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| An extract from the diary of Nehemiah Wallington, showing his account of the confession of Rebecca West as a witch at Chelmsford, Essex |
A University of Manchester project has made a diary written by Nehemiah Wallington available online for the first time.
Wallington was a Puritan wood turner born in 1598 in Eastcheap, in the City of London. He wrote a prolific number of journals and other books, though only seven survive, one of which contains a shocking account of Matthew Hopkins' East Anglia witch-hunts ...