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SLAUGHUEB OF WITcHEs.-During the 18th century
10000 persons said to have been put TO death for
witchcraft in England alone In Scotland the num-
Der was probably, in proportion to the population,
much greater for it is certain, that in the last
forty years of the 10Th century the executions were
not fewer than II, 600. In 1874, the madness may
be said to have reached its highest ptch for in that
year occurred the celebrated of the Lancashire
witches, in which eight innocent persons were depri-
we'd of their lives by the incoherent asehoods of
mischevous urchin. The civil war; far from suspend
ing the persecution, to have redoubled it. In
1644-45 the infamous Mathew Hopkins was able to
earn livelihood by the profession of witch finder,
which he exercised, not indeed without occasional
suspicion but still with general success. And even
twenty years later, the delusion was still sanctioned
by the most venerable of the English law for
it in 1854 that the excellent Sir Mathew Hale,
after trial conducted with his usual good sense con-
demned two women to death witches, both of whom
were executed accordingy'-EdiHS6~Sh Rerie'o