This article examines the sole extant and complete set of signed witness statements for an Irish witchcraft trial. These testimonies were given at Florence Newton's trial for witchcraft at Cork assizes in September 1661, and were signed by the presiding judge, Sir William Aston. The Aston manuscript has been annotated and transcribed in its full, original form for the first time, providing historians with a unique document with which to explore one of the few Irish witchcraft trials. This article also provides suggestions for new ways of looking at the case, and more importantly demonstrates that Newton was not, as once thought, put to death for witchcraft under the 1586 Irish Witchcraft Act but died during her trial. Furthermore, taken in the context of early modern European witchcraft, the case is shown to be an important example of a witch trial occurring in a highly gendered, contested, post-conflict society.

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选择文件：弗洛伦斯·牛顿对巫术的审判，科克，1661 年：威廉·阿斯顿爵士的成绩单

本文研究了爱尔兰巫术审判的唯一现存且完整的签名证人陈述集。这些证词是在 1661 年 9 月在科克审判弗洛伦斯·牛顿的巫术审判中作出的，并由主审法官威廉·阿斯顿爵士签署。阿斯顿手稿首次以完整的原始形式进行了注释和转录，为历史学家提供了一份独特的文件，可以用来探索为数不多的爱尔兰巫术审判之一。这篇文章还提供了看待此案的新方法的建议，更重要的是表明，牛顿并没有像曾经认为的那样根据 1586 年爱尔兰巫术法案因巫术被处死，而是在审判期间死亡。此外，在早期现代欧洲巫术的背景下，