Thomas Oliver (Salem witch trials) the second charge in 1692 as the result of which she was hanged. When he left the colony for England he had a considerable amount of real property to which he returned after his first wife Mary's death. His estate included a house and sometime tavern in Salem, Massachusetts near the meeting house where after his death his widow Bridget Oliver Bishop was known for staying up late into the night entertaining her guests with playing shovelboard. During the scholarly reexaminations of the Salem witch trials during the 19th century, Bridget Bishop's claims on this estate were posited as the
Navarre witch trials (1525-26) that time, no more than about two dozen people were executed by the Inquisition for sorcery in Spain. During the Basque witch trials, this policy was tried, and re-established afterward. However, the Spanish Inquisition did not always succeed in keeping the secular courts from dealing with witchcraft cases, and a failure to do so resulted in a great witch hunt in Katalonia in 1618-1622, with about one hundred victims until it was subdued. After 1622, witch trials in Spain dwindled until the mid-17th century. Navarre witch trials (1525-26) The Navarre witch trials took place in the Pyrenees in the Kingdom