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Witch trials in England - Wikipedia Witch trials were most frequent in England in the first half of the 17th century They reached their most intense phase during the English Civil War of the 1640s and the Puritan era of the 1650s This was a period of intense witch hunts, known for witch hunters such as Matthew Hopkins
5 Infamous Witch Trials in Britain - History Hit Here are 5 of the most infamous cases of witch trials in Britain How three women from Bideford became the last people to be executed for witchcraft in England 1 North Berwick (1590) The North Berwick trials became the first major case of witchcraft persecution in Scotland
The history of witches in Britain Though many of the Acts against witchcraft were repealed in 1736, witch hunting still went on In 1863, an alleged male witch was drowned in a pond in Headingham, Essex and in 1945 the body of an elderly farm labourer was found near the village of Meon Hill in Warwickshire
English Witch Trials This section of the website provides a list of over 500 witchtrials held in England but is just a fraction of the total Sadly, many records have been lost or destroyed over the years, so we will never know the true extent of this madness
Witchcraft and Witch Trials in England Witchcraft and Witch Trials in England In the 16th and 17th centuries people across England, irrespective of status, believed in witches Witchcraft was first made a capital offence in 1542 under a statute of Henry VIII but was repealed five years later
Witchcraft - The National Archives Accusations of witchcraft resulted in the trials of thousands of people in the early modern period, most of them women Our records provide detailed descriptions of many cases of witchcraft,
A discovery of witches: British witch trials in the 17th century Reaching their peak in the middle of the century, the rise of puritanism across the UK fuelled some of the most gruesome, grizzly, and deplorable practices of witch-hunting Here are just a few examples of witch trials in the UK that were darker, deadlier, and more sinister than the trials in Salem