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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 Much like other Salem Witch Trials victims, such as Bridget Bishop and Susannah Martin, Elizabeth Howe had been accused of witchcraft before. Even though Phillips seemed to clear the air concerning Hannah Perley’s bewitching, other neighbors, particularly the Cummings family, told the court more incriminating stories. David Cameron was elected leader of the Conservative Party in December 2005 and was prime minister from May 2010 to July 2016. He has worked at a senior level in both business and government. In 2007 he founded the Morris-Coole Trust, a registered charity, to encourage, stimulate and support scientific and clinical research into the understanding, causes and control of epilepsy. The international Morris-Coole Epilepsia Prize is awarded annually for the best research into epilepsy published in the journal ‘Epilepsia’.

January 20: Eleven-year-old Abigail Williams and nine-year-old Elizabeth Parris begin behaving much as the Goodwin children acted three years earlier. Soon Ann Putnam Jr. and other Salem girls begin acting similarly. Police Scotland were asked to assist the investigation after her blue Ford Focus was detected passing a camera in Glencoe on January 1. Greater Manchester Police, who are leading the inquiry, say officers are becoming “increasingly concerned” for their former colleague.I was curious to see to whom they had talked about us. But most of all I felt a sense of relief that there was a public outrage about Lizzie's death. It made me feel better, that the world was sharing our disbelief. I felt cheated that by Wednesday it was no longer thought newsworthy. But it did mean that our story was firmly in the world out there, which made me feel very nervous about going out. Ancestry.com, comp. Salem Witches. [database online] Provo, UT: Ancestry.com, 2000. Original information from surviving legal records from the towns and villages in question and appearing in Godbeer, Richard, comp. The Devil's Dominion: Magic and Religion in Early New England, Appendices A & B. [Information taken from Boyer, Paul and Stephen Nissenbaum, eds. The Salem Witchcraft Papers: Verbatim Transcripts of the Legal Documents of the Salem Witchcraft Outbreak. 3 vols. New York, NY: 1977.). New York, NY: Cambridge University Press, 1992. But we have assimilated it. As a family we saw a wonderful child psychiatrist who encouraged the girls to talk about their mummy, write about her, draw pictures of her, and make her death feel as much a part of their lives as her life was. 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.

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. Strafford claimed when Howe tried to join the church, church officials held a meeting and Howe bewitched his wife into attending the meeting. A few days later, Strafford said his son began behaving as if he was also bewitched and his wife fell into a strange trance: 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. 159Less than an hour later, I was free to go and get on with the rest of my life, but the damage was done. Whenever the police got in touch with me over the following few years – a regular occurrence because of the impending trial of Lizzie's killer – my anxiety levels hit the roof.