attributed to sorcery. The Flower family, known as the "Witches of Belvoir", were said to have prevented the couple having more children by making a charm from wool from their mattress and a pair of gloves. Witchcraft is mentioned in the inscription on the Earl of Rutland's tomb in St Mary the Virgin's Church, Bottesford: "In 1608 he married ye lady Cecila Hungerford, daughter to ye Honorable Knight Sir John Tufton, by whom he had two sons, both of which died in their infancy by wicked practises and sorcerye". Notes References Attribution 1578 births 1632 deaths 06 18 Knights of the Garter F Lord-Lieutenants of Lincolnshire 16th-century English nobility 17th-century English nobility Witch trials in England