Witchfinders

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Witchfinders is written by Malcolm Gaskill and published by Harvard University Press. It's available with International Standard Book Number or ISBN identification 0674263731 (ISBN 10) and 9780674263734 (ISBN 13).

In 1645, Matthew Hopkins and John Stearne exploited the anxiety and lawlessness of the time and initiated a brutal campaign to drive out the presumed evil in their midst. Gaskill recounts the most savage witch-hunt in English history. By the fall of 1647 at least 250 people had been captured, interrogated, and tried, with more than 100 hanged.