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Well that was early in the seventeenth century
Harrison Ainsworth wrote The Lancashire Witches in 1848
Was access to all of the available records as easy
for Ainsworth as it would be today.
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| Here is the Gutenberg australia issue |
The story is downloadable off the web, from Gutenberg.
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| Front page of first edition |
He first released the story in the Sunday Times in 1848.
I believe that his source
was an antiquarian frind,
James Crossley, president of the Chesham society,
and a source book "The wonderfull discoverie of Witches
in the countie of Lancaster"
Written by Thomas Potts, clerk to the court, in 1613,
so it would have been fresh in his mind.
I like to be as clear as i can on sources of these tales.
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