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Author: Anthony Harris
ISBN: 0 86025 518
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Wednesday, 19th February 1582. St Clere’s Hall, St
Osyth. The presiding magistrate: Brian Darcy, Justice of the
Peace. The great medieval hall falls silent at the entry of
the magistrate. The onlookers – petty officials, witnesses,
senation seekers – who are crammed into every corner
of the double-aisled hall, watch as the accused woman, flanked
by two village constables, rises to face him. Her name is
Ursula Kemp. The charge is murder – murder by witchcraft.
The woman, fearful for her life, implicated many others in
the area before her own trial ended and the accusations of
the villagers, the priests, and the local officials with counter-accusations
and confessions make a terrible tale. A development, some
350 years later, brings a further note of tragedy, mixed with
farce to finish the story.
96 pages, 11 photographs, 5 line drawings
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