"In almost every province of Germany, but especially in those where clerical influence predominated, the persecution raged with a fearful intensity. Seven thousand witches are said to have been burned at Trèves, six hundred by a single bishop in Bamberg, and nine hundred in a single year in the bishopric of Würzburg.... At Toulouse, the seat of the Inquisition, four hundred persons perished for sorcery at a single execution, and fifty at Douay in a single year. Remy, a judge of Nancy, boasted that he put to death eight hundred witches in sixteen years.... In Italy, a thousand persons were executed in a single year in the province of Como; and in other parts of the country the severity of the inquisitors at last created an absolute rebellion.... In Geneva, which was then ruled by a bishop, five hundred alleged witches were executed in three months; forty-eight were burned at Constance or Ravensburg, and eighty in the little town of Valery in Saxony. In 1670, seventy persons were condemned in Sweden, and a large proportion of them burnt."[189] In England, from 1603 to 1680, it is estimated that seventy thousand persons were put to death for sorcery.[190] Grey, the editor of _Hudibras_, says that he had himself seen a list of three thousand who were put to death during the Long Parliament. The celebrated witch-finder, Mathew Hopkins, hung sixty in one year in the county of Suffolk. In Scotland, for thirty-nine years, the number killed annually averaged about two hundred. This, of course, does not take into account the number who were hounded to death by persecution of a popular kind, or whose lives were made so wearisome that death must have come as a release. But the most remarkable, and the most horrible, of witchcraft executions occurred in Würzburg in February 1629. No less than one hundred and sixty-two witches were burned in a succession of _autos-da-fé_. Among these, the reports disclose that there were actually thirty-four children. The following details give the actual ages of some of them:-- +----------+---------+---------------------------------+ | Burning. | Number. | Children. | +----------+---------+---------------------------------+ | 7th | 7 | 1 Girl, aged 12. | | 13th | 4 | 1 Girl of 10 and another. | | 15th | 2 | 1 Boy of 12. | | 18th | 6 | 2 Boys of 10, girl of 14. | | 19th | 6 | 2 Boys, 10 and 12. | | 20th | 6 | 2 Boys. | | 23rd | 9 | 3 Boys, 9, 10, and 14. | | 24th | 7 | 2 Boys, brought from hospital. | | 26th | 8 | Little boy and girl. | | 27th | 7 | 2 Boys, 8 and 9. | | 28th | 6 | Blind girl and infant.[191] | +----------+---------+---------------------------------+