Original sentence: Bill Liddell claims to be passing on information derived from his own family traditions and from certain unidentified "craft elders'.George Pickingill (1816-1909) was an Essex cunning man, claimed by a faction of modern pagan witchcraft centring around Australian-based Bill Liddell to have been an important  hereditary witch and a founder of the New Forest coven  which Gerald Gardner, founder of modern Wicca, supposedly joined.He is said to have obtained his Second Degree before being dismissed due to his contemptuous attitude toward women and his deplorable behavior.Liddell's claims are not widely accepted among Wiccans, see History of Wicca.Over the course of his lifetime, George Pickingill supposedly re-established a total of nine hereditary covens.Ronald Hutton in his history of Wicca  The Triumph of the Moon: a History of Modern Pagan Witchcraft has concluded that Liddell's claims  are unlikely to be true but cannot be conclusively disproven.These were based in Norfolk, Essex, Hertfordshire, Sussex, and Hampshire
Edited sentence: George Pickingill (1816-1909) was an Essex cunning man, claimed by a faction of modern Wicca centring around Bill Liddell to have been an important  hereditary witch and a founder of the New Forest coven  which Gerald Gardner, founder of modern Wicca, supposedly joined.He is thought to have obtained his Second Degree before being dismissed due to his contemptuous attitude toward women and his deplorable behavior.Over the course of his lifetime, George supposedly re-established a total of nine hereditary covens.Ronald Hutton in his histroy of Wicca Triumph of the Moon has concluded that Liddell's claims are unlikely to be true but cannot be conclusively disproven.These were bassed in Norfolk, Essex, Hertfordshire, Sussex, and Hampshire