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Matthew Hopkins | biography - English witch-hunter | Encyclopedia Britannica Witchfinder General, All Souls Trilogy, Icewind Dale, Deborah Harkness, Souls Trilogy, The Dark Ages, Discovery Of Witches, Out Of The Dark, Civil Wars

Matthew Hopkins, (born, Wenham, Suffolk, Eng.—died Aug. 12, 1647), 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 claimed tried to kill him. He thereupon became a “Witch Finder Generall,” going about Essex, Suffolk, Norfolk, and Huntingdon getting villagers and townspeople to…

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