The keep, Belvoir Castle. Dating back to Norman times, the castle was largely rebuilt in the nineteenth century.
The keep, Belvoir Castle. Dating back to Norman times, the castle was largely rebuilt in the nineteenth century.
Francis Manners, sixth Earl of Rutland (1578–1632).
The interior of St Mary’s Church, Bottesford. The tomb of Francis Manners and his sons is to the right of the altar.
Detail of the tomb, showing the two Manners boys, who were said to have been done to death ‘by wicked practise and sorcerye’.
A seventeenth-century woodcut showing a witch kissing Satan on the buttocks.
From the same era, a classic illustration of a witch riding a broomstick, with the devil and another witch riding close behind.
Le Départ pour le Sabbat, by David Teniers the Younger (mid-seventeenth century).
The Witches’ Sabbath, by Francisco Goya (1798).
Woodcut from Newes from Scotland showing James directing the interrogation of the North Berwick witches (1591).
The title page of Daemonologie, James’s treatise on witchcraft (1597).
James I of England and VI of Scotland, after John De Critz the Elder (c.1606).
George Villiers, Duke of Buckingham, with his wife, Katherine (née Manners), their daughter, Mary, and son, George.The family portrait was painted shortly before the Duke’s assassination in August 1628.
A seventeenth-century engraving showing the hanging of four witches.
The ‘swimming’ of a witch, from the title page of Witches Apprehended (1613).
The title page of the contemporary pamphlet telling the story of Joan Flower and her daughters (1620).