Hopkins (Matthew), of Manningtree, Essex, the witch-finder of the associated counties of Essex, Suffolk,
Norfolk, and Huntingdonshire. In one year he hanged sixty reputed witches in Essex alone. Dr. Z. Grey
says that between three and four thousand persons suffered death for witchcraft between 1643 and 1661.
Nicholas Hopkins. A Carthusian friar, confessor of the Duke of Buckingham, who prophesied "that
neither the king (Henry VIII.) nor his heirs should prosper, but that the Duke of Buckingham should
govern England.

Three of four thousand makes the Salem witch executions look like small potatoes.