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From: "Jon Frayne" <>
Subject: Re: Witches
Date: Thu, 10 May 2001 21:19:57 +0100



I think that you'll find that the three witches were all executed in
Bideford and were in fact the last witches to be executed in England.

Jon

>From:
>To:
>Subject: Witches
>Date: Wed, 9 May 2001 22:15:31 EDT
>
>Hi List!
>
>Tonight I ran across a tidbit or two that may be of interest to someone(s):
>
>Susanna Edwards, Temperance Lloyd, and Mary Trembles, were all hanged as
>witches on 25 Aug 1682 at Bideford (Heavitree).
>
>Elizabeth Style, died in prison as an accused witch, at Taunton 1664.
>
>___?___Waterhouse was hanged as a witch in Dorset in 1565.
>
>Good evening! Lora
>
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