Samlesbury witches
The Samlesbury witches were three women from the Lancashire village of Samlesbury – Jane Southworth, Jennet Bierley, and Ellen Bierley – accused by a 14-year-old girl, Grace Sowerbutts, of practising witchcraft. Their trial at Lancaster Assizes in England on 19 August 1612 was one in a series of witch trials held there over two days, among the most famous in English history. The trials were unusual for England at that time in two respects: Thomas Potts, the clerk to the court, published the proceedings in his The Wonderfull Discoverie of Witches in the Countie of Lancaster; and the number of the accused found guilty and hanged was unusually high, ten at Lancaster and another at York. All three of the Samlesbury women were acquitted however.
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Samlesbury witches
The Samlesbury witches were three women from the Lancashire village of Samlesbury – Jane Southworth, Jennet Bierley, and Ellen Bierley – accused by a 14-year-old girl, Grace Sowerbutts, of practising witchcraft. Their trial at Lancaster Assizes in England on 19 August 1612 was one in a series of witch trials held there over two days, among the most famous in English history. The trials were unusual for England at that time in two respects: Thomas Potts, the clerk to the court, published the proceedings in his The Wonderfull Discoverie of Witches in the Countie of Lancaster; and the number of the accused found guilty and hanged was unusually high, ten at Lancaster and another at York. All three of the Samlesbury women were acquitted however.
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Las Brujas de Samlesbury fuero ...... n de "complotadores papistas".
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Les sorcières de Samlesbury so ...... papistes » (les catholiques).
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The Samlesbury witches were th ...... sh plotters" (i.e. Catholics).
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Самлсберийские ведьмы — три же ...... о они рассматривали как ересь.
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The Lancashire Witches
The Wonderfull Discoverie of Witches in the Countie of Lancaster
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Las Brujas de Samlesbury fuero ...... rk. No obstante, las tres bruj
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Les sorcières de Samlesbury so ...... rk, nombre anormalement élevé.
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The Samlesbury witches were th ...... women were acquitted however.
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Самлсберийские ведьмы — три же ...... ы из Самлсбери были оправданы.
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Brujas de Samlesbury
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Samlesbury witches
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Sorcières de Samlesbury
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Самлсберийские ведьмы
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