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Witches in Early Modern England

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"A woman (Anonymous 4) is captured by the Army in Newbury and shot in the head, in 1634.", 'A Most Certain, Strange, and True Discovery of a Witch', Anonymous, (1643)

"Mr. Hopkins, the chief magistrate of Bewdley and a member of parliament, complains that he is "oft pained as he thought with the Spleen," but he was "not at all Melancholy." Mr. Hopkins confesses to ... ", 'The Certainty of the Worlds of Spirits and, Consequently, of the Immortality of Souls', Richard Baxter, London (1691)

"A woman (Anonymous 4) is captured in Newbury by the army and determined to be a witch.", 'A Most Certain, Strange, and True Discovery of a Witch', Anonymous, (1643)

"A woman (Anonymous 4) is allegedly shot at by army soldiers in Newbury, but she catches the bullets they fire and eats them.", 'A Most Certain, Strange, and True Discovery of a Witch', Anonymous, (1643)

"Numerous Justices of the Peace at Hicks Hall and the Old Bailey declare that they are unsatisfied with the proceedings and proof against Jane Peterson; they indicate that there was a design to the who ... ", 'A Declaration in Answer to Several Lying Pamphlets Concerning the Witch of Wapping', Anonymous, London (1652)

"A pond in Garraton turns from water to blood and is a supposed sign from God as to how the people are all of one blood.", 'The Most Strange and Wounderfull Apperation of Blood in a Pool at Garraton in Leicester-shire', Anonymous, London (1645)

"James Cook, Thomas Blossom, and Edward See witness the apparition of a battle horse in the sky over where the Battle of Dunbar had taken place.", 'More Warning Yet. Being a True Relation of a Strange and Most Dreadful Apparition which was Seen in the Air', Godly-learned minister of the Gospel., London (1654)

"Anonymous 21 of London gives birth on 16 September, 1645 to a monstrous baby that has nails coming out of its thighs, no head, and stumps for legs.", 'The Most Strange and Wounderfull Apperation of Blood in a Pool at Garraton in Leicester-shire', Anonymous, London (1645)

"Anonymous 20 of Kirkham gives birth to a stillborn monster baby", 'A Declaration of a Strange and Wonderful Monster: Born in Kirkham parish in Lancashire', Anonymous, London (1646)

"Joan Peterson is apprehended and tried a second time on the matter of Lady Powel's demise; she is told by the confederation of Abraham Vandenbemde, Thomas Collet and Anonymous 139 that she need not fe ... ", 'A Declaration in Answer to Several Lying Pamphlets Concerning the Witch of Wapping', Anonymous, London (1652)

"Elizabeth Jackson, a woman from London, is "arraigned and condemned at Newgate," for the bewitchment of Mary Glover, the fourteen-year old daughter of a merchant from Thames Street in London. Mary Gl ... ", 'Certaine grievances, or the errours of the service-booke; plainely layd open', Lewes Hughes, London (1641)

"At the trial of Elizabeth Jackson, a woman from London accused of bewitching the fourteen year old girl Mary Glover, allegedly causing the girl a number of violent fits, one Doctor Bancroft, at the ti ... ", 'Certaine grievances, or the errours of the service-booke; plainely layd open', Lewes Hughes, London (1641)

"The Recorder of London, Sir John Crook, tests Mary Glover during a fit allegedly brought on by being in the presence of the woman, Elizabeth Jackson. Mary Glover is in a fit, when to test the authent ... ", 'Certaine grievances, or the errours of the service-booke; plainely layd open', Lewes Hughes, London (1641)

"The Recorder of London, Sir John Crook, verifies the fourteen year old girl Mary Glover's fit allegedly brought on by the presence of the woman Elizabeth Jackson, through a second test, following a bu ... ", 'Certaine grievances, or the errours of the service-booke; plainely layd open', Lewes Hughes, London (1641)

"The Recorder of London, Sir John Crook, having examined the fourteen year old girl, Mary Glover, accused of counterfeiting fits allegedly caused by the woman, Elizabeth Jackson, believes that Elizabet ... ", 'Certaine grievances, or the errours of the service-booke; plainely layd open', Lewes Hughes, London (1641)

"A month after the trial and condemnation of Elizabeth Jackson, a woman accused of bewitching the fourteen year old girl, Mary Glover, with a number of violent fits, Mary Glover continues to have fits ... ", 'Certaine grievances, or the errours of the service-booke; plainely layd open', Lewes Hughes, London (1641)

"After the dispossession of the fourteen year girl from London, Mary Glover, it is decided that she should live with a minister "for one yeare, least Sathan should assault her againe." The minister, M ... ", 'Certaine grievances, or the errours of the service-booke; plainely layd open', Lewes Hughes, London (1641)

"A minister from Suffolk (Anonymous 475) affirmed that "one of the poor women that was hanged for a VVitch (Anonymous 476) at Berry Assizes, in the year 1645" sent her imps (Anonymous 235) into the ar ... ", 'A Candle in the Dark', Thomas Ady, London (1655)

"Thomas Addy, author of _A Candle in the Dark_ (1655), tells of a "brief tenent in the Universities" (Anonymous 466), who "did but study and contemplate upon this subject of Witchcraft," and discovered ... ", 'A Candle in the Dark', Thomas Ady, London (1655)

"The minister, Mr. Lewis Hughes, informs the Recorder of London, sir John Crook, during the examination of Mary Glover, that he had often prayed with Elizabeth Jackson, the woman accused of causing Mar ... ", 'Certaine grievances, or the errours of the service-booke; plainely layd open', Lewes Hughes, London (1641)

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