Contrary to her usual custom, SD
did an enormous amount of reading and research to tackle this historical subject. She visited the actual haunts of Matthew Hopkins
the famous witch-finder, and was deeply moved as...
Travel
Sarah Daniels
While working on Byrthrite, 1986, SD
visited Mistley and Manningtree in Essex, centre of the pernicious activities of the witch-finder Matthew Hopkins
.
Daniels, Sarah. Plays: One. Methuen, 1991.
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Timeline
25 March 1645: In the first case of witchcraft managed by...
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25 March 1645
In the first case of witchcraft managed by Matthew Hopkins
, Elizabeth Clarke
of Manningtree in Essex (who had probably been deprived of sleep during interrogation) confessed to using familiars.
Purkiss, Diane. The English Civil War, A People’s History. Harper Perennial, 2007.
380, 376-8
Probably by mid-1647: Matthew Hopkins published in London A Discovery...
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Probably by mid-1647
Matthew Hopkins
published in LondonA Discovery of Witches in . . . Norfolk.
Earle, Peter. “English Society”. Stuart England, edited by Blair Worden, Phaidon, 1986, pp. 23-47.
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Purkiss, Diane. The English Civil War, A People’s History. Harper Perennial, 2007.
