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	Matthew Hopkins - Encyclopedia.WorldSearch (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Hopkins was a lawyer and the son of James Hopkins, a Puritan clergyman.
		Hopkins was soon travelling over eastern England, claiming truthfully or not to be an official specially commissioned by Parliament to uncover and prosecute witches.
		Matthew Hopkins's witch hunts were loosely adapted into a horror film starring Vincent Price as Hopkins, under the title The Conqueror Worm.
	encyclopedia.worldsearch.com /matthew_hopkins.htm (462 words)

	Matthew Hopkins -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Hopkins was a (A professional person authorized to practice law; conducts lawsuits or gives legal advice) lawyer and the son of James Hopkins, a Puritan (Clergymen collectively (as distinguished from the laity)) clergyman.
		He also sold (Excessive or irrational devotion to some activity) fetishes he called "witch boxes" that were supposed to protect the households of their owners from (The belief in magical spells that harness occult forces or evil spirits to produce unnatural effects in the world) sorcery.
		However, it is believed by most historians that Hopkins actually died of illness (possibly (Infection transmitted by inhalation or ingestion of tubercle bacilli and manifested in fever and small lesions (usually in the lungs but in various other parts of the body in acute stages)) tuberculosis) in his home.
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/m/ma/matthew_hopkins.htm (451 words)

	Lets Sing - About Matthew Hopkins (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Matthew’s background in music from the age of 8 until 14 years old was with the famous travelling Collegiate Choir of St Mary, Warwick.
		Matthew is pursuing his career as a professional tenor, and has already made his mark on the oratorio scene with several acclaimed performances of Messiah and Crucifixion to his credit – alongside others such as Haydn’s The Seasons and the Nelson Mass.
		Matthew is continuing his studies under the famous tenor Julian Pike at the Birmingham Conservatoire.
	www.lets-sing.co.uk /matthew_hopkins.htm (373 words)

	This is Essex \| Local Interest \| Famous Faces \| Matthew Hopkins (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Matthew Hopkins, known as the Witchfinder General, was one of the most notorious figures to emerge from 17th Century Britain.
		Hopkins held court at various inns including the White Hart, Manningtree, and the Thorn at Mistley, but most of his victims were sent for trial at the notorious Chelmsford Assizes.
		Hopkins was the son of a Suffolk puritan minister and for some time he practiced unsuccessfully as a lawyer in Ipswich.
	www.thisisessex.co.uk /essex/famous_faces/social/mhopkins.html (355 words)

	Encyclopedia: Matthew Hopkins
		According to his book The Discovery of Witches (not to be confused with Reginald Scot's book The Discovery of Witchcraft) he began his career as a witch-finder when he overheard various women discussing their meetings with the Devil in March of 1644, in a village near Colchester.
		However, it is believed by most historians that Hopkins actually died of illness (possibly tuberculosis) in his home.
		Matthew Hopkins's witch hunts were loosely adapted into a horror film starring Vincent Price as Hopkins, under the title Witchfinder General (retitled The Conqueror Worm in the United States).
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Matthew-Hopkins (1219 words)

	Scifilm -- Reviews, MATTHEW HOPKINS: WITCHFINDER GENERAL (1968)
		When Marshall asks Hopkins what he, a lawyer, might want in Brandeston, Hopkins tells him he is looking for "a man who is not what he appears to be." Marshall continues on to his company.
		Price's Hopkins is a conniving, ruthless, and implacable antagonist, outwardly as void of emotion as one suspects he is inwardly devoid of a soul.
		Hopkins is a crocodile, basking in the sun, eyes lidded just enough that he appears to be sleeping, or at the very least sated and therefore not a threat.
	www.scifilm.org /reviews2/witchfinder.html (2058 words)

	Mathew Hopkins
		Matthew Hopkins is perhaps the most notorious name in the history of English witchcraft, more commonly he was known as “The Witch-Finder General”.
		Hopkins it seems was ideally located and able to exploit and gain through them, the approbation and support he needed for the holocaust which followed.
		Hopkins prudently avoided visiting Great Staughton and by the end of 1646 as his credibility and activities dwindled, he was forced to part company with his faithful assistants and retire back to Manningtree where his infamous career had started.
	www.hulford.co.uk /matthew.html (5305 words)

	Matthew Hopkins, Witchfinder General (www.joodiff.com) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Matthew Hopkins was born in Suffolk, England, the son of a Puritan minister.
		It is said that Hopkins was involved in the trial of the "Lowestoft Witches".
		In 1646, Hopkins published "Discovery of Witches", but the tide of public opinion was already turning against him - presumably for his brutality, and for the unfeasible number of people he was accusing of witchcraft (at, as previously noted, twenty shillings a head).
	www.joodiff.com /hopkins.htm (375 words)

	Matthew Hopkins - Witchfinder General \| 1968
		Hopkins agrees, but on his way to Sarah's on the second night he is followed by Stern.
		Hopkins is called away from the village on urgent business, and tells Stern to leave the priest alone - the thug's too busy beating up old women, anyway - but he does manage to make time to slip away and rape Sarah.
		When Hopkins hears about this he decides to kill the priest anyway, and along with two old "witches", Sarah's unfortunate uncle is trussed up and thrown into a nearby moat.
	www.britishhorrorfilms.co.uk /witchfinder.shtml (707 words)

	Daves Personal Log (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Hopkins subjected Elizabeth to sleep deprivation, consistent questioning along with the "examinations" for signs that she was a witch.
		It is believed that Hopkins and his cohorts, not being able to find this spot on Clarke on her exisiting body(and they had tried - by using the needle all over her body) that the missing "Spot" must have been on the missing limb.
		Hopkins, of course, denied these accusations, citing that, although Stearne and he put themselves at risk with their work, they were welcomed and given "thanks and recompense".
	smudger.crimsonblog.com /archives20040401.html (3426 words)

	BBC - h2g2 - Matthew Hopkins, 'Witchfinder General' of East Anglia
		Between 1644 and 1646 Matthew Hopkins is believed to have been responsible for the killing of around 300 women.
		Hopkins is a man of mystery - barely any documentation exists to prove that he was ever born, or even died.
		Matthew Hopkins was accused of being in league with the Devil which was why he was able to spot witches; his pamphlet 'The Discovery of Witches' was written as a reaction to this.
	www.bbc.co.uk /dna/ww2/A6031784 (1663 words)

	Matthew Hopkins (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Hopkins was soon travelling over eastern England truthfully or not to be an official commissioned by Parliament to uncover and prosecute His witch-finding career spanned from 1644 to 1646.
		The last line refers to a tradition disgruntled villagers caught Hopkins and subjected him his own "swimming" test: he floated and was hanged for witchcraft himself.
		Matthew Hopkins's witch hunts were loosely adapted a horror film starring Vincent Price as Hopkins under the title The Conqueror Worm.
	www.freeglossary.com /Matthew_Hopkins (581 words)

	Matthew Hopkins, the Witch-Finder General of Essex (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Death at the stake was a fate reserved for traitors and heretics, and under the Witchcraft Act of 1563, death by hanging was reserved for those found guilty of murder by sorcery.
		Hopkins dressed fashionably in Puritan tunic and cloak, and was able to employ two assistants to help him with his work in East Anglia.
		Two accounts exist of Hopkins' demise: one, that he was himself accused of witchcraft and hanged, and two, that he died in his bed of tuberculosis.
	www.shanmonster.com /witch/hunters/hopkins.html (391 words)

	Matthew Hopkins (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		According to his book The Discovery of Witches (not to be confused with ReginaldScot 's book The Discovery of Witchcraft) he began his career as a witch-finder when he allegedly overheard variouswomen discussing their meetings with the Devil in March of 1644, in a village near Colchester.
		Hopkins was soon travelling over eastern England, claiming truthfully or not to be an official specially commissioned byParliament to uncover and prosecute witches.
		The last line refers to a tradition that disgruntled villagers caught Hopkins and subjected him to his own "swimming" test: hefloated, and therefore was hanged for witchcraft himself.
	www.therfcc.org /matthew-hopkins-127538.html (377 words)

	Matthew Hopkins, Witchfinder General (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Hopkins and his brutal assistant, who can barely stand each other, make profit in 1645 England as war rages between the Royalist Army and Oliver Cromwell's Roundheads.
		Hopkins turns up in a particular village where a priest has been denounced as a witch.
		Sure enough though, Stearnes rapes Sara while Hopkins is in another village, and as a consequence of her "spoiling", Hopkins loses interest in both Lowes and Sara and the priest is hung as a witch, along with a couple of other unfortunates.
	home.vicnet.net.au /~parsoto/witchfinder.html (640 words)

	GALAS: MATTHEW DAVID DOES A CORPORATE PICNIC IN THE PARK
		Matthew David Events turns a run-down stadium into a field of dreams for a company picnic BLOOMBERG, a New York-based financial company, turned a run-down stadium into a colorful theme park with the help of local floral and event designer Matthew David Hopkins, owner of Matthew David Events.
		Matthew David Events draped douppioni silk in rich orange and green from the ceiling of the 12-by-24-foot tents.
		Hopkins estimates that 500 people were brought in to staff the food stations.
	specialevents.com /fairs/meetings_galas_picnic_park/index.html (784 words)

	Candidates for the House Matthew Hopkins, Republican
		To Matthew Hopkins, the way Block Island has used state funds to complete state projects "on time and under budget" demonstrates the "flexible authority" that ought to be a standard in state-local relations.
		Hopkins is an anomaly; he’s unmarried and will by primary day Tuesday have just passed his 30th birthday.
		Hopkins was born in Australia, where his Rhode Island parents had gone to teach in the 1970s.
	www.blockislandtimes.com /news/2002/0907/News/020.html (598 words)

	SK Knowledge Base - Matthew Hopkins, Witchfinder General (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Matthew Hopkins’ reign as self-appointed Witchfinder General in the years 1645-1647 has been compared to the European scale of witch trials and brutality that were common in the late sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries.
		Hopkins was just one of a selection of orthodox sect hunters, such as Thomas Edward, Ephraim Pagitt and others who expressed the alarmist view that sectarianism reflected the devil’s influence.
		Hopkins claims that his suspicions were correct for “on the fourth night she called (them) in by their several names and told them what shapes (to assume) a quarter of an hour before they came in, (with) there being ten of us in the room”.
	www.sealedknot.org /knowbase/docs/0027_WitchGen.htm (2030 words)

	Headlines@Hopkins: Johns Hopkins University News Releases
		Matthew Kroot applied for a PURA to join his adviser, Glenn Schwartz, on an archaeological dig in Syria.
		The Johns Hopkins University is recognized as the country's first research university, and has been in recent years the leader among the nation's universities in winning federal research and development grants.
		The opportunity to be involved in important research is one of the distinguishing characteristics of an undergraduate education at Johns Hopkins.
	www.jhu.edu /news/home03/apr03/kroot.html (622 words)

	John Passarella, Horror Author - Matthew's Story
		Matthew is scheduled for a 2nd brain surgery on June 21, 2005.
		Matthew was unable to walk (first due to foot surgery in December, then because of weakness in his right side after brain surgery in February) for about three months, but even after he started walking again we kept the wheelchair because his stamina only allowed him to walk short distances.
		Matthew's right leg, weakened by the tumor and the surgery is now stronger than his left, which is as it should be since his left foot has required two rounds of reconstructive surgery since he was born with a club foot.
	www.passarella.com /matthew.htm (1876 words)

	Matthew Hopkins Witchfinder General
		For such a notorious character, surprisingly little is k nown of Matthew Hopkins prior to his moving onto the bloody stage as (self-appointed) Witchfinder General.
		In all it is suspected that Hopkins was directly or indirectly associated with perhaps as many of 200 executions - if not by his direct "examinations", then by his murderous, and seemingly omnipotent influence.
		Stories vary as to whether or not Hopkins benefited financially from his evil activities - some say he did, others that he was on a holy quest, and monies obtained were slight.
	www.sawneybean.com /horrors/matthew.htm (1052 words)

	The History of Witchdraft in England (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Matthew Hopkins (known as the Witchfinder General) and his appointed searchers would strip suspected witches to look for 'witch marks' (birthmarks and other blemishes).
		Hopkins' suspects were accused of keeping familiars and performing maleficia, this was in keeping with the original beliefs regarding English witchcraft.
		After the death of Matthew Hopkins, the number of witch trials dropped dramatically.
	www.britwitch.com /pages/history/history.html (888 words)

	EUFS: Matthew Hopkins - Witchfinder General (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Matthew Hopkins - Witchfinder General gives a fictionalised portrayal of Matthew Hopkins, self-styled witchfinder general of Civil War England.
		Hopkins (Vincent Price) is a cynically religious maniac, taking advantage of social disorder resulting from the war, to perform witch hunts for fun and profit.
		Hopkins arouses the wrath of a soldier, Marshall (Ian Ogilvy), having raped his fiancee, Sara, and executed her priest uncle.
	www.eufs.org.uk /films/matthew_hopkins_witchfinder_general.html (220 words)

	Salon Entertainment \| "Amistad"
		Physically, Hopkins is a good match for Adams: stooped and stocky and eagle-eyed.
		As he argues the case before the Supreme Court, Hopkins makes you feel just how close Adams' reverence for the American experiment was to his contempt for the damn fools so ready to screw it up.
		Hopkins makes possible the young actor's best moment: When he discovers African violets in Adams' nursery, Cinque lifts their bell jar to inhale the familiar fragrance.
	www.salon.com /ent/movies/1997/12/12amistad.html (1426 words)

	Frank Showalter » Matthew Hopkins: Witchfinder General (1968) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Devoid of the camp that pervaded most of his earlier roles, Price's Hopkins is written as evil incarnate and portrayed convincingly as such.
		Hopkins isn't the thing that goes "bump" in the night, he's the beast that walks free in the day.
		Some of the chase scenes are padded a bit too long, losing some dramatic tension, and the supporting cast beneath Price —while solid— never seems to aspire to his level, but these are minor quibbles.
	fshowalter.com /movie-reviews/matthew-hopkins-witchfinder-general-1968 (277 words)

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