INDEX.

Abbot, George, Archbishop of Canterbury, 141 n., 233-234

Abbott, Alice, 132 n.

Abingdon, 27, 347, 387

Account of the ... Proceedings ... in the Old Baily, cited, 416

Acton, 404

Acts of the Privy Council, cited, 26 n., 28 n., 30 n., 347, 384, 385, 388, 390

Adams, W. H. Davenport, cited, 188 n., 376

Adamson, Francis, 409

Addison, Joseph, 340-341

Ady, Thomas, 238, 241-242, 310. Cited, 180, 184 n., 225 n., 404

Agrippa, Cornelius, 62

Aikin, Lucy, cited, 143 n.

Aldeburgh, 182, 183, 191 n., 193, 200 n., 405

Alene, case of, 13

Alfred the Great, 2

Allen, Joan, 408, 414

Alnwick, 390, 408

Altham, Sir James, 112, 113, 125

Anderson, Sir Edmund, 51, 56 n., 78, 84, 102, 350, 354, 355

Andrews, William, cited, 137 n., 396

Anne, Princess of Denmark, her marriage to James I, 94

Annual Register, cited, 141 n., 398

Archæologia, cited, 10 n., 391

Archæologia Cantiana, cited, 21 n., 29 n., 385, 389, 392, 393

Archer, John, 273, 282; conducts Cox trial, 260-261

Armstrong, Ann, 281-282, 415

Arnold, Mother, 386

Ashmole, Elias, cited, 216, 365, 408

Ashmolean Museum, at Oxford, 216

Ashton, John, cited, 188 n., 351, 366, 376

Ashwell, John, 7

Aspine, Martha, 107

Assembly, the witch. See Sabbath

Assheton, R., 158 n., 401

Atcheson, Isabell, 413

Aubrey, John, his credulity, 306. Cited, 162 n., 212 n., 365, 402, 410

Audley, vicar of, 326

Autobiography of Edward Underhill, cited, 13 n.

Avery, "Master," 110, 130-132, 357, 384

B., R. See Burton, Richard.

Bacon, Francis, 246-247. Cited, 246 n., 247 n.

Baddeley, Richard, 141 n., 142 n., 359

Bailey, Frances, 412

Bailey, the Old, 108 n.

Baines, Edward, cited, 147 n., 149 n., 150 n., 158 n., 392, 401, 419

Baker, Alexander, 154

Baker, Anne, 133 n., 399

Baker, J. B., cited, 409

Baker, Joan, of Devizes, 217, 409

Baker, Joan, of Exeter, 409

Baker, Mother, 59-60

Bakewell, affair of, 137, 384, 396

Baldock, 417

Bamfield, Ellen, 389

Bamford, James, 353

Bancroft, Richard, as Bishop of London, 84-89; as Archbishop of Canterbury, 88 n., 89, 233, 346, 353

Bangor, Bishop of, 397

Barber, Mary, 383

Bark, Ellen, 394

Barking, 386

Barlowe, wife of John, 401

Barnet, 392

Barringer, Joan, 390

Barrow, Dr., of Cambridge, 47

Barrow, Isaac, 308 and n., 311

Barrow, James, 256-237

Barrow, John, 256

Bartell, Elizabeth, 389

Bartham, Doll, 350

Bartham, Oliffe, 394

Bartle, Barbara, 410

Barton, 404

Barton, Elizabeth, the "Holy Maid of Kent," 58

Basel, 15 n.

Bastard, Alice, 402

Batcombe, 34, 236

Bate, William, 397

Bates, Dr., cited, 337 n.

Bateson, Mary, cited, 392

Bath and Wells, Bishop of, 162 n.

Bath and Wells, chancellor of the Bishop of, 235

Batte, 38

Baxter, Richard, 196, 316, 336-339. Cited, 216 n., 337 n., 409, 418

Beaumont, John, 336, 339. Cited, 273 n., 275 n.

Beaumont, Susan, 407

Beaver, Anne, 400

Bedford, Duchess of, 4, 9, 49

Bedford, trials at, no, 117, 135-136, 383, 398, 402, 404

Bedfordshire, 107, 115, 118, 119, 179 n., 187, 200 n., 406

Bee, Jesse, 349

Beeman, Elizabeth, 409

Beigel, H., 346

Bekker, Balthazar, 339

Bel and the Dragon, book of, 97

Belcher, Elizabeth, 130-132, 230, 357, 384

Belvoir Castle, witchcraft at, 132-134

Bennett, Elizabeth, 42-43

Bennett, Gervase, 219

Bentham, Thomas, Bishop of Coventry and Lichfield, 15 n.

Bentley, Alice, 394

Benton, George, 411

Benton, Jennet, 411

Beriman, Helen, 387

Berkhampstead, 257

Berks, 387, 403

Bernard, Richard, 165, 234-236, 241, 293, 303 n., 361, 401. Cited, 398

Berrye, Agnes, 384, 399

Berwick, 201, 206, 207, 209, 252 n., 253, 391, 393, 407

Beverley, 410

Bexwell, Rosa, 52 n., 394

Bibb, Joan, 412

Bill, Arthur, 106-107, 132 n., 383

Bilson, boy of. See Bilston

Bilson, Thomas, Bishop of Winchester, 234

Bilston, boy of, 140, 141-142, 151, 152, 323, 400

Binkes, Anne, 192 n., 404

Bishop Burton, 394

Bishop's Cannings, 413

Blackburne, Launcelot, 321, 418

Blackmail, charge of, 149, 153

Blagrave, Joseph, cited, 414

Blomefield, Francis, cited, 412

Bodenham, Anne, trial of, 210-213, 363, 410

Bodine (Bodin), 69 n.

Bodmin, 405

Bohemia, Queen of, 158

Bokes-wharfe, 394

Bolingbroke, Roger, 8, 9

Boram, mother and daughter, 411

Boram, wife of, 385

Boreham of Sudbury, 404

Bottesford, 134 n.

Boulton, Richard, 336, 339-340, 348

Bourne, John, 390

Bovet, Richard, 303 and n.

Bower, Edmond, 212, 216, 364, 365

Bowes, Lady, 356

Bowes, Sir Thomas, 167 n.

Boxe, Grace, 410

Boyle, Sir Robert, 337 and n.; opinions of, 305-306 and n.

Boys, the Rev. Mr., 331-332

Boys, William, cited 401, 403, 418

Bracton, cited, 128 n.

Bradley, Alice, 396

Bradwell, Stephen, cited, 395

Bragge, Francis, 325-336, 373-375

Bramford, 404

Branche, Anne, 399

Brand, John, cited, 208 n., 321 n., 407

Brandeston, 175, 179 n., 379

Braynford, 392

Brerely, Alice, 393

Brereton, Sir William, 158. Cited, 158 n.

Brewton, 418

Bridewell, 419

Bridge, widow, 414

Bridgeman, Henry, Bishop of Chester, 152-157, 402

Bridges, Agnes, 30 n., 59, 88 n., 351

Brightling, 282

Brinley, John, 303

Bristol, 118, 392, 400

Britannicus, 252

Britton, 5, 6. Cited, 128

Brome, Richard, 159, 244, 306

Bromley, Sir Edward, 113, 125, 134

Brooks, Jane, 221, 222, 411

Brown, Agnes, trial of, 35, 36, 110, 115, 357, 384

Brown, Joan, 130, 131, 132, 357

Browne, Margaret, 386

Browne, P., cited, 406

Browne, Richard, 183 n.

Browne, Sir Thomas, 266-267, 305, 311

Broxbourn, 412

Bruen, Philippa, 415

Bruff, Martha, 405

Brumley, Dorothy, 406

Bucer, Martin, 15 n., 88 n.

Buckingham, George Villiers, Duke of, 134 n.

Buckinghamshire, 74, 388, 415

Bulcock, Jane and John, 383

Bull, Edmund, 401, 402

Bullinger, 15 n.

Burghley, William Cecil, Lord, 19 n., 25 n., 27

Burman, Charles, cited, 216 n.

Burnet, Bishop Gilbert, 248 n. Cited, 268 n.

Burnham-Ulpe, 356

Burntwood, 386

Burr, George L., cited, 3 n.

Burthogge, Richard, 340. Cited, 218 n., 409

Burton, Richard ("R. B."), 339 n. Cited, 395, 403

Burton, Robert, 245

Burton, boy of, named by Ben Jonson, 92. See also Darling, Thomas

Burton-upon-Trent, 76, 85, 392

Bury, Thomas, 380

Bury St. Edmunds, 177-181, 192, 194, 200, 204, 261-267, 305, 321, 361, 378, 379, 393, 394, 404, 411, 413, 418

Bush, of Barton, 404

Buske, Mother, 385

Butcher, Elizabeth, 389

Butler's Hudibras on Matthew Hopkins, 165, 194

Butts, Joan, trial of, 277, 416

Byett, William, 46 n.

Byles, Andrew, 35

Byrom, Margaret, 52

Bysack, of Waldingfield, 404

Calamy, Edmund, the elder, 178

Calendar of Patent Rolls, cited, 7 n.

Calendar of the Proceedings of the Committee for the Advance of Money, cited, 164 n.

Calendars of State Papers, cited, 26 n. and passim

Calvin, 64, 65, 87 n.

Cambridge, 139, 179 n., 279, 396

Cambridge University, 48, 89, 228, 229, 235, 238, 276, 374; Queen's College, 143, 348; Christ's College, 227; Emmanuel College, 228 n.; Trinity College, 308

Cambridgeshire, 111, 184, 200 n., 331, 405, 406, 416

Camfield, Andrew, 399

Camfield, Benjamin, 303, 307

Canterbury, 201, 255, 385, 386, 412

Canterbury, Archbishop of. See Warham, William; Cranmer, Thomas; Parker, Matthew; Grindall, Edmund; Whitgift, John; Bancroft, Richard; Abbot, George

Carbury, John, Earl of, 339 n.

Cariden, Joan, 201 n., 405

Carnarvon, 118, 397

Carr, Robert, 232

Carrier, Elizabeth, 418

Carrington, John, 317, 319 n., 372

Carshoggil, laird of, 96

Carter, Richard, 170 n.

Casaubon, Meric, 238-240, 293-299, 307. Cited, 240 n., 293 n., 294 n., 403

Cason, Joan, trial of, 54, 390

Castleton, 393

Cecil, William, Lord Burghley. See Burghley

Celles, Cystley, 45

Certaine Informations, cited, 403

Chalmers, Alexander, cited, 328 n.

Chamberlain, letter of, 115 n.

Chambers, widow, 418

Chandler, Alice, case of, 38 n., 385

Chandler, Elizabeth, 187 n.

Chandler, Mary, 185

Chandler, R., 212

Chandos, daughter of Lady, 385

Chapbook, the witch, 33

Chard, 221, 411

Charles I, 146, 152, 154, 158, 161, 199, 234, 323; growth of skepticism as to witches in his reign, 162-163

Charles II, 248, 254, 262, 276, 306; witchcraft in his reign, 255

Charlewood, J., 350

Chatterish, 406

Chattox, Anne, 109, 121-122, 126 n., 127, 383

Chaucer, Geoffrey, 89

Chauncy, Arthur, 327

Chauncy, Sir Henry, 324, 326, 375

Chelmsford, 34-41, 43, 46, 166-174, 178, 188 n., 200, 204, 346, 363, 376, 378, 385, 387, 390, 400, 403; trials of 1566 at, 34-38, 385; trials of 1579 at, 38-40, 387; trials of 1589 at, 40, 390; trials of 1645 at, 166-174, 403

Cherrie, of Thrapston, case of, 184-185

Cheshire, 118, 232 n.

Chester, Bishop of. See Bridgeman, Henry

Chettell, "Mistress," 385

Chettle, Anne, 218, 408

Chichester, Bishop of, 12. See also Harsnett, Samuel

Chinting, 387

Chishull, the Rev. Mr., 328

Chittam, Henry, 387

Chowbent, 419

Christ's College, Cambridge, 227

Chronicon Mirabile, cited, 208 n., 407

Church, the trials for sorcery under, 6-8; statute of Henry VIII not aimed to limit, 10; state ready to reclaim jurisdiction from, 24; penalties under, 28, 30; gradual transfer to state of witchcraft cases, 30-31

Clarke, of Keiston, 185-186

Clarke, Ann, 415, 417

Clarke, Elizabeth, 166-175

Clarke, Helen, 169

Clarke, Jane, 141-142, 419

Clarke, Sir Robert, 54

Clarke, Samuel, cited, 177, 307, 361, 404, 412

Clarke, William, his letter to Speaker Lenthall, 225 n.

Clarkson, Mary, 416

Clerkenwell, 389

Cleves, Pepper, 397, 410

Cleworth, 52, 149 n.

Clinton, Lord, 12

Clouues, William, 24 n.

Clutterbuck, Robert, cited, 328 n.

Cobbett, William, cited, 102 n.

Cobham, Eleanor, Duchess of Gloucester, 4, 8

Cobham, Lord, 12

Cock, Susan, 362, 376

Cocwra, Samuel, 387

Coke, Sir Edward, 102, 152, 228. Cited, 128 n., 396

Colchester, 388, 389, 391, 408

Cole, Henry, Jewel's controversy with, 16 n.

Cole, Thomas, 34, 346

Coleman, John, 388

Collection of Modern Relations, 279, 339 n. Cited, 146 n., 181 n., 402, 406, 407, 413

Collingham, 393

Coman, widow, case of, 331-332

Commission of Oyer and Terminer, 178, 192, 200

Committee of Both Kingdoms, 200

Commons' Journal, cited, 17 n., 103 n.

Conyers, Robert, 411

Cooke, Elizabeth, 397

Cooke, Mother, 392

Coombes, Margaret, 418

Cooper, C. H. and T., cited, 356

Cooper, John, 82 n.

Cooper, Thomas, 227, 231-232, 242. Cited, 398, 401

Corbet, 413

Corbolt. See Godbolt

Cornwall, 217, 218, 221, 224, 254, 276-277, 279, 320, 388, 405, 409, 415, 416, 417, 418

Cornwall, Henry, 170 n.

Cosyn, Edmund, 25

Cotta, John, 227, 229-231, 235, 237, 243. Cited, 130 n., 230 n., 231 n.

Cotton, William, cited, 217 n., 221 n., 224 n., 409, 410, 411

Council of State, 215, 219, 225, 226

Council Register, cited, 152 n., 154 n., 155 n.

"Countess" (Margaret Russel), 400

County Folk Lore, Suffolk, cited, 165 n., 176 n., 179 n., 194 n., 392, 404

Court of High Commission, 84, 86-87

Coventry, 232 n., 400

Coventry and Lichfield, Bishop of. See Bentham, Thomas

Coverdale, Miles, 15 n.

Coverley, Sir Roger de, 341

Cowper, Earl and Countess of, 328 n.

Cox, John Charles, cited, 137 n., 219 n., 324 n., 396

Cox, Julian, trial of, 260-261, 273, 282, 292, 310, 413

Cox, Richard, 15 n.

Coxe, Francis, trial of, 31 n., 351, 385

Cranbourne, Viscount, 115 n., 396

Cranmer, Thomas, Archbishop of Canterbury, 12, 58 n.

Crearey, Elizabeth, 400

Creeting, 404

Cricke, 404

Criminal Chronology of York Castle, cited, 224

Cromwell, Sir Henry, 48, 50

Cromwell, Lady, 48

Cromwell, Oliver, 48 n., 207, 212 n., 215, 219, 226, 237 n., 275

Cromwell, Richard, 220, 226

Cromwell, Thomas, 19

Crosse, Diana, 223-224, 410

Crossley, Elizabeth, 406, 411

Crossley, James, cited, 124 n., 147 n., 357, 380

Crouch, Nathaniel, 339 n.

Crump, Hannah, 257

Cruther, Joseph, 282

Cudworth, Ralph, 307

Cullender, Rose, 262, 310, 413

Culpepper, Nicholas, 403

Cumberland, 220, 224, 225, 407

Cunny, Joan, 347

Curry, Katharine, 413

Cushman, L. W., cited, 244 n.

Damages awarded accused, 324

Danvers, Sir John, 215

Darcy, Brian, 41, 42, 44 n., 45, 46 n., 348

Darling, Thomas, 76-78, 80, 85

Darrel, John, 74-87, 92, 138, 255, 315, 349, 352-356. Cited, 391, 392, 393, 394

Davenport, John, 187 n., 362

Daventry, 251

Davies, J. S., cited, 8 n.

Davis, Ralph, 375, 382

Daye, Mary, 418

Daye, Susannah, 416

Deacon, John, 353, 354

Dee, John, 52-53, 79

Deir, Mrs., 390

Dekker, Thomas, 244. Cited, 112 n., 359

Del Rio, 234

Demdike, Old (Elizabeth Southerns), 121-128

Denham, 74 n.

Denham, Sir John, 235

Denham Tracts, cited, 30 n., 219 n., 389, 390, 407

Denison, John, 78 n., 349

Denton, 360

Derby, 392

Derby, Archdeacon of, 83

Derby, Earl of, 392

Derbyshire, 52, 81, 118, 137, 219, 324, 390, 392, 396, 407

Descartes, 238

Devell, Mother, 28 n.

Device, Alizon, 111 n., 384

Device, Elizabeth, 108 n., 122-126, 383

Device, James, 126-127, 383

Device, Jennet, 113, 126-127

Devizes, 217, 409, 414

Devonshire, 254, 277, 409, 414-419

Dewse, Mrs., 390

Diary, A, or an Exact Journall, cited, 174 n.

Dickonson, Frances, 147, 152-160

Dilby, Doll, 413

Distribution of witchcraft, 118-119, 146, 224, 254-255

Doctrine of Devils, The, 296-297, 302 n.

Dodgson, Nathan, 256

Dodson, Jane, 416

Doncaster, 396

Dorrington, Doctor, 50 n.

Dorset, 385, 390, 417, 419

Dorset, Marquis of, 12

Drage, William, 367. Cited, 256-258 n., 279 n., 402, 408, 417

Drew, widow, 403

Ducke, Elizabeth, 386

Dugdale, Richard, 315-320, 329, 373

Duncane, Geillis, torture of, 95

Dungeon, Mother, 386

Dunne, Christiana, 418

Duny, Amy, trial of, 262-267, 310, 413

Durham, 119, 146, 210, 218, 219 n., 388, 389, 395, 401, 407, 409, 414, 415

Durham, Bishop of, 12; his Injunctions, cited, 388

Durham, Depositions ... from the Court of, cited, 21 n., 29 n., 385

Durham, vicar-general of the Bishop of, 117

Dutten, Mother, 28 n.

E., T., "Maister of Art," 388

Earle, Katherine, 223, 410

East Anglia, 51, 119, 184, 197, 255

Eburye, Elizabeth, 414

Eckington, 390

Edlingham, 416

Edmonds, Mr., 235 n.

Edmonton, 108, 112, 136 n., 383, 391, 400

Edward I, 6

Edward IV, 4, 9

Edward VI, 12, 88

Edwards, Richard, 169-170

Edwards, Susanna, 271-272, 368-369, 416

Elford, Johanna, 415

Elizabeth, 35-92, 93; number of executions in her reign compared with number under James, 105-106; spectral evidence in her reign, 110; distribution of witch cases, 118

Ellyse, Joan, 386

Elnore, Margaret, 418

Ely, 189, 279, 406, 416

Ely, Bishop of, 12, 15 n., 234

Emerson, a priest, 387

Emerson, Ann, 388

Emott, Isabel, 410

Emmanuel College, Cambridge, 228 n.

Endor, witch of, Scot's explanation of, 62; Filmer's explanation of, 241; Muggleton's explanation of, 295; Webster's explanation of, 298

Enfield, 384, 393, 399

Enger, Master, 110-111, 117, 118 and n., 135-136

Essex, 26, 41, 70 n., 90 n., 119, 146, 158, 166-174, 192, 195, 228 n., 331-332, 337, 385, 387, 388, 389, 390, 391, 394, 403, 408

Essex, Countess of, 144 n., 232-234

Essex, Earl of, 234

Ettrick, Anthony, 365

Evans, Katharine, 411

Evesham, 409

Exeter, 31 n., 216, 221, 223, 270-272, 278, 320-321, 409, 410, 411

Exeter, Bishop of, 418

Exeter College, Oxford, 285

Eye, witch of, 4

F., H., 172, 361

Fairclough, Samuel, 166 n., 177, 178

Fairfax, Edward, 111, 144-145, 249-250, 358, 359. Cited, 102 n., 142 n., 250 n., 395, 400

Fairfax, Sir Thomas, 360

Faithful Scout, The, cited, 213 n., 216, 365, 408

Falmouth, 415

Farbrother, J. E., cited, 411

Farington Papers, cited, 155 n.

Farnworth, Richard, 240 n.

Farrier, Elizabeth, 118

Faversham, 54, 201, 390, 405

Female juries, 108, 113, 171, 264, 271, 279, 330

Fenner, Edward, in Warboys trials, 49-50

Fenwick, Elizabeth, 279, 416

Ferris, Sibilla, 393

Fian, Dr., 94-96

Filmer, Sir Robert, 238, 241. Cited, 241 n.

Finchingfield, 228 n.

Finchley, 399

Fisher, Katharine, 406

Fisherton-Anger, 211, 410

Fishwick, cited, 372

Fize, Henry, 388

Flagellum Dæmonum, 79 n.

Fleta, 5

Flower, Joan and her daughters (Margaret and Philippa), case of, 115, 119 n., 132-134, 383, 399

Fludd, Robert, 286

Foljambe, Mrs. See Bowes, Lady

Folk Lore Journal, The, cited, 24 n., 401

Folkestone, 386

Ford, John, 359

Fortescue, Sir Anthony, case of, 25

Fortescue, Sir John, 34, 346

"Foscue, Master." See Fortescue, Sir John

Fossett, Temperance, 409

Foster, Ann, trial of, 282, 415

Fowles, Susanna, case of, 323 n.

Foxcroft, H. C., cited, 341 n.

France, Hester, 408

Francis, Elizabeth, her two trials, 35-40, 385

Francis, Mother, 400, 401

Frankfort, 15 n.

Frankland, Richard, 316, 319

Fraunces, Margaret, 394

Free, Goody, 412

Freeman, Alice, 84, 393

Freeman, Mary, 83

French Intelligencer, cited, 213 n., 215 n., 408

Fulham, 411

Fuller, John, cited, 207 n., 407

Fuller, Thomas, cited, 90 n., 139 n., 140 n., 143, 144

Fustis Dæmonum, cited, 79 n.

Gabley, Mother, 389

Gaddesden, Little, 256

Gairdner, James, cited, 9 n.

Gallis, Richard, 347

Gardiner, Mr. and Mrs., 324

Gardiner, the Rev. Mr., 375

Gardiner, Catherine, 132 n.

Gardiner, Ralph, cited, 208, 209 n., 407

Gargrave, 410

Garve, Mother, 387

Gaskin, Emmy, 414

Gateshead, 210, 219 n., 407

Gaule, John, 165, 174-175, 186-187, 192, 196, 236-237, 241, 242

Gee, John, cited, 139 n.

Geneva, 14, 15, 87 n., 233

Gentleman's Magazine, cited, 95 n., 143 n., 160 n., 269 n., 279 n., 359, 367, 389, 396, 401, 412, 413, 415, 417

Gerard, Sir Gilbert, 34, 346

Gerish, W. B., cited, 375

Gibbons, A., cited, 189 n., 406

Gibson, "Coz.," 222

Gifford, George, 54, 57 n., 70-72, 242, 243. Cited, 390, 394, 395

Gill, Helena, 390

Gilston, 328 n.

Gilston, Matthew, 335

Gisborough, 411

Glance of a witch, instances of, 111, 112, 135

Glanvill, Joseph, 101, 196 n., 238, 273-276, 285-293, 297, 299, 300, 303, 306, 307, 309, 310, 314, 327, 336, 337. Cited, 221 n., 222 n., 251 n., 260 n., 308 n., 405, 408, 411, 413

Globe theatre, The, 159

Gloucester, 208, 407

Gloucester, Duchess of, 4, 8

Gloucester, Richard of, 9

Glover, Mary, 138, 355, 395

Glover, Stephen, cited, 396

Godbolt, John, 178, 192

Godfrey, Agnes, 393, 397

Goldsmith, Mr., 332

"Good Witches," 21-27, 29, 220, 229, 259-260

Goodcole, Henry, 112, 359

Gooderidge, Alse, 76-78, 349, 392

Gooding, Elizabeth, 169-170

Gough, Richard, 375

Goulding, R. W., cited, 396, 401

Gordon, Rev. Alexander, cited, 317 n., 319 n.

Grainge, William, 360

Grame, Margaret, 391

"Grantam's curse," 88

Grantly, Anne, 419

Great Staughton, 186-187

"Great T.," "Mother W. of," 395

Great Yarmouth, 181, 386. See also Yarmouth

Greedie, Joan, 401

Green, Ellen, 399

Greene, Anne, 410

Greene, Ellen, 133 n.

Greenleife, Mary (of Alresford), 170-171

"Greenliefe of Barton," 404

Greenslet, Ferris, cited, 286 n.

Greenwel, Thomas, 371

Greenwich, 154

Grevell, Margaret, 44

Griffiths, Sarah, 419

Grimes, Mr., 332

Grimston, Sir Harbottle, 167 n.

Grindall, Edmund, Bp. of London, then Abp. of Canterbury, 15 n.

Guildford, 322

Guilford, Baron. See Francis North

Gunpowder Plot, 123, 232

Gurney, Elizabeth, 406

Guy, Mary, 418

Gyngell, Margaret, 225, 410

Habakkuk, transportation of, 97

Hackett, Margaret, 390

Hackney, 415

Haigh, 414

Hale, Sir Matthew, 67, 261-268, 283, 304, 321, 334, 336, 337, 339 n., 367

Hale, William H., cited, 10 n., 21 n., 22 n., 29 n., 385

Halifax, Marquis of, opinion of, 341

Hall, John, 352

Hall, Joseph, Bishop, 180

Hall, Mary, 256, 257

Halliwell-Phillips, J. O., 142 n., 306 n.

Hallybread, Rose, 362, 376

Hallywell, Henry, 303 and n., 304, 307

Hamilton, A. H. A., cited, 417

Hammer, 404

Hammersmith, case at, 323 n.

Hammond, of Westminster, 402

Hampstead, 396, 398

Hampton Court, 13

Handford, Abigail, 418

Hanover, Susanna, 419

Hansen, J., cited, 3 n.

Harington, Sir John, 140 n.

Harland and Wilkinson, cited, 419

Harmondsworth, 386

Harris, Alice, 132 n.

Harris, Eleonora, 417

Harris, Elizabeth, 201 n.

Harris, Marie, 417

Harris, Susannah, 419

Harrison, Mr., 44

Harrison, Henry, 388

Harrison, Johanna, of Royston, 108-109, 111, 135, 383, 396

Harrison, Margaret, 356

Harrison, William, 367

Harrod, H., cited, 182 n., 386, 389, 390, 405

Harrogate, 360

Harrow, Weald, 390

Harsnett, Samuel, later Abp. of York, 12, 51, 85-92, 138, 227, 233, 349, 353-356. Cited, 390-393

Hart, 389

Hart, Anne, 418

Hart, Prudence, 170

Hart Hall, Oxford, 57

Hartis, 418

Hartley, Edmund, 52, 79-80, 392

Harvey, Gabriel, 69 n.

Harvey, Joane, 400

Harvey, Thomas, 411

Harvey, William, 154, 160-162

Harwood, Goodwife, 256

Hatfield Peverel, 41

Hathaway, Richard, 322-324, 371

Hathericke, Sara, 401

Hatsell, Sir Henry, 323

Haverhill, 404

Hazlitt, W. C., cited, 350-352, 368

Heddenham, 406

Heddon, Margaret, 415

Hele, N. F., cited, 183 n., 191 n., 200 n., 405

Hemloke, Sir Henry, 324

Hempstead, 404

Hengler, Elizabeth, 417

Henry IV, 4, 7

Henry VI, 4, 7

Henry VIII, 20, 30, 58 n. See also Statutes.

Heptenstall, 406

Herbert, Sir Edward, 311 n.

Herd, Annis, 44, 388

Hereford, Bishop of, 12, 15 n.

Hertford, trials at 134-135, 314, 324-330, 383, 394, 396, 419

Hertfordshire, 118, 367, 374, 391, 392, 408, 412, 414, 417

Hertfordshire County Sessions, Rolls, cited, 21 n., 221 n., 391, 412, 414

Hewitt, Katherine, 383

Heylyn, Peter, cited, 143 n.

Heyrick, Robert, 141, 398

Heywood, Oliver, 256, 307, 316, 319. Cited, 416

Heywood, Thomas, 306 n.; play of, 158-159; opinions expressed in play of, 244-245. Cited, 244 n.

Hicke, Mr., 379

Hinchcliffe, Joseph, 416

Hist. MSS. Comm. Reports, cited, 114 n., and passim thereafter

Hitcham, 404

Hitchin, 367

Hoarstones, 148, 156

Hobart, Sir Henry, 134

Hobbes, Thomas, 241, 246-249, 291, 307

Holborn, 393, 398

Hole, Elizabeth, case of, 324

Holinshed, cited, 54-55, 59 n., 350, 387, 388, 390

Holland, Henry, 72 n.

Hollingsworth, A. G., cited, 183 n., 404

Holt, Sir John, 267; nullified statute of James I; gave repeated acquittals, 320-323; his ruling on the water ordeal, 332

Homes, Nathaniel, opinions of, 240. Cited, 240 n.

Hooke, William, 45 n.

Hopkins, James, 164

Hopkins, Matthew, 164-205, 339, 376, 378

Hopwood, Mr., 79 n.

Horace, 89

Horner, Elizabeth, 321-322, 418

Hott, Jane, 201 n., 405

Houghton, Lord, 359

Housegoe, Elizabeth, 393

Howard, Henry, later Earl of Northampton, 352

Howell, James, 180, 195, 245

Howell, T. B. and T. J., cited, 116 n., 144 n., 233 n.

Howsell, Anne, 405

Howson, Helen, 406

Hubbard, Elizabeth, 404

Huddersfield, 408

Hudson, Ann, 407

Hughes, Lewis, 355, 395

Hulton, John, 209

Humphrey, of Gloucester, Duke, 8

Hunnam, Anne, 409

Hunniman, Joice, 162 n., 402

Hunt, widow, 45 n.

Hunt, Joan, 383, 398

Hunt, Robert, 260, 273, 411, 413

Hunter, Joseph, cited, 92 n., 256 n., 413

Huntingdon, 49-51, 185 n., 200 n., 237 n., 314 n., 348, 362, 375, 383, 419

Huntingdonshire, 47-51, 185-187, 192, 236, 348, 375-383, 405

Huson, Alice, 413

Hutchinson, Francis, 175, 195-198, 313, 321, 331, 340-343, 355, 375, 380, 381. Cited, 11 n., 179 n., 321-323 n., 328 n., 395, 411, 413, 416, 418

Huxley, Catherine, 216, 409

Ilkeston, 407

Images, alleged use of in witchcraft, 6, 59-60, 109-110, 125-127

Incendiarism ascribed to witchcraft, 282-283, 333

Inderwick, F. A., cited, 201 n., 225 n., 226 n., 268 n., 269 n., 270 n., 311 n., 333, 376, 410, 414-419

Ipswich, 164, 175, 182, 320, 394, 405, 414, 417, 418

Jackson, Elizabeth, 138, 355, 395

James I, 69, 90 n., 93-119, 130, 132, 134, 137-145, 146, 165, 189, 203, 227, 228, 229 n., 232, 234, 241-242, 247, 250, 254, 255, 260, 267, 276, 312, 314, 331. His Scottish experience, 93-96; his Dæmonologie, 97-101; his statute and its effect, 101-109; distribution of witchcraft in his realm, 118-119; his changing attitude, 138-145

James II, 308

James, G. P. R., cited, 340 n., 342 n.

Jeffreys, George, Baron, 311 n.

Jeffries, Anne, 405

Jenkinson, Helen, 383

Jennings, Lady, 400

Jeopardy, neglect of legal restriction on, 128 and n., 145 n.

Jewel, John, Bishop of Salisbury, 15-17

Joan of Arc, 230

Johnson, Margaret, 154, 156, 157, 159

Johnson, W. S., cited, 244 n.

Johnstone, James, 341

Jollie, Thomas, 316-319, 329, 372-373

Jones, J. O., cited, 164 n., 181 n., 182 n., 188 n.

Jonson, Ben, 91-92, 244, 387

Jordan, Jane, 393

Jorden, Dr. Edward, 138, 355, 395

Jourdemain, Margery, 7-9

Jurdie, Jone, 396

Keiston, 185

Kelly, William, cited, 141 n., 398

Kelyng, Sir John, 265, 267, 305

Kemp, Ursley, trial of, 41, 43

Kennet, Elizabeth, 412

Kent, 21 n., 54, 57, 60, 119, 201, 255, 350, 383, 385, 386, 388, 389, 390, 392, 393, 394, 401, 403, 405, 408, 412, 416, 418

Kent, Holy Maid of. See Barton, Elizabeth

Kerke, Anne, 394

Kerke, Joan, 51

Kidderminster, 412

Kimbolton, 186

King, of Acton, 404

King, Peter, 380

King's Lynn, 54, 116-117, 183, 231, 358, 384, 389, 391, 393, 399, 405

Kingston, 419

Kingston-upon-Hull, 389

Kittredge, G. L., cited, 298, 301, 383

Knipp, Agnes and John, 415

Knott, Elizabeth, 208 n., 407

Knowles, Sir William, 154

Knumerton, Dewnes, 417

Lake, Sir Thomas, 115 n., 396

Lakeland, Mother, 182, 200 n., 381, 405

Laleham, 387

Lambe, Dr., 211

Lambe, Elizabeth, 410

Lambeth, 354

Lanam, Elizabeth, 408

Lancashire, 52, 78-81, 92, 108-113, 115-116, 118, 120-130, 146-160, 307, 314-319, 393, 399, 402, 406, 414, 416, 419; Starchie affair, 78-81, 92; trials of 1612, 120-130; trials of 1634, 146-156; Dugdale affair of 1689, 315-319

Lancaster, 120, 151, 156, 158, 171, 224, 229 n., 273, 383, 392, 397, 401, 402

Lancaster, chancellor of the Duchy of, 152 n.

Landgate, 414

Landis, Margaret, 362, 376

Land's End, 217-218, 409

Langton, Walter, 6

Lathom, 402

Latimer, John, cited, 400

Latton, 414

Launceston, 218 n., 409, 418

Lavenham, 404

Law, John, 111 n.

Law, T. G., cited, 74 n., 87 n., 353

Lawe, Alison, 389

Lea, H. C., his definition of a witch, 4. Cited, 3 n., 99 n.

Leach, Jeffrey, 389

Lecky, W. E. H., 196

Lee, Dorothy, 405

Leech, Anne, 170, 174, 379

Leeds, 219, 410

Leepish, 401

Legge, cited, 138 n., 225 n.

Leicester, 54, 119 n., 120, 140-141, 218, 330-331, 384, 392, 398, 399, 402, 408, 419

Leicester, Records of the Borough of, cited, 54 n.

Leicestershire, 51, 118, 133 n., 146, 359, 397

Leicestershire and Rutland, Notes and Queries, cited, 218 n., 399, 402, 408, 419

Levingston, Anne, 214

Lewes, 387

Lichfield, Bishop of (Walter Langton), 6; (Thomas Morton), 141-142, 152

Liebermann, F., cited, 2 n.

Lincoln, 118, 119 n., 120; trials of 1618-1619, 132, 383, 399

Lincoln, Bishop of, 7, 8, 12, 49, 50

Lincolnshire, 396, 401

Lingwood, Joan, 389

Linneston, 401

Linton, Mrs. Lynn, cited, 29 n., 95 n., 386

Lister, Mr., 111 note, 112, 129

Little Gaddesden, 256

Liverpool, 414

Lloyd, Temperance, 271-272, 368-369, 416

Lloyd, William, Bishop of Worcester, 340

Lloynd's wife, 150

Lock, John, 408

Locke, John, 340

Lodge, Edmund, cited, 139 n.

Lodge, Sir Oliver, 238

Londesdale, Elizabeth, 401

London, 9, 25, 26, 30 n., 51, 59, 154, 159, 160, 173, 177, 210 n., 216, 277-278, 309, 320, 322, 323, 329, 384, 385, 394, 395, 399, 409, 416

London, Bishop of, 8, 9 n., 12, 30 n., 84, 384, 387. See also Grindall, E.; Bancroft, R.

London Post, cited, 419

Long, Sir James, 268

Longwitton, 279, 416

Lords' Journal, cited, 102 n., 103 n.

Lord's Prayer, testing of witches by, 40, 80, 271, 282, 326

Lothbury, 30 n., 88 n.

Loudon, Elizabeth, 410

Louth, 396, 401

Low, Goody, 404

Lower, M. A., cited, 386

Lowes, John, case of, 165 n., 175-179, 197, 378, 379

Lowestoft, 262, 263

Lowndes, cited, 347, 350, 359, 364, 386, 390, 392

Loy, Margaret, 414

Lucas, Hugh, 112

Lucas, Jane, 110 n., 112

Luther, Martin, attitude of, towards exorcism, 87 n.

Lyme, 385

Lynn. See King's Lynn

Mackenzie, E., cited, 259 n., 401, 416

Mackerell, Benjamin, cited, 391, 393, 399, 405

Mackie, S. J., cited, 386

Magazine of Scandall, cited, 176 n., 197 n.

Magick, Dorothy, 398

Maidstone, cases at, 215-216, 238, 241, 283, 408, 412

Maitland, S. R., cited, 353

Malborne, Sir John, book of, 63

Maldon, 41, 54, 70 n.

Malking Tower, meeting of witches at, 113, 123-129, 147, 148, 383

Mallory, Lady Elizabeth, 223, 411

Malmesbury, alarm at, 269-270, 409, 417

Malter, wife of, 385

Manchester, 79

Manners, Francis, Earl of Rutland, 132-134, 359

Manners, Lord Francis, 133, 134 n.

Manners, Lord Henry, 134 n.

Manners, Lady Katherine, 134 n.

Manningtree, 164, 165, 173, 193, 194

Mansfield, 75

Manship, cited, 182 n.

Manwood, Sir Roger, 56

Marchant, Anne, 409

Margaret, Mother, 28 n.

Marks, use of as a test of witchcraft, 36, 40, 45, 77, 99, 108, 151, 154-155, 156-157, 167, 190, 218, 229, 230, 242, 243, 264, 284, 330

Martin, Dr., 323

Mary I, 14, 15 n., 52

Mary, Queen of Scots, 18, 25, 26, 53

Mascon, Demon of, 306, 337 n.

Mason, of Faversham, 54

Mason, James, and his opinions, 229 n.

Massachusetts, trials in, 50, 264, 316, 382

Mathers, the (Cotton and Increase), 316, 336

Matthews, Grace, 216-217

Mayhall, John, cited, 395

Meakins, Bridget, 399

Meere, John, 390

Melford, 404

Melton, Elizabeth, 393

Mercurius Aulicus, cited, 403

Mercurius Civicus, cited, 360, 403

Mercurius Democritus, cited, 213 n., 251 n., 408

Mercurius Politicus, cited, 218 n., 409

Mereweather, Jone, 413

Merlin, 230

Merril, Goodman, 171 n.

Merriman, R. B., cited, 74 n.

Mersam, Rose, 396

Mewkarr Church, 396

Middlesex, 51, 74, 118, 146, 174, 201, 208 n., 220, 224, 225, 278, 383-387, 389-394, 396-400, 402, 403, 405-412, 415, 419

Middlesex County Records, cited, 21 n., 220 n., 386, and passim thereafter

Middleton, Thomas, 244

Midgley, Mary, 406

Midwife as a witch, 21 and n., 41, 258-259

Milburne, Jane, 279

Milburne, Margaret, 415

Miller, Agnes, 399

Mills, Elizabeth, 415

Mills, Joan, 414

Milner, Ralph, 117, 396

Milnes, R. Monckton, 102 n., 359

Mils, Goody, 404

Milton, John, 241, 278

Milton, Miles, 398

Mistley-cum-Manningtree, 164 n.

Mob law, 117, 315

Moderate Intelligencer, its opinion of the Bury executions in 1645, 179-180. Cited, 177 n., 180 n., 404

Molland, Alicia, 417

Mompesson affair, 273, 276, 310

Mondaye, Agnes, 385

Montague, James, Bp. of Winchester, 97 n.

Montgomery, 387

Moone, Margaret, 170 n.

Moordike, Sarah, case of, 322-324, 419

Moore, wife of, 189 n., 406

Moore, Ales, 395

Moore, Ann, 418

Moore, Mary, 363

Moore Rental, The, cited, 414

Morduck, Sarah. See Moordike

More, George, 81, 84-85, 353, 354. Cited, 78 n., 79 n., 80 n., 392

More, Henry, 238-240, 243, 262, 286, 297, 303, 307, 309, 310. Cited, 211 n., 239, 394, 396, 405, 410

More, Sir Thomas, 59 n.

Mortimer, Jane, 52 n., 392

Morton, Margaret, 408

Morton, Thomas, Bishop of Lichfield, 141 n., 142, 152

Much, Barfield, 387

Muggleton, Lodowick, and witchcraft, 295, 298, 307, 309. Cited, 295 n.

Munnings, Mother, trial of, 321, 418

Muschamp, Mrs., 210, 218, 253, 363

Muschamp, George, 209, 210

N., N., 318 n., 372

Nall, J. G., cited, 181 n.

Napier, Dr., 400

Napier, Barbara, 96

Nash, J. R., cited, 412

Nash, Thomas, cited, 69 n.

Navestock, 385

Naylor, Joane, 394

Needham, 404

Nelson, Richard, 394

Nevelson, Anne, 395

New England. See Massachusetts

New Romney, 59

Newbury, 403

Newcastle, 201, 207-208, 259, 279, 281, 407, 412, 413, 414

Newell, Sir Henry, 27, 28

Newgate, 183 n., 400

Newgate, A True and Perfect List of the Prisoners in, cited, 409

Newman, Ales, 45 n.

Newman, Elizabeth, 410

Newman, William, 45 n.

Newmarket, 134, 161

Newton, Isaac, 308

Nicholas (or Nickless), Jane, 417

Nichols, John, cited, 134 n., 141 n., 399

Nicholson, Brinsley, 58, 62, 70 n.

Nicolas, Sir Harris, cited, 8 n.

Noake, J., 412

Noal, Jane, 417

Norfolk, 193, 200 n., 231, 253, 337, 356, 386, 389-391, 394, 395, 397, 399-401, 403-406, 410, 412, 414

Norfolk Archæology, cited, 182, 386, 390, 405

Norrington, Alice, 59, 386

Norrington, Mildred, 59, 62

North, Francis, Baron Guilford, 269 n., 271, 272, 278, 305, 311

North, Roger, 267. Cited, 261 n., 269 n., 271 n., 278 n., 403, 416, 417

North Allerton, 400

North Riding (of Yorkshire), 117

North Riding Record Society, 114 n., 117 n., 162 n.

Northampton, 106-112, 115, 118, 119 n., 120, 130-132, 184, 229, 230, 255, 314 n., 357, 375-383, 415, 419

Northampton, Henry Howard, Earl of, 352

Northamptonshire, 184, 200 n., 282, 331, 405, 411

Northamptonshire Handbook, 381-382

Northamptonshire Historical Collections, 381

Northfield, Thomas, 7

Northfleet, 394

Northumberland, 52, 146, 208 n., 209, 210, 220, 224, 282, 390, 395, 401, 407, 412, 414, 415, 416

Norton, mother and daughter, 330, 333, 419

Norwich, 7 n., 400, 401, 406, 412

Norwich, Bishop of, 7 n., 8, 15 n., 89

Notes and Queries, cited, 164 n., 321 n., 380, 418, 419

Nottingham, 75, 81-86, 118, 315, 389, 393, 394

Nottingham, Records of the Borough of, cited, 394

Nottinghamshire, 51, 234

Nowell, Roger, 123

Nutter, Alice, trial of, 113, 116, 126-127, 383

Nutter, Christopher, 127

Nutter, Robert, 128

Oakham, 411

Ogle, Henry, 208, 209, 259 n.

Old Bailey, 108 n., 213

Oliver, Mary, 412

Onslow, Speaker, 268

Orchard, widow, 412

Orchard, N., 296 n.

Oriel College, Oxford, 294

Orme, W., cited, 337 n.

Osborne, Francis, 143-144, 245-246, 291. Cited, 141 n., 143, 246 n.

Owen, John, cited, 287 n.

Owen, and Blakeway, cited, 21 n., 387

Oxford, Samuel Parker, Bishop of, 308, 309

Oxford, 15, 63, 146 n., 216, 285, 402

Oxford University, 131, 216, 285; Hart Hall, 57; Oriel College, 294; Trinity College, 131-132

Pacy, Mr., 265

Padiham, 150 n., 399

Padston, 388

Palmer, C. J., cited, 182 n., 389, 390

Palmer, John, 208 n.

Pannel, Mary, 383, 395

Paracelsus, 286

Paris, University of, formulated theory concerning pacts with Satan, 3

Parker, Matthew, Archbishop of Canterbury, 30, 88 n.

Parker, Samuel, Bishop of Oxford, 308, 309

Parker, Thomas, Earl of Macclesfield, 314, 320, 330-331, 332 n., 380

Parkhurst, John, Bishop of Norwich, 15 n.

Parle, M., 417

Parliamentary History, cited, 12 n., 102 n.

Peacock, a schoolmaster, tortured, 115 n., 399

Peacock, Edward, 401

Peacock, Elizabeth, 269, 270, 414, 415, 417

Pearson, Margaret, 397

Pechey, Joan, 45 n.

Peck, Francis, cited, 172 n., 403

Peckham, Sir George, 74 n.

Pelham, 151 n.

Pellican, cited, 15 n.

Pemberton, Sir Francis, 277

Pembroke, Simon, 387

Pembroke Hall, Cambridge, 89

Pendle Hill, or Forest, 121, 147, 315, 397

Pepper, Mrs., 259, 413

Pepys, Samuel, 309

Pereson, Jennet, 385

Perfect Diurnal, A, cited, 403

Perkins, William, 227-230, 240, 241, 242, 243

Perry, William, the "boy of Bilston," 140-142

Peter Martyr, 16 n.

Peter, R. and O. B., cited, 218 n., 409

Peterson, Joan, case of, 213-215, 408

Petty treason, its penalty not to be confused with that of witchcraft, 182

Phillips, Goody, 183

Phillips, John, 346, 351

Phillips, Mary, 382

Phippan, Honora, 417

Pickering, Gilbert, 47, 131 n.

Pickering, Sir Gilbert, 131 n.

Pickering, Henry, 48

Pickering, Thomas, 228 n.

Pickerings, the, 348

Pico della Mirandola, 286

Piers, Anne, 388

Pike, L. O., cited, 7

Pillory, punishment of, 30, 55, 104, 114

Pilton, Margaret, 398

Pinder, Rachel, 30 n., 59, 88, 351, 386

Pitcairn, Robert, cited, 95 n.

Plato, 238

Pleasant Treatise of Witches, A, 296

Plummer, Colonel, 328 n.

Poeton, Edward, cited, 400

Pole, Arthur, 25

Pole, Edmund, 25

Pollock and Maitland, cited, 6 and n., 7 n.

Popham, Sir John, 354

Potts, Thomas, 112, 113, 116, 125, 129, 130, 249, 357-358, 361. Cited, 105-128 n., passim, 397, 398

Powell, Sir John, 272 n., 314, 320, 324, 327-328, 329, 330, 335, 374

Powell, Lady, 214-215

Powell, William, 346

Powle, ——, 409

Powstead, 404

Pregnancy, plea of, in delay of execution, 50, 96

Prentice, Joan, 348

Presbyterian party, its part in Hopkins crusade, 195-201

Prestall, John, 25, 387, 397

Preston, Jennet, 111 n., 112, 129, 249, 383, 398

Price, Joan, 409

Privy Council, its dealings with sorcerers, in the later Middle Ages, 4-10; its campaign against conjurers under Elizabeth, 26-27; the Abingdon trials, 27-28, 30 n.; the Chelmsford trials, 34; Dee's case, 53-54; Darrel's, 87; its part in the statute of James I, 103; in the Lancashire trials of 1633, 152, 155, 156; in the Somerset cases of 1664, 273. See also Acts of the Privy Council and Council Register.

Protestant Post Boy, The, 374

Prowting, Mary, 402

Queen's College, Cambridge, 143, 348

R., G., 374

R., H., 390

Rainsford, Sir Richard, 260, 268-269, 269-270, 304

Rames, Nicholas, wife of, 279

Ramsay, Sir J. R., cited, 9 n.

Ramsbury, 389

Rand, Margaret, 391

Randall, 397

Randall, of Lavenham, 404

Randoll, 388

Ratcliffe, 404

Ratcliffe, Agnes, 136 n.

Rattlesden, 404

Rawlins, Anna, 416

Raymond, Sir Thomas, 260, 270-271, 271-272, 278, 283, 304, 321

Read, Joan, 217

Read, Margaret, 391

Read, Simon, 397

Redfearne, Anne, 126 n., 127-128, 383

Redman, 258

Repington, Philip, Bp. of Lincoln, 7

Reresby, Sir John, 272 n., 305, 311. Cited, 417

Rhymes, Witch, 24, 76

Rich, Robert, Earl of Warwick, 172, 178, 200

Richard III, 9

Richardson, M. A., cited, 117 n., 219 n., 395, 409, 412

Richmond, of Bramford, 404

Richmond (Yorkshire), 396

Richmond and Lenox, Duke of, 287

Risden, 188 n., 406

Rivet, John, 166

Roach, Clara, 418

Roberts, Alexander, 227, 231, 235. Cited, 117 n., 231 n., 399.

Roberts, Elizabeth, 394, 410

Roberts, George, cited, 279 n., 385, 417

Roberts, Joan, 407

Robey, Isabel, 384

Robinson, Edmund, 146-157, 298, 323

Robson, Jane, 401

Rochester, 63, 388

Rodes, Sara, 218

Rogers, Lydia, 366, 411

Roper, Margaret, 75, 390

Rose, Goodwife, 402

Rossington, 396

Rous, Francis, 240

Row, Elizabeth, 415

Roxburghe Club, cited, 95 n.

Royal Society, the, 275, 285, 286, 305, 306, 308-309

Royston, 109, 111

Ruceulver, 404

Rushock, 412

Russel, Margaret, 400

Rutland, Earl of. See Manners

Rutlandshire, 411

Rutter, Elizabeth, 383, 399

Ryder, Agnes, 417

Rye, 116, 383, 397, 405

Rylens, Martha, 416

Ryley, Josia, 393

Rymer, cited, 7

S., Alice, 52 n., 394

Sabbath, the Witch, 3, 113,123-124, 148, 166, 170, 186, 239, 273, 281-282

Saffron Walden, 394

Saint Alban's, 208 n., 252 n., 363, 407, 408, 417

Saint Andrew's in Holborne, 393, 398

Saint Giles's, Northampton, 382

Saint Giles-in-the-Fields, 393

Saint John's, Kent, 385, 389

Saint Katharine's, 394

Saint Lawrence, 393

Saint Leonard's, Shoreditch, 403

Saint Martin's-in-the-Fields, 389, 406, 409

Saint Mary's, Nottingham, 83

Saint Osyth's, 41-46, 58, 70, 125, 388

Saint Paul's, 13; public penance in, 59

Saint Paul's, Dean of, 11 n.

Saint Peter's, Kent, 389, 392, 393

Saint Saviour's, Southwark, 387

Salem. See Massachusetts

Salisbury, 212, 225, 268, 270-271, 410, 412

Salisbury, Bishop of. See Jewel, John

Salmesbury, witches of, 128-129, 398

Salop (Shropshire), 387

Sammon, Margerie, 43, 44, 45 n.

Sampson, Agnes, torture of, 95

Samuel, Agnes, 49

Samuel, Alice, trial of, 47-51

Samuel, John, 49

Samuel, Mother. See Alice Samuel

Samuels, the (of Warboys), 109, 391

Sandwich, 401, 403, 418

Sanford, 387

Sawyer, Elizabeth, trial of, 108 n., 112, 136 n., 383, 400

Scarborough, 219, 409

Scarfe, of Rattlesden, 404

Schwebel, Johann, 15 n.

Scory, John, Bishop of Hereford, 15 n.

Scot, Margery, 409

Scot, Reginald, 51, 55, 57-72, 89, 90, 97, 142, 160, 227, 228-231, 235, 239, 241, 242, 243, 249, 291, 294 n., 296, 298, 301, 310, 312, 342. Cited, 20 n., 28 n., 46 n., 296 n., 347, 348, 386, 387, 388

Scot, Sir Thomas, 56

Scotland, Register of the Privy Council of, cited 96 n.

Scotland and the Commonwealth, cited, 225

Scots-Hall, 57

Scott, John, cited, 391, 393

Scott, Sir Walter, 196, 275. Cited, 199 n., 366

Scottish Dove, The, cited, 404

Seaford, 386

Seccombe, Thomas, cited, 164 n., 181 n.

Seeze, Betty, 417

Selden, John, 246-248, 262. Cited, 247 n., 248 n.

Serjeantson, Rev. R. M., 382

Sewel, William, 296 n.

Shadbrook, 350, 393, 394

Shadwell, Thomas, 121, 309; his opinions, 306-307

Shakespeare, William, used Harsnett, 91; allusions in Twelfth Night of, 92; his witch-lore, 243

Shalock, Anthony, 171 n.

Shaw, Elinor, 382

Sheahan, J. J., cited, 389

Shelley, 404

Shelley, Jane, 391

Shepton, Mallet, 411

Sherlock, Thomas, 374

Ship Tavern, at Greenwich, 154

Shore, Jane, 9

Shoreditch, 403

Shrewsbury, Earl of, 12, 19 n., 26

Shrewsbury, Duke of, 341

Shropshire (Salop), 387

Shuttleworths, House and Farm Accounts of the, cited, 399

Simmons, Margaret, 388

Simpson, Elizabeth, 412

Simpson, Jane, 413

Simpson, Robert, cited, 396

Simpson, Susan, 409

Sinclar (or Sinclair), George, cited, 355, 366, 395

Skipsey, 407

Slade, Anne, 414

Slingsby, Sir William, 400

Smith, of Chinting, 387

Smith, Charlotte Fell, cited, 53 n.

Smith, Elizabeth, 408

Smith, Elleine, 39 n., 40

Smith, Gilbert, 399

Smith, Mary, 231, 358, 384, 399

Smith, Sir Thomas, 25 n., 385

Smithfield, 9

Smythe, Elizabeth, 406

Smythe, Katharine, 386

Somers, William, 51, 81-86, 92, 315, 353, 393

Somerset, 146, 220, 222, 224, 234, 254, 260, 273, 280, 285, 293, 320, 388, 392, 393, 401, 402, 411, 413-419

Somerset, the protector, repeal of felonies during his protectorate, 12; attitude of, 13

Sorcery, distinguished from witchcraft, 3-4

Southampton, 387

Southampton, Earl of, 12

Southcole, Justice, 346

Southcote, John, 34

Southerns, Elizabeth. See Demdike

Southton, 415, 416

Southwark, 164, 256, 277, 321, 323, 387, 419

Southwell, Thomas, 8

Southworth. See Master Thompson

Sowerbutts, Grace, part in Salmesbury cases, 128-129, 139, 140, 151

Spectator, The, 341 n.

Spectral evidence, 110-111, 131 n., 184, 218, 221-222, 235-236, 263-264, 279, 279 n.

Speier, 15 n.

Spencer, Anne, 402

Spencer, Mary, 152, 157, 159, 160, 401

Spokes, Helen, 393

Staffordshire, 118, 141, 146, 386, 389, 400, 402

Stanford Rivers, 34

Stanhope, 388

Stanmore, 390

Star Chamber, Dee examined by the, 52

Starchie, Mrs., 79 n.

Starchie, John, 149 n.

Starchie, Nicholas, children of, 78-81, 158

Starr, William, 409

Stationers' Registers, cited, 347, 350, 352, 358

Statutes: 1 Edward VI, cap. xii (repeal of felonies), 12; 3 Henry VIII, cap. xi, 10 n.; 33 Henry VIII, cap. viii, 10-12; 5 Elizabeth, cap. xvi, 5, 14, 15, 17, 101-102; 1 James I, cap. xii, 102-104, 314

Staunton, Mother, 39 n., 387

Stearne, John, 164-205 passim (in text and notes), 339, 361, 362, 404. Cited, 403-406.

Stebbing, Henry, 335, 374, 375

Steele, Sir Richard, 342

Stephen, Sir J. F., cited, 10 n., 11 n.

Stephen, Leslie, cited, 287 n.

Stephens, Edward, 339 n.

Stepney, 405, 408, 410, 411, 412

Sterland, Mr., 83

Stevens, Margaret, 415

Stevens, Maria, 419

Stoll, Elmer, cited, 244 n.

Stonden, 414

Stothard, Margaret, 259, 416

Stow, John, cited, 59 n., 350

Stowmarket, 183, 404

Stranger, Dorothy, 279, 413

Strangridge, Old, 238

Strassburg, 15 n.

Stratford-at-Bow, 406, 407

Strotton, 414

Strutt, the Rev. Mr., 326, 327, 375

Strype, John, cited, 16 n., 17 n., 25 n., 26 n., 27 n., 385, 390

Stuart, Charles, Duke of Richmond and Lenox, 287

Studley Hall, 223

Style, Elizabeth, 280, 413

Sudbury, 404

Suffolk, 164, 165 n., 175, 176 n., 183, 194, 195, 197, 224, 337, 350, 379, 392, 393, 394, 404, 405, 411, 413, 414, 417, 418

Suffolk Institute of Archæology, Proceedings of, 176 n.

Surey, affair of. See Dugdale

Surrey, 416, 419

Sussex, 282, 386, 387, 397, 405, 412

Sussex Archæological Collections, 283 n., 386, 412

Sussums, Alexander, 404

Sutton, 406

Sutton, Mary, 110-111, 118 n., 136, 383, 398

Sutton, Mother, 107-108, 115, 117, 135-136, 358, 383, 398

Swan, John, 90 n., 355. Cited, 395

Swan Inn, Maidstone, 215

Swane, Goodwife, 389

Swinow, Colonel, 209

Swinow, Dorothy, 209-210, 211, 408

Swithland, 399

Swynbourne, Richard, wife of, 393

Sykes, John, cited, 30 n., 407, 414

Sykes, Mary, 218, 407

T., R., 295

Talbot, Charles, Duke of Shrewsbury, 341-342

Talbot, George, Earl of Shrewsbury, 19 n., 26

Tanner, Joanna, 419

Tatler, The, 342 n.

Taunton, 234, 235, 260, 401, 403, 413, 417, 418

Taunton-Dean, 278, 417

Taylor, Robert, 170

Taylor, Zachary, 317-318, 329, 372, 373

Tedsall, Agnes, 402

Tedworth, affair of, 274-276, 303 n.

Tempest, Henry, 218

Temple, Sir William, 309

Tendering, John, 46 n.

Test of bleeding of dead body, 112, 301; of repetition of certain words, 49, 109; of thatch-burning, 112; of swimming (see Water, ordeal of)

Theodore of Tarsus, 2

Therfield, 374

Theydon, Mount, 385

Thievery and Witchcraft, 122, 222, 326

Thirple, 374

Thirsk, 397

Thompson, James, cited, 201 n., 408

Thompson, Katherine, 395

Thompson, Master, 129

Thorne, Anne, accuser of Jane Wenham, 324-330, 334-336

Thorneton, Jane, 386

Thorpe, Benjamin, cited, 2 n.

Thrapston, 184-185

Throckmorton, Sir Robert, 47, 50

Throckmortons, the, 348

Throgmorton, George, 385

Throgmorton, Lady Frances, 384

Thurlow, Grace, 41, 42

Tichmarsh, 131 n.

Tilbrooke-bushes, 188 n.

Tilling, Ann, 269-270, 415, 417

Tolbooth, the, 96

Torture, of Alse Gooderidge, 77; by the bootes, 96; of Peacock, 115 n., 203; perhaps used at Lincoln, 134; unknown to English law, 167; of Lowes, by walking, 176-177; Hopkins's and Stearne's theory and practice as to, 202-204; advocated by Perkins, 229; by scratching, 330; by swimming (see Water, ordeal of)

Tottenham, 399

Towns, independent jurisdiction of, 54-55, 116-117, 201

Townshend, Jane, 414

Tradescant, John, 216

Transportation of witches through the air, 3, 97, 239, 246

Treasure-seekers, 20

Tree, 387

Trefulback, Stephen, 391

Trelawny, Sir Jonathan, Bishop of Exeter, 321

Trembles, Mary, 271-272, 368-369, 416

Trinity College, Oxford, 131-132; Master of. See Isaac Barrow

Turner, William, cited, 405

Twelfth Night, allusions in, 92

Two Terrible Sea-Fights, cited, 225 n.

Tyburn, 51, 394

Tynemouth, 412

Underhill, Edward, Autobiography of, cited, 13

Upaston, 418

Upney, Joan, 347

Upsala, 94

Urwen, Jane, 401

Utley, hanged at Lancaster, 158, 401

Uxbridge, 74 n.

Vairus, Leonardus, 58 n.

Vallet, Jane, 417

Van Helmont, 286

Varden, J. T., cited, 194 n.

Vaughan, Joan, 384

Vaughans, the two (Henry and Thomas), 286

Vaux, Lord, 74 n.

Vernon, James, 341-342

Vetter, Theodor, cited, 15 n.

Vicars, Anne, 383

Vickers, K. H., cited, 9 n.

Victoria History of Essex, cited, 90 n.

Virley, John, 7

W., Mother, of Great T., 395

W., Mother, of W. H., 395

"W. W." and the St. Osyth's pamphlet, 46, 62 n.

Waddam, Margaret, 418

Wade, Mary, 223, 411

Wade, William, 221, 223, 411

Wadham, Thomas, 388

Wagg, Ann, 407

Wagstaffe, John, 294-295, 297

Wakefield, 220-221, 411

Waldingfield, 404

Walker, widow, 387

Walker, Ellen, 385

Walker, John, 353, 354

Walker, John (another), cited, 361

Walkerne, 325

Wallis, Joane, 185 n., 187 n.

Walsh, John, trial of, 31 n.

Walter, Aliena, 414

Walter, Sir John, 235

Walton, Colonel Valentine, 187, 237 n.

Wanley, Nathaniel, 307. Cited, 308 n.

Wapping, 408, 411

Warboys, trials at, 47-51, 109 n., 131, 143, 160, 185, 221, 229 n., 391

Warburton, Sir Peter, 142

Warburton, Peter, 215

Warden of the Cinque Ports, 116

Warham, William, Abp. of Canterbury, 58 n.

Warminster, 398

Warwick, 257, 414

Warwick, Earl of. See Rich

Washington, Sir John, 185

"Watching" of witches, practised by Hopkins and Stearne, 167; Gaule's description, 175; Stearne's explanation, 190; Stearne's description, 202; probably practised on Elizabeth Style, 280; practised on a Sussex woman, 283

Water, ordeal of, James recommends it, 99; its use on the Continent, 99 n.; in reign of James, 106-108, 118 n., 132; stopped in Suffolk, 178; in Huntingdonshire, 187; its use by Hopkins and Stearne, 191-192; story that Hopkins was put to it, 194; use at Faversham, 201 n.; Perkins's opinion, 228; Cotta's, 230; Bernard's, 235; Ady's, 242; its decline, 243, 284; increased use of it as an illegal process, 315, 331; forbidden in Jane Wenham's case, 326; at Leicester, 330; in Essex, 331-332; by Holt or Parker, 332; by Addison's Sir Roger de Coverley and his chaplain, 341

Waterhouse, Mother Agnes, trial of, 35-38, 40 n., 45, 385

Waterhouse, Joan, 36

Watson, Jane, 413

Way, Margaretta, 419

Wayt, Mrs., 174

Webb, Mrs., 269

Webb, Goodwife, 39

Webster, John, 141, 147 n., 148-151, 151, 268, 297-303, 314. Cited, 306 n., 359, 400

Weech, Christian, 397

Weeke, 413

Weekes, Christiana, 397, 410

Weekly Intelligencer, cited, 213 n., 408

Weight, Mrs., 174

Welfitt, William, cited, 412

Wellam, Margaret, 399

Wells, 389

Wells, Archdeacon of, 235

Welton, 251, 411

Wenham, 164

Wenham, Jane, trial of, 324-330, 380, 381, 419; controversy over, 334-336; her trial the occasion of Hutchinson's book, 342-343

Wentworth, Lord, 12

West, Andrew, 44

West, Anne, 169, and n., 171

West, Rebecca, 169, 170, 171, 362, 376

West, William, cited, 352, 391

West Ayton, 402

West Drayton, 394

West Riding, Yorkshire, 256

Westminster, disputation of, 16 n.; cases at, 139, 384, 386, 391, 402

Weston, Father, 74 n., 87, 352

Westpenner, 388

Westwell, Old Alice of, 59, 386

Weyer (Wier, Wierus), Johann, 62, 79 n., 97, 229 n.

Whitaker, Thomas D., cited, 147 n.

White, Joan, 391

Whitechapel, 409-410

Whitecrosse Street, 396

Whitgift, John, Archbishop of Canterbury, 74, 84, 88 n.

Whitehall, 134

Whitelocke, Bulstrode, 226, 252 n. Cited, 172 n., 179 n., 181 n., 201 n., 206 n., 207 n., 403, 407

Wickham, William, Bishop of Lincoln, 50

Widdowes, Thomas, cited, 366

Widdrington, Thomas, 207 n.

Wier, Wierus. See Weyer

Wigan, 156

Wildridge, T. T., cited, 137 n.

Wilkins, David, cited, 10 n.

Wilkinson, Anne, 414

Williams, Katherine, 418

Williams, Robert, cited, 399

Williford, Joan, 201 n., 405

Willimot, Joan, 119 n., 133 n., 399

Wilson, Alice, 109 n.

Wilson, Arthur, 143 n., 172 n., 173. Cited, 359, 400, 403

Wilts, 146, 211, 224, 268, 269 n., 274, 285, 397, 398, 401, 409, 410, 412-414, 417-419

Wimblington, 406

Winch, Sir Humphrey, 142

Winchester, Bishop of. See Thomas Bilson, and James Montague

Winchester Park, 257 n.

Windebank, Secretary, 152, 155

Windsor, 139, 347

Windsor, Dean of, and Abingdon trials, 28

Wingerworth, 416

Witchall, Judith, 269, 270, 415, 417

Witchfinder, Darrel as a, 75-83; Hopkins as a, 165-205; a Scotch pricker as a, 206-208; Ann Armstrong as a, 281-282

Wolsey, Thomas, Abp. of York, 19, 59 n.

Women, proportion of to men in indictments for witchcraft, 114; of wives to spinsters and to widows, 114-115

Wood, Anthony à, cited, 295 n., 366

Wood, Joan, 386

Woodbridge, 392

Woodbury, 417

Woodhouse, Doctor, 257

Woodstock, 275

Wooler, 395

Worcester, 7, 216, 376, 387, 406, 409, 412

Worcester, Bishop of, 12, 340

Worcestershire, 208 n.

Worthington, John, cited, 180 n.

Wright, Elizabeth, 76, 78 n., 392

Wright, Grace, 405

Wright, Katherine, 75, 85, 353

Wright, Thomas, 100, 188 n., 376. Cited, 2 n., 6 n., 7 n., 9 n., 19 n., 25 n., 95 n., 100 n., 147 n., 401

Wrottesley, Lord, 162 n.

Wylde, John, 212

Wynnick, John, 185 n., 187 n., 405

Yarmouth, 54, 181, 183, 199, 201, 263, 406. See also Yarmouth, Great

Yarmouth, Great, 389, 390, 395, 404

York, 111, 112, 119, 129, 144, 218, 220, 229 n., 249, 383, 389, 394, 398, 400, 413, 417

York, Archbishop of, 83

York Castle, 258

York Depositions, 218 n. Cited, passim thereafter

Yorkshire, 52, 118, 144, 146, 149-150, 210, 221, 222, 223, 254, 256, 278, 352, 383, 389, 391, 393, 395-397, 400, 402, 406-411, 414-416

Yorkshire Notes and Queries, cited, 257 n.

Young, Margareta, 418

Young, Ruth, 418

Zurich, 14, 15 n., 87 n.

Zurich Letters, cited, 17 n.

Zweibrücken, 15 n.