binkes

Updated: June 29, 2025

But Hopkins was not telling the exact truth here. Hopkins, 7. Hopkins, 9. Stearne, 18. Hopkins did not attempt to deny the use of the ordeal. He supported himself by quoting James; see Hopkins, 6. Stearne, 18. He means, of course, Serjeant Godbolt. A similar case was that of Anne Binkes, to whom Stearne refers on p. 54. He says she confessed to him her guilt.

Wallace Notestein - A History of Witchcraft in England from 1558 to 1718