Mary Baguley (died 1675) was an English woman from Wildboarclough, Cheshire, accused of having bewitched the schoolteacher Robert Hall living in the nearby village of Wincle, and causing his death by the use of magic. Found guilty at Chester Assizes, she was executed by hanging.[1]
Witch trials in Cheshire were at their height during the 1650s and 1660s, during which time 32 people were tried for witchcraft in the county.[2][a]Thirty women and two men.[2] Mary was perhaps the last person to be executed for witchcraft in Cheshire, but the last person to have been executed for witchcraft in England is generally considered to be Alice Molland
Pehaps the last person to be executed for witchcraft in England., in 1685.[3]