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 that his shop was plagued by rodents sent by Tillett and that his child sickened after his wife had refused to visit her when sick.
Tillet and another woman, Grace Gunburgh, 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
(At the start of the Civil War the Sulyards lost their country seat as a mob forced them off the manor).