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The History and Antiquities of the County Palatine of Durham
… was magical from the days of Canidia to Gen Jonson's witches, and frequently appears on altars. A beautiful altar …
Calendar of State Papers Domestic: Charles I
… The greatest news from the country is of a huge pack of witches which are lately discovered in Lancashire, whereof it …
Calendar of State Papers Domestic: Charles I
… order to examine seven of the persons condemned for witches in Lancaster. John Spencer, Alice Higgin, and Jennet … it. There were seven or eight of her neighbours who were witches, but most of them are dead. Jane, wife of Roger … her familiar never came near her. The rest of the witches now in gaol were unknown to her; is persuaded that …
Calendar of State Papers Domestic: Charles I
… his son, began to publish anything concerning the witches that met at Horestones in Pendle Forest was about … Devys, William Devys, her half brother, and Beawse, to be witches, and that they were at a witch feast at Horestones in … Forest about twenty years since, to which feast divers witches came, and many were apprehended and executed at …