The Digital Ark: Early Modern Collections of Curiosities in England and Scotland, 1580-1700
Edward Fairfax (1580? - 27 Jan 1635)
Poet and literary translator. He composed "Discourse of Witchcraft, by Edward Fairfax of Fewston...giving an account of experiences of members of his own family" in which he alleges a case of witchcraft leading to the death of one of his daughters in 1621.Dictionary of National Biography entry: https://doi.org/10.1093/ref:odnb/9080 Other biography: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edward_Fairfax Relevant locations: Lived at or near Leeds, Leeds Parish
Lived at or near Fewston , Yorkshire
References in Documents:
Thoresby, Musaeum Thoresbyanum (1713)
DæmonologyEdw. Fairfax, of
EsqWitchcraft, wherewith his Family,
then at Fueston in the Forest of Knaresborough, was
exercised An. Jacobi
Simpson.
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at
Leeds -An account of ditto, in the Family of
Starkie Behavior of Mr.
, Preacher, and of the young Man who
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