The First English Actresses: Women and Drama, 1660-1700

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In 1982 he abandoned Cabinet secrets and started selling pyjamas at John Lewis – the start of a 25 year career at the UK’s best known employee-owned business. After appointment to the Board in 1986 he became chairman of the John Lewis Partnership in 1993, a role he held for 14 years, and he remains a strong advocate of employee ownership and engagement. The Testimony of John How aged about 50 years said that on that day that my brother James his wife was carried to Salem farms upon examination she was at my [house] and would a have me to go with her to Salem farms I told her that if she had been sent for upon almost any a count but witchcraft I would a have gone with her but on that a count I would not for ten pounds: but said I ‘If you are a witch, tell me how long you have been a witch and what mischief you have done and then I will go with you’ for said I to her ‘You have been accused by Samuel Perley’s child and suspected by Daken Cumins for witchcraft;’ she seemed to be angry with me: still she asked me to come on the morrow I told her I did not know but I might come tomorrow but my cousins called me to go to Ipswich on the morrow and came home about sun set: and standing near my door talking with one of my neighbors: I had a sow with six small pigs in the yard the sow was as well so far as I know as ever: on a sudden she leaped up about three or four foot high and turned about and gave one squeak and fell down dead. I told my neighbor that was with me I thought my sow was bewitched: for said I think she is dead he laughed at me. but it proved true for she fell down dead: he bed me ‘Cut off her ear’ the which I did and my hand I had my knife in was so numb and full of pain that night and several days after that I could not do any work and is not wholy well now and I suspected no other person but my said sister Elizabeth How”

The people who testified in her defense were: James Howe, Sr, Joseph and Mary Knowlton, Edward Payson, Rev. Samuel Phillips, Simon and Mary Chapman, Daniel Warner, John Warner, Sarah Warner and Deborah Hadley. May 14: The Rev. Increase Mather and Sir William Phips, the newly appointed governor of the colony, arrive in Boston. They bring with them a new charter establishing the Province of Massachusetts Bay. There were many different types of evidence that were used to convict a supposed witch. These were confession, supernatural attributes, the witch's teat or witch's mark (any small skin growth or abnormality found on the body of the accused), anger followed by mischief, and probably most importantly spectral evidence [10] defined by The Witches of Early America as "the supernatural phenomena thought to occur when a vision or 'spectre' of an accused witch appeared to a witness". [11] Witch examination June 2: Bridget Bishop is the first to be formally indicted, tried and convicted of witchcraft. She is sentenced to death. A doctor was summoned to diagnose the girl and he determined that she was bewitched. The young girl stated it was Elizabeth Howe who bewitched her. The girl continued to suffer for a few years and then died. Although Elizabeth was named as a witch, she was never arrested or brought up on charges.The Countess Howe DL will succeed Sir Henry Aubrey-Fletcher Bt KCVO when he steps down from the position in November 2020.

Elizabeth, Countess Howe became president of Epilepsy Society in September 2010. She takes over the role from her husband Earl Howe, who has been an active and staunch supporter of Epilepsy Society and was its president for over 25 years. January 12: Mary Post is tried and found guilty. Mary Bridges Sr., Hannah Post, Sarah Bridges, and Mary Osgood are tried and found not guilty. Thomas Farrar Sr. is cleared by proclamation. The testimony of Samuel Phillips aged about 67, minister of the word of God in Rowly, who sayth, that mr payson (minister of gods word alsoe in Rowley) and my self went, being desired, to Samuel pearly of ipswich to se their young daughter who was viseted with strang fitts & in her fitts (as her father & mother affirmed) did mention good wife How the wife of James Howe Junior of Ipswich, as if she was in the house & did afflict her: when we were in the house the child had one of her fitts but made noe mention of goodwife how; & when the fitt was over & she come to herself, goodwife How, went to the child and took her by the hand & askt her whether she had ever done her any hurt And she answered no never and if I did complain of you in my fitts I know not that I did soe: I further can affirm upon oath that young Samuel Pearly, Brother to the afflicted girle looking out of a chamber window (I and the afflicted child being without dores together) and say to his sister say goodwife Howe is a witch, say she is a witch & the child spake not a word that way, but I lookt up to the window where the youth stood & rebuked him for his boldness to stirr up his sister to accuse the said goodw: How where as she had cleared her from doing any hurt to his sister in both our hearing, & I added noo wonder that the child in har fitts did mention Goodwife Howe, when her nearest relations were soe frequent in expressing theire suspicions in the childs hearing when she was out of her fitts, that the sayd Goodwif How, was an Instrument of mischief to the child.

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Howe would then be accused of afflicting several other girls within the village. These women would accuse many others in the village: Sir Henry has been an inspirational Lord-Lieutenant, upholding the dignity of the Crown, as Her Majesty’s representative. He has immersed himself indefatigably in every facet of community life, giving selflessly of his time, and providing support and encouragement to all he met. We owe him a great debt. Foster testified that Howe bewitched his horse after his father, Isaac Foster, refused to allow Howe to join the church in Ipswich years ago, according to court records:

McQueen is really leaning into the very stereotypical imagery that you might associate with witches, and we’ve reproduced that,” said Danziger Halperin. “He’s pulling all of these symbols of the occult into his fashion show.” April 11: Sarah Cloyce and Elizabeth Proctor are examined before Deputy Governor Thomas Danforth and members of the Governor's Council. On the same day Elizabeth's husband, John Proctor, becomes the first man accused of witchcraft and is jailed. [8] Mary Walcott said that this woman the examinant had pinched her & choked this month. Ann Putnam said she had hurt her three times. Deodat Lawson, A Brief and True Narrative of Some Remarkable Passages Relating to Sundry Persons Afflicted by Witchcraft, at Salem Village Which happened from the Nineteenth of March to the Fifth of April 1692 as appears in George Lincoln Burr, ed., Narratives of the Witchcraft Cases, 1648-1706, p. 159 John is chief executive at the Met Office and was formerly group executive of Premier Farnell, a top 200 listed company. Previously he was with ICI where he held a number of senior positions and undertook a series of successful acquisition and merger negotiations. He is determined to raise the profile of epilepsy and in particular awareness of SUDEP (Sudden Unexpected Death in Epilepsy). John is also a trustee of Epilepsy Research UK and of SUDEP Action and became a vice president in 2002. Angela and Richard Lascelles

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Another Perley relative, Deborah Perley, also gave testimony against Howe concerning Samuel Perley’s daughter: May 27: Governor William Phips issues a commission for a Court of Oyer and Terminer and appoints as judges John Hathorne, Nathaniel Saltonstall, Bartholomew Gedney, Peter Sergeant, Samuel Sewall, Wait Still Winthrop and Lieutenant Governor William Stoughton. Edward Datnow was a governor of Epilepsy Society from 1988-2012 and in September 2012 he became a vice president. He is a retired surgeon. He was chairman and chief executive of a major public company in the retail field, and continues to run a successful property business. He is a trustee of the National Brain Appeal and Chairman of Age Endeavour Fellowship. Sir Stuart Hampson CVO DL Glaxo Wellcome plc was the major donor towards the Society’s Snapshot Appeal in 1994, and Sir Richard hosted a dinner on our behalf in July 2000 to build relationships with leaders in research. Valerie Vaz MP

Elizabeth Howe, Rebecca Nurse, Sarah Good, Sarah Wildes and Susanna Martin were hanged on July 19, 1692, and buried in a crevice on Gallows hill. [8] Giles Corey (image) I knew I had nothing to do with Lizzie's death, but they didn't. Even though they had arrested the man who admitted to killing Lizzie, for all they knew I could have put him up to it. It was a chilling realisation. The next 45 minutes, while I "helped the police with their inquiries" was one of the worst, most frightening, episodes of my life. Because it was all done so politely, it was surreal – like the worst nightmares are surreal – but I sat there feeling that my life was collapsing around me. They took the child to several doctors who told them she was "under an evil hand." Her condition continued for two or three years until "she pined away to skin and bones and ended her sorrowful life." He was the first associate member to be elected to the board of the Society in 1995 and served continuously as a trustee from then until 2011. Piers PottingerJanuary 14: The General Court declared a Day of Contrition for the hysteria and false accusations, for which there was fasting and praying for forgiveness. [11] [12] 1700 The Saturday after that my wife was taken after a raving frenzy manner expressing in a raging manner that Goody Howe must come into the church and that she was a precious saint and though she were condemned before men she was justified before God and continued in this frame for the space of three or four hours after that my wife fell into a kind of a trance for the space of two or three minutes. She then coming to herself opened her eye and said that ‘I was mistaken.’ No answer was made by the standards by and again she said ‘Ha! I was mistaken.’ Major Appleton’s wife standing by said ‘Wherein art mistaken?’‘I was mistaken,’ said she ‘For I thought Goody Howe had been a precious saint of God but now I see she is a witch for she hath bewitched me and my child and we shall never be well till there is testimony for her that she may be taken into the church’…”