Elizabeth Raffald
18th-century English entrepreneur, author of The Experienced English Housekeeper, and possible inventor of the Eccles cake.
The Wonderfull Discoverie of Witches in the Countie of Lancaster
Account of a series of English witch trials that took place on 18–19 August 1612, commonly known as the Lancashire witch trials.
Samlesbury witches
Three women from the Lancashire village of Samlesbury – Jane Southworth, Jennet Bierley, and Ellen Bierley – accused by a 14-year-old girl, Grace Sowerbutts, of practising witchcraft. Their trial at Lancaster Assizes in England on 19 August 1612 was one in a series of witch trials held there over two days. All three women were acquitted.
Padiham witch
Convicted witch who escaped the death penalty because she had caused no harm to anyone.
Edmund Hartley
Cunning man who is alleged to have practised witchcraft at Cleworth Hall in Lancashire