“Yet with Brian Gunter we are dealing with a man who obviously had a reputation for being contentious, who had committed a homicidal assault in his fifties, and who could plausibly be accused of leading a couple of riotous assaults as an octogenarian. Anne’s statement to the Star Chamber suggests the pressures that came from having such a man as this as her father.” (p.37)

I think it’s important to focus on the fact that Brian Gunter was a man who had done terrible things and had a great temper when looking at Anne’s compliance with the ruse relating to her status as a ‘witch’. Anne may have been a 20-something woman at the time but that still doesn’t negate the fact that Brian Gunter was a man who got his way and did bad things to do the people who wronged him. He was not a man you wanted to dislike you, even more so if you were basically shackled to him as most women would be until they could find a spouse.