What Rev. James Boys Really Recorded in Coggeshall When people search for supernatural history in Coggeshall, Essex, they often expect ghosts, executions, or medieval horrors. What they find instead, if they look closely enough, is something arguably more disturbing: a clear, first-hand record of how fear, belief, and authority combined to destroy a vulnerable woman without any formal crime ever being proven. The most important figure in this story is Rev. James Boys, who was Coggeshall’s vicar in the late seventeenth century. Boys did not leave behind a catalogue of hauntings or miraculous events. He did not write about ghosts…