Bideford witch trial
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The Bideford witch trial resulted in hangings for witchcraft in England. Temperance Lloyd, Mary Trembles and Susannah Edwards from the town of Bideford in Devon were tried in 1682 at the Exeter Assize
A plaque commemorating Lloyd, Edwards, Trembles, and Alice Molland on the wall of Rougemont Castle in Exeter.
Jurist Sir John Holt by Richard van Bleeck, c. 1700. Holt greatly helped eliminate prosecutions for witchcraft in England after the Bideford witch trial. National Portrait Gallery, London.
Rougemont Castle
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Rougemont Castle, also known as Exeter Castle, is the historic castle of the city of Exeter, Devon, England. It was built into the northern corner of the Roman city walls starting in or shortly after
Bideford witch trial
…witchcraft in England. Temperance Lloyd, Mary Trembles and Susannah Edwards from the town of Bideford in Devon were tried in 1682 at the Exeter Assizes at Rougemont Castle. Much of the evidence against them was hearsay, although there was a confession by Lloyd, which she did not fully recant even with her execution imminent…
The early Norman gatehouse of Rougemont Castle, showing the red stone that gave it its name, with the later court buildings behind
A 19th-century engraving of Rougemont Castle from Charles Knight's Old England: A Pictorial Museum, 1845
A charcoal drawing of the traditional site of Athelstan’s Palace, 1914 by James Sparks
The Old Law Courts, erected in 1773