...years before,, viz. in 1716, a woman and her daughter,—the latter only nine years of age,—were hanged at Huntingdon " for selling. their souls to...off their stockings and making a lather of soap." Between the years. 1694 and 1701, no less than eleven trials were instituted' before Lord Chief Justice...

...crimes. In 1716 a mother and daughter were hanged for selling their souls to Satan, and raising .1 storm by pulling off their stockings, and making a lather of soap ! The laws against witchcraft were not repealed in England and Scotland till 1736, nor in Ireland till...

...execution for alleged witchcraft in England was at Huntingdon, in 1716, where two women were hanged for " raising a storm by pulling off their stockings and making a lather of soap." — Ibid. pp. 153-4. The following notice appeared in the Suffolk and Essex Free Press of August 29,...

...still common, in conséquence of confessions extracted after the Hopkins fashinc. In 1716, a Mrs Hicks and her daughter, aged nine, were hanged at Huntingdon for selling their souls to the devil, aud raising a storm by pullia^ oi their stockings and making a lather of soap ! Wita this crowning...

...still common, in consequence of confessions extracted after the Hopkins fashion. In 1716, a Mrs Hicks and her daughter, aged nine, were hanged at Huntingdon, for selling their soul» to the devil, and raising a storm by pulling off their stockings and making a lather of soap...

...still common, in consequence of confessions extracted after the Hopkins fashion. In 1716, a Mrs Hicks and her daughter, aged nine, were hanged at Huntingdon for selling their souls to the devil, aud raising a storm by pulling off their stockings and making a lather of sonp ! With this crowning...

...co-operating with the malice of the witches, at whose instance he did the villanies !" In 1716, a Mrs. Hicka and her daughter aged nine, were hanged at Huntingdon,...pulling off their stockings and making a lather of soap. This closed the catalogue of judicial murders in England, but the popular belief in witchcraft has...

...still common, in consequence of confessions extracted after the Hopkins fashion. In 1716, a Mrs Hicks and her daughter, aged nine, were hanged at Huntingdon for selling their s<ml» to the devil, and raising a -storm by pulling off their stockings and making a lather of soap...

...the pillory; but twelve years later one Mrs. Hicks and her daughter (nine years of age!) were hanged for selling their souls to the devil and raising a storm, by putting on their stockings inside out, and making a lather of soap 1 Holt was called to the bar in...

...Review remarks, after noticing this case : ' Yet, frightful to think, after all this, in 1716, Mrs Hicks and her daughter, aged nine, were hanged at Huntingdon...atrocity, the catalogue of murders in England closes.' And a long and a black catalogue it was. ' Barrington, in his observations on the statute of Henry...