° Witchcraft- Tryal of Witches (A), at the Assizes Held at ...

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° Witchcraft- Tryal of Witches (A), at the Assizes Held at Bury St. Edmunds for the County of Suffolk; on the Tenth Day of March, 1664. Before Sir Matthew Hale Kt., then Lord Chief Baron of His Majesties Court of Exchequer, 1st edition, title with double-rule border, preceded and bound with - Hale, Matthew - A Short Treatise Touching Sheriffs Accompts.....To which is added, A Tryal of Witches..8vo, contemporary calf, gilt foliate 5 ribbed spine, lacking titling label, bookplate of William Fuller Maitland of Stansted Hall, William Shrowsbery, London, 1683/1682

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A rare account of one of the most important witchcraft trials of the seventeenth century, sometimes attributed to Sir Thomas Browne (1605-1682), who is thought to have been complicit in the hanging of two elderly women (Rose Cullender and Amy Drury) by influencing the jury, appearing as an expert witness, that the two were guilty of witchcraft, by citing a similar trial in Denmark.

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