Witchcraft in 1758

One Susanna Hannokes, an elderly woman of Wingrove near Aylesbury, was accused by a neighbour for bewitching her spinning wheel, so that she could not make it go round, and offered to make oath of it before a magistrate; on which the husband, in order to justify his wife, insisted upon her being tried by the church bible, and that the accuser should be present: accordingly she was conducted to the parish church, where she was stript of all her cloaths to her shift and under-coat, and weighed against the bible; when, to the no small mortification of her accuser, she out-weighed it, and was honourably acquited of the charge.