Author: WRIGHT Thomas :
Title: A contemporary narrative of the proceedings against Dame Alice Kyteler, prosecuted for sorcery in 1324, by Richard de Ledrede, Bishop of Ossory.
Description: .: London, Printed for the Camden Society by J.B.Nichols, 1843, small in-4°, 22,5 cm, xliii + 61 pp. (bound at the end a 36 p booklet on the Society, with a members list). Bound in blindtooled dark blue buckram ( Remnant & Edmonds-London). Nice very well preserved copy. Proceedings of one of the earliest witchcraft trials in Western-Europe; the first in Ireland. The accuse, a wealthy woman of Flemish descent escaped the peanlty by running away. Her maiden servant Petronilla however was whipped and burnt at the stake. .

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