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 | Bramford, Victim Stories
A man named Payne was interrogated by John Stearne over eight days before finally admitting that the Devil had come to him while he was ploughing, and that he had given up his soul.
by Liz Baalham | Dec 28, 2025 | Bramford, Victim Stories
Elizabeth Richmond admitted to worshipping a figure she called ‘Daniel the Prophet’, rejecting both God and the Church.
by Liz Baalham | Dec 28, 2025 | Bramford, Victim Stories
Alice Marsh confessed that she had offered her body to the Devil – though not her soul – and had signed a contract with him in her own...
