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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 General, although that ...
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 ...
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 ...
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.
Sep 12, 2022 · He had breathed his last, rasping, tubercular breath in his mid 20s on 12 August 1647, 375 years ago. 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 ...
Feb 20, 2023 · In the opening scene, a man builds a gallows in an open field ready for a condemned witch as Vincent Price's Matthew Hopkins and his sadistic assistant John Steame (Robert Russell) look on. It is ...
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And now published by Matthew Hopkins Witch-finder for the benefit of the whole Kingdome.’. The frontispiece shows Matthew Hopkins interrogating several witches, with their familiars. These were animal guides that were believed to be supernatural entities that would assist witches in their practice of magic. This pamphlet would have been ...
