 | Essex Archaeological Society - Essex (England) - 1858 - 624 pages
...still missing, the late Mr. Hunt gave me the following extracts : — July 13, 1699. The widow Coruon was put into the river to see if she would sink, because...did not sink, but swim. And she was tryed again July 19th, and then she swam again, and did not sink. July 24, 1699. The widow Comon was tryed a third time... | |
 | Robert Edmond Chester Waters - Church and social problems - 1883 - 138 pages
...creature had undergone are described in the following extracts from Archdeacon Bufton's diary : 4 ' 1699, July 13. The widow Comon was put into the river...suspected to be a witch, and she did not sink, but swim. ' July 19. She was tried again by putting her into the river, and she swam again. 1 Browne's Religio... | |
 | Robert Edmond Chester Waters - Church and social problems - 1883 - 132 pages
...creature had undergone are described in the following extracts from Archdeacon Bufton's diary : 4 ' 1699, July 13. The widow Comon was put into the river...suspected to be a witch, and she did not sink, but swim. ' July 19. She was tried again by putting her into the river, and she swam again. 1 Browne's Beligio... | |
 | Robert Edmond Chester Waters - Church records and registers - 1883 - 134 pages
...the following extracts from Archdeacon Bufton's diary : 4 ' 1699, July 13. The widow Comon was pat into the river to see if she would sink, because she...suspected to be a witch, and she did not sink, but swim. ' July 19. She was tried again by putting her into the river, and she swam again. 1 Browne's Religio... | |
 | John Charles Cox - Church records and registers - 1910 - 404 pages
...violence to which she had been subjected. The following occurs in Archdeacon Bufton's diary : — " 1699, July 13. The widow Comon was put into the river...suspected to be a witch, and she did not sink but swim." This cruelty was repeated twice again ere the month closed, namely, on July ipth and 24th, with the... | |
 | Essex (England) - 1858 - 332 pages
...find, and which is still missing, the late Mr. Hunt gave me the following extracts :— July 13, 1699. The widow Comon was put into the river to see if she would sink, because she was suspected to be a witch,—and she did not sink, but swim. And she was tryed again July 19th, and then she swam again,... | |
 | Anne Salmond - History - 1992 - 488 pages
...century they were tortured or suffered trial by immersion, as an English diarist records: July 1 1, 1694. The Widow Comon was put into the river to see if she...she did not sink but swim. And she was tryed again Julv 19th, and then she swam again, and did not sink. July 24, 1699. The Widow Comon was tryed a third... | |
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The widow Comon was put into the river to see if she would sink, because she was suspected to be a witch — and she did not sink, but swim. And she was tryed again July 19th, and then she swam again, and did not sink. 