WARBOYS, with its Wood and Fen, (Huntingdonshire) lie bet. Ramsey and Somersham. This manor was sold by Sir Oliver Cromwell to
Sir John Lemon, once Ld.-mayor of London, who said, "Twas the cheapest land he ever bought, though the dearest that Sir
Oliver ever sold; for it seems, that the latter, though otherwise a man of good understanding, yet had not the wit, either
to keep his estate, or to sell it to its full value. In Q's. Coll. library in Cambridge, there is the history of a man,
his wife, and daughter, who were sacrificed to ignorance and superstition, by being all three hanged as witches, for
torturing the children of a gentleman of this p. upon the verdict of a sorry jury, and an act of James I. against
witchcraft, (an act made in compliment to that K's. opinion, concerning devils and witches, in the book he wrote called
Demonology) and one of the fellows of that college preaches a sermon yearly on that occasion, at Huntingdon; but 'tis our
happiness to live under a wiser Gt. and in a generation more humane; for in the 9th of the present R. the K. and Pt.
passed an act for repealing the above-mentioned act; so that such poor wretches, whose age and infirmities, or poverty and
deformity, exposed them formerly to be baited to death by a rustick rabble, are now rescued from that terror, and rendered
the objects of pity, instead of barbarity.