![]() ![]() There are no documents from that time about him or his family. Very little is known of Matthew Hopkins before 1644. His witchhunts mainly took place in the eastern counties of Suffolk, Essex, Norfolk, and occasionally in Cambridgeshire, Northamptonshire, Bedfordshire, and Huntingdonshire. It is believed the number of deaths due to them was about 300 women. At the end, more people were hanged for being witches because of Hopkins and Stearnes accusations than in the previous 100 years. ![]() Matthew and his colleague John Stearne were responsible for the rising number of witch hunts during that time. His 3-year career began in 1645 during the time of the English Civil War and ended in 1647. ![]() Portrait of Matthew Hopkins, "The Celebrated Witch-finder" from the 1837 edition of The discovery of witches. ![]()
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