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situates her own writing among the devotional discourse current at the time. Among opening quotations from the Bible and prayer book, she copied a poem which G. Ellis
copied in 1605, with only...
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25 March 1645: In the first case of witchcraft managed by...
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25 March 1645
In the first case of witchcraft managed by Matthew Hopkins
, Elizabeth Clarke
of Manningtree in Essex (who had probably been deprived of sleep during interrogation) confessed to using familiars.
Purkiss, Diane. The English Civil War, A People’s History. Harper Perennial, 2007.
380, 376-8
Texts
Clarke, Elizabeth. “’Poems Breathed forth by the Nobel Hadassas’: Hester Pulter’s Inspirations and Transformations”. Women’s Writing in Britain, 1660-1830 Conference, University of Southampton and Chawton House Library.
Isham, Elizabeth. “Booke of Rememberances”. Constructing Elizabeth Isham, edited by Elizabeth Clarke.
Clarke, Elizabeth. “Constructing Elizabeth Isham”. Warwick: Arts: Centre for the Study of the Renaissance.
Clarke, Elizabeth, and Erica Longfellow. “Elizabeth Isham’s Autobiographical Writings”. Constructing Elizabeth Isham.