The only account found for this case is a quotation in the Spooky Isles guide to haunted Harrow. It gives the wording of the accusation as: Joan Barringer of Harroweelde, county Middlesex, practised the detestable art of witchcraft on and against Rose Edlyn, daughter of Richard Edlyn of Parke Gate, Hatch Ende in the same parish, with the intention of murdering her, and Rose languished from the effects of the practices until she died.
That wording has the shape of an indictment from the Elizabethan period, and 1584 falls in the years after the 1563 Witchcraft Act. The guide does not say how the case ended, whether Barringer was tried, convicted or acquitted, or where the original document is held, and no other source was found to confirm those details.
It is included as a thin but specific record of a witchcraft accusation in the old parish of Harrow. The date, the names and the places are given, but the outcome is not, and anyone wanting to pursue it should look for the Middlesex session or assize rolls. The pin sits on the Harrow Weald and Hatch End area rather than a single address.
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