History A-Level
Decline of witch prosecutions
What Decline of witch prosecutions means in History A-Level, as defined for Pearson Edexcel.
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The general pardon of 1693 was a legal and political measure that ended the prosecutions, though it did not formally reverse convictions.
Topics that use Decline of witch prosecutions
- Paper 3, Option 33: The witch craze in Britain, Europe and North America, c1580–c1750 - 5 Cotton Mather and the Salem witch hunt, 1692–93 (Pearson Edexcel A-Level)
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