Alice Brerely
3 May 1597 · English
Printed calendar abstract; original docquet not located.
Edition details and citation
Sources
Green 1869, Calendar of State Papers Domestic Elizabeth 1595–1597, p.406, separate unnumbered docquet notice
Texts included
One complete printed calendar notice.
Edition
1.0
Prepared
2026-10-25
Reading conventions
Square brackets mark expansions, missing text or editorial descriptions; question marks mark tentative readings. Original text and English readings remain separate.
Suggested citation
Witches in Early Modern England, Alice Brerely, reading edition, 25 October 2026, section title and source folio or page.
Source rights
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Alice Brerely separate pardon notice
Mary Anne Everett Green, editor, Calendar of State Papers Domestic Series of the Reign of Elizabeth 1595–1597 (London, Longmans, Green, Reader and Dyer, 1869), p.406, volume CCLXIII, under 3 May 1597, separate unnumbered docquet notice. Cornell scan, Internet Archive cu31924091775282.
Nineteenth-century printed calendar abstract; original contemporary docquet unlocated
Original English text
Pardon to Alice Brerely, of Castleton, co. Lancaster, spinster, condemned for killing Jas. Kirshaw and Rob. Scolefield by witchcraft. [Docquet.]
About this case and its sources
Reference
Green 1869, Calendar of State Papers Domestic Elizabeth 1595–1597, p.406, separate unnumbered docquet notice
Record dates
3 May 1597
Source languages
English
Record type
Calendared pardon docquet
Person
Alice Brerely, described as a spinster of Castleton, Lancashire
Other people named
Jas. Kirshaw and Rob. Scolefield, named in the offence for which she had been condemned
Recorded disposition
Pardon notice; the recorded allegation is not independent proof of death by witchcraft
Coverage
One printed notice; the original docquet and trial proceedings are not represented
Texts in this edition
One complete printed calendar notice.
Text status
Printed calendar abstract; original docquet not located.
Edition
25 October 2026 · version 1.0
How to cite
Witches in Early Modern England, Alice Brerely, reading edition, 25 October 2026, section title and source folio or page.
Citations attached to the represented texts; saved repository catalogue information where explicitly identified.