Witchfinders: A Seventeenth Century English Tragedy by Malcolm Gaskill

Witchfinders: A Seventeenth Century English Tragedy

Malcolm Gaskill

384 pages first pub 2005 (editions)

nonfiction history religion informative slow-paced
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In the spring of 1645, at the height of the English Civil War, a minor gentleman from Essex named Matthew Hopkins initiated the most savage witch-hunt in English history. By the autumn of 1647 at least 250 East Anglian innocents -- most of them wo...

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