Notes & Queries Archive
REPLY1850

Hopkins the Witchfinder

By J. CLARKE.

If the inquiry of CLERICUS relates to Mathew Hopkins the witchfinder general, my friend W.S. Fitch of Ipswich has some manuscript account of his residence in that town, as a lawyer of but little note, and his removal to Manningtree, in Essex; but whether it gives any further particulars of him I am unable to state, as I have not seen the manuscript.

Topics: Witchfinding, Historical Manuscripts

Locations: Ipswich, Manningtree, Essex