Author: Robert Poole

Publisher: Manchester University Press

Published: 2002

Total Pages: 244

ISBN-13: 9780719062049

A study of England's biggest and best-known witch trial, which took place in 1612 when ten witches from the forest of Pendle were hanged at Lancaster. A little-known second trial occured in 1633-4, when up to nineteen witches were sentenced to death.