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Little Saint Hugh: England’s Worst Blood Libel Craze

By Kyle Orton (@KyleWOrton) on 24 September 2026

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This entry was posted in History and tagged Abraham of Kent, Adam of Bristol, anti-Judaism, Antisemitism, armed pilgrimage, Beilis Affair, Beilis Case, blood libel, Cahorsins, Caursines, Christendom, Christianity, Coin-Clipping Scandal of 1279, conspiracy theories, Copin, Count Theobald V of Blois, Domus Conversorum, Edward I, England, English Civil Wars, First Crusade, France, Franciscans, Fulda, Geoffrey Chaucer, Germany, Hapsburg Austria, Harold of Gloucester, Henry III, Holy Land, Hopkins Witch Panic, House of Converts, Hugh of Lincoln, Jerusalem, Jesus, Jews, John of Lexington, King John, Lachrymabilem judaeorum, legends, Licoricia of Winchester, Lincoln Cathedral, Little Saint Hugh, Medieval Era, Menahem Mendel Beilis, Middle Ages, monks, Norman conquest of England, Oliver Cromwell, Papal Bull, Papal Revolution, Passion of Christ, People’s Crusade, pogroms, Pope Gregory VII, Popish Plot, Richard I, Richard of Devizes, Richard the Lionheart, ritual murder accusations, Robert of Bury, Roman Catholic Church, Russia, Saint Cecilia, Saint Swithun, Serbia, Sicut Judaeis, Statute of the Jewry, Statutum de Judaismo, Theobald of Cambridge, Thomas of Monmouth, vampires, Walk to Canossa, William of Norwich, Winchester, Witchfinder General Matthew Hopkins on September 24, 2026 by KyleWOrton.

Salem Witch Trials, Part One: Massachusetts on the Eve of the Panic

By Kyle Orton (@KyleWOrton) on 25 January 2025

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This entry was posted in History and tagged Act of Uniformity, Admiral Gaspard de Coligny, Anabaptism, Antichrist, Archbishop William Laud, assassinations, Austria, Aztecs, Baptists, Bible, Boston, Brazil, cannibalism, Catholicism, Charles I, Charles II, Charles V, Chosen People, Christianity, Christians, Church of England, Commonwealth, Declaration of Indulgence, Devil, Diet of Worms, Dutch Republic, Edmund Andros, Edward Whalley, Elizabeth I, English Civil Wars, Fifth Monarchists, Fifth Monarchy Men, Florida, Francis Higginson, germ theory, Glorious Revolution, Good Old Cause, Great Migration, Habsburgs, Henry Bouquet, High Church, Holy Ghost, Holy Roman Empire, Holy Spirit, Hugh Peter, Huguenots, human sacrifice, Incas, Increase Mather, Intelligence, Interregnum, Ireland, Israel, James I, James II, Jamestown, Jean Ribault at Charlesfort, Jeffery Amherst, Jesus, Johann Cochlaeus, John Endecott, John Winthrop, King James Bible, King Philip, King Philip’s War, Leif Erikson, liberalism, Lost Colony, Louis XIV, Mammon, Marcus Antonius Plencic, Martin Luther, Mary I, Mary II, Massachusetts, Massachusetts Bay Colony, Mayflower, Metacom, Naumkeag, Navigation Acts, Netherlands, New World, Newfoundland, Nine Years’ War, Nonconformism, Nonconformists, Norsemen, Nova Scotia, Oliver Cromwell, paganism, pagans, Personal Rule, Philip II, Pilgrim Fathers, Plymouth Colony, Pope, popery, Popish Plot, pox blanket, Protectorate, Protestant Reformation, Protestantism, Protestants, Province of Massachusetts Bay, Puritans, Quakers, Raid on the Medway, Regicides, religious wars, René Goulaine de Laudonnière, Rhode Island, Roanoke Island, Roger Williams, Roman Catholic Church, Royal Charter, Saint Bartholomew’s Day Massacre, Salem, Salem witch trials, Samuel Parris, Satan, Secret Treaty of Dover, sectarianism, Sir George Downing, Sir Henry Vane, Sir William Phips, smallpox blanket, sola scriptura, Spain, Spanish Armada, Sun King, Test Act, The Book of Common Prayer, Thirty Years’ War, Thomas Venner, Titus Oates, Vikings, Virgin Mary, Wars of the Three Kingdoms, Whigs, William Goffe, William III, William of Orange, William Trent, Williamite War, witch panic, witchcraft, witches on January 25, 2025 by KyleWOrton.

The Popish Plot and its Legacy

By Kyle Orton (@KyleWOrton) on 5 November 2022

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This entry was posted in History and tagged Andrew Marvell, Anglicanism, Anthony Cooper, anti-Catholicism, Austria, Bonfire Night, Britain, Charles II, Christianity, Crusade, Don Juan José, Duke of Ormond, Earl of Shaftesbury, Edmund Berry Godfrey, Edward Coleman, Edward Turberville, Elizabeth I, English Civil War, Exclusion Act, Exclusion Crisis, Francis Walsingham, Francois La Chaise, George Conyers, George Wakeman, Glorious Revolution, Great Fire of London, Great Plague, Guido Fawkes, Gunpowder Plot, Guy Fawkes, Habsburgs, Holy Roman Empire, Immortal Seven, Intelligence, Israel Tonge, James I, Jean Ferrier, Jesuits, John Grove, John Thurloe, Lord Danby, Marian persecution, Oliver Cromwell, Pope Pius V, Popish Plot, Privy Council, Protestantism, Puritanism, Restoration, Roman Catholicism, Saint Bartholomew’s Day Massacre, Society of Jesus, Spain, spies, Stephen Dugdale, subversion, Sun King Louis XIV, Thirty Years’ War, Thomas Osborne, Titus Oates, Treaty of Dover, William Bedloe, William Ireland, William Scroggs, William Staley on November 5, 2022 by KyleWOrton.

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