 | William Chambers - 1853 - 858 pages
...school or work" — such were the poor unfortunates selected to undergo the last tests and toiture.s sanctioned by the laws, and which tests were of a...their head, sprung up in England in the middle of the seventeenth century, and took the professional name of icilrh-fuulers. The practices of the monster... | |
 | Joseph Foulkes Winks - 1837 - 806 pages
...the sake of a holiday from school or work' — such were the poor unfortunates selected to undergo the last tests and tortures sanctioned by the laws,...their head, sprung up in England in the middle of the seventeenth century, and took the professional name of witch-finders. The practices of the monster... | |
 | Maghtochair (pseud.) - 1867 - 220 pages
...the sake of a holiday from school or work" — such were the poor unfortunates selected to undergo the last tests and tortures sanctioned by the laws,...were of a nature so severe that no one would have dreamt of inflicting them on the vilest murderers. Chief-Justices North and Holt were the first who... | |
 | 1868 - 858 pages
...the sake of a holiday from school or work ' — such were the poor unfortunates selected to undergo the last tests and tortures sanctioned by the laws,...of the 17th c., and took the professional name of witch-finders, The practices of the monster Hopkins, who, with his assistante, moved from place to... | |
 | 1869 - 850 pages
...the sake of a holiday from school or work ' — such were the poor unfortunates selected to undergo the last tests and tortures sanctioned by the laws,...of the 17th c., and took the professional name of witch-jiiulrns. The practices of the monster Hopkins, who, with his assistants, moved from place to... | |
 | Ephraim Chambers - 1870 - 852 pages
...laws, and which testa were of a nature so »everc that no one would have dreamed of indicting ¿hem on the vilest of murderers. They were administered...of the 17th c., and took the professional name of wilch-ßnder*. The practices of the monster Hopkins, who, with his assistants, moved from place to... | |
 | Chambers W. and R., ltd - 1871 - 268 pages
...the sake of a holiday from school or work' — such were the poor unfortunates selected to undergo the last tests and tortures sanctioned by the laws,...their head, sprung up in England in the middle of the seventeenth century, and took the professional name of witch-finders. The practices of the monster... | |
 | William Chambers, Robert Chambers - 1871 - 530 pages
...sake of a holiday from school or work ' — such were the poor unfortunates selected to undergothe last tests and tortures sanctioned by the laws, and...on the vilest of murderers. They were administered ty a class of wretches, who, with one Matthew Hopkins at their head, sprung up in England in the middle... | |
 | Chambers W. and R., ltd - 1874 - 864 pages
...the sake of a holiday from school or work ' — such were the poor unfortunates selected to undergo the last tests and tortures sanctioned by the laws,...wretches, who, with one Matthew Hopkins at their head, sprang up in England in the middle of the 17th c., and took the professional name of witch-finders.... | |
 | Sylva (pseud.) - 1874 - 200 pages
...of horrors long enough and terrible enough to prove the wisdom of this and all similar ordinances. one would have dreamed of inflicting them on the vilest...of murderers. They were administered by a class of wretehes who, with one Matthew Hopkius at their head, sprung up in England in the middle of the seventcenth... | |
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... because the farmer's cart had stuck in the gateway, or some idle boy had pretended to spit needles and pins for the sake of a holiday from school or work ' — such were the poor unfortunates selected to undergo the last tests and tortures sanctioned... 
