History A-Level
Agnes Sampson
What Agnes Sampson means in History A-Level, as defined for Pearson Edexcel.
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A respected healer arrested and examined before James VI, who under torture confessed to assembling with the Devil and plotting the king's death by storm at sea.
Topics that use Agnes Sampson
- Paper 3, Option 33: The witch craze in Britain, Europe and North America, c1580–c1750 - 1 The North Berwick witches in Scotland, 1590–91 and the aftermath to 1597 (Pearson Edexcel A-Level)
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