
The Witches of Warboys: England's Most Famous Witch Trial
From Not Just the Tudors
Published 8/11/2022

From Not Just the Tudors
Published 8/11/2022
The Cambridgeshire village of Warboys was the scene of one of the most famous English witch trials of the sixteenth century. There, the privileged daughters of the respected Squire Throckmorton accused a cantankerous elderly neighbour of witchcraft, sending the impoverished Alice Samuel to her…