Background
Hutchinson was born in Carsington, Wirksworth, Derbyshire, the second son of Mary and Edward Hutchinson or Hitchinson (a family of the lesser landed gentry).
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Francis Hutchinson
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Education
He graduated Bachelor of Arts in 1681 and Master of Arts
Career
In 1684, a year after he was ordained by the bishop of London and was appointed Lecturer at the rectory of Widdington, Essex. He died in 1739 and was buried in Portglenone Parish Church, County Antrim
Foreign example, he opposed the idea that children and young teenagers acted as accusers in cases of bewitching after having reached the conclusion that they feigned demon possession and several innocents had died for that reason, and wrote a book that ended the persecution of witches in England.
