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

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In 2001 Valerie joined the Government Legal Service and has worked at the Treasury Solicitors Department and the Ministry of Justice. In parliament, Valerie serves as a member of the influential health select committee. In addition to her interest in health policy, Valerie’s work has included diverse issues such as libraries and galleries, epilepsy, support for adoptive parents, women in business, science and technology, human rights and music. Allan Westray 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 myriad small ways she helped us to find ways to cope – so every night for years Jessica would say a prayer that was more like a phone call to God: "Dear Lord, thank you for the nice day I have had today and for looking after Lucy and Daddy and me. Can I talk to Mummy now ..." and she would then tell her mother everything she had done that day.

She, along with Rebecca Nurse, Sarah Good, Sarah Wildes, and Susanna Martin, were hanged on July 19, 1692, and buried in a crevice on Gallows Hill. Elizabeth would leave behind her six children and her blind husband. He became a non executive director of travel firm HolidayTaxis.com in 2010 and became an Epilepsy Society vice president in 1995. Edward Datnow No. 836: Letter of William Phips to the Earl of Nottingham," Records of the Salem Witch-Hunt, Bernard Rosenthal, Editor, Cambridge University Press, New York, 2009, pp. 809-811 January 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 Sarah is daughter of William and Abigail Hynton Averill. She, her parents, and six siblings arrived in Ipswich ca Sep 1634 from Chipping Norton Oxfordshire via the seaports of either London or Southampton. The family later moved to Topsfield, where Sarah met and married John Wilders in 1663. I have yet to discover how it was she and John found themselves enmeshed in the chaos which was Salem village, but will continue to search.

Allan Westray became a vice president of the Society in 2011. Allan spent most of his career in the wine trade and has worked in senior management positions for a number of major UK companies. In the 1990s, he formed his own company, International Wine Services (IWS) specialising in the sale of wines ex cellars to UK high street retailers. In 1999, IWS was sold to Scottish & Newcastle Plc (Waverley Vintners). He is now semi retired and has a small consultancy business located at Butlers Cross, Aylesbury. Paul Boyer and Stephen Nissenbaum, eds., The Salem Witchcraft Papers (hereafter SWP), Vol. I, DaCapo Press, 1977, pp. 248-255

Isaac Cummings, Sr, testified that eight years before, Howe had asked to borrow his horse, which he refused. The next day the horse seemed ill and wouldn’t eat. He stated his brother, Thomas Andrews, came to his house to help and decided the horse must have a stomach ache. 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. 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.Her sister-in-law Leanne Alex, 38, yesterday appealed to Elizabeth on behalf of the family to come home and told how she had become religious since quitting her job with the police two years ago. Read More Related Articles 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’. October 1710, Convictions Reversed, The General Court of Massachusetts Bay, An act, the several convictions, judgments, and attainders be, and hereby are, reversed, and declared to be null and void. [7] Now, it will finally be commemorated when Salem mayor Kimberley Driscoll dedicates a memorial below Proctor’s Ledge on July 19. The date coincides with the first of three mass executions there. On the same day in 1692, five women—Sarah Good, Elizabeth Howe, Susannah Martin, Rebecca Nurse, and Sarah Wildes—were hanged from a tree on the ledge, and their bodies fell into a “crevice,” where the memorial now marks their names. 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]