Date: Late 10thC
Place: England, London
Names: Unknown
Number killed: 2
Sex: Female & Male
Notes: A woman and her son were tried for driving stakes into an image of a man. She was taken and drowned at London Bridge, while the son escaped and became outlawed. Earliest known witchhunt in England (Source: Crawford, Jane "Evidences for Witchcraft in Anglo-Saxon England")
Year: 1177
Name: Eleanor of Aquitaine
Number killed: 1
Sex: Female
Notes: Queen of England. Duchess of Aquitaine. Eleanor and four witches purportedly poisoned Rosamond Clifford
Year: 1177
Place: Unknown
Names: Unknown
Number killed: 4
Sex: Female
Notes: Eleanor and four witches purportedly poisoned Rosamond Clifford
Year: 1177
Place: Unknown
Names: Unknown
Number killed: 4
Sex: Female
Notes: Eleanor and four witches purportedly poisoned Rosamond Clifford
Name: Unknown
Number killed: 1
Sex: Male
Date: 1222
Place: England
Notes: A Jewish Necromancer was accused of wrapping a boy in the skin of a dead man for divination (Source: Kittridge, Witchcraft in Old and New England, 46)
Year: 1279
Place: England, York
Name: Unknown
Number killed: 1
Sex: Female
Notes: John de Kerneslawe killed a witch that had entered his house. The local clergy had her body burned. (Source: Kittridge, Witchcraft in Old and New England, 47)
Year: 1286
Place: England, York
Name: Darel, Godfrey
Number killed: 1
Sex: Male
Notes: A Cistercian monk of Rievaulx was reported to the Archbishop of York as a practitioner of Witchcraft. (Source: Kittridge, Witchcraft in Old and New England, 48)
Year: 1289-90
Place: England
Number killed: 1
Name: de Stratton, Adam
Sex: Male
Notes: Chancellor of the Exchequer. Arrested and tried for embezzling, extortion, and sorcery. (Source: Kittridge, Witchcraft in Old and New England, 48)
Year: 1301-3
Place: England
Number Killed: 1
Name: Langton, Walter
Sex: Male
Notes: Bishop of Coventry. Tried by ecclesiastical court for diabolism and acquitted. (Sources: Flores historiarum, ed. Henry Richards Luard (Rolls Series, XCV), III (London, 1890), 305f ; Rymer, Foedera, I, Pt IV, 27f (reprinted in part in Hansen, Quellen, 2). Lea, History of the Inquisition, III, 451; Kittredge, Witchcraft, 24; Ewen, Witchcraft and Demonianism, 28f ; Rose, Razor, 64f ; Alice Beardwood, 'The Trial of Walter Langton, Bishop of Lichfield, 1307-12', Transactions of the American Philosophical Society, N.S., LIV, Pt III (Philadelphia, 1964), esp. 7f (with further sources cited in notes). Kieckhefer, Richard. European witch trials, their foundations in popular and learned culture, 1300-1500. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1976.)
Year: 1302
Place: England, Exeter
Number Killed: 1
Name: Mody, John
Sex: Male
Notes: Trial for defamation; Mody had called Reginald Kene's wife a 'wicked witch and thief'. (Sources: Wright, 'Municipal Archives', 307 (from MS); Kittredge, Witchcraft, 50; Kieckhefer, Richard. European witch trials, their foundations in popular and learned culture, 1300-1500. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1976)
Year: 1311
Place: England, London
Name: Unknown
Sex: Unknown
Notes: Investigation by Bishop Baldock of sorcery, enchantment, magic, divination, and invocation. (Sources: Kittredge, Witchcraft, 51; Kieckhefer, Richard. European witch trials, their foundations in popular and learned culture, 1300-1500. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1976)
Year: 1314/15
Place: England
Number Killed: 1
Sex: Male
Name: Tannere, John m (Aka John Canne)
Notes: Claimed to be the son of Edward I. Hanged for attempt to gain crown through diabolical aid; had served devil more than three years. (Sources: Kittredge, Witchcraft, 242; Kieckhefer, Richard. European witch trials, their foundations in popular and learned culture, 1300-1500. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1976)
Year: 1324
Place: England, Coventry
Number Killed: 1
Sex: Male
Name: Nottingham, John of (aka Master John)
Notes: Died in custody (Sources: Kittredge, Witchcraft, 77;. Wedeck, A treasury of Witchcraft)
Year: 1325
Place: English, Coventry
Number Killed: 1
Name: Robert le Mareschal
Sex: Male
Notes: He and his lodger Master John of Nottingham and 27 clients (The Burghers of Coventry) were charged before a secular court with employing him and another "necromancer" to use sorcery in an attempt on life of King Edward II, the Despensers, and several other officials. (Sources: Wright, Contemporary Narrative, xxiii-xxix; excerpt in English transl. in Montague Summers, The Geography of Witchcraft (New York, 1927), 82-4, with original text 189 n.43. Lea, History of the Inquisition, III, 458; Kittredge, Witchcraft, 77; H. G. Richardson, 'Year Books and Plea Rolls as Sources of Historical Information" Transactions of the Royal Historical Society, ser.4, V (1922), 35; Ewen, Witchcraft and Demonianism, 29; Kieckhefer, Richard. European witch trials, their foundations in popular and learned culture, 1300-1500. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1976; Robbins, Russell Hope. The Encyclopedia of Witchcraft and Demonology. New York: Bonanza Books, 1959)
Year: 1325
Place: England, Coventry
Name: Unknown
Sex: Male
Notes: Acquitted. Charged before a secular court with employing him and another "necromancer" to use sorcery in an attempt on life of King Edward II, the Despensers, and several other officials. (Sources: See Robert le Mareschal)
Year: 1330
Place: England
Number Killed: 1
Name: Edmund
Sex: Male
Notes: Earl of Kent. Edward was condemned for obtaining important information from demon, through mediation of friar. (Sources: Kittredge, Witchcraft, 53; Kieckhefer, Richard. European witch trials, their foundations in popular and learned culture, 1300-1500. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1976)
Year: 1331
Place: England, Southwark
Number Killed: 3
Name: Unknown
Sex: Male
Notes: A man tried by royal court for sorcery. along with with a client and his associate. The subjects claimed to have used image magic only to obtain friendship but the jury determined that intent was murder. (Sources: Sayles, Select Cases, V, 53-7. Thomas, Keith. Religion and the Decline of Magic, 1971., 467. Kieckhefer, Richard. European witch trials, their foundations in popular and learned culture, 1300-1500. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1976)
Year: 1337
Place: England, Hatfield
Number Killed: 1
Name: Unknown
Sex: Male
Notes: Man tried by manorial court for failure to deliver devil as arranged in commercial transaction; case dismissed. (Sources: Ewen, Witchcraft and Demonianism; Kieckhefer, Richard. European witch trials, their foundations in popular and learned culture, 1300-1500. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1976)
Year: 1366
Place: England
Number Killed: 1
Name: Unknown
Sex: Male
Notes: A certain carpenter died after final reconciliation to the Church, having lived for 15 years with a pact with the devil; There were no recorded judicial proceedings. (Sources: James Tait, ed., Chronica Johannis de Reading et Anonymi Cantuariensis, 1346-1367 (Manchester, 1914), 176, Kittredge, Witchcraft, 242; Robbins, Russell Hope. The Encyclopedia of Witchcraft and Demonology. New York: Bonanza Books, 1959, 209; Kieckhefer, European witch trials, their foundations in popular and learned culture, 1300-1500. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1976)
Year: 1371
Place: England, Southwark
Number Killed: 1
Name: Unknown
Sex: Male
Notes: Man tried by royal court for invocation; possessed book for experimental and Saracen's head for enclosure of demon; disclaimed use of head; released. (Sources: Sayles, Selected Cases, V, 162; Thomas, Keith. Religion and the Decline of Magic, 1971., 467. Kieckhefer, European witch trials, their foundations in popular and learned culture, 1300-1500. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1976) According to Robbins, Russell Hope. The Encyclopedia of Witchcraft and Demonology. New York: Bonanza Books, 1959, he was arrested for possessing a Grimoire, a skull and the head of a corpse, and was released on a promise to never again perform magical rituals.
Year: 1376
Place: England
Number Killed: 1
Name: Unknown
Sex: Male
Notes: A Friar of St. Albans associated with Alice Perrers tried by ecclesiastical court for love magic and image magic directed at king Edward III. (n.b. Although Kieckhefer identifies the friar as Dominican, the monastary at St. Albans was Benedictine.)(Sources: Chronicon Angliae, ab anno Domini 1328 usque ad annum 1388, auctore monacho quodam Sancti Albani (Rolls Series, LXIV), ed. Edward Maunde Thompson (London, 1874), 97-100. Kittredge, Witchcraft, 78, 105; Ewen, Witchcraft and Demonianism, 34. Kieckhefer, European witch trials, their foundations in popular and learned culture, 1300-1500. Berkeley: University of California Press, ; Bottomley, Abbeys, Monastaries and Churches)
Year: 1382
Place: England, London
Number Killed: 1
Name: Berewold, Robert
Sex: Male
Notes: Pilloried for pretending to practice the "Art Magic" (Source: Riley's Memorials, pp. 475-6, citing Letter Book H, f.clv.)
Year: 1382
Place: England, London
Number Killed: 1
Name: Northamptone, William
Sex: Male
Notes: Pilloried for pretending to practice the "Art Magic" (Source: Riley's Memorials, pp. 475-6, citing Letter Book H, f.clx.)
Year: 1385
Place: England, London
Number Killed: 1
Name: Brugges, John
Sex: Male
Notes: Chaplain. One of 2 men tried by ecclesiastical court for magic. They were imprisoned by the Bishop of London "until the church was satisfied". (Sources: Calendar of Patent Rolls, 1385-1389, 63; Kittredge, Witchcraft, 56. Kieckhefer, Richard. European witch trials, their foundations in popular and learned culture, 1300-1500. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1976)
Year: 1388
Place: England, London
Number Killed: 1
Name: Tresilian, Sir Robert
Sex: Male
Notes: Condemned by the Merciless Parliament for other reasons. He was also found to have been practicing invocation. (Sources: Thomas Favent, Historia siue narracio de Modo et Forma Mirabilis Parliamenti, ed. May McKissack (Camden Miscellany, XIV) (Camden Society Publications, ser. 3, XXXVII) (London, 1926), 18; Kittredge, Witchcraft, 54; Russell, Witchcraft; Kieckhefer, European witch trials, their foundations in popular and learned culture, 1300-1500. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1976)
Year: 1390
Place: England, London
Number Killed: 1
Name: Berking, John
Sex: Male
Notes: Arrested for soothsaying, he was sentenced to an hour in the pillory, two weeks' imprisonment, and banishment from the city (Source: Robbins, Russell Hope. The Encyclopedia of Witchcraft and Demonology. New York: Bonanza Books, 1959)
Year: 1401
Place: England
Number Killed: 1
Name: Kyme, John
Sex: Male
Notes: (Source: Kittredge, Witchcraft, 58)
Year: 1417
Place: England, Sleaford, Lincolnshire
Number Killed: 1
Name: Smith, John
Sex: Male
Notes: Tried for using divination to track a thief (Source: Keickhefer, Magic in the Middle Ages, 192)
Year: 1419
Place: England, Canterbury
Number Killed: 1
Sex: Male
Notes: A chaplain is tried by an ecclesiastical court for magic. (Sources: Kittredge, Witchcraft, 80. Kieckhefer, Richard. European witch trials, their foundations in popular and learned culture, 1300-1500. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1976)
Year: 1419
Place: England, Canterbury
Number Killed: 1
Sex: Male
Notes: A chaplain is tried by an ecclesiastical court for magic. (Sources: Kittredge, Witchcraft, 80. Kieckhefer, Richard. European witch trials, their foundations in popular and learned culture, 1300-1500. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1976)
Year: 1419
Place: England
Number Killed: 1
Name: Joan of Navarre
Sex: Female
Notes: The dowager Queen of England. Joan was accused by Henry V of attempting to kill him by sorcery. Joan, and a clerical accomplice are imprisoned. (Sources: Kittredge, Witchcraft, 79f.; A. R. Myers, 'The Captivity of a Royal Witch: The Household Accounts of Queen Joan of Navarre, 1419-21', Bulletin of the John Rylands Library, XXIV (1940), 263-84, and XXVI (1942), 82-100 (largely from MSS, edited in second section). Kieckhefer, Richard. European witch trials, their foundations in popular and learned culture, 1300-1500. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1976; Robbins, Russell Hope. The Encyclopedia of Witchcraft and Demonology. New York: Bonanza Books, 1959 places this in 1417.)
Year: 1419
Place: England
Number Killed: 1
Name: Friar Randolph
Sex: Male
Notes: Imprisoned.(Joan's Cleric) (Sources: See Joan of Navarre)
Year: 1426
Place: England
Number Killed: 2
Name: Unknown
Sex: Male
Notes: Plus unspecified number of associates accused of sorcery (illness and attempt at death), thus provoking inquiry at royal direction. (Sources: Calendar of Patent Rolls, 1422-1429, 363. Kittredge, Witchcraft, 80; Ewen, Witchcraft and Demonianism, 36. Kieckhefer, Richard. European witch trials, their foundations in popular and learned culture, 1300-1500. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1979)
Year: 1430
Place: England, London
Number Killed: 7
Names: Unknown
Sex: Female
Notes: Imprisoned for attempt on king's life through sorcery. (Sources: Kittredge, Witchcraft, 83. Kieckhefer, Richard. European witch trials, their foundations in popular and learned culture, 1300-1500. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1979)
Year: 1432
Place: England, London
Number Killed: 1
Name: Jordemaine, Margery
Sex: Female
Notes: "The Witch of Eye", a noted diviner. Arrested with two priests. Released on bail, and the charges dropped. (Sources: Rymer, Foedera, IV, Pt 4, pp.177f ; Nicolas Harris, ed., Proceedings and Ordinances of the Privy Council of England, IV (London, 1835), 114. Wright, Contemporary Narrative, xi-xii; Lea, History of the Inquisition, III, 467; Kittredge, Witchcraft, 83; Ewen, Witchcraft and Demonianism, 37. Kieckhefer, Richard. European witch trials, their foundations in popular and learned culture, 1300-1500. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1979 Robbins, Russell Hope. The Encyclopedia of Witchcraft and Demonology. New York: Bonanza Books, 1959)
Year: 1432
Place: England, London
Number Killed: 2
Name: Unknown
Sex: Male
Notes: Priests apprehended with Margery Jourdemaine for sorcery, by secular government. The charges are later dropped (Sources: See Margery Jourdemain above)
Year: 1432-43
Place: England
Number Killed: 1
Name: Unknown
Sex: Male
Notes: A priest accused before the Court of Chancery that he had injured a man's body with sorcery. (Sources: Kittredge, Witchcraft, 55f ; Ewen, Witchcraft and Demonianism, 37; Thomas, Keith. Religion and the Decline of Magic, 1971, 467; Kieckhefer, Richard. European witch trials, their foundations in popular and learned culture, 1300-1500. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1979)
Year: 1435
Place: England, Durham
Number Killed: 1
Name: Unknown
Sex: Female
Notes: Trial for defamation before ecclesiastical court; 3 men had accused woman of causing impotence through sorcery; woman absolved in an ecclesiastical court. (Sources: Depositions and Other Ecclesiastical Proceedings, 7. Kittredge, Witchcraft, 113; Ewen, Witchcraft and Demonianism, 37-)
Year: 1440
Place: England, Winchester
Number Killed: 2
Names: Unknown
Sex: Unknown
Notes: People tried by ecclesiastical court for necromancy and sorcery. (Sources: Thomson, Later Lollards, 63; Kieckhefer, Richard. European witch trials. Berkeley, 1979)
Year: 1441
Place: England
Number Killed: 1
Name: Cobham, Eleanor
Sex: Female
Notes: (Duchess of Gloucester, Wife of Humphrey) Given penance by secular authorities for sorcery in seeking the death of Henry VI. She had the help of Margery Jourdemaine, and two noted Oxford Scholars, one an astrologer, and the other a physician. They also wanted to ensure an heir. According to Wedek, a Treasury of Witchcraft, she was banished for life to the Isle of Man. (Sources: Rymer, Foedera, V, pt.1, 91-101; A Chronicle of London, ed. N. H. Nicolas, 128 (reprinted in Ewen, Witch Hunting, 40, and in Wright, Contemporary Narrative, xv-xvi); John Silvester Davies, ed., English Chronicle of the Reigns of Richard II., Henry IV., Henry V., and Henry VI. (Publications of the Camden Society, LXIV) (London, 1856), 57-60; Thomas Wright, ed., Political Poems and Songs Relating to English History (Rolls Series, XIV), II (London, 1861), 205-8. Lea, History of the Inquisition, III, 467; Kittredge, Witchcraft, 81-4; Notestein, History of Witchcraft, 8; Ewen, Witchcraft and Demonianism, 37f Kieckhefer, European witch trials; Kieckhefer, Magic In the Middle Ages, 60)
Year: 1441
Place: England
Number Killed: 1
Name: Southwell, Thomas
Sex: Male
Notes: Tried for Treason (using sorcery in seeking the death of Henry VI). (Source: Robbins, Russell Hope. The Encyclopedia of Witchcraft and Demonology. New York: Bonanza Books, 1959)
Year: 1441
Place: England, Smithfield
Number Killed: 1
Name: Jordemaine, Margery
Sex: Female
Notes: "The Witch of Eye", a noted diviner. Burned by secular authorities for Treason (Using sorcery in seeking the death of Henry VI). (Sources: Rymer, Foedera, V, pt.1, 91-101; A Chronicle of London, ed. N. H. Nicolas', 1128 (reprinted in Ewen, Witch Hunting, 40, and in Wright, Contemporary Narrative, xv-xvi); John Silvester Davies, ed., English Chronicle of the Reigns of Richard II., Henry IV., Henry V., and Henry VI. (Publications of the Camden Society, LXIV) ,(London, 1856), 57-60; Thomas Wright, ed., Political Poems and Songs Relating to English History (Rolls Series, XIV), II (London, 1861), 205-8. Lea, History of the Inquisition, III, 467; Kittredge, Witchcraft, 81-4; Notestein, History of Witchcraft, 8; Ewen, Witchcraft and Demonianism, 37f, Kieckhefer, European witch trials, their foundations in popular and learned culture, 1300-1500. Berkeley: University of California Press ; Kieckhefer, Magic In the Middle Ages, 60)
Year: 1441
Place: England, London
Number Killed: 1
Name: Bolingbroke, Roger
Sex: Male
Notes: Aka Roger Whiche. A Clerk. Hanged, drawn and quartered at Tyburn by secular authorities for Treason (Using sorcery in seeking the death of Henry VI). (Sources: See Margery Jourdemain, above)
Year: 1444
Place: England, London
Number Killed:1
Name: Unknown
Sex: Male
Notes: Man placed on pillory by secular court for invocation (dealing with a 'wycckyd spyryte'). (Source: The Historical Collections of a Citizen of London in the Fifteenth Century, ed. James Gairdner (Publications of the Camden Society, N.S. XVII) (London, 1876), 185; Kittredge, Witchcraft, 59. Kieckhefer, Richard. European witch trials. Berkeley, 1979)
Year: 1446
Place: England, Durham
Number Killed: 2
Names: Unknown
Sex: Female
Notes: Tried as sorceresses; had allegedly obtained husbands for widows; allowed purgation. (Sources: Depositions and other Ecclesiastical Proceedings, 29. Kittredge, Witchcraft, 107. Kieckhefer, Richard. European witch trials, their foundations in popular and learned culture, 1300-1500. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1979)
Year: 1447 or 1448
Place: England, Durham
Number Killed: 1
Name: Unknown
Sex: Female
Notes: Woman tried by ecclesiastical court as enchanter (incantatrix). (Sources: Depositions and Other Ecclesiastical Proceedings, 29; reprinted in Ewen, Witch Hunting, 10. Kittredge, Witchcraft, 38. Kieckhefer, Richard. European witch trials, their foundations in popular and learned culture, 1300-1500. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1979)
Year: 1450
Place: England
Number Killed: 1
Name: Cade, Jack
Sex; Male
Notes: With others, tried for invocation (summoning devil as black dog). (Sources: Kittredge, Witchcraft, 177. Kieckhefer, Richard. European witch trials, their foundations in popular and learned culture, 1300-1500. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1979)
Year: 1451 or 1452
Place: England, Durham
Number Killed: 1
Name: Unknown
Sex: Female
Notes: Tried by ecclesiastical court for magic. (Sources: Depositions and other Ecclesiastical Proceedings, 33. Kieckhefer, Richard. European witch trials, their foundations in popular and learned culture, 1300-1500. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1979)
Year: 1452
Place: England, Durham
Number Killed: 1
Name: Unknown
Sex: Female
Notes: Trial in ecclesiastical court for defamation; one woman had accused another of sortilegium, and had spoken of a certain chaplain's profligate infatuation with her (suggestion of love magic?). (Sources: Depositions and other Ecclesiastical Proceedings, 33; Kittredge, Witchcraft, 38, 60. Kieckhefer, Richard. European witch trials, their foundations in popular and learned culture, 1300-1500. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1979)
Year: 1457
Place: England, Hertford
Number Killed: 1
Name: Unknown
Sex: Male
Notes: Man abjured of necromancy and herecy (Sources: Kittredge, Witchcraft, 38. Kieckhefer, Richard. European witch trials, their foundations in popular and learned culture, 1300-1500. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1979)
Year: 1465
Place: England, Norfolk
Number Killed: 2
Names: Unknown
Notes: Tried by royal court for invocation to find treasure. (Sources: Augustus Jessop, Random Roaming and Other Papers (2nd ed., London, 1894),109-12; Kittredge, Witchcraft, 94, 206; Kieckhefer, Richard. European witch trials, their foundations in popular and learned culture, 1300-1500. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1979)
Year: 1466
Place: England, Ely
Number Killed: 1
Name: Unknown
Sex: Male
Notes: Man given public and private penance by bishop for invocation. (Source: Kittredge, Witchcraft, 207; Kieckhefer, Richard. European witch trials, their foundations in popular and learned culture, 1300-1500. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1979)
Year: 1467
Place: England
Number Killed: 1
Name: Byg, William
Sex: Male
Notes: Convicted of crystal gazing to locate thieves. He had to appear in public with a scroll on his head. (Robbins, Russell Hope. The Encyclopedia of Witchcraft and Demonology. New York: Bonanza Books, 1959)
Year: 1470
Place: England
Number Killed: 1
Name: Unknown
Sex: Male
Notes: Trial for defamation before royal court; a man had accused the Duchess of Bedford of image magic. (Sources: Calendar of Patent Rolls, 1467-1477; Wright, Contemporary Narrative, xvi-xx. Kittredge, Witchcraft, 84f.; Notestein, History of Witchcraft, 9; Ewen, Witchcraft and Demonianism, 38. Kieckhefer, Richard. European witch trials, their foundations in popular and learned culture, 1300-1500. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1979)
Year: 1476
Place: England, London
Number Killed: 1
Name: Unknown
Sex: Male
Notes: Trial for defamation in secular court; man had defamed neighbors in matters of sorcery. (Sources: Hale, Series of Precedents, 15f; Kittredge, Witchcraft, 36. Kieckhefer, Richard. European witch trials, their foundations in popular and learned culture, 1300-1500. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1979)
Year: 1478
Place: England
Name: Unknown
Sex: Unknown
Notes: Date given in Ewen, Witchcraft and Demonianism, 38; and Robbins, Russell Hope. The Encyclopedia of Witchcraft and Demonology. New York: Bonanza Books, 1959, for trial of 1470 (q.v. Kieckhefer, Richard. European witch trials, their foundations in popular and learned culture, 1300-1500. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1979)
Year: 1480-1515c
Place: England
Number Killed: 1
Name: Unknown
Sex: Female
Notes: Woman tried by Court of Chancery for sorcery. (Source: Martin, 'Clerical Life', 376; Kieckhefer, Richard. European witch trials, their foundations in popular and learned culture, 1300-1500. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1979)
Year: 1480-1515c
Place: England, St David's
Number Killed: 3
Names: Unknown
Sex: Female
Notes: (Tanglost and 2 others) tried by Court of Chancery for image magic. (Sources: Martin, 'Clerical Life', 374-6. Kittredge, Witchcraft, 85f ; Thomas, Keith. Religion and the Decline of Magic, 1971, 467; Kieckhefer, Richard. European witch trials, their foundations in popular and learned culture, 1300-1500. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1979)
Year: 1480-1515c
Place:England, Southwark
Number Killed: 1
Name: Unknown
Sex: Female
Notes: Woman tried by Court of Chancery for image magic. (Sources: Martin, 'Clerical Life', 373f; Kittredge, Witchcraft, 85, 140; Kieckhefer, Richard. European witch trials, their foundations in popular and learned culture, 1300-1500. Berkeley: University of California Press, Berkeley, 1979)
Year: 1481
Place: England, London
Number Killed:1
Name: Unknown
Sex: Female
Notes: Woman tried by commissary's court for love magic. (Sources: Hale, Series of Precedents, 7; Kittredge, Witchcraft, 107; Kieckhefer, Richard. European witch trials, their foundations in popular and learned culture, 1300-1500. Berkeley: University of California Press, Berkeley, 1979)
Year: 1481
Place: England, York
Number Killed: 1
Name: Unknown
Sex: Male
Notes: Man tried by ecclesiastical court for incantation. (Sources: Kittredge, Witchcraft, 38. Kieckhefer, Richard. European witch trials, their foundations in popular and learned culture, 1300-1500. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1979)
Year: 1483, June
Place: England
Number Killed: 1
Name: Shore, 'Jane' Elizabeth
Sex: Female
Notes: Tried by ecclesiastical court for sorcery (alleged harm to Richard III). She is forced to do penance and sent to prison (Sources: Thomas More, The History of Richard III; Kittredge, Witchcraft, 60f; Notestein, History of Witchcraft, 9; Ewen, Witchcraft and Demonianism, 38; Kieckhefer, Richard. European witch trials, their foundations in popular and learned culture, 1300-1500. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1979; Robbins, Russell Hope. The Encyclopedia of Witchcraft and Demonology. New York: Bonanza Books, 1959, Weir, Alison, The Princes in the Tower. New York: Ballantine, 1992)
Year:1483, June
Place: England
Number Killed: 1
Name: Woodville, Elizabeth
Sex: Female
Notes: Dowager Queen of England. Tried by ecclesiastical court for sorcery (alleged harm to Richard III) (Sources: See Jane Shore, above)
Year: 1483, June
Place: England
Number Killed: 1
Name: Beaufort, Margaret
Sex: Female
Notes: Countess of Richmond, Henry VII's mother. Tried by ecclesiastical court for sorcery (alleged harm to Richard III) (Sources: See Jane Shore, above)
Year: 1483, June
Place: England
Number Killed: 1
Name: Morton, Dr. John
Sex: Male
Notes: Bishop of Ely. Tried by ecclesiastical court for sorcery (alleged harm to Richard III) (Sources: See Jane Shore, above)
Year: 1490
Place: England, London
Number Killed: 1
Name: Unknown
Sex: Female
Notes: Woman tried by commissary for image magic. (Sources: Hale, Series of Precedents, 20; Kittredge, Witchcraft, 85; Thomas, Keith. Religion and the Decline of Magic, 1971., 455 n.1. Kieckhefer, Richard. European witch trials, their foundations in popular and learned culture, 1300-1500. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1979)
Year: 1492
Place: England, London
Number Killed: 2
Name: Unknown
Sex: Unknown
Notes: Trial for fraudulent love magic; client sentenced to public penance by ecclesiastical court, and man claiming to serve as agent for magician ordered by court to restore goods given in payment. (Sources: Hale, Series of Precedents, 32. Kittredge, Witchcraft, 61, 107; Kieckhefer, Richard. European witch trials, their foundations in popular and learned culture, 1300-1500. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1979)
Year: 1493
Place: England, London
Number Killed: 1
Name: Unknown
Sex: Female
Notes: Woman tried by ecclesiastical court for weather magic, killing by incantation, divination, and other offenses. (Sources: Hale, Series of Precedents, 36f Kittredge, Witchcraft, 155, 474 n.27; Thomas, Keith. Religion and the Decline of Magic, 455 n.1;. Kieckhefer, Richard. European witch trials, their foundations in popular and learned culture, 1300-1500. Berkeley: University of California Press, Berkeley, 1979)
Year: 1496
Place: England, London
Number Killed: 1
Name: Kendal, John
Sex: Male
Notes: Pardoned. Grand Prior of the Order of St. John of Rhodes is one of three men accused of conspiracy by their French agent, Bernard de Vignolles, of attempt (framed at Rome) on lives of King Henry VII, his children, his mother, and certain of his agents and followers, through use of magical substances. (Sources: Frederic Madden, 'Documents relating to Perkin Warbeck, with Remarks on his History', Archaeologia, XXVII (I 838), 1 1-8,205-9 (with commentary). Kittredge, Witchcraft, 50; Ewen, Witchcraft and Demonianism, 38. Kieckhefer, Richard. European witch trials, their foundations in popular and learned culture, 1300-1500. Berkeley: University of California Press, Berkeley, 1979)
Year: 1496
Place: England, London
Number Killed: 1
Name: Thonge, Sir John
Sex: Male
Notes: Knight of the Order of St. John of Rhodes (and John Kendal's nephew) is one of three men accused of conspiracy by their French agent, Bernard de Vignolles (Sources: See John Kendall above)
Year: 1496
Place: England, London
Number Killed: 1
Name: Horsey, William
Sex: Male
Notes: Archdeacon of London is one of three men accused of conspiracy by their French agent, Bernard de Vignolles (Sources: See John Kendall above)
Year: 1497
Place: England, London
Name: Unknown
Sex: Unknown
Notes: Trial for defamation (obscurely worded, but implying theft by sorcery). Hale, Series of Precedents, 63 Kieckhefer, Richard. European witch trials, their foundations in popular and learned culture, 1300-1500. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1979
Year: 1499
Place: England, 'Belynges Parva'
Number Killed: 1
Name: Unknown
Sex: Female
Notes: Woman tried by ecclesiastical court for sorcery (killing); allowed purgation. (Sources: Jenkins, 'Cardinal Morton's Register', 71. Kieckhefer, European witch trials, their foundations in popular and learned culture, 1300-1500. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1979)
Year: 1499
Place: England, 'Rushbrok'
Number Killed: 1
Sex: Male
Notes: Man tried by ecclesiastical court for pact with devil. (Sources: Jenkins, 'Cardinal Morton's Register', 71. Kieckhefer, Richard. European witch trials, their foundations in popular and learned culture, 1300-1500. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1979)
Year: 1499
Place: England, Winchester
Number Killed: 1
Name: Unknown
Sex: Male
Notes: Man tried by ecclesiastical court for invocation (Sources: Thomson, Later Lollards, 79 (from MS); Kieckhefer, Richard. European witch trials, their foundations in popular and learned culture, 1300-1500. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1979)
Year: 1521
Place: England
Number Killed: 1
Notes: Duke of Buckingham m Tried for attempting to learn the king's lifespan by divination (Source: Robbins, Russell Hope. The Encyclopedia of Witchcraft and Demonology. New York: Bonanza Books, 1959)
Year: 1525
Place: England
Name: Unknown
Sex: Male
Notes: Acquitted for murder by use of a waxen figure (Source: Robbins, Russell Hope. The Encyclopedia of Witchcraft and Demonology. New York: Bonanza Books, 1959)
Year: 1532
Place: England
Number Killed: 1
Name: Neville, Sir William
Sex: Male
Notes: Tried for attempting to learn the king's lifespan by divination (Sources: Robbins, Russell Hope. The Encyclopedia of Witchcraft and Demonology. New York: Bonanza Books, 1959)
Year: 1522
Place: England, Kent
Number Killed: 1
Name: Barton, Elizabeth
Sex: Female
Notes: Hanged? "The Maid of Kent" was tried for seeing The Virgin Mary at a Shrine, who purportedly cured her, and later visions that opposed the Marriage of Henry VIII. Barton had been put up to it by priests who wanted to build a shrine. (Sources: Robbins, Russell Hope. The Encyclopedia of Witchcraft and Demonology. New York: Bonanza Books, 1959, 93)
Year: 1541
Place: England
Number Killed: 1
Name: Lord Hungerford
Sex: Male
Notes: Beheaded for attempting to learn the king's lifespan by divination (Sources: Robbins, Russell Hope. The Encyclopedia of Witchcraft and Demonology. New York: Bonanza Books, 1959)
Year: 1544
Place: England
Number Killed: 1
Name: Cross, Elizabeth
Sex: Female
Notes: "The Girl in the hole in the wall"? Claimed clairvoyance. (Source: Robbins, Russell Hope. The Encyclopedia of Witchcraft and Demonology. New York: Bonanza Books, 1959, 93)
Year: 1546
Place: England
Number Killed: 1
Name: Neville, Henry
Sex: Male
Notes: Tried for attempting to learn the king's lifespan by divination (Source: Robbins, Russell Hope. The Encyclopedia of Witchcraft and Demonology. New York: Bonanza Books, 1959)
Year: 1560
Place: England
Number Killed: 8
Names: Unknown
Sex: Male
Notes: 8 Men, including 2 in orders confessed to conjuration, and were released after swearing to abstain from such acts in the future (Source: Robbins, Russell Hope. The Encyclopedia of Witchcraft and Demonology. New York: Bonanza Books, 1959)
Year: 1562
Place: England
Number Killed: 1
Name: Douglas, Lady Margaret
Sex: Female
Notes: Countess of Lennox Tried for attempting to learn the Queen's lifespan by divination (Source: Robbins, Russell Hope. The Encyclopedia of Witchcraft and Demonology. New York: Bonanza Books, 1959)
Year: 1564
Place: England, Essex, Clch
Number Killed: 1
Name: Lowys, Elizabeth
Sex: Female
Notes: Assizes 7/21 (aka Howes), Elizabeth Convicted and sentenced to hang. She pleaded Pregnancy. In March 1565, she was found to be not pregnant, and the final disposition is unknown. (Young, Allen R; Robbins, Russell Hope. The Encyclopedia of Witchcraft and Demonology. New York: Bonanza Books, 1959)
Year: 1565
Place: England, York
Number Killed: 1
Name: More, Edward
Sex: Male
Notes: Given Penance. Grandson of Thomas More (Source: Tyler, Philip)
Year: 1565
Place: England, Kent
Number Killed: 1
Name: Byden, Joan
Sex: Female
Notes: Hanged
Year: 1566
Place: England, Chelmsford
Number Killed: 1
Name: Waterhouse, Agnes
Sex: Female
Notes: Hanged. She comes from Hatfield Peverell, Essex. A 63 year old widow, charged with witching William Fynee (Source: Robbins, Russell Hope. The Encyclopedia of Witchcraft and Demonology. New York: Bonanza Books, 1959) First use of Spectral evidence?
Year: 1566
Place: England, Chelmsford
Number Killed: 1
Name: Waterhouse, Joan
Sex: Female
Notes: Acquitted. She comes from Hatfield Peverell, Essex. Aged 18, she was accused of witching 12 year old Agnes Brown (Source: According to Robbins, Russell Hope. The Encyclopedia of Witchcraft and Demonology. New York: Bonanza Books, 1959)
Year: 1566
Place: England, Chelmsford
Number Killed: 1
Name: Francis, Elizabeth
Sex: Female
Notes: Jailed. She comes from Hatfield Peverell, Essex. Wife of Chistopher Francis, charged with witching the infant child of William Auger. She was sentenced to one year's inprisonment. (Source: According to Robbins, Russell Hope. The Encyclopedia of Witchcraft and Demonology. New York: Bonanza Books, 1959)
Year: 1566
Place: England, Dorset
Number Killed: 1
Name: Walsh, John
Sex: Female
Notes: (Source: Robbins, Russell Hope. The Encyclopedia of Witchcraft and Demonology. New York: Bonanza Books, 1959 and pamphlet, 1566)
Year: 15??
Place: England, York
Number Killed: 1
Name: Sabler, Richard
Sex: Female
Notes: Dismissed on Bond. Physician (Source: Tyler, Philip)
Year: 15??
Place: England, York
Number Killed: 1
Name: Dean, Richard
Sex: Male
Notes: Dismissed on Bond. (Source: Tyler, Philip)
Year: 15??
Place: England, Chelmsford
Number Killed: 1
Name: Francis, Elizabeth
Sex: Female
Notes: Jailed. She comes from Hatfield Peverell, Essex. Wife of Chistopher Francis, charged with witching Mary Cocke. She was sentenced to one year's inprisonment, and four appearances in the Pillory. (Source: According to Robbins, Russell Hope. The Encyclopedia of Witchcraft and Demonology. New York: Bonanza Books, 1959)
Year: 1571
Place: England, York
Number Killed: 1
Name: Sowden, Grace
Sex: Female
Notes: (Source: Tyler, Philip)
Year: 1571
Place: England, York
Number Killed: 1
Name: Carter, Peter
Sex: Male
Notes: Dismissed on Bond. (Source: Tyler, Philip).
Year: 1571
Place: England, York
Number Killed: 1
Name: More, Edward
Sex: Male
Notes: Given Penance. Grandson of Thomas More (Source: Tyler, Philip).
Year: 1572
Place: England, York
Number Killed: 1
Name: Wyerhorne, Roger
Sex: Male
Notes: (Source: Tyler, Philip)
Year: 1573+
Place: England
Notes: 70,000 Purportedly killed after 1573
Year: 1574
Place: England, Barking
Number Killed: 1
Name: Arnold (fnu)
Notes: Hanged
Year: 1574
Place: England
Name: Agnes Bridges (11) and Rachael Pindar (12) counterfeited possession to accuse (Source: Robbins, Russell Hope. The Encyclopedia of Witchcraft and Demonology. New York: Bonanza Books, 1959)
Year: 1574
Place: England
Number Killed: 1
Name: Chaundeler, Alice
Sex: Female
Notes: Hanged. Mother of Ellen Smith, Hanged in 1579 at Chelmsford. (Source: According to Robbins, Russell Hope. The Encyclopedia of Witchcraft and Demonology. New York: Bonanza Books, 1959; MacFarlane)
Year: 1575
Place: England, Kent
Number Killed: 1
Name: Unknown
Notes: Mildred Nerrington accused an old woman of Witchcraft. (Source: Robbins, Russell Hope. The Encyclopedia of Witchcraft and Demonology. New York: Bonanza Books, 1959)
Year: 1578
Place: England, Dorset
Number Killed: 3
Names: Unknown
Sex: Unknown
Notes: Hanged
Year: 1578
Place: England, Essex
Number Killed: 1
Name: Stanton, Margery
Sex: Female
Notes: Found Guilty of bewitching a gelding
Year: 1578
Place: England, York
Number Killed: 1
Name: Milner, Janet
Sex: Female
Notes: Accused by Robert Singleton, he was made to apologize (Source: Tyler, Philip).
Year: 1578
Place: England, York
Number Killed: 1
Name: Webster, Margaret
Sex: Female
Notes: (Source: Tyler, Philip)
Year: 1579
Place: England, Abington
Number Killed: 1
Name: Stiles, Elizabeth
Sex: Female
Notes: Hanged. (Source: Robbins, Russell Hope. The Encyclopedia of Witchcraft and Demonology. New York: Bonanza Books, 1959)
Year: 1579
Place: England, Abington
Number Killed: 1
Name: Dutten, Mother (fnu)
Sex: Female
Notes: Hanged. (Source: Robbins, Russell Hope. The Encyclopedia of Witchcraft and Demonology. New York: Bonanza Books, 1959)
Year: 1579
Place: England, Abington
Number Killed: 1
Name: Devell, Mother (fnu)
Sex: Female
Notes: Hanged. (Source: Robbins, Russell Hope. The Encyclopedia of Witchcraft and Demonology. New York: Bonanza Books, 1959)
Year: 1579
Place: England, Abington
Number Killed: 1
Name: Margaret, Mother (fnu)
Sex: Female
Notes: Hanged. (Source: Robbins, Russell Hope. The Encyclopedia of Witchcraft and Demonology. New York: Bonanza Books, 1959)
Year: 1579 (4)
Place: England
Number Killed: 1
Name: Smith, Ellen
Sex: Female
Notes: Hanged. (Source: According to Robbins, Russell Hope. The Encyclopedia of Witchcraft and Demonology. New York: Bonanza Books, 1959) Ellen Smyth of Maldon (MacFarlane)
Year: 1579 (4)
Place: England
Number Killed: 1
Name: Nokes, Alice
Sex: Female
Notes: Hanged. (Source: According to Robbins, Russell Hope. The Encyclopedia of Witchcraft and Demonology. New York: Bonanza Books, 1959)
Year: 1579 (4)
Place: England
Number Killed: 1
Name: Stanton, Margery
Sex: Female
Notes: Aquitted. (Source: According to Robbins, Russell Hope. The Encyclopedia of Witchcraft and Demonology. New York: Bonanza Books, 1959)
Year: 1579 (4)
Place: England, Chelmsford
Number Killed: 1
Name: Francis, Elizabeth
Sex: Female
Notes: Hanged. She comes from Hatfield Peverell, Essex. Wife of Chistopher Francis, charged with witching Alice Poole. (Source: According to Robbins, Russell Hope. The Encyclopedia of Witchcraft and Demonology. New York: Bonanza Books, 1959)
Year: 1579
Place: England, Flintshire
Number Killed: Unknown
Name: Unknown
Notes: Elizabeth Orton counterfeited possession to accuse (Source: Robbins, Russell Hope. The Encyclopedia of Witchcraft and Demonology. New York: Bonanza Books, 1959)
Year: 1582
Place: England, Kings
Name: Lynn 1 Gabley, (fnu)
Number Killed: Unknown
Notes: Executed
Year: 1582
Place: England, Durham
Number Killed: 1
Name: Laws, Allison
Sex: Female
Notes: Sentenced to do penance. (Source: Robbins, Russell Hope. The Encyclopedia of Witchcraft and Demonology. New York: Bonanza Books, 1959)
Year: 1582
Place: England, St. Osyth
Number Killed: 1
Name: Kempe, Ursula
Sex: Female
Notes: Hanged after a trial held at Chelmsford. St. Osyth is sometimes referred to as St. Osees. (Source: Robbins, Russell Hope. The Encyclopedia of Witchcraft and Demonology. New York: Bonanza Books, 1959)
Year: 1582
Place: England, St. Osyth
Number Killed: 1
Name: Bennet, Elizabeth
Sex: Female
Notes: Hanged for Bewitching to Death. Betrayed by Ursula Kempe. (Source: Robbins, Russell Hope. The Encyclopedia of Witchcraft and Demonology. New York: Bonanza Books, 1959)
Year: 1582
Place: England, St. Osyth
Number Killed: 1
Name: Newman, Alice
Sex: Female
Notes: Betrayed by Ursula Kempe. Convicted but reprieved. (Source: Robbins, Russell Hope. The Encyclopedia of Witchcraft and Demonology. New York: Bonanza Books, 1959)
Year: 1582
Place; England, St. Osyth
Number Killed: 1
Name: Glascock, Alice
Sex: Female
Notes: Convicted but reprieved. (Source: Robbins, Russell Hope. The Encyclopedia of Witchcraft and Demonology. New York: Bonanza Books, 1959)
Year: 1582
Place: England, St. Osyth
Number Killed: 1
Name: Celles, Cecily
Sex: Female
Notes: Convicted but reprieved. (Source: Robbins, Russell Hope. The Encyclopedia of Witchcraft and Demonology. New York: Bonanza Books, 1959)
Year: 1582
Place: England, St. Osyth
Number Killed: 1
Name: Turner, Joan
Sex: Female
Notes: Convicted but reprieved. Returned to Prison for a year. (Source: Robbins, Russell Hope. The Encyclopedia of Witchcraft and Demonology. New York: Bonanza Books, 1959)
Year: 1582
Place: England, St. Osyth
Number Killed: 1
Name: Hunt, Alice
Sex: Female
Notes: Betrayed by Ursula Kempe and Margery Sammon. Acquitted. (Source: Robbins, Russell Hope. The Encyclopedia of Witchcraft and Demonology. New York: Bonanza Books, 1959)
Year: 1582
Place: England, St. Osyth
Number Killed: 1
Name: Sammon, Margery
Sex: Female
Notes: Betrayed by Ursula Kempe and Alice Hunt. She was the daughter of a confirmed witch. Acquitted. (Source: Robbins, Russell Hope. The Encyclopedia of Witchcraft and Demonology. New York: Bonanza Books, 1959)
Year: 1582
Place: England, St. Osyth
Number Killed: 1
Name: Pechey, Joan
Sex: Female
Notes: Betrayed by Alice Hunt and confirmed by Margery Sammon. Acquitted. (Source: Robbins, Russell Hope. The Encyclopedia of Witchcraft and Demonology. New York: Bonanza Books, 1959)
Year: 1582
Place: England, St. Osyth
Number Killed: 1
Name: Heard, Agnes
Sex: Female
Notes: Acquitted. (Source: Robbins, Russell Hope. The Encyclopedia of Witchcraft and Demonology. New York: Bonanza Books, 1959)
Year: 1582
Place: England, St. Osyth
Number Killed: 1
Name: Grevell, Margaret
Sex: female
Notes: Acquitted. (Source: Robbins, Russell Hope. The Encyclopedia of Witchcraft and Demonology. New York: Bonanza Books, 1959)
Year: 1582
Place: England, St. Osyth
Number Killed: 1
Name: Ewstace, Elizabeth
Sex: female
Notes: Acquitted. (Source: Robbins, Russell Hope. The Encyclopedia of Witchcraft and Demonology. New York: Bonanza Books, 1959)
Year: 1582
Place: England, Essex, Walton
Number Killed: 1
Name: Robinson, Joan
Sex: Female
Notes: (Source: MacFarlane)
Year: 1583
Place: England, Kent
Number Killed: 1
Name: Symons, Margaret
Sex: Female
Year: 1585
Place: England, London
Name: Hacket, Margaret
Sex: Female
Notes: Hanged at Tyburn
Year: 1589
Place: England, Chelmsford
Number Killed: 1
Name: Upney, Joan
Sex: Female
Notes: Hanged within two hours after her sentencing. (Source: Robbins, Russell Hope. The Encyclopedia of Witchcraft and Demonology. New York: Bonanza Books, 1959)
Year: 1589
Place: England, Chelmsford
Number Killed: 1
Name: Cony, Joan
Sex: Female
Notes: Hanged within two hours after her sentencing. (aka Cunny) Unwed mother of Avice, and grandmother of her accuser (Source: Robbins, Russell Hope. The Encyclopedia of Witchcraft and Demonology. New York: Bonanza Books, 1959)
Year: 1589
Place: England, Chelmsford
Number Killed: 1
Name: Cony, Avice
Sex: Femalef
Notes: (Aka Cunny) Unwed mother of her accuser (Source: Robbins, Russell Hope. The Encyclopedia of Witchcraft and Demonology. New York: Bonanza Books, 1959)
Year: 1592
Place: England, Middlesex
Number Killed: 1
Name: Atkins, Mother
Sex: Female
Notes: (Source: Robbins, Russell Hope. The Encyclopedia of Witchcraft and Demonology. New York: Bonanza Books, 1959)
Year: 1593
Place: England, Warboys
Number Killed: 1
Names: Unknown
Notes: The three members of the Samuels family (Father, Mother, and Daughter) are Hanged based on the word of 5 hysterical girls. This may have helped provide some impetus on the passage of the 1604 Anti-Witchcraft Bill. N.b. One of the accusations was that Lady Cromwell, grandmother of Oliver Cromwell was killed by witchcraft (Sources: Robbins, Russell Hope. The Encyclopedia of Witchcraft and Demonology. New York: Bonanza Books, 1959; Tyler, Philip)
Year: 1595
Place: England, Brayneford
Number Killed: 1
Name: Calles, Helen
Sex: Female
Notes: Executed
Year: 1595
Place: England, Barnett
Number Killed: 1
Name: Newell, John
Sex: Male
Notes: Executed
Year: 1595
Place: England, Barnett
Number Killed: 1
Name: Newell, Joane
Sex: Female
Notes: Executed
Year: 1596
Place: England 1
Name: Cockie, Isabel
Sex: Female
Notes: Burnt at a cost of 105 s. 4 p
Year: 1597
Place: England, Derby
Number Killed: 1
Name: Wright, Elizabeth
Sex: Female
Notes: Alice Goodridge's mother. She was convicted, and her disposition is not known. (Robbins, Russell Hope. The Encyclopedia of Witchcraft and Demonology. New York: Bonanza Books, 1959)
Year: 1597
Place: England, Derby
Number Killed: 1
Name: Goodridge, Alice
Sex: Female
Notes: Aged 60, Convicted on the testimony of Thomas Darling "The Burton Boy" of Burton-upon-Trent. She was sentenced to a years imprisonment, and died in jail. Thomas Darling later retracted his evidence. (Robbins, Russell Hope. The Encyclopedia of Witchcraft and Demonology. New York: Bonanza Books, 1959)
Year: 1579
Place: England, Nottingham
Number Killed: 13
Names: Unknown
Notes: William Somers, The Nottingham Boy, counterfeited possession to accuse various people at the insistence of John Darrell. Apparently in all cases, Darrell confessed the deception during the trials. (Source: Robbins, Russell Hope. The Encyclopedia of Witchcraft and Demonology. New York: Bonanza Books, 1959)
Year: 1579
Place: England, Nottingham
Number Killed: 1
Name: Freeman, Alice
Sex: Female
Notes: Mary Cowper counterfeited possession to accuse various people at the insistence of John Darrell, her brother. Apparently in all cases, Darrell confessed the deception during the trials. (Source: Robbins, Russell Hope. The Encyclopedia of Witchcraft and Demonology. New York: Bonanza Books, 1959)
Year: 1599
Place: England, London
Name: Kerke, Anne
Sex: Female
Notes: Hanged at Tyburn
Year: Approx 1600s
Place: England, Lancashire
Number Killed: 1
Name: Johnson, Margaret
Sex: female
Notes: Charged with conversing with the Devil. (Source: Wedeck, A treasury of Witchcraft.)
Year: Approx 1600s
Place: England, York
Number Killed: 1
Name: Blake, Anthony
Sex: Male
Notes: (Source: Tyler, Philip)
Year: 1600
Place: England, York
Number Killed: 1
Name: Cleane, Agnes
Sex: Female
Notes: (Source: Tyler, Philip)
Year: 1603
Place: England, Yorkshire
Number Killed: 1
Name: Pannel, Mary
Sex: Female
Notes: Executed
Year: 1604
Place: England, Berkshire
Number Killed: 1
Name: Pepwell, Agnes
Sex: Female
Notes: Acquitted. Anne Gunter, a 14 year old girl, countefeiting a demonic possession. (Source: Robbins, Russell Hope. The Encyclopedia of Witchcraft and Demonology. New York: Bonanza Books, 1959; Ewen, C. L'Estrange) N.b. that this was also about the time that the harsher laws of James I against witchcraft were being enacted.
Year: 1606
Place: England, Hertford
Number Killed: 1
Name: Harrisson, Joanna
Sex: Female
Notes: Hanged
Year: 1606
Place: England, Hertford
Number Killed: 1
Name: Harrisson
Notes: Daughter of Joanna Harrisson. Hanged
Year: 1607
Place: England, Derbyshire
Number Killed: Unknown
Notes: "Several" Hanged
Year: 1612
Place: England, Northampton
Number Killed: 1
Name: Barber, Mary
Sex: Female
Notes: Hanged (Source: Robbins, Russell Hope. The Encyclopedia of Witchcraft and Demonology. New York: Bonanza Books, 1959)
Year: 1612
Place: England, Northampton
Number Killed: 1
Name: Browne, Agnes
Sex: Female
Notes: Hanged (Source: Robbins, Russell Hope. The Encyclopedia of Witchcraft and Demonology. New York: Bonanza Books, 1959)
Year: 1612
Place: England, Northampton
Number Killed: 1
Name: Vaughan, Joan
Sex: Female
Notes: Hanged (Source: Robbins, Russell Hope. The Encyclopedia of Witchcraft and Demonology. New York: Bonanza Books, 1959)
Year: 1612
Place: England, Northampton
Number Killed: 1
Name: Bill, Arthur
Sex: Male
Notes: Hanged (Source: Robbins, Russell Hope. The Encyclopedia of Witchcraft and Demonology. New York: Bonanza Books, 1959)
Year: 1612
Place: England, Northampton
Number Killed: 1
Name: Jenkinson, Helen
Sex: Female
Notes: Hanged (Source: Robbins, Russell Hope. The Encyclopedia of Witchcraft and Demonology. New York: Bonanza Books, 1959)
Year: 1612
Place: England, Lancaster
Number Killed: 3
Names: Bierley, Ellen - Bierley, Jennet - Southworth, Jane
Sex: Female
Notes: Accused by Grace Sowerbutts, age 14. Case dismissed (Source: email from "Maggy Simms (CLEO)" <maggy@cleo.net.uk> 21 Dec 2001</maggy@cleo.net.uk>
Year: 1612
Place: England, Lancaster
Number Killed: 1
Name: Bulcock, Jane
Sex: Female
Notes: "Of Mossend Farm, Newchurch" Hanged (Sources: Potts, Thomas, The Wonderfull discoverie of witches in the countie of Lancaster... London, 1623. Robbins, Russell Hope. The Encyclopedia of Witchcraft and Demonology. New York: Bonanza Books, 1959)
Year: 1612
Place: England, Lancaster
Number Killed: 1
Name: Bulcock, John
Sex: Female
Notes: Son of Jane Bulcock. Hanged (Sources: see Bulcock, Jane)
Year: 1612
Place: England, Lancaster
Number Killed: 1
Name: Device, Alison
Sex: Female
Notes: Daughter of Elizabeth Device. Tried. released; Hanged (8/20) (Sources: see Bulcock, Jane)
Year: 1612
Place: England, Lancaster
Number Killed: 1
Name: Device, Elizabeth
Sex: Female
Notes: "Squintin' Lizzie". Daughter of "Mother Demdike". Tried. released; Hanged (8/20) (Sources: see Bulcock, Jane)
Year: 1612
Place: England, Lancaster
Number Killed: 1
Name: Device, James
Sex: Male
Notes: Son of Elizabeth Device. Dimwitted. Tried. released; Hanged (8/20) (Sources: see Bulcock, Jane)
Year: 1612
Place: England, Lancaster
Number Killed: 1
Name: Device, Jennet
Sex: Female
Notes: Daughter of Elizabeth Device. 9 years old. Tried. released (Sources: see Bulcock, Jane) See 1633.
Year: 1612
Place: England, Lancaster
Number Killed: 1
Name: Grey, Alice
Sex: Female
Notes: "Of Colne" Tried. Acquitted (Sources: see Bulcock, Jane)
Year: 1612
Place: England, Lancaster
Number Killed: 1
Name: Hewitt, Katherine
Sex: Female
Notes: "Old Mouldheels". Hanged (Sources: see Bulcock, Jane)
Year: 1612
Place: England, Lancaster
Number Killed: 1
Name: Howgate, Christopher
Sex: Male
Notes: Son of "Mother Demdike". Tried. released (Sources: see Bulcock, Jane)
Year: 1612
Place: England, Lancaster
Number Killed: 1
Name: Nutter, Alice
Sex: Female
Notes: "Of Roughlee" Hanged. She may have been simply a Catholic caught in the net. (Sources: see Bulcock, Jane)
Year: 1612
Place: England, Lancaster
Number Killed: 1
Name: Preston, Jennet
Sex: Female
Notes: Hanged for causing the death of Thomas Lister of Westby Hall. (Sources: see Bulcock, Jane)
Year: 1612
Place: England, Lancaster
Number Killed: 1
Name: Pearson, Margaret
Sex: Female
Notes: Pilloried for a year. (Sources: see Bulcock, Jane)
Year: 1612
Place: England, Lancaster
Number Killed: 1
Name: Redfearne, Anne
Sex: Female
Notes: Daughter of Anne Whittle. Interrogated & Confessed (4/2); Tried (8/17) Hanged (8/20) (Sources: see Bulcock, Jane)
Year: 1612
Place: England, Lancaster
Number Killed: 1
Name: Robey, Isobel
Sex: Female
Notes: "Of Widness" Hanged (8/20) (Sources: see Bulcock, Jane)
Year: 1612
Place: England, Lancaster
Number Killed: 1
Name: Southernes, Elizabeth
Sex: Female
Notes: "Mother Demdike" "Of Malkin Tower". Interrogated, confessed. died in Prison. (Sources: see Bulcock, Jane)
Year: 1612
Place: England, Lancaster
Number Killed: 1
Name: Whittle, Bessie
Sex: Female
Notes: "Old Chattox" Daughter of Anne Whittle. Tried, released. (Sources: see Bulcock, Jane)
Year: 1613
Place: England, Bedford
Number Killed: 1
Name: Sutton (mother)
Sex: Female
Notes: Hanged. Beaten senseless and "Floated" (Source: Holmes, Clive)
Year: 1613
Place: England, Bedford
Number Killed: 1
Name: Sutton, Mary
Sex: Female
Notes: (daughter) Hanged (Source: Holmes, Clive)
Year: 1614
Place: England
Number Killed: 1
Name: Ellson, Richard
Sex: Male
Notes: Richard Moore is tried for accusing Richard Ellson of Witchcraft (Source: Robbins, Russell Hope. The Encyclopedia of Witchcraft and Demonology. New York: Bonanza Books, 1959)
Year: 1615
Place: England, Middlesex
Number Killed: 1
Name: Hunt, Joan
Sex: Female
Notes: Hanged
Year: 1616
Place: England, Kings
Name: Smith, Mary
Sex: Female
Notes: Hanged
Year: 1616
Place: England, Middlesex
Number Killed: 1
Name: Rutter, Elizabeth
Sex: Female
Notes: Hanged
Year: 1616
Place: England, Leicester
Number Killed: 9
Names: Unknown
Notes: Accused by John Smith, the Leicester Boy. Hanged (Source: Robbins, Russell Hope. The Encyclopedia of Witchcraft and Demonology. New York: Bonanza Books, 1959)
Year: 1616
Place: England, Leicester
Number Killed: 6
Names: Unknown
Notes: 5 released, 1 died in jail. Accused by John Smith, the Leicester Boy. (Source: Robbins, Russell Hope. The Encyclopedia of Witchcraft and Demonology. New York: Bonanza Books, 1959)
Year: 1616
Place: England, Enfield
Number Killed: 1
Name: Berrye, Agnes
Sex: Female
Notes: Hanged
Year: 1618
Place: England, Lincoln
Number Killed: 1
Name: Flower, Joan
Sex: Female
Notes: Died before trial. (Source: Robbins, Russell Hope. The Encyclopedia of Witchcraft and Demonology. New York: Bonanza Books, 1959)
Year: 1618-9
Place: England, Lincoln
Number Killed: 5
Names: Flower, Phillippa - Flower, Margaret - Green, Ellen - Baker, Anne - Willimot, Joan
Sex: Female
Notes: Hanged (Source: Robbins, Russell Hope. The Encyclopedia of Witchcraft and Demonology. New York: Bonanza Books, 1959)
Year: 1620
Place: England, Stafford
Number Killed: 1
Name: Clark, Jane
Sex: Female
Notes: Accused by "The Bilson Boy", William Perry. The charges were eventually dropped. (Source: Robbins, Russell Hope. The Encyclopedia of Witchcraft and Demonology. New York: Bonanza Books, 1959)
Year: 1621
Place: England, S. Perrot
Number Killed: 1
Name: Guppy, Joan
Sex: Female
Notes: (Source: Holmes, Clive)
Year: 1621
Place: England, Yorkshire
Number Killed: 5
Names: Unknown
Sex: Female
Notes: Accused by Edmond Fairfax for bewitching his children. The evidence was insufficient, and they were released. (Source: Robbins, Russell Hope. The Encyclopedia of Witchcraft and Demonology. New York: Bonanza Books, 1959)
Year: 1621
Place: England, Yorkshire
Number Killed: 1
Name: Fletcher, Elizabeth
Sex: Female
Notes: Accused with five others by Edmond Fairfax for bewitching his children. The evidence was insufficient, and they were released. Elizabeth Fletcher was the daughter of Mother Foster. (Source: Robbins, Russell Hope. The Encyclopedia of Witchcraft and Demonology. New York: Bonanza Books, 1959)
Year: 1626
Place: England
Number Killed: 1
Name: Bull, Edward
Sex: Male
Notes: Denounced by Edward Dinham (Source: Holmes, Clive)
Year: 1626
Place: England
Number Killed: 1
Name: Greedy, Joan
Sex: Female
Notes: Denounced by Edward Dinham (Source: Holmes, Clive)
Year: 1628
Place: England, London
Number Killed: 1
Name: Lambe, Dr. John
Sex: Male
Notes: Not Tried, but beaten to death by a mob at St. Paul's Cross after he fell from the Duke of Buckingham's favor. (Thompson, C.J.S. The Quacks of Old London).
Year: 1630
Place: England, Lancaster
Number Killed: 1
Name: Utley, (fnu)
Sex: Unknown
Notes: Hanged
Year: 1630
Place: England, Sandwich
Number Killed: 1
Name: Unknown
Notes: Hanged
Year: 1631
Place: England, Taunton
Number Killed: 1
Name: Bull, Edmund
Sex: Male
Notes: Hanged (Perhaps refers to Edward Bull, 1626?)
Year: 1633
Place: England, Lancaster
Number Killed: Approx 30
Notes: 17 convicted, but all later reprieved by the King (including Mary Spencer and Jennet Device) (Source: Robbins, Russell Hope. The Encyclopedia of Witchcraft and Demonology. New York: Bonanza Books, 1959)
Year: 1634
Place: England
Number Killed: 3
Names: Unknown
Notes: Three of the accused (by Edmund Robinson) died in prison before the swindle was revealed.
Year: 1640
Place: England, London
Number Killed: 1
Name: Lamb, Dr
Sex: Female
Notes: Stoned to death by a mob at St. Paul's Cross (and probably confused with 1628, although the date *is* given several times in Robbins)
Year: 1643
Place: England, Newbury
Number Killed: 1
Name: Unknown
Sex: Female
Notes: Shot by parliamentary forces as she was walking along the surface of a river. (Sources: Pamphlet; Robbins, Russell Hope. The Encyclopedia of Witchcraft and Demonology. New York: Bonanza Books, 1959)
Year: 1644
Place: England
Number Killed: 1
Name: Wanderson, (wife 1)
Sex: Female
Notes: Executed
Year: 1644
Place: England
Number Killed:1
Name: Wanderson (wife 2) (fnu)
Sex: Female
Notes: Executed
Year: 1645
Place: England, Chelmsford
Number Killed: 32
Names: Unknown
Notes: 19 were Hanged on evidence of Matthew Hopkins (including the Manningtree Witches)
Year: 1645
Place: England, Chelmsford
Number Killed: 1
Name: Clarke, Elizabeth
Sex: Female
Notes: A one legged old woman. Matthew Hopkins' 1st "Witch". Hanged, but not before betraying five others. (Source: Robbins, Russell Hope. The Encyclopedia of Witchcraft and Demonology. New York: Bonanza Books, 1959)
Year: 1645
Place: England, Chelmsford
Number Killed: 1
Name: West, Rebecca
Sex: Female
Notes: Native of Colchester and daughter of an accused witch. She confessed to having married the Devil. (Source: See Elizabeth Clarke)
Year: 1645
Place: England, Chelmsford
Number Killed: 1
Name: West, Anne
Sex: Female
Notes: Native of Colchester and daughter of an accused witch (Source: See Elizabeth Clarke)
Year: 1645
Place: England, Chelmsford
Number Killed: 1
Name: Mayers, Bridget
Sex: Female
Notes: Wife of a Seaman, plead Not Guilty (Source: See Elizabeth Clarke)
Year: 1645
Place: England, Chelmsford
Number Killed: 5
Names: Unknown
Notes: 5 were found Guilty, but reprieved (or one was acquitted) (Source: See Elizabeth Clarke)
Year: 1645
Place: England, Chelmsford }
Number Killed: 8
Names: Unknown
Notes: 8 were remanded to the next session of the Assizes (4 were still in jail three years later, 4 (aged 88, 65, 60 and 40) died in prison before the sessions opened) (Source: See Elizabeth Clarke)
Year: 1645
Place: England, Suffolk, Bury St. Edmonds
Number Killed: 1
Name: Lowes, John
Sex: Female
Notes: "of Branson". Hanged. A 70 year old parson. Tried by Matthew Hopkins (Sources: Pamphlet; Robbins, Russell Hope. The Encyclopedia of Witchcraft and Demonology. New York: Bonanza Books, 1959) Listed in Mackay, Charles. Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness as of Crowds, as "Louis".
Year: 1645
Place: England, Suffolk, Bury St. Edmonds
Number Killed: 16
Names: Cooper, Thomas Edward - Cooper, Mary - Bacon, Mary - Alderman, Anne - Morris, Rebecca - Fuller, Mary - Clowes, Mary - Sparham, Margery - Fooley, Katherine - Spinlow, Sarah - Limstead, Jane - Wright, Anne - Smith, Mary - Rivers, Jane - Manners, Susan - Skinner, Mary - Leech, Anne -
Sex: Mixed
Notes: Hanged. Tried by Matthew Hopkins.(Sources: See John Lowes)
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