East Anglia
09/06/2024 17:19
HFDYA that it was the
brought an end to the
Growing Cost
Imprisonment was an expense at 3p per prisoner a day--->Witches at Ipswich cost up to £50 to kee
complained he was suffering financially, shows the expense of jailing witches and the encourageme
would give to local town and communities to decrease their hunting of witches for their financial s
Feeding prisoners became a further expense, at Bury St Edmunds prison officer was appoint
bread money for witches in gaol-->Public had to pay for the witches they accused an impriso
(1645) Assize Courts were costly with the Judge at the trial in Bury St Edmunds charging £130
his and his assistants expenses
(1645) Execution of Mary Lakeland cost £3 alone ---->In Suffolk Churchwardens and Overseer
poor instructed to collect new levy for the searching and trying of witches
Hopkins and Stearne charged 20 shillings per witchcraft case-->A months wages for a labourer ,
also cost Aldeburgh £40 for the conviction of 7 witches which was a 1/7th of the town budget, s
the growing cost of witch-finders and the execution process burdening towns
Death of Hopkins
09/06/2024 17:19
HFDYA that it was the
brought an end to the
Growing Cost
Imprisonment was an expense at 3p per prisoner a day--->Witches at Ipswich cost up to £50 to kee
complained he was suffering financially, shows the expense of jailing witches and the encourageme
would give to local town and communities to decrease their hunting of witches for their financial s
Feeding prisoners became a further expense, at Bury St Edmunds prison officer was appoint
bread money for witches in gaol-->Public had to pay for the witches they accused an impriso
(1645) Assize Courts were costly with the Judge at the trial in Bury St Edmunds charging £130
his and his assistants expenses
(1645) Execution of Mary Lakeland cost £3 alone ---->In Suffolk Churchwardens and Overseer
poor instructed to collect new levy for the searching and trying of witches
Hopkins and Stearne charged 20 shillings per witchcraft case-->A months wages for a labourer ,
also cost Aldeburgh £40 for the conviction of 7 witches which was a 1/7th of the town budget, s
the growing cost of witch-finders and the execution process burdening towns
Death of Hopkins
