Four were accused in Chattisham; Anne Alderman, Mary and Nathaniel Bacon and Rebecca Morris. All apart from Nathaniel were tried as part of the witch trial at Bury Assizes.

Hopkins moved on through Copdock to Ipswich, attracting anger from the Copdock villagers who complained about his bill, leaving the magistrate to intervene between them and the Ipswich gaoler.

In all probability Sudbury provided many more women accused of witches than just Anne Boreham alone. The town accounts for 1645 refer to outlays to send witnesses to the assizes at Bury. The witchcraft sceptic Francis Hutchinson later recorded that about this time ‘Two Borams, Mother and Daughter’ were hanged at Bury St Edmunds

Stearne stayed in Long Melford – the village where he had grown up. During his stay Alexander Sussums, the first man to be accused handed himself over.

At Waldingfield and Acton more men were implicated.

In Acton a man confessed to bewitching a woman he hated with a spell that only a white witch could undo. 

Stearne arrived in Lavenham during a time when the local wool trade had been severely disrupted by Dutch weavers who shifted production to Colchester. The impoverished townsfolk were led by William Gurnell, a passionate Puritan preacher known for his apocalyptic sermons and active role in rooting out witchcraft.