Reference code
DWL/RB/ii.46
Other numbers
:ii.46
Level of description
item
Title
Judge Hale’s papers concerning witches
Date
1676
Extent and Medium
Extent:ff 284-290. 300 x 196 mm.
Scope and content
Containing the depositions of witnesses, respecting witchcraft, alleged to have been committed upon the children of Samuel Pacey of Lowestoft, and other particulars of the trial (at Norwich) 13 March 1661-(2), f 290v: ‘Judge Hales his Papers concerning Witches. 1676.’
Finding aids
Argent / Black ii.46; Thomas p,16
Publication note
- See Baxter’s last publication during his lifetime, The certainty of the worlds of spirits. Fully evinced by the unquestionable histories of apparitions, operations, witchcrafts, voices, &c. Proving the immortality of souls (1691). (AGM 135), p. 80.
- For Sir Matthew Hale (1609-76) see Corr 443, 764, 901A, 939, 994, 1041, 1091, 1094, 1095, 1127, 1179 and 1232, Rel. iii. 34, 47-8, 175-6, 181, ODNB, Gilbert Burnet’s hagiographical The Life and Death of Sir Matthew Hale (1682) and Baxter’s Additional notes on the life and death of Sir Matthew Hale (1682) (AGM 110).
Personal name