The Trial and Execution of Helen Jenkinson.

This Helen Jenkinson, living in a town called Thrapston in the county of Northampton, was noted for a long time to be of an evil life and was much suspected of this crime Witchcraft. long before her arrest, for bewitching cattle and other mischiefs which she had done in the past.

This Helen was arrested for bewitching a child to death and committed to Northampton Jail original: "Gaole" on the 11th of May last by Sir Thomas Brooke of Oakley original: "Okeiy", Knight. A little before her arrest, one Mistress Moulsho of the same town (after Helen was so strongly suspected) lured her by a trick into a convenient place and insisted on having her searched, to see if they could find that insensible mark A spot on the body, such as a mole or teat, believed to be used by a witch's "familiar" (a demonic spirit in animal form) and thought to be painless or "insensible" when pricked. which witches are commonly said to have in some private place or other on their bodies. And this Mistress Moulsho was one of the chief people who searched her, and at last found what they sought, to their great amazement. At that time, this Mistress Moulsho had a buck of clothes A large basket or batch of laundry intended to be washed or steeped in lye. to be washed out. The next morning, when the maid came to hang them