| Timothy Littleton | A judge from Kent who presides over the Assizes at Maidstone in Kent including the case of James Watts. Watts was accused by several people of bewitching a 16 year old girl named Anne Huggins. She was found not guilty. (58-65) | MAIDSTONE ASSIZES, 11 MARCH 1678
Before Thomas Twisden, J, and Timothy Littleton, B.
[Assizes 35/119/6]
307. Gaol Delicevery Commission empowering Thomas Twisden, J, Timothy Littleton, B, Thomas Lee, Eldred Lancelot Lee and John Smyth to deliver the gaol of Kent at Maidstone. dated Westminster 3 Feb. 1678, and signed by -- Barker, Chancery clerk.
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339. Indictment of James Watts, wife of John Watts of St Nicholas's, Rochester, labourer, for witchcraft. On 5 Mar. 1678 at Rochester she bewitched Anne Huggins, aged 16 years, so that her body was wasted and consumed.
[endorsed] Anne Huggins, John Batty, Margaret Day, Elizabeth Hartridge, Anne Benson, Anne Staines. True bill.
Not guilty.
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