Discovery of Witches

by Thomas Potts

Overview

Thomas Potts s original account of the famous witch hunt of 1612, in which 19 Lancashire witches, mostly from the Pendle area, were tried at Lancaster. Of these nineteen, three were declared innocent, five were acquitted, and eleven were found guilty, ten of whom were hanged.The Lancashire witch trials were one of the most important in Britain

Product Details

BN ID:	2940160755946
Publisher:	Black Lizard Press
Publication date:	08/29/2019
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Sales rank:	800,488
File size:	2 MB

About the Author

Thomas Potts, the clerk to the Lancaster Assizes, was ordered by the trial judges Sir James Altham and Sir Edward Bromley to write an account of the proceedings, making them some of the most famous and best recorded witch trials of the 17th century. Potts completed the work on 16 November 1612, and submitted it to the judges for review. Bromley revised and corrected the manuscript before its publication in 1613, declaring it to be "truly reported" and "fit and worthie to be published".