History A-Level
Thomas Potts's account
What Thomas Potts's account means in History A-Level, as defined for Pearson Edexcel.
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The clerk of the court published 'The Wonderfull Discoverie of Witches' in 1613, commissioned by Bromley, presenting the trial as a legitimate discovery of witchcraft.
Topics that use Thomas Potts's account
- Paper 3, Option 33: The witch craze in Britain, Europe and North America, c1580–c1750 - 2 The Lancashire witches of 1604–13 (Pearson Edexcel A-Level)
Related terms
- Conduct of the trial
- Economic hardship and envy in upland communities
- Judges Bromley and Altham
- Legal change and the criminalisation of the diabolic pact
- Magisterial investigation and confession
- Personal quarrel and maleficium
- Religious tension between recusancy and reform
- Rival witchcraft families and reputation
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