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ACCOUNT OF REPUTED WITCHES, &C.
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1541. Lord Hungerford was beheaded for procuring
certain persons to conjure, to know how long Henry
VIII. would live. The same year two acts of parlia-
ment were passed, one against false prophecies, the other
against conjuration, witchcraft and sorcery.
1549. Among Archbishop Cranmer’s articles of visita-
tion was the following : “You shall enquire, whether you
know of any that use charms, sorcery, enchantments,
witchcraft, soothsaying, or any like craft invented by the
devil.”
1553. Guillaume de Line, a celebrated preacher, con-
demned for sorcery at Poitiers in France.
1554. The celebrated imposture of the spirit in the
wall, that spoke many seditious things in London. It
was afterwards discovered to be the contrivance of a girl
named Elizabeth Crofts, who, from a private hole in the
wall, had, with the help of a whistle, uttered those
words. A man named Drake was her confederate.
1559. In the second year of Queen Elizabeth’s reign,
was renewed the same article relative to the inquiry after
sorcerers, with this addition, “ especially in the time of
women’s travail.”
1560. This year Hugh Draper, of Bristol, merchant;
Leonard Bilson, of Winchester, clerk; Robert Man, of
London, ironmonger ; Ralph Poynte, of Fekenham,
Worcestershire, miller ; Francis Cocks, of London,
yeoman; John Cocks, of Winchester, clerk ; Fabian
Withers, of Clerkenwell, salter; and John Bright of
Winchester, goldsmith, were taken up for conjuration
and sorcery; and being committed to the Fleet, were
tried at Westminster, and confessed their wicked actions,
and in open court bound themselves by the following
oath, to abstain from the like acts for the future. “ Ye
shall swear that, from henceforth, ye shall not use,
practice,
165
1541. Lord Hungerford was beheaded for procuring
certain persons to conjure, to know how long Henry
VIII. would live. The same year two acts of parlia-
ment were passed, one against false prophecies, the other
against conjuration, witchcraft and sorcery.
1549. Among Archbishop Cranmer’s articles of visita-
tion was the following : “You shall enquire, whether you
know of any that use charms, sorcery, enchantments,
witchcraft, soothsaying, or any like craft invented by the
devil.”
1553. Guillaume de Line, a celebrated preacher, con-
demned for sorcery at Poitiers in France.
1554. The celebrated imposture of the spirit in the
wall, that spoke many seditious things in London. It
was afterwards discovered to be the contrivance of a girl
named Elizabeth Crofts, who, from a private hole in the
wall, had, with the help of a whistle, uttered those
words. A man named Drake was her confederate.
1559. In the second year of Queen Elizabeth’s reign,
was renewed the same article relative to the inquiry after
sorcerers, with this addition, “ especially in the time of
women’s travail.”
1560. This year Hugh Draper, of Bristol, merchant;
Leonard Bilson, of Winchester, clerk; Robert Man, of
London, ironmonger ; Ralph Poynte, of Fekenham,
Worcestershire, miller ; Francis Cocks, of London,
yeoman; John Cocks, of Winchester, clerk ; Fabian
Withers, of Clerkenwell, salter; and John Bright of
Winchester, goldsmith, were taken up for conjuration
and sorcery; and being committed to the Fleet, were
tried at Westminster, and confessed their wicked actions,
and in open court bound themselves by the following
oath, to abstain from the like acts for the future. “ Ye
shall swear that, from henceforth, ye shall not use,
practice,