 | Encyclopaedia Americana - 1833 - 548 pàgines
...verdicts of acquittal. Yet, in 1716, ¡Mrs. Hickes and her daughter, nine years of age, were hanged for selling their souls to the devil, and raising a storm by pulling off stockings and making a lather of soap. The number of those put to death in England has been estimated... | |
 | Francis Lieber, Edward Wigglesworth, Thomas Gamaliel Bradford, Henry Vethake - 1833 - 570 pàgines
...in verdicts of acquittal. Yet, in 1716, Mrs. Hickes and her daughter, nine years of age, were hanged for selling their souls to the devil, and raising a storm by pulling off' stockings and malting a lather of soap. The number of those put to death in England has been estimated... | |
 | George Combe - 1835 - 440 pàgines
...about ten other trials by Holt, from 1694 to 1701, the result was the same. Yet, in 1716, a Mrs. Hicks and her daughter, aged nine, were hanged at Huntingdon...soap! With this crowning atrocity, the catalogue of tnurders in England closes, the penal statutes against witchcraft being repealed in 1736, and the pieti.nded... | |
 | Francis Lieber, Edward Wigglesworth - 1835 - 546 pàgines
...in verdicts of acquittal. Yet, in 1716, Mrs. Hickes and her daughter, nine years of age, were hanged for selling their souls to the devil, and raising a storm by pulling off stockings and making a lather of soap. The number of those put to death in England has been estimated... | |
 | George Combe - 1836 - 128 pàgines
...about ten other trials by Holt, from 1694 to 1701, the result was the same. Yet, in 1716, a Mrs Hicks, and her daughter aged nine, were hanged at Huntingdon...raising a storm by pulling off their stockings and mak. ing a lather of soap! With this crowning atrocity, the catalogue of murders in England closes,... | |
 | George Combe - 1837 - 474 pàgines
...about ten other trials by Holt, from 1694 to 1701, the result was the same. Yet, in 1716, a Mrs. Hicks, and her daughter aged nine, were hanged at Huntingdon for selling their souls to tl.e devil, and raising a storm by pulling off their stockings and making a lather of soap! With this... | |
 | Peleg Whitman Chandler - 1841 - 462 pàgines
...sermon at Huntingdon ; ' and, in 1716, Mrs. Hicks and her daughter, nine years of age, were hanged for selling their souls to the devil, and raising a storm by pulling off stockings and making a lather of soap.2 In Scotland, the executions for this offence are supposed to... | |
 | 1841 - 982 pàgines
...in verdicts of acquittal. Yet, in 1716, Mrs Hickes and her daughter, nine years of age, were hanged for selling their souls to the devil, and raising a storm by pulling off stockings and making a lather of soap. The number of those put to death in England lias been estimated... | |
 | 1842 - 536 pàgines
...the last century. So late as 1716, one Mrs. Hicks, and her daughter, nine years of age, were hanged for selling their souls to the devil, and raising a storm by pulling off stockings and making a lather of soap; and in 1743, the repeal of the penal laws against witchcraft... | |
 | Robert Walsh, Eliakim Littell, John Jay Smith - 1830 - 624 pàgines
...that a pardon was procured for her. And yet frightful to think, after all this, in 1716, Mrs. Hicks and her daughter, aged nine, were hanged at Huntingdon for selling their soule to the devil, and raising a storm, by pulling off their stockings and making a lather of soap... | |
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Mrs Hicks and her daughter, aged nine, were hanged at Huntingdon for selling their souls to the devil, and raising a storm by pulling off their stockings, and making a lather of soap ! With this crowning atrocity, the catalogue of murders in England closes. 
