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Author:  Gloria [ Wed Jul 25, 2012 1:20 pm ]
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List of executions----
http://www.awesomegenealogy.com/uk_executions.txt
Author:  Mel [ Wed Jul 25, 2012 2:35 pm ]
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Thanks Gloria.
Guy Fawkes is in there I see
Author:  Gloria [ Wed Jul 25, 2012 3:14 pm ]
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and Dick Turpin, the highwayman.
Author:  Mel [ Wed Jul 25, 2012 3:54 pm ]
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Oh yeah :shock:
Author:  charon10 [ Wed Jul 25, 2012 9:35 pm ]
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...but not the Pendle Witches!

Charon
Author:  Gloria [ Wed Jul 25, 2012 10:14 pm ]
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I hadn't noticed that and I should have, I wonder why they aren't there?
Author:  Mel [ Thu Jul 26, 2012 5:29 am ]
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The list is an 'extraction' from elsewhere. Maybe they didn't list them all or maybe Haydn (the original source) didn't have them in his publication?

Actually, there are no entries for witchcraft. There were other hangings around the country for this 'crime' as well as Pendle? :?
Author:  charon10 [ Thu Jul 26, 2012 11:22 am ]
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I feel sure that the cases listed are only those Haydn thought "notable" for some reason. According to an article in Wikipedia http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Witch-hunt ... statistics between 1500 and 2000 "witches" were executed in the British Isles and North America in the period between 1450 and 1750.

Charon
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