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ed. _Middlesex County Records_, III, 191. 1649. Middlesex. Dorothy Brumley acquitted. _Ibid._ 1649. St. Albans. John Palmer and Elizabeth Knott said to have been hanged for witches. _The Divels Delusion_ (1649). 1649. Berwick. Thirty women, examined on the accusation of a Scotch witch-finder, committed to prison. Whitelocke, _Memorials_, III, 99; John Fuller, _History of Berwick_ (Edinburgh, 1799), 155-156, giving extracts from the Guild Hall Books; John Sykes, _Local Records_ (Newcastle, 1833), I, 103-105. 1649. Gloucester. Witch tried at the assizes. _A Collection of Modern Relations_, 52. 1649-50. Yorkshire. Mary Sykes and Susan Beaumont committed and searched. The former acquitted, bill against the latter ignored. _York Depositions_, 28. 1649-50. Durham. Several witches at Gateshead examined, and carried to Durham for trial; "a grave for a witch." Sykes, _Local Records_, I, 105; or _Denham Tracts_ (Folk-Lore Soc.), II, 338. 1649-50. Newcastle. Thirty witches accused. Fourteen women and one man hanged, together with a witch from the county of Northumberland. Ralph Gardiner, _England's Grievance_ (London, 1655), 108; Sykes, _Local Records_, I, 103; John Brand, _History and Antiquities of Newcastle_ (London, 1789), II, 477-478; Whitelocke, _Memorials_, III, 128; _Chronicon Mirabile_ (London, 1841), 92. 1650. Yorkshire. Ann Hudson of Skipsey charged. _York Depositions_, 38, note. 1650. Cumberland. A "discovery of witches." Sheriff perplexed. _Cal. St. P., Dom., 1650_, 159. 1650. Derbyshire. Ann Wagg of Ilkeston committed for trial. J. C. Cox, _Three Centuries of Derbyshire Annals_, II, 88. 1650. Middlesex. Joan Roberts acquitted. _Middlesex County Records_, III, 284. 1650. Stratford-at-Bow, Middlesex. Witch said to have been apprehended, but "escaped the law." Glanvill, _Sadducismus Triumphatus_, pt. ii, Relation XX. 1650. Middlesex. Joan Allen sentenced to be hanged. _Middlesex County Records_, III, 284. _The Weekly Intelligencer_, Oct. 7, 1650, refers to the hanging of a witch at the Old Bailey, probably Joan. 1650. Leicester. Anne Chettle searched and acquitted. Tried again two years later. Result unknow
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