Thomas Potts (fl. 1609-1616) was an English law clerk, and the author of the Discoverie of Witches.

Thomas Potts, the clerk to the Lancaster Assizes, was ordered by the trial judges Sir James Altham and Sir Edward Bromley to write an account of the proceedings, making them some of the most famous and best recorded witch trials of the 17th century. Potts completed the work on 16 November 1612, and submitted it to the judges for review.

2006年4月25日 · The very curious report of that trial is contained in the work now republished, which was compiled under the superintendence of the judges who presided, by Master Thomas Potts, clerk in court, and present at the trial.

This is a nineteenth-century reprint, with additional introduction by James Crossley, of Thomas Potts' The Wonderfull Discoverie of Witches in the Countie of Lancaster, first published in 1613. Potts' text, commissioned by the court at the time, is an account of a series of English witch trials that took place on 18th and 19th August 1612 ...

2011年8月17日 · The clerk of the court, Thomas Potts, wrote a book of all the notes he made of the trial, which became a bestseller and spread the story far and wide. In The Wonderful Discoverie of Witches in...

2006年4月25日 · "Discovery of Witches" by Thomas Potts is a historical account written in the early 17th century. The work documents the infamous Pendle witch trials, shedding light on the social and judicial proceedings of the time regarding accusations of witchcraft.

Thomas Potts may refer to: Thomas Potts (naturalist) (1824–1888), British-born New Zealand naturalist and politician; Thomas Potts (clerk) (fl. 1612–1618), English law clerk, and the author of the Discoverie of Witches; Thomas Potts (Pennsylvania politician) (died 1785), American politician from Pennsylvania

This chapter demonstrates that “The Wonderfull Discoverie” by Thomas Potts is the clearest example of an account published to display the shining efficiency and justice of the legal system. The literary genre of witchcraft stories and their relationship with the trials of 1612 is analyzed.

Thomas Potts’ famous account of the Pendle witch trials of 1612 is the only original source of information about the events, and in this excellent new version historian Robert Poole makes the text accessible and useable for twenty-first century readers for the first time.