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

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  • 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

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  1. ^ Devil Dogs, p. 26, May 2011, BBC History Magazine