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Jane Wenham (died 1730) was one of the last people to be condemned to death for witchcraft in England, although her conviction was set aside. Her trial in 1712 is commonly but erroneously regarded as the last witch trial in England.
THE LAST PERSON to suffer death for the crime of. England was hanged in 1684, and although records are not com- plete, there seem to have been no guilty verdicts for nearly three decades after that, until the case of Jane Wenham, an old woman of Walkern, Hertfordshire, in March 1712.
30 ott 2014 · The tale of Jane Wenham, found guilty of witchcraft in 1712, begins as all early modern witch stories do: with a suspicion.[1] A local farmer, John Chapman had long attributed the strange deaths of local cattle and horses to Wenham’s witchcraft, although he could not prove it.
Jane Wenham lived in Church End, Walkern, near Stevenage. An elderly woman about 70, living alone, poor and eking out an existence on the margins of society, she fitted the stereotypical view of witches.
JANE Wenham was the last person to be condemned to death as a witch in England. Her case in 1712 became the immediate basis for a spirited controversy. The fecund intellectual developments of the seventeenth century had prepared the way for a rational discussion of the supernatural. The Royal Society was exerting an everwidening influence. A ...
8 gen 2016 · In 1712, “a lifetime [after] witchery was rife in England”, one of the country’s last major witch trials took place in the Hertfordshire village of Walkern. Rebecca Lenkiewicz’s new play...
No witch had been executed in England since the 1680s, but trials continued into the eighteenth century, most famously that of Jane Wenham, whose conviction in 1712 sparked off a pamphlet war between sceptical Whigs and traditionalist Tories.
