Witchcraft Act 1562
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England's most notorious Witchcraft Act was passed early in the reign of Elizabeth I. This act of 1562 provided that anyone who should "use, practise, or exercise any Witchcraft, Enchantment, Charm, or Sorcery, whereby any person shall happen to be killed or destroyed", was guilty of felony without benefit of clergy, and was to be put to death. This law was broadened further by Elizabeth's successor, James I, who himself wrote a treatise on Dæmonologie and as James VI of Scotland had taken a personal interest in the trial of some accused witches at Berwick on Tweed.
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