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                    Christopher, reputed
                    to have died of witchcraft
                    about 18 years before.
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Robert, of Greenhead, = Mary John, of Higham Margaret = Crooke
in Pendle, a retainer Booth. |
of Sir Richard | |
Shuttleworth, ---------------------------
reputed to have been gave evidence at the trial.
bewitched to death
18 or 19 years
before the trial
took place.

D 4 a. “One Mr. Baldwyn (the late Schoole-maister at Coulne) did by his learning, stay the sayd Loomeshaws wife, and therefore had a Capon from Redfearne.”] I regret that I can give no account of this learned Theban, who appears to have stayed the plague, and who taught at the school at which Archbishop Tillotson was afterwards educated.  He well deserved his capon.  Had he continued at Colne up to the time of this trial, he might perhaps, on the same easy terms, have kept the powers of darkness in check, and prevented some imputed crimes which cost ten unfortunates their lives.

E b 1. “Iames Robinson.”] Baines, in his History of Lancashire, vol. i. p. 605, speaks of Edmund Robinson, the father of the boy on whose evidence the witches were convicted in 1633, as if he had been a witness at the present trial; which is probably a mistake for this James Robinson, as no Edmund Robinson appears amongst the witnessses whose depositions are given.

E b 2. “Anne Whittle alias Chattox was hired by this examinates wife to card wooll.”] She seems to have been by occupation a carder of wool, and to have filled up the intervals, when she had no employment, by mendicancy.

E 2 a. “Sir Richard Shuttleworth.”} Of the family of the Shuttleworths of Gawthorp, “where they resided” Whitaker observes, “in the condition of inferior gentry till the lucrative profession of the law raised them, in the reign of Elizabeth, to the rank of knighthood and an estate proportioned to its demands.”  Sir Richard was Sergeant-at-law, and Chief Justice of Chester, 31st Elizabeth, and died without issue about 1600.

E 2 b. “A Charme.”] Evidently in so corrupted a state as to bid defiance to any attempt at elucidation.

E 3 a 1. “Perceiuing Anthonie Nutter of Pendle to fauour Elizabeth Sothernes alias Dembdike.”] The Sothernes and Davies’s and the Whittles and Redfernes were the Montagus and Capulets of Pendle.  The poor cottager whose drink was forsepoken or bewitched, or whose cow went mad, and who in his attempt to propitiate one of the rival powers offended the other, would naturally exclaim from the innermost recesses of his heart, “A plague on both your houses.”