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    WE should have thought that there was not a corner in England , where the superstitious notions of witckcraft still prevailed . We therefore took up with surprise a sermon just published under the following title : A Sermon against Witchcraft preached in

    ^ the Parish Church of Great Paxtony in the County of Huntingdon y July 17 , 1808 . By the Reverend Isaac Nicholson , A . M . Curate . This Sermon is so ex eel 1 en t > that we shall review it in the

    present number . Prefixed to it is an account of the disgraceful circumstances which occasioned it which the reader will find below place it in the

    department of History y because we -Consider thai the Monthly Repository will not be less useful as ft record of the follies and vices , than as a register of the wisdom and virtue of rqankind . r

    Editoh . * tf Brief Account nf the Attack on the Person of Ann lxz > artfy and the Cfa ~

    cumstances "tvhich led to it . In the year 1593 , an indelible mark f infamy wa ? stamped upon the inhabitants of Warboys , in the county of

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    Huntingdon , for their folly and wickedness in carrying to trial , and afterwards to execution , three of their unfortunate parishioners , for the alled ^ ed offence of witchcraft . The better informed part of the community may believe that the doctrine cf witchcraft has long been ex *; ploded , and that it does not in this en *

    lightened age , disgrace even the lowest orders of the people of England ; but the following statement of facts , will convince them of their mistake , axidy allowing- for the difference of science and civilization , will shew that Great Paxton , in the same county , is more than upon a level with War boys far ignorance , credulity and barbarity .

    In the afternoon of Wednesday the seventeenth of February last , Alice Brown , a young woman of Great Paxton , imprudently ventured to cross the ice which then covered the surface of the Ouse . A thaw of some hours had rendered the ice unsafe , and she had not

    walked many yards upon it , before ifc gave way , ana let her into the river * From this perilous situation she providentially extricated herself , and reached the opposite bank , where her friend Fanny Amey , scarcely less terrified than fcerseif at what had happened , stood an *

    xiously waiting for her . Shivering and frightened she hastened to her father ' s house , about a quarter of a mile from tbe river , and almost as soon as she en tered it , was seized with a strong epiieptjc fit . JPanny Amey had been subject to epilepsy for several months previous to this period , and therefore it is not afe

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    MONTHLY REPOSITORY OF ! Theology and General Literature .

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    No . XXXV-l NOVEMBER . [ Vol . III .

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    MR , NICWOI ^ &O ^' S ACCOUNT OF AN ATTACK ON THE PEP . SON OK A REPUTED WITCH ,

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  • Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Nov. 2, 1808, page unpag, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2398/page/1/