William Godwin's Diary

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Sir M Hale (15  March  1834) Hale, Matthew, SirEngland and Wales. Court of Quarter Sessions of the Peace (Suffolk)A tryal of witches (Rose Cullender and Amy Duny) at the assizes held at Bury St. Edmonds for the county of Suffolk; on the tenth day of March, 1664. Before Sir Matthew Hale Kt. then Lord Chief Baron of His Majesties court of Exchequer. Taken by a person then attending the court. 1682/1683
WG refers to ‘Trial of Witches executed at Bury St. Edmund's' in his Lives of the Necromancers (445); he reads in the British Museum on this date.

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