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The Burning Time: Witchcraft in the Seventeenth Century Janet Few @Janetfew Further R The Burning Time: witchcraft in the seventeenth century Janet Few http://thehistoryinterpreter.wordpress.com @JanetFew Further Reading Barry, Jonathan Witchcraft and Demonism in South West England: Palgrave historical studies in witchcraft and magic Palgrave Macmillan (2012) Davies, Owen Cunning Folk: Popular Magic in English History 2007 Hambledon Continuum Few, Janet Coffers, Clysters, Comfrey and Coifs: the lives of our seventeenth century ancestors Family History Partnership (2012) Gaskill, Malcolm Witchfinders: a seventeenth century English tragedy 2005 John Murray Gent, Frank J The Trial of the Bideford Witches Crediton (2001) available free online http://gent.org.uk/bidefordwitches/tbw.pdf MacFarlane, Alan Witchcraft in Tudor and Stuart England: a regional and comparative study 1970 Routledge Martin, Lois The History of Witchcraft 2007 Pocket Essentials Maxwell-Stuart, P.G. Witchcraft a History 2000 Tempus Publishing Ltd. Maxwell-Stuart, P.G. Witch Hunters 2005 Tempus Publishing Ltd. Merrifield, Ralph The Archaeology of Ritual and Magic 1987 Batsford Merrifield, Ralph ‘The Use of Bellarmines as Witch-Bottles’ in Guildhall Miscellany 3, February 1954, offprint Sharpe, James Instruments of Darkness: Witchcraft in Early Modern England 1997 University of Pennsylvania Press Timmons, Stephen ‘Witchcraft and Rebellion in late seventeenth century Devon’ in Journal of Modern History 10 (2006) Winsham, Willow Accused: British witches throughout history Pen & Sword (2016) Winsham, Willow England’s Witchcraft Trials Pen & Sword (2018) List of English witch trials www.hulford.co.uk/county.html www.witchtrials.co.uk Although this site is ostensibly about the Essex witch trials, it contains a great deal of general information including details of the witchcraft acts and a long list of those tried for witchcraft in Essex. Witchcraft legislation www.parliament.uk/about/living-heritage/transformingsociety/private- lives/religion/overview/witchcraft/ The Salem witch trials http://salem.lib.virginia.edu/home.html Interactive Salem www.nationalgeographic.org/interactive/salem-interactive/ Survey of Scottish Witchcraft www.shc.ed.ac.uk/Research/witches Witches in Fife www.thefifepost.com/history/witches The Pendle Witches www.pendlewitches.co.uk Devon Witches 1592 Margaret Webber of Harnes, Dartmouth 1617 Joan Lane of East Ogwell 1652 Joan Baker of Devon 1654 Diana Crosse schoolmistress of Exeter 1658 Grace Elliott of Bideford 1658 Joan Furnace of Devon 1658 Thomas Harvey of Devon 1670 Elizabeth Eburye of Devon 1670 Aliena Walter of Devon 1671 Johanna Elford of Devon 1671 Margaret Heddon of Devon 1671 Temperance Lloyd widow of Bideford 1672 Phelippa Bruen of Devon 1676 Susannah Daye of Devon 1679 Temperance Lloyd widow of Bideford 1682 Susanna Edwards widow of Bideford 1682 Temperance Lloyd widow of Bideford 1682 Mary Trembles of Bideford 1682 Elizabeth Caddy of Bideford 1682 Grace Beare of Bideford 1684 Alicia Molland of Devon 1685 Agnes Ryder of Woodbury 1685 Jane Vallet of Devon 1687 Abigail Handford of Bideford 1693 Dorothy Case of Devon 1693 Katherine Williams of Devon 1694 Clara Roach of Devon 1696 Elizabeth Horner of Devon 1701 Susanna Hanover of Devon .
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