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Witchfinders

A Seventeenth-Century English Tragedy

by Malcolm Gaskill

An account of the East Anglian witch-hunt of 1645–47 led by Matthew Hopkins and John Stearne, the largest in English history. Gaskill places the campaign within the turmoil of the Civil War, examining the witchfinders' methods, the communities that welcomed or resisted them, and the victims. Vividly written and grounded in archival research, it suits general readers as well as students of English history.

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