pton, 1883), 236.

1579-1580. Shropshire. Mother Garve punished in the corn
market. Owen and Blakeway, _History of Shrewsbury_,
I, 562.

1580. Stanhope, Durham. Ann Emerson accused by the
church officials. _Injunctions ... of ... Bishop of
Durham_ (Surtees Soc.), 126.

---- Bucks. John Coleman and his wife examined by four
justices of the peace at the command of the privy
council. They were probably released. _Acts P. C._, n.
s., XI, 427; XII, 29.

---- Kent. Several persons to be apprehended for conjuration.
_Id._, XII, 21-23.

---- Somerset. Henry Harrison and Thomas Wadham, suspected
of conjuration, to appear before the privy
council. _Ibid._, 22-23.

---- Somerset. Henry Fize of Westpenner, detected in conjuration,
brought before the privy council. _Ibid._, 34.

---- Essex. "Sondery persones" charged with sorceries and
conjuration. _Acts P. C._, XII, 29, 34.

1581. Randoll and four others accused for "conjuring to
know where treasure was hid in the earth." Randoll
and three others found guilty. Randoll alone
executed. Holinshed, _Chronicles_ (London, 1808),
IV, 433.

1581. Padstow, Cornwall. Anne Piers accused of witchcraft.
Examination of witnesses. _Cal. St. P., Dom., 1581-1590_,
29. See also _Acts P. C._, n. s., XIII, 228.

1581. Rochester, Kent. Margaret Simmons acquitted. Scot,
_Discoverie_, 5.

1581-82. Colchester, Essex. Annis Herd accused before the
"spiritual Courte." _Witches taken at St. Oses_, 1582.

1582. St. Osyth, Essex. Sixteen accused, one of whom was a
man. How many were executed uncertain. It seems
to have been a tradition that thirteen were executed.
Scot wrote that seventeen or eighteen were executed.
_Witches taken at St. Oses_, 1582; Scot, _Discoverie_, 543.

1582 (or before). "T. E., Maister of Art and practiser both of
physicke, and also in times past, of certeine vaine
sciences," condemned for conjuration, but reprieved.
Scot, _Discoverie_, 466-469.

1582. Middlesex. Margery Androwes of Clerkenwell held in
bail. _Middlesex County Records_, I, 133.

1582. Durham. Alison Lawe of Hart compelled to do penance.
_Denham Tracts_ (Folk-Lore Soc.), II, 332.

1582. Kent. Goodwife Swane of St. John's suspe