What is Gilles Corey?
{{infobox person | name = Giles Corey | birth_date = before 19 August 1611 <br/> Northampton, England | death_date = 19 September 1692 (aged 81) <br/> Salem, Province of Massachusetts Bay | death_cause = Pressed to death | known_for = }} '''Giles Corey''' ({{circa}} August 1611 – September 19, 1692) was [[wikt:accuse|accuse]]d of [[witchcraft]] along with his wife Martha Corey during the [[Salem Witch Trials]]. After being arrested for witchcraft, Corey refused to enter a plea of [[Guilt (law)|guilty]] or not guilty. As a result he was [[Execution#Old-fashioned_methods|pressed to death]].<ref>Marilynne K. Roach, ''The Salem Witch Trials: A Day-by-day Chronicle of a Community Under Siege'' (Lanham, MD: Taylor Trade Publishing, 2002), p. 296</ref> == References == {{reflist}} [[Category:Salem Witch Trials]] [[Category:1611 births]] [[Category:1692 deaths]] {{bio-stub}}