Matthew Hopkins
English witch hunter (1620ā1647) / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Matthew Hopkins (c. 1620 ā 12 August 1647) was an English witch-hunter whose career flourished during the English Civil War. He was mainly active in East Anglia and claimed to hold the office of Witchfinder General, although that title was never bestowed by Parliament.[1]
The son of a Puritan minister, Hopkins began his career as a witch-finder in March 1644[lower-alpha 1] and lasted until his retirement in 1647. Hopkins and his colleague John Stearne sent more accused people to be hanged for witchcraft than all the other witch-hunters in England of the previous 160 years,[2][3][4] and were solely responsible for the increase in witch trials during those years.[5][6][7][8][9][10][11]