by Liz Baalham | Dec 28, 2025 | Creeting St Mary, Victim Stories
Nicholas Hempstead was pressed by Stearne until he confessed to sending his own imps to kill a horse and to attack men in his regiment. Both were named as witches. Stearne claimed that Hempstead had used witchcraft to destroy horses intended for the parliamentary army...
by Liz Baalham | Dec 28, 2025 | Creeting St Mary
Anne Hammer of Creeting St Mary confessed to Stearne that she had been visited by two imps, which she later sent to kill a child belonging to one Master Campe. She also admitted to having ‘lain with the Devil’.
