A full and impartial account of the discovery of sorcery and witchcraft : practis'd by Jane Wenham of Walkerne in Hertfordshire, upon the bodies of Anne Thorn, Anne Street, &c : the proceedings against her from her being first apprehended, till she was committed to gaol by Sir Henry Chauncy : also her tryal at the assizes at Hertford before Mr. Justice Powell, where she was found guilty of felony and witchcraft, and receiv'd sentence of death for the same, March 4. 1711-12 ...

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Bragge, Francis, 1664-1728.

Contributor:

Chauncy, Henry, Sir, 1632-1719.

Curll, Edmund, 1675-1747, publisher.

Henry Charles Lea Library (University of Pennsylvania)

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Wenham, Jane, -1730.

Wenham, Jane.

Witchcraft--England.

Witchcraft.

Trials (Witchcraft).

England.

Trials (Witchcraft)--England.

Penn Provenance:

Lea, Henry Charles, 1825-1909 (autograph) (bookplate)

Cox, Charles F. (bookplate)

Physical Description:

4 unnumbered pages, 36 pages ; 20 cm (8vo)

Edition:

The fourth edition.

Other Title:

Account of the proceedings against Jane Wenham.

Fingerprint:

r.re ntur d-ld TeWe (3) 1712 (A)

Place of Publication:

London : Printed for E. Curll ..., 1712.

Notes:

Signatures: [A]² B-E⁴ F².

Title within double line border.

Local Notes:

Lea Library copy 1 bound with: The case of the Hertfordshire witchcraft consider'd. London : Printed for John Pemberton ..., MDCCXII [1712] -- Bragge, Francis. A defense of the proceedings against Jane Wenham. London: Printed for E. Curll, at the Dial and Bible against St. Dunstan's Church, in Fleetstreet., 1712.

Lea Library copy 2 is no. 2 in a vol. of 8 works bound together.

Lea Library copy 2 has the bookplate and autograph, dated 1909, of Henry Charles Lea.

Lea Library copy 2 has the bookplate of Charles F. Cox on front pastedown; ms. notes in pencil on front free end paper; scrap of paper with bookseller's printed information laid in.

Cited in:

ESTC T72522

Straus p. 218 (diff. ed.)

Morgan O89

OCLC:

15359560