Key term for Edexcel GCSE History, used in Crime and Punishment in Eighteenth and Nineteenth Century Britain.
A law that abolished witchcraft as a capital crime, redefining it as a non-capital crime of fraud and deception.
Witchcraft Act of 1735 appears in Edexcel GCSE History revision content for Crime and Punishment in Britain and Whitechapel, especially Crime and Punishment in Eighteenth and Nineteenth Century Britain and Nature and Changing Definitions of Criminal Activity.
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