by Liz Baalham | Dec 28, 2025 | Victim Stories, Wetherden
Grace Gunburgh and Elizabeth Fillet (Tillet), were watched and searched by John Waller and James May who testified to what they had seen when they had kept watch over Gunburgh. Both women were committed for trial
by Liz Baalham | Dec 28, 2025 | Victim Stories, Wetherden
The Manor at Haughley Park was home to the Sulyard family. Amongst their staff was Elizabeth Fillet (Tillet) who was accused by a local man John Spinke, a cobbler, and his wife, of causing his child to suffer from spasms and an infestation of lice. Spinke testified...
by Liz Baalham | Dec 28, 2025 | Rattlesden, Victim Stories
Henry Carre was also named among the Rattlesden accused.
by Liz Baalham | Dec 28, 2025 | Rattlesden, Victim Stories
John Scarfe, related to two other Rattlesden accused Mother Orvis and Elizabeth Deekes and known locally as ‘a heathenish man’, admitted to keeping three grey rats – Tom, Will and Harry – and feeding them from his body.
by Liz Baalham | Dec 28, 2025 | Rattlesden, Victim Stories
Elizabeth Deekes – whose mother had also been executed as a witch – confessed that she had been instructed to renounce God and had made a pact with the Devil. “First, ignorant people whose eyes are blinded by Satan and are led captive by him, as is said in another...
