 Much of the evidence against them was hearsay, although there was a confession by Lloyd, which she did not fully recant even with her execution imminent.These women have been labelled as the last witches to be hanged in England, but there are subsequent cases which are not as well documented.On Saturday, July 1682, Thomas Eastchurch, a Bideford shopkeeper, complained to some of the town’s constables that Temperance Lloyd had been practising witchcraft.