#posthumous-pardon

#posthumous-pardon

Witch trials and executions were far from unusual at the time, in the town or elsewhere, but rarely were so many convicted at once. The women Anne Ashby, Mary Brown, Anne Martyn, Mildred Wright, Susan Pickenden, Anne Wilson and Mary Reade had been accused by their neighbours of terrible acts including bewitching to death a 10-day-old baby, the child's mother, and another three-year-old.