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" Mrs Hicks and her daughter, aged nine, were hanged at Huntingdon for selling their souls to the devil, and raising a storm by pulling off their stockings, and making a lather of soap ! With this crowning atrocity, the catalogue of murders in England closes. "
The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction - Page 89
1830
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Encyclopædia Americana, ed. by F. Lieber assisted by E. Wigglesworth (and T ...

Encyclopaedia Americana - 1833 - 548 pages
...verdicts of acquittal. Yet, in 1716, ¡Mrs. Hickes and her daughter, nine years of age, were hanged for selling their souls to the devil, and raising a storm by pulling off stockings and making a lather of soap. The number of those put to death in England has been estimated...
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Encyclopædia Americana: A Popular Dictionary of Arts, Sciences ..., Volume 13

Francis Lieber, Edward Wigglesworth, Thomas Gamaliel Bradford, Henry Vethake - Encyclopedias and dictionaries - 1833 - 570 pages
...in verdicts of acquittal. Yet, in 1716, Mrs. Hickes and her daughter, nine years of age, were hanged for selling their souls to the devil, and raising a storm by pulling off' stockings and malting a lather of soap. The number of those put to death in England has been estimated...
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The Constitution of Man Considered in Relation to External Objects

George Combe - Human beings - 1835 - 440 pages
...about ten other trials by Holt, from 1694 to 1701, the result was the same. Yet, in 1716, a Mrs. Hicks and her daughter, aged nine, were hanged at Huntingdon...soap! With this crowning atrocity, the catalogue of tnurders in England closes, the penal statutes against witchcraft being repealed in 1736, and the pieti.nded...
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Encyclopædia Americana: A Popular Dictionary of Arts, Sciences ..., Volume 13

Francis Lieber, Edward Wigglesworth - Encyclopedias and dictionaries - 1835 - 546 pages
...in verdicts of acquittal. Yet, in 1716, Mrs. Hickes and her daughter, nine years of age, were hanged for selling their souls to the devil, and raising a storm by pulling off stockings and making a lather of soap. The number of those put to death in England has been estimated...
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The Constitution of Man Considered in Relation to External Objects

George Combe - Phrenology - 1836 - 128 pages
...about ten other trials by Holt, from 1694 to 1701, the result was the same. Yet, in 1716, a Mrs Hicks, and her daughter aged nine, were hanged at Huntingdon...raising a storm by pulling off their stockings and mak. ing a lather of soap! With this crowning atrocity, the catalogue of murders in England closes,...
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The Constitution of Man Considered in Relation to External Objects

George Combe - Human beings - 1837 - 474 pages
...about ten other trials by Holt, from 1694 to 1701, the result was the same. Yet, in 1716, a Mrs. Hicks, and her daughter aged nine, were hanged at Huntingdon for selling their souls to tl.e devil, and raising a storm by pulling off their stockings and making a lather of soap! With this...
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American Criminal Trials, Volume 1

Peleg Whitman Chandler - Law - 1841 - 462 pages
...sermon at Huntingdon ; ' and, in 1716, Mrs. Hicks and her daughter, nine years of age, were hanged for selling their souls to the devil, and raising a storm by pulling off stockings and making a lather of soap.2 In Scotland, the executions for this offence are supposed to...
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The Popular Encyclopedia

1841 - 982 pages
...in verdicts of acquittal. Yet, in 1716, Mrs Hickes and her daughter, nine years of age, were hanged for selling their souls to the devil, and raising a storm by pulling off stockings and making a lather of soap. The number of those put to death in England lias been estimated...
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The Law Magazine: Or, Quarterly Review of Jurisprudence, Volume 28

Law - 1842 - 536 pages
...the last century. So late as 1716, one Mrs. Hicks, and her daughter, nine years of age, were hanged for selling their souls to the devil, and raising a storm by pulling off stockings and making a lather of soap; and in 1743, the repeal of the penal laws against witchcraft...
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Museum of Foreign Literature and Science, Volume 17

Robert Walsh, Eliakim Littell, John Jay Smith - 1830 - 624 pages
...that a pardon was procured for her. And yet frightful to think, after all this, in 1716, Mrs. Hicks and her daughter, aged nine, were hanged at Huntingdon for selling their soule to the devil, and raising a storm, by pulling off their stockings and making a lather of soap...
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