STRADBROKE Witches: Hopkin Trials 1645-47.

STRADBROKE Witches: Hopkin Trials 1645-47.

"Anne Arnoll; Bet Bray; Anne Wright. Elizabeth Greene of Wingfield (qv) confessed that one Goody Wright of Stradbroke had sent her three imps. Greene’s confederate was probably Anne Wright, separately named as a witch elsewhere in the same depositions. Anne and Mary Smith of Glemham (qv) claimed that they had sold one imp to Bet Bray, and another to Mother Arnoll, both of Stradbroke. True bill against Wright. It is not known whether Arnoll and Bray were indicted.

More than forty years before the Hopkins’ trials, Stradbroke had been the focus of a witch hunt, with puritanical overtones, when a local woman was executed at Bury St Edmunds in 1599. The case was cited at length by the supporters of the puritan exorcist, John Darrell. By the 1630s, the parish was in the grip of profound religious divisions, exacerbated by the presence of the ultra-Laudian vicar James Buck (d.1686). . . . . . "
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