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Reprinted London, 1837; also embodied in Howell, State Trials. This is a very careful statement of the court examinations, drawn up by "H. F." In names and details it has points of coincidence with the True Relation about the Bury affair; see next paragraph below. A True Relation of the Araignment of eighteene Witches at St.
A True Relation of the Araignment of eighteene Witches, 5; Moderate Intelligencer, September 4-11, 1645. In writing the life of Samuel Fairclough, Clarke used Fairclough's papers; see ibid., 163. Fairclough was a Non-Conformist, but not actively sympathetic with Presbyterianism. Calamy was counted a Presbyterian. Hopkins, 5-6; Stearne, 18. One of these was Lowes.
A True Relation of the Araignment of eighteene Witches. Stearne, 14. A True Relation of the Araignment of eighteene Witches, 5. Ibid.; Stearne, 25. Hutchinson speaks of repeated sessions. Stearne, 25, says: "by reason of an Allarum at Cambridge, the gaol delivery at Burie St. Edmunds was adjourned for about three weeks."
J. O. Jones, in his account of Hopkins, loc. cit., says that "many were hanged or burned in Ipswich." I believe that no authority can be cited for this statement. The first is in, A True Relation of the Araignment of eighteene Witches, 5. We of course do not know that the sentence was carried out. The master of a ship had been "sutor" for her grandchild; The Lawes against Witches, 8.
For further discussion of the somewhat conflicting evidence as to the number of these Essex witches and the dates of their trial see appendix C, under 1645. A Diary or an Exact Journall, July 24-31, 1645, pp. 5-6. A True Relation of the Araignment of eighteene Witches at St. Ibid., 6. Ibid. Queries 8 and 9 answered by Hopkins to the Norfolk assizes confirm Gaule's description. See Hopkins, 5.
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