[43] Eleven trials for witchcraft were held before chief justice
Holt, from 1694 to 1702, in which he so charged the juries that they
generally brought in verdicts of acquittal. The English statutes for
the punishment of witchcraft, however, were not repealed till 1736. 9
Geo. II. chap. 5, _Statutes at Large_, vol. xvii. p. 3.