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Bennett, Elizabeth (d. 1582)  

Marion Gibson

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Bishop, Bridget  

Richard Godbeer

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Burroughs, George  

Richard Godbeer

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Carrier, Martha (d. 1692)  

Richard Godbeer

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Corey, Giles  

Richard Godbeer

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Corey, Martha  

Richard Godbeer

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Cunny, Joan (c. 1508/9–1589)  

Marion Gibson

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Device, Alizon (d. 1612)  

Laura Gowing

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Device, Elizabeth (b. before 1572, d. 1612)  

Laura Gowing

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Device, James (d. 1612)  

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Device, Jennet (b. 1602/3)  

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Dustin, Lydia  

Richard Godbeer

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Easty, Mary  

Richard Godbeer

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Essex witches (act. 1566–1589)  

Marion Gibson

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Essex witches (act. 1566–1589), are known from four surviving pamphlets published between 1566 and 1589 describing the lives, and in some cases deaths, of one man and thirty women who were accused of witchcraft in Essex and prosecuted under the Witchcraft Act of 1563. In this period witchcraft was punishable by hanging if a witch was convicted of killing a person, or if he or she committed a second witchcraft offence of any kind. Witches were not burnt in ...

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Foster, Ann (d. 1692/3)  

Richard Godbeer

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Frauncis, Elizabeth (c. 1529–1579)  

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Good, Sarah  

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Gowdie, Isobel (fl. 1662), alleged witch  

John Callow

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Gowdie, Isobel (fl. 1662), alleged witch, first appears as the wife of John Gilbert and an inhabitant of the farmstead at Loch Loy, near Auldearn, in highland Scotland. Although she was later supposed to have begun practising witchcraft in 1647, it was in spring 1662 that she was implicated in a plot to harm ...

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Graham, Ritchie (d. 1592), magician  

L. A. Yeoman

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