![]() ![]() It is argued that this group of independent women, meeting together without the supervision of a man, challenged the social order. Secondly, the evidence reveals a group of marginalized women who befriended and supported one another. ![]() This impacts on the traditional historiography concerning Hopkins's role as a witch‐finder. It reveals that Matthew Hopkins was not only a member of the elite group that lent credibility to the witchcraft accusations arising from within the community, but he also had kinship ties with Susan Edwards, mother of the child supposedly bewitched to death by this group of women. This article closely examines the first set of accusations in the Matthew Hopkins witch‐hunting phenomenon in early modern England by paying particular attention to the female actors. ![]()
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