Edmund Robinson
Appearance
Edmund Robinson was an English ten-year-old boy from Wheatley Lane, Lancashire, who sparked a witch-hunt.
His story was the inspiration for the 1634 play The Late Lancashire Witches.[1]
References
- Swain, John T. "Robinson, Edmund". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (online ed.). Oxford University Press. doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/67792. (Subscription or UK public library membership required.)#
Notes
- ^ Devil Dogs, p.26, May 2011, BBC History Magazine