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Well, Anyway He's Dead
The Editor, Weird Tales
9 Rockefeller Plaza, New York 20, N. Y.
I observed in the "Weirdisms" department of your March, 1950 issue what I conceive to be an inaccuracy. It is there stated as fact that Matthew Hopkins, the witch-finder, was tried and hanged. This conclusion differs from that ascribed as an end to Mr. Hopkins by the Rev. Montague Summers who, if anybody does, should know.
I cite you to page 144 of Summers' "Geography of Witchcraft," New York, Alfred A. Knopf, 1927, where it is stated:
. . . (Hopkins) died within the year at his old home in Manningtree. Stearne (Hopkins' chief aide) related that he passed away "peaceably, after a long sickness of a Consumption." ("Conformation and Discovery," London, 1648.) But Hutchinson tells us that Hopkins himself was seized upon by the irate people, accused of being a witch, and put to the water-ordeal, when he was drowned, and this is commonly accepted. Another story (J. T. Varden, East Anglian Handbook for 1885) said that Hopkins had stolen the Devil's roll of all the witches in England, and so was casting out Beelzebub by means of Beelzebub. Probably Stearne is correct, and the other tales merely show how infamous his name had become.
According to Summers, however Hopkins may have perished finally, it was not by hanging. Giving the third of his three hypotheses short shrift, it remains that he has decided from the evidence that Hopkins died a natural death—and at the outside was drowned while being "swum." I have cited Summers' sources from his own footnotes;
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