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Gilbert Pickering, we can surmise, was drawn to Warboys not only by the news of the children’s illness but also by the possibility they were indeed bewitched. If Elizabeth and Robert Throckmorton were not persuaded that their children were victims of witchery when he arrived, they were convinced soon afterwards. For Gilbert was something of an amateur witch-finder. In him, the bewitched children found an ally. And Alice found a dangerous foe. Twenty years later, Gilbert, now Sir Gilbert, was still involved in the pursuit of witches.
Except for one thing. r). The children were seeing an apparition of Alice. r). Witches, spectres, and spirits went together. ’33 From denial of witches to denial of spirits, and from there to denial of God, for Browne and many others were but short steps. For the Throckmortons, as for their contemporaries, the apparition of Alice strongly suggested witchcraft. Apparitions 25 — T h e Wi t c h e s o f Wa r b o y s — demonstrated the link between misfortune and its malevolent cause. The Throckmortons may well have been familiar with the story ten years earlier of Ellen Smith and the young daughter of Widow Webb of Maldon.
And, as a neighbour, Alice Samuel would have expected to be welcomed. 9 But a storm cloud was gathering over neighbourly relations with Alice Samuel. When Alice entered the Throckmortons’ hall next to the fireplace, Jane was being nursed by the fireside by another woman. Jane’s mother and her grandmother were also present. They were gathered around a wide and spacious ingle-nooked fireplace, sufficiently large to sit within. Alice, we are told, took a seat near the child in the chimney corner. Moments later, the child became still more agitated, pointed to Alice and shouted, ‘Grandmother, look 15 — T h e Wi t c h e s o f Wa r b o y s — where the old witch sits… Did you ever see…one more like a witch than she is?