aghen-dole

Updated: May 2, 2025

Both families no doubt traded on the fear they inspired. Indeed Dame Chattox was said to have sold her guarantee to do no harm in return for a fixed annual payment of "one aghen-dole of meale." That there was a feud between the two clans was to be expected.

Wallace Notestein - A History of Witchcraft in England from 1558 to 1718