List of Illustrations
Principal Dramatis Personæ
Genealogical Charts
Chronology
Introduction: “My mother sawe her in the kitchin”
Provenience and Pattern
Chapter 1: The Background: Landed Power, Lunacy, and Libraries
Power in the Land
The Lunatic Lord
Being in Thistleworth
Chapter 2: Blood Evidence: Sickness in the Blood
Summoning Simeon Foxe
Mentioning Margaret Russell
Chapter 3: Comparables: Familial Witchcraft
Scandalized Cecils
Bad Manners
Chapter 4: Models and Accusations for Being Bewitched
Dazzling Demoniacs
Preternatural Authority
Chapter 5: Tensions: Prohibitions and Projects
Law Men and Long Acre
Langford, Churchill, Fenlands
Chapter 6: Tensions: Magics and Medicines
Gunpowder Alley
Black and White Court
Clerkenwell & Newgate
The Female Physician
Chapter 7: The New Suspect: The Apothecary
The House of Higgins
Piccadillies and Piccadilly
Chapter 8: Witnesses and Persons of Interest, Bedside & Barside
Frequent Visitors
Ordinary Visitors
Chapter 9: Wrap Up: The Final Expert Assessment
Richard Napier
Chapter 10: Post-bewitchment: Elizabeth Jenyns of St. Mary le Savoy
“East, west, north and south, all these lye”
Conclusion: “They had power over all them”
Appendix 1: “Of Elizabeth Jennings being bewitched,” 1622
Appendix 2: Indictments, October 27, 1616 / December 3, 1616
Appendix 3: Napier on Jennings, 1622
Appendix 4: Napier on Bulbeck, Arpe, and Latch, 1623
Appendix 5: John Latch’s signature, 1620, 1622
Bibliography
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