8th March, 1632

After interrogating the herbalist for two days, I am convinced that there is no taint in him, and that he is not consorting with devils, as the accusers suggested - if anything, he seems more devout than some others we have encountered on our journey. I have released him. I suspect that perhaps the group had more material than religious reasons for the denouncement, and as such I have locked the accusers in the stocks for three days. While I am grateful to villagers for their reports on possible witches, accusing such a devout man as Apesley, possibly for material reasons, certainly warrants a mild punishment.

The stocks, useful for lesser punishments.
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"The witch-hunters are those most courageous of men, ordained by God himself to cleanse his lands of the impure and heretical" - from an unknown text