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Y312/01 Popular Culture and the

Witchcraze of the 16th and

17th Centuries

Summer 2017 examination series

Version 1

H505

For ?rst teaching in 2015

HISTORY A

A LEVEL

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Contents

Introduction 3

Question 1: Level 6 - 26 mark answer 5

Commentary

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Question 1: Level 5 - 23 mark answer 11

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Question 1: Level 5 - 21 mark answer 14

Commentary

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Question 1: Level 4 - 18 mark answer 20

Commentary

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Question 1: Level 32 - 11 mark answer 24

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Question 2: Level 5 - 20 mark answer 29

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Question 2: Level 5 - 19 mark answer 36

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Question 2: Level 4 - 15 mark answer 42

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Question 2: Level 3 - 11 mark answer 46

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Question 2: Level 3 - 9 mark answer 50

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Question 3: Level 6 - 25 mark answer 56

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Question 3: Level 6 - 21 mark answer 62

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Question 3: Level 3 - 12 mark answer 67

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Question 4: Level 3 - 10 mark answer 71

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Question 4: Level 2 - 7 mark answer 76

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Introduction

These exemplar answers have been chosen from the

summer 2017 examination series. OCR is open to a wide variety of approaches and all answers are considered on their merits. These exemplars, therefore, should not be seen as the only way to answer questions but do illustrate how the mark scheme has been applied. Please always refer to the specification (http://www.ocr. gce-history-a-h505.pdf ) for full details of the assessment for this qualification. These exemplar answers should also be read in conjunction with the sample assessment materials and the June 2017 Examiners' Report to Centres available on the OCR website http://www.ocr.org.uk/ qualifications/.

The question paper, mark scheme and any resource

booklet(s) will be available on the OCR website from summer 2018. Until then, they are available on OCR Interchange (school exams officers will have a login for this). It is important to note that approaches to question setting and marking will remain consistent. At the same time OCR reviews all its qualifications annually and may make small adjustments to improve the performance of its assessments. We will let you know of any substantive changes.

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Question 1

Read the two passages and then answer Question 1.

Evaluate the interpretations in both of the two passages and explain which you think is more convincing

as an explanation for the Essex witch hunts of the seventeenth century. [30]

Passage A:

The East Anglian witch hunt between 1645 and 1647 is usually associated with Matthew Hopkins. In

reality, however, Hopkins worked closely with John Stearne. The two men were to become England's most

notorious witch-finders. By 1642, Charles I and Parliament were at odds. Civil War convulsed England for

the next four years. Each side had a different religious perspective. The King's most aggressive opponents

were the Puritans - strict Calvinists who had urged further reformation of religion before the war. By the

1640s, many Puritan clerics feared that the Devil was everywhere: some even believed that Charles I was

Satan's agent. The Civil War saw the collapse of traditional authority and traditional institutions. Parliament

legislated without royal assent, excluded bishops from the House of Lords, executed William Laud, the

Archbishop of Canterbury, and dismantled the Church courts. In parliamentary-held areas religious images

in churches were destroyed. Some Puritan activists came to regard witches as they did devotional art: as

something that needed to be rooted out and destroyed. By early 1645, the eastern counties of England, the

heartland of the parliamentarian and Puritan cause, were in a state of crisis. The outcome of the Civil War

was far from certain. (It did not become so until parliamentary forces defeated the King's army at Naseby

in June 1645.) It seemed possible that royalist forces might advance into East Anglia. People were fearful

and overtaxed. Inflation had led to growing poverty. The principal concerns of the County Committees that

ruled parliamentary-controlled areas were money, order, resources and obedience. Communities fighting

for their lives also seemed threatened from within - by witches..

Adapted from: Alan Farmer, The Witchcraze of the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Century, published in 2016.

Passage B:

Why Essex? Is it possible that Essex as a local society was peculiarly conscious of the threat of witchcraft?

But why should that be so? It's quite clear that people might feel threatened by maleficium in any part of

England. Why should they act against it so much more in the county of Essex? And the only suggestion I

can make on that issue is that the use of the criminal law against witches had had terrible publicity in Essex.

Essex was unusual in the sense that it saw three causes celebres, three group trials. They took place in 1566,

only three years after the passage of Elizabeth's statute; in 1582; and in 1589. In each of these cases an

initial accusation was vigorously pursued by local justices of the peace who happened to have a particular

personal concern about witchcraft. That meant that instead of just one person going on trial small groups

of women went on trial and these trials were well publicised in pamphlets which were written about them.

All of this, then, may have given peculiar publicity to witchcraft as a threat and what could be done about

it. One wonders, then, whether a number of particularly scandalous local cases occurring in this county

had the effect of heightening anxiety about witchcraft within Essex, enhancing the sense of threat which

people felt, making it more intense than elsewhere, and of course providing an object lesson in how to

deal with it. So are we dealing then with a moral panic breaking out within a particular local society, which

subsequently died down in the seventeenth century until it was artificially revived again by the activities of

Matthew Hopkins, the Witchfinder General, in 1645?. *causes celebres = cases which attracted widespread public interest and/or became notorious Adapted from: Keith Wrightson, Witchcraft and Magic, published in 2012.

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Level 6 answer - 26 marks

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Examiner commentary

The views of the two interpretations are outlined in the opening paragraph and the response offers a supported view as to which is more convincing. The response explains Wrightson's view and uses knowledge to both support and challenge his interpretation. The analysis of the interpretation is strong, but it would benefit from further support in places. The response is stronger in dealing with Farmer's view; it is well explained and detailed knowledge is constantly used to evaluate it. The judgement is well supported and follows from the main body of the response. The analysis is strong and the evaluation of Farmer is of a particularly high level which takes it into Level 6. It does not reach the very top of the level as the treatment of Wrightson would benefit from the use of more contextual knowledge.

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Level 5 answer - 23 marks

Question 1

Evaluate the interpretations in both of the two passages and explain which you think is more convincing

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