shrugge up her shoulders & woulde make her boanes to crackle wi* in her skyne & some tymes her mouth would be drawne on one side"(193)

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Katherine Malpas Katheren Malpas Demoniac
351

A woman who confessed to encouraging her daughter to feign a possession. She describes the possession in vivid and guesome terms()

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Elizabeth Saunders Elizabeth Saunders Co-conspirator
352

A woman who is pressured by Thomas Saunders to visit Katherne Malpas during one of her fits. Godfrey begins to experience similar symptoms()

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Anne Godfrey Anne Godfrey Demoniac
353

A woman accused by Katherne Malpas of bewitching her()

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- White Goodwife White Witch
354

A woman accused by Katherne Malpas of bewitching her()

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Elizabeth Heldyn Elizabeth Heldyn Witch
355

A man who confessed to encouraging his grand-daughter to feign a possession. He also encouraged Anne Godfrey's possession symptoms, and engineered witchcraft charges against Elizabeth Hedlyn.()

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Thomas Saunders Thomas Saunders Co-conspirator
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A physician who prescribed Katheren Malpas some kind of drink to treat her fits.()

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Theodore Gulston Dr. Theodore Gulston Physician