(Joh.  Henr.) De nefando Lamiarum cum Diabolo coitu.” 4to.  Lond. 1689.  The other celebrated cases of supposed witchcraft occurring in the county of Lancaster, besides those connected with the foregoing republication, are, the extraordinary one of Ferdinand, Earl of Derby, who died at Latham in 1594, for which the reader is referred to Camden’s Annals of Elizabeth, years 1593, 1594; Kennet, 2. 574, 580; or Pennant’s Tour from Downing to Alston Moor, p. 29;—­the case of Edmund Hartley, hanged at Lancaster in 1597, for bewitching some members of the family of Mr. Starkie, of Cleworth, which will be fully considered in the proposed republication of the Chetham Society, which gives the history of that event;—­and lastly, that of a person of the name of Utley, (Whitaker, p. 528; Baines, vol. i. p. 604,) who was hanged at Lancaster about 1630, for having bewitched to death Richard, the son of Ralph Assheton, Esq., Lord of Middleton, of whose trial, unfortunately, no report is in existence.  Webster also mentions two supposed witches as having been put to death at Lancaster, within eighteen years before his Displaying of supposed Witchcraft was published; and which occurrence, not referred to by any other historian, must therefore have taken place about the year 1654.

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HISTORICAL AND LITERARY REMAINS

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Patrons.

The Right Honourable The EARL OF DERBY. 
The Right Honourable The EARL OF BALCARRES. 
The Right Honourable The EARL OF WILTON. 
The Right Honourable The EARL OF BURLINGTON. 
The Right Honourable the EARL GROSVENOR. 
The Right Honourable LORD FRANCIS EGERTON, M.P. 
The Right Honourable LORD STANLEY. 
The Right Reverend The Lord BISHOP OF CHESTER. 
The Right Reverend The Lord BISHOP OF ELY. 
The Right Reverend The Lord BISHOP OF NORWICH. 
The Right Reverend The Lord BISHOP OF CHICHESTER. 
The Right Honourable LORD DELAMERE. 
The Right Honourable LORD DE TABLEY. 
The Right Honourable LORD SKELMERSDALE. 
The Right Honourable SIR ROBERT PEEL, BART., M.P. 
SIR PHILIP DE MALPAS GREY EGERTON, BART., M.P. 
GEORGE CORNWALL LEGH, ESQ., M.P. 
JOHN WILSON PATTEN, ESQ., M.P.

Council.

EDWARD HOLME, M.D., President.
Rev. RICHARD PARKINSON, B.D., Canon of Manchester, Vice-President.
The Hon. and Very Rev. WILLIAM HERBERT, Dean of Manchester. 
GEORGE ORMEROD, D.C.L., F.R.S., F.S.A., F.G.S. 
SAM.  HIBBERT WARE, M.D.  F.R.S.E. 
REV.  THOMAS CORSER, M.A. 
REV.  GEORGE DUGARD, M.A. 
REV.  C.G.  HULTON, M.A. 
Rev. J. PICCOPE, M.A. 
Rev. F.R.  RAINES, M.A., F.S.A. 
JAMES CROSSLEY. 
JAMES HEYWOOD, F.R.S.