She was condemned to death by Huntingdon assizes on 28 July 1716 along with her nine-year-old daughter, Elizabeth Hicks,[1][2] and is thought to be the last person executed in England for witchcraft.
Mary Hicks lived in Huntingdon with her husband, Edward and daughter Elizabeth.
[2] Their story is recorded in an eight-page pamphlet entitled, The whole trial and examination of Mrs. Mary Hicks and her daughter Elizabeth,[3] printed by W. Matthews (London) in 1716.
The trial accused Hicks and her daughter of taking off their stockings “in order to raise a rainstorm”.
[4] Her investigation and execution is unusual because by the early eighteenth century many people questioned the reality of witchcraft.