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   Matthew Hopkins. A portrait of Matthew Hopkins, 'The Celebrated Witch-finder', from the 1837 edition of The Discovery of Witches. Matthew Hopkins ( c. 1620 – 12 August 1647) was an English witch-hunter whose career flourished during the English Civil War. He was mainly active in East Anglia and claimed to hold the office of Witchfinder ...

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3. www.historic-uk.com › HistoryUK › HistoryofEnglandMatthew Hopkins, Witch-Finder General - Historic UK

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   Matthew Hopkins, Witch-Finder General. He and his associates are believed to have been responsible for the deaths of 300 women, accused of witchcraft, between 1644 and 1646…. The kingdoms of Scotland and England were united in 1603, when King James VI of Scotland also became James I of England. James certainly had a strange fascination with ...

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   Oct 4, 2018 · The Fate of the Witchfinder General. October 4, 2018 by Willow Winsham. There is no name from the period of England’s witch trials more infamous than that of Matthew Hopkins, the self-styled witchfinder who was instrumental in the witch-panic that swept East Anglia in the middle of the 17 th century. Tales of his crimes and the ordeals he put ...

5. www.britannica.com › biography › Matthew-HopkinsMatthew Hopkins | 17th-century, Witchfinder General, England

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   Matthew Hopkins (born, Wenham, Suffolk, Eng.—died Aug. 12, 1647) was an English witch-hunter during a witchcraft craze of the English Civil Wars. Little is known of Hopkins before 1644, but apparently he had been a lawyer, practicing in Essex. In March 1644 he alleged his first discovery of witches—six of them, in Manningtree, who he ...

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   Apr 3, 2022 · Subscribe and 🔔 to the BBC 👉 https://bit.ly/BBCYouTubeSubWatch the BBC first on iPlayer 👉 https://bbc.in/iPlayer-HomeThe CHILLING history of what it was l...

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7. www.discoverbritainmag.com › matthew-hopkins-witchMatthew Hopkins: The real Witchfinder General - Discover Britain

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   Sep 12, 2022 · Unremarkable in death but terrifying in life, Matthew Hopkins grew up in a God-fearing household in Great Wenham, Suffolk, to become Britain’s self-styled Witchfinder General. He believed in a Christian-driven mission to find women feared as witches and provide proof of their witchcraft to send them to trial. Convictions then led them ...

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   What was a 'witchfinder general'?

   • ‘Witchfinder General’, as Hopkins was later infamously known, was a title he actually gave to himself. At most, it is believed the two men merely possessed papers granting them safe passage as they went from town to town - an essential in a time of civil war.

   The life of Matthew Hopkins, the opportunistic 'Witchfinder General'

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   Who was 'Witch Finder Generall' & what did he do?

   • He thereupon became a “Witch Finder Generall,” going about Essex, Suffolk, Norfolk, and Huntingdon getting villagers and townspeople to hire him and his two assistants (for a fee) to search out witches, force their confessions, and have them hanged by the authorities.

   Matthew Hopkins | 17th-century, Witchfinder General, England

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   When was the last execution for witchcraft in England?

   • Many strange events appear to have taken place during the turbulent days of the English Civil War 1642-51, when the rule of law and order had all but broken down. Just a few decades later, the last execution for witchcraft in England took place in Exeter, Devon, when Alicia Molland was put to death in March 1684.

   Matthew Hopkins, Witch-Finder General - Historic UK

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   How many women were convicted of witchcraft in Manningtree?

   • Following Hopkins’ and Stearne’s ‘investigation’, thirty-six women were formally charged with witchcraft in Manningtree. Nineteen of the women were found guilty and hanged. Hopkins and Stearne were paid handsomely for helping to bring the accused to ‘justice’. Their next triumph came a month after the events in Manningtree.

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   BP Perry. British History. The first official mention of Matthew Hopkins - the infamous ‘Witchfinder General’ - appears in 1644 in the town of Manningtree in Essex. According to local legend, Hopkins turned up in the town to buy a local inn with money he had inherited from his late father, a puritan preacher by the name of John Hopkins.