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XIX. Letters on Demonology and Witchcraft* By Sir Walter Scott. 1830, and various later editions.

Letter VIII. refers to the Witches of Warboys. CUTHBERT BEDE in ' N. & Q.,' 5 S. xii. 70 (1879), pointed out an error Sir Samuel Cromwell for Henry. Morley's 4th edition, 1898, has the same mistakes, pp. 193 and 197. These are Sir Walter's mistakes, and he appears to have consulted only No. VI.

XIXo. Witchcraft in England. [The Mirror, July 24, 1830, refers to the " Warbois " case, pp. 88-9.]

XIX6. Narratives of Sorcery and Magic, from the Most Authentic Sources. By Thomas Wright. Second edition 1851.

2 vols. 8vo.

The Witches of Warboys, vol. i. pp. 254-76.

XX. History | Gazetteer and Directory | of the | County of Huntingdon. | Huntingdon : Printed and published by James Halfield. 1854.

Pp. 108-12 and 539. From No. VI.

XXI. Witch Stories. Collected by E. Lynn Linton. London. 1861.

8vo.

The Witches of Warbois, pp. 226-41. Source, No. V.

XXII. The Registers of the Stationers' Com- pany. By J. PAYNE COLLIER, ' N. & Q.,' 3 S. i. 402 (May 24, 1862).

Includes the entries of Nos. II. and IV. Of No. II. the writer says, " No other record of these witches, that we are aware of, has descended to our times " ; but see No. XXV., where CUTHBERT BEDE pointed out his error in ' N. & Q.'

XXIII. Bibliographical Collections and Notes, 1474-1700 By W. Carew Hazlitt. 1882.

Refers to No. II. or III., and says : " The form in which this tract is entered in the Stationers' Registers (Arber, ii. 299) is rather curious and unusual." In ' Notes, 1867-76,' p. 289, Hazlitt records a sale of a copy : " Skegg, in 1812, Brand's copy, with a portion of the title in MS. 41. 2s."

XXIV. Transcripts of the Registers of the Company of Stationers. By Prof. Edw. Arber. 1875-6. Vol. II. 299.

30 Junij. [1593].

th[e] arraignement Judgement and execucon of three wytches of Huntingdonshire, beinge Recom- mended for matter of truth e by Master Judge ffenner, Vnder his handwrytinge shewed in a Court or Assemblie holden this Daye accordinge to th[ej ordonnances of the Company. The note vnder master Justice ffenners hand is Layd vp in the wardens' Cupbord.

Cf. Nos. 1., II., III., and XXII. Nos. II. and -III. have Thomas Man, not Newman, in imprints.

Idem, p. 303.

4 Decembris. John Banter. Entred for his copie vnder th[e] [h]andes of the wardens a lamentable songe of three wytches of Warbos, and executed at Huntingdon.

See No. IV.

XXI Va. Witches of Warboys. By A. S. Jones. Canadian Monthly, xii. 52. 1877. Poole.

XXV. The Witches of Warboys and the Huntingdon sermon against Witchcraft. By CUTHBERT BEDE. N. & Q.,' 5 S. xii. 8, 70-71 (July 26, 1879).

C. B. corrects PAYNE COLLIER'S statement- (No. XXII.) that "no other records of these- witches are known " by referring to Nos. X., XI. r XV., and XVIII. ; but does not mention the early pamphlets. See also ' The Huntingdon Sermon on Witchcraft,' by CUTHBERT BEDE, in ' N. & Q.,' 3 S. ix. 33 (Jan. 13, 1866).

XXVa. Three innocent persons executed at Huntingdon for witchcraft. Hunts County News~ 1886.

XXVI. Legends and Traditions of Huntingdon- shire. By W. H. Bernard Saunders. London.

1888. 8vo.

Chap. xvii. The Witches of Warboys. Abridged from Nos. VI., XV., and XVIII.

XXVII. Dictionary of National Biography,.

1889, and reissue 1908, vol. xviii. p. 319, sub
 * Fenner, Edward ' (d. 1612).

" In 1593 he tried three witches in Huntingdon- shire, and a pamphlet account of this trial waff published." Cf. this date with No. I.

XXVIII. Side-Lights on the Stuarte. By F. A. Inderwick, Q.C. 2nd ed., 1891.

8vo.

P. 133 refers to the three witches of Warboise from Hutchinson, p. 26.

XXVIIIa. The Warboys Witches. The Peter- borough Advertiser, Sept. 13, 1913.

HERBERT E. NORRIS.

Cirencester.

LYDIA WHITE. (See 7 S. viii. 209, 277, 351.)

LYDIA WHITE, the last of the Blue- Stockings*' is also, perhaps, the least familiar to the modern reader. Indeed, her name was almost forgotten until little more than a decade ago, when Sir William Robertson? Nicoll and Mr. Clement Shorter rescued her from oblivion by making public confession, of their adoration. Since then the late Mr. W. P. Courtney in ' Eight Friends of the- Great ' has made her the subject of ant elaborate monograph, including many of the- most accessible contemporary references.. Still, the information that we possess is by no means adequate. The exact date of her death does not appear to have been ascer- tained, nor the place of her burial. No- obituary notice has been quoted, and we do- not know when she was born or how old she- was when she died. Nothing has been told of the days of her youth.

For a glimpse of her girlhood we are in- debted to the famous John Wilkes. In his ' Address Book ' (Add. MSS. 30,892), a document of wonderful interest, her name occurs twice over amidst a remarkable- catalogue of fair dames, a clear testimony that its owner valued her friendship. "White, Miss Lydia, at Stephen White's,. Miskin, near Cowbridge," is the first entry ^