The vvonderfull discouerie of witches in the countie of Lancaster VVith the arraignement and triall of nineteene notorious witches, at the assizes and general gaole deliuerie, holden at the castle of Lancaster, vpon Munday, the seuenteenth of August last, 1612. Before Sir Iames Altham, and Sir Edward Bromley, Knights; barons of his Maiesties Court of Exchequer: and iustices of assize, oyer and terminor, and generall gaole deliuerie in the circuit of the north parts. Together with the arraignement and triall of Iennet Preston, at the assizes holden at the castle of Yorke, the seuen and twentieth day of Iulie last past, with her execution for the murther of Master Lister by witchcraft. Published and set forth by commandement of his Maiesties iustices of assize in the north parts. By Thomas Potts Esquier.
         Potts, Thomas, fl. 1612-1618.
      
       
         
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             The vvonderfull discouerie of witches in the countie of Lancaster VVith the arraignement and triall of nineteene notorious witches, at the assizes and general gaole deliuerie, holden at the castle of Lancaster, vpon Munday, the seuenteenth of August last, 1612. Before Sir Iames Altham, and Sir Edward Bromley, Knights; barons of his Maiesties Court of Exchequer: and iustices of assize, oyer and terminor, and generall gaole deliuerie in the circuit of the north parts. Together with the arraignement and triall of Iennet Preston, at the assizes holden at the castle of Yorke, the seuen and twentieth day of Iulie last past, with her execution for the murther of Master Lister by witchcraft. Published and set forth by commandement of his Maiesties iustices of assize in the north parts. By Thomas Potts Esquier.
             Potts, Thomas, fl. 1612-1618.
             Bromley, Edward, Sir.
          
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           Preston, Jennet, d. 1612.
           Witchcraft -- Lancashire (England) -- Early works to 1800.
        
      
    
     
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               〈…〉
               ●●S●●VERIE
               OF
               W●●●●●●
               IN
               THE
               COVNTIE
               OF
               LANCASTER
               .
            
             
               VVith
               the
               Arraignement
               and
               Triall
               〈…〉
               notorious
               WITCHES
               ,
               at
               the
               Assi●●●
               〈◊〉
               generall
               Gaole
               deliuerie
               ,
               holden
               at
               the
               Castle
               of
               LANCASTER
               ,
               vpon
               Munday
               ,
               the
               seuenteenth
               of
               August
               last
               ,
               1612.
               
            
             
               Before
               Sir
               IAMES
               ALTHAM
               ,
               〈◊〉
               Sir
               EDWARD
               BROMLEY
               ,
               Knights
               ;
               BARONS
               〈…〉
               Court
               of
               〈◊〉
               :
               And
               Iusti●●●
               〈…〉
            
             
               Together
               with
               the
               〈◊〉
               and
               Triall
               of
               IENNET
               PRESTON
               ,
               at
               the
               Assizes
               〈◊〉
               at
               the
               Castle
               of
               York●
               ,
               〈…〉
            
             
               Published
               and
               set
               forth
               by
               commandement
               of
               his
               〈…〉
            
             
               LONDON
               ,
               〈…〉
            
          
           
             
             
             
               TO
               THE
               RIGHT
               HONORABLE
               ,
               THOMAS
               ,
               LORD
               KNYVET
               ,
               BARON
               OF
               ESCRICK
               in
               the
               Countie
               of
               Yorke
               ,
               my
               very
               honorable
               good
               Lord
               and
               Master
               .
               AND
               TO
               THE
               RIGHT
               HONORABLE
               AND
               VERTVOVS
               LADIE
               ,
               THE
               Ladie
               ELIZABETH
               KNYVET
               his
               Wife
               ,
               my
               honorable
               good
               Ladie
               and
               MISTRIS
               .
            
             
               
                 RIGHT
                 HONORABLE
                 ,
              
            
             
               LET
               it
               stand
               (
               I
               beseech
               you
               )
               with
               your
               fauours
               whom
               profession
               of
               the
               same
               true
               Religion
               towards
               God
               ,
               and
               so
               great
               loue
               hath
               vnited
               together
               in
               one
               ,
               Jointly
               
               to
               accept
               the
               Protection
               and
               Patronage
               of
               these
               my
               labours
               ,
               which
               not
               their
               owne
               worth
               hath
               encouraged
               ,
               but
               your
               Worthinesse
               hath
               enforced
               me
               to
               consecrate
               vnto
               your
               Honours
               .
            
             
               To
               you
               (
               Right
               Honourable
               my
               very
               good
               Lord
               )
               of
               Right
               doe
               they
               belong
               :
               for
               to
               whom
               shall
               J
               rather
               present
               the
               first
               fruits
               of
               my
               learning
               then
               to
               your
               Lordship
               :
               who
               nourished
               then
               both
               mee
               and
               them
               ,
               when
               there
               was
               scarce
               any
               being
               to
               mee
               or
               them
               ?
               And
               whose
               iust
               and
               vprght
               carriage
               of
               causes
               ,
               whose
               zeale
               to
               Justice
               and
               Honourable
               curtesie
               to
               all
               men
               ,
               haue
               purchased
               you
               a
               Reuerend
               and
               worthie
               Respect
               of
               all
               men
               in
               all
               partes
               of
               this
               Kingdome
               ,
               where
               you
               are
               knowne
               .
               And
               to
               your
               good
               Ladiship
               
               they
               doe
               of
               great
               right
               belong
               likewise
               ;
               Whose
               Religion
               ,
               Iustice
               ,
               and
               Honourable
               admittance
               of
               my
               Vnworthie
               Seruice
               to
               your
               Ladiship
               doe
               challenge
               at
               my
               handes
               the
               vttermost
               of
               what
               euer
               J
               may
               bee
               able
               to
               performe
               .
            
             
               Here
               is
               nothing
               of
               my
               own
               act
               worthie
               to
               bee
               commended
               to
               your
               Honours
               ,
               it
               is
               the
               worke
               ,
               of
               those
               Reuerend
               Magistrates
               ,
               His
               Maiesties
               Iustices
               of
               Assizes
               in
               the
               North
               partes
               ,
               and
               no
               more
               then
               a
               Particular
               Declaration
               of
               the
               proceedings
               of
               Iustice
               in
               those
               partes
               .
               Here
               shall
               you
               behold
               the
               Iustice
               of
               this
               Land
               ,
               truely
               administred
               ,
               
                 Proemium
                 &
                 Poenam
              
               ,
               Mercie
               and
               Iudgement
               ,
               freely
               and
               indifferently
               bestowed
               and
               inflicted
               ;
               And
               aboue
               all
               
               thinges
               to
               bee
               remembred
               ,
               the
               excellent
               care
               of
               these
               Iudges
               in
               the
               Triall
               of
               offendors
               .
            
             
               It
               hath
               pleased
               them
               out
               of
               their
               respect
               to
               mee
               to
               impose
               this
               worke
               vpon
               mee
               ,
               and
               according
               to
               my
               vnderstanding
               ,
               I
               haue
               taken
               paines
               to
               finish
               ,
               and
               now
               confirmed
               by
               their
               Iudgement
               to
               publish
               the
               same
               ,
               for
               the
               benefit
               of
               my
               Countrie
               .
               That
               the
               example
               of
               these
               conuicted
               vpon
               their
               owne
               Examinations
               ,
               Confessions
               ,
               and
               Euidence
               at
               the
               Barre
               ,
               may
               worke
               good
               in
               others
               ,
               Rather
               by
               with-holding
               them
               from
               ,
               then
               imboldening
               them
               to
               ,
               the
               Atcheiuing
               such
               desperate
               actes
               as
               these
               or
               the
               like
               .
            
             
               These
               are
               some
               part
               of
               the
               fruits
               of
               my
               time
               spent
               in
               the
               Seruice
               of
               my
               Countrie
               ,
               
               Since
               by
               your
               Graue
               and
               Reuerend
               Counsell
               (
               my
               Good
               Lord
               )
               I
               reduced
               my
               wauering
               and
               wandring
               thoughts
               to
               a
               more
               quiet
               harbour
               of
               repose
               .
            
             
               If
               it
               please
               your
               Honours
               to
               giue
               them
               your
               Honourable
               respect
               ,
               the
               world
               may
               iudge
               them
               the
               more
               worthie
               of
               acceptance
               ,
               to
               whose
               various
               censures
               they
               are
               now
               exposed
               .
            
             
               God
               of
               Heauen
               whose
               eies
               are
               on
               them
               that
               feare
               him
               ,
               to
               bee
               their
               Protector
               and
               guide
               ,
               behold
               your
               Honours
               with
               the
               eye
               of
               fauor
               ,
               be
               euermore
               your
               strong
               hold
               ,
               and
               your
               great
               reward
               ,
               and
               blesse
               you
               with
               blessings
               in
               this
               life
               ,
               Externall
               and
               Internall
               ,
               Temporall
               and
               Spirituall
               ,
               and
               with
               Eternall
               happines
               in
               the
               World
               to
               come
               :
               to
               which
               I
               commend
               your
               Honours
               ;
               
               And
               rest
               both
               now
               and
               euer
               ,
            
             
               
                 From
                 my
                 Lodging
                 in
                 Chancerie
                 Lane
                 ,
                 
                   the
                   sixteenth
                   of
                   Nouember
                   1612.
                   
                
              
               
                 
                   Your
                   Honours
                   humbly
                   deuoted
                   Seruant
                
                 ,
                 Thomas
                 Potts
                 .
              
            
          
           
             
             
             
               VPon
               the
               Arraignement
               and
               triall
               of
               these
               Witches
               at
               the
               last
               Assizes
               and
               Generall
               Gaole-deliuerie
               ,
               holden
               at
               Lancaster
               ,
               wee
               found
               such
               apparent
               matters
               against
               them
               ,
               that
               we
               thought
               it
               necessarie
               to
               publish
               them
               to
               the
               World
               ,
               and
               thereupon
               imposed
               the
               labour
               of
               this
               Worke
               vpon
               this
               Gentleman
               ,
               by
               reason
               of
               his
               place
               ,
               being
               a
               Clerke
               at
               that
               time
               in
               Court
               ,
               imploied
               in
               the
               Arraignement
               and
               triall
               of
               them
               .
            
             
               
                 Ja.
                 Altham
                 .
                 Edw.
                 Bromley
                 .
              
            
          
           
             
             
             
               AFter
               he
               had
               taken
               great
               paines
               to
               finish
               it
               ,
               J
               tooke
               vpon
               mee
               to
               reuise
               and
               correct
               it
               ,
               that
               nothing
               might
               passe
               but
               matter
               of
               Fact
               ,
               apparant
               against
               them
               by
               record
               .
               Jt
               is
               very
               little
               he
               hath
               inserted
               ,
               and
               that
               necessarie
               ,
               to
               shew
               what
               their
               offences
               were
               ,
               what
               people
               ,
               and
               of
               what
               condition
               they
               were
               :
               The
               whole
               proceedings
               and
               Euidence
               against
               them
               ,
               J
               finde
               vpon
               examination
               carefully
               set
               forth
               ,
               and
               truely
               reported
               ,
               and
               iudge
               the
               worke
               fit
               and
               worthie
               to
               be
               published
               .
            
             
               
                 Edward
                 Bromley
                 .
              
            
          
           
             
             
               Faults
               escaped
               in
               the
               Printing
               .
            
             
               Page
               ,
               C
               3
               :
               M.
               Banester
               ,
               for
               Bannester
               ,
               brough
               ,
               for
               brought
               .
               Page
               ,
               E
               2
               This
               people
               ,
               for
               these
               .
               Page
               ,
               H
               Here
               they
               parted
               ,
               for
               there
               .
               page
               ,
               K
               2
               these
               ,
               for
               this
               hellish
               .
               page
               ,
               S
               3
               In
               the
               Verdict
               of
               Life
               and
               Death
               ,
               Not
               guiltie
               ,
               for
               guiltie
               .
               page
               ,
               S
               3
               one
               Horse
               or
               Mare
               ,
               for
               one
               Mare
               in
               the
               Indictment
               .
               page
               eadem
               ,
               for
               the
               Triall
               of
               her
               life
               ,
               reade
               for
               the
               triall
               of
               her
               offence
               .
               page
               ,
               T
               their
               view
               ,
               for
               your
               view
               .
            
          
           
             
               Gentle
               Reader
               ,
               although
               the
               care
               of
               this
               Gentleman
               the
               Author
               ,
               was
               great
               to
               examine
               and
               publish
               this
               his
               worke
               perfect
               according
               to
               the
               Honorable
               testimonie
               of
               the
               Iudges
               ,
               yet
               some
               faults
               are
               committed
               by
               me
               in
               the
               Printing
               ,
               and
               yet
               not
               many
               ,
               being
               a
               worke
               done
               in
               such
               great
               haste
               ,
               at
               the
               end
               of
               a
               Tearme
               ,
               which
               I
               pray
               you
               ,
               with
               your
               fauour
               to
               excuse
               .
            
          
           
             
             
               
            
          
        
         
           
             
             
               A
               particular
               Declaration
               of
               the
               most
               barberous
               and
               damnable
               Practises
               .
               Murthers
               ,
               wicked
               and
               diuelish
               Conspiracies
               ,
               practized
               
                 and
                 executed
                 by
                 the
                 most
                 dangerous
                 and
                 malitious
              
               Witch
               
                 Elizabeth
                 Sowthernes
              
               alias
               Demdike
               ,
               of
               the
               Forrest
               of
               Pendle
               in
               the
               Countie
               of
               Lancaster
               Widdow
               ,
               who
               died
               in
               the
               Castle
               at
               Lancaster
               before
               she
               came
               to
               receiue
               her
               tryall
               .
            
             
               THough
               publique
               Iustice
               hath
               passed
               at
               these
               Assises
               vpon
               the
               Capitall
               offendours
               ,
               and
               after
               the
               Arraignement
               &
               tryall
               of
               them
               ,
               Iudgement
               being
               giuen
               ,
               due
               and
               timely
               Execution
               succeeded
               ;
               which
               doth
               import
               and
               giue
               the
               greatest
               satisfaction
               that
               can
               be
               ,
               to
               all
               men
               ;
               yet
               because
               vpon
               the
               caryage
               ,
               and
               euent
               of
               this
               businesse
               ,
               the
               Eyes
               of
               all
               the
               partes
               of
               Lancashire
               ,
               and
               other
               Counties
               in
               the
               North
               partes
               thereunto
               adioyning
               were
               bent
               :
               And
               so
               infinite
               a
               multitude
               came
               to
               the
               Arraignement
               &
               tryall
               of
               these
               Witches
               at
               Lancaster
               ,
               the
               number
               of
               them
               being
               knowen
               to
               exceed
               all
               others
               at
               any
               time
               heretofore
               ,
               at
               one
               time
               to
               be
               indicted
               ,
               arraigned
               ,
               and
               receiue
               their
               tryall
               ,
               especially
               for
               so
               many
               Murders
               ,
               Conspiracies
               ,
               Charmes
               ,
               Meetinges
               ,
               hellish
               and
               damnable
               practises
               ,
               so
               apparant
               vpon
               their
               owne
               examinations
               &
               confessions
               .
               These
               my
               honourable
               &
               worthy
               Lords
               ,
               the
               Iudges
               of
               Assise
               ,
               vpon
               
               great
               consideration
               ,
               thought
               to
               necessarie
               &
               profitable
               ,
               to
               publish
               to
               the
               whole
               world
               ,
               their
               most
               barbarous
               and
               damnable
               practises
               ,
               with
               the
               direct
               proceedinges
               of
               the
               Court
               against
               them
               ,
               aswell
               for
               that
               there
               doe
               passe
               diuers
               vncertaine
               reportes
               and
               relations
               of
               such
               Euidences
               ,
               as
               was
               publiquely
               giuen
               against
               them
               at
               their
               Arraignement
               .
               As
               for
               that
               diuers
               came
               to
               prosecute
               against
               many
               of
               them
               that
               were
               not
               found
               guiltie
               ,
               and
               so
               rest
               very
               discontented
               ,
               and
               not
               satisfied
               .
               As
               also
               for
               that
               it
               is
               necessary
               for
               men
               to
               know
               and
               vnderstande
               the
               meanes
               whereby
               they
               worke
               their
               mischiefe
               ,
               the
               hidden
               misteries
               of
               their
               diuelish
               and
               wicked
               Inchauntmentes
               ,
               Charmes
               ,
               and
               Sorceries
               ,
               the
               better
               to
               preuent
               and
               auoyde
               the
               danger
               that
               may
               ensue
               .
               And
               lastly
               ,
               who
               were
               the
               principall
               authors
               and
               actors
               in
               this
               late
               woefull
               and
               lamentable
               Tragedie
               ,
               wherein
               so
               much
               Blood
               was
               spilt
               .
            
             
               Therefore
               I
               pray
               you
               giue
               me
               leaue
               ,
               (
               with
               your
               patience
               and
               fauour
               ,
               )
               before
               I
               proceed
               to
               the
               Indictment
               ,
               Arraignement
               ,
               and
               Tryall
               of
               such
               as
               were
               Prisoners
               in
               the
               Castle
               ,
               to
               lay
               open
               the
               life
               and
               death
               of
               this
               damnable
               and
               malicious
               Witch
               ,
               of
               so
               long
               continuance
               (
               old
               Demdike
               )
               of
               whom
               our
               whole
               businesse
               hath
               such
               dependence
               ,
               that
               without
               the
               particular
               Declaration
               and
               Record
               of
               her
               Euidence
               ,
               with
               the
               circumstaunces
               ,
               wee
               shall
               neuer
               bring
               any
               thing
               to
               good
               perfection
               :
               for
               from
               this
               Sincke
               of
               villanie
               and
               mischiefe
               ,
               haue
               all
               the
               rest
               proceeded
               ;
               as
               you
               shall
               haue
               them
               in
               order
               .
            
             
               She
               was
               a
               very
               old
               woman
               ,
               about
               the
               age
               of
               Foure-score
               yeares
               ,
               and
               had
               been
               a
               Witch
               for
               fiftie
               yeares
               .
               Shee
               dwelt
               in
               the
               Forrest
               of
               Pendle
               ,
               a
               vaste
               place
               ,
               fitte
               for
               her
               profession
               :
               What
               shee
               committed
               in
               her
               time
               ,
               no
               man
               knowes
               .
            
             
               Thus
               liued
               shee
               securely
               for
               many
               yeares
               ,
               brought
               vp
               
               her
               owne
               Children
               ,
               instructed
               her
               Graund-children
               ,
               and
               tooke
               great
               care
               and
               paines
               to
               bring
               them
               to
               be
               Witches
               .
               Shee
               was
               a
               generall
               agent
               for
               the
               Deuill
               in
               all
               these
               partes
               :
               no
               man
               escaped
               her
               ,
               or
               her
               Furies
               ,
               that
               euer
               gaue
               them
               any
               occasion
               of
               offence
               ,
               or
               denyed
               them
               any
               thing
               they
               stood
               need
               of
               :
               And
               certaine
               it
               is
               ,
               no
               man
               neere
               them
               ,
               was
               secure
               or
               free
               from
               danger
               .
            
             
               But
               God
               ,
               who
               had
               in
               his
               diuine
               prouidence
               prouided
               to
               cut
               them
               off
               ,
               and
               roote
               them
               out
               of
               the
               Common-wealth
               ,
               so
               disposed
               aboue
               ,
               that
               the
               Iustices
               of
               those
               partes
               ,
               vnderstanding
               by
               a
               generall
               charme
               and
               muttering
               ,
               the
               great
               and
               vniuersall
               resort
               to
               
                 Maulking
                 Tower
              
               ,
               the
               common
               opinion
               ,
               with
               the
               report
               of
               these
               suspected
               people
               ,
               the
               complaint
               of
               the
               Kinges
               subiectes
               for
               the
               losse
               of
               their
               Children
               ,
               Friendes
               ,
               Goodes
               ,
               and
               Cattle
               ,
               (
               as
               there
               could
               not
               be
               so
               great
               Fire
               without
               some
               Smoake
               ,
               )
               sent
               for
               some
               of
               the
               Countrey
               ,
               and
               tooke
               great
               paynes
               to
               enquire
               after
               their
               proceedinges
               ,
               and
               courses
               of
               life
               .
            
             
               In
               the
               end
               ,
               
                 Roger
                 Nowell
              
               Esquire
               ,
               one
               of
               his
               Maiesties
               Iustices
               in
               these
               partes
               ,
               a
               very
               religious
               honest
               Gentleman
               ,
               painefull
               in
               the
               seruice
               of
               his
               Countrey
               :
               whose
               fame
               for
               this
               great
               seruice
               to
               his
               Countrey
               ,
               shall
               liue
               after
               him
               ,
               tooke
               vpon
               him
               to
               enter
               into
               the
               particular
               examination
               of
               these
               suspected
               persons
               :
               And
               to
               the
               honour
               of
               God
               ,
               and
               the
               great
               comfort
               of
               all
               his
               Countrey
               ,
               made
               such
               a
               discouery
               of
               them
               in
               order
               ,
               as
               the
               like
               hath
               not
               been
               heard
               of
               :
               which
               for
               your
               better
               satisfaction
               .
               I
               haue
               heere
               placed
               in
               order
               against
               her
               ,
               as
               they
               are
               vpon
               Record
               ,
               amongst
               the
               Recordes
               of
               the
               Crowne
               at
               Lancaster
               ,
               certified
               by
               M.
               Nowell
               ,
               and
               others
               .
            
          
           
             
             
               The
               voluntarie
               Confession
               and
               Examination
               of
               
                 Elizabeth
                 Sowtherns
              
               alias
               Demdike
               ,
               taken
               at
               the
               Fence
               in
               the
               Forrest
               of
               Pendle
               in
               the
               Countie
               of
               Lancaster
               .
               The
               second
               day
               of
               Aprill
               ,
               
                 Annoque
                 Regni
                 Regis
                 Iacobi
                 Angliae
                 .
                 &c.
                 Decimo
                 ,
                 et
                 Scotiae
                 Quadragesimo
                 quinto
              
               ;
               Before
               
                 Roger
                 Nowell
              
               of
               Reade
               Esquire
               ,
               one
               of
               his
               Maiesties
               Iustices
               of
               the
               peace
               within
               the
               sayd
               Countie
               .
               Viz.
               
            
             
               THe
               said
               
                 Elizabeth
                 Sowtherns
              
               confesseth
               ,
               and
               sayth
               ;
               That
               about
               twentie
               yeares
               past
               ,
               as
               she
               was
               comming
               homeward
               from
               begging
               ,
               there
               met
               her
               this
               Examinate
               neere
               vnto
               a
               Stonepit
               in
               Gouldshey
               ,
               in
               the
               sayd
               Forrest
               of
               Pendle
               ,
               a
               Spirit
               or
               Deuill
               in
               the
               shape
               of
               a
               Boy
               ,
               the
               one
               halfe
               of
               his
               Coate
               blacke
               ,
               and
               the
               other
               browne
               ,
               who
               bade
               this
               Examinate
               stay
               ,
               saying
               to
               her
               ,
               that
               if
               she
               would
               giue
               him
               her
               Soule
               ,
               she
               should
               haue
               any
               thing
               that
               she
               would
               request
               .
               Wherevpon
               this
               Examinat
               demaunded
               his
               name
               ?
               and
               the
               Spirit
               answered
               ,
               his
               name
               was
               Tibb
               :
               and
               so
               this
               Examinate
               in
               hope
               of
               such
               gaine
               as
               was
               promised
               by
               the
               sayd
               Deuill
               or
               Tibb
               ,
               was
               contented
               to
               giue
               her
               Soule
               to
               the
               said
               Spirit
               :
               And
               for
               the
               space
               of
               fiue
               of
               sixe
               yeares
               next
               after
               ,
               the
               sayd
               Spirit
               or
               Deuill
               appeared
               at
               sundry
               times
               vnto
               her
               this
               Examinate
               about
               Day-light
               Gate
               ,
               alwayes
               bidding
               her
               stay
               ,
               and
               asking
               her
               this
               Examinate
               what
               she
               would
               
               haue
               or
               doe
               ?
               To
               whom
               this
               Examinate
               replyed
               ,
               Nay
               nothing
               :
               for
               she
               this
               Examinate
               said
               ,
               she
               wanted
               nothing
               yet
               .
               And
               so
               about
               the
               end
               of
               the
               said
               sixe
               yeares
               ,
               vpon
               a
               Sabboth
               day
               in
               the
               morning
               ,
               this
               Examinate
               hauing
               a
               litle
               Child
               vpon
               her
               knee
               ,
               and
               she
               being
               in
               a
               slumber
               ,
               the
               sayd
               Spirit
               appeared
               vnto
               her
               in
               the
               likenes
               of
               a
               browne
               Dogg
               ,
               forcing
               himselfe
               to
               her
               knee
               ,
               to
               get
               blood
               vnder
               her
               left
               Arme
               :
               and
               she
               being
               without
               any
               apparrell
               sauing
               her
               Smocke
               ,
               the
               said
               Deuill
               did
               get
               blood
               vnder
               her
               left
               arme
               .
               And
               this
               Examinate
               awaking
               ,
               sayd
               ,
               
                 Iesus
                 saue
                 my
                 Child
              
               ;
               but
               had
               no
               power
               ,
               nor
               could
               not
               say
               ,
               
                 Iesus
                 saue
                 her selfe
              
               :
               wherevpon
               the
               Browne
               Dogge
               vanished
               out
               of
               this
               Examinats
               sight
               :
               after
               which
               ,
               this
               Examinate
               was
               almost
               starke
               madd
               for
               the
               space
               of
               eight
               weekes
               .
            
             
               And
               vpon
               her
               examination
               ,
               she
               further
               confesseth
               ,
               and
               saith
               .
               That
               a
               little
               before
               Christmas
               last
               ,
               this
               Examinates
               Daughter
               hauing
               been
               to
               helpe
               
                 Richard
                 Baldwyns
              
               Folkes
               at
               the
               Mill
               :
               This
               Examinates
               Daughter
               did
               bid
               her
               this
               Examinate
               goe
               to
               the
               said
               Baldwyns
               house
               ,
               and
               aske
               him
               something
               for
               her
               helping
               of
               his
               Folkes
               at
               the
               Mill
               ,
               (
               as
               aforesaid
               :
               )
               and
               in
               this
               Examinates
               going
               to
               the
               said
               Baldwyns
               house
               ,
               and
               neere
               to
               the
               said
               house
               ,
               she
               mette
               with
               the
               said
               
                 Richard
                 Baldwyn
              
               ;
               Which
               Baldwyn
               sayd
               to
               this
               Examinate
               ,
               and
               the
               said
               
                 Alizon
                 Deuice
              
               (
               who
               at
               that
               time
               ledde
               this
               Examinate
               ,
               being
               blinde
               )
               get
               out
               of
               my
               ground
               Whores
               and
               Witches
               ,
               I
               will
               burne
               the
               one
               of
               you
               ,
               and
               hang
               the
               other
               .
               To
               whom
               this
               Examinate
               answered
               :
               I
               care
               not
               for
               thee
               ,
               hang
               thy selfe
               :
               Presently
               wherevpon
               ,
               at
               this
               Examinates
               going
               ouer
               the
               next
               hedge
               ,
               the
               said
               Spirit
               or
               Diuell
               called
               Tibb
               ,
               appeared
               vnto
               this
               Examinat
               ,
               and
               sayd
               ,
               
                 Reuenge
                 thee
                 of
                 him
              
               .
               To
               whom
               ,
               this
               Examinate
               sayd
               againe
               to
               the
               said
               Spirit
               .
               
                 Reuenge
                 thee
                 eyther
                 of
                 him
                 ,
                 or
                 his
                 .
              
               And
               so
               the
               said
               Spirit
               vanished
               out
               of
               her
               sight
               ,
               and
               she
               
               neuer
               saw
               him
               since
               .
            
             
               And
               further
               this
               Examinate
               confesseth
               ,
               and
               sayth
               ,
               that
               the
               speediest
               way
               to
               take
               a
               mans
               life
               away
               by
               VVitchcraft
               ,
               is
               to
               make
               a
               Picture
               of
               Clay
               ,
               like
               vnto
               the
               shape
               of
               the
               person
               whom
               they
               meane
               to
               kill
               ,
               &
               dry
               it
               thorowly
               :
               and
               when
               they
               would
               haue
               them
               to
               be
               ill
               in
               any
               one
               place
               more
               then
               an
               other
               ;
               then
               take
               a
               Thorne
               or
               Pinne
               ,
               and
               pricke
               it
               in
               that
               part
               of
               the
               Picture
               you
               would
               so
               haue
               to
               be
               ill
               :
               and
               when
               they
               would
               haue
               any
               part
               of
               the
               Body
               to
               consume
               away
               ,
               then
               take
               that
               part
               of
               the
               Picture
               ,
               and
               burne
               it
               .
               And
               when
               they
               would
               haue
               the
               whole
               body
               to
               consume
               away
               ,
               then
               take
               the
               remnant
               of
               the
               sayd
               Picture
               ,
               and
               burne
               it
               :
               and
               so
               therevpon
               by
               that
               meanes
               ,
               the
               body
               shall
               die
               .
            
          
           
             
             
               The
               Confession
               and
               Examination
               of
               Anne
               Whittle
               alias
               Chattox
               ,
               being
               Prisoner
               at
               Lancaster
               ;
               taken
               the
               19.
               day
               of
               May
               ,
               
                 Annoque
                 Regni
                 Regis
                 Iacobi
                 Angliae
                 ,
                 Decimo
                 :
                 ac
                 Scotie
                 Quadragesimo
                 quinto
              
               ;
               Before
               
                 William
                 Sandes
              
               Maior
               of
               the
               Borrough
               towne
               of
               Lancaster
               .
               
                 Iames
                 Anderton
              
               of
               Clayton
               ,
               one
               of
               his
               Maiesties
               Iustices
               of
               Peace
               within
               the
               same
               County
               ,
               and
               
                 Thomas
                 Cowell
              
               one
               of
               his
               Maiesties
               Coroners
               in
               the
               sayd
               Countie
               of
               Lancaster
               .
               Viz.
               
            
             
               FIrst
               ,
               the
               sayd
               
                 Anne
                 Whittle
              
               ,
               alias
               Chattox
               ,
               sayth
               ,
               that
               about
               foureteene
               yeares
               past
               she
               entered
               ,
               through
               the
               wicked
               perswasions
               and
               counsell
               of
               
                 Elizabeth
                 Southerns
              
               ,
               alias
               Demdike
               ,
               and
               was
               seduced
               to
               condescent
               &
               agree
               to
               become
               subiect
               vnto
               that
               diuelish
               abhominable
               profession
               of
               Witchcraft
               :
               Soone
               after
               which
               ,
               the
               Deuill
               appeared
               vnto
               her
               in
               the
               liknes
               of
               a
               Man
               ,
               about
               midnight
               ,
               at
               the
               house
               of
               the
               sayd
               Demdike
               :
               and
               therevpon
               the
               sayd
               Demdike
               and
               shee
               ,
               went
               foorth
               of
               the
               said
               house
               vnto
               him
               ;
               wherevpon
               the
               said
               wicked
               Spirit
               mooued
               this
               Examinate
               ,
               that
               she
               would
               become
               his
               Subiect
               ,
               and
               giue
               her
               Soule
               vnto
               him
               :
               the
               which
               at
               first
               ,
               she
               refused
               to
               assent
               vnto
               ;
               but
               after
               ,
               by
               the
               great
               perswasions
               made
               by
               the
               sayd
               Demdike
               ,
               shee
               yeelded
               to
               be
               at
               his
               commaundement
               and
               appoyntment
               :
               wherevpon
               the
               sayd
               wicked
               Spirit
               then
               sayd
               vnto
               her
               ,
               that
               hee
               must
               haue
               one
               part
               of
               her
               body
               for
               him
               to
               sucke
               vpon
               ;
               the
               which
               shee
               denyed
               then
               to
               graunt
               vnto
               him
               ;
               and
               withall
               asked
               
               him
               ,
               what
               part
               of
               her
               body
               hee
               would
               haue
               for
               that
               vse
               ;
               who
               said
               ,
               hee
               would
               haue
               a
               place
               of
               her
               right
               side
               neere
               to
               her
               ribbes
               ,
               for
               him
               to
               sucke
               vpon
               :
               whereunto
               shee
               assented
               .
            
             
               And
               she
               further
               sayth
               ,
               that
               at
               the
               same
               time
               ,
               there
               was
               a
               thing
               in
               the
               likenes
               of
               a
               spotted
               Bitch
               ,
               that
               came
               with
               the
               sayd
               Spirit
               vnto
               the
               sayd
               Demdike
               ,
               which
               then
               did
               speake
               vnto
               her
               in
               this
               Examinates
               hearing
               ,
               and
               sayd
               ,
               that
               she
               should
               haue
               Gould
               ,
               Siluer
               ,
               and
               worldly
               Wealth
               ,
               at
               her
               will.
               And
               at
               the
               same
               time
               she
               saith
               ,
               there
               was
               victuals
               ,
               viz.
               Flesh
               ,
               Butter
               ,
               Cheese
               ,
               Bread
               ,
               and
               Drinke
               ,
               and
               bidde
               them
               eate
               enough
               .
               And
               after
               their
               eating
               ,
               the
               Deuill
               called
               Fancie
               ,
               and
               the
               other
               Spirit
               calling
               himselfe
               Tibbe
               ,
               carried
               the
               remnant
               away
               :
               And
               she
               sayeth
               ,
               that
               although
               they
               did
               eate
               ,
               they
               were
               neuer
               the
               fuller
               ,
               nor
               better
               for
               the
               same
               ;
               and
               that
               at
               their
               said
               Banquet
               ,
               the
               said
               Spirits
               gaue
               them
               light
               to
               see
               what
               they
               did
               ,
               although
               they
               neyther
               had
               fire
               nor
               Candle
               light
               ;
               and
               that
               they
               were
               both
               shee
               Spirites
               ,
               and
               Diuels
               .
            
             
               And
               being
               further
               examined
               how
               many
               sundry
               Persons
               haue
               been
               bewitched
               to
               death
               ,
               and
               by
               whom
               they
               were
               so
               bewitched
               :
               She
               sayth
               ,
               that
               one
               
                 Robert
                 Nuter
              
               ,
               late
               of
               the
               Greene-head
               in
               Pendle
               ,
               was
               bewitched
               by
               this
               Examinate
               ,
               the
               said
               Demdike
               ,
               and
               Widdow
               Lomshawe
               ,
               (
               late
               of
               Burneley
               )
               now
               deceased
               .
            
             
               And
               she
               further
               sayth
               ,
               that
               the
               said
               Demdike
               shewed
               her
               ,
               that
               she
               had
               bewitched
               to
               death
               ,
               
                 Richard
                 Ashton
              
               ,
               Sonne
               of
               
                 Richard
                 Ashton
              
               of
               Downeham
               Esquire
               .
            
          
           
             
             
               The
               Examination
               of
               Alizon
               Deuice
               ,
               of
               the
               Forrest
               of
               Pendle
               ,
               in
               the
               County
               of
               Lancaster
               Spinster
               ,
               taken
               at
               Reade
               in
               the
               said
               Countie
               of
               Lancaster
               ,
               the
               xiij
               ▪
               day
               of
               March
               ,
               
                 Anno
                 Regni
                 Jacobi
                 Angliae
                 .
                 &c.
                 Nono
                 :
                 et
                 Scotiae
                 xlv
                 .
              
               Before
               
                 Roger
                 Nowell
              
               of
               Reade
               aforesayd
               Esquire
               ,
               one
               of
               his
               Maiesties
               Iustices
               of
               the
               Peace
               within
               the
               sayd
               Countie
               ,
               against
               
                 Elizabeth
                 Sowtherns
              
               ,
               alias
               Demdike
               her
               Graund-mother
               .
               Viz.
               
            
             
               THe
               sayd
               
                 Alizon
                 Deuice
              
               sayth
               ,
               that
               about
               two
               yeares
               agon
               ,
               her
               Graund-mother
               (
               called
               
                 Elizabeth
                 Sowtherns
              
               ,
               alias
               old
               Demdike
               )
               did
               sundry
               times
               in
               going
               or
               walking
               togeather
               as
               they
               went
               begging
               ,
               perswade
               and
               aduise
               this
               Examinate
               to
               let
               a
               Deuill
               or
               Familiar
               appeare
               vnto
               her
               ;
               and
               that
               shee
               this
               Examinate
               ,
               would
               let
               him
               sucke
               at
               some
               part
               of
               her
               ,
               and
               shee
               might
               haue
               ,
               and
               doe
               what
               shee
               would
               .
            
             
               And
               she
               further
               sayth
               ,
               that
               one
               
                 Iohn
                 Nutter
              
               of
               the
               Bulhole
               in
               Pendle
               aforesaid
               ,
               had
               a
               Cow
               which
               was
               sicke
               ,
               &
               requested
               this
               examinats
               Grand-mother
               to
               amend
               the
               said
               Cow
               ;
               and
               her
               said
               Graund-mother
               said
               she
               would
               ,
               and
               so
               her
               said
               Graund-mother
               about
               ten
               of
               the
               clocke
               in
               the
               night
               ,
               desired
               this
               examinate
               to
               lead
               her
               foorth
               ;
               which
               this
               Examinate
               did
               ,
               being
               then
               blind
               :
               and
               her
               Graund-mother
               did
               remaine
               about
               halfe
               an
               houre
               foorth
               :
               and
               this
               Examinates
               sister
               did
               fetch
               her
               in
               againe
               ;
               but
               what
               she
               did
               when
               she
               was
               so
               foorth
               ,
               this
               Examinate
               cannot
               tell
               .
               But
               the
               next
               
               morning
               this
               Examinate
               heard
               that
               the
               sayd
               Cow
               was
               dead
               .
               And
               this
               Examinate
               verily
               thinketh
               ,
               that
               her
               sayd
               Graund-mother
               did
               bewitch
               the
               sayd
               Cow
               to
               death
               .
            
             
               And
               further
               ,
               this
               Examinate
               sayth
               ,
               that
               about
               two
               yeares
               agon
               ,
               this
               Examinate
               hauing
               gotten
               a
               Piggin
               full
               of
               blew
               Milke
               by
               begging
               ,
               brought
               it
               into
               the
               house
               of
               her
               Graund-mother
               ,
               where
               (
               this
               Examinate
               going
               foorth
               presently
               ,
               and
               staying
               about
               halfe
               an
               houre
               )
               there
               was
               Butter
               to
               the
               quantity
               of
               a
               quarterne
               of
               a
               pound
               in
               the
               said
               milke
               ,
               and
               the
               quantitie
               of
               the
               said
               milke
               still
               remayning
               ;
               and
               her
               Graund-mother
               had
               no
               Butter
               in
               the
               house
               when
               this
               Examinate
               went
               foorth
               :
               duering
               which
               time
               ,
               this
               Examinates
               Graund-mother
               still
               lay
               in
               her
               bed
               .
            
             
               And
               further
               this
               Examinate
               sayth
               ,
               that
               
                 Richord
                 Baldwin
              
               of
               Weethead
               within
               the
               Forrest
               of
               Pendle
               ,
               about
               2.
               yeeres
               agoe
               ,
               fell
               out
               with
               this
               Examinates
               Graund-mother
               ,
               &
               so
               would
               not
               let
               her
               come
               vpon
               his
               Land
               :
               and
               about
               foure
               or
               fiue
               dayes
               then
               next
               after
               ,
               her
               said
               Graund-mother
               did
               request
               this
               Examinate
               to
               lead
               her
               foorth
               about
               ten
               of
               the
               clocke
               in
               the
               night
               :
               which
               this
               Examinate
               accordingly
               did
               ,
               and
               she
               stayed
               foorth
               then
               about
               an
               houre
               ,
               and
               this
               Examinates
               sister
               fetched
               her
               in
               againe
               .
               And
               this
               Examinate
               heard
               the
               next
               morning
               ,
               that
               a
               woman
               Child
               of
               the
               sayd
               
                 Richard
                 Baldwins
              
               was
               fallen
               sicke
               ;
               and
               as
               this
               Examinate
               did
               then
               heare
               ,
               the
               sayd
               Child
               did
               languish
               afterwards
               by
               the
               space
               of
               a
               yeare
               ,
               or
               thereaboutes
               ,
               and
               dyed
               :
               And
               this
               Examinate
               verily
               thinketh
               ,
               that
               her
               said
               Graund-mother
               did
               bewitch
               the
               sayd
               Child
               to
               death
               .
            
             
               And
               further
               ,
               this
               Examinate
               sayth
               ,
               that
               she
               heard
               her
               sayd
               Graund-mother
               say
               presently
               after
               her
               falling
               out
               with
               the
               sayd
               Baldwin
               ,
               shee
               would
               pray
               for
               the
               sayd
               Baldwin
               both
               still
               and
               loude
               :
               and
               this
               Examinate
               heard
               her
               cursse
               the
               sayd
               Baldwin
               sundry
               times
               .
            
          
           
             
             
               The
               Examination
               of
               
                 Iames
                 Deuice
              
               of
               the
               Forrest
               of
               Pendle
               ,
               in
               the
               Countie
               of
               Lancaster
               Labourer
               ,
               taken
               the
               27.
               day
               of
               April
               ,
               
                 Annoque
                 Regni
                 Regis
                 Iacobi
                 ,
                 Anglia
                 ,
                 &c.
                 
                 Decimo
                 :
                 ac
                 Scotie
                 Quadragesimo
                 quinto
              
               :
               Before
               
                 Roger
                 Nowell
              
               ,
               and
               
                 Nicholas
                 Banister
                 
                   Esq
                
              
               ,
               two
               of
               his
               Maiesties
               Iustices
               of
               Peace
               within
               the
               sayd
               Countie
               .
            
             
               THE
               sayd
               Examinate
               
                 Iames
                 Deuice
              
               sayth
               ,
               that
               about
               a
               month
               agoe
               ,
               as
               this
               Examinate
               was
               comming
               towards
               his
               Mothers
               house
               ,
               and
               at
               day-gate
               of
               the
               same
               night
               ,
               
               this
               Examinate
               mette
               a
               browne
               Dogge
               comming
               from
               his
               Graund-mothers
               house
               ,
               about
               tenne
               Roodes
               distant
               from
               the
               same
               house
               :
               and
               about
               two
               or
               three
               nights
               after
               ,
               that
               this
               Examinate
               heard
               a
               voyce
               of
               a
               great
               number
               of
               Children
               screiking
               and
               crying
               pittifully
               ,
               about
               day-light
               gate
               ;
               and
               likewise
               ,
               about
               ten
               Roodes
               distant
               of
               this
               Examinates
               sayd
               Graund-mothers
               house
               .
               And
               about
               fiue
               nights
               then
               next
               following
               ,
               presently
               after
               daylight
               ,
               within
               20.
               
               Roodes
               of
               the
               sayd
               
                 Elizabeth
                 Sowtherns
              
               house
               ,
               he
               heard
               a
               foule
               yelling
               like
               vnto
               a
               great
               number
               of
               Cattes
               :
               but
               what
               they
               were
               ,
               this
               Examinate
               cannot
               tell
               .
               And
               he
               further
               sayth
               ,
               that
               about
               three
               nights
               after
               that
               ,
               about
               midnight
               of
               the
               same
               ,
               there
               came
               a
               thing
               ,
               and
               lay
               vpon
               him
               very
               heauily
               about
               an
               houre
               ,
               and
               went
               then
               from
               him
               out
               of
               his
               Chamber
               window
               ,
               coloured
               blacke
               ,
               and
               about
               the
               bignesse
               of
               a
               Hare
               or
               Catte
               .
               And
               he
               further
               sayth
               ,
               that
               about
               S.
               Peters
               day
               last
               ,
               one
               
                 Henry
                 Bullocke
              
               came
               to
               the
               sayd
               
                 Elizabeth
                 Sowtherns
              
               house
               ,
               and
               sayd
               ,
               that
               her
               Graund-child
               
                 Alizon
                 Deuice
              
               ,
               had
               bewitched
               a
               Child
               of
               his
               ,
               and
               desired
               her
               that
               she
               would
               goe
               with
               him
               to
               his
               house
               ;
               which
               accordingly
               she
               did
               :
               And
               therevpon
               she
               the
               said
               Alizon
               fell
               downe
               on
               her
               knees
               ,
               &
               asked
               the
               said
               Bullocke
               forgiuenes
               ,
               and
               confessed
               to
               him
               ,
               that
               she
               had
               bewitched
               the
               said
               child
               ,
               as
               this
               Examinate
               heard
               his
               said
               sister
               confesse
               vnto
               him
               this
               Examinate
               .
            
          
           
             
             
               The
               Examination
               of
               Elizabeth
               Deuice
               ,
               Daughter
               of
               old
               Demdike
               ,
               taken
               at
               Read
               before
               
                 Roger
                 Nowell
              
               Esquire
               ,
               one
               of
               his
               Maiesties
               Iustices
               of
               Peace
               within
               the
               Countie
               of
               Lancaster
               the
               xxx
               .
               day
               of
               March
               ,
               
                 Annoque
                 Regni
                 Jacobi
                 Decimo
                 ,
                 ac
                 Scotie
                 xlv
                 .
              
            
             
               THe
               sayd
               
                 Elizabeth
                 Deuice
              
               the
               Examinate
               ,
               sayth
               ,
               that
               the
               sayd
               
                 Elizabeth
                 Sowtherns
              
               ,
               alias
               Demdike
               ,
               hath
               had
               a
               place
               on
               her
               left
               side
               by
               the
               space
               of
               fourty
               yeares
               ,
               in
               such
               sort
               ,
               as
               was
               to
               be
               seene
               at
               this
               Examinates
               Examination
               taking
               ,
               at
               this
               present
               time
               .
            
             
               Heere
               this
               worthy
               Iustice
               M.
               Nowell
               ,
               out
               of
               these
               particular
               Examinations
               ,
               or
               rather
               Accusations
               ,
               finding
               matter
               to
               proceed
               ;
               and
               hauing
               now
               before
               him
               old
               Demdike
               ,
               old
               
                 Chattox
                 ,
                 Alizon
                 Deuice
              
               ,
               and
               Redferne
               both
               old
               and
               young
               ,
               
                 Reos
                 confitentes
                 ,
                 et
                 Accusantes
                 Inuicem
                 .
              
               About
               the
               second
               of
               Aprill
               last
               past
               ,
               committed
               and
               sent
               them
               away
               to
               the
               Castle
               at
               Lancaster
               ,
               there
               to
               remaine
               vntill
               the
               comming
               of
               the
               Kinges
               Maiesties
               Iustices
               of
               Assise
               ,
               then
               to
               receiue
               their
               tryall
               .
            
             
             
               But
               heere
               they
               had
               not
               stayed
               a
               weeke
               ,
               when
               their
               Children
               and
               Friendes
               being
               abroad
               at
               libertie
               ,
               laboured
               a
               speciall
               meeting
               at
               
                 Malking
                 Tower
              
               in
               the
               Forrest
               of
               Pendle
               ,
               vpon
               Good-fryday
               ,
               within
               a
               weeke
               after
               they
               were
               ,
               committed
               ,
               of
               all
               the
               most
               dangerous
               ,
               wicked
               ,
               and
               damnable
               Witches
               in
               the
               County
               farre
               and
               neere
               .
               Vpon
               Good-fryday
               they
               met
               ,
               according
               to
               solemne
               appoyntment
               ,
               solemnized
               this
               great
               Feastiuall
               day
               according
               to
               their
               former
               order
               ,
               with
               great
               cheare
               ,
               merry-company
               ,
               and
               much
               conference
               .
            
             
               In
               the
               end
               ,
               in
               this
               great
               Assemblie
               ,
               it
               was
               decreed
               M.
               Couell
               by
               reason
               of
               his
               Office
               ,
               shall
               be
               slaine
               before
               the
               next
               Assises
               :
               The
               Castle
               of
               Lancaster
               to
               be
               blowen
               vp
               ,
               and
               ayde
               and
               assistance
               to
               be
               sent
               to
               kill
               M.
               Lister
               ,
               with
               his
               old
               Enemie
               and
               wicked
               Neighbour
               
                 Iennet
                 Preston
              
               ;
               with
               some
               other
               such
               like
               practices
               :
               as
               vpon
               their
               Arraignement
               and
               Tryall
               ,
               are
               particularly
               set
               foorth
               ,
               and
               giuen
               in
               euidence
               against
               them
               .
            
             
               This
               was
               not
               so
               secret
               ,
               but
               some
               notice
               of
               it
               came
               to
               M.
               Nowell
               ,
               and
               by
               his
               great
               paines
               taken
               in
               the
               Examination
               of
               
                 Iennet
                 Deuice
              
               ,
               al
               their
               practises
               are
               now
               made
               knowen
               .
               Their
               purpose
               to
               kill
               M.
               Couell
               ,
               and
               blow
               vp
               the
               Castle
               ,
               is
               preuented
               .
               All
               their
               Murders
               ,
               Witchcraftes
               ,
               Inchauntments
               ,
               Charmes
               ,
               &
               Sorceries
               ,
               are
               discouered
               ;
               and
               euen
               in
               the
               middest
               of
               their
               Consultations
               ,
               they
               are
               all
               confounded
               ,
               and
               arrested
               by
               Gods
               Iustice
               :
               brough
               before
               M.
               Nowell
               ,
               and
               M.
               Bauester
               ,
               vpon
               their
               voluntary
               confessions
               ,
               Examinations
               ,
               and
               other
               Euidence
               accused
               ,
               and
               so
               by
               them
               committed
               to
               the
               Castle
               :
               So
               as
               now
               both
               old
               and
               young
               ,
               haue
               taken
               vp
               their
               lodgings
               with
               M.
               Couell
               ,
               vntill
               the
               next
               Assises
               ,
               expecting
               their
               Tryall
               and
               deliueraunce
               ,
               according
               to
               the
               Lawes
               prouided
               for
               such
               like
               .
            
             
             
               In
               the
               meane
               time
               ,
               M.
               Nowell
               hauing
               knowledge
               by
               this
               discouery
               of
               their
               meeting
               at
               
                 Malkeing
                 Tower
              
               ,
               and
               their
               resolution
               to
               execute
               mischiefe
               ,
               takes
               great
               paines
               to
               apprehend
               such
               as
               were
               at
               libertie
               ,
               and
               prepared
               Euidence
               against
               all
               such
               as
               were
               in
               question
               for
               Witches
               .
            
             
               Afterwardes
               sendes
               some
               of
               these
               Examinations
               ,
               to
               the
               Assises
               at
               Yorke
               ,
               to
               be
               giuen
               in
               Euidence
               against
               
                 Iennet
                 Preston
              
               ,
               who
               for
               the
               murder
               of
               M.
               Lister
               ,
               is
               condemned
               and
               executed
               .
            
             
               The
               Circuite
               of
               the
               North
               partes
               being
               now
               almost
               ended
               .
            
             
               
                 The
                 16.
                 of
                 August
                 .
              
               
                 Vpon
                 Sunday
                 in
                 the
                 after
                 noone
                 ,
                 my
                 honorable
                 Lords
                 the
                 Iudges
                 of
                 Assise
                 ,
                 came
                 from
                 Kendall
                 to
                 Lancaster
                 .
              
               
                 Wherevpon
                 M.
                 Couell
                 presented
                 vnto
                 their
                 Lordships
                 a
                 Calender
                 ,
                 conteyning
                 the
                 Names
                 of
                 the
                 Prisoners
                 committed
                 to
                 his
                 charge
                 ,
                 which
                 were
                 to
                 receiue
                 their
                 Tryall
                 at
                 the
                 Assises
                 :
                 Out
                 of
                 which
                 ,
                 we
                 are
                 onely
                 to
                 deale
                 with
                 the
                 proceedings
                 against
                 Witches
                 ,
                 which
                 were
                 as
                 followeth
                 .
                 Viz.
                 
              
            
          
           
             
             
               
                 The
                 Names
                 of
                 the
                 Witches
                 committed
                 to
                 the
                 Castle
                 of
                 Lancaster
                 .
              
               
                 
                   Elizabeth
                   Sowtherns
                
                 .
                 alias
                 
                   Old
                   Demdike
                
                 .
                 Who
                 dyed
                 before
                 shee
                 came
                 to
                 her
                 tryall
                 .
              
               
                 
                   Anne
                   Whittle
                
                 ,
                 alias
                 Chattox
                 ,
              
               
                 
                   Elizabeth
                   Deuice
                
                 ,
                 Daughter
                 of
                 old
                 Demdike
                 .
              
               
                 
                   Iames
                   Deuice
                
                 ,
                 Sonne
                 of
                 
                   Elizabeth
                   Deuice
                
                 .
              
               
                 
                   Anne
                   Readfearne
                
                 ,
                 Daughter
                 of
                 
                   Anne
                   Chattox
                
                 .
              
               
                 
                   Alice
                   Nutter
                
                 .
              
               
                 
                   Katherine
                   Hewytte
                
                 .
              
               
                 
                   Iohn
                   Bulcocke
                
                 .
              
               
                 
                   Iaue
                   Bulcocke
                
                 .
              
               
                 
                   Alizon
                   Deuice
                
                 ,
                 Daughter
                 of
                 
                   Elizabeth
                   Deuice
                
                 .
              
               
                 
                   Isabell
                   Robey
                
                 .
              
               
                 
                   Margaret
                   Pearson
                
                 .
              
            
             
               
                 The
                 Witches
                 of
                 Salmesbury
                 .
              
               
                 
                   Iennet
                   Bierley
                
                 .
              
               
                 
                   Elen
                   Bierley
                
                 .
              
               
                 
                   Iane
                   Southworth
                
                 .
              
               
                 
                   Iohn
                   Ramesden
                
                 .
              
               
                 
                   Elizabeth
                   Astley
                
                 .
              
               
                 
                   Alice
                   Gray
                
                 .
              
               
                 
                   Isabell
                   Sidegraues
                
                 .
              
               
                 
                   Lawrence
                   Haye
                
                 .
              
            
             
               The
               next
               day
               ,
               being
               Monday
               ,
               the
               17.
               of
               August
               ,
               were
               the
               Assises
               holden
               in
               the
               Castle
               of
               Lancaster
               ,
               as
               followeth
               .
            
             
               
               
                 PLACITA
                 CORONE
                 ,
                 〈◊〉
                 Lancasterium
                 .
              
               
                 
                   DEliberatio
                   Gaolae
                   Domini
                   Regis
                   Castri
                   sui
                   Lancastrii
                   ac
                   Prisonariorū
                   in
                   eadem
                   existent
                   .
                   Tenta
                   apud
                   Lancasterium
                   in
                   com
                   .
                   Lancasterij
                   .
                   Die
                   Lunae
                   ,
                   Decimo
                   septimo
                   die
                   Augusti
                   ,
                   Anno
                   Regni
                   Domini
                   nostri
                   Iacobi
                   dei
                   gratia
                   Angliae
                   ,
                   Franciae
                   ,
                   et
                   Hiberniae
                   ,
                   Regis
                   fidei
                   defensoris
                   ;
                   Decimo
                   :
                   et
                   Scotiae
                   Quadragesimo
                   sexto
                   ;
                   Coram
                   Iacobo
                   Altham
                   Milit.
                   vno
                   Baronum
                   Scaccarij
                   Domini
                   Regis
                   ,
                   et
                   Edwardo
                   Bromley
                   Milit.
                   altero
                   Barono
                   ,
                   eiusdem
                   Scaccarij
                   Domini
                   Regis
                   :
                   ac
                   Iustic
                   ,
                   Domini
                   Regis
                   apud
                   Lancastr
                   .
                
              
               
                 VPon
                 the
                 Tewesday
                 in
                 the
                 after
                 noone
                 ,
                 the
                 Iudges
                 according
                 to
                 the
                 course
                 and
                 order
                 ,
                 deuided
                 them selues
                 ,
                 wherevpon
                 my
                 Lord
                 Bromley
                 ,
                 one
                 of
                 his
                 Maiestices
                 Iudges
                 of
                 Assise
                 comming
                 into
                 the
                 Hall
                 to
                 proceede
                 with
                 the
                 Pleaes
                 of
                 the
                 Crowne
                 ,
                 &
                 the
                 Arraignement
                 and
                 Tryall
                 of
                 Prisoners
                 ,
                 commaunded
                 a
                 generall
                 Proclamation
                 ,
                 that
                 all
                 Iustices
                 of
                 Peace
                 that
                 had
                 taken
                 any
                 Recognisaunces
                 ,
                 or
                 Examinations
                 of
                 Prisoners
                 ,
                 should
                 make
                 Returne
                 of
                 them
                 :
                 And
                 all
                 such
                 as
                 were
                 bound
                 to
                 prosecute
                 Indictmentes
                 ,
                 and
                 giue
                 Euidence
                 against
                 Witches
                 ,
                 should
                 proceede
                 ,
                 and
                 giue
                 attendance
                 :
                 For
                 hee
                 now
                 intended
                 to
                 proceed
                 to
                 the
                 Arraignement
                 and
                 Tryall
                 of
                 VVitches
                 .
              
               
                 After
                 which
                 ,
                 the
                 Court
                 being
                 set
                 ,
                 M.
                 Sherieffe
                 was
                 commaunded
                 to
                 present
                 his
                 Prisoners
                 before
                 his
                 Lordship
                 ,
                 and
                 prepare
                 a
                 sufficient
                 Iurie
                 of
                 Gentlemen
                 for
                 life
                 and
                 death
                 .
                 But
                 heere
                 we
                 want
                 old
                 Demdike
                 ,
                 who
                 dyed
                 in
                 the
                 Castle
                 before
                 she
                 came
                 to
                 her
                 Tryall
                 .
              
               
               
                 Heere
                 you
                 may
                 not
                 expect
                 the
                 exact
                 order
                 of
                 the
                 Assises
                 ,
                 with
                 the
                 Proclamations
                 ,
                 and
                 other
                 solemnities
                 belonging
                 to
                 so
                 great
                 a
                 Court
                 of
                 Iustice
                 ▪
                 but
                 the
                 proceedinges
                 against
                 the
                 Witches
                 ,
                 who
                 are
                 now
                 vpon
                 their
                 deliuerance
                 here
                 in
                 order
                 as
                 they
                 came
                 to
                 the
                 Barre
                 ,
                 with
                 the
                 particular
                 poyntes
                 of
                 Euidence
                 against
                 them
                 :
                 which
                 is
                 the
                 labour
                 and
                 worke
                 we
                 now
                 intend
                 (
                 by
                 Gods
                 grace
                 )
                 to
                 performe
                 as
                 we
                 may
                 ,
                 to
                 your
                 generall
                 contentment
                 .
              
               
                 Wherevpon
                 ,
                 the
                 first
                 of
                 all
                 these
                 ,
                 
                   Anne
                   Whittle
                
                 ,
                 alias
                 Chattox
                 ,
                 was
                 brought
                 to
                 the
                 Barre
                 :
                 against
                 whom
                 wee
                 are
                 now
                 ready
                 to
                 proceed
                 .
              
            
             
               
               
                 The
                 Arraignement
                 and
                 Tryall
                 of
                 Anne
                 Whittle
                 ,
                 alias
                 Chattox
                 ,
                 of
                 the
                 Forrest
                 of
                 Pendle
                 ,
                 in
                 the
                 Countie
                 of
                 Lancaster
                 ,
                 Widdow
                 ;
                 about
                 the
                 age
                 of
                 Fourescore
                 yeares
                 ,
                 or
                 thereaboutes
                 .
              
               
                 Anne
                 Whittle
                 ,
                 alias
                 Chattox
                 .
              
               
                 IF
                 in
                 this
                 damnable
                 course
                 of
                 life
                 ,
                 and
                 offences
                 ,
                 more
                 horrible
                 and
                 odious
                 ,
                 then
                 any
                 man
                 is
                 able
                 to
                 expresse
                 :
                 any
                 man
                 lyuing
                 could
                 lament
                 the
                 estate
                 of
                 any
                 such
                 like
                 vpon
                 earth
                 :
                 The
                 example
                 of
                 this
                 poore
                 creature
                 ,
                 would
                 haue
                 moued
                 pittie
                 ,
                 in
                 respect
                 of
                 her
                 great
                 contrition
                 and
                 repentance
                 ,
                 after
                 she
                 was
                 committed
                 to
                 the
                 Castle
                 at
                 Lancaster
                 ,
                 vntill
                 the
                 comming
                 of
                 his
                 Maiesties
                 Iudges
                 of
                 Assise
                 .
                 But
                 such
                 was
                 the
                 nature
                 of
                 her
                 offences
                 ,
                 &
                 the
                 multitude
                 of
                 her
                 crying
                 sinnes
                 ,
                 as
                 it
                 tooke
                 away
                 all
                 sense
                 of
                 humanity
                 .
                 And
                 the
                 repetition
                 of
                 her
                 hellish
                 practises
                 ,
                 and
                 Reuenge
                 ;
                 being
                 the
                 chiefest
                 thinges
                 wherein
                 she
                 alwayes
                 tooke
                 great
                 delight
                 ,
                 togeather
                 with
                 a
                 particular
                 declaration
                 of
                 the
                 Murders
                 shee
                 had
                 committed
                 ,
                 layde
                 open
                 to
                 the
                 world
                 ,
                 and
                 giuen
                 in
                 Euidence
                 against
                 her
                 at
                 the
                 time
                 of
                 her
                 Arraignement
                 and
                 
                 Tryall
                 ;
                 as
                 certainely
                 it
                 did
                 beget
                 contempt
                 in
                 the
                 Audience
                 ,
                 and
                 such
                 as
                 she
                 neuer
                 offended
                 .
              
               
                 This
                 
                   Anne
                   Whittle
                
                 ,
                 alias
                 Chattox
                 ,
                 was
                 a
                 very
                 old
                 withered
                 spent
                 &
                 decreped
                 creature
                 ,
                 her
                 sight
                 almost
                 gone
                 :
                 A
                 dangerous
                 Witch
                 ,
                 of
                 very
                 long
                 continuance
                 ;
                 alwayes
                 opposite
                 to
                 old
                 Demdike
                 :
                 For
                 whom
                 the
                 one
                 fauoured
                 ,
                 
                 the
                 other
                 hated
                 deadly
                 :
                 and
                 how
                 they
                 enuie
                 and
                 accuse
                 one
                 an
                 other
                 ,
                 in
                 their
                 Examinations
                 ,
                 may
                 appeare
                 .
              
               
                 In
                 her
                 Witchcraft
                 ,
                 alwayes
                 more
                 ready
                 to
                 doe
                 mischiefe
                 to
                 mens
                 goods
                 ,
                 then
                 themselues
                 .
                 Her
                 lippes
                 euer
                 chattering
                 and
                 walking
                 :
                 but
                 no
                 man
                 knew
                 what
                 .
                 She
                 liued
                 in
                 the
                 Forrest
                 of
                 Pendle
                 ,
                 amongst
                 this
                 wicked
                 company
                 of
                 dangerous
                 Witches
                 .
                 Yet
                 in
                 her
                 Examination
                 and
                 Confession
                 ,
                 she
                 dealt
                 alwayes
                 very
                 plainely
                 and
                 truely
                 :
                 for
                 vpon
                 a
                 speciall
                 occasion
                 being
                 oftentimes
                 examined
                 in
                 open
                 Court
                 ,
                 shee
                 was
                 neuer
                 found
                 to
                 vary
                 ,
                 but
                 alwayes
                 to
                 agree
                 in
                 one
                 ,
                 and
                 the
                 selfe
                 same
                 thing
                 .
              
               
                 I
                 place
                 her
                 in
                 order
                 ,
                 next
                 to
                 that
                 wicked
                 fire-brand
                 of
                 mischiefe
                 ,
                 old
                 Demdike
                 ,
                 because
                 from
                 these
                 two
                 ,
                 sprung
                 all
                 the
                 rest
                 in
                 order
                 :
                 and
                 were
                 the
                 Children
                 and
                 Friendes
                 ,
                 of
                 these
                 two
                 notorious
                 VVitches
                 .
              
               
                 Many
                 thinges
                 in
                 the
                 discovery
                 of
                 them
                 ,
                 shall
                 be
                 very
                 worthy
                 your
                 obseruation
                 .
                 As
                 the
                 times
                 and
                 occasions
                 to
                 execute
                 their
                 mischiefe
                 .
                 And
                 this
                 in
                 generall
                 :
                 the
                 Spirit
                 could
                 neuer
                 hurt
                 ,
                 till
                 they
                 gaue
                 consent
                 .
              
               
                 And
                 ,
                 but
                 that
                 it
                 is
                 my
                 charge
                 ,
                 to
                 set
                 foorth
                 a
                 particular
                 Declaration
                 of
                 the
                 Euidence
                 against
                 them
                 ,
                 vpon
                 their
                 Arraignement
                 and
                 Tryall
                 ;
                 with
                 their
                 Diuelish
                 practises
                 ,
                 consultations
                 ,
                 meetings
                 ,
                 and
                 murders
                 committed
                 by
                 them
                 ,
                 
                 in
                 such
                 sort
                 ,
                 as
                 they
                 were
                 giuen
                 in
                 Euidence
                 against
                 them
                 ▪
                 for
                 the
                 which
                 ,
                 I
                 shall
                 haue
                 matter
                 vpon
                 Record
                 .
                 I
                 could
                 make
                 a
                 large
                 Comentarie
                 of
                 them
                 :
                 But
                 it
                 is
                 my
                 humble
                 duety
                 ,
                 to
                 obserue
                 the
                 Charge
                 and
                 Commaundement
                 of
                 these
                 my
                 Honorable
                 good
                 Lordes
                 the
                 Iudges
                 of
                 Assise
                 ,
                 and
                 not
                 to
                 exceed
                 the
                 limits
                 of
                 my
                 Commission
                 .
                 Wherefore
                 I
                 shall
                 now
                 bring
                 this
                 auncient
                 Witch
                 ,
                 to
                 the
                 due
                 course
                 of
                 her
                 Tryall
                 ,
                 in
                 order
                 .
                 viz.
                 
              
            
             
               
                 Indictment
                 .
              
               
                 THis
                 
                   Anne
                   Whittle
                
                 ,
                 alias
                 Chattox
                 ,
                 of
                 the
                 Forrest
                 of
                 Pendle
                 in
                 the
                 Countie
                 of
                 Lancaster
                 Widdow
                 ,
                 being
                 Indicted
                 ,
                 for
                 that
                 shee
                 feloniously
                 had
                 practised
                 ,
                 vsed
                 ,
                 and
                 exercised
                 diuers
                 wicked
                 and
                 diuelish
                 Artes
                 called
                 Witchcraftes
                 ,
                 Inchauntmentes
                 ,
                 Charmes
                 ,
                 and
                 Sorceries
                 ,
                 in
                 and
                 vpon
                 one
                 
                   Robert
                   Nutter
                
                 of
                 Greenehead
                 ,
                 in
                 the
                 Forrest
                 of
                 Pendle
                 ,
                 in
                 the
                 Countie
                 of
                 Lanc
                 :
                 and
                 by
                 force
                 of
                 the
                 same
                 Witchcraft
                 ,
                 feloniously
                 the
                 sayd
                 
                   Robert
                   Nutter
                
                 had
                 killed
                 ,
                 
                   Contra
                   Pacem
                   ,
                   &c.
                
                 
                 Being
                 at
                 the
                 Barre
                 ,
                 was
                 arraigned
                 .
              
               
                 To
                 this
                 Indictment
                 ,
                 vpon
                 her
                 Arraignement
                 ,
                 shee
                 pleaded
                 ,
                 Not
                 guiltie
                 :
                 and
                 for
                 the
                 tryall
                 of
                 her
                 life
                 ,
                 put
                 her selfe
                 vpon
                 God
                 and
                 her
                 Country
                 .
              
               
                 Wherevpon
                 my
                 Lord
                 Bromley
                 commaunded
                 M.
                 Sheriffe
                 of
                 the
                 County
                 of
                 Lancaster
                 in
                 open
                 Court
                 ,
                 to
                 returne
                 a
                 Iurie
                 of
                 worthy
                 sufficient
                 Gentlemen
                 of
                 vnderstanding
                 ,
                 to
                 passe
                 betweene
                 our
                 soueraigne
                 Lord
                 the
                 Kinges
                 Maiestie
                 ,
                 and
                 her
                 ,
                 and
                 others
                 the
                 Prisoners
                 ,
                 vpon
                 their
                 liues
                 and
                 deathes
                 ;
                 as
                 hereafter
                 follow
                 in
                 order
                 :
                 who
                 were
                 afterwardes
                 sworne
                 ,
                 according
                 to
                 the
                 forme
                 and
                 order
                 of
                 
                 the
                 Court
                 ,
                 the
                 Prisoners
                 being
                 admitted
                 to
                 their
                 lawfully
                 challenges
                 .
              
               
                 VVhich
                 being
                 done
                 ,
                 and
                 the
                 Prisoner
                 at
                 the
                 Barre
                 readie
                 to
                 receiue
                 her
                 Tryall
                 :
                 M.
                 Nowell
                 ,
                 being
                 the
                 best
                 instructed
                 of
                 any
                 man
                 ,
                 of
                 all
                 the
                 particular
                 poyntes
                 of
                 Euidence
                 against
                 her
                 ,
                 and
                 her
                 fellowes
                 ,
                 hauing
                 taken
                 great
                 paynes
                 in
                 the
                 proceedinges
                 against
                 her
                 and
                 her
                 fellowes
                 ;
                 Humbly
                 prayed
                 ,
                 her
                 owne
                 voluntary
                 Confession
                 and
                 Examination
                 taken
                 before
                 him
                 ,
                 when
                 she
                 was
                 apprehended
                 and
                 committed
                 to
                 the
                 Castle
                 of
                 Lancaster
                 for
                 Witchcraft
                 ;
                 might
                 openly
                 be
                 published
                 against
                 her
                 :
                 which
                 hereafter
                 followeth
                 .
                 Viz.
                 
              
            
             
               
                 The
                 voluntary
                 Confession
                 and
                 Examination
                 of
                 
                   Anne
                   Whittle
                
                 ,
                 alias
                 Chattox
                 ,
                 taken
                 at
                 the
                 Fence
                 in
                 the
                 Forrest
                 of
                 Pendle
                 ,
                 in
                 the
                 Countie
                 of
                 Lancaster
                 ;
                 Before
                 
                   Roger
                   Nowell
                   
                     Esq
                  
                
                 ,
                 one
                 of
                 the
                 Kinges
                 Maiesties
                 Iustices
                 of
                 Peace
                 in
                 the
                 Countie
                 of
                 Lancaster
                 .
                 Viz.
                 
              
               
                 THe
                 sayd
                 
                   Anne
                   Whittle
                
                 ,
                 alias
                 Chattox
                 ,
                 vpon
                 her
                 Examination
                 ,
                 voluntarily
                 confesseth
                 ,
                 and
                 sayth
                 ,
                 That
                 about
                 foureteene
                 or
                 fifteene
                 yeares
                 agoe
                 ,
                 a
                 thing
                 like
                 a
                 Christian
                 man
                 for
                 foure
                 yeares
                 together
                 ,
                 did
                 sundry
                 times
                 come
                 to
                 this
                 Examinate
                 ,
                 and
                 requested
                 this
                 Examinate
                 to
                 giue
                 him
                 her
                 Soule
                 :
                 And
                 in
                 the
                 end
                 ,
                 this
                 Examinate
                 was
                 contented
                 to
                 giue
                 him
                 her
                 sayd
                 Soule
                 ,
                 shee
                 being
                 then
                 in
                 her
                 owne
                 house
                 ,
                 in
                 the
                 Forrest
                 of
                 Pendle
                 ;
                 wherevpon
                 the
                 Deuill
                 then
                 in
                 the
                 shape
                 of
                 a
                 Man
                 ,
                 sayd
                 to
                 this
                 Examinate
                 :
                 Thou
                 shalt
                 want
                 nothing
                 ;
                 and
                 be
                 reuenged
                 of
                 whom
                 thou
                 list
                 .
                 And
                 the
                 Deuill
                 then
                 further
                 commaunded
                 
                 this
                 Examinate
                 ,
                 to
                 call
                 him
                 by
                 the
                 name
                 of
                 Fancie
                 ;
                 and
                 when
                 she
                 wanted
                 any
                 thing
                 ,
                 or
                 would
                 be
                 reuenged
                 of
                 any
                 ,
                 call
                 on
                 Fancie
                 ,
                 and
                 he
                 would
                 be
                 ready
                 .
                 And
                 the
                 sayd
                 Spirit
                 or
                 Deuill
                 ,
                 did
                 appeare
                 vnto
                 her
                 not
                 long
                 after
                 ,
                 in
                 mans
                 likenesse
                 ,
                 and
                 would
                 haue
                 had
                 this
                 Examinate
                 to
                 haue
                 consented
                 ,
                 that
                 he
                 might
                 hurt
                 the
                 wife
                 of
                 
                   Richard
                   Baldwin
                
                 of
                 Pendle
                 ;
                 But
                 this
                 Examinate
                 would
                 not
                 then
                 consent
                 vnto
                 him
                 :
                 For
                 which
                 cause
                 ,
                 the
                 sayd
                 Deuill
                 would
                 then
                 haue
                 bitten
                 her
                 by
                 the
                 arme
                 ;
                 and
                 so
                 vanished
                 away
                 ,
                 for
                 that
                 time
                 .
              
               
                 And
                 this
                 Examinate
                 further
                 sayth
                 ;
                 that
                 
                   Robert
                   Nutter
                
                 did
                 desire
                 her
                 Daughter
                 one
                 Redfearns
                 wife
                 ,
                 to
                 haue
                 his
                 pleasure
                 of
                 her
                 ,
                 being
                 then
                 in
                 Redfearns
                 house
                 :
                 but
                 the
                 sayd
                 Redfearns
                 wife
                 denyed
                 the
                 sayd
                 Robert
                 ;
                 wherevpon
                 the
                 sayd
                 Robert
                 seeming
                 to
                 be
                 greatly
                 displeased
                 therewith
                 ,
                 in
                 a
                 great
                 anger
                 tooke
                 his
                 Horse
                 ,
                 and
                 went
                 away
                 ,
                 saying
                 in
                 a
                 great
                 rage
                 ,
                 that
                 if
                 euer
                 the
                 Ground
                 came
                 to
                 him
                 ,
                 shee
                 should
                 neuer
                 dwell
                 vpon
                 his
                 Land.
                 Wherevpon
                 this
                 Examinate
                 called
                 Fancie
                 to
                 her
                 ;
                 who
                 came
                 to
                 her
                 in
                 the
                 likenesse
                 of
                 a
                 Man
                 in
                 a
                 parcell
                 of
                 Ground
                 called
                 ,
                 
                   The
                   Laund
                
                 ;
                 asking
                 this
                 Examinate
                 ,
                 what
                 shee
                 would
                 haue
                 him
                 to
                 doe
                 ?
                 And
                 this
                 Examinate
                 bade
                 him
                 goe
                 reuenge
                 her
                 of
                 the
                 sayd
                 
                   Robert
                   Nutter
                
                 .
                 After
                 which
                 time
                 ,
                 the
                 sayd
                 
                   Robert
                   Nutter
                
                 liued
                 about
                 a
                 quarter
                 of
                 a
                 yeare
                 ,
                 and
                 then
                 dyed
                 .
              
               
                 And
                 this
                 Examinate
                 further
                 sayth
                 ,
                 that
                 
                   Elizabeth
                   Nutter
                
                 ,
                 wife
                 to
                 old
                 
                   Robert
                   Nutter
                
                 ,
                 did
                 request
                 this
                 Examinate
                 ,
                 and
                 Loomeshaws
                 wife
                 of
                 Burley
                 ,
                 and
                 one
                 
                   Iane
                   Boothman
                
                 ,
                 of
                 the
                 same
                 ,
                 who
                 are
                 now
                 both
                 dead
                 ,
                 (
                 which
                 time
                 of
                 request
                 ,
                 was
                 before
                 that
                 
                   Robert
                   Nutter
                
                 desired
                 the
                 company
                 of
                 Redfearns
                 wife
                 )
                 to
                 get
                 young
                 
                   Robert
                   Nutter
                
                 his
                 death
                 ,
                 if
                 
                 they
                 could
                 ;
                 all
                 being
                 togeather
                 then
                 at
                 that
                 time
                 ,
                 to
                 that
                 end
                 ,
                 that
                 if
                 Robert
                 were
                 dead
                 ,
                 then
                 the
                 Women
                 their
                 Coosens
                 might
                 haue
                 the
                 Land
                 :
                 By
                 whose
                 perswasion
                 ,
                 they
                 all
                 consented
                 vnto
                 it
                 .
                 After
                 which
                 time
                 ,
                 this
                 Examinates
                 Sonne
                 in
                 law
                 
                   Thomas
                   Redfearne
                
                 ,
                 did
                 perswade
                 this
                 Examinate
                 ,
                 not
                 to
                 kill
                 or
                 hurt
                 the
                 sayd
                 
                   Robert
                   Nutter
                
                 ;
                 for
                 which
                 perswasion
                 ,
                 the
                 sayd
                 Loomeshaws
                 Wife
                 ,
                 had
                 like
                 to
                 haue
                 killed
                 the
                 sayd
                 Redfearne
                 ,
                 but
                 that
                 one
                 M.
                 Baldwyn
                 (
                 the
                 late
                 Schoole-maister
                 at
                 Coulne
                 )
                 did
                 by
                 his
                 learning
                 ,
                 stay
                 the
                 sayd
                 Loomeshaws
                 wife
                 ,
                 and
                 therefore
                 had
                 a
                 Capon
                 from
                 Redfearne
                 .
              
               
                 And
                 this
                 Examinate
                 further
                 sayth
                 ,
                 that
                 she
                 thinketh
                 the
                 sayd
                 Loomeshaws
                 wife
                 ,
                 and
                 
                   lane
                   Boothman
                
                 ,
                 did
                 what
                 they
                 could
                 to
                 kill
                 the
                 sayd
                 
                   Robert
                   Nutter
                
                 ,
                 as
                 well
                 as
                 this
                 Examinate
                 did
                 .
              
            
             
               
               
               
                 
                   The
                   Examination
                   of
                
                 ELIZABETH
                 SOTHERNES
                 ,
                 alias
                 OLD
                 DEMBDIKE
                 :
                 
                   taken
                   at
                   the
                   Fence
                   in
                   the
                   Forrest
                   of
                   Pendle
                   in
                   the
                   Countie
                   of
                   Lancaster
                   ,
                   the
                   day
                   and
                   yeare
                   aforesaid
                   .
                
              
               
                 Before
                 ,
                 ROGER
                 NOWEL
                 
                   Esquire
                   ,
                   one
                   of
                   the
                   Kings
                   Maiesties
                   Iustices
                   of
                   Peace
                   in
                   the
                   said
                   Countie
                   ,
                   against
                
                 ANNE
                 WHITTLE
                 ,
                 alias
                 CHATTOX
                 .
              
               
                 THe
                 said
                 
                   Elizabeth
                   Southernes
                
                 saith
                 vpon
                 her
                 Examination
                 ,
                 that
                 about
                 halfe
                 a
                 yeare
                 before
                 
                   Robert
                   Nutter
                
                 died
                 ,
                 as
                 this
                 Examinate
                 thinketh
                 ,
                 this
                 Examinate
                 went
                 to
                 the
                 house
                 of
                 
                   Thomas
                   Redfearne
                
                 ,
                 which
                 was
                 about
                 Mid-sommer
                 ,
                 as
                 this
                 Examinate
                 remembreth
                 it
                 .
                 And
                 there
                 within
                 three
                 yards
                 of
                 the
                 East
                 end
                 of
                 the
                 said
                 house
                 ,
                 shee
                 saw
                 the
                 said
                 
                   Anne
                   Whittle
                
                 ,
                 alias
                 Chattox
                 ,
                 and
                 
                   Anne
                   Redferne
                
                 wife
                 of
                 the
                 said
                 
                   Thomas
                   Redferne
                
                 ,
                 and
                 Daughter
                 of
                 the
                 said
                 
                   Anne
                   Whittle
                
                 ,
                 alias
                 Chattox
                 :
                 the
                 one
                 on
                 the
                 one
                 side
                 of
                 the
                 Ditch
                 ,
                 and
                 the
                 other
                 on
                 the
                 other
                 :
                 and
                 two
                 Pictures
                 of
                 Clay
                 or
                 Marle
                 lying
                 by
                 them
                 :
                 and
                 the
                 third
                 Picture
                 the
                 said
                 
                   Anne
                   Whittle
                
                 ,
                 alias
                 Chattox
                 ,
                 was
                 making
                 :
                 and
                 the
                 said
                 
                   Anne
                   Redferne
                
                 her
                 said
                 Daughter
                 ,
                 wrought
                 her
                 Clay
                 or
                 Marle
                 to
                 make
                 the
                 third
                 picture
                 withall
                 .
                 And
                 this
                 Examinate
                 passing
                 by
                 them
                 ,
                 the
                 said
                 Spirit
                 ,
                 called
                 Tibb
                 ,
                 in
                 the
                 shape
                 of
                 a
                 black
                 Cat
                 ,
                 appeared
                 vnto
                 her
                 this
                 Examinate
                 ,
                 and
                 said
                 ,
                 turne
                 back
                 againe
                 ,
                 and
                 doe
                 as
                 they
                 doe
                 :
                 To
                 whom
                 this
                 Examinate
                 said
                 ,
                 what
                 are
                 they
                 doing
                 ?
                 whereunto
                 the
                 said
                 Spirit
                 said
                 ;
                 they
                 are
                 making
                 three
                 Pictures
                 :
                 whereupon
                 she
                 asked
                 whose
                 pictures
                 they
                 were
                 ?
                 whereunto
                 the
                 said
                 Spirit
                 said
                 ;
                 they
                 
                 are
                 the
                 pictures
                 of
                 
                   Christopher
                   Nutter
                   ,
                   Robert
                   Nutter
                
                 ,
                 and
                 Marie
                 ,
                 wife
                 of
                 the
                 said
                 
                   Robert
                   Nutter
                
                 :
                 But
                 this
                 Examinate
                 denying
                 to
                 goe
                 back
                 to
                 helpe
                 them
                 to
                 make
                 the
                 Pictures
                 aforesaid
                 ;
                 the
                 said
                 Spirit
                 seeming
                 to
                 be
                 angrie
                 ,
                 therefore
                 shoue
                 or
                 pushed
                 this
                 Examinate
                 into
                 the
                 ditch
                 ,
                 and
                 so
                 shed
                 the
                 Milke
                 which
                 this
                 Examinate
                 had
                 in
                 a
                 Can
                 or
                 Kit
                 :
                 and
                 so
                 thereupon
                 the
                 Spirit
                 at
                 that
                 time
                 vanished
                 out
                 of
                 this
                 Examinates
                 sight
                 :
                 But
                 presently
                 after
                 that
                 ,
                 the
                 said
                 Spirit
                 appeared
                 to
                 this
                 Examinate
                 againe
                 in
                 the
                 shape
                 of
                 a
                 Hare
                 ,
                 and
                 so
                 went
                 with
                 her
                 about
                 a
                 quarter
                 of
                 a
                 mile
                 ,
                 but
                 said
                 nothing
                 to
                 this
                 Examinate
                 ,
                 nor
                 shee
                 to
                 it
                 .
              
            
             
               
                 
                   The
                   Examination
                   and
                   euidence
                   of
                
                 IAMES
                 ROBINSON
                 ,
                 
                   taken
                   the
                   day
                   and
                   yeare
                   aforesaid
                   .
                
                 Before
                 ROGER
                 NOWEL
                 
                   Esquire
                   aforesaid
                   ,
                   against
                
                 ANNE
                 WHITTLE
                 ,
                 alias
                 CHATTOX
                 ,
                 
                   Prisoner
                   at
                   the
                   Barre
                   as
                   followeth
                   .
                
                 viz.
                 
              
               
                 THe
                 said
                 Examinate
                 saith
                 ,
                 that
                 about
                 sixe
                 yeares
                 agoe
                 ,
                 
                   Anne
                   Whittle
                
                 ,
                 alias
                 Chattox
                 ,
                 was
                 hired
                 by
                 this
                 Examinates
                 wife
                 to
                 card
                 wooll
                 ;
                 and
                 so
                 vpon
                 a
                 Friday
                 and
                 Saturday
                 ,
                 shee
                 came
                 and
                 carded
                 wooll
                 with
                 this
                 Examinates
                 wife
                 ,
                 and
                 so
                 the
                 Munday
                 then
                 next
                 after
                 shee
                 came
                 likewise
                 to
                 card
                 :
                 and
                 this
                 Examinates
                 wife
                 hauing
                 newly
                 tunned
                 drinke
                 into
                 Stands
                 ,
                 which
                 stood
                 by
                 the
                 said
                 
                   Anne
                   Whittle
                
                 ,
                 alias
                 Chattox
                 :
                 and
                 the
                 said
                 
                   Anne
                   Whittle
                
                 taking
                 a
                 Dish
                 or
                 Cup
                 ,
                 and
                 drawing
                 drinke
                 seuerall
                 times
                 :
                 
                 and
                 so
                 neuer
                 after
                 that
                 time
                 ,
                 for
                 some
                 eight
                 or
                 nine
                 weekes
                 ,
                 they
                 could
                 haue
                 any
                 drinke
                 ,
                 but
                 spoiled
                 ,
                 and
                 as
                 this
                 Examinate
                 thinketh
                 was
                 by
                 the
                 meanes
                 of
                 the
                 said
                 Chattox
                 .
                 And
                 further
                 he
                 saith
                 ,
                 that
                 the
                 said
                 
                   Anne
                   Whittle
                
                 ,
                 alias
                 Chattox
                 ,
                 and
                 
                   Anne
                   Redferne
                
                 her
                 said
                 Daughter
                 ,
                 are
                 commonly
                 reputed
                 and
                 reported
                 to
                 bee
                 Witches
                 .
                 And
                 hee
                 also
                 saith
                 ,
                 that
                 about
                 some
                 eighteene
                 yeares
                 agoe
                 ,
                 he
                 dwelled
                 with
                 one
                 
                   Robert
                   Nutter
                
                 the
                 elder
                 ,
                 of
                 Pendle
                 aforesaid
                 .
                 And
                 that
                 yong
                 
                   Robert
                   Nutter
                
                 ,
                 who
                 dwelled
                 with
                 his
                 Grand-father
                 ,
                 in
                 the
                 Sommer
                 time
                 ,
                 he
                 fell
                 sicke
                 ,
                 and
                 in
                 his
                 said
                 sicknesse
                 hee
                 did
                 seuerall
                 times
                 complaine
                 ,
                 that
                 hee
                 had
                 harme
                 by
                 them
                 :
                 and
                 this
                 Examinate
                 asking
                 him
                 what
                 hee
                 meant
                 by
                 that
                 word
                 Them
                 ,
                 He
                 said
                 ,
                 that
                 he
                 verily
                 thought
                 that
                 the
                 said
                 
                   Anne
                   Whittle
                
                 ,
                 alias
                 Chattox
                 ,
                 and
                 the
                 said
                 Redfernes
                 wife
                 ,
                 had
                 bewitched
                 him
                 :
                 and
                 the
                 said
                 
                   Robert
                   Nutter
                
                 shortly
                 after
                 ,
                 being
                 to
                 goe
                 with
                 his
                 then
                 Master
                 ,
                 called
                 Sir
                 
                   Richard
                   Shattleworth
                
                 ,
                 into
                 Wales
                 ,
                 this
                 Examinate
                 heard
                 him
                 say
                 before
                 his
                 then
                 going
                 ,
                 vnto
                 the
                 said
                 
                   Thomas
                   Redferne
                
                 ,
                 that
                 if
                 euer
                 he
                 came
                 againe
                 he
                 would
                 get
                 his
                 Father
                 to
                 put
                 the
                 said
                 Redferne
                 out
                 of
                 his
                 house
                 ,
                 or
                 he
                 himselfe
                 would
                 pull
                 it
                 downe
                 ;
                 to
                 whom
                 the
                 said
                 Redferne
                 replyed
                 ,
                 saying
                 ;
                 when
                 you
                 come
                 back
                 againe
                 you
                 will
                 be
                 in
                 a
                 better
                 minde
                 :
                 but
                 he
                 neuer
                 came
                 back
                 againe
                 ,
                 but
                 died
                 before
                 Candlemas
                 in
                 Cheshire
                 ,
                 as
                 he
                 was
                 comming
                 homeward
                 .
              
               
                 Since
                 the
                 voluntarie
                 confession
                 and
                 examination
                 of
                 a
                 Witch
                 ,
                 doth
                 exceede
                 all
                 other
                 euidence
                 ,
                 I
                 spare
                 to
                 trouble
                 you
                 with
                 a
                 multitude
                 of
                 Examinations
                 ,
                 or
                 Depositions
                 of
                 any
                 other
                 witnesses
                 ,
                 by
                 reason
                 this
                 bloudie
                 fact
                 ,
                 for
                 the
                 Murder
                 of
                 
                   Robert
                   Nutter
                
                 ,
                 vpon
                 so
                 small
                 an
                 occasion
                 ,
                 as
                 to
                 threaten
                 to
                 take
                 away
                 
                 his
                 owne
                 land
                 from
                 such
                 as
                 were
                 not
                 worthie
                 to
                 inhabite
                 or
                 dwell
                 vpon
                 it
                 ,
                 is
                 now
                 made
                 by
                 that
                 which
                 you
                 haue
                 alreadie
                 heard
                 ,
                 so
                 apparant
                 ,
                 as
                 no
                 indifferent
                 man
                 will
                 question
                 it
                 ,
                 or
                 rest
                 vnsatisfied
                 :
                 I
                 shall
                 now
                 proceede
                 to
                 set
                 forth
                 vnto
                 you
                 the
                 rest
                 of
                 her
                 actions
                 ,
                 remaining
                 vpon
                 Record
                 .
                 And
                 how
                 dangerous
                 it
                 was
                 for
                 any
                 man
                 to
                 liue
                 neere
                 this
                 people
                 ,
                 to
                 giue
                 them
                 any
                 occasion
                 of
                 offence
                 ,
                 I
                 leaue
                 it
                 to
                 your
                 good
                 consideration
                 .
              
            
             
               
                 
                   The
                   Examination
                   and
                   voluntarie
                   Confession
                   of
                
                 ANNE
                 WHITTLE
                 ,
                 alias
                 CHATTOX
                 ,
                 
                   taken
                   at
                   the
                   Fence
                   in
                   the
                   Forrest
                   of
                   Pendle
                   ,
                   in
                   the
                   Countie
                   of
                   Lancaster
                   ,
                   the
                   second
                   day
                   of
                   Aprill
                   ,
                
                 Anno
                 Regni
                 Regis
                 IACOBI
                 Angliae
                 ,
                 Franciae
                 ,
                 &
                 Hiberniae
                 ,
                 decimo
                 ,
                 &
                 Scotiae
                 xlv
                 .
                 Before
                 ROGER
                 NOVVEL
                 ,
                 
                   Esquire
                   ,
                   one
                   of
                   his
                   Maiesties
                   Iustices
                   of
                   Peace
                   within
                   the
                   Countie
                   of
                   Lancaster
                   .
                
              
               
                 SHe
                 the
                 said
                 Examinate
                 saith
                 ,
                 That
                 shee
                 was
                 sent
                 for
                 by
                 the
                 wife
                 of
                 
                   Iohn
                   Moore
                
                 ,
                 to
                 helpe
                 drinke
                 that
                 was
                 forspoken
                 or
                 bewitched
                 :
                 at
                 which
                 time
                 shee
                 vsed
                 this
                 Prayer
                 for
                 the
                 amending
                 of
                 it
                 ,
                 viz.
                 
              
               
                 
                   
                     
                       
                         A
                         Charme
                         .
                      
                       
                         Three
                         Biters
                         hast
                         thou
                         bitten
                         ,
                      
                       
                         The
                         Hart
                         ,
                         ill
                         Eye
                         ,
                         ill
                         Tonge
                         :
                      
                       
                       
                         Three
                         bitter
                         shall
                         be
                         thy
                         Boote
                         ,
                      
                       
                         Father
                         ,
                         Sonne
                         ,
                         and
                         Holy
                         Ghost
                      
                       
                         a
                         Gods
                         name
                         .
                      
                       
                         Fiue
                         Pater-nosters
                         ,
                         fiue
                         Auies
                         ,
                      
                       
                         and
                         a
                         Creede
                         ,
                      
                       
                         In
                         worship
                         of
                         fiue
                         wounds
                      
                       
                         of
                         our
                         Lord.
                         
                      
                    
                  
                
              
               
                 After
                 which
                 time
                 that
                 this
                 Examinate
                 had
                 vsed
                 these
                 prayers
                 ,
                 and
                 amended
                 her
                 drinke
                 ,
                 the
                 said
                 Moeres
                 wife
                 did
                 chide
                 this
                 Examinate
                 ,
                 and
                 was
                 grieued
                 at
                 her
                 .
              
               
                 And
                 thereupon
                 this
                 Examinate
                 called
                 for
                 her
                 Deuill
                 Fancie
                 ,
                 and
                 bad
                 him
                 goe
                 bite
                 a
                 browne
                 Cow
                 of
                 the
                 said
                 Moores
                 by
                 the
                 head
                 ,
                 and
                 make
                 the
                 Cow
                 goe
                 madde
                 :
                 and
                 the
                 Deuill
                 then
                 ,
                 in
                 the
                 likenesse
                 of
                 a
                 browne
                 Dogge
                 ,
                 went
                 to
                 the
                 said
                 Cow
                 ,
                 and
                 bit
                 her
                 :
                 which
                 Cow
                 went
                 madde
                 accordingly
                 ,
                 and
                 died
                 within
                 six
                 weekes
                 next
                 after
                 ,
                 or
                 thereabouts
                 .
              
               
                 Also
                 this
                 Examinate
                 saith
                 ,
                 That
                 shee
                 perceiuing
                 
                   Anthonie
                   Nutter
                
                 of
                 Pendle
                 to
                 fauour
                 
                   Elizabeth
                   Sothernes
                
                 ,
                 alias
                 Dembdike
                 ,
                 she
                 ,
                 this
                 Examinate
                 ,
                 called
                 Fancie
                 to
                 her
                 ,
                 (
                 who
                 appeared
                 like
                 a
                 man
                 )
                 and
                 bad
                 him
                 goe
                 kill
                 a
                 Cow
                 of
                 the
                 said
                 Anthonies
                 ;
                 which
                 the
                 said
                 Deuill
                 did
                 ,
                 and
                 that
                 Cow
                 died
                 also
                 .
              
               
                 And
                 further
                 this
                 Examinate
                 saith
                 ,
                 That
                 the
                 Deuill
                 ,
                 or
                 Fancie
                 ,
                 hath
                 taken
                 most
                 of
                 her
                 sight
                 away
                 from
                 her
                 .
                 And
                 further
                 this
                 Examinate
                 saith
                 ,
                 That
                 in
                 Summer
                 last
                 ,
                 saue
                 one
                 ,
                 the
                 said
                 Deuill
                 ,
                 or
                 Fancie
                 ,
                 came
                 vpon
                 this
                 Examinate
                 in
                 the
                 night
                 time
                 :
                 and
                 at
                 diuerse
                 and
                 sundry
                 times
                 in
                 the
                 likenesse
                 of
                 a
                 Beare
                 ,
                 gaping
                 as
                 though
                 he
                 would
                 haue
                 wearied
                 this
                 Examinate
                 .
                 And
                 the
                 last
                 time
                 of
                 all
                 shee
                 ,
                 this
                 Examinate
                 ,
                 saw
                 him
                 ,
                 was
                 vpon
                 
                 Thursday
                 last
                 yeare
                 but
                 one
                 ,
                 next
                 before
                 Midsummer
                 day
                 ,
                 in
                 the
                 euening
                 ,
                 like
                 a
                 Beare
                 ,
                 and
                 this
                 Examinate
                 would
                 not
                 then
                 speake
                 vnto
                 him
                 ,
                 for
                 the
                 which
                 the
                 said
                 Deuill
                 pulled
                 this
                 Examinate
                 downe
                 .
              
            
             
               
                 
                   The
                   Examination
                   of
                
                 IAMES
                 DEVICE
                 ,
                 
                   sonne
                   of
                
                 ELIZABETH
                 DEVICE
                 ,
                 
                   taken
                   the
                   seuen
                   and
                   twentieth
                   day
                   of
                   Aprill
                   ,
                
                 Annoque
                 Reg.
                 Regis
                 IACOBI
                 Angliae
                 ,
                 &c.
                 
                 Decimo
                 ac
                 Scotiae
                 xlv
                 .
                 Before
                 ROGER
                 NOVVEL
                 and
                 NICHOLAS
                 BANISTER
                 ,
                 
                   Esquires
                   ,
                   two
                   of
                   his
                   Maiesties
                   Iustices
                   of
                   the
                   Peace
                   within
                   the
                   said
                   Countie
                   .
                
                 viz.
                 
              
               
                 ANd
                 further
                 saith
                 ,
                 That
                 twelue
                 yeares
                 agoe
                 ,
                 the
                 said
                 
                   Anne
                   Chattox
                
                 at
                 a
                 Buriall
                 at
                 the
                 new
                 Church
                 in
                 Pendle
                 ,
                 did
                 take
                 three
                 scalpes
                 of
                 people
                 ,
                 which
                 had
                 been
                 buried
                 ,
                 and
                 then
                 cast
                 out
                 of
                 a
                 graue
                 ,
                 as
                 she
                 the
                 said
                 Chattox
                 told
                 this
                 Examinate
                 ;
                 and
                 tooke
                 eight
                 teeth
                 out
                 of
                 the
                 said
                 Scalpes
                 ,
                 whereof
                 she
                 kept
                 foure
                 to
                 her selfe
                 ,
                 and
                 gaue
                 other
                 foure
                 to
                 the
                 said
                 Demdike
                 ,
                 this
                 Examinates
                 Grand-mother
                 :
                 which
                 foureteeth
                 now
                 shewed
                 to
                 this
                 Examinate
                 ,
                 are
                 the
                 foureteeth
                 that
                 the
                 said
                 Chattox
                 gaue
                 to
                 his
                 said
                 Grand-mother
                 ,
                 as
                 aforesaid
                 ;
                 which
                 said
                 teeth
                 haue
                 euer
                 since
                 beene
                 kept
                 ,
                 vntill
                 now
                 found
                 by
                 the
                 said
                 
                   Henry
                   Hargreiues
                
                 &
                 this
                 Examinate
                 ,
                 at
                 the
                 West-end
                 of
                 this
                 Examinates
                 Grand-mothers
                 house
                 ,
                 and
                 there
                 buried
                 in
                 the
                 earth
                 ,
                 and
                 a
                 Picture
                 of
                 Clay
                 there
                 likewise
                 found
                 by
                 them
                 ,
                 about
                 halfe
                 a
                 yard
                 ouer
                 in
                 the
                 
                 earth
                 ,
                 where
                 the
                 said
                 teeth
                 lay
                 ,
                 which
                 said
                 picture
                 so
                 found
                 ,
                 was
                 almost
                 withered
                 away
                 ,
                 and
                 was
                 the
                 Picture
                 of
                 
                   Anne
                   ,
                   Anthony
                   Nutters
                
                 daughter
                 ;
                 as
                 this
                 Examinates
                 Grand-mother
                 told
                 him
                 .
              
            
             
               
                 
                   The
                   Examination
                   of
                
                 ALLIZON
                 DEVICE
                 
                   daughter
                   of
                
                 ELIZABETH
                 DEVICE
                 :
                 
                   Taken
                   at
                   Reade
                   ,
                   in
                   the
                   Countie
                   of
                   Lancaster
                   ,
                   the
                   thirtieth
                   day
                   of
                   March
                   ,
                
                 Annoque
                 Reg.
                 Regis
                 IACOBI
                 nunc
                 Angliae
                 ,
                 &c.
                 
                 Decimo
                 ,
                 &
                 Scotiae
                 Quadragesimo
                 quinto
                 .
                 Before
                 ROGER
                 NOVVEL
                 
                   of
                   Reade
                   aforesaid
                   ,
                   Esquire
                   ,
                   one
                   of
                   his
                   Maiesties
                   Iustices
                   of
                   the
                   Peace
                   ,
                   within
                   the
                   said
                   Countie
                   .
                
              
               
                 THis
                 Examinate
                 saith
                 ,
                 That
                 about
                 eleuen
                 yeares
                 agoe
                 ,
                 this
                 Examinate
                 and
                 her
                 mother
                 had
                 their
                 fire-house
                 broken
                 ,
                 and
                 all
                 ,
                 or
                 the
                 most
                 part
                 of
                 their
                 linnen
                 clothes
                 &
                 halfe
                 a
                 peck
                 of
                 cut
                 oat-meale
                 ,
                 and
                 a
                 quantitie
                 of
                 meale
                 gone
                 ,
                 all
                 which
                 was
                 worth
                 twentie
                 shillings
                 or
                 aboue
                 :
                 and
                 vpon
                 a
                 Sunday
                 then
                 next
                 after
                 ,
                 this
                 Examinate
                 did
                 take
                 a
                 band
                 and
                 a
                 coife
                 ,
                 parcell
                 of
                 the
                 goods
                 aforesaid
                 ,
                 vpon
                 the
                 daughter
                 of
                 
                   Anne
                   Whittle
                   ,
                   alias
                   Chattox
                
                 ,
                 and
                 claimed
                 them
                 to
                 be
                 parcell
                 of
                 the
                 goods
                 stolne
                 ,
                 as
                 aforesaid
                 .
              
               
                 And
                 this
                 Examinate
                 further
                 saith
                 ,
                 That
                 her
                 father
                 ,
                 called
                 
                   Iohn
                   Deuice
                
                 ,
                 being
                 afraid
                 ,
                 that
                 the
                 said
                 
                   Anne
                   Chattox
                
                 should
                 doe
                 him
                 or
                 his
                 goods
                 any
                 hurt
                 by
                 Witchcraft
                 ;
                 
                 did
                 couenant
                 with
                 the
                 said
                 Anne
                 ,
                 that
                 if
                 she
                 would
                 hurt
                 neither
                 of
                 them
                 ,
                 she
                 should
                 yearely
                 haue
                 one
                 Aghen-dole
                 of
                 meale
                 ;
                 which
                 meale
                 was
                 yearely
                 paid
                 ,
                 vntill
                 the
                 yeare
                 which
                 her
                 father
                 died
                 in
                 ,
                 which
                 was
                 about
                 eleuen
                 yeares
                 since
                 :
                 Her
                 father
                 vpon
                 his
                 then-death-bed
                 ,
                 taking
                 it
                 that
                 the
                 said
                 
                   Anne
                   Whittle
                
                 ,
                 alias
                 Chattox
                 ,
                 did
                 bewitch
                 him
                 to
                 death
                 ,
                 because
                 the
                 said
                 meale
                 was
                 not
                 paid
                 the
                 last
                 yeare
                 .
              
               
                 And
                 she
                 also
                 saith
                 ,
                 That
                 about
                 two
                 yeares
                 agone
                 ,
                 this
                 Examinate
                 being
                 in
                 the
                 house
                 of
                 
                   Anthony
                   Nutter
                
                 of
                 Pendle
                 aforesaid
                 ,
                 and
                 being
                 then
                 in
                 company
                 with
                 
                   Anne
                   Nutter
                
                 ,
                 daughter
                 of
                 the
                 said
                 Anthony
                 :
                 the
                 said
                 
                   Anne
                   Whittle
                
                 ,
                 alias
                 Chattox
                 ,
                 came
                 into
                 the
                 said
                 
                   Anthony
                   Nutters
                
                 house
                 ,
                 and
                 seeing
                 this
                 Examinate
                 ,
                 and
                 the
                 said
                 
                   Anne
                   Nutter
                
                 laughing
                 and
                 saying
                 ,
                 that
                 they
                 laughed
                 at
                 her
                 the
                 said
                 Chattox
                 :
                 well
                 said
                 then
                 (
                 sayes
                 
                   Anne
                   Chattox
                
                 )
                 I
                 will
                 be
                 meet
                 with
                 the
                 one
                 of
                 you
                 .
                 And
                 vpon
                 the
                 next
                 day
                 after
                 she
                 the
                 said
                 
                   Anne
                   Nutter
                
                 fell
                 sicke
                 and
                 within
                 three
                 weekes
                 after
                 died
                 .
                 And
                 further
                 ,
                 this
                 Examinate
                 saith
                 ,
                 That
                 about
                 two
                 yeares
                 agoe
                 ,
                 she
                 ,
                 this
                 Examinate
                 ,
                 hath
                 heard
                 ,
                 That
                 the
                 said
                 
                   Anne
                   Whittle
                
                 ,
                 alias
                 Chattox
                 ,
                 was
                 suspected
                 for
                 bewitching
                 the
                 drinke
                 of
                 
                   Iohn
                   Moore
                
                 of
                 Higham
                 Gentleman
                 :
                 and
                 not
                 long
                 after
                 ,
                 shee
                 this
                 Examinate
                 heard
                 the
                 said
                 Chattox
                 say
                 ,
                 that
                 she
                 would
                 meet
                 with
                 the
                 said
                 
                   Iohn
                   Moore
                
                 ,
                 or
                 his
                 .
                 Whereupon
                 a
                 child
                 of
                 the
                 said
                 
                   Iohn
                   Moores
                
                 ,
                 called
                 Iohn
                 ,
                 fell
                 sick
                 ,
                 and
                 languished
                 about
                 halfe
                 a
                 yeare
                 ,
                 and
                 then
                 died
                 ;
                 during
                 which
                 languishing
                 ,
                 this
                 Examinate
                 saw
                 the
                 said
                 Chattox
                 sitting
                 in
                 her
                 owne
                 garden
                 ,
                 and
                 a
                 picture
                 of
                 Clay
                 like
                 vnto
                 a
                 child
                 in
                 her
                 Apron
                 ;
                 which
                 this
                 Examinate
                 espying
                 ,
                 the
                 said
                 
                   Anne
                   Chattox
                
                 would
                 haue
                 hidde
                 with
                 her
                 Apron
                 :
                 and
                 this
                 Examinate
                 declaring
                 the
                 same
                 to
                 her
                 mother
                 ,
                 her
                 
                 mother
                 thought
                 it
                 was
                 the
                 picture
                 of
                 the
                 said
                 
                   Iohn
                   Moores
                
                 childe
                 .
              
               
                 And
                 she
                 this
                 Examinate
                 further
                 saith
                 ,
                 That
                 about
                 sixe
                 or
                 seuen
                 yeares
                 agoe
                 ,
                 the
                 said
                 Chattox
                 did
                 fall
                 out
                 with
                 one
                 
                   Hugh
                   Moore
                
                 of
                 Pendle
                 ,
                 as
                 aforesaid
                 ,
                 about
                 certaine
                 cattell
                 of
                 the
                 said
                 Moores
                 ,
                 which
                 the
                 said
                 Moore
                 did
                 charge
                 the
                 said
                 Chattox
                 to
                 haue
                 bewitched
                 :
                 for
                 which
                 the
                 said
                 Chattox
                 did
                 curse
                 and
                 worry
                 the
                 said
                 Moore
                 ,
                 and
                 said
                 she
                 would
                 be
                 Reuenged
                 of
                 the
                 said
                 Moore
                 :
                 whereupon
                 the
                 said
                 Moore
                 presently
                 fell
                 sicke
                 ,
                 and
                 languished
                 about
                 halfe
                 a
                 yeare
                 ,
                 and
                 then
                 died
                 .
                 Which
                 Moore
                 vpon
                 his
                 death-bed
                 said
                 ,
                 that
                 the
                 said
                 Chattox
                 had
                 bewitched
                 him
                 to
                 death
                 .
                 And
                 she
                 further
                 saith
                 ,
                 That
                 about
                 sixe
                 yeares
                 agoe
                 ,
                 a
                 daughter
                 of
                 the
                 said
                 
                   Anne
                   Chattox
                
                 ,
                 called
                 Elizabeth
                 ,
                 hauing
                 been
                 at
                 the
                 house
                 of
                 
                   Iohn
                   Nutter
                
                 of
                 the
                 Bull-hole
                 ,
                 to
                 begge
                 or
                 get
                 a
                 dish
                 full
                 of
                 milke
                 ,
                 which
                 she
                 had
                 ,
                 and
                 brought
                 to
                 her
                 mother
                 ,
                 who
                 was
                 about
                 a
                 fields
                 breadth
                 of
                 the
                 said
                 Nutters
                 house
                 ,
                 which
                 her
                 said
                 mother
                 
                   Anne
                   Chattox
                
                 tooke
                 and
                 put
                 into
                 a
                 Kan
                 ;
                 and
                 did
                 charne
                 the
                 same
                 with
                 two
                 stickes
                 acrosse
                 in
                 the
                 same
                 field
                 :
                 whereupon
                 the
                 said
                 
                   Iohn
                   Nutters
                
                 sonne
                 came
                 vnto
                 her
                 ,
                 the
                 said
                 Chattox
                 ,
                 and
                 misliking
                 her
                 doings
                 ,
                 put
                 the
                 said
                 Kan
                 and
                 milke
                 ouer
                 with
                 his
                 foot
                 ;
                 and
                 the
                 morning
                 next
                 after
                 ,
                 a
                 Cow
                 of
                 the
                 said
                 
                   Iohn
                   Nutters
                
                 fell
                 sicke
                 ,
                 and
                 so
                 languished
                 three
                 or
                 foure
                 dayes
                 ,
                 and
                 then
                 died
                 .
              
               
                 In
                 the
                 end
                 being
                 openly
                 charged
                 with
                 all
                 this
                 in
                 open
                 Court
                 ;
                 with
                 weeping
                 teares
                 she
                 humbly
                 acknowledged
                 them
                 to
                 be
                 true
                 ,
                 and
                 cried
                 out
                 vnto
                 God
                 for
                 Mercy
                 and
                 forgiuenesse
                 of
                 her
                 sinnes
                 ,
                 and
                 humbly
                 prayed
                 my
                 Lord
                 to
                 be
                 mercifull
                 vnto
                 
                   Anne
                   Redfearne
                
                 her
                 daughter
                 ,
                 of
                 whose
                 life
                 and
                 condition
                 you
                 shall
                 heare
                 more
                 vpon
                 
                 her
                 Arraignement
                 and
                 Triall
                 :
                 whereupon
                 shee
                 being
                 taken
                 away
                 ,
                 
                   Elizabeth
                   Deuice
                
                 comes
                 now
                 to
                 receiue
                 her
                 Triall
                 being
                 the
                 next
                 in
                 order
                 ,
                 of
                 whom
                 you
                 shall
                 heare
                 at
                 large
                 .
              
            
             
               
               
                 THE
                 ARRAIGNMENT
                 
                   and
                   Triall
                   of
                
                 ELIZABETH
                 DEVICE
                 (
                 
                   Daughter
                   of
                
                 ELIZABETH
                 SOTHERNES
                 ,
                 alias
                 OLD
                 DEMBDIKE
                 )
                 
                   late
                   wife
                   of
                
                 Io.
                 DEVICE
                 ,
                 
                   of
                   the
                   Forrest
                   of
                   Pendle
                   ,
                   in
                   the
                   Countie
                   of
                   Lancaster
                   ,
                   widow
                   ,
                   for
                   Witchcraft
                   ;
                   Vpon
                   Tuesday
                   the
                   eighteenth
                   of
                   August
                   ,
                   at
                   the
                   Assises
                   and
                   generall
                   Gaole-Deliuerie
                   holden
                   at
                   Lancaster
                
                 Before
                 Sir
                 EDVVARD
                 BROMLEY
                 
                   Knight
                   ,
                   one
                   of
                   his
                   Maiesties
                   Iustices
                   of
                   Assise
                   at
                   Lancaster
                   .
                
              
               
                 Elizabeth
                 Deuice
                 ▪
              
               
                 O
                 Barbarous
                 and
                 inhumane
                 Monster
                 ,
                 beyond
                 example
                 ;
                 so
                 farre
                 from
                 sensible
                 vnderstanding
                 of
                 thy
                 owne
                 miserie
                 ,
                 as
                 to
                 bring
                 thy
                 owne
                 naturall
                 children
                 into
                 mischiefe
                 and
                 bondage
                 ;
                 and
                 thy selfe
                 to
                 be
                 a
                 witnesse
                 vpon
                 the
                 Gallowes
                 ,
                 to
                 see
                 thy
                 owne
                 children
                 ,
                 by
                 thy
                 deuillish
                 instructions
                 hatcht
                 vp
                 in
                 Villanie
                 and
                 Witchcraft
                 ,
                 to
                 suffer
                 with
                 thee
                 ,
                 euen
                 in
                 the
                 beginning
                 of
                 their
                 time
                 ,
                 a
                 shamefull
                 and
                 vntimely
                 Death
                 .
                 Too
                 much
                 (
                 so
                 it
                 be
                 true
                 )
                 cannot
                 be
                 said
                 or
                 written
                 of
                 her
                 .
                 Such
                 was
                 her
                 life
                 and
                 condition
                 :
                 that
                 euen
                 at
                 the
                 Barre
                 ,
                 when
                 shee
                 came
                 to
                 receiue
                 her
                 Triall
                 (
                 where
                 the
                 
                 least
                 sparke
                 of
                 Grace
                 or
                 modestie
                 would
                 haue
                 procured
                 fauour
                 ,
                 or
                 moued
                 pitie
                 )
                 she
                 was
                 not
                 able
                 to
                 containe
                 her selfe
                 within
                 the
                 limits
                 of
                 any
                 order
                 or
                 gouernment
                 :
                 but
                 exclaiming
                 ,
                 in
                 very
                 outragious
                 manner
                 crying
                 out
                 against
                 her
                 owne
                 children
                 ,
                 and
                 such
                 as
                 came
                 to
                 prosecute
                 Indictments
                 &
                 Euidence
                 for
                 the
                 Kings
                 Maiestie
                 against
                 her
                 ,
                 for
                 the
                 death
                 of
                 their
                 Children
                 ,
                 Friends
                 ,
                 and
                 Kinsfolkes
                 ,
                 whome
                 cruelly
                 and
                 bloudily
                 ,
                 by
                 her
                 Enchauntments
                 ,
                 Charmes
                 ,
                 and
                 Sorceries
                 she
                 had
                 murthered
                 and
                 cut
                 off
                 ;
                 sparing
                 no
                 man
                 with
                 fearefull
                 execrable
                 curses
                 and
                 banning
                 :
                 Such
                 in
                 generall
                 was
                 the
                 common
                 opinion
                 of
                 the
                 Countrey
                 where
                 she
                 dwelt
                 ,
                 in
                 the
                 Forrest
                 of
                 Pendle
                 (
                 a
                 place
                 fit
                 for
                 people
                 of
                 such
                 condition
                 )
                 that
                 no
                 man
                 neere
                 her
                 ,
                 neither
                 his
                 wife
                 ,
                 children
                 ,
                 goods
                 ,
                 or
                 cattell
                 should
                 be
                 secure
                 or
                 free
                 from
                 danger
                 .
              
               
                 This
                 
                   Elizabeth
                   Deuice
                
                 was
                 the
                 daughter
                 of
                 
                   Elizabeth
                   Sothernes
                
                 ,
                 old
                 Dembdike
                 ,
                 a
                 malicious
                 ,
                 wicked
                 ,
                 and
                 dangerous
                 Witch
                 for
                 fiftie
                 yeares
                 ,
                 as
                 appeareth
                 by
                 Record
                 :
                 and
                 how
                 much
                 longer
                 ,
                 the
                 Deuill
                 and
                 shee
                 knew
                 best
                 ,
                 with
                 whome
                 shee
                 made
                 her
                 couenant
                 .
              
               
                 It
                 is
                 very
                 certaine
                 ,
                 that
                 amongst
                 all
                 these
                 Witches
                 there
                 was
                 not
                 a
                 more
                 dangerous
                 and
                 deuillish
                 Witch
                 to
                 execute
                 mischiefe
                 ,
                 hauing
                 old
                 
                   Dembdike
                   ▪
                
                 her
                 mother
                 ,
                 to
                 assist
                 her
                 ;
                 
                   Iames
                   Deuice
                
                 and
                 
                   Alizon
                   Deuice
                
                 ,
                 her
                 owne
                 naturall
                 children
                 ,
                 all
                 prouided
                 with
                 Spirits
                 ,
                 vpon
                 any
                 occasion
                 of
                 offence
                 readie
                 to
                 assist
                 her
                 .
              
               
                 Vpon
                 her
                 Examination
                 ▪
                 although
                 Master
                 Nowel
                 was
                 very
                 circumspect
                 ,
                 and
                 exceeding
                 carefull
                 in
                 dealing
                 with
                 her
                 ,
                 yet
                 she
                 would
                 confesse
                 nothing
                 ,
                 vntill
                 it
                 pleased
                 God
                 to
                 raise
                 vp
                 a
                 yong
                 maid
                 
                   Iennet
                   Deuice
                
                 ,
                 her
                 owne
                 daughter
                 ,
                 about
                 the
                 age
                 of
                 nine
                 yeares
                 (
                 a
                 witnesse
                 vnexpected
                 )
                 to
                 discouer
                 all
                 their
                 Practises
                 ,
                 Meetings
                 ,
                 Consultations
                 ,
                 
                 Murthers
                 ,
                 Charmes
                 ,
                 and
                 Villanies
                 :
                 such
                 ,
                 and
                 in
                 such
                 sort
                 ,
                 as
                 I
                 may
                 iustly
                 say
                 of
                 them
                 ,
                 as
                 a
                 reuerend
                 and
                 learned
                 Iudge
                 of
                 this
                 Kingdome
                 speaketh
                 of
                 the
                 greatest
                 Treason
                 that
                 euer
                 was
                 in
                 this
                 Kingdome
                 ,
                 
                   Quis
                   haec
                   posteris
                   sic
                   narrare
                   poterit
                   ,
                   vt
                   facta
                   non
                   ficta
                   esse
                   videantur
                   ?
                
                 That
                 when
                 these
                 things
                 shall
                 be
                 related
                 to
                 Posteritie
                 ,
                 they
                 will
                 be
                 reputed
                 matters
                 fained
                 ,
                 not
                 done
                 .
              
               
                 And
                 then
                 knowing
                 ,
                 that
                 both
                 
                   Iennet
                   Deuice
                
                 ,
                 her
                 daughter
                 ,
                 
                   Iames
                   Deuice
                
                 ,
                 her
                 sonne
                 ,
                 and
                 
                   Alizon
                   Deuice
                
                 ,
                 with
                 others
                 ,
                 had
                 accused
                 her
                 and
                 layd
                 open
                 all
                 things
                 ,
                 in
                 their
                 Examinations
                 taken
                 before
                 Master
                 Nowel
                 ,
                 and
                 although
                 she
                 were
                 their
                 owne
                 naturall
                 mother
                 ,
                 yet
                 they
                 did
                 not
                 spare
                 to
                 accuse
                 her
                 of
                 euery
                 particular
                 fact
                 ,
                 which
                 in
                 her
                 time
                 she
                 had
                 committed
                 ,
                 to
                 their
                 knowledge
                 ;
                 she
                 made
                 a
                 very
                 liberall
                 and
                 voluntarie
                 Confession
                 ,
                 as
                 hereafter
                 shall
                 be
                 giuen
                 in
                 euidence
                 against
                 her
                 ,
                 vpon
                 her
                 Arraignment
                 and
                 Triall
                 .
              
               
                 This
                 
                   Elizabeth
                   Deuice
                
                 being
                 at
                 libertie
                 ,
                 after
                 Old
                 Dembdike
                 her
                 mother
                 ,
                 
                   Alizon
                   Deuice
                
                 ,
                 her
                 daughter
                 ,
                 and
                 old
                 Chattocks
                 were
                 committed
                 to
                 the
                 Castle
                 of
                 Lancaster
                 for
                 Witchcraft
                 ;
                 laboured
                 not
                 a
                 little
                 to
                 procure
                 a
                 solemne
                 meeting
                 at
                 Malkyn-Tower
                 of
                 the
                 Graund
                 Witches
                 of
                 the
                 Counties
                 of
                 Lancaster
                 and
                 Yorke
                 ,
                 being
                 yet
                 vnsuspected
                 and
                 vntaken
                 ,
                 to
                 consult
                 of
                 some
                 speedie
                 course
                 for
                 the
                 deliuerance
                 of
                 their
                 friends
                 ,
                 the
                 Witches
                 at
                 Lancaster
                 ,
                 and
                 for
                 the
                 putting
                 in
                 execution
                 of
                 some
                 other
                 deuillish
                 practises
                 of
                 Murther
                 and
                 Mischiefe
                 :
                 as
                 vpon
                 the
                 Arraignement
                 and
                 Triall
                 of
                 
                   Iames
                   Deuice
                
                 ,
                 her
                 sonne
                 ,
                 shall
                 hereafter
                 in
                 euery
                 particular
                 point
                 appeare
                 at
                 large
                 against
                 her
                 .
              
            
             
               
               
                 The
                 first
                 Indictment
                 .
              
               
                 THis
                 
                   Elizabeth
                   Deuice
                
                 ,
                 late
                 the
                 wife
                 of
                 
                   Iohn
                   Deuice
                
                 ,
                 of
                 the
                 Forrest
                 of
                 Pendle
                 ,
                 in
                 the
                 Countie
                 of
                 Lancaster
                 Widdow
                 ,
                 being
                 indicted
                 ,
                 for
                 that
                 thee
                 felloniously
                 had
                 practized
                 ,
                 vsed
                 ,
                 and
                 exercised
                 diuers
                 wicked
                 and
                 deuillish
                 Arts
                 ,
                 called
                 
                   Witch-crafts
                   ,
                   Inchantments
                   ,
                   Charmes
                
                 ,
                 and
                 Sorceries
                 ,
                 in
                 ,
                 and
                 vpon
                 one
                 
                   Iohn
                   Robinson
                
                 ,
                 alias
                 Swyer
                 :
                 and
                 by
                 force
                 of
                 the
                 same
                 felloniously
                 ,
                 the
                 said
                 
                   Iohn
                   Robinson
                
                 ,
                 alias
                 Swyer
                 ,
                 had
                 killed
                 .
                 
                   Contra
                   pacem
                   ,
                   &
                
                 .
                 being
                 at
                 the
                 Barre
                 was
                 arraigned
                 .
              
            
             
               
                 2.
                 
                 Indictment
                 .
              
               
                 The
                 said
                 
                   Elizabeth
                   Deuice
                
                 was
                 the
                 second
                 time
                 indicted
                 in
                 the
                 same
                 manner
                 and
                 forme
                 ,
                 for
                 the
                 death
                 of
                 
                   Iames
                   Robinson
                
                 ,
                 by
                 Witch-craft
                 .
                 
                   Contra
                   pacem
                   ,
                   &c.
                
                 
              
            
             
               
                 3.
                 
                 Indictment
                 .
              
               
                 The
                 said
                 
                   Elizabeth
                   Deuice
                
                 ,
                 was
                 the
                 third
                 time
                 with
                 others
                 ,
                 
                   viz.
                   Alice
                   Nutter
                
                 ,
                 and
                 
                   Elizabeth
                   Sothernes
                
                 ,
                 alias
                 Old-Dembdike
                 ,
                 her
                 Grand-mother
                 ,
                 Indicted
                 in
                 the
                 same
                 manner
                 and
                 forme
                 ,
                 for
                 the
                 death
                 of
                 
                   Henrie
                   Mytton
                   .
                   Contra
                   pacem
                   ,
                   &c.
                   
                
              
               
                 To
                 these
                 three
                 seuerall
                 Indictments
                 vpon
                 her
                 Arraignement
                 ,
                 shee
                 pleaded
                 not
                 guiltie
                 ;
                 and
                 for
                 the
                 tryall
                 of
                 her
                 life
                 ,
                 put
                 her selfe
                 vpon
                 God
                 and
                 her
                 Countrie
                 .
              
               
                 So
                 as
                 now
                 the
                 Gentlemen
                 of
                 the
                 Iurie
                 of
                 life
                 and
                 death
                 ,
                 stand
                 charged
                 to
                 finde
                 ,
                 whether
                 shee
                 bee
                 guiltie
                 of
                 them
                 ,
                 or
                 any
                 of
                 them
                 .
              
               
               
                 Whereupon
                 there
                 was
                 openly
                 read
                 ,
                 and
                 giuen
                 in
                 euidence
                 against
                 her
                 ,
                 for
                 the
                 Kings
                 Majestie
                 ,
                 her
                 owne
                 voluntarie
                 Confession
                 and
                 Examination
                 ,
                 when
                 shee
                 was
                 apprehended
                 ,
                 taken
                 ,
                 and
                 committed
                 to
                 the
                 Castle
                 of
                 Lancaster
                 by
                 M.
                 Nowel
                 ,
                 and
                 M.
                 Bannester
                 ,
                 two
                 of
                 his
                 Maiesties
                 Iustices
                 of
                 Peace
                 in
                 the
                 same
                 Countie
                 .
                 viz.
                 
              
            
             
               
                 
                   The
                   Examination
                   and
                   voluntarie
                   confession
                   of
                
                 ELIZABETH
                 DEVICE
                 ,
                 
                   taken
                   at
                   the
                   house
                   of
                
                 IAMES
                 WILSEY
                 
                   of
                   the
                   Forrest
                   of
                   Pendle
                   ,
                   in
                   the
                   Countie
                   of
                   Lancaster
                   ,
                   the
                   seuen
                   and
                   twentieth
                   day
                   of
                   Aprill
                   :
                   Anno
                   Reg.
                
                 IACOBI
                 ,
                 
                   Angl.
                   &c.
                   decimo
                   ,
                   &
                   Scotiae
                
                 xlv
                 .
                 Before
                 ROGER
                 NOWEL
                 ,
                 and
                 NICHOLAS
                 BANNESTER
                 ,
                 
                   Esquires
                   ;
                   two
                   of
                   his
                   Maiesties
                   Iustices
                   of
                   the
                   Peace
                   within
                   the
                   same
                   Countie
                   .
                
                 viz.
                 The
                 said
                 
                   Elizabeth
                   Deuice
                
                 ,
                 Mother
                 of
                 the
                 said
                 Iames
                 ,
                 being
                 examined
                 ,
                 confesseth
                 and
                 saith
                 .
              
               
                 THat
                 at
                 the
                 third
                 time
                 her
                 Spirit
                 ,
                 the
                 Spirit
                 Ball
                 ,
                 appeared
                 to
                 her
                 in
                 the
                 shape
                 of
                 a
                 browne
                 Dogge
                 ,
                 at
                 ,
                 or
                 in
                 her
                 Mothers
                 house
                 in
                 Pendle
                 Forrest
                 aforesaid
                 :
                 about
                 foure
                 yeares
                 agoe
                 the
                 said
                 Spirit
                 bidde
                 this
                 Examinate
                 make
                 a
                 picture
                 of
                 Clay
                 after
                 the
                 said
                 
                   Iohn
                   Robinson
                
                 ,
                 alias
                 Swyer
                 ,
                 which
                 this
                 Examinate
                 did
                 make
                 accordingly
                 at
                 the
                 West
                 end
                 of
                 her
                 said
                 Mothers
                 house
                 ,
                 and
                 dryed
                 the
                 same
                 picture
                 with
                 the
                 fire
                 and
                 crumbled
                 all
                 the
                 same
                 picture
                 away
                 within
                 a
                 weeke
                 or
                 thereabouts
                 ,
                 and
                 about
                 a
                 
                 weeke
                 after
                 the
                 Picture
                 was
                 crumbled
                 or
                 mulled
                 away
                 ;
                 the
                 said
                 Robinson
                 dyed
                 .
              
               
                 The
                 reason
                 wherefore
                 shee
                 this
                 Examinate
                 did
                 so
                 bewitch
                 the
                 said
                 Robinson
                 to
                 death
                 ,
                 was
                 :
                 for
                 that
                 the
                 said
                 Robinson
                 had
                 chidden
                 and
                 becalled
                 this
                 Examinate
                 ,
                 for
                 hauing
                 a
                 Bastard
                 child
                 with
                 one
                 Seller
                 .
              
               
                 And
                 this
                 Examinate
                 further
                 saith
                 and
                 confesseth
                 ,
                 that
                 shee
                 did
                 bewitch
                 the
                 said
                 
                   Iames
                   Robinson
                
                 to
                 death
                 ,
                 as
                 in
                 the
                 said
                 
                   Iennet
                   Deuice
                
                 her
                 examination
                 is
                 confessed
                 .
              
               
                 And
                 further
                 shee
                 saith
                 ,
                 and
                 confesseth
                 ,
                 that
                 shee
                 with
                 the
                 wife
                 of
                 
                   Richard
                   Nutter
                
                 ,
                 and
                 this
                 Examinates
                 said
                 Mother
                 ,
                 ioyned
                 altogether
                 ,
                 and
                 did
                 bewitch
                 the
                 said
                 
                   Henrie
                   Mytton
                
                 to
                 death
                 .
              
            
             
               
                 
                   The
                   Examination
                   and
                   Euidence
                   of
                
                 IENNET
                 DEVICE
                 ,
                 
                   Daughter
                   of
                   the
                   said
                
                 ELIZABETH
                 DEVICE
                 ,
                 
                   late
                   Wife
                   of
                
                 IOHN
                 DEVICE
                 ,
                 
                   of
                   the
                   Forrest
                   of
                   Pendle
                   ,
                   in
                   the
                   Countie
                   of
                   Lancaster
                   .
                
                 Against
                 ELIZABETH
                 DEVICE
                 
                   her
                   Mother
                   ,
                   Prisoner
                   at
                   the
                   Barre
                   vpon
                   her
                   Arraignement
                   and
                   Triall
                   .
                
                 viz.
                 
              
               
                 THe
                 said
                 
                   Iennet
                   Deuice
                
                 ,
                 being
                 a
                 yong
                 Maide
                 ,
                 about
                 the
                 age
                 of
                 nine
                 yeares
                 ,
                 and
                 commanded
                 to
                 stand
                 vp
                 to
                 giue
                 euidence
                 against
                 her
                 Mother
                 ,
                 Prisoner
                 at
                 the
                 Barre
                 :
                 Her
                 Mother
                 ,
                 according
                 to
                 her
                 accustomed
                 manner
                 ,
                 outragiously
                 cursing
                 ,
                 cryed
                 out
                 against
                 the
                 child
                 in
                 such
                 fearefull
                 manner
                 ,
                 as
                 all
                 the
                 Court
                 did
                 not
                 a
                 little
                 wonder
                 at
                 her
                 ,
                 and
                 so
                 amazed
                 the
                 child
                 ,
                 as
                 with
                 weeping
                 teares
                 
                 shee
                 cryed
                 out
                 vnto
                 my
                 Lord
                 the
                 Iudge
                 ,
                 and
                 told
                 him
                 ,
                 shee
                 was
                 not
                 able
                 to
                 speake
                 in
                 the
                 presence
                 of
                 her
                 Mother
                 .
              
               
                 This
                 odious
                 Witch
                 was
                 branded
                 with
                 a
                 preposterous
                 marke
                 in
                 Nature
                 ,
                 euen
                 from
                 her
                 birth
                 ,
                 which
                 was
                 her
                 left
                 eye
                 ,
                 standing
                 lower
                 then
                 the
                 other
                 ;
                 the
                 one
                 looking
                 downe
                 ,
                 the
                 other
                 looking
                 vp
                 ,
                 so
                 strangely
                 deformed
                 ,
                 as
                 the
                 best
                 that
                 were
                 present
                 in
                 that
                 Honorable
                 Assembly
                 ,
                 and
                 great
                 Audience
                 ,
                 did
                 affirme
                 ,
                 they
                 had
                 not
                 often
                 seene
                 the
                 like
                 .
              
               
                 No
                 intreatie
                 ,
                 promise
                 of
                 fauour
                 ,
                 or
                 other
                 respect
                 ,
                 could
                 put
                 her
                 to
                 silence
                 ,
                 thinking
                 by
                 this
                 her
                 outragious
                 cursing
                 and
                 threatning
                 of
                 the
                 child
                 ,
                 to
                 inforce
                 her
                 to
                 denie
                 that
                 which
                 she
                 had
                 formerly
                 confessed
                 against
                 her
                 Mother
                 ,
                 before
                 M.
                 Nowel
                 :
                 Forswearing
                 and
                 denying
                 her
                 owne
                 voluntarie
                 confession
                 ,
                 which
                 you
                 haue
                 heard
                 ,
                 giuen
                 in
                 euidence
                 against
                 her
                 at
                 large
                 ,
                 and
                 so
                 for
                 want
                 of
                 further
                 euidence
                 to
                 escape
                 that
                 ,
                 which
                 the
                 Iustice
                 of
                 the
                 Law
                 had
                 prouided
                 as
                 a
                 condigne
                 punishment
                 for
                 the
                 innocent
                 bloud
                 shee
                 had
                 spilt
                 ,
                 and
                 her
                 wicked
                 and
                 deuillish
                 course
                 of
                 life
                 .
              
               
                 In
                 the
                 end
                 ,
                 when
                 no
                 meanes
                 would
                 serue
                 ,
                 his
                 Lordship
                 commanded
                 the
                 Prisoner
                 to
                 be
                 taken
                 away
                 ,
                 and
                 the
                 Maide
                 to
                 bee
                 set
                 vpon
                 the
                 Table
                 in
                 the
                 presence
                 of
                 the
                 whole
                 Court
                 ,
                 who
                 deliuered
                 her
                 euidence
                 in
                 that
                 Honorable
                 assembly
                 ,
                 to
                 the
                 Gentlemen
                 of
                 the
                 Iurie
                 of
                 life
                 and
                 death
                 ,
                 as
                 followeth
                 .
                 viz.
                 
              
               
                 
                   Iennet
                   Deuice
                
                 ,
                 Daughter
                 of
                 
                   Elizabeth
                   Deuice
                
                 ,
                 late
                 Wife
                 of
                 
                   Iohn
                   Deuice
                
                 ,
                 of
                 the
                 Forrest
                 of
                 Pendle
                 aforesaid
                 Widdow
                 ,
                 confesseth
                 and
                 saith
                 ,
                 that
                 her
                 said
                 Mother
                 is
                 a
                 Witch
                 ,
                 and
                 that
                 this
                 shee
                 knoweth
                 to
                 be
                 true
                 ;
                 for
                 ,
                 that
                 
                 shee
                 hath
                 seene
                 her
                 Spirit
                 sundrie
                 times
                 come
                 vnto
                 her
                 said
                 Mother
                 in
                 her
                 owne
                 house
                 ,
                 called
                 Malking-Tower
                 ,
                 in
                 the
                 likenesse
                 of
                 a
                 browne
                 Dogge
                 ,
                 which
                 she
                 called
                 Ball
                 ;
                 and
                 at
                 one
                 time
                 amongst
                 others
                 ,
                 the
                 said
                 Ball
                 did
                 aske
                 this
                 Examinates
                 Mother
                 what
                 she
                 would
                 haue
                 him
                 to
                 doe
                 :
                 and
                 this
                 Examinates
                 Mother
                 answered
                 ,
                 that
                 she
                 would
                 haue
                 the
                 said
                 Ball
                 to
                 helpe
                 her
                 to
                 kill
                 
                   Iohn
                   Robinson
                
                 of
                 Barley
                 ,
                 alias
                 Swyre
                 :
                 by
                 helpe
                 of
                 which
                 said
                 Ball
                 ,
                 the
                 said
                 Swyer
                 was
                 killed
                 by
                 witch-craft
                 accordingly
                 ;
                 and
                 that
                 this
                 Examinates
                 Mother
                 hath
                 continued
                 a
                 Witch
                 for
                 these
                 three
                 or
                 foure
                 yeares
                 last
                 past
                 .
                 And
                 further
                 ,
                 this
                 Examinate
                 confesseth
                 ,
                 that
                 about
                 a
                 yeare
                 after
                 ,
                 this
                 Examinates
                 Mother
                 called
                 for
                 the
                 said
                 Ball
                 ,
                 who
                 appeared
                 as
                 aforesaid
                 ,
                 asking
                 this
                 Examinates
                 Mother
                 what
                 shee
                 would
                 haue
                 done
                 ,
                 who
                 said
                 ,
                 that
                 shee
                 would
                 haue
                 him
                 to
                 kill
                 
                   Iames
                   Robinson
                
                 ,
                 alias
                 Swyer
                 ,
                 of
                 Barlow
                 aforesaid
                 ,
                 Brother
                 to
                 the
                 said
                 Iohn
                 :
                 whereunto
                 Ball
                 answered
                 ,
                 hee
                 would
                 doe
                 it
                 ;
                 and
                 about
                 three
                 weekes
                 after
                 ,
                 the
                 said
                 Iames
                 dyed
                 .
              
               
                 And
                 this
                 Examinate
                 also
                 saith
                 ,
                 that
                 one
                 other
                 time
                 shee
                 was
                 present
                 ,
                 when
                 her
                 said
                 Mother
                 did
                 call
                 for
                 the
                 said
                 Ball
                 ,
                 
                 who
                 appeared
                 in
                 manner
                 as
                 aforesaid
                 ,
                 and
                 asked
                 this
                 Examinates
                 Mother
                 what
                 shee
                 would
                 haue
                 him
                 to
                 doe
                 ,
                 whereunto
                 this
                 Examinates
                 Mother
                 then
                 said
                 shee
                 would
                 haue
                 him
                 to
                 kill
                 one
                 Mitton
                 of
                 the
                 Rough-Lee
                 ,
                 whereupon
                 the
                 said
                 Ball
                 said
                 ,
                 he
                 would
                 doe
                 it
                 ,
                 and
                 so
                 vanished
                 away
                 ,
                 and
                 about
                 three
                 weekes
                 after
                 ,
                 the
                 said
                 Mitton
                 likewise
                 dyed
                 .
              
            
             
               
               
                 
                   The
                   Examination
                   of
                
                 IAMES
                 DEVICE
                 ,
                 
                   sonne
                   of
                   the
                   said
                
                 ELIZABETH
                 DEVICE
                 :
                 
                   Taken
                   the
                   seuen
                   and
                   twentieth
                   day
                   of
                   of
                   Aprill
                   ,
                
                 Annoque
                 Reg.
                 Regis
                 IACOBI
                 Angliae
                 ,
                 &c.
                 
                 Decimo
                 as
                 Scociae
                 ,
                 xlv
                 .
                 Before
                 ROGER
                 NOVVEL
                 and
                 NICHOLAS
                 BANESTER
                 ,
                 
                   Esquires
                   ,
                   two
                   of
                   his
                   Maiesties
                   Iustices
                   of
                   the
                   Peace
                   ,
                   within
                   the
                   said
                   Countie
                   .
                
                 viz.
                 
              
               
                 THe
                 said
                 
                   Iames
                   Deuice
                
                 being
                 examined
                 ,
                 saith
                 ,
                 That
                 he
                 heard
                 his
                 Grand-mother
                 say
                 ,
                 about
                 a
                 yeare
                 agoe
                 ,
                 That
                 his
                 mother
                 ,
                 called
                 
                   Elizabeth
                   Deuice
                
                 ,
                 and
                 others
                 ,
                 had
                 killed
                 one
                 
                   Henry
                   Mitton
                
                 of
                 the
                 Rough-Lee
                 aforesaid
                 ,
                 by
                 Witchcraft
                 .
                 The
                 reason
                 wherefore
                 he
                 was
                 so
                 killed
                 ,
                 was
                 for
                 that
                 this
                 Examinates
                 said
                 Grand-mother
                 
                   Old
                   Demdike
                
                 ,
                 had
                 asked
                 the
                 said
                 Mitton
                 a
                 penny
                 ;
                 and
                 he
                 denying
                 her
                 thereof
                 ,
                 thereupon
                 she
                 procured
                 his
                 death
                 ,
                 as
                 aforesaid
                 .
              
               
                 And
                 he
                 ,
                 this
                 Examinate
                 also
                 saith
                 ,
                 That
                 about
                 three
                 yeares
                 ago
                 ,
                 this
                 Examinate
                 being
                 in
                 his
                 Grand-mothers
                 house
                 ,
                 with
                 his
                 said
                 mother
                 ;
                 there
                 came
                 a
                 thing
                 in
                 shape
                 of
                 a
                 browne
                 dogge
                 ,
                 which
                 his
                 mother
                 called
                 Ball
                 ,
                 who
                 spake
                 to
                 this
                 Examinates
                 mother
                 ,
                 in
                 the
                 sight
                 and
                 hearing
                 of
                 this
                 Examinates
                 ,
                 and
                 bad
                 her
                 make
                 a
                 Picture
                 of
                 Clay
                 like
                 vnto
                 
                   Iohn
                   Robinson
                
                 ,
                 alias
                 Swyer
                 ,
                 and
                 drie
                 it
                 hard
                 ,
                 and
                 then
                 crumble
                 it
                 by
                 little
                 and
                 little
                 ;
                 and
                 as
                 the
                 said
                 Picture
                 should
                 crumble
                 or
                 mull
                 away
                 ,
                 so
                 should
                 the
                 said
                 
                   Io.
                   Robinson
                
                 alias
                 Swyer
                 his
                 body
                 decay
                 and
                 weare
                 away
                 .
                 And
                 within
                 two
                 or
                 three
                 dayes
                 after
                 ,
                 the
                 Picture
                 shall
                 so
                 all
                 be
                 wasted
                 ,
                 and
                 mulled
                 away
                 ;
                 so
                 then
                 the
                 said
                 
                   Iohn
                   Robinson
                
                 should
                 die
                 presently
                 .
                 Vpon
                 the
                 agreement
                 betwixt
                 
                 the
                 said
                 dogge
                 and
                 this
                 Examinates
                 mother
                 ;
                 the
                 said
                 dogge
                 suddenly
                 vanished
                 out
                 of
                 this
                 Examinates
                 sight
                 .
                 And
                 the
                 next
                 day
                 ,
                 this
                 Examinate
                 saw
                 his
                 said
                 mother
                 take
                 Clay
                 at
                 the
                 West-end
                 of
                 her
                 said
                 house
                 ,
                 and
                 make
                 a
                 Picture
                 of
                 it
                 after
                 the
                 said
                 Robinson
                 ,
                 and
                 brought
                 into
                 her
                 house
                 ,
                 and
                 dried
                 in
                 some
                 two
                 dayes
                 :
                 and
                 about
                 two
                 dayes
                 after
                 the
                 drying
                 thereof
                 this
                 Examinates
                 said
                 mother
                 fell
                 on
                 crumbling
                 the
                 said
                 Picture
                 of
                 Clay
                 ,
                 euery
                 day
                 some
                 ,
                 for
                 some
                 three
                 weekes
                 together
                 ;
                 and
                 within
                 two
                 dayes
                 after
                 all
                 was
                 crumbled
                 or
                 mulled
                 away
                 ,
                 the
                 said
                 
                   Iohn
                   Robinson
                
                 died
                 .
              
               
                 Being
                 demanded
                 by
                 the
                 Court
                 ,
                 what
                 answere
                 shee
                 could
                 giue
                 to
                 the
                 particular
                 points
                 of
                 the
                 Euidence
                 against
                 her
                 ,
                 for
                 the
                 death
                 of
                 these
                 seuerall
                 persons
                 ;
                 Impudently
                 shee
                 denied
                 them
                 ,
                 crying
                 out
                 against
                 her
                 children
                 ,
                 and
                 the
                 rest
                 of
                 the
                 Witnesses
                 against
                 her
                 .
              
               
                 But
                 because
                 I
                 haue
                 charged
                 her
                 to
                 be
                 the
                 principall
                 Agent
                 ,
                 to
                 procure
                 a
                 solemne
                 meeting
                 at
                 Malking-Tower
                 of
                 the
                 Grand-witches
                 ,
                 to
                 consult
                 of
                 some
                 speedy
                 course
                 for
                 the
                 deliuerance
                 of
                 her
                 mother
                 ,
                 
                   Old
                   Demdike
                
                 ,
                 her
                 daughter
                 ,
                 and
                 other
                 Witches
                 at
                 Lancaster
                 :
                 the
                 speedie
                 Execution
                 of
                 Master
                 Couell
                 ,
                 who
                 little
                 suspected
                 or
                 deserued
                 any
                 such
                 practise
                 or
                 villany
                 against
                 him
                 :
                 The
                 blowing
                 vp
                 of
                 the
                 Castle
                 ,
                 with
                 diuers
                 other
                 wicked
                 and
                 diuellish
                 practises
                 and
                 murthers
                 ;
                 I
                 shall
                 make
                 it
                 apparant
                 vnto
                 you
                 ,
                 by
                 the
                 particular
                 Examinations
                 and
                 Euidence
                 of
                 her
                 owne
                 children
                 ,
                 such
                 as
                 were
                 present
                 at
                 the
                 time
                 of
                 their
                 Consultation
                 ,
                 together
                 with
                 her
                 owne
                 Examination
                 and
                 Confession
                 ,
                 amongst
                 the
                 Records
                 of
                 the
                 Crowne
                 at
                 the
                 Lancaster
                 ,
                 as
                 hereafter
                 followeth
                 .
              
            
             
               
               
                 
                   The
                   voluntary
                   Confession
                   and
                   Examination
                   of
                
                 ELIZABETH
                 DEVICE
                 ,
                 
                   taken
                   at
                   the
                   house
                   of
                
                 IAMES
                 WILSEY
                 ,
                 
                   of
                   the
                   Forrest
                   of
                   Pendle
                   ,
                   in
                   the
                   Countie
                   of
                   Lancaster
                   ,
                   the
                   seuen
                   and
                   twentieth
                   day
                   of
                   Aprill
                   ,
                
                 Annoque
                 Reg.
                 Regis
                 IACOBI
                 Angliae
                 ,
                 &c.
                 
                 Decimo
                 ,
                 &
                 Scotiae
                 Quadragesimo
                 quinto
                 .
                 Before
                 ROGER
                 NOVVEL
                 and
                 NICHOLAS
                 BANISTER
                 ,
                 
                   Esquires
                   ,
                   two
                   of
                   his
                   Maiesties
                   Iustices
                   of
                   the
                   Peace
                   within
                   the
                   same
                   Countie
                   .
                
                 viz.
                 
              
               
                 THe
                 said
                 
                   Elizabeth
                   Deuice
                
                 being
                 further
                 Examined
                 ,
                 confesseth
                 ,
                 that
                 vpon
                 Good-Friday
                 last
                 ,
                 there
                 dined
                 at
                 this
                 Examinates
                 house
                 ,
                 called
                 Malking-Tower
                 ,
                 those
                 which
                 she
                 hath
                 said
                 are
                 Witches
                 ,
                 and
                 doth
                 verily
                 think
                 them
                 to
                 be
                 Witches
                 :
                 and
                 their
                 names
                 are
                 those
                 whom
                 
                   Iames
                   Deuice
                
                 hath
                 formerly
                 spoken
                 of
                 to
                 be
                 there
                 .
                 And
                 she
                 further
                 saith
                 ,
                 that
                 there
                 was
                 also
                 at
                 her
                 said
                 mothers
                 house
                 ,
                 at
                 the
                 day
                 and
                 time
                 aforesaid
                 ,
                 two
                 women
                 of
                 Burneley
                 Parish
                 ,
                 whose
                 names
                 the
                 wife
                 of
                 
                   Richard
                   Nutter
                
                 doth
                 know
                 .
                 And
                 there
                 was
                 likewise
                 there
                 one
                 
                   Anne
                   Crouckshey
                
                 of
                 Marsden
                 :
                 And
                 shee
                 also
                 confesseth
                 ,
                 in
                 all
                 things
                 touching
                 the
                 Christening
                 of
                 the
                 Spirit
                 ,
                 and
                 the
                 killing
                 of
                 Master
                 Lister
                 of
                 Westbie
                 ,
                 as
                 the
                 said
                 
                   Iames
                   Deuice
                
                 hath
                 before
                 confessed
                 ;
                 but
                 denieth
                 of
                 any
                 talke
                 was
                 amongst
                 them
                 the
                 said
                 Witches
                 ,
                 to
                 her
                 now
                 remembrance
                 ,
                 at
                 the
                 said
                 meeting
                 together
                 ,
                 touching
                 the
                 killing
                 of
                 the
                 Galoer
                 ,
                 or
                 the
                 blowing
                 vp
                 of
                 Lancaster
                 Castle
                 .
              
            
             
               
               
                 
                   The
                   Examination
                   and
                   Euidence
                   of
                
                 IENNET
                 DEVICE
                 ,
                 
                   daughter
                   of
                   the
                   said
                
                 ELIZABETH
                 DEVICE
                 ,
                 
                   late
                   wife
                   of
                
                 IOHN
                 DEVICE
                 ,
                 
                   of
                   the
                   Forrest
                   of
                   Pendle
                   ,
                   in
                   the
                   Countie
                   of
                   Lancaster
                   .
                
                 Against
                 ELIZABETH
                 DEVICE
                 ,
                 
                   her
                   Mother
                   ,
                   prisoner
                   at
                   the
                   Barre
                   ,
                   vpon
                   her
                   Arraignement
                   and
                   Triall
                   ,
                
                 viz.
                 
              
               
                 THe
                 said
                 
                   Iennet
                   Deuice
                
                 saith
                 ,
                 That
                 vpon
                 Good
                 Friday
                 last
                 there
                 was
                 about
                 twentie
                 persons
                 (
                 whereof
                 onely
                 two
                 were
                 men
                 ,
                 to
                 this
                 Examinates
                 remembrance
                 )
                 at
                 her
                 said
                 Grandmothers
                 house
                 ,
                 called
                 Malking-Tower
                 aforesaid
                 ,
                 about
                 twelue
                 of
                 the
                 clocke
                 :
                 all
                 which
                 persons
                 this
                 Examinates
                 said
                 mother
                 told
                 her
                 ,
                 were
                 Witches
                 ,
                 and
                 that
                 they
                 came
                 to
                 giue
                 a
                 name
                 to
                 
                   Alizon
                   Deuice
                
                 Spirit
                 ,
                 or
                 Familiar
                 ,
                 sister
                 to
                 this
                 Examinate
                 ,
                 and
                 now
                 prisoner
                 at
                 Lancaster
                 .
                 And
                 also
                 this
                 Examinate
                 saith
                 ,
                 That
                 the
                 persons
                 aforesaid
                 had
                 to
                 their
                 dinners
                 Beefe
                 ,
                 Bacon
                 ,
                 and
                 roasted
                 Mutton
                 ;
                 which
                 Mutton
                 (
                 as
                 this
                 Examinates
                 said
                 brother
                 said
                 )
                 was
                 of
                 a
                 Wether
                 of
                 
                   Christopher
                   Swyers
                
                 of
                 Barley
                 :
                 which
                 Wether
                 was
                 brought
                 in
                 the
                 night
                 before
                 into
                 this
                 Examinates
                 mothers
                 house
                 by
                 the
                 said
                 
                   Iames
                   Deuice
                
                 ,
                 this
                 Examinates
                 said
                 brother
                 :
                 and
                 in
                 this
                 Examinates
                 sight
                 killed
                 and
                 eaten
                 ,
                 as
                 aforesaid
                 .
                 And
                 shee
                 further
                 saith
                 ,
                 That
                 shee
                 knoweth
                 the
                 names
                 of
                 sixe
                 of
                 the
                 said
                 Witches
                 ,
                 viz.
                 the
                 wife
                 of
                 
                   Hugh
                   Hargraues
                
                 vnder
                 Pendle
                 ,
                 
                   Christopher
                   Howgate
                
                 of
                 Pendle
                 ,
                 vnckle
                 to
                 this
                 Examinate
                 ,
                 and
                 Elizabeth
                 his
                 wife
                 ,
                 and
                 
                   Dicke
                   Miles
                
                 his
                 wife
                 of
                 the
                 Rough-Lee
                 ;
                 
                   Christopher
                   Iackes
                
                 of
                 Thorny-holme
                 ,
                 and
                 his
                 wife
                 :
                 and
                 the
                 names
                 
                 of
                 the
                 residue
                 shee
                 this
                 Examinate
                 doth
                 not
                 know
                 ,
                 sauing
                 that
                 this
                 Examinates
                 mother
                 and
                 brother
                 were
                 both
                 there
                 .
                 And
                 lastly
                 ,
                 she
                 this
                 Examinate
                 confesseth
                 and
                 saith
                 ,
                 That
                 her
                 mother
                 hath
                 taught
                 her
                 two
                 prayers
                 :
                 the
                 one
                 to
                 cure
                 the
                 bewitched
                 ,
                 and
                 the
                 other
                 to
                 get
                 drinke
                 ;
                 both
                 which
                 particularly
                 appeare
                 .
              
            
             
               
                 
                   The
                   Examination
                   and
                   Euidence
                   of
                
                 IAMES
                 DEVICE
                 ,
                 
                   sonne
                   of
                   the
                   said
                
                 ELIZABETH
                 DEVICE
                 ,
                 
                   late
                   wife
                   of
                
                 IOHN
                 DEVICE
                 ,
                 
                   of
                   the
                   Forrest
                   of
                   Pendle
                   ,
                   in
                   the
                   Countie
                   of
                   Lancaster
                   .
                
                 Against
                 ELIZABETH
                 DEVICE
                 ,
                 
                   his
                   Mother
                   ,
                   prisoner
                   at
                   the
                   Barre
                   ,
                   vpon
                   her
                   Arraignement
                   and
                   Triall
                   ,
                
                 viz.
                 
              
               
                 THe
                 said
                 
                   Iames
                   Deuice
                
                 saith
                 ,
                 That
                 on
                 Good-Friday
                 last
                 ,
                 about
                 twelue
                 of
                 the
                 clocke
                 in
                 the
                 day
                 time
                 ,
                 there
                 dined
                 in
                 this
                 Examinates
                 said
                 mothers
                 house
                 ,
                 at
                 Malking-Tower
                 ,
                 a
                 number
                 of
                 persons
                 ,
                 whereof
                 three
                 were
                 men
                 ,
                 with
                 this
                 Examinate
                 ,
                 and
                 the
                 rest
                 women
                 ;
                 and
                 that
                 they
                 met
                 there
                 for
                 three
                 causes
                 following
                 (
                 as
                 this
                 Examinates
                 said
                 mother
                 told
                 this
                 Examinate
                 )
                 The
                 first
                 was
                 ,
                 for
                 the
                 naming
                 of
                 the
                 Spirit
                 ,
                 which
                 
                   Alizon
                   Deuice
                
                 ,
                 now
                 prisoner
                 at
                 Lancaster
                 ,
                 had
                 :
                 But
                 did
                 not
                 ,
                 name
                 him
                 ,
                 because
                 shee
                 was
                 not
                 there
                 .
                 The
                 second
                 was
                 ,
                 for
                 the
                 deliuerie
                 of
                 his
                 said
                 Grandmother
                 ,
                 olde
                 Dembdike
                 ;
                 this
                 Examinates
                 said
                 sister
                 Allizon
                 ;
                 the
                 said
                 
                 
                   Anne
                   Chattox
                
                 ,
                 and
                 her
                 daughter
                 Redferne
                 ;
                 killing
                 the
                 Gaoler
                 at
                 Lancaster
                 ;
                 and
                 before
                 the
                 next
                 Assises
                 to
                 blow
                 vp
                 the
                 Castle
                 there
                 :
                 and
                 to
                 that
                 end
                 the
                 aforesaid
                 prisoners
                 might
                 by
                 that
                 time
                 make
                 an
                 escape
                 ,
                 and
                 get
                 away
                 .
                 All
                 which
                 this
                 Examinate
                 then
                 heard
                 them
                 conferre
                 of
                 .
              
               
                 And
                 he
                 also
                 sayth
                 ,
                 That
                 the
                 names
                 of
                 the
                 said
                 Witches
                 as
                 were
                 on
                 Good-Friday
                 at
                 this
                 Examinates
                 said
                 Grandmothers
                 house
                 ,
                 and
                 now
                 this
                 Examinates
                 owne
                 mothers
                 ,
                 for
                 so
                 many
                 of
                 them
                 as
                 hee
                 did
                 know
                 ,
                 were
                 these
                 ,
                 viz.
                 The
                 wife
                 of
                 
                   Hugh
                   Hargreiues
                
                 of
                 Burley
                 ;
                 the
                 wife
                 of
                 
                   Christopher
                   Bulcock
                
                 ,
                 of
                 the
                 Mosse
                 end
                 ,
                 and
                 Iohn
                 her
                 sonne
                 ;
                 the
                 mother
                 of
                 
                   Myles
                   Nutter
                   ;
                   Elizabeth
                
                 ,
                 the
                 wife
                 of
                 
                   Christopher
                   Hargreiues
                
                 ,
                 of
                 Thurniholme
                 ;
                 
                   Christopher
                   Howgate
                
                 ,
                 and
                 Elizabeth
                 ,
                 his
                 wife
                 ;
                 
                   Alice
                   Graye
                
                 of
                 Coulne
                 ,
                 and
                 one
                 Mould-heeles
                 wife
                 ,
                 of
                 the
                 same
                 :
                 and
                 this
                 Examinate
                 ,
                 and
                 his
                 Mother
                 .
                 And
                 this
                 Examinate
                 further
                 sayth
                 ,
                 That
                 all
                 the
                 Witches
                 went
                 out
                 of
                 the
                 said
                 House
                 in
                 their
                 owne
                 shapes
                 and
                 likenesses
                 .
                 And
                 they
                 all
                 ,
                 by
                 that
                 they
                 were
                 forth
                 of
                 the
                 dores
                 ,
                 gotten
                 on
                 Horsebacke
                 ,
                 like
                 vnto
                 Foales
                 ,
                 some
                 of
                 one
                 colour
                 ,
                 some
                 of
                 another
                 ;
                 and
                 Prestons
                 wife
                 was
                 the
                 last
                 :
                 and
                 when
                 shee
                 got
                 on
                 Horsebacke
                 ,
                 they
                 all
                 presently
                 vanished
                 out
                 of
                 this
                 Examinates
                 sight
                 .
                 And
                 before
                 their
                 said
                 parting
                 away
                 ,
                 
                 they
                 all
                 appointed
                 to
                 meete
                 at
                 the
                 said
                 Prestons
                 wiues
                 house
                 that
                 day
                 twelue-moneths
                 ;
                 at
                 which
                 time
                 the
                 said
                 Prestons
                 wife
                 promised
                 to
                 make
                 them
                 a
                 great
                 Feast
                 .
                 And
                 if
                 they
                 had
                 occasion
                 to
                 meete
                 in
                 the
                 meane
                 time
                 ,
                 then
                 should
                 warning
                 be
                 giuen
                 ,
                 that
                 they
                 all
                 should
                 meete
                 vpon
                 Romleyes
                 Moore
                 .
              
               
               
                 And
                 here
                 they
                 parted
                 ,
                 with
                 resolution
                 to
                 execute
                 their
                 deuillish
                 and
                 bloudie
                 practices
                 ,
                 for
                 the
                 deliuerance
                 of
                 their
                 friends
                 ,
                 vntill
                 they
                 came
                 to
                 meete
                 here
                 ,
                 where
                 their
                 power
                 and
                 strength
                 was
                 gone
                 .
                 And
                 now
                 finding
                 her
                 Meanes
                 was
                 gone
                 ,
                 shee
                 cryed
                 out
                 for
                 Mercie
                 .
                 Whereupon
                 shee
                 being
                 taken
                 away
                 ,
                 the
                 next
                 in
                 order
                 was
                 her
                 sonne
                 
                   Iames
                   Deuice
                
                 ,
                 whom
                 shee
                 and
                 her
                 Mother
                 ,
                 old
                 Dembdike
                 ,
                 brought
                 to
                 act
                 his
                 part
                 in
                 this
                 wofull
                 Tragedie
                 .
              
            
             
               
               
                 THE
                 ARRAIGNMENT
                 
                   and
                   Triall
                   of
                
                 IAMES
                 DEVICE
                 ,
                 
                   Sonne
                   of
                
                 ELIZABETH
                 DEVICE
                 ,
                 
                   of
                   the
                   Forrest
                   of
                   Pendle
                   ,
                   within
                   the
                   Countie
                   of
                   Lancaster
                   aforesaid
                   ,
                   Laborer
                   ,
                   for
                   Witchcraft
                   ;
                   Vpon
                   Tuesday
                   the
                   eighteenth
                   of
                   August
                   ,
                   at
                   the
                   Assises
                   and
                   generall
                   Gaole-Deliuerie
                   holden
                   at
                   Lancaster
                
                 Before
                 Sir
                 EDVVARD
                 BROMLEY
                 
                   Knight
                   ,
                   one
                   of
                   his
                   Maiesties
                   Iustices
                   of
                   Assise
                   at
                   Lancaster
                   .
                
              
               
                 James
                 Deuice
                 .
              
               
                 THis
                 wicked
                 and
                 miserable
                 Wretch
                 ,
                 whether
                 by
                 practise
                 ,
                 or
                 meanes
                 ,
                 to
                 bring
                 himselfe
                 to
                 some
                 vntimely
                 death
                 ,
                 and
                 thereby
                 to
                 auoide
                 his
                 Tryall
                 by
                 his
                 Countrey
                 ,
                 and
                 iust
                 iudgement
                 of
                 the
                 Law
                 ;
                 or
                 ashamed
                 to
                 bee
                 openly
                 charged
                 with
                 so
                 many
                 deuillish
                 practises
                 ,
                 and
                 so
                 much
                 innocent
                 bloud
                 as
                 hee
                 had
                 spilt
                 ;
                 or
                 by
                 reason
                 of
                 his
                 Imprisonment
                 so
                 long
                 time
                 before
                 his
                 Tryall
                 (
                 which
                 was
                 with
                 more
                 fauour
                 ,
                 commiseration
                 ,
                 and
                 reliefe
                 then
                 hee
                 deserued
                 )
                 I
                 know
                 not
                 :
                 But
                 being
                 brought
                 forth
                 to
                 the
                 
                 Barre
                 ,
                 to
                 receiue
                 his
                 Triall
                 before
                 this
                 worthie
                 Iudge
                 ,
                 and
                 so
                 Honourable
                 and
                 Worshipfull
                 an
                 Assembly
                 of
                 Iustices
                 for
                 this
                 seruice
                 ,
                 was
                 so
                 insensible
                 ,
                 weake
                 ,
                 and
                 vnable
                 in
                 all
                 thinges
                 ,
                 as
                 he
                 could
                 neither
                 speake
                 ,
                 heare
                 ,
                 or
                 stand
                 ,
                 but
                 was
                 holden
                 vp
                 when
                 hee
                 was
                 brought
                 to
                 the
                 place
                 of
                 his
                 Arraignement
                 ,
                 to
                 receiue
                 his
                 triall
                 .
              
               
                 This
                 
                   Iames
                   Deuice
                
                 of
                 the
                 Forrest
                 of
                 Pendle
                 ,
                 being
                 brought
                 to
                 the
                 Barre
                 ,
                 was
                 there
                 according
                 to
                 the
                 forme
                 ,
                 order
                 ,
                 and
                 course
                 ,
                 Indicted
                 and
                 Arraigned
                 ;
                 for
                 that
                 hee
                 Felloniously
                 had
                 practised
                 ,
                 vsed
                 ,
                 and
                 exercised
                 diuers
                 wicked
                 and
                 deuillish
                 Arts
                 ,
                 called
                 
                   Witch-crafts
                   ,
                   Inchauntments
                   ,
                   Charmes
                
                 ,
                 and
                 Sorceries
                 ,
                 in
                 ,
                 and
                 vpon
                 one
                 
                   Anne
                   Towneley
                
                 ,
                 wife
                 of
                 
                   Henrie
                   Towneley
                
                 of
                 the
                 Carre
                 ,
                 in
                 the
                 Countie
                 of
                 Lancaster
                 Gentleman
                 ,
                 and
                 her
                 by
                 force
                 of
                 the
                 same
                 ,
                 felloniously
                 had
                 killed
                 .
                 
                   Contra
                   pacem
                   ,
                   &c.
                
                 
              
               
                 The
                 said
                 
                   Iames
                   Deuice
                
                 was
                 the
                 second
                 time
                 Indicted
                 and
                 Arraigned
                 in
                 the
                 same
                 manner
                 and
                 forme
                 ,
                 for
                 the
                 death
                 of
                 
                   Iohn
                   Duckworth
                
                 ,
                 by
                 witch-craft
                 .
                 
                   Contra
                   pacem
                   ,
                   &c.
                
                 
              
               
                 To
                 these
                 two
                 seuerall
                 Indictments
                 vpon
                 his
                 Arraignment
                 ,
                 he
                 pleaded
                 not
                 guiltie
                 ,
                 and
                 for
                 the
                 triall
                 of
                 his
                 life
                 put
                 himselfe
                 vpon
                 God
                 and
                 his
                 Countrie
                 .
              
               
                 So
                 as
                 now
                 the
                 Gentlemen
                 of
                 the
                 Iurie
                 of
                 life
                 &
                 death
                 stand
                 charged
                 to
                 finde
                 ,
                 whether
                 he
                 be
                 guiltie
                 of
                 these
                 ,
                 or
                 either
                 of
                 them
                 .
              
               
                 Whereupon
                 Master
                 Nowel
                 humbly
                 prayed
                 Master
                 Towneley
                 might
                 be
                 called
                 ,
                 who
                 attended
                 to
                 prosecute
                 and
                 giue
                 euidence
                 against
                 him
                 for
                 the
                 Kings
                 Majestie
                 ,
                 and
                 that
                 the
                 particular
                 Examinations
                 taken
                 before
                 him
                 and
                 others
                 ,
                 might
                 be
                 openly
                 published
                 &
                 read
                 in
                 Court
                 ,
                 in
                 the
                 hearing
                 of
                 the
                 Prisoner
                 .
              
               
               
                 But
                 because
                 it
                 were
                 infinite
                 to
                 bring
                 him
                 to
                 his
                 particular
                 Triall
                 for
                 euery
                 offence
                 ,
                 which
                 hee
                 hath
                 committed
                 in
                 his
                 time
                 ,
                 and
                 euery
                 practice
                 wherein
                 he
                 hath
                 had
                 his
                 hand
                 :
                 I
                 shall
                 proceede
                 in
                 order
                 with
                 the
                 Euidence
                 remayning
                 vpon
                 Record
                 against
                 him
                 ,
                 amongst
                 the
                 Records
                 of
                 the
                 Crowne
                 ;
                 both
                 how
                 ,
                 and
                 in
                 what
                 sort
                 hee
                 came
                 to
                 be
                 a
                 witch
                 :
                 and
                 shew
                 you
                 what
                 apparant
                 proofe
                 there
                 is
                 to
                 charge
                 him
                 with
                 the
                 death
                 of
                 these
                 two
                 seuerall
                 persons
                 ,
                 for
                 the
                 which
                 hee
                 now
                 standeth
                 vpon
                 his
                 triall
                 for
                 al
                 the
                 rest
                 of
                 his
                 deuillish
                 practises
                 ,
                 incantations
                 ,
                 murders
                 ,
                 charmes
                 ,
                 sorceries
                 ,
                 meetings
                 to
                 consult
                 with
                 Witches
                 ,
                 to
                 execute
                 mischiefe
                 (
                 take
                 them
                 as
                 they
                 are
                 against
                 him
                 vpon
                 Record
                 :
                 )
                 Enough
                 ,
                 I
                 doubt
                 not
                 .
                 For
                 these
                 with
                 the
                 course
                 of
                 his
                 life
                 will
                 serue
                 his
                 turne
                 to
                 deliuer
                 you
                 from
                 the
                 danger
                 of
                 him
                 that
                 neuer
                 tooke
                 felicitie
                 in
                 any
                 things
                 ,
                 but
                 in
                 reuenge
                 ,
                 bloud
                 ,
                 &
                 mischiefe
                 with
                 crying
                 out
                 vnto
                 God
                 for
                 vengeance
                 ;
                 which
                 hath
                 now
                 at
                 the
                 length
                 brought
                 him
                 to
                 the
                 place
                 where
                 hee
                 standes
                 to
                 receiue
                 his
                 Triall
                 with
                 more
                 honor
                 ,
                 fauour
                 ,
                 and
                 respect
                 ,
                 then
                 such
                 a
                 Monster
                 in
                 Nature
                 doth
                 deserue
                 ;
                 And
                 I
                 doubt
                 not
                 ,
                 but
                 in
                 due
                 time
                 by
                 the
                 Iustice
                 of
                 the
                 Law
                 ,
                 to
                 an
                 vntimely
                 and
                 shamefull
                 death
                 .
              
            
             
               
               
                 
                   The
                   Examination
                   of
                
                 IAMES
                 DEVICE
                 ,
                 
                   sonne
                   of
                
                 ELIZABETH
                 DEVICE
                 ,
                 
                   of
                   the
                   Forrest
                   of
                   Pendle
                   ,
                   in
                   the
                   Countie
                   of
                   Lancaster
                   ,
                   Labourer
                   .
                   Taken
                   the
                   seuen
                   and
                   twentieth
                   day
                   of
                   Aprill
                   ,
                   Annoque
                   ,
                   Reg.
                   Regis
                
                 IACOBI
                 ,
                 
                   Angliae
                   ,
                   &c.
                
                 xo.
                 
                   &
                   Scotiae
                   Quadragesimo
                   quinto
                
                 Before
                 ROGER
                 NOWEL
                 ,
                 and
                 NICHOLAS
                 BANNESTER
                 ,
                 
                   Esquires
                   :
                   two
                   of
                   his
                   Maiesties
                   Iustices
                   of
                   Peace
                   within
                   the
                   said
                   Countie
                   .
                
              
               
                 HE
                 saith
                 ,
                 that
                 vpon
                 Sheare
                 Thursday
                 was
                 two
                 yeares
                 ,
                 his
                 Grand-Mother
                 
                   Elizabeth
                   Sothernes
                
                 ,
                 alias
                 Dembdike
                 ,
                 did
                 bid
                 him
                 this
                 Examinate
                 goe
                 to
                 the
                 church
                 to
                 receiue
                 the
                 Communion
                 (
                 the
                 next
                 day
                 after
                 being
                 Good
                 Friday
                 )
                 and
                 then
                 not
                 to
                 eate
                 the
                 Bread
                 the
                 Minister
                 gaue
                 him
                 ,
                 but
                 to
                 bring
                 it
                 and
                 deliuer
                 it
                 to
                 such
                 a
                 thing
                 as
                 should
                 meet
                 him
                 in
                 his
                 way
                 homewards
                 :
                 Notwithstanding
                 her
                 perswasions
                 ,
                 this
                 Examinate
                 did
                 eate
                 the
                 Bread
                 :
                 and
                 so
                 in
                 his
                 comming
                 ,
                 homeward
                 some
                 fortie
                 roodes
                 off
                 the
                 said
                 Church
                 ,
                 there
                 met
                 him
                 a
                 thing
                 in
                 the
                 shape
                 of
                 a
                 Hare
                 ,
                 who
                 spoke
                 vnto
                 this
                 Examinate
                 ,
                 and
                 asked
                 him
                 whether
                 hee
                 had
                 brought
                 the
                 Bread
                 that
                 his
                 Grand-mother
                 had
                 bidden
                 him
                 ,
                 or
                 no
                 ?
                 whereupon
                 this
                 Examinate
                 answered
                 ,
                 hee
                 had
                 not
                 :
                 and
                 thereupon
                 the
                 said
                 thing
                 threatned
                 to
                 pull
                 this
                 Examinate
                 in
                 peeces
                 ,
                 and
                 so
                 this
                 Examinate
                 thereupon
                 marked
                 himselfe
                 to
                 God
                 ,
                 and
                 so
                 the
                 said
                 thing
                 vanished
                 out
                 of
                 this
                 Examinates
                 sight
                 .
                 And
                 within
                 some
                 foure
                 daies
                 after
                 that
                 ,
                 there
                 appeared
                 in
                 this
                 Examinates
                 sight
                 ,
                 hard
                 by
                 the
                 new
                 Church
                 in
                 Pendle
                 ,
                 a
                 thing
                 like
                 vnto
                 a
                 browne
              
               
               
                 Dogge
                 ,
                 who
                 asked
                 this
                 Examinate
                 to
                 giue
                 him
                 his
                 Soule
                 ,
                 and
                 he
                 should
                 be
                 reuenged
                 of
                 any
                 whom
                 hee
                 would
                 :
                 whereunto
                 this
                 Examinate
                 answered
                 ,
                 that
                 his
                 Soule
                 was
                 not
                 his
                 to
                 giue
                 ,
                 but
                 was
                 his
                 
                   Sauiour
                   Iesus
                   Christs
                
                 ,
                 but
                 as
                 much
                 as
                 was
                 in
                 him
                 this
                 Examinate
                 to
                 giue
                 ,
                 he
                 was
                 contented
                 he
                 should
                 haue
                 it
                 .
              
               
                 And
                 within
                 two
                 or
                 three
                 daies
                 after
                 ,
                 this
                 Examinate
                 went
                 to
                 the
                 Carre-Hall
                 ,
                 and
                 vpon
                 some
                 speeches
                 betwixt
                 Mistris
                 Towneley
                 and
                 this
                 Examinate
                 ;
                 Shee
                 charging
                 this
                 Examinate
                 and
                 his
                 said
                 mother
                 ,
                 to
                 haue
                 stolne
                 some
                 Turues
                 of
                 hers
                 ,
                 badde
                 him
                 packe
                 the
                 doores
                 :
                 and
                 withall
                 as
                 he
                 went
                 forth
                 of
                 the
                 doore
                 ,
                 the
                 said
                 Mistris
                 Towneley
                 gaue
                 him
                 a
                 knock
                 betweene
                 the
                 shoulders
                 :
                 and
                 about
                 a
                 day
                 or
                 two
                 after
                 that
                 ,
                 there
                 appeared
                 vnto
                 this
                 Examinate
                 in
                 his
                 way
                 ,
                 a
                 thing
                 like
                 vnto
                 a
                 black
                 dog
                 ,
                 who
                 put
                 this
                 Examinate
                 in
                 minde
                 of
                 the
                 said
                 Mistris
                 Towneleyes
                 falling
                 out
                 with
                 him
                 this
                 Examinate
                 ;
                 who
                 bad
                 this
                 Examinate
                 make
                 a
                 Picture
                 of
                 Clay
                 ,
                 like
                 vnto
                 the
                 said
                 Mistris
                 Towneley
                 :
                 and
                 that
                 this
                 Examinate
                 with
                 the
                 helpe
                 of
                 his
                 Spirit
                 (
                 who
                 then
                 euer
                 after
                 bidde
                 this
                 Examinate
                 to
                 call
                 it
                 Dandy
                 )
                 would
                 kill
                 or
                 destroy
                 the
                 said
                 Mistris
                 Towneley
                 :
                 and
                 so
                 the
                 said
                 dogge
                 vanished
                 out
                 of
                 this
                 Examinates
                 sight
                 .
                 And
                 the
                 next
                 morning
                 after
                 ,
                 this
                 Examinate
                 tooke
                 Clay
                 ,
                 and
                 made
                 a
                 Picture
                 of
                 the
                 said
                 Mistris
                 Towneley
                 ,
                 and
                 dried
                 it
                 the
                 same
                 night
                 by
                 the
                 fire
                 :
                 and
                 within
                 a
                 day
                 after
                 ,
                 hee
                 ,
                 this
                 Examinate
                 began
                 to
                 crumble
                 the
                 said
                 Picture
                 ,
                 euery
                 day
                 some
                 ,
                 for
                 the
                 space
                 of
                 a
                 weeke
                 :
                 and
                 within
                 two
                 daies
                 after
                 all
                 was
                 crumbled
                 away
                 ;
                 the
                 said
                 Mistris
                 Towneley
                 died
                 .
              
               
                 And
                 hee
                 further
                 saith
                 ,
                 That
                 in
                 Lent
                 last
                 one
                 
                   Iohn
                   Duckworth
                
                 of
                 the
                 Lawnde
                 ,
                 promised
                 this
                 Examinate
                 an
                 old
                 shirt
                 :
                 and
                 within
                 a
                 fortnight
                 after
                 ,
                 this
                 Examinate
                 
                 went
                 to
                 the
                 said
                 Duckworthes
                 house
                 ,
                 and
                 demanded
                 the
                 said
                 old
                 shirt
                 ;
                 but
                 the
                 said
                 Duckworth
                 denied
                 him
                 thereof
                 .
                 And
                 going
                 out
                 of
                 the
                 said
                 house
                 ,
                 the
                 said
                 Spirit
                 Dandy
                 appeared
                 vnto
                 this
                 Examinate
                 ,
                 and
                 said
                 ,
                 Thou
                 didst
                 touch
                 the
                 said
                 Duckworth
                 ;
                 whereunto
                 this
                 Examinate
                 answered
                 ,
                 he
                 did
                 not
                 touch
                 him
                 :
                 yes
                 (
                 said
                 the
                 Spirit
                 againe
                 )
                 thou
                 didst
                 touch
                 him
                 ,
                 and
                 therfore
                 I
                 haue
                 power
                 of
                 him
                 :
                 whereupon
                 this
                 Examinate
                 ioyned
                 with
                 the
                 said
                 Spirit
                 ,
                 and
                 then
                 wished
                 the
                 said
                 Spirit
                 to
                 kill
                 the
                 said
                 Duckworth
                 :
                 and
                 within
                 one
                 weeke
                 ,
                 then
                 next
                 after
                 ,
                 Duckworth
                 died
                 .
              
               
                 This
                 voluntary
                 Confession
                 and
                 Examination
                 of
                 his
                 owne
                 ,
                 containing
                 in
                 itselfe
                 matter
                 sufficient
                 in
                 Law
                 to
                 charge
                 him
                 ,
                 and
                 to
                 proue
                 his
                 offences
                 ,
                 contained
                 in
                 the
                 two
                 seuerall
                 Indictments
                 ,
                 was
                 sufficient
                 to
                 satisfie
                 the
                 Gentlemen
                 of
                 the
                 Iury
                 of
                 Life
                 and
                 Death
                 ,
                 that
                 he
                 is
                 guiltie
                 of
                 them
                 ,
                 and
                 either
                 of
                 them
                 :
                 yet
                 my
                 Lord
                 Bromley
                 commanded
                 ,
                 for
                 their
                 better
                 satisfaction
                 ,
                 that
                 the
                 Witnesses
                 present
                 in
                 Court
                 against
                 any
                 of
                 the
                 Prisoners
                 ,
                 should
                 be
                 examined
                 openly
                 ,
                 
                   viua
                   voce
                
                 ,
                 that
                 the
                 Prisoner
                 might
                 both
                 heare
                 and
                 answere
                 to
                 euery
                 particular
                 point
                 of
                 their
                 Euidence
                 ;
                 notwithstanding
                 any
                 of
                 their
                 Examinations
                 taken
                 before
                 any
                 of
                 his
                 Maiesties
                 Iustices
                 of
                 Peace
                 within
                 the
                 same
                 Countie
                 .
              
               
                 Herein
                 do
                 but
                 obserue
                 the
                 wonderfull
                 work
                 of
                 God
                 ;
                 to
                 raise
                 vp
                 a
                 yong
                 Infant
                 ,
                 the
                 very
                 sister
                 of
                 the
                 Prisonr
                 ,
                 
                   Iennet
                   Deuice
                
                 ,
                 to
                 discouer
                 ,
                 iustifie
                 and
                 proue
                 these
                 things
                 against
                 him
                 at
                 the
                 time
                 of
                 his
                 Arraignement
                 and
                 Triall
                 ,
                 as
                 hereafter
                 followeth
                 .
                 viz.
                 
              
            
             
               
               
                 
                   The
                   Examination
                   and
                   Euidence
                   of
                
                 IENNET
                 DEVICE
                 
                   daughter
                   of
                
                 ELIZABETH
                 DEVICE
                 ,
                 
                   late
                   wife
                   of
                
                 IOHN
                 DEVICE
                 
                   of
                   of
                   the
                   Forrest
                   of
                   Pendle
                   ,
                   in
                   the
                   Countie
                   of
                   Lancaster
                   .
                
                 Against
                 IAMES
                 DEVICE
                 ,
                 
                   Prisoner
                   at
                   the
                   Barre
                   ,
                   vpon
                   his
                   Arraignement
                   and
                   Triall
                   .
                
                 viz.
                 
              
               
                 BEing
                 examined
                 in
                 open
                 Court
                 ,
                 she
                 saith
                 ,
                 That
                 her
                 brother
                 
                   Iames
                   Deuice
                
                 ,
                 the
                 Prisoner
                 at
                 the
                 Barre
                 ,
                 hath
                 beene
                 a
                 Witch
                 for
                 the
                 space
                 of
                 three
                 yeares
                 :
                 about
                 the
                 beginning
                 of
                 which
                 time
                 ,
                 there
                 appeared
                 vnto
                 him
                 ,
                 in
                 this
                 Examinates
                 mothers
                 house
                 ,
                 a
                 Black-Dogge
                 ,
                 which
                 her
                 said
                 brother
                 called
                 Dandy
                 .
                 
                 And
                 further
                 ,
                 this
                 Examinate
                 confesseth
                 ,
                 &
                 saith
                 :
                 That
                 her
                 said
                 brother
                 about
                 a
                 twelue
                 month
                 since
                 ,
                 in
                 the
                 presence
                 of
                 this
                 Examinate
                 ,
                 and
                 in
                 the
                 house
                 aforesaid
                 ,
                 called
                 for
                 the
                 said
                 Dandy
                 ,
                 who
                 thereupon
                 appeared
                 ;
                 asking
                 this
                 Examinates
                 brother
                 what
                 he
                 would
                 haue
                 him
                 to
                 doe
                 .
                 This
                 Examinates
                 brother
                 then
                 said
                 ,
                 he
                 would
                 haue
                 him
                 to
                 helpe
                 him
                 to
                 kill
                 old
                 Mistris
                 Towneley
                 of
                 the
                 Carre
                 :
                 whereunto
                 the
                 said
                 Dandy
                 answered
                 ,
                 and
                 said
                 ,
                 That
                 her
                 said
                 brother
                 should
                 haue
                 his
                 best
                 helpe
                 for
                 the
                 doing
                 of
                 the
                 same
                 ;
                 and
                 that
                 her
                 said
                 brother
                 ,
                 and
                 the
                 said
                 Dandy
                 ,
                 did
                 both
                 in
                 this
                 Examinates
                 hearing
                 ,
                 say
                 ,
                 they
                 would
                 make
                 away
                 the
                 said
                 Mistris
                 Towneley
                 .
                 And
                 about
                 a
                 weeke
                 after
                 ,
                 this
                 Examinate
                 comming
                 to
                 the
                 Carre-Hall
                 ,
                 saw
                 the
                 said
                 Mistris
                 Towneley
                 in
                 the
                 Kitchin
                 there
                 ,
                 nothing
                 well
                 :
                 whereupon
                 it
                 came
                 into
                 this
                 Examinates
                 minde
                 ,
                 that
                 her
                 said
                 brother
                 ,
                 by
                 the
                 help
                 of
                 Dandy
                 ,
                 had
                 brought
                 the
                 said
                 Mistris
                 Towneley
                 into
                 the
                 state
                 she
                 then
                 was
                 in
                 .
              
               
               
                 Which
                 Examinat
                 ,
                 although
                 she
                 were
                 but
                 very
                 yong
                 ,
                 yet
                 it
                 was
                 wonderfull
                 to
                 the
                 Court
                 ,
                 in
                 so
                 great
                 a
                 Presence
                 and
                 Audience
                 ,
                 with
                 what
                 modestie
                 ,
                 gouernement
                 ,
                 and
                 vnderstanding
                 ,
                 shee
                 deliuered
                 this
                 Euidence
                 against
                 the
                 Prisoner
                 at
                 the
                 Barre
                 ,
                 being
                 her
                 owne
                 naturall
                 brother
                 ,
                 which
                 he
                 himselfe
                 could
                 not
                 deny
                 ,
                 but
                 there
                 acknowledged
                 in
                 euery
                 particular
                 to
                 be
                 iust
                 and
                 true
                 .
              
               
                 But
                 behold
                 a
                 little
                 further
                 ,
                 for
                 here
                 this
                 bloudy
                 Monster
                 did
                 not
                 stay
                 his
                 hands
                 :
                 for
                 besides
                 his
                 wicked
                 and
                 diuellish
                 Spels
                 ,
                 practises
                 ,
                 meetings
                 to
                 consult
                 of
                 murder
                 and
                 mischiefe
                 ,
                 which
                 (
                 by
                 Gods
                 grace
                 )
                 hereafter
                 shall
                 follow
                 in
                 order
                 against
                 him
                 ;
                 there
                 is
                 yet
                 more
                 bloud
                 to
                 be
                 laid
                 vnto
                 his
                 charge
                 .
                 For
                 although
                 he
                 were
                 but
                 yong
                 ,
                 and
                 in
                 the
                 beginning
                 of
                 his
                 Time
                 ,
                 yet
                 was
                 he
                 carefull
                 to
                 obserue
                 his
                 Instructions
                 from
                 
                   Old
                   Demdike
                
                 his
                 Grandmother
                 ,
                 and
                 
                   Elizabeth
                   Deuice
                
                 his
                 mother
                 ,
                 in
                 so
                 much
                 that
                 no
                 time
                 should
                 passe
                 since
                 his
                 first
                 entrance
                 into
                 that
                 damnable
                 Arte
                 and
                 exercise
                 of
                 Witchcrafts
                 ,
                 Inchantments
                 ,
                 Charmes
                 and
                 Sorceries
                 ,
                 without
                 mischiefe
                 or
                 murder
                 .
                 Neither
                 should
                 any
                 man
                 vpon
                 the
                 least
                 occasion
                 of
                 offence
                 giuen
                 vnto
                 him
                 ,
                 escape
                 his
                 hands
                 ,
                 without
                 some
                 danger
                 .
                 For
                 these
                 particulars
                 were
                 no
                 sooner
                 giuen
                 in
                 Euidence
                 against
                 him
                 ,
                 when
                 he
                 was
                 againe
                 Indicted
                 and
                 Arraigned
                 for
                 the
                 murder
                 of
                 these
                 two
                 .
                 viz.
                 
              
               
                 
                   Iames
                   Deuice
                
                 of
                 the
                 Forrest
                 of
                 Pendle
                 aforesaid
                 ,
                 in
                 the
                 Countie
                 of
                 Lancaster
                 ,
                 Labourer
                 ,
                 the
                 third
                 time
                 Indicted
                 and
                 Arraigned
                 for
                 the
                 death
                 of
                 
                   Iohn
                   Hargraues
                
                 of
                 Gould-shey-booth
                 ,
                 in
                 the
                 Countie
                 of
                 Lancaster
                 ,
                 by
                 Witchcraft
                 ,
                 as
                 aforesaid
                 .
                 
                   Contra
                   &c.
                
                 
              
               
                 To
                 this
                 Inditement
                 vpon
                 his
                 Arraignement
                 ,
                 he
                 pleaded
                 thereunto
                 not
                 guiltie
                 :
                 and
                 for
                 his
                 Triall
                 put
                 himselfe
                 vpon
                 God
                 and
                 his
                 Countrey
                 ,
                 &c.
                 
              
               
               
                 
                   Iames
                   Deuice
                
                 of
                 the
                 Forrest
                 of
                 Pendle
                 aforesaid
                 ,
                 in
                 the
                 County
                 of
                 Lancaster
                 ,
                 Labourer
                 ,
                 the
                 fourth
                 time
                 Indicted
                 and
                 Arraigned
                 for
                 the
                 death
                 of
                 
                   Blaze
                   Hargreues
                
                 of
                 Higham
                 ,
                 in
                 the
                 Countie
                 of
                 Lancaster
                 ,
                 by
                 Witchcraft
                 ,
                 as
                 aforesaid
                 .
                 
                   Contra
                   Pacem
                
                 ,
                 &c.
                 
              
               
                 To
                 this
                 Indictment
                 vpon
                 his
                 Arraignement
                 ,
                 he
                 pleaded
                 thereunto
                 not
                 guiltie
                 ;
                 and
                 for
                 the
                 Triall
                 of
                 his
                 life
                 ,
                 put
                 himselfe
                 vpon
                 God
                 and
                 the
                 Countrey
                 ,
                 &c.
                 
              
               
                 Hereupon
                 
                   Iennet
                   Deuice
                
                 produced
                 ,
                 sworne
                 and
                 examined
                 ,
                 as
                 a
                 witnesse
                 on
                 his
                 Maiesties
                 behalfe
                 ,
                 against
                 the
                 said
                 
                   Iames
                   Deuice
                
                 ,
                 was
                 examined
                 in
                 open
                 Court
                 ,
                 as
                 followeth
                 .
                 viz.
                 
              
            
             
               
                 
                   The
                   Examination
                   and
                   Euidence
                   of
                
                 IENNET
                 DEVICE
                 aforesaid
                 .
                 Against
                 IAMES
                 DEVICE
                 ,
                 
                   her
                   brother
                   ,
                   Prisoner
                   at
                   the
                   Barre
                   ,
                   vpon
                   his
                   Arraignement
                   and
                   Triall
                   .
                
                 viz.
                 
              
               
                 BEing
                 sworne
                 and
                 examined
                 in
                 open
                 Court
                 ,
                 she
                 saith
                 ,
                 That
                 her
                 brother
                 
                   Iames
                   Deuice
                
                 hath
                 beene
                 a
                 Witch
                 for
                 the
                 space
                 of
                 three
                 yeares
                 :
                 about
                 the
                 beginning
                 of
                 which
                 time
                 ,
                 there
                 appeared
                 vnto
                 him
                 ,
                 in
                 this
                 Examinates
                 mothers
                 house
                 ,
                 a
                 Blacke-Dogge
                 ,
                 which
                 her
                 said
                 brother
                 called
                 Dandy
                 ,
                 which
                 Dandy
                 did
                 aske
                 her
                 said
                 brother
                 what
                 he
                 would
                 haue
                 him
                 to
                 doe
                 ,
                 whereunto
                 he
                 answered
                 ,
                 hee
                 would
                 haue
                 him
                 to
                 kill
                 
                   Iohn
                   Hargreiues
                
                 ,
                 of
                 Gold-shey-booth
                 :
                 whereunto
                 Dandy
                 answered
                 that
                 he
                 would
                 doe
                 it
                 ;
                 since
                 which
                 time
                 the
                 said
                 Iohn
                 is
                 dead
                 .
              
               
               
                 And
                 at
                 another
                 time
                 this
                 Examinate
                 confesseth
                 and
                 saith
                 ,
                 That
                 her
                 said
                 brother
                 did
                 call
                 the
                 said
                 Dandy
                 :
                 who
                 thereupon
                 appeared
                 in
                 the
                 said
                 house
                 ,
                 asking
                 this
                 Examinates
                 brother
                 what
                 hee
                 would
                 haue
                 him
                 to
                 doe
                 :
                 whereupon
                 this
                 Examinates
                 said
                 brother
                 said
                 ,
                 he
                 would
                 haue
                 him
                 to
                 kill
                 
                   Blaze
                   Hargreiues
                
                 of
                 Higham
                 :
                 whereupon
                 Dandy
                 answered
                 ,
                 hee
                 should
                 haue
                 his
                 best
                 helpe
                 ,
                 and
                 so
                 vanished
                 away
                 :
                 and
                 shee
                 saith
                 ,
                 that
                 since
                 that
                 time
                 the
                 said
                 Hargreiues
                 is
                 dead
                 ;
                 but
                 how
                 long
                 after
                 ,
                 this
                 Examinate
                 doth
                 not
                 now
                 remember
                 .
              
               
                 All
                 which
                 things
                 ,
                 when
                 he
                 heard
                 his
                 sister
                 vpon
                 her
                 Oath
                 affirme
                 ,
                 knowing
                 them
                 in
                 his
                 conscience
                 to
                 bee
                 iust
                 and
                 true
                 ,
                 slenderly
                 denyed
                 them
                 ,
                 and
                 thereupon
                 insisted
                 .
              
               
                 To
                 this
                 Examination
                 were
                 diuerse
                 witnesses
                 examined
                 in
                 open
                 Court
                 
                   vina
                   voce
                
                 ,
                 concerning
                 the
                 death
                 of
                 the
                 parties
                 ,
                 in
                 such
                 manner
                 and
                 forme
                 ,
                 and
                 at
                 such
                 time
                 as
                 the
                 said
                 
                   Iennet
                   Deuice
                
                 in
                 her
                 Euidence
                 hath
                 formerly
                 declared
                 to
                 the
                 Court.
                 
              
               
                 Which
                 is
                 all
                 ,
                 and
                 I
                 doubt
                 not
                 but
                 matter
                 sufficient
                 in
                 Law
                 to
                 charge
                 him
                 with
                 ,
                 for
                 the
                 death
                 of
                 these
                 parties
                 .
              
               
                 For
                 the
                 proofe
                 of
                 his
                 Practises
                 ,
                 Charmes
                 ,
                 Meetings
                 at
                 Malking-Tower
                 ,
                 to
                 consult
                 with
                 Witches
                 to
                 execute
                 mischiefe
                 ,
                 Master
                 Nowel
                 humbly
                 prayed
                 ;
                 his
                 owne
                 Examination
                 ,
                 taken
                 and
                 certified
                 ,
                 might
                 openly
                 be
                 read
                 ;
                 and
                 the
                 rest
                 in
                 order
                 ,
                 as
                 they
                 remaine
                 vpon
                 Record
                 amongst
                 the
                 Records
                 of
                 the
                 Crowne
                 at
                 Lancaster
                 :
                 as
                 hereafter
                 followeth
                 ▪
                 viz.
                 
              
            
             
               
               
                 
                   The
                   Examination
                   of
                
                 IAMES
                 DEVICE
                 ,
                 
                   Sonne
                   of
                
                 ELIZABETH
                 DEVICE
                 ,
                 
                   of
                   the
                   Forrest
                   of
                   Pendle
                   :
                   Taken
                   the
                   seuen
                   and
                   twentieth
                   day
                   of
                   Aprill
                   aforesaid
                   ,
                
                 Before
                 ROGER
                 NOVVEL
                 and
                 NICHOLAS
                 BANESTER
                 
                   Esquires
                   ,
                   two
                   of
                   his
                   Maiesties
                   Iustices
                   of
                   Peace
                   within
                   the
                   said
                   Countie
                   ,
                
                 viz.
                 
              
               
                 ANd
                 being
                 examined
                 ,
                 he
                 further
                 saith
                 ,
                 That
                 vpon
                 Sheare-Thursday
                 last
                 ,
                 in
                 the
                 euening
                 ,
                 he
                 this
                 Examinate
                 stole
                 a
                 Wether
                 from
                 
                   Iohn
                   Robinson
                
                 of
                 Barley
                 ,
                 and
                 brought
                 it
                 to
                 his
                 Grand-mothers
                 house
                 ,
                 old
                 Dembdike
                 ,
                 and
                 there
                 killed
                 it
                 :
                 and
                 that
                 vpon
                 the
                 day
                 following
                 ,
                 being
                 Good-Friday
                 ,
                 about
                 twelue
                 of
                 the
                 clocke
                 in
                 the
                 day
                 time
                 ,
                 there
                 dined
                 in
                 this
                 Examinates
                 mothers
                 house
                 a
                 number
                 of
                 persons
                 ,
                 whereof
                 three
                 were
                 men
                 ,
                 with
                 this
                 Examinate
                 ,
                 and
                 the
                 rest
                 women
                 ;
                 and
                 that
                 they
                 met
                 there
                 for
                 three
                 Causes
                 following
                 ,
                 as
                 this
                 Examinates
                 said
                 Mother
                 told
                 this
                 Examinate
                 .
              
               
                 1.
                 
                 The
                 first
                 was
                 ,
                 for
                 the
                 naming
                 of
                 the
                 Spirit
                 which
                 
                   Alizon
                   Deuice
                
                 ,
                 now
                 prisoner
                 at
                 Lancaster
                 ,
                 had
                 ,
                 but
                 did
                 not
                 name
                 him
                 ,
                 because
                 she
                 was
                 not
                 there
                 .
              
               
                 2.
                 
                 The
                 second
                 Cause
                 was
                 ,
                 for
                 the
                 deliuerie
                 of
                 his
                 said
                 Grand-mother
                 ;
                 this
                 Examinates
                 said
                 sister
                 Alizon
                 ;
                 the
                 said
                 
                   Anne
                   Chattox
                
                 ,
                 and
                 her
                 daughter
                 ,
                 Redfernes
                 ;
                 killing
                 the
                 Gaoler
                 at
                 Lancaster
                 ;
                 and
                 before
                 the
                 next
                 Assises
                 to
                 blow
                 vp
                 the
                 Castle
                 there
                 ,
                 to
                 the
                 end
                 the
                 aforesaid
                 persons
                 might
                 by
                 that
                 meanes
                 make
                 an
                 escape
                 &
                 get
                 away
                 :
                 all
                 which
                 this
                 Examinate
                 then
                 heard
                 them
                 conferre
                 of
                 .
              
               
                 3.
                 
                 And
                 the
                 third
                 Cause
                 was
                 ,
                 for
                 that
                 there
                 was
                 a
                 woman
                 
                 dwelling
                 in
                 Gisborne
                 Parish
                 ,
                 who
                 came
                 into
                 this
                 Examinates
                 said
                 Grandmothers
                 house
                 ,
                 who
                 there
                 came
                 and
                 craued
                 assistance
                 of
                 the
                 rest
                 of
                 them
                 that
                 were
                 then
                 there
                 ,
                 for
                 the
                 killing
                 of
                 Master
                 Lister
                 of
                 Westby
                 ,
                 because
                 (
                 as
                 shee
                 then
                 said
                 )
                 he
                 had
                 borne
                 malice
                 vnto
                 her
                 ,
                 and
                 had
                 thought
                 to
                 haue
                 put
                 her
                 away
                 at
                 the
                 last
                 Assises
                 at
                 Yorke
                 ,
                 but
                 could
                 not
                 and
                 this
                 Examinate
                 heard
                 the
                 said
                 woman
                 say
                 ,
                 That
                 her
                 power
                 was
                 not
                 strong
                 ynough
                 to
                 doe
                 it
                 her selfe
                 ,
                 being
                 now
                 lesse
                 then
                 before
                 time
                 it
                 had
                 beene
                 .
              
               
                 And
                 also
                 ,
                 that
                 the
                 said
                 
                   Iennet
                   Preston
                
                 had
                 a
                 Spirit
                 with
                 her
                 like
                 vnto
                 a
                 white
                 Foale
                 ,
                 with
                 a
                 blacke
                 spot
                 in
                 the
                 forhead
                 .
              
               
                 And
                 he
                 also
                 saith
                 ,
                 That
                 the
                 names
                 of
                 the
                 said
                 Witches
                 as
                 were
                 on
                 Good-Friday
                 at
                 this
                 Examinates
                 said
                 Grandmothers
                 house
                 ,
                 &
                 now
                 this
                 Examinates
                 owne
                 mothers
                 ,
                 for
                 so
                 many
                 of
                 them
                 as
                 he
                 did
                 know
                 ,
                 were
                 these
                 ,
                 viz.
                 the
                 wife
                 of
                 
                   Hugh
                   Hargreiues
                
                 of
                 Barley
                 ;
                 the
                 wife
                 of
                 
                   Christopher
                   Bulcock
                
                 of
                 the
                 Mosse
                 end
                 ,
                 and
                 Iohn
                 her
                 sonne
                 ;
                 the
                 mother
                 of
                 
                   Myles
                   Nutter
                   ;
                   Elizabeth
                
                 ,
                 the
                 wife
                 of
                 
                   Christopher
                   Hargreiues
                
                 ,
                 of
                 Thurniholme
                 ;
                 
                   Christopher
                   Howgate
                
                 ,
                 and
                 Elizabeth
                 his
                 wife
                 ;
                 
                   Alice
                   Graye
                
                 of
                 Coulne
                 ,
                 and
                 one
                 Mould-heeles
                 wife
                 ,
                 of
                 the
                 same
                 :
                 and
                 this
                 Examinate
                 ,
                 and
                 his
                 Mother
                 .
                 And
                 this
                 Examinate
                 further
                 saith
                 ,
                 That
                 all
                 the
                 said
                 Witches
                 went
                 out
                 of
                 the
                 said
                 House
                 in
                 their
                 owne
                 shapes
                 and
                 likenesses
                 .
                 And
                 they
                 all
                 ,
                 by
                 that
                 they
                 were
                 forth
                 of
                 the
                 dores
                 ,
                 were
                 gotten
                 on
                 Horsebacke
                 ,
                 like
                 vnto
                 Foales
                 ,
                 some
                 of
                 one
                 colour
                 ,
                 some
                 of
                 another
                 ;
                 and
                 Prestons
                 wife
                 was
                 the
                 last
                 ;
                 and
                 when
                 shee
                 got
                 on
                 Horsebacke
                 ,
                 they
                 all
                 presently
                 vanished
                 out
                 of
                 this
                 Examinates
                 sight
                 .
                 And
                 before
                 their
                 said
                 parting
                 away
                 ,
                 they
                 all
                 appointed
                 to
                 meete
                 at
                 the
                 said
                 Prestons
                 
                 wiues
                 house
                 that
                 day
                 twelue-moneths
                 ;
                 at
                 which
                 time
                 the
                 said
                 Prestons
                 wife
                 promised
                 to
                 make
                 them
                 a
                 great
                 Feast
                 .
                 And
                 if
                 they
                 had
                 occasion
                 to
                 meete
                 in
                 the
                 meane
                 time
                 ,
                 then
                 should
                 warning
                 be
                 giuen
                 ,
                 that
                 they
                 all
                 should
                 meete
                 vpon
                 Romleyes
                 Moore
                 .
              
            
             
               
                 
                   The
                   Examination
                   and
                   Euidence
                   of
                
                 IENNET
                 DEVICE
                 .
                 Against
                 IAMES
                 DEVICE
                 
                   her
                   said
                   Brother
                   ,
                   Prisoner
                   at
                   the
                   Barre
                   ,
                   vpon
                   his
                   Arraignement
                   and
                   Triall
                   :
                   Taken
                   before
                
                 ROGER
                 NOWEL
                 ,
                 and
                 NICHOLAS
                 BANNESTER
                 ,
                 
                   Esquires
                   :
                   two
                   of
                   his
                   Maiesties
                   Iustices
                   of
                   Peace
                   within
                   the
                   said
                   Countie
                   .
                
                 viz.
                 
              
               
                 SHee
                 saith
                 ,
                 that
                 vpon
                 Good-Friday
                 last
                 there
                 was
                 about
                 twentie
                 persons
                 ,
                 whereof
                 only
                 two
                 were
                 men
                 ,
                 to
                 this
                 Examinates
                 remembrance
                 ,
                 at
                 her
                 said
                 Grandmothers
                 house
                 ,
                 called
                 Malking-Tower
                 aforesaid
                 ,
                 about
                 twelue
                 of
                 the
                 clock
                 :
                 all
                 which
                 persons
                 this
                 Examinates
                 said
                 Mother
                 told
                 her
                 were
                 Witches
                 ,
                 and
                 that
                 they
                 came
                 to
                 giue
                 a
                 name
                 to
                 
                   Alizon
                   Deuice
                
                 Spirit
                 or
                 Familiar
                 ,
                 Sister
                 to
                 this
                 Examinate
                 ,
                 and
                 now
                 Prisoner
                 ,
                 in
                 the
                 Castle
                 of
                 Lancaster
                 :
                 And
                 also
                 this
                 Examinate
                 saith
                 ,
                 that
                 the
                 persons
                 aforesaid
                 had
                 to
                 their
                 Dinnors
                 ,
                 Beefe
                 ,
                 Bacon
                 ,
                 and
                 rosted
                 Mutton
                 ,
                 which
                 Mutton
                 ,
                 as
                 this
                 Examinates
                 said
                 brother
                 said
                 ,
                 was
                 of
                 a
                 Weather
                 of
                 Robinsons
                 of
                 Barley
                 :
                 which
                 Weather
                 was
                 brought
                 in
                 the
                 night
                 before
                 into
                 this
                 Examinates
                 mothers
                 house
                 ,
                 by
                 the
                 said
                 
                   Iames
                   Deuice
                
                 
                 this
                 Examinates
                 said
                 brother
                 ,
                 and
                 in
                 this
                 Examinates
                 sight
                 killed
                 ,
                 and
                 eaten
                 ,
                 as
                 aforesaid
                 :
                 And
                 shee
                 further
                 saith
                 ,
                 that
                 shee
                 knoweth
                 the
                 names
                 of
                 sixe
                 of
                 the
                 said
                 Witches
                 ,
                 viz.
                 the
                 wife
                 of
                 the
                 said
                 
                   Hugh
                   Hargreiues
                
                 ,
                 vnder
                 Pendle
                 :
                 
                   Christopher
                   Howget
                
                 ,
                 of
                 Pendle
                 ,
                 Vncle
                 to
                 this
                 Examinate
                 :
                 and
                 
                   Dick
                   Miles
                
                 wife
                 ,
                 of
                 the
                 Rough-Lee
                 :
                 
                   Christopher
                   Iacks
                
                 ,
                 of
                 Thorne-holme
                 ,
                 and
                 his
                 Wife
                 :
                 and
                 the
                 names
                 of
                 the
                 residue
                 shee
                 this
                 Examinate
                 doth
                 not
                 know
                 ,
                 sauing
                 that
                 this
                 Examinates
                 Mother
                 and
                 Brother
                 were
                 both
                 there
                 .
              
            
             
               
                 
                   The
                   Examination
                   of
                
                 ELIZABETH
                 DEVICE
                 ,
                 
                   Mother
                   of
                   the
                   said
                
                 IAMES
                 DEVICE
                 ,
                 
                   of
                   the
                   Forrest
                   of
                   Pendle
                   :
                   taken
                   the
                   seuen
                   and
                   twentieth
                   day
                   of
                   Aprill
                   aforesaid
                   .
                
                 Before
                 ROGER
                 NOWEL
                 ,
                 and
                 NICHOLAS
                 BANNESTER
                 ,
                 
                   Esquires
                   ;
                   as
                   aforesaid
                
                 .
                 viz.
                 
              
               
                 BEing
                 examined
                 ,
                 the
                 said
                 Elizabeth
                 saith
                 and
                 confesseth
                 ,
                 that
                 vpon
                 Good-Friday
                 last
                 there
                 dined
                 at
                 this
                 Examinates
                 house
                 ,
                 those
                 which
                 she
                 hath
                 said
                 to
                 be
                 Witches
                 ,
                 and
                 doth
                 verily
                 thinke
                 them
                 to
                 bee
                 Witches
                 ,
                 and
                 their
                 names
                 are
                 those
                 ,
                 whom
                 
                   Iames
                   Deuice
                
                 hath
                 formerly
                 spoken
                 of
                 to
                 be
                 there
                 .
              
               
                 And
                 shee
                 also
                 confesseth
                 in
                 all
                 things
                 touching
                 the
                 Christning
                 of
                 her
                 Spirit
                 ,
                 and
                 the
                 killing
                 of
                 Master
                 Lister
                 of
                 Westby
                 ,
                 as
                 the
                 said
                 
                   Iames
                   〈◊〉
                
                 confesseth
                 .
                 But
                 denieth
                 that
                 any
                 talke
                 was
                 amongst
                 〈◊〉
                 the
                 said
                 Witches
                 ,
                 to
                 her
                 now
                 remembrance
                 ,
                 at
                 the
                 said
                 meeting
                 together
                 ,
                 
                 
                 
                 
                 
                 
                 
                 
                 
                 
                 
                 
                 
                 touching
                 the
                 killing
                 of
                 the
                 Gaoler
                 at
                 Lancaster
                 ;
                 blowing
                 vp
                 of
                 the
                 Castle
                 ▪
                 thereby
                 to
                 deliuer
                 old
                 Dembdike
                 her
                 Mother
                 ;
                 
                   Alizon
                   Deuice
                
                 her
                 Daughter
                 ,
                 and
                 other
                 Prisoners
                 ,
                 committed
                 to
                 the
                 said
                 Castle
                 for
                 Witchcraft
                 .
              
               
                 After
                 all
                 these
                 things
                 opened
                 ,
                 and
                 deliuered
                 in
                 euidence
                 against
                 him
                 ;
                 Master
                 Couil
                 ,
                 who
                 hath
                 the
                 custodie
                 of
                 the
                 Gaole
                 at
                 Lancaster
                 ,
                 hauing
                 taken
                 great
                 paines
                 with
                 him
                 during
                 the
                 time
                 of
                 his
                 imprisonment
                 ,
                 to
                 procure
                 him
                 to
                 discouer
                 his
                 practizes
                 ,
                 and
                 such
                 other
                 Witches
                 as
                 he
                 knew
                 to
                 bee
                 dangerous
                 ▪
                 Humbly
                 prayed
                 the
                 fauour
                 of
                 the
                 Court
                 ,
                 that
                 this
                 voluntarie
                 confession
                 to
                 M.
                 Anderton
                 ,
                 M.
                 Sands
                 the
                 Major
                 of
                 Lancaster
                 ,
                 M.
                 Couel
                 ,
                 and
                 others
                 ,
                 might
                 openly
                 bee
                 published
                 and
                 declared
                 in
                 Court.
                 
              
            
             
               
                 
                   The
                   voluntarie
                   confession
                   and
                   declaration
                   of
                
                 IAMES
                 DEVICE
                 ,
                 
                   Prisoner
                   in
                   the
                   Castle
                   at
                   Lancaster
                   .
                
                 Before
                 WILLIAM
                 SANDS
                 ,
                 
                   Maior
                   of
                   Lancaster
                
                 ,
                 IAMES
                 ANDERTON
                 ,
                 
                   Esquire
                   ,
                   one
                   of
                   his
                   Maiesties
                   Iustices
                   of
                   Peace
                   within
                   the
                   Countie
                   of
                   Lancaster
                   :
                   And
                
                 THOMAS
                 COVEL
                 ,
                 
                   Gentleman
                   ,
                   one
                   of
                   his
                   Maiesties
                   Coroners
                   in
                   the
                   same
                   Countie
                   .
                
                 viz.
                 
              
               
                 
                   IAMES
                   Deuice
                
                 ,
                 Prisoner
                 in
                 the
                 Castle
                 at
                 Lancaster
                 ,
                 saith
                 ;
                 That
                 his
                 said
                 Spirit
                 Dandie
                 ,
                 being
                 very
                 earnest
                 with
                 
                 him
                 to
                 giue
                 him
                 his
                 soule
                 .
                 He
                 answered
                 ,
                 he
                 would
                 giue
                 him
                 that
                 part
                 thereof
                 that
                 was
                 his
                 owne
                 to
                 giue
                 :
                 and
                 thereupon
                 the
                 said
                 Spirit
                 said
                 ,
                 hee
                 was
                 aboue
                 
                   CHRIST
                   IESVS
                
                 ,
                 and
                 therefore
                 hee
                 must
                 absolutely
                 giue
                 him
                 his
                 Soule
                 :
                 and
                 that
                 done
                 ,
                 hee
                 would
                 giue
                 him
                 power
                 to
                 reuenge
                 himselfe
                 against
                 any
                 whom
                 he
                 disliked
                 .
              
               
                 And
                 he
                 further
                 saith
                 ,
                 that
                 the
                 said
                 Spirit
                 did
                 appeare
                 vnto
                 him
                 after
                 sundrie
                 times
                 ,
                 in
                 the
                 likenesse
                 of
                 a
                 Dogge
                 ,
                 and
                 at
                 euery
                 time
                 most
                 earnestly
                 perswaded
                 him
                 to
                 giue
                 him
                 his
                 Soule
                 absolutely
                 :
                 who
                 answered
                 as
                 before
                 ,
                 that
                 he
                 would
                 giue
                 him
                 his
                 owne
                 part
                 and
                 no
                 further
                 .
                 And
                 hee
                 saith
                 ,
                 that
                 at
                 the
                 last
                 time
                 that
                 the
                 said
                 Spirit
                 was
                 with
                 him
                 ,
                 which
                 was
                 the
                 Tuesday
                 next
                 before
                 his
                 apprehension
                 ,
                 when
                 as
                 hee
                 could
                 not
                 preuaile
                 with
                 him
                 to
                 haue
                 his
                 Soule
                 absolutely
                 granted
                 vnto
                 him
                 ,
                 as
                 aforesaid
                 ;
                 the
                 said
                 Spirit
                 departed
                 from
                 him
                 ,
                 then
                 giuing
                 a
                 most
                 fearefull
                 crie
                 and
                 yell
                 ,
                 and
                 withall
                 caused
                 a
                 great
                 flash
                 of
                 fire
                 to
                 shew
                 about
                 him
                 :
                 which
                 said
                 Spirit
                 did
                 neuer
                 after
                 trouble
                 this
                 Examinate
                 .
              
               
                 
                   
                     William
                     Sands
                  
                   ,
                
                 
                   
                     James
                     Anderton
                  
                   .
                
                 
                   
                     Tho.
                     Couel
                     ,
                     Coroner
                  
                   .
                
              
               
                 The
                 said
                 
                   Iennet
                   Deuice
                
                 ,
                 his
                 Sister
                 ,
                 in
                 the
                 very
                 end
                 of
                 her
                 Examination
                 against
                 the
                 said
                 
                   Iames
                   Deuice
                
                 ,
                 confesseth
                 and
                 saith
                 ,
                 that
                 her
                 Mother
                 taught
                 her
                 two
                 Prayers
                 :
                 the
                 one
                 to
                 get
                 drinke
                 ,
                 which
                 was
                 this
                 .
                 viz.
                 
              
               
                 Crucifixus
                 hoc
                 signum
                 vitam
                 Eternam
                 .
                 Amen
                 .
              
               
               
                 And
                 shee
                 further
                 saith
                 ,
                 That
                 her
                 Brother
                 
                   Iames
                   Deuice
                
                 ,
                 the
                 Prisoner
                 at
                 the
                 Barre
                 ,
                 hath
                 confessed
                 to
                 her
                 this
                 Examinate
                 ,
                 that
                 he
                 by
                 this
                 Prayer
                 hath
                 gotten
                 drinke
                 :
                 and
                 that
                 within
                 an
                 houre
                 after
                 the
                 saying
                 the
                 said
                 Prayer
                 ,
                 drinke
                 hath
                 come
                 into
                 the
                 house
                 after
                 a
                 very
                 strange
                 manner
                 .
                 And
                 the
                 other
                 Prayer
                 ,
                 the
                 said
                 
                   Iames
                   Deuice
                
                 affirmed
                 ,
                 would
                 cure
                 one
                 bewitched
                 ,
                 which
                 shee
                 recited
                 as
                 followeth
                 .
                 viz.
                 
              
               
                 
                   
                     
                       
                         A
                         Charme
                         .
                      
                       
                         Vpon
                         Good-Friday
                         ,
                         I
                         will
                         fast
                         while
                         I
                         may
                      
                       
                         Vntill
                         I
                         heare
                         them
                         knell
                      
                       
                         Our
                         Lords
                         owne
                         Bell
                         ,
                      
                       
                         Lord
                         in
                         his
                         messe
                      
                       
                         With
                         his
                         twelue
                         Apostles
                         good
                         ,
                      
                       
                         What
                         hath
                         he
                         in
                         his
                         hand
                      
                       
                         Ligh
                         in
                         leath
                         wand
                         :
                      
                       
                         What
                         hath
                         he
                         in
                         his
                         other
                         hand
                         ?
                      
                       
                         Heauens
                         doore
                         key
                         ,
                      
                       
                         Open
                         ,
                         open
                         Heauen
                         doore
                         keyes
                         ,
                      
                       
                         Steck
                         ,
                         steck
                         hell
                         doore
                         .
                      
                       
                         Let
                         Crizum
                         child
                      
                       
                         Goe
                         to
                         it
                         Mother
                         mild
                         ,
                      
                       
                         What
                         is
                         yonder
                         that
                         casts
                         a
                         light
                         so
                         farrandly
                         ,
                      
                       
                         Mine
                         owne
                         deare
                         Sonne
                         that
                         's
                         naild
                         to
                         the
                         Tree
                         .
                      
                       
                         He
                         is
                         naild
                         sore
                         by
                         the
                         heart
                         and
                         hand
                         ,
                      
                       
                         And
                         holy
                         barne
                         Panne
                         ,
                      
                       
                         Well
                         is
                         that
                         man
                      
                       
                         That
                         Fryday
                         spell
                         can
                         ,
                      
                       
                         His
                         Childe
                         to
                         learne
                         ;
                      
                       
                         A
                         Crosse
                         of
                         Blew
                         ,
                         and
                         another
                         of
                         Red
                         ,
                      
                       
                       
                         As
                         good
                         Lord
                         was
                         to
                         the
                         Roode
                         .
                      
                       
                         Gabriel
                         laid
                         him
                         downe
                         to
                         sleepe
                      
                       
                         Vpon
                         the
                         ground
                         of
                         holy
                         weepe
                         :
                      
                       
                         Good
                         Lord
                         came
                         walking
                         by
                         ,
                      
                       
                         Sleep'st
                         thou
                         ,
                         wak'st
                         thou
                         Gabriel
                         ,
                      
                       
                         No
                         Lord
                         I
                         am
                         sted
                         with
                         sticke
                         and
                         stake
                         ,
                      
                       
                         That
                         I
                         can
                         neither
                         sleepe
                         nor
                         wake
                         :
                      
                       
                         Rise
                         vp
                         Gabriel
                         and
                         goe
                         with
                         me
                         ,
                      
                       
                         The
                         stick
                         nor
                         the
                         stake
                         shall
                         neuer
                         deere
                         thee
                         .
                      
                       
                         Sweete
                         Iesus
                         our
                         Lord
                         ,
                         Amen
                         .
                      
                       
                         Iames
                         Deuice
                         .
                      
                    
                  
                
              
               
                 What
                 can
                 be
                 said
                 more
                 of
                 this
                 painfull
                 Steward
                 ▪
                 that
                 was
                 so
                 carefull
                 to
                 prouide
                 Mutton
                 against
                 this
                 Feast
                 and
                 solemne
                 meeting
                 at
                 Malking-Tower
                 ,
                 of
                 these
                 hellish
                 and
                 diuellish
                 band
                 of
                 Witches
                 ,
                 (
                 the
                 like
                 whereof
                 hath
                 not
                 been
                 heard
                 of
                 )
                 then
                 hath
                 been
                 openly
                 published
                 and
                 declared
                 against
                 him
                 at
                 the
                 Barre
                 ,
                 vpon
                 his
                 Arraignement
                 and
                 Triall
                 :
                 wherein
                 it
                 pleased
                 God
                 to
                 raise
                 vp
                 Witnesses
                 beyond
                 expectation
                 to
                 conuince
                 him
                 ;
                 besides
                 his
                 owne
                 particular
                 Examinations
                 ,
                 which
                 being
                 shewed
                 and
                 read
                 vnto
                 him
                 ;
                 he
                 acknowledged
                 to
                 be
                 iust
                 and
                 true
                 .
                 And
                 what
                 I
                 promised
                 to
                 set
                 forth
                 against
                 him
                 ,
                 in
                 the
                 beginning
                 of
                 his
                 Arraignment
                 and
                 Triall
                 ,
                 I
                 doubt
                 nor
                 but
                 therein
                 I
                 haue
                 satisfied
                 your
                 expectation
                 at
                 large
                 ,
                 wherein
                 I
                 haue
                 beene
                 very
                 sparing
                 to
                 charge
                 him
                 with
                 anything
                 ,
                 but
                 with
                 sufficient
                 matter
                 of
                 Record
                 and
                 Euidence
                 ,
                 able
                 to
                 satisfie
                 the
                 consciences
                 of
                 the
                 Gentlemen
                 of
                 the
                 Iury
                 of
                 Life
                 and
                 Death
                 ;
                 to
                 whose
                 good
                 consideration
                 I
                 leaue
                 him
                 ,
                 with
                 the
                 perpetuall
                 Badge
                 and
                 Brand
                 of
                 as
                 dangerous
                 and
                 malicious
                 a
                 Witch
                 ,
                 as
                 euer
                 liued
                 in
                 these
                 parts
                 of
                 Lancashire
                 ,
                 of
                 his
                 time
                 :
                 and
                 spotted
                 
                 with
                 as
                 much
                 Innocent
                 bloud
                 ,
                 as
                 euer
                 any
                 Witch
                 of
                 his
                 yeares
                 .
              
               
                 After
                 all
                 these
                 proceedings
                 ,
                 by
                 direction
                 of
                 his
                 Lordship
                 ,
                 were
                 their
                 seuerall
                 Examinations
                 ,
                 subscribed
                 by
                 euery
                 one
                 of
                 them
                 in
                 particular
                 ,
                 shewed
                 vnto
                 them
                 at
                 the
                 time
                 of
                 their
                 Triall
                 ,
                 &
                 acknowledged
                 by
                 thē
                 to
                 be
                 true
                 ,
                 deliuered
                 to
                 the
                 gentlemen
                 of
                 the
                 Iury
                 of
                 Life
                 &
                 Death
                 ,
                 for
                 the
                 better
                 satisfaction
                 of
                 their
                 consciences
                 :
                 after
                 due
                 consideration
                 of
                 which
                 said
                 seuerall
                 examinations
                 ,
                 confessions
                 ,
                 and
                 voluntary
                 declarations
                 ,
                 as
                 well
                 of
                 themselues
                 as
                 of
                 their
                 children
                 ,
                 friends
                 and
                 confederates
                 ,
                 The
                 Gentlemen
                 deliuered
                 vp
                 their
                 Verdict
                 against
                 the
                 Prisoners
                 ,
                 as
                 followeth
                 .
                 viz.
                 
              
            
             
               
                 The
                 Verdict
                 of
                 Life
                 and
                 Death
                 .
              
               
                 WHo
                 found
                 
                   Anne
                   Whittle
                
                 ,
                 alias
                 
                   Chattox
                   ,
                   Elizabeth
                   Deuice
                
                 ,
                 and
                 
                   Iames
                   Deuice
                
                 ,
                 guiltie
                 of
                 the
                 seuerall
                 murthers
                 by
                 Witchcraft
                 ,
                 contained
                 in
                 the
                 Indictments
                 against
                 them
                 ,
                 and
                 euery
                 of
                 them
                 .
              
            
          
           
             
             
               THE
               WITCHES
               OF
               SALMESBVRY
               .
            
             
               
                 The
                 Arraignement
                 and
                 Triall
                 of
              
               IENNET
               BIERLEY
               ELLEN
               BIERLEY
               ,
               and
               IANE
               SOVTHVVORTH
               
                 of
                 Salmesbury
                 ,
                 in
                 the
                 County
                 of
                 Lancaster
                 ;
                 for
                 Witchcraft
                 vpon
                 the
                 bodie
                 of
              
               GRACE
               SOVVER
               BVTTS
               ,
               
                 vpon
                 Wednesday
                 the
                 nineteenth
                 of
                 August
                 :
                 At
                 the
                 Assises
                 and
                 generall
                 Gaole-deliuery
                 ,
                 holden
                 at
                 Lancaster
                 .
              
               Before
               Sir
               EDVVARD
               BROMLEY
               
                 Knight
                 ,
                 one
                 of
                 his
                 Maiestices
                 Iustices
                 of
                 Assize
                 at
                 Lancaster
                 :
                 as
                 hereafter
                 followeth
                 .
              
               viz.
               
               
                 
                   Iennet
                   Bierley
                   .
                
                 
                   Ellen
                   Bierley
                   .
                
                 
                   Iane
                   Southworth
                   .
                
              
            
             
               THus
               haue
               we
               for
               a
               time
               left
               the
               Graund
               Witches
               of
               the
               Forrest
               of
               Pendle
               ,
               to
               the
               good
               consideration
               of
               a
               verie
               sufficient
               Iury
               of
               worthy
               Gentlemen
               of
               their
               Coūtrey
               .
               We
               are
               now
               come
               to
               the
               famous
               Witches
               of
               Salmesbury
               ,
               as
               the
               Countrey
               called
               them
               ,
               
               who
               by
               such
               a
               subtill
               practise
               and
               conspiracie
               of
               a
               Seminarie
               Priest
               ,
               or
               ,
               as
               the
               best
               in
               this
               Honorable
               Assembly
               thinke
               ,
               a
               Iesuite
               ,
               whereof
               this
               Countie
               of
               Lancaster
               hath
               good
               store
               ,
               who
               by
               reason
               of
               the
               generall
               entertainement
               they
               find
               ,
               and
               great
               maintenance
               they
               haue
               ,
               resort
               hither
               ,
               being
               farre
               from
               the
               Eye
               of
               Iustice
               ,
               and
               therefore
               ,
               
                 Procul
                 a
                 fulmine
              
               ;
               are
               now
               brought
               to
               the
               Barre
               ,
               to
               receiue
               their
               Triall
               ,
               and
               such
               a
               young
               witnesse
               prepared
               and
               instructed
               to
               giue
               Euidence
               against
               them
               ,
               that
               it
               must
               be
               the
               Act
               of
               GOD
               that
               must
               be
               the
               means
               to
               discouer
               their
               Practises
               and
               Murthers
               ,
               and
               by
               an
               infant
               :
               but
               how
               and
               in
               what
               sort
               Almightie
               GOD
               deliuered
               them
               from
               the
               stroake
               of
               Death
               ,
               when
               the
               Axe
               was
               layd
               to
               the
               Tree
               ,
               and
               made
               frustrate
               the
               practise
               of
               this
               bloudie
               Butcher
               ,
               it
               shall
               appeare
               vnto
               you
               vpon
               their
               Arraignement
               and
               Triall
               ,
               whereunto
               they
               are
               now
               come
               .
            
             
               Master
               
                 Thomas
                 Couel
              
               ,
               who
               hath
               the
               charge
               of
               the
               prisoners
               in
               the
               Castle
               at
               Lancaster
               ,
               was
               commaunded
               to
               bring
               forth
               the
               said
               
                 
                   
                     Jennet
                     Bierley
                  
                   ,
                
                 
                   
                     Ellen
                     Bierley
                  
                   ,
                
                 
                   
                     Jane
                     Southworth
                  
                   ,
                
              
               to
               the
               Barre
               to
               receiue
               their
               Triall
               .
            
             
               
                 Indictment
                 .
              
               
                 THe
                 said
                 
                   Iennet
                   Bierley
                   ,
                   Ellen
                   Bierly
                
                 ,
                 and
                 
                   Iane
                   Southworth
                
                 of
                 Salmesbury
                 ,
                 in
                 the
                 Countie
                 of
                 Lancaster
                 ,
                 
                 being
                 indicted
                 ,
                 for
                 that
                 they
                 and
                 euery
                 of
                 them
                 felloniously
                 had
                 practised
                 ,
                 exercised
                 ,
                 and
                 vsed
                 diuerse
                 deuillish
                 and
                 wicked
                 Arts
                 ,
                 called
                 
                   Witchcrafts
                   ,
                   Inchauntments
                   ,
                   Charmes
                
                 ,
                 and
                 Sorceries
                 ,
                 in
                 and
                 vpon
                 one
                 
                   Grace
                   Sowerbuts
                
                 :
                 so
                 that
                 by
                 meanes
                 thereof
                 her
                 bodie
                 wasted
                 and
                 consumed
                 ,
                 
                   Contra
                   formam
                   Statuti
                   &c.
                   
                   Et
                   Contra
                   Pacem
                   dicti
                   Domini
                   Regis
                   Coronam
                   &
                   dignitatem
                   &c.
                   
                
              
               
                 To
                 this
                 Indictment
                 vpon
                 their
                 Arraignement
                 ,
                 they
                 pleaded
                 Not-Guiltie
                 ;
                 and
                 for
                 the
                 Triall
                 of
                 their
                 liues
                 put
                 themselues
                 vpon
                 GOD
                 and
                 their
                 Countrey
                 .
              
               
                 Whereupon
                 Master
                 Sheriffe
                 of
                 the
                 Countie
                 of
                 Lancaster
                 ,
                 by
                 direction
                 of
                 the
                 Court
                 ,
                 made
                 returne
                 of
                 a
                 very
                 sufficient
                 Iurie
                 to
                 passe
                 betweene
                 the
                 Kings
                 Maiestie
                 and
                 them
                 ,
                 vpon
                 their
                 liues
                 and
                 deaths
                 ,
                 with
                 such
                 others
                 as
                 follow
                 in
                 order
                 .
              
               
                 The
                 Prisoners
                 being
                 now
                 at
                 the
                 Barre
                 vpon
                 their
                 Triall
                 ,
                 
                   Grace
                   Sowerbutts
                
                 ,
                 the
                 daughter
                 of
                 
                   Thomas
                   Sowerbutts
                
                 ,
                 about
                 the
                 age
                 of
                 foureteene
                 yeares
                 ,
                 was
                 produced
                 to
                 giue
                 Euidence
                 for
                 the
                 Kings
                 Maiestie
                 against
                 them
                 :
                 who
                 standing
                 vp
                 ,
                 she
                 was
                 commaunded
                 to
                 point
                 out
                 the
                 Prisoners
                 ,
                 which
                 shee
                 did
                 ,
                 and
                 said
                 as
                 followeth
                 ,
                 viz.
                 *
                 ⁎
                 *
              
            
             
               
               
                 
                   The
                   Examination
                   and
                   Euidence
                   of
                
                 GRACE
                 SOVVERBVTTS
                 ,
                 
                   daughter
                   of
                
                 THOMAS
                 SOVVERBVTTS
                 ,
                 
                   of
                   Salmesbury
                   ,
                   in
                   the
                   Countie
                   of
                   Lancaster
                   Husband-man
                   ,
                   vpon
                   her
                   Oath
                   ,
                
                 Against
                 IENNET
                 BIERLEY
                 ,
                 ELLEN
                 BIERLEY
                 ,
                 and
                 IANE
                 SOVTHVVORTH
                 ,
                 
                   prisoners
                   at
                   the
                   Barre
                   ,
                   vpon
                   their
                   Arraignement
                   and
                   Triall
                   ,
                
                 viz.
                 
              
               
                 THe
                 said
                 
                   Grace
                   Sowerbutts
                
                 vpon
                 her
                 oath
                 saith
                 ,
                 That
                 for
                 the
                 space
                 of
                 some
                 yeares
                 now
                 last
                 past
                 shee
                 hath
                 beene
                 haunted
                 and
                 vexed
                 with
                 some
                 women
                 ,
                 who
                 haue
                 vsed
                 to
                 come
                 to
                 her
                 :
                 which
                 women
                 ,
                 shee
                 sayth
                 ,
                 were
                 
                   Iennet
                   Bierley
                
                 ,
                 this
                 Informers
                 Grand-mother
                 ;
                 
                   Ellen
                   Bierley
                
                 ,
                 wife
                 to
                 
                   Henry
                   Bierley
                   ;
                   Iane
                   Southworth
                
                 ,
                 late
                 the
                 wife
                 of
                 
                   Iohn
                   Southworth
                
                 ,
                 and
                 one
                 
                   Old
                   Doewife
                
                 ,
                 all
                 of
                 Salmesburie
                 aforesaid
                 .
                 And
                 shee
                 saith
                 ,
                 That
                 now
                 lately
                 those
                 foure
                 women
                 did
                 violently
                 draw
                 her
                 by
                 the
                 haire
                 of
                 the
                 head
                 ,
                 and
                 layd
                 her
                 on
                 the
                 toppe
                 of
                 a
                 Hay-mowe
                 ,
                 in
                 the
                 said
                 
                   Henry
                   Bierleyes
                
                 Barne
                 .
                 And
                 shee
                 saith
                 further
                 ,
                 That
                 not
                 long
                 after
                 the
                 said
                 
                   Iennet
                   Bierley
                
                 did
                 meete
                 this
                 Examinate
                 neere
                 vnto
                 the
                 place
                 where
                 shee
                 dwelleth
                 ,
                 and
                 first
                 appeared
                 in
                 her
                 owne
                 likenesse
                 ,
                 and
                 after
                 that
                 in
                 the
                 likenesse
                 of
                 a
                 blacke
                 Dogge
                 ,
                 and
                 as
                 this
                 Examinate
                 did
                 goe
                 ouer
                 a
                 Style
                 ,
                 shee
                 picked
                 her
                 off
                 :
                 howbeit
                 shee
                 saith
                 shee
                 had
                 no
                 hurt
                 then
                 ,
                 but
                 rose
                 againe
                 ,
                 and
                 went
                 to
                 her
                 Aunts
                 in
                 Osbaldeston
                 ,
                 and
                 returned
                 backe
                 againe
                 to
                 her
                 Fathers
                 house
                 the
                 same
                 night
                 ,
                 being
                 fetched
                 home
                 by
                 her
                 father
                 .
                 And
                 she
                 saith
                 ,
                 That
                 in
                 her
                 way
                 home-wards
                 shee
                 did
                 then
                 tell
                 her
                 Father
                 ,
                 
                 how
                 shee
                 had
                 beene
                 dealt
                 withall
                 both
                 then
                 and
                 at
                 sundry
                 times
                 before
                 that
                 ;
                 and
                 before
                 that
                 time
                 she
                 neuer
                 told
                 any
                 bodie
                 thereof
                 :
                 and
                 being
                 examined
                 why
                 she
                 did
                 not
                 ,
                 she
                 sayth
                 ,
                 she
                 could
                 not
                 speake
                 thereof
                 ,
                 though
                 she
                 desired
                 so
                 to
                 doe
                 .
                 And
                 she
                 further
                 sayth
                 ,
                 That
                 vpon
                 Saterday
                 ,
                 being
                 the
                 fourth
                 of
                 this
                 instant
                 Aprill
                 ,
                 shee
                 this
                 Examinate
                 going
                 towards
                 Salmesbury
                 bote
                 ,
                 to
                 meete
                 her
                 mother
                 ,
                 comming
                 from
                 Preston
                 ,
                 shee
                 saw
                 the
                 said
                 
                   Iennet
                   Bierley
                
                 ,
                 who
                 met
                 this
                 Examinate
                 at
                 a
                 place
                 called
                 the
                 Two
                 Brigges
                 ,
                 first
                 in
                 her
                 owne
                 shape
                 ,
                 and
                 afterwards
                 in
                 the
                 likenesse
                 of
                 a
                 blacke
                 Dogge
                 ,
                 with
                 two
                 legges
                 ,
                 which
                 Dogge
                 went
                 close
                 by
                 the
                 left
                 side
                 of
                 this
                 Examinate
                 ,
                 till
                 they
                 came
                 to
                 a
                 Pitte
                 of
                 Water
                 ,
                 and
                 then
                 the
                 said
                 Dogge
                 spake
                 ,
                 and
                 persuaded
                 this
                 Examinate
                 to
                 drowne
                 her selfe
                 there
                 ,
                 saying
                 ,
                 it
                 was
                 a
                 faire
                 and
                 an
                 easie
                 death
                 :
                 Whereupon
                 this
                 Examinate
                 thought
                 there
                 came
                 one
                 to
                 her
                 in
                 a
                 white
                 sheete
                 ,
                 and
                 carried
                 her
                 away
                 from
                 the
                 said
                 Pitte
                 ,
                 vpon
                 the
                 comming
                 whereof
                 the
                 said
                 blacke
                 Dogge
                 departed
                 away
                 ;
                 and
                 shortly
                 after
                 the
                 said
                 white
                 thing
                 departed
                 also
                 :
                 And
                 after
                 this
                 Examinate
                 had
                 gone
                 further
                 on
                 her
                 way
                 ,
                 about
                 the
                 length
                 of
                 two
                 or
                 three
                 Fields
                 ,
                 the
                 said
                 blacke
                 Dogge
                 did
                 meete
                 her
                 againe
                 ,
                 and
                 going
                 on
                 her
                 left
                 side
                 ,
                 as
                 aforesaid
                 ,
                 did
                 carrie
                 her
                 into
                 a
                 Barne
                 of
                 one
                 
                   Hugh
                   Walshmans
                
                 ,
                 neere
                 there
                 by
                 ,
                 and
                 layed
                 her
                 vpon
                 the
                 Barne-floore
                 ,
                 and
                 couered
                 this
                 Examinate
                 with
                 Straw
                 on
                 her
                 bodie
                 ,
                 and
                 Haye
                 on
                 her
                 head
                 ,
                 and
                 the
                 Dogge
                 it selfe
                 lay
                 on
                 the
                 toppe
                 of
                 the
                 said
                 Straw
                 ,
                 but
                 how
                 long
                 the
                 said
                 Dogge
                 lay
                 there
                 ,
                 this
                 Examinate
                 cannot
                 tell
                 ,
                 nor
                 how
                 long
                 her selfe
                 lay
                 there
                 :
                 for
                 shee
                 sayth
                 ,
                 That
                 vpon
                 her
                 lying
                 downe
                 there
                 ,
                 as
                 aforesaid
                 ,
                 her
                 Speech
                 and
                 Senses
                 were
                 taken
                 from
                 her
                 :
                 and
                 the
                 first
                 
                 time
                 shee
                 knew
                 where
                 shee
                 was
                 ,
                 shee
                 was
                 layed
                 vpon
                 a
                 bedde
                 in
                 the
                 said
                 Walshmans
                 house
                 ,
                 which
                 (
                 as
                 shee
                 hath
                 since
                 beene
                 told
                 )
                 was
                 vpon
                 the
                 Monday
                 at
                 night
                 following
                 :
                 and
                 shee
                 was
                 also
                 told
                 ,
                 That
                 shee
                 was
                 found
                 and
                 taken
                 from
                 the
                 place
                 where
                 shee
                 first
                 lay
                 ,
                 by
                 some
                 of
                 her
                 friends
                 ,
                 and
                 carried
                 into
                 the
                 said
                 Walshmans
                 house
                 ,
                 within
                 a
                 few
                 houres
                 after
                 shee
                 was
                 layed
                 in
                 the
                 Barne
                 ,
                 as
                 aforesaid
                 .
                 And
                 shee
                 further
                 sayth
                 ,
                 That
                 vpon
                 the
                 day
                 following
                 ,
                 being
                 Tuesday
                 ,
                 neere
                 night
                 of
                 the
                 same
                 day
                 ,
                 shee
                 this
                 Examinate
                 was
                 fetched
                 by
                 her
                 Father
                 and
                 Mother
                 from
                 the
                 said
                 Walshmans
                 house
                 to
                 her
                 Fathers
                 house
                 .
                 And
                 shee
                 saith
                 ,
                 That
                 at
                 the
                 place
                 before
                 specified
                 ,
                 called
                 the
                 Two
                 Brigges
                 ,
                 the
                 said
                 
                   Iennet
                   Bierley
                
                 and
                 
                   Ellen
                   Bierley
                
                 did
                 appeare
                 vnto
                 her
                 in
                 their
                 owne
                 shapes
                 :
                 whereupon
                 this
                 Examinate
                 fell
                 downe
                 ,
                 and
                 after
                 that
                 was
                 not
                 able
                 to
                 speake
                 ,
                 or
                 goe
                 ,
                 till
                 the
                 Friday
                 following
                 :
                 during
                 which
                 time
                 ,
                 as
                 she
                 lay
                 in
                 her
                 Fathers
                 house
                 ,
                 the
                 said
                 
                   Iennet
                   Bierley
                
                 and
                 
                   Ellen
                   Bierley
                
                 did
                 once
                 appeare
                 vnto
                 her
                 in
                 their
                 owne
                 shapes
                 ,
                 but
                 they
                 did
                 nothing
                 vnto
                 her
                 then
                 ,
                 neither
                 did
                 shee
                 euer
                 see
                 them
                 since
                 .
                 And
                 shee
                 further
                 sayth
                 ,
                 That
                 a
                 good
                 while
                 before
                 all
                 this
                 ,
                 this
                 Examinate
                 did
                 goe
                 with
                 the
                 said
                 
                   Iennet
                   Bierley
                
                 ,
                 her
                 Grand-mother
                 ,
                 and
                 the
                 said
                 
                   Ellen
                   Bierley
                
                 her
                 Aunt
                 ,
                 at
                 the
                 bidding
                 of
                 her
                 said
                 Grand-mother
                 ,
                 to
                 the
                 house
                 of
                 one
                 
                   Thomas
                   Walshman
                
                 ,
                 in
                 Salmesbury
                 aforesaid
                 .
                 And
                 comming
                 thither
                 in
                 the
                 night
                 ,
                 when
                 all
                 the
                 house-hold
                 was
                 abed
                 ,
                 the
                 doores
                 being
                 shut
                 ,
                 the
                 said
                 
                   Iennet
                   Bierley
                
                 did
                 open
                 them
                 ,
                 but
                 this
                 Examinate
                 knoweth
                 not
                 how
                 :
                 and
                 beeing
                 come
                 into
                 the
                 said
                 house
                 ,
                 this
                 Examinate
                 and
                 the
                 said
                 
                   Ellen
                   Bierley
                
                 stayed
                 there
                 ,
                 and
                 the
                 said
                 
                   Iennet
                   Bierley
                
                 went
                 into
                 the
                 Chamber
                 
                 where
                 the
                 said
                 Walshman
                 and
                 his
                 wife
                 lay
                 ,
                 &
                 from
                 thence
                 brought
                 a
                 little
                 child
                 ,
                 which
                 this
                 Examinate
                 thinketh
                 was
                 in
                 bed
                 with
                 it
                 Father
                 and
                 Mother
                 :
                 and
                 after
                 the
                 said
                 
                   Iennet
                   Bierley
                
                 had
                 set
                 her
                 downe
                 by
                 the
                 fire
                 ,
                 with
                 the
                 said
                 child
                 ,
                 shee
                 did
                 thrust
                 a
                 naile
                 into
                 the
                 nauell
                 of
                 the
                 said
                 child
                 :
                 and
                 afterwards
                 did
                 take
                 a
                 pen
                 and
                 put
                 it
                 in
                 at
                 the
                 said
                 place
                 ,
                 and
                 did
                 suck
                 there
                 a
                 good
                 space
                 ,
                 and
                 afterwards
                 laid
                 the
                 child
                 in
                 bed
                 againe
                 :
                 and
                 then
                 the
                 said
                 Iennet
                 and
                 the
                 said
                 Ellen
                 returned
                 to
                 their
                 owne
                 houses
                 ,
                 and
                 this
                 Examinate
                 with
                 them
                 .
                 And
                 shee
                 thinketh
                 that
                 neither
                 the
                 said
                 
                   Thomas
                   Walshman
                
                 ,
                 nor
                 his
                 wife
                 knew
                 that
                 the
                 said
                 child
                 was
                 taken
                 out
                 of
                 the
                 bed
                 from
                 them
                 .
                 And
                 shee
                 saith
                 also
                 ,
                 that
                 the
                 said
                 child
                 did
                 not
                 crie
                 when
                 it
                 was
                 hurt
                 ,
                 as
                 aforesaid
                 :
                 But
                 she
                 saith
                 ,
                 that
                 shee
                 thinketh
                 that
                 the
                 said
                 child
                 did
                 thenceforth
                 languish
                 ,
                 and
                 not
                 long
                 after
                 dyed
                 .
                 And
                 after
                 the
                 death
                 of
                 the
                 said
                 child
                 ;
                 the
                 next
                 night
                 after
                 the
                 buriall
                 thereof
                 ,
                 the
                 said
                 
                   Iennet
                   Bierley
                
                 &
                 
                   Ellen
                   Bierley
                
                 ,
                 taking
                 this
                 Examinate
                 with
                 them
                 ,
                 went
                 to
                 Salmesburie
                 Church
                 ,
                 and
                 there
                 did
                 take
                 vp
                 the
                 said
                 child
                 ,
                 and
                 the
                 said
                 Iennet
                 did
                 carrie
                 it
                 out
                 of
                 the
                 Church-yard
                 in
                 her
                 armes
                 ,
                 and
                 then
                 did
                 put
                 it
                 in
                 her
                 lap
                 and
                 carryed
                 it
                 home
                 to
                 her
                 owne
                 house
                 ,
                 and
                 hauing
                 it
                 there
                 did
                 boile
                 some
                 therof
                 in
                 a
                 Pot
                 ,
                 and
                 some
                 did
                 broile
                 on
                 the
                 coales
                 ,
                 of
                 both
                 which
                 the
                 said
                 Iennet
                 and
                 Ellen
                 did
                 eate
                 ,
                 and
                 would
                 haue
                 had
                 this
                 Examinate
                 and
                 one
                 
                   Grace
                   Bierley
                
                 ,
                 Daughter
                 of
                 the
                 said
                 Ellen
                 ,
                 to
                 haue
                 eaten
                 with
                 them
                 ,
                 but
                 they
                 refused
                 so
                 to
                 doe
                 :
                 And
                 afterwards
                 the
                 said
                 Iennet
                 &
                 Ellen
                 did
                 seethe
                 the
                 bones
                 of
                 the
                 said
                 child
                 in
                 a
                 pot
                 ,
                 &
                 with
                 the
                 Fat
                 that
                 came
                 out
                 of
                 the
                 said
                 bones
                 ,
                 they
                 said
                 they
                 would
                 annoint
                 themselues
                 ,
                 that
                 thereby
                 they
                 might
                 sometimes
                 change
                 themselues
                 into
                 other
                 shapes
                 .
                 And
                 after
                 all
                 this
                 being
                 done
                 ,
                 they
                 said
                 they
                 
                 would
                 lay
                 the
                 bones
                 againe
                 in
                 the
                 graue
                 the
                 next
                 night
                 following
                 ,
                 but
                 whether
                 they
                 did
                 so
                 or
                 not
                 ,
                 this
                 Examinate
                 knoweth
                 not
                 :
                 Neither
                 doth
                 shee
                 know
                 how
                 they
                 got
                 it
                 out
                 of
                 the
                 graue
                 at
                 the
                 first
                 taking
                 of
                 it
                 vp
                 .
                 And
                 being
                 further
                 sworne
                 and
                 examined
                 ,
                 she
                 deposeth
                 &
                 saith
                 ,
                 that
                 about
                 halfe
                 a
                 yeare
                 agoe
                 ,
                 the
                 said
                 
                   Iennet
                   Bierley
                   ,
                   Ellen
                   Bierley
                   ,
                   Iane
                   Southworth
                   ,
                
                 and
                 this
                 Examinate
                 (
                 who
                 went
                 by
                 the
                 appointment
                 of
                 the
                 said
                 Iennet
                 her
                 Grand
                 mother
                 )
                 did
                 meete
                 at
                 a
                 place
                 called
                 Red
                 banck
                 ,
                 vpon
                 the
                 North-side
                 of
                 the
                 water
                 of
                 Ribble
                 ,
                 euery
                 Thursday
                 and
                 Sonday
                 at
                 night
                 by
                 the
                 space
                 of
                 a
                 fortnight
                 ,
                 and
                 at
                 the
                 water
                 side
                 there
                 came
                 vnto
                 them
                 ,
                 as
                 they
                 went
                 thether
                 ,
                 foure
                 black
                 things
                 ,
                 going
                 vpright
                 ,
                 and
                 yet
                 not
                 like
                 men
                 in
                 the
                 face
                 :
                 which
                 ●oure
                 did
                 carrie
                 the
                 said
                 three
                 women
                 and
                 this
                 Examinate
                 ouer
                 the
                 Water
                 ,
                 and
                 when
                 they
                 came
                 to
                 the
                 said
                 Red
                 Banck
                 they
                 found
                 some
                 thing
                 there
                 which
                 they
                 did
                 eate
                 .
                 But
                 this
                 Examinate
                 saith
                 ,
                 shee
                 neuer
                 saw
                 such
                 meate
                 ;
                 and
                 therefore
                 shee
                 durst
                 not
                 eate
                 thereof
                 ,
                 although
                 her
                 said
                 Grand
                 mother
                 did
                 bidde
                 her
                 eate
                 .
                 And
                 after
                 they
                 had
                 eaten
                 ,
                 the
                 said
                 three
                 Women
                 and
                 this
                 Examinate
                 danced
                 ,
                 euery
                 one
                 of
                 them
                 with
                 one
                 of
                 the
                 black
                 things
                 aforesaid
                 ,
                 and
                 after
                 their
                 dancing
                 the
                 said
                 black
                 things
                 did
                 pull
                 downe
                 the
                 said
                 three
                 Women
                 ,
                 and
                 did
                 abuse
                 their
                 bodies
                 ,
                 as
                 this
                 Examinate
                 thinketh
                 ,
                 for
                 shee
                 saith
                 ,
                 that
                 the
                 black
                 thing
                 that
                 was
                 with
                 her
                 ,
                 did
                 abuse
                 her
                 bodie
                 .
              
               
                 The
                 said
                 Examinate
                 further
                 saith
                 vpon
                 her
                 Oth
                 ,
                 That
                 about
                 ten
                 dayes
                 after
                 her
                 Examination
                 taken
                 at
                 Blackborne
                 ,
                 shee
                 this
                 Examinate
                 being
                 then
                 come
                 to
                 her
                 Fathers
                 house
                 againe
                 ,
                 after
                 shee
                 had
                 beene
                 certaine
                 dayes
                 at
                 her
                 Vnckles
                 house
                 in
                 Houghton
                 :
                 
                   Iane
                   Southworth
                
                 widow
                 ,
                 did
                 meet
                 this
                 Examinate
                 at
                 her
                 Fathers
                 house
                 dore
                 
                 and
                 did
                 carrie
                 her
                 into
                 the
                 loft
                 ,
                 and
                 there
                 did
                 lay
                 her
                 vpon
                 the
                 floore
                 ,
                 where
                 shee
                 was
                 shortly
                 found
                 by
                 her
                 Father
                 and
                 brought
                 downe
                 ,
                 and
                 laid
                 in
                 a
                 bed
                 ,
                 as
                 afterwards
                 shee
                 was
                 told
                 :
                 for
                 shee
                 saith
                 ,
                 that
                 from
                 the
                 first
                 meeting
                 of
                 the
                 said
                 
                   Iane
                   Southworth
                
                 ,
                 shee
                 this
                 Examinate
                 had
                 her
                 speech
                 and
                 senses
                 taken
                 from
                 her
                 .
                 But
                 the
                 next
                 day
                 shee
                 saith
                 ,
                 shee
                 came
                 somewhat
                 to
                 her selfe
                 ,
                 and
                 then
                 the
                 said
                 Widow
                 Southworth
                 came
                 againe
                 to
                 this
                 Examinate
                 to
                 her
                 bed-side
                 ,
                 and
                 tooke
                 her
                 out
                 of
                 bed
                 ,
                 and
                 said
                 to
                 this
                 Examinate
                 ,
                 that
                 shee
                 did
                 her
                 no
                 harme
                 the
                 other
                 time
                 ,
                 in
                 respect
                 of
                 that
                 shee
                 now
                 would
                 after
                 doe
                 to
                 her
                 ,
                 and
                 thereupon
                 put
                 her
                 vpon
                 a
                 hey-stack
                 ,
                 standing
                 some
                 three
                 or
                 foure
                 yards
                 high
                 from
                 the
                 earth
                 ,
                 where
                 shee
                 was
                 found
                 after
                 great
                 search
                 made
                 ,
                 by
                 a
                 neighbours
                 Wife
                 neare
                 dwelling
                 ,
                 and
                 then
                 laid
                 in
                 her
                 bed
                 againe
                 ,
                 where
                 she
                 remained
                 speechlesse
                 and
                 senselesse
                 as
                 before
                 ,
                 by
                 the
                 space
                 of
                 two
                 or
                 three
                 daies
                 :
                 And
                 being
                 recouered
                 ,
                 within
                 a
                 weeke
                 after
                 shee
                 saith
                 ,
                 that
                 the
                 said
                 
                   Iane
                   Southworth
                
                 did
                 come
                 againe
                 to
                 this
                 Examinate
                 at
                 her
                 fathers
                 house
                 and
                 did
                 take
                 her
                 away
                 ,
                 and
                 laid
                 her
                 in
                 a
                 ditch
                 neare
                 to
                 the
                 house
                 vpon
                 her
                 face
                 ,
                 and
                 left
                 her
                 there
                 ,
                 where
                 shee
                 was
                 found
                 shortly
                 after
                 ,
                 and
                 laid
                 vpon
                 a
                 bedde
                 ,
                 but
                 had
                 not
                 her
                 senses
                 againe
                 of
                 a
                 day
                 &
                 a
                 night
                 ,
                 or
                 thereabouts
                 .
                 And
                 shee
                 further
                 saith
                 ,
                 that
                 vpon
                 Tuesday
                 last
                 before
                 the
                 taking
                 of
                 this
                 her
                 Examination
                 ,
                 the
                 said
                 
                   Iane
                   Southworth
                
                 ,
                 came
                 to
                 this
                 Examinates
                 Fathers
                 house
                 ,
                 and
                 finding
                 this
                 Examinate
                 without
                 the
                 doore
                 ,
                 tooke
                 her
                 and
                 carried
                 her
                 into
                 the
                 Barne
                 ,
                 and
                 thrust
                 her
                 head
                 amongst
                 a
                 companie
                 of
                 boords
                 that
                 were
                 there
                 standing
                 ,
                 where
                 shee
                 was
                 shortly
                 after
                 found
                 and
                 laid
                 in
                 a
                 bedde
                 ,
                 and
                 remained
                 in
                 her
                 old
                 fit
                 till
                 the
                 Thursday
                 at
                 night
                 following
                 .
              
               
               
                 And
                 being
                 further
                 examined
                 touching
                 her
                 being
                 at
                 Red-bancke
                 ,
                 shee
                 saith
                 ,
                 That
                 the
                 three
                 women
                 ,
                 by
                 her
                 before
                 named
                 ,
                 were
                 carried
                 backe
                 againe
                 ouer
                 Ribble
                 ,
                 by
                 the
                 same
                 blacke
                 things
                 that
                 carried
                 them
                 thither
                 ;
                 and
                 saith
                 that
                 at
                 their
                 said
                 meeting
                 in
                 the
                 Red-bancke
                 ,
                 there
                 did
                 come
                 also
                 diuers
                 other
                 women
                 ,
                 and
                 did
                 meete
                 them
                 there
                 ,
                 some
                 old
                 ,
                 some
                 young
                 ,
                 which
                 this
                 Examinate
                 thinketh
                 did
                 dwell
                 vpon
                 the
                 North-side
                 of
                 Ribble
                 ,
                 because
                 she
                 saw
                 them
                 not
                 come
                 ouer
                 the
                 Water
                 :
                 but
                 this
                 Examinate
                 knew
                 none
                 of
                 them
                 ,
                 neither
                 did
                 she
                 see
                 them
                 eat
                 or
                 dance
                 ,
                 or
                 doe
                 any
                 thing
                 else
                 that
                 the
                 rest
                 did
                 ,
                 sauing
                 that
                 they
                 were
                 there
                 and
                 looked
                 on
                 .
              
               
                 These
                 particular
                 points
                 of
                 Euidence
                 being
                 thus
                 vrged
                 against
                 the
                 Prisoners
                 :
                 the
                 father
                 of
                 this
                 
                   Grace
                   Sowerbutts
                
                 prayed
                 that
                 
                   Thomas
                   Walshman
                
                 ,
                 whose
                 childe
                 they
                 are
                 charged
                 to
                 murther
                 ,
                 might
                 be
                 examined
                 as
                 a
                 witnes
                 vpon
                 his
                 oath
                 ,
                 for
                 the
                 Kings
                 Maiestie
                 ,
                 against
                 the
                 Prisoners
                 at
                 the
                 Barre
                 :
                 who
                 vpon
                 this
                 strange
                 deuised
                 accusation
                 ,
                 deliuered
                 by
                 this
                 impudent
                 wench
                 ,
                 were
                 in
                 opinion
                 of
                 many
                 of
                 that
                 great
                 Audience
                 guilty
                 of
                 this
                 bloudie
                 murther
                 ,
                 and
                 more
                 worthy
                 to
                 die
                 then
                 any
                 of
                 these
                 Witches
                 .
              
            
             
               
               
                 
                   The
                   Examination
                   and
                   Euidence
                   of
                
                 THOMAS
                 WALSHMAN
                 ,
                 
                   of
                   Salmesbury
                   ,
                   in
                   the
                   Countie
                   of
                   Lancaster
                   ,
                   Yeoman
                   .
                
                 Against
                 IENNET
                 BIERLEY
                 ,
                 ELLEN
                 BIERLEY
                 ,
                 and
                 IANE
                 SOVTHVVORTH
                 ,
                 
                   Prisoners
                   at
                   the
                   Barre
                   ,
                   vpon
                   their
                   Arraignement
                   and
                   Triall
                   ,
                   as
                   followeth
                   .
                
                 viz.
                 
              
               
                 THe
                 said
                 Examinate
                 ,
                 
                   Thomas
                   Walshman
                
                 ,
                 vpon
                 his
                 oath
                 saith
                 ,
                 That
                 hee
                 had
                 a
                 childe
                 died
                 about
                 Lent
                 was
                 twelue-month
                 ,
                 who
                 had
                 beene
                 sicke
                 by
                 the
                 space
                 of
                 a
                 fortnight
                 or
                 three
                 weekes
                 ,
                 and
                 was
                 afterwards
                 buried
                 in
                 Salmesburie
                 Church
                 :
                 which
                 childe
                 when
                 it
                 died
                 was
                 about
                 a
                 yeare
                 old
                 ;
                 But
                 how
                 it
                 came
                 to
                 the
                 death
                 of
                 it
                 this
                 Examinate
                 knoweth
                 not
                 .
                 And
                 he
                 further
                 saith
                 ,
                 that
                 about
                 the
                 fifteenth
                 of
                 Aprill
                 last
                 ,
                 or
                 thereabouts
                 ,
                 the
                 said
                 
                   Grace
                   Sowerbutts
                
                 was
                 found
                 in
                 this
                 Examinates
                 fathers
                 Barne
                 ,
                 laid
                 vnder
                 a
                 little
                 hay
                 and
                 straw
                 ,
                 and
                 from
                 thence
                 was
                 carried
                 into
                 this
                 Examinates
                 house
                 ,
                 and
                 there
                 laid
                 till
                 the
                 Monday
                 at
                 night
                 following
                 :
                 during
                 which
                 time
                 shee
                 did
                 not
                 speak
                 ,
                 but
                 lay
                 as
                 if
                 she
                 had
                 beene
                 dead
                 .
              
            
             
               
               
                 
                   The
                   Examination
                   of
                
                 IOHN
                 SINGLETON
                 :
                 
                   Taken
                   at
                   Salmesbury
                   ,
                   in
                   the
                   Countie
                   of
                   Lancaster
                   ,
                   the
                   seuenth
                   day
                   of
                   August
                   :
                
                 Anno
                 Reg.
                 Regis
                 IACOBI
                 Angliae
                 ,
                 Franciae
                 ,
                 &
                 Hiberniae
                 ,
                 Fidei
                 Defensor
                 .
                 &c.
                 Decimo
                 &
                 Scotiae
                 ,
                 xlvj
                 .
                 Before
                 ROBERT
                 HOVLDEN
                 ,
                 
                   Esquire
                   ,
                   one
                   of
                   his
                   Maiesties
                   Iustices
                   of
                   Peace
                   in
                   the
                   County
                   of
                   Lancaster
                   .
                
                 Against
                 .
                 IENNET
                 BIERLEY
                 ,
                 ELLEN
                 BIERLEY
                 ,
                 and
                 IANE
                 SOVTHVVORTH
                 ,
                 which
                 hereafter
                 followeth
                 .
              
               
                 THe
                 said
                 Examinate
                 vpon
                 his
                 oath
                 saith
                 ,
                 That
                 hee
                 hath
                 often
                 heard
                 his
                 old
                 Master
                 ,
                 Sir
                 
                   Iohn
                   Southworth
                
                 Knight
                 ,
                 now
                 deceased
                 ,
                 say
                 ,
                 touching
                 the
                 late
                 wife
                 of
                 
                   Iohn
                   Southworth
                
                 ,
                 now
                 in
                 the
                 Gaole
                 ,
                 for
                 suspition
                 of
                 Witchcraft
                 :
                 That
                 the
                 said
                 wife
                 was
                 as
                 he
                 thought
                 an
                 euill
                 woman
                 ,
                 and
                 a
                 Witch
                 :
                 and
                 he
                 said
                 that
                 he
                 was
                 sorry
                 for
                 her
                 husband
                 ,
                 that
                 was
                 his
                 kinsman
                 ,
                 for
                 he
                 thought
                 she
                 would
                 kill
                 him
                 .
                 And
                 this
                 Examinate
                 further
                 saith
                 ,
                 That
                 the
                 said
                 Sir
                 
                   Iohn
                   Southworth
                
                 in
                 his
                 comming
                 or
                 going
                 betweene
                 his
                 owne
                 house
                 at
                 Salmesbury
                 ,
                 and
                 the
                 Towne
                 of
                 Preston
                 ,
                 did
                 for
                 the
                 most
                 part
                 forbeare
                 to
                 passe
                 by
                 the
                 house
                 ,
                 where
                 the
                 said
                 wife
                 dwelled
                 ,
                 though
                 it
                 was
                 his
                 nearest
                 and
                 best
                 way
                 ;
                 and
                 rode
                 another
                 way
                 ,
                 only
                 for
                 feare
                 of
                 the
                 said
                 wife
                 ,
                 as
                 this
                 Examinate
                 verily
                 thinketh
                 .
              
            
             
               
               
                 
                   The
                   Examination
                   of
                
                 WILLIAM
                 ALKER
                 
                   of
                   Salmesbury
                   ,
                   in
                   the
                   Countie
                   of
                   Lancaster
                   ,
                   Yeoman
                   :
                   Taken
                   the
                   fifteenth
                   day
                   of
                   Aprill
                   ,
                
                 Anno
                 Reg.
                 Regis
                 IACOBI
                 ,
                 Angliae
                 ,
                 Franciae
                 ,
                 &
                 Hiberniae
                 ,
                 Decimo
                 &
                 Scotiae
                 ,
                 quadragesimo
                 quinto
                 .
                 Before
                 ROBERT
                 HOVLDEN
                 ,
                 
                   one
                   of
                   his
                   Maiesties
                   Iustices
                   of
                   Peace
                   in
                   the
                   County
                   of
                   Lancaster
                   :
                   Against
                
                 IENNET
                 BIERLEY
                 ,
                 ELLEN
                 BIERLEY
                 ,
                 and
                 IANE
                 BIERLEY
                 ,
                 
                   which
                   hereafter
                   followeth
                
                 .
                 viz.
                 
              
               
                 THe
                 said
                 Examinate
                 vpon
                 his
                 oath
                 saith
                 ,
                 That
                 hee
                 hath
                 seene
                 the
                 said
                 Sir
                 
                   Iohn
                   Southworth
                
                 shunne
                 to
                 meet
                 the
                 said
                 wife
                 of
                 
                   Iohn
                   Southworth
                
                 ,
                 now
                 Prisoner
                 in
                 the
                 Gaole
                 ,
                 when
                 he
                 came
                 neere
                 where
                 she
                 was
                 .
                 And
                 hath
                 heard
                 the
                 said
                 Sir
                 
                   Iohn
                   Southworth
                
                 say
                 ,
                 that
                 he
                 liked
                 her
                 not
                 ,
                 and
                 that
                 he
                 doubted
                 she
                 would
                 bewitch
                 him
                 .
              
               
                 Here
                 was
                 likewise
                 
                   Thomas
                   Sowerbutts
                
                 ,
                 father
                 of
                 
                   Grace
                   Sowerbutts
                
                 ,
                 examined
                 vpon
                 his
                 oath
                 ,
                 and
                 many
                 other
                 witnesses
                 to
                 little
                 purpose
                 :
                 who
                 being
                 examined
                 by
                 the
                 Court
                 ,
                 could
                 depose
                 little
                 against
                 them
                 :
                 But
                 the
                 finding
                 of
                 the
                 wench
                 vpon
                 the
                 hay
                 in
                 her
                 counterfeit
                 fits
                 :
                 wherfore
                 I
                 leaue
                 to
                 trouble
                 you
                 with
                 the
                 particular
                 declaration
                 of
                 their
                 Euidence
                 against
                 the
                 Prisoners
                 ,
                 In
                 respect
                 there
                 was
                 not
                 any
                 one
                 witnes
                 able
                 to
                 charge
                 them
                 with
                 one
                 direct
                 matter
                 of
                 Withcraft
                 ;
                 nor
                 proue
                 any
                 thing
                 for
                 the
                 murther
                 of
                 the
                 childe
                 .
              
               
                 Herein
                 ,
                 before
                 we
                 come
                 to
                 the
                 particular
                 declaration
                 of
                 that
                 wicked
                 and
                 damnable
                 practise
                 of
                 this
                 Iesuite
                 or
                 Seminary
                 .
                 I
                 shall
                 commend
                 vnto
                 your
                 examination
                 and
                 iudgement
                 some
                 points
                 of
                 her
                 Euidence
                 ,
                 wherein
                 you
                 
                 shal
                 see
                 what
                 impossibilities
                 are
                 in
                 this
                 accusatiō
                 brought
                 to
                 this
                 perfection
                 ,
                 by
                 the
                 great
                 care
                 and
                 paines
                 of
                 this
                 officious
                 Doctor
                 ,
                 Master
                 Tompson
                 or
                 Southworth
                 ,
                 who
                 commonly
                 worketh
                 vpon
                 the
                 Feminine
                 disposition
                 ,
                 being
                 more
                 Passiue
                 then
                 Actiue
                 .
              
            
             
               
                 
                   The
                   particular
                   points
                   of
                   the
                   Euidence
                   of
                
                 GRACE
                 SOVVERBVTTS
                 ,
                 viz.
                 Euidence
                 .
              
               
                 THat
                 for
                 the
                 space
                 of
                 some
                 yeares
                 she
                 hath
                 been
                 haunted
                 and
                 vexed
                 with
                 some
                 women
                 ,
                 who
                 haue
                 vsed
                 to
                 come
                 to
                 her
                 .
              
               
                 The
                 Iesuite
                 forgot
                 to
                 instruct
                 his
                 Scholler
                 how
                 long
                 it
                 is
                 since
                 she
                 was
                 tormented
                 :
                 it
                 seemes
                 it
                 is
                 long
                 since
                 he
                 read
                 the
                 old
                 Badge
                 of
                 a
                 Lyer
                 ,
                 
                   Oportet
                   mendacem
                   esse
                   memorem
                
                 .
                 He
                 knowes
                 not
                 how
                 long
                 it
                 is
                 since
                 they
                 came
                 to
                 church
                 ,
                 after
                 which
                 time
                 they
                 began
                 to
                 practise
                 Witchcraft
                 .
                 It
                 is
                 a
                 likely
                 thing
                 the
                 Torment
                 and
                 Panges
                 of
                 Witchcraft
                 can
                 be
                 forgotten
                 ;
                 and
                 therefore
                 no
                 time
                 can
                 be
                 set
                 downe
                 .
              
               
                 Shee
                 saith
                 that
                 now
                 lately
                 these
                 foure
                 women
                 did
                 violently
                 draw
                 her
                 by
                 the
                 haire
                 of
                 the
                 head
                 ,
                 and
                 lay
                 her
                 on
                 the
                 top
                 of
                 a
                 Hay-mow
                 .
              
               
                 Heere
                 they
                 vse
                 great
                 violence
                 to
                 her
                 ,
                 whome
                 in
                 another
                 place
                 they
                 make
                 choise
                 to
                 be
                 of
                 their
                 counsell
                 ,
                 to
                 go
                 with
                 them
                 to
                 the
                 house
                 of
                 Walshman
                 to
                 murther
                 the
                 childe
                 .
                 This
                 courtesie
                 deserues
                 no
                 discouery
                 of
                 so
                 foule
                 a
                 Fact.
                 
              
               
                 
                 Not
                 long
                 after
                 ,
                 the
                 said
                 
                   Iennet
                   Bierley
                
                 did
                 meet
                 this
                 Examinate
                 neere
                 vnto
                 the
                 place
                 where
                 she
                 dwelled
                 ,
                 and
                 first
                 appeared
                 in
                 her
                 owne
                 likenesse
                 ,
                 and
                 after
                 that
                 in
                 the
                 likenesse
                 of
                 a
                 blacke
                 Dogge
                 .
              
               
                 
                   Vno
                   &
                   eodem
                   tempore
                
                 ,
                 shee
                 transformed
                 her selfe
                 into
                 a
                 Dogge
                 .
                 I
                 would
                 know
                 by
                 what
                 meanes
                 any
                 Priest
                 can
                 maintaine
                 this
                 point
                 of
                 Euidence
                 .
              
               
                 And
                 as
                 shee
                 went
                 ouer
                 a
                 Style
                 ,
                 shee
                 picked
                 her
                 ouer
                 ,
                 but
                 had
                 no
                 hurt
                 .
              
               
                 This
                 is
                 as
                 likely
                 to
                 be
                 true
                 as
                 the
                 rest
                 ,
                 to
                 throw
                 a
                 child
                 downe
                 from
                 the
                 toppe
                 of
                 a
                 House
                 ,
                 and
                 neuer
                 hurt
                 her
                 great
                 toe
                 .
              
               
                 She
                 rose
                 againe
                 ;
                 had
                 no
                 hurt
                 ,
                 went
                 to
                 her
                 Aunt
                 ,
                 and
                 returned
                 backe
                 againe
                 to
                 her
                 Fathers
                 house
                 ,
                 being
                 fetched
                 home
                 .
              
               
                 I
                 pray
                 you
                 obserue
                 these
                 contrarieties
                 ,
                 in
                 order
                 as
                 they
                 are
                 placed
                 ,
                 to
                 accuse
                 the
                 Prisoners
                 .
              
               
                 Saterday
                 the
                 fourth
                 of
                 this
                 instant
                 Aprill
                 .
              
               
                 Which
                 was
                 about
                 the
                 very
                 day
                 the
                 Witches
                 of
                 the
                 Forrest
                 of
                 Pendle
                 were
                 sent
                 to
                 Lancaster
                 .
                 Now
                 was
                 the
                 time
                 for
                 the
                 Seminarie
                 to
                 instruct
                 ,
                 accuse
                 ,
                 and
                 call
                 into
                 question
                 these
                 poore
                 women
                 :
                 for
                 the
                 wrinckles
                 of
                 an
                 old
                 wiues
                 face
                 is
                 good
                 euidence
                 to
                 the
                 Iurie
                 against
                 a
                 Witch
                 .
                 And
                 how
                 often
                 will
                 the
                 common
                 people
                 say
                 
                   (
                   Her
                   eyes
                   are
                   sunke
                   in
                   her
                   head
                   ,
                
                 GOD
                 
                   blesse
                   vs
                   from
                   her
                   .
                
                 )
                 But
                 old
                 Chattox
                 had
                 Faencie
                 ,
                 besides
                 her
                 withered
                 face
                 ,
                 to
                 accuse
                 her
                 .
              
               
                 
                 This
                 Examinate
                 did
                 goe
                 with
                 the
                 said
                 
                   Iennet
                   Bierley
                
                 her
                 Grand-mother
                 ,
                 and
                 
                   Ellen
                   Bierley
                
                 her
                 Aunt
                 ,
                 to
                 the
                 house
                 of
                 Walshman
                 ,
                 in
                 the
                 night-time
                 ,
                 to
                 murther
                 a
                 Child
                 in
                 a
                 strange
                 manner
                 .
              
               
                 This
                 of
                 all
                 the
                 rest
                 is
                 impossible
                 ,
                 to
                 make
                 her
                 of
                 their
                 counsell
                 ,
                 to
                 doe
                 murther
                 ,
                 whome
                 so
                 cruelly
                 and
                 barbarously
                 they
                 pursue
                 from
                 day
                 to
                 day
                 ,
                 and
                 torment
                 her
                 .
                 The
                 Witches
                 of
                 the
                 Forrest
                 of
                 Pendle
                 were
                 neuer
                 so
                 cruell
                 nor
                 barbarous
                 .
              
               
                 And
                 she
                 also
                 saith
                 ,
                 the
                 Child
                 cried
                 not
                 when
                 it
                 was
                 hurt
                 .
              
               
                 All
                 this
                 time
                 the
                 Child
                 was
                 asleepe
                 ,
                 or
                 the
                 Child
                 was
                 of
                 an
                 extraordinarie
                 patience
                 ,
                 
                   ô
                   inauditum
                   facinus
                
                 !
              
               
                 After
                 they
                 had
                 eaten
                 ,
                 the
                 said
                 three
                 women
                 and
                 this
                 Examinate
                 daunced
                 euery
                 one
                 of
                 them
                 with
                 one
                 of
                 the
                 Blacke
                 things
                 :
                 and
                 after
                 ,
                 the
                 Blacke
                 things
                 abused
                 the
                 said
                 women
                 .
              
               
                 Here
                 is
                 good
                 Euidence
                 to
                 take
                 away
                 their
                 liues
                 .
                 This
                 is
                 more
                 proper
                 for
                 the
                 Legend
                 of
                 Lyes
                 ,
                 then
                 the
                 Euidence
                 of
                 a
                 witnesse
                 vpon
                 Oath
                 ,
                 before
                 a
                 reuerend
                 and
                 learned
                 Iudge
                 ,
                 able
                 to
                 conceiue
                 this
                 Villanie
                 ,
                 and
                 finde
                 out
                 the
                 practise
                 .
                 Here
                 is
                 the
                 Religious
                 act
                 of
                 a
                 Priest
                 ,
                 but
                 behold
                 the
                 euent
                 of
                 it
                 .
              
               
                 Shee
                 describes
                 the
                 foure
                 Blacke
                 things
                 to
                 goe
                 vpright
                 ,
                 but
                 not
                 like
                 Men
                 in
                 the
                 face
                 .
              
               
                 The
                 Seminarie
                 mistakes
                 the
                 face
                 for
                 the
                 feete
                 .
                 For
                 Chattox
                 and
                 all
                 her
                 fellow
                 Witches
                 agree
                 ,
                 the
                 Deuill
                 is
                 clouen-footed
                 :
                 but
                 Fancie
                 had
                 a
                 very
                 good
                 face
                 ,
                 and
                 was
                 a
                 very
                 proper
                 Man.
                 
              
               
                 
                 About
                 tenne
                 dayes
                 after
                 her
                 Examination
                 taken
                 at
                 Black-borne
                 ,
                 then
                 she
                 was
                 tormented
                 .
              
               
                 Still
                 he
                 pursues
                 his
                 Proiect
                 :
                 for
                 hearing
                 his
                 Scholler
                 had
                 done
                 well
                 ,
                 he
                 laboured
                 she
                 might
                 doe
                 more
                 in
                 this
                 nature
                 .
                 But
                 notwithstanding
                 ,
                 many
                 things
                 are
                 layd
                 to
                 be
                 in
                 the
                 times
                 when
                 they
                 were
                 Papists
                 :
                 yet
                 the
                 Priest
                 neuer
                 tooke
                 paines
                 to
                 discouer
                 them
                 ,
                 nor
                 instruct
                 his
                 Scholler
                 ,
                 vntill
                 they
                 came
                 to
                 Church
                 .
                 Then
                 all
                 this
                 was
                 the
                 Act
                 of
                 GOD
                 ,
                 to
                 raise
                 a
                 child
                 to
                 open
                 all
                 things
                 ,
                 and
                 then
                 to
                 discouer
                 his
                 plotted
                 Tragedie
                 .
                 Yet
                 in
                 this
                 great
                 discouerie
                 ,
                 the
                 Seminarie
                 forgot
                 to
                 deuise
                 a
                 Spirit
                 for
                 them
                 .
              
               
                 And
                 for
                 
                   Thomas
                   Walshman
                
                 ,
                 vpon
                 his
                 Oath
                 he
                 sayth
                 ,
                 That
                 his
                 Child
                 had
                 beene
                 sicke
                 by
                 the
                 space
                 of
                 a
                 fortnight
                 ,
                 or
                 three
                 weekes
                 ,
                 before
                 it
                 died
                 .
                 And
                 
                   Grace
                   Sowerbutts
                
                 saith
                 ,
                 they
                 tooke
                 it
                 out
                 of
                 the
                 bedde
                 ,
                 strucke
                 a
                 nayle
                 into
                 the
                 Nauell
                 ,
                 sucked
                 bloud
                 ,
                 layd
                 it
                 downe
                 againe
                 ;
                 and
                 after
                 ,
                 tooke
                 it
                 out
                 of
                 the
                 Graue
                 ,
                 with
                 all
                 the
                 rest
                 ,
                 as
                 you
                 haue
                 heard
                 .
                 How
                 these
                 two
                 agree
                 ,
                 you
                 may
                 ,
                 vpon
                 view
                 of
                 their
                 Euidence
                 ,
                 the
                 better
                 conceiue
                 ,
                 and
                 be
                 able
                 to
                 judge
                 .
              
               
                 How
                 well
                 this
                 proiect
                 ,
                 to
                 take
                 away
                 the
                 liues
                 of
                 three
                 innocent
                 poore
                 creatures
                 by
                 practise
                 and
                 villanie
                 ;
                 to
                 induce
                 a
                 young
                 Scholler
                 to
                 commit
                 periurie
                 ,
                 to
                 accuse
                 her
                 owne
                 Grand-mother
                 ,
                 Aunt
                 ,
                 &c
                 agrees
                 either
                 with
                 the
                 Title
                 of
                 a
                 Iesuite
                 ,
                 or
                 the
                 dutie
                 of
                 a
                 Religious
                 Priest
                 ,
                 who
                 should
                 rather
                 professe
                 Sinceritie
                 and
                 Innocencie
                 ,
                 then
                 practise
                 Trecherie
                 :
                 But
                 this
                 was
                 lawfull
                 ;
                 for
                 they
                 are
                 Heretikes
                 accursed
                 ,
                 to
                 leaue
                 the
                 companie
                 of
                 Priests
                 ;
                 to
                 frequent
                 Churches
                 ,
                 heare
                 the
                 word
                 of
                 GOD
                 preached
                 ,
                 and
                 professe
                 Religion
                 sincerely
                 .
              
               
               
                 But
                 by
                 the
                 course
                 of
                 Times
                 and
                 Accidents
                 ,
                 wise
                 men
                 obserue
                 ,
                 that
                 very
                 seldome
                 hath
                 any
                 mischieuous
                 attempt
                 beene
                 vnder-taken
                 without
                 the
                 direction
                 or
                 assistance
                 of
                 a
                 Iesuit
                 ,
                 or
                 Seminarie
                 Priest.
                 
              
               
                 Who
                 did
                 not
                 condemne
                 these
                 Women
                 vpon
                 this
                 euidence
                 ,
                 and
                 hold
                 them
                 guiltie
                 of
                 this
                 so
                 foule
                 and
                 horrible
                 murder
                 ?
                 But
                 Almightie
                 God
                 ,
                 who
                 in
                 his
                 prouidence
                 had
                 prouided
                 meanes
                 for
                 their
                 deliuerance
                 ,
                 although
                 the
                 Priest
                 by
                 the
                 helpe
                 of
                 the
                 Deuill
                 ,
                 had
                 prouided
                 false
                 witnesses
                 to
                 accuse
                 them
                 ;
                 yet
                 GOD
                 had
                 prepared
                 and
                 placed
                 in
                 the
                 Seate
                 of
                 Iustice
                 ,
                 an
                 vpright
                 Iudge
                 to
                 sit
                 in
                 Iudgement
                 vpon
                 their
                 liues
                 ,
                 who
                 after
                 he
                 had
                 heard
                 all
                 the
                 euidence
                 at
                 large
                 against
                 the
                 Prisoners
                 for
                 the
                 Kings
                 Majestie
                 ,
                 demanded
                 of
                 them
                 what
                 answere
                 they
                 could
                 make
                 .
                 They
                 humbly
                 vpon
                 their
                 knees
                 with
                 weeping
                 teares
                 ,
                 desired
                 him
                 for
                 Gods
                 cause
                 to
                 examine
                 
                   Grace
                   Sowerbuts
                
                 ,
                 who
                 set
                 her
                 on
                 ,
                 or
                 by
                 whose
                 meanes
                 this
                 accusation
                 came
                 against
                 them
                 .
              
               
                 Immediately
                 the
                 countenance
                 of
                 this
                 
                   Grace
                   Sowerbuts
                
                 changed
                 :
                 The
                 witnesses
                 being
                 behinde
                 ,
                 began
                 to
                 quarrell
                 and
                 accuse
                 one
                 an
                 other
                 .
                 In
                 the
                 end
                 his
                 Lordship
                 examined
                 the
                 Girle
                 ,
                 who
                 could
                 not
                 for
                 her
                 life
                 make
                 any
                 direct
                 answere
                 ,
                 but
                 strangely
                 amazed
                 ,
                 told
                 him
                 ,
                 shee
                 was
                 put
                 to
                 a
                 Master
                 to
                 learne
                 ,
                 but
                 he
                 told
                 her
                 nothing
                 of
                 this
                 .
              
               
                 But
                 here
                 as
                 his
                 Lordships
                 care
                 and
                 paines
                 was
                 great
                 to
                 discouer
                 the
                 practises
                 of
                 these
                 odious
                 Witches
                 of
                 the
                 Forrest
                 of
                 Pendle
                 ,
                 and
                 other
                 places
                 ,
                 now
                 vpon
                 their
                 triall
                 before
                 him
                 :
                 So
                 was
                 he
                 desirous
                 to
                 discouer
                 this
                 damnable
                 practise
                 ,
                 to
                 accuse
                 these
                 poore
                 Women
                 ,
                 and
                 bring
                 their
                 liues
                 in
                 danger
                 ,
                 and
                 thereby
                 to
                 deliuer
                 the
                 innocent
                 .
              
               
               
                 And
                 as
                 he
                 openly
                 deliuered
                 it
                 vpon
                 the
                 Bench
                 ,
                 in
                 the
                 hearing
                 of
                 this
                 great
                 Audience
                 :
                 That
                 if
                 a
                 Priest
                 or
                 Iesuit
                 had
                 a
                 hand
                 in
                 one
                 end
                 of
                 it
                 ,
                 there
                 would
                 appeare
                 to
                 bee
                 knauerie
                 ,
                 and
                 practise
                 in
                 the
                 other
                 end
                 of
                 it
                 .
                 And
                 that
                 it
                 might
                 the
                 better
                 appeare
                 to
                 the
                 whole
                 World
                 ,
                 examined
                 
                   Thomas
                   Sowerbuts
                
                 ,
                 what
                 Master
                 taught
                 his
                 daughter
                 :
                 in
                 generall
                 termes
                 ,
                 he
                 denyed
                 all
                 .
              
               
                 The
                 Wench
                 had
                 nothing
                 to
                 say
                 ,
                 but
                 her
                 Master
                 told
                 her
                 nothing
                 of
                 this
                 .
                 In
                 the
                 end
                 ,
                 some
                 that
                 were
                 present
                 told
                 his
                 Lordship
                 the
                 truth
                 ,
                 and
                 the
                 Prisoners
                 informed
                 him
                 how
                 shee
                 went
                 to
                 learne
                 with
                 one
                 Thompson
                 a
                 Seminarie
                 Priest
                 ,
                 who
                 had
                 instructed
                 and
                 taught
                 her
                 this
                 accusation
                 against
                 them
                 ,
                 because
                 they
                 were
                 once
                 obstinate
                 Papists
                 ,
                 and
                 now
                 came
                 to
                 Church
                 .
                 Here
                 is
                 the
                 discouerie
                 of
                 this
                 Priest
                 ,
                 and
                 of
                 his
                 whole
                 practise
                 .
                 Still
                 this
                 fire
                 encreased
                 more
                 and
                 more
                 ,
                 and
                 one
                 witnesse
                 accusing
                 an
                 other
                 ,
                 all
                 things
                 were
                 laid
                 open
                 at
                 large
                 .
              
               
                 In
                 the
                 end
                 his
                 Lordship
                 tooke
                 away
                 the
                 Girle
                 from
                 her
                 Father
                 ,
                 and
                 committed
                 her
                 to
                 M.
                 Leigh
                 ,
                 a
                 very
                 religious
                 Preacher
                 ,
                 and
                 M.
                 Chisnal
                 ,
                 two
                 Iustices
                 of
                 the
                 Peace
                 ,
                 to
                 be
                 carefully
                 examined
                 .
                 Who
                 tooke
                 great
                 paines
                 to
                 examine
                 her
                 of
                 euery
                 particular
                 point
                 :
                 In
                 the
                 end
                 they
                 came
                 into
                 the
                 Court
                 ,
                 and
                 there
                 deliuered
                 this
                 Examination
                 as
                 followeth
                 .
                 ⸫
              
            
             
               
               
                 
                   The
                   Examination
                   of
                
                 GRACE
                 SOWERBVTS
                 ,
                 
                   of
                   Salmesburie
                   ,
                   in
                   the
                   Countie
                   of
                   Lancaster
                   ,
                   Spinster
                   :
                   Taken
                   vpon
                   Wednesday
                   the
                
                 19.
                 
                   of
                   August
                
                 1612.
                 
                 
                   Annoque
                   Reg.
                   Regis
                
                 ,
                 IACOBI
                 
                   Angliae
                   ,
                   Franciae
                   ,
                   &
                   Hiberniae
                   ,
                   Fidei
                   Defensoris
                   ,
                   &c.
                   decimo
                   &
                   Scotiae
                   ,
                
                 xlvi
                 .
                 Before
                 WILLIAM
                 LEICH
                 ,
                 and
                 EDWARD
                 CHISNAL
                 ,
                 
                   Esquires
                   ;
                   two
                   of
                   his
                   Maiesties
                   Iustices
                   of
                   Peace
                   in
                   the
                   same
                   Countie
                   :
                   At
                   the
                   Assizes
                   and
                   generall
                   Gaole
                   deliuerie
                   ,
                   holden
                   at
                   Lancaster
                   .
                
                 By
                 
                   Direction
                   of
                   Sir
                
                 EDWARD
                 BROMLEY
                 
                   Knight
                   ,
                   one
                   of
                   his
                   Maiesties
                   Iustices
                   of
                   Assize
                   at
                   Lancaster
                   .
                
              
               
                 BEing
                 demanded
                 whether
                 the
                 accusation
                 shee
                 laid
                 vppon
                 her
                 Grand-mother
                 ,
                 
                   Iennet
                   Bierley
                   ,
                   Ellen
                   Bierley
                
                 ,
                 and
                 
                   Iane
                   Southworth
                
                 ,
                 of
                 Witchcraft
                 ,
                 viz.
                 of
                 the
                 killing
                 of
                 the
                 child
                 of
                 
                   Thomas
                   Walshman
                
                 ,
                 with
                 a
                 naile
                 in
                 the
                 Nauell
                 ,
                 the
                 boyling
                 ,
                 eating
                 ,
                 and
                 oyling
                 ,
                 thereby
                 to
                 transforme
                 themselues
                 into
                 diuers
                 shapes
                 ,
                 was
                 true
                 ;
                 shee
                 doth
                 vtterly
                 denie
                 the
                 same
                 ;
                 or
                 that
                 euer
                 shee
                 saw
                 any
                 such
                 practises
                 done
                 by
                 them
                 .
              
               
                 Shee
                 further
                 saith
                 ,
                 that
                 one
                 Master
                 Thompson
                 ,
                 which
                 she
                 taketh
                 to
                 be
                 Master
                 
                   Christopher
                   Southworth
                
                 ,
                 to
                 whom
                 shee
                 was
                 sent
                 to
                 learne
                 her
                 prayers
                 ,
                 did
                 perswade
                 ,
                 counsell
                 ,
                 and
                 aduise
                 her
                 ,
                 to
                 deale
                 as
                 formerly
                 hath
                 beene
                 said
                 against
                 her
                 said
                 Grand-mother
                 ,
                 Aunt
                 ,
                 and
                 Southworths
                 wife
                 .
              
               
               
                 And
                 further
                 shee
                 confesseth
                 and
                 saith
                 ,
                 that
                 shee
                 neuer
                 did
                 know
                 ,
                 or
                 saw
                 any
                 Deuils
                 ,
                 nor
                 any
                 other
                 Visions
                 ,
                 as
                 formerly
                 by
                 her
                 hath
                 beene
                 alleaged
                 and
                 informed
                 .
              
               
                 Also
                 shee
                 confesseth
                 and
                 saith
                 ,
                 That
                 shee
                 was
                 not
                 throwne
                 or
                 cast
                 vpon
                 the
                 Henne-ruffe
                 ,
                 and
                 Hay-mow
                 in
                 the
                 Barne
                 ,
                 but
                 that
                 shee
                 went
                 vp
                 vpon
                 the
                 Mow
                 her selfe
                 by
                 the
                 wall
                 side
                 .
              
               
                 Being
                 further
                 demanded
                 whether
                 shee
                 euer
                 was
                 at
                 the
                 Church
                 ,
                 shee
                 saith
                 ,
                 shee
                 was
                 not
                 ,
                 but
                 promised
                 her
                 after
                 to
                 goe
                 to
                 the
                 Church
                 ,
                 and
                 that
                 very
                 willingly
                 .
              
               
                 
                   Signum
                   ,
                   ✚
                   Grace
                   Sowerbuts
                   .
                   
                     William
                     Leigh
                     .
                     Edward
                     Chisnal
                  
                   .
                
              
            
             
               
               
                 
                   The
                   Examination
                   of
                
                 IENNET
                 BIERLEY
                 ,
                 ELLEN
                 BIERLEY
                 ,
                 and
                 IANE
                 SOVTHWORTH
                 ,
                 
                   of
                   Salmesburie
                   ,
                   in
                   the
                   Countie
                   of
                   Lancaster
                   ,
                   Taken
                   vpon
                   Wednesday
                   the
                   nineteenth
                   of
                   August
                
                 1612.
                 
                 
                   Annoque
                   Reg.
                   Regis
                
                 ,
                 IACOBI
                 
                   Angliae
                   ,
                   Franciae
                   ,
                   &
                   Hiberniae
                   ,
                   Fidei
                   Defensoris
                   ,
                   &c.
                   decimo
                   &
                   Scotiae
                   ,
                
                 xlvi
                 .
                 Before
                 WILLIAM
                 LEIGH
                 ,
                 and
                 EDWARD
                 CHISNAL
                 ,
                 
                   Esquires
                   ;
                   two
                   of
                   his
                   Maiesties
                   Iustices
                   of
                   Peace
                   in
                   the
                   same
                   Countie
                   :
                   At
                   the
                   Assizes
                   and
                   generall
                   Gaole
                   deliuerie
                   ,
                   holden
                   at
                   Lancaster
                   .
                
                 By
                 
                   Direction
                   of
                   Sir
                
                 EDWARD
                 BROMLEY
                 
                   Knight
                   ,
                   one
                   of
                   his
                   Maiesties
                   Iustices
                   of
                   Assize
                   at
                   Lancaster
                   .
                
              
               
                 
                   IEnnet
                   Bierley
                
                 being
                 demanded
                 what
                 shee
                 knoweth
                 ,
                 or
                 hath
                 heard
                 ,
                 how
                 
                   Grace
                   Sowerbuts
                
                 was
                 brought
                 to
                 
                   Christopher
                   Southworth
                
                 ,
                 Priest
                 ;
                 shee
                 answereth
                 ,
                 that
                 shee
                 was
                 brought
                 to
                 M.
                 Singletons
                 house
                 by
                 her
                 owne
                 Mother
                 ,
                 where
                 the
                 said
                 Priest
                 was
                 ,
                 and
                 that
                 shee
                 further
                 heard
                 her
                 said
                 Mother
                 say
                 ,
                 after
                 her
                 Daughter
                 had
                 been
                 in
                 her
                 fit
                 ,
                 that
                 shee
                 should
                 be
                 brought
                 vnto
                 her
                 Master
                 ,
                 meaning
                 the
                 said
                 Priest.
                 
              
               
                 And
                 shee
                 further
                 saith
                 ,
                 that
                 shee
                 thinketh
                 it
                 was
                 by
                 and
                 through
                 the
                 Counsell
                 of
                 the
                 said
                 M.
                 Thomson
                 ,
                 alias
                 Southworth
                 ,
                 Priest
                 ,
                 That
                 
                   Grace
                   Sowerbuts
                
                 her
                 Grandchild
                 accused
                 her
                 of
                 Witchcraft
                 ,
                 and
                 of
                 such
                 practises
                 as
                 shee
                 is
                 accused
                 of
                 :
                 And
                 thinketh
                 further
                 ,
                 the
                 cause
                 why
                 the
                 said
                 Thompson
                 ,
                 alias
                 Southworth
                 Priest
                 ,
                 should
                 practise
                 with
                 the
                 Wench
                 to
                 doe
                 it
                 was
                 for
                 that
                 shee
                 went
                 to
                 the
                 Church
                 .
              
               
               
                 
                   Iane
                   Southworth
                
                 saith
                 shee
                 saw
                 Master
                 Thompson
                 ,
                 alias
                 Southworth
                 ,
                 the
                 Priest
                 ,
                 a
                 month
                 or
                 sixe
                 weekes
                 before
                 she
                 was
                 committed
                 to
                 the
                 Gaole
                 ;
                 and
                 had
                 conference
                 with
                 him
                 in
                 a
                 place
                 called
                 Barne-hey-lane
                 ,
                 where
                 and
                 when
                 shee
                 challenged
                 him
                 for
                 slandering
                 her
                 to
                 bee
                 a
                 Witch
                 :
                 wherunto
                 he
                 answered
                 ,
                 that
                 what
                 he
                 had
                 heard
                 thereof
                 ,
                 he
                 heard
                 from
                 her
                 mother
                 and
                 her
                 Aunt
                 :
                 yet
                 she
                 ,
                 this
                 Examinate
                 ,
                 thinketh
                 in
                 her
                 heart
                 it
                 was
                 by
                 his
                 procurement
                 ,
                 and
                 is
                 moued
                 so
                 to
                 thinke
                 ,
                 for
                 that
                 shee
                 would
                 not
                 be
                 disswaded
                 from
                 the
                 Church
                 .
              
               
                 
                   Ellen
                   Bierley
                
                 saith
                 ,
                 Shee
                 saw
                 Master
                 Thompson
                 ,
                 alias
                 Southworth
                 ,
                 sixe
                 or
                 eight
                 weeks
                 before
                 she
                 was
                 committed
                 ,
                 and
                 thinketh
                 the
                 said
                 Priest
                 was
                 the
                 practiser
                 with
                 
                   Grace
                   Sowerbutts
                
                 ,
                 to
                 accuse
                 her
                 of
                 Witchcraft
                 ,
                 and
                 knoweth
                 no
                 cause
                 why
                 he
                 should
                 so
                 doe
                 ,
                 but
                 because
                 she
                 goeth
                 to
                 the
                 Church
                 .
              
               
                 
                   
                     
                       Signum
                       ,
                       ✚
                       Iennet
                       Bierley
                       .
                    
                     
                       Signum
                       ,
                       £
                       Iane
                       Southworth
                       .
                    
                     
                       Signum
                       ,
                       Θ
                       Ellen
                       Bierley
                       .
                    
                     
                       William
                       Leigh
                       .
                    
                     
                       Edward
                       Chisnall
                       .
                    
                  
                
              
            
             
               
               
                 These
                 Examinations
                 being
                 taken
                 ,
                 they
                 were
                 brought
                 into
                 the
                 Court
                 ,
                 and
                 there
                 openly
                 in
                 the
                 presence
                 of
                 this
                 great
                 Audience
                 published
                 ,
                 and
                 declared
                 to
                 the
                 Iurie
                 of
                 Life
                 and
                 Death
                 ;
                 and
                 thereupon
                 the
                 Gentlemen
                 of
                 their
                 Iury
                 required
                 to
                 consider
                 of
                 them
                 .
                 For
                 although
                 they
                 stood
                 vpon
                 their
                 Triall
                 ,
                 for
                 matter
                 of
                 Fact
                 of
                 Witchcraft
                 ,
                 Murther
                 ,
                 and
                 much
                 more
                 of
                 the
                 like
                 nature
                 :
                 yet
                 in
                 respect
                 all
                 their
                 Accusations
                 did
                 appeare
                 to
                 bee
                 practise
                 :
                 they
                 were
                 now
                 to
                 consider
                 of
                 them
                 ,
                 and
                 to
                 acquit
                 them
                 .
                 Thus
                 were
                 these
                 poore
                 Innocent
                 creatures
                 ,
                 by
                 the
                 great
                 care
                 and
                 paines
                 of
                 this
                 honorable
                 Iudge
                 ,
                 deliuered
                 from
                 the
                 danger
                 of
                 this
                 conspiracie
                 ;
                 this
                 bloudie
                 practise
                 of
                 the
                 Priest
                 laid
                 open
                 :
                 of
                 whose
                 fact
                 I
                 may
                 lawfully
                 say
                 ;
                 
                   Etiam
                   si
                   ego
                   tacuero
                   clamabunt
                   lapides
                   .
                
              
               
                 These
                 are
                 but
                 ordinary
                 with
                 Priests
                 and
                 Iesuites
                 :
                 no
                 respect
                 of
                 Bloud
                 ,
                 kindred
                 ,
                 or
                 friendship
                 ,
                 can
                 moue
                 them
                 to
                 forbeare
                 their
                 Conspiracies
                 :
                 for
                 when
                 he
                 had
                 laboured
                 treacherously
                 to
                 seduce
                 and
                 conuert
                 them
                 ,
                 and
                 yet
                 could
                 doe
                 no
                 good
                 ;
                 then
                 deuised
                 he
                 this
                 meanes
                 .
              
               
                 
                   God
                   of
                   his
                   great
                   mercie
                   deliuer
                   vs
                   all
                   from
                   them
                   and
                   their
                   damnable
                   conspiracies
                   :
                   and
                   when
                   any
                   of
                   his
                   Maiesties
                   subiects
                   ,
                   so
                   free
                   and
                   innocent
                   as
                   these
                   ,
                   shall
                   come
                   in
                   question
                   grant
                   them
                   as
                   honorable
                   a
                   Triall
                   as
                   Reuerend
                   and
                   worthy
                   a
                   Iudge
                   to
                   sit
                   in
                   Iudgement
                   vpon
                   them
                   ;
                   and
                   in
                   the
                   end
                   as
                   speedie
                   a
                   deliuerance
                   .
                   And
                   for
                   that
                   which
                   I
                   haue
                   heard
                   of
                   them
                   ;
                   seene
                   with
                   my
                   eyes
                   ,
                   and
                   taken
                   paines
                   to
                   Reade
                   of
                   them
                   :
                   My
                   humble
                   prayer
                   shall
                   be
                   to
                   God
                   Almightie
                   .
                
                 Vt
                 Conuertantur
                 ne
                 pereant
                 .
                 Aut
                 consundantur
                 ne
                 noceant
                 .
              
               
                 To
                 conclude
                 ,
                 because
                 the
                 discourse
                 of
                 these
                 three
                 women
                 of
                 Salmesbury
                 hath
                 beene
                 long
                 and
                 troublesome
                 
                 to
                 you
                 ;
                 it
                 is
                 heere
                 placed
                 amongst
                 the
                 Witches
                 ,
                 by
                 special
                 order
                 and
                 commandement
                 ,
                 to
                 set
                 forth
                 to
                 the
                 World
                 the
                 practise
                 and
                 conspiracie
                 of
                 this
                 bloudy
                 Butcher
                 .
                 And
                 because
                 I
                 haue
                 presented
                 to
                 your
                 view
                 a
                 Kalender
                 in
                 the
                 Frontispice
                 of
                 this
                 Booke
                 ,
                 of
                 twentie
                 notorious
                 Witches
                 :
                 I
                 shall
                 shew
                 you
                 their
                 deliuerance
                 in
                 order
                 ,
                 as
                 they
                 came
                 to
                 their
                 Arraignement
                 and
                 Triall
                 euery
                 day
                 ,
                 and
                 as
                 the
                 Gentlemen
                 of
                 euery
                 Iury
                 for
                 life
                 and
                 death
                 stood
                 charged
                 with
                 them
                 .
              
            
          
           
             
             
               
                 THE
                 ARRAIGNMENT
                 
                   and
                   Triall
                   of
                
                 ANNE
                 REDFERNE
                 ,
                 
                   Daughter
                   of
                
                 ANNE
                 WHITTLE
                 ,
                 alias
                 CHATTOX
                 ,
                 
                   of
                   the
                   Forrest
                   of
                   Pendle
                   ,
                   in
                   the
                   Countie
                   of
                   Lancaster
                   ,
                   for
                   Witchcraft
                   ;
                   vpon
                   Wednesday
                   the
                   nineteenth
                   of
                   August
                   ,
                   at
                   the
                   Assises
                   and
                   Generall
                   Gaole-deliuerie
                   ,
                   holden
                   at
                   Lancaster
                   ,
                
                 Before
                 Sir
                 EDVVARD
                 BROMLEY
                 
                   Knight
                   ,
                   one
                   of
                   his
                   Maiesties
                   Iustices
                   of
                   Assise
                   at
                   Lancaster
                   .
                
              
               
                 Anne
                 Redferne
                 .
              
               
                 SVch
                 is
                 the
                 horror
                 of
                 Murther
                 ,
                 and
                 the
                 crying
                 sinne
                 of
                 Bloud
                 ,
                 that
                 it
                 will
                 neuer
                 bee
                 satisfied
                 but
                 with
                 Bloud
                 .
                 So
                 fell
                 it
                 out
                 with
                 this
                 miserable
                 creature
                 ,
                 
                   Anne
                   Redferne
                
                 ,
                 the
                 daughter
                 of
                 
                   Anne
                   Whittle
                
                 ,
                 alias
                 Chattox
                 :
                 who
                 ,
                 as
                 shee
                 was
                 her
                 Mother
                 ,
                 and
                 brought
                 her
                 into
                 the
                 World
                 ,
                 so
                 was
                 she
                 the
                 meanes
                 to
                 bring
                 her
                 into
                 this
                 danger
                 ,
                 and
                 in
                 the
                 end
                 to
                 her
                 Execution
                 ,
                 for
                 much
                 Bloud
                 spilt
                 ,
                 and
                 many
                 other
                 mischiefes
                 done
                 .
              
               
                 For
                 vpon
                 Tuesday
                 night
                 (
                 although
                 you
                 heare
                 little
                 of
                 her
                 at
                 the
                 Arraignement
                 and
                 Triall
                 of
                 old
                 Chattox
                 ,
                 her
                 Mother
                 )
                 yet
                 was
                 shee
                 arraigned
                 for
                 the
                 murther
                 of
                 
                 
                   Robert
                   Nutter
                
                 ,
                 and
                 others
                 :
                 and
                 by
                 the
                 fauour
                 and
                 mercifull
                 consideration
                 of
                 the
                 Iurie
                 ,
                 the
                 Euidence
                 being
                 not
                 very
                 pregnant
                 against
                 her
                 ,
                 she
                 was
                 acquited
                 ,
                 and
                 found
                 Not
                 guiltie
                 .
              
               
                 Such
                 was
                 her
                 condition
                 and
                 course
                 of
                 life
                 ,
                 as
                 had
                 she
                 liued
                 ,
                 she
                 would
                 haue
                 beene
                 very
                 dangerous
                 :
                 for
                 in
                 making
                 pictures
                 of
                 Clay
                 ,
                 she
                 was
                 more
                 cunning
                 then
                 any
                 :
                 But
                 the
                 innocent
                 bloud
                 yet
                 vnsatisfied
                 ,
                 and
                 crying
                 out
                 vnto
                 GOD
                 for
                 satisfaction
                 and
                 reuenge
                 ;
                 the
                 crie
                 of
                 his
                 people
                 (
                 to
                 deliuer
                 them
                 from
                 the
                 danger
                 of
                 such
                 horrible
                 and
                 bloudie
                 executioners
                 ,
                 and
                 from
                 her
                 wicked
                 and
                 damnable
                 practises
                 )
                 hath
                 now
                 againe
                 brought
                 her
                 to
                 a
                 second
                 Triall
                 ,
                 where
                 you
                 shall
                 heare
                 what
                 wee
                 haue
                 vpon
                 Record
                 against
                 her
                 .
              
               
                 This
                 
                   Anne
                   Redferne
                
                 ,
                 prisoner
                 in
                 the
                 Castle
                 at
                 Lancaster
                 ,
                 being
                 brought
                 to
                 the
                 Barre
                 ,
                 before
                 the
                 great
                 Seat
                 of
                 Iustice
                 ,
                 was
                 there
                 ,
                 according
                 to
                 the
                 former
                 order
                 and
                 course
                 ,
                 indicted
                 and
                 arraigned
                 ,
                 for
                 that
                 she
                 felloniously
                 had
                 practised
                 ,
                 exercised
                 ,
                 and
                 vsed
                 her
                 deuillish
                 and
                 wicked
                 Arts
                 ,
                 called
                 
                   Witchcrafts
                   ,
                   Inchauntments
                   ,
                   Charmes
                
                 ,
                 and
                 Sorceries
                 ,
                 in
                 and
                 vpon
                 one
                 
                   Christopher
                   Nutter
                
                 ,
                 and
                 him
                 the
                 said
                 
                   Christopher
                   Nutter
                
                 ,
                 by
                 force
                 of
                 the
                 same
                 Witchcrafts
                 ,
                 felloniously
                 did
                 kill
                 and
                 murther
                 ,
                 
                   Contra
                   formam
                   Statuti
                   &c.
                   
                   Et
                   Contra
                   Pacem
                   &c.
                   
                
              
               
                 Vpon
                 her
                 Arraignement
                 to
                 this
                 Indictment
                 ,
                 she
                 pleaded
                 Not-Guiltie
                 ;
                 and
                 for
                 the
                 triall
                 of
                 her
                 life
                 put
                 her selfe
                 vpon
                 GOD
                 and
                 the
                 Countrey
                 .
              
               
                 So
                 as
                 now
                 the
                 Gentlemen
                 of
                 the
                 Iurie
                 of
                 Life
                 and
                 Death
                 stand
                 charged
                 with
                 her
                 as
                 with
                 others
                 .
              
               
                 
                   The
                   Euidence
                   against
                
                 Anne
                 Redferne
                 ,
                 
                   Prisoner
                   at
                   the
                   Barre
                
                 .
              
            
             
               
               
                 
                   The
                   Examination
                   of
                
                 ELIZABETH
                 SOTHERNES
                 ,
                 alias
                 OLD
                 DEMBDIKE
                 ,
                 
                   taken
                   at
                   the
                   Fence
                   ,
                   in
                   the
                   Forrest
                   of
                   Pendle
                   ,
                   in
                   the
                   Countie
                   of
                   Lancaster
                   ,
                   the
                   second
                   day
                   of
                   Aprill
                   ,
                
                 Anno
                 Reg.
                 Regis
                 IACOBI
                 ,
                 Angliae
                 ,
                 &c.
                 decimo
                 ,
                 &
                 Scotiae
                 xlv
                 .
                 Against
                 ANNE
                 REDFERNE
                 (
                 
                   the
                   daughter
                   of
                
                 ANNE
                 WHITTLE
                 ,
                 alias
                 CHATTOX
                 )
                 
                   Prisoner
                   at
                   the
                   Barre
                
                 :
                 Before
                 ROGER
                 NOVVEL
                 
                   of
                   Reade
                   ,
                   Esquire
                   ,
                   one
                   of
                   his
                   Maiesties
                   Iustices
                   of
                   Peace
                   within
                   the
                   said
                   Countie
                   .
                
              
               
                 THis
                 Examinate
                 saith
                 ,
                 That
                 about
                 halfe
                 a
                 yeare
                 before
                 
                   Robert
                   Nutter
                
                 died
                 ,
                 as
                 this
                 Examinate
                 thinketh
                 ,
                 this
                 Examinate
                 went
                 to
                 the
                 house
                 of
                 
                   Thomas
                   Redferne
                
                 ,
                 which
                 was
                 about
                 Midsummer
                 ,
                 as
                 shee
                 this
                 Examinate
                 now
                 remembreth
                 it
                 :
                 and
                 there
                 ,
                 within
                 three
                 yards
                 of
                 the
                 East
                 end
                 of
                 the
                 said
                 house
                 ,
                 shee
                 saw
                 the
                 said
                 
                   Anne
                   Whittle
                
                 and
                 
                   Anne
                   Redferne
                
                 ,
                 wife
                 of
                 the
                 said
                 
                   Thomas
                   Redferne
                
                 ,
                 and
                 daughter
                 of
                 the
                 said
                 
                   Anne
                   Whittle
                
                 ,
                 the
                 one
                 on
                 the
                 one
                 side
                 of
                 a
                 Ditch
                 ,
                 and
                 the
                 other
                 on
                 the
                 other
                 side
                 ,
                 and
                 two
                 pictures
                 of
                 Clay
                 or
                 Marle
                 lying
                 by
                 them
                 ,
                 and
                 the
                 third
                 picture
                 the
                 said
                 
                   Anne
                   Whittle
                
                 was
                 making
                 .
                 And
                 the
                 said
                 
                   Anne
                   Redferne
                
                 ,
                 her
                 said
                 daughter
                 ,
                 wrought
                 her
                 Clay
                 or
                 Marle
                 to
                 make
                 the
                 third
                 picture
                 withall
                 .
                 And
                 this
                 Examinate
                 passing
                 by
                 them
                 ,
                 a
                 Spirit
                 ,
                 called
                 Tibbe
                 ,
                 in
                 the
                 shape
                 of
                 a
                 blacke
                 Cat
                 ,
                 appeared
                 vnto
                 her
                 this
                 Examinate
                 ▪
                 and
                 said
                 ,
                 Turne
                 backe
                 againe
                 ,
                 and
                 doe
                 as
                 they
                 doe
                 .
                 To
                 whom
                 this
                 Examinate
                 said
                 ,
                 What
                 are
                 they
                 doing
                 ?
                 
                 Whereunto
                 the
                 said
                 Spirit
                 said
                 ,
                 They
                 are
                 making
                 three
                 pictures
                 :
                 whereupon
                 shee
                 asked
                 ,
                 whose
                 pictures
                 they
                 were
                 ?
                 whereunto
                 the
                 said
                 Spirit
                 said
                 ,
                 They
                 are
                 the
                 pictures
                 of
                 
                   Christopher
                   Nutter
                   ,
                   Robert
                   Nutter
                
                 ,
                 and
                 Mary
                 ,
                 wife
                 of
                 the
                 said
                 
                   Robert
                   Nutter
                
                 .
                 But
                 this
                 Examinate
                 denying
                 to
                 goe
                 backe
                 to
                 helpe
                 them
                 to
                 make
                 the
                 pictures
                 aforesaid
                 ,
                 the
                 said
                 Spirit
                 seeming
                 to
                 be
                 angrie
                 therefore
                 ,
                 shot
                 or
                 pushed
                 this
                 Examinate
                 into
                 the
                 Ditch
                 ;
                 and
                 so
                 shedde
                 the
                 milke
                 which
                 this
                 Examinate
                 had
                 in
                 a
                 Kanne
                 ,
                 or
                 Kitt
                 :
                 and
                 so
                 thereupon
                 the
                 Spirit
                 at
                 that
                 time
                 vanished
                 out
                 of
                 this
                 Examinates
                 sight
                 .
                 But
                 presently
                 after
                 that
                 ,
                 the
                 said
                 Spirit
                 appeared
                 vnto
                 this
                 Examinate
                 again
                 in
                 the
                 shape
                 of
                 a
                 Hare
                 ,
                 and
                 so
                 went
                 with
                 her
                 about
                 a
                 quarter
                 of
                 a
                 myle
                 ,
                 but
                 said
                 nothing
                 vnto
                 her
                 this
                 Examinate
                 ,
                 nor
                 shee
                 to
                 it
                 .
              
            
             
               
                 
                   The
                   Examination
                   of
                
                 MARGARET
                 CROOKE
                 Against
                 
                   the
                   said
                
                 ANNE
                 REDFERNE
                 :
                 
                   Taken
                   the
                   day
                   and
                   yeare
                   aforesaid
                   ,
                
                 Before
                 ROGER
                 NOVVEL
                 
                   aforesaid
                   ,
                   Esquire
                   ,
                   one
                   of
                   his
                   Maiesties
                   Iustices
                   of
                   the
                   Peace
                   in
                   the
                   Countie
                   of
                   Lancaster
                   .
                
              
               
                 THis
                 Examinate
                 ,
                 sworne
                 &
                 examined
                 vpon
                 her
                 oath
                 ,
                 sayth
                 ,
                 That
                 about
                 eighteene
                 or
                 nineteene
                 yeares
                 agoe
                 ,
                 this
                 Examinates
                 brother
                 ,
                 called
                 
                   Robert
                   Nutter
                
                 ,
                 about
                 Whitsontide
                 the
                 same
                 yeare
                 ,
                 meeting
                 with
                 the
                 said
                 
                   Anne
                   Redferne
                
                 ,
                 vpon
                 some
                 speeches
                 betweene
                 them
                 they
                 fell
                 
                 out
                 ,
                 as
                 this
                 Examinats
                 said
                 brother
                 told
                 this
                 Examinat
                 :
                 and
                 within
                 some
                 weeke
                 ,
                 or
                 fort-night
                 ,
                 then
                 next
                 after
                 ,
                 this
                 Examinats
                 said
                 brother
                 fell
                 sicke
                 ,
                 and
                 so
                 languished
                 vntill
                 about
                 Candlemas
                 then
                 next
                 after
                 ,
                 and
                 then
                 died
                 .
                 In
                 which
                 time
                 of
                 his
                 sicknesse
                 ,
                 he
                 did
                 a
                 hundred
                 times
                 at
                 the
                 least
                 say
                 ,
                 That
                 the
                 said
                 
                   Anne
                   Redferne
                
                 and
                 her
                 associates
                 had
                 bewitched
                 him
                 to
                 death
                 .
                 And
                 this
                 Examinate
                 further
                 saith
                 ,
                 That
                 this
                 Examinates
                 Father
                 ,
                 called
                 
                   Christopher
                   Nutter
                
                 ,
                 about
                 Maudlint●de
                 next
                 after
                 following
                 fell
                 sicke
                 ,
                 and
                 so
                 languished
                 ,
                 vntill
                 Michaelmas
                 then
                 next
                 after
                 ,
                 and
                 then
                 died
                 :
                 during
                 which
                 time
                 of
                 his
                 sicknesse
                 ,
                 hee
                 did
                 sundry
                 times
                 say
                 ,
                 That
                 hee
                 was
                 bewitched
                 ;
                 but
                 named
                 no
                 bodie
                 that
                 should
                 doe
                 the
                 same
                 .
              
            
             
               
                 
                   The
                   Examination
                   of
                
                 IOHN
                 NVTTER
                 ,
                 
                   of
                   Higham
                   Booth
                   ,
                   in
                   the
                   Forrest
                   of
                   Pendle
                   ,
                   in
                   the
                   Countie
                   of
                   Lancaster
                   ,
                   yeoman
                   ,
                
                 Against
                 
                   the
                   said
                
                 ANNE
                 REDFERNE
                 :
                 
                   Taken
                   the
                   day
                   and
                   yeare
                   aforesaid
                   ,
                
                 Before
                 ROGER
                 NOVVEL
                 
                   Esquire
                   ,
                   one
                   of
                   his
                   Maiesties
                   Iustices
                   of
                   Peace
                   in
                   the
                   Countie
                   of
                   Lancaster
                   .
                
              
               
                 THis
                 Examinate
                 ,
                 sworne
                 &
                 examined
                 vpon
                 his
                 oath
                 ,
                 sayth
                 ,
                 That
                 in
                 or
                 about
                 Christmas
                 ,
                 some
                 eighteene
                 or
                 nineteene
                 yeares
                 agoe
                 ,
                 this
                 Examinat
                 comming
                 from
                 Burnley
                 with
                 
                   Christopher
                   Nutter
                
                 and
                 
                   Robert
                   Nutter
                
                 ,
                 this
                 Examinates
                 Father
                 and
                 Brother
                 ,
                 this
                 Examinate
                 heard
                 
                 his
                 said
                 Brother
                 then
                 say
                 vnto
                 his
                 said
                 Father
                 these
                 words
                 ,
                 or
                 to
                 this
                 effect
                 .
                 
                   Father
                   ,
                   I
                   am
                   sure
                   I
                   am
                   bewitched
                   by
                   the
                
                 Chattox
                 ,
                 Anne
                 Chattox
                 ,
                 and
                 Anne
                 Redferne
                 
                   her
                   daughter
                   ,
                   I
                   pray
                   you
                   cause
                   them
                   to
                   bee
                   layed
                   in
                   Lancaster
                   Castle
                   :
                
                 Whereunto
                 this
                 Examinates
                 Father
                 answered
                 ,
                 Thou
                 art
                 a
                 foolish
                 Ladde
                 ,
                 it
                 is
                 not
                 so
                 ,
                 it
                 is
                 thy
                 miscarriage
                 .
                 Then
                 this
                 Examinates
                 Brother
                 weeping
                 ,
                 said
                 ;
                 nay
                 ,
                 I
                 am
                 sure
                 that
                 I
                 am
                 bewitched
                 by
                 them
                 ,
                 and
                 if
                 euer
                 I
                 come
                 againe
                 (
                 for
                 hee
                 was
                 readie
                 to
                 goe
                 to
                 Sir
                 
                   Richard
                   Shuttleworths
                
                 ,
                 then
                 his
                 Master
                 )
                 I
                 will
                 procure
                 them
                 to
                 bee
                 laid
                 where
                 they
                 shall
                 be
                 glad
                 to
                 bite
                 Lice
                 in
                 two
                 with
                 their
                 teeth
                 .
              
               
                 Hereupon
                 
                   Anne
                   Whittle
                
                 ,
                 alias
                 Chattox
                 ,
                 her
                 Mother
                 ,
                 was
                 brought
                 forth
                 to
                 bee
                 examined
                 ,
                 who
                 confessed
                 the
                 making
                 of
                 the
                 pictures
                 of
                 Clay
                 ,
                 and
                 in
                 the
                 end
                 cried
                 out
                 very
                 heartily
                 to
                 God
                 to
                 forgiue
                 her
                 sinnes
                 ,
                 and
                 vpon
                 her
                 knees
                 intreated
                 for
                 this
                 Redferne
                 ,
                 her
                 daughter
                 .
              
               
                 Here
                 was
                 likewise
                 many
                 witnesses
                 examined
                 vpon
                 oth
                 
                   Viua
                   voce
                
                 ,
                 who
                 charged
                 her
                 with
                 many
                 strange
                 practises
                 ,
                 and
                 declared
                 the
                 death
                 of
                 the
                 parties
                 ,
                 all
                 in
                 such
                 sort
                 ,
                 and
                 about
                 the
                 time
                 in
                 the
                 Examinations
                 formerly
                 mentioned
                 .
              
               
                 All
                 men
                 that
                 knew
                 her
                 affirmed
                 ,
                 shee
                 was
                 more
                 dangerous
                 then
                 her
                 Mother
                 ,
                 for
                 shee
                 made
                 all
                 or
                 most
                 of
                 the
                 Pictures
                 of
                 Clay
                 ,
                 that
                 were
                 made
                 or
                 found
                 at
                 any
                 time
                 .
                 Wherefore
                 I
                 leaue
                 her
                 to
                 make
                 good
                 vse
                 of
                 the
                 little
                 time
                 she
                 hath
                 to
                 repent
                 in
                 :
                 but
                 no
                 meanes
                 could
                 moue
                 her
                 to
                 repentance
                 ,
                 for
                 as
                 shee
                 liued
                 ,
                 so
                 shee
                 dyed
                 .
              
            
             
               
               
                 
                   The
                   Examination
                   of
                
                 IAMES
                 DEVICE
                 ,
                 
                   taken
                   the
                   day
                   and
                   yeare
                   afore-said
                   .
                
                 Before
                 ROGER
                 NOWEL
                 ,
                 and
                 NICHOLAS
                 BANNESTER
                 ,
                 
                   Esquires
                   :
                   two
                   of
                   his
                   Maiesties
                   Iustices
                   of
                   Peace
                   within
                   the
                   said
                   Countie
                   of
                   Lancaster
                   .
                
                 viz.
                 
              
               
                 THe
                 said
                 Examinate
                 vpon
                 his
                 oath
                 saith
                 ,
                 That
                 about
                 two
                 yeares
                 agoe
                 ,
                 hee
                 this
                 Examinate
                 saw
                 three
                 Pictures
                 of
                 Clay
                 ,
                 of
                 halfe
                 a
                 yard
                 long
                 ,
                 at
                 the
                 end
                 of
                 Redfernes
                 house
                 ,
                 which
                 Redferne
                 had
                 one
                 of
                 the
                 Pictures
                 in
                 his
                 hand
                 ,
                 Marie
                 his
                 Daughter
                 had
                 another
                 in
                 her
                 hand
                 ,
                 and
                 the
                 said
                 Redfernes
                 wife
                 ,
                 
                 now
                 prisoner
                 at
                 Lancaster
                 ,
                 had
                 an
                 other
                 Picture
                 in
                 her
                 hand
                 ,
                 which
                 Picture
                 she
                 the
                 said
                 Redfernes
                 wife
                 ,
                 was
                 then
                 crumbling
                 ,
                 but
                 whose
                 Pictures
                 they
                 were
                 ,
                 this
                 Examinate
                 cannot
                 tell
                 .
                 And
                 at
                 his
                 returning
                 back
                 againe
                 ,
                 some
                 ten
                 Roods
                 off
                 them
                 there
                 appeared
                 vnto
                 him
                 this
                 Examinate
                 a
                 thing
                 like
                 a
                 Hare
                 ,
                 which
                 spit
                 fire
                 at
                 him
                 this
                 Examinate
                 .
              
            
             
               
               
                 THE
                 ARRAIGNMENT
                 
                   and
                   Triall
                   of
                
                 ALICE
                 NVTTER
                 ,
                 
                   of
                   the
                   Forrest
                   of
                   Pendle
                   ,
                   in
                   the
                   Countie
                   of
                   Lancaster
                   ,
                   for
                   Witch-craft
                   ;
                   vpon
                   Wednesday
                   the
                   nineteenth
                   of
                   August
                   ,
                   at
                   the
                   Assizes
                   and
                   generall
                   Gaole
                   deliuerie
                   ,
                   holden
                   at
                   Lancaster
                   .
                
                 Before
                 Sir
                 EDWARD
                 BROMLEY
                 
                   Knight
                   ,
                   one
                   of
                   his
                   Maiesties
                   Iustices
                   of
                   Assize
                   ,
                   at
                   Lancaster
                   .
                
              
               
                 Alice
                 Nutter
                 .
              
               
                 THe
                 two
                 degrees
                 of
                 persons
                 which
                 chiefly
                 practise
                 Witch-craft
                 ,
                 are
                 such
                 ,
                 as
                 are
                 in
                 great
                 miserie
                 and
                 pouertie
                 ,
                 for
                 such
                 the
                 Deuil
                 allures
                 to
                 follow
                 him
                 ,
                 by
                 promising
                 great
                 riches
                 ,
                 and
                 worldly
                 commoditie
                 ;
                 Others
                 ,
                 though
                 rich
                 ,
                 yet
                 burne
                 in
                 a
                 desperate
                 desire
                 of
                 Reuenge
                 ;
                 Hee
                 allures
                 them
                 by
                 promises
                 ,
                 to
                 get
                 their
                 turne
                 satisfied
                 to
                 their
                 hearts
                 contentment
                 ,
                 as
                 in
                 the
                 whole
                 proceedings
                 against
                 old
                 Chattox
                 :
                 the
                 examinations
                 of
                 old
                 Dembdike
                 ;
                 and
                 her
                 children
                 ,
                 there
                 was
                 not
                 one
                 of
                 them
                 ,
                 but
                 haue
                 declared
                 the
                 like
                 ,
                 when
                 the
                 Deuill
                 first
                 assaulted
                 them
                 .
              
               
               
                 But
                 to
                 attempt
                 this
                 woman
                 in
                 that
                 sort
                 ,
                 the
                 Diuel
                 had
                 small
                 meanes
                 :
                 For
                 it
                 is
                 certaine
                 she
                 was
                 a
                 rich
                 woman
                 ;
                 had
                 a
                 great
                 estate
                 ,
                 and
                 children
                 of
                 good
                 hope
                 :
                 in
                 the
                 common
                 opinion
                 of
                 the
                 world
                 ,
                 of
                 good
                 temper
                 ,
                 free
                 from
                 enuy
                 or
                 malice
                 ;
                 yet
                 whether
                 by
                 the
                 meanes
                 of
                 the
                 rest
                 of
                 the
                 Witches
                 ,
                 or
                 some
                 vnfortunate
                 occasion
                 ,
                 shee
                 was
                 drawne
                 to
                 fall
                 to
                 this
                 wicked
                 course
                 of
                 life
                 ,
                 I
                 know
                 not
                 :
                 but
                 hither
                 shee
                 is
                 now
                 come
                 to
                 receiue
                 her
                 Triall
                 ,
                 both
                 for
                 Murder
                 ,
                 and
                 many
                 other
                 vilde
                 and
                 damnable
                 practises
                 .
              
               
                 Great
                 was
                 the
                 care
                 and
                 paines
                 of
                 his
                 Lordship
                 ,
                 to
                 make
                 triall
                 of
                 the
                 Innocencie
                 of
                 this
                 woman
                 ,
                 as
                 shall
                 appeare
                 vnto
                 you
                 vpon
                 the
                 Examination
                 of
                 
                   Iennet
                   Deuice
                
                 ,
                 in
                 open
                 Court
                 ,
                 at
                 the
                 time
                 of
                 her
                 Arraignement
                 and
                 Triall
                 ;
                 by
                 an
                 extraordinary
                 meanes
                 of
                 Triall
                 ,
                 to
                 marke
                 her
                 out
                 from
                 the
                 rest
                 .
              
               
                 It
                 is
                 very
                 certaine
                 she
                 was
                 of
                 the
                 Grand-counsell
                 at
                 Malking-Tower
                 vpon
                 Good-Friday
                 ,
                 and
                 was
                 there
                 present
                 ,
                 which
                 was
                 a
                 very
                 great
                 argument
                 to
                 condemne
                 her
                 .
              
               
                 This
                 
                   Alice
                   Nutter
                
                 ,
                 Prisoner
                 in
                 the
                 Castle
                 at
                 Lancaster
                 :
                 Being
                 brought
                 to
                 the
                 Barre
                 before
                 the
                 Great
                 Seat
                 of
                 Iustice
                 ;
                 was
                 there
                 according
                 to
                 the
                 former
                 order
                 and
                 course
                 Indicted
                 and
                 Arraigned
                 ,
                 for
                 that
                 she
                 felloniously
                 had
                 practised
                 ,
                 exercised
                 ,
                 and
                 vsed
                 her
                 diuellish
                 and
                 wicked
                 Arts
                 ,
                 called
                 
                   Witchcrafts
                   ,
                   Inchantments
                   ,
                   Charmes
                
                 and
                 Sorceries
                 ,
                 in
                 and
                 vpon
                 
                   Henry
                   Mitton
                
                 :
                 and
                 him
                 the
                 said
                 
                   Henry
                   Mitton
                
                 ,
                 by
                 force
                 of
                 the
                 same
                 Witchcrafts
                 ,
                 felloniously
                 did
                 kill
                 and
                 murther
                 .
                 
                   Contra
                   formam
                   Statuti
                
                 ,
                 &c.
                 
                   Et
                   Contra
                   Pacem
                
                 ,
                 &c.
                 
              
               
                 Vpon
                 her
                 Arraignement
                 ,
                 to
                 this
                 Indictment
                 shee
                 pleaded
                 not
                 guiltie
                 ;
                 and
                 for
                 the
                 triall
                 of
                 her
                 life
                 ,
                 put
                 
                 her selfe
                 vpon
                 God
                 and
                 the
                 Countrey
                 .
              
               
                 So
                 as
                 now
                 the
                 Gentlemen
                 of
                 the
                 Iury
                 of
                 life
                 and
                 death
                 stand
                 charged
                 with
                 her
                 ,
                 as
                 with
                 others
                 .
              
               
                 
                   The
                   Euidence
                   against
                
                 Alice
                 Nutter
                 
                   Prisoner
                   at
                   the
                   Barre
                
                 .
              
            
             
               
                 
                   The
                   Examination
                   of
                
                 IAMES
                 DEVICE
                 
                   sonne
                   of
                
                 ELIZABETH
                 DEVICE
                 :
                 
                   Taken
                   the
                   seuen
                   and
                   twentieth
                   day
                   of
                   Aprill
                   :
                
                 Anno
                 Reg.
                 Regis
                 IACOBI
                 Angliae
                 ,
                 Franciae
                 ,
                 &
                 Hiberniae
                 ,
                 Fidei
                 Defensor
                 .
                 &c.
                 Decimo
                 &
                 Scotiae
                 ,
                 xlvj
                 .
                 Before
                 ROGER
                 NOVVEL
                 and
                 NICHOLAS
                 BANESTER
                 ,
                 
                   two
                   of
                   his
                   Maiesties
                   Iustices
                   of
                   Peace
                   in
                   the
                   Countie
                   of
                   Lancaster
                   .
                   Against
                   Alice
                   Nutter
                   .
                
              
               
                 THe
                 said
                 Examinate
                 saith
                 vpon
                 his
                 oath
                 ,
                 That
                 hee
                 heard
                 his
                 Grand-mother
                 say
                 ,
                 about
                 a
                 yeare
                 ago
                 ,
                 that
                 his
                 mother
                 ,
                 called
                 
                   Elizabeth
                   Deuice
                
                 ,
                 and
                 his
                 Grand-mother
                 ,
                 and
                 the
                 wife
                 of
                 
                   Richard
                   Nutter
                
                 ,
                 
                 of
                 the
                 Rough-Lee
                 aforesaid
                 ,
                 had
                 killed
                 one
                 
                   Henry
                   Mitton
                
                 ,
                 of
                 the
                 Rough-Lee
                 aforesaid
                 ,
                 by
                 Witchcraft
                 .
                 The
                 reason
                 wherefore
                 he
                 was
                 so
                 killed
                 ,
                 was
                 for
                 that
                 this
                 Examinats
                 said
                 Grand-mother
                 had
                 asked
                 the
                 said
                 Mitton
                 a
                 penny
                 :
                 and
                 hee
                 denying
                 her
                 thereof
                 ;
                 thereupon
                 shee
                 procured
                 his
                 death
                 as
                 aforesaid
                 .
              
            
             
               
               
                 
                   The
                   Examination
                   of
                
                 ELIZABETH
                 DEVICE
                 ,
                 
                   mother
                   of
                   the
                   said
                
                 IAMES
                 DEVICE
                 .
                 Against
                 ALICE
                 NVTTER
                 ,
                 
                   wife
                   of
                
                 RICHARD
                 NVTTER
                 ,
                 
                   Prisoner
                   at
                   the
                   Barre
                   ,
                   vpon
                   her
                   Arraignement
                   and
                   Triall
                   .
                
                 Before
                 ROGER
                 NOVVEL
                 and
                 NICHOLAS
                 BANETER
                 ,
                 
                   Esquires
                   ,
                   the
                   day
                   and
                   yeare
                   aforesaid
                   .
                
              
               
                 THis
                 Examinate
                 vpon
                 her
                 oath
                 confesseth
                 ,
                 and
                 saith
                 ,
                 That
                 she
                 ,
                 with
                 the
                 wife
                 of
                 
                   Richard
                   Nutter
                
                 ,
                 called
                 
                   Alice
                   Nutter
                
                 ,
                 Prisoner
                 at
                 the
                 Barre
                 ;
                 and
                 this
                 Examinates
                 said
                 mother
                 ,
                 
                   Elizabeth
                   Sotherne
                
                 ,
                 alias
                 
                   Old
                   Demdike
                
                 ;
                 ioyned
                 altogether
                 ,
                 and
                 bewitched
                 the
                 said
                 
                   Henry
                   Mitton
                
                 to
                 death
                 .
              
               
                 This
                 Examinate
                 further
                 saith
                 ,
                 That
                 vpon
                 Good-friday
                 last
                 ,
                 there
                 dined
                 at
                 this
                 examinats
                 house
                 two
                 women
                 of
                 Burneley
                 Parish
                 ,
                 whose
                 names
                 the
                 said
                 
                   Richard
                   Nutters
                
                 wife
                 ,
                 
                   Alice
                   Nutter
                
                 ,
                 now
                 Prisoner
                 at
                 the
                 Barre
                 ,
                 doth
                 know
                 .
              
            
             
               
               
                 
                   The
                   Examination
                   of
                
                 IAMES
                 DEVICE
                 aforesaid
                 ,
                 Against
                 
                   The
                   said
                
                 ALICE
                 NVTTER
                 ,
                 
                   the
                   day
                   and
                   yeare
                   aforesaid
                
                 .
              
               
                 THe
                 said
                 Examinate
                 vpon
                 his
                 oath
                 saith
                 ,
                 That
                 vpon
                 Good-Friday
                 about
                 twelue
                 of
                 the
                 clocke
                 in
                 the
                 day
                 time
                 ,
                 there
                 dined
                 in
                 this
                 Examinats
                 said
                 mothers
                 house
                 ,
                 a
                 number
                 of
                 persons
                 ,
                 whereof
                 three
                 were
                 men
                 ,
                 with
                 this
                 Examinate
                 ,
                 and
                 the
                 rest
                 women
                 :
                 and
                 that
                 they
                 mette
                 there
                 for
                 these
                 three
                 causes
                 following
                 ,
                 as
                 this
                 Examinats
                 said
                 mother
                 told
                 this
                 Examinate
                 .
              
               
                 The
                 first
                 was
                 for
                 the
                 naming
                 of
                 the
                 Spirit
                 ,
                 which
                 
                   Alizon
                   Deuice
                
                 ,
                 now
                 Prisoner
                 at
                 Lancaster
                 ,
                 had
                 ,
                 but
                 did
                 not
                 name
                 him
                 ,
                 because
                 she
                 was
                 not
                 there
                 .
              
               
                 The
                 second
                 cause
                 was
                 ,
                 for
                 the
                 deliuerie
                 of
                 his
                 said
                 Grand-mother
                 ;
                 this
                 Examinates
                 said
                 sister
                 ,
                 Alizon
                 ;
                 the
                 said
                 
                   Anne
                   Chattox
                
                 ,
                 and
                 her
                 daughter
                 Redferne
                 ;
                 killing
                 the
                 Gaoler
                 at
                 Lancaster
                 ,
                 and
                 before
                 the
                 next
                 Assizes
                 to
                 blow
                 vp
                 the
                 Castle
                 there
                 ;
                 to
                 the
                 end
                 that
                 the
                 foresaid
                 Prisoners
                 might
                 by
                 that
                 meanes
                 make
                 an
                 escape
                 ,
                 and
                 get
                 away
                 :
                 all
                 which
                 this
                 Examinate
                 then
                 heard
                 them
                 conferre
                 of
                 .
              
               
                 And
                 he
                 also
                 saith
                 ,
                 The
                 names
                 of
                 such
                 Witches
                 as
                 were
                 on
                 Good-Friday
                 at
                 this
                 Examinats
                 said
                 Grand
                 mothers
                 house
                 ,
                 and
                 now
                 this
                 Examinates
                 owne
                 mothers
                 ,
                 for
                 so
                 many
                 of
                 them
                 as
                 he
                 doth
                 know
                 ,
                 were
                 amongst
                 others
                 ,
                 
                   Alice
                   Nutter
                
                 ,
                 mother
                 of
                 
                   Myles
                   Nutter
                
                 ,
                 now
                 Prisoner
                 at
                 the
                 Barre
                 .
                 And
                 this
                 Examinate
                 further
                 saith
                 ,
                 That
                 all
                 the
                 said
                 Witches
                 went
                 out
                 of
                 the
                 said
                 house
                 in
                 their
                 
                 owne
                 shapes
                 and
                 likenesses
                 ;
                 and
                 they
                 all
                 ,
                 by
                 that
                 time
                 they
                 were
                 forth
                 of
                 the
                 doores
                 ,
                 were
                 gotten
                 on
                 horse-backe
                 ,
                 like
                 vnto
                 Foales
                 ,
                 some
                 of
                 one
                 colour
                 ,
                 and
                 some
                 of
                 another
                 ;
                 and
                 Prestons
                 wife
                 was
                 the
                 last
                 :
                 and
                 when
                 shee
                 got
                 on
                 horse-back
                 ,
                 they
                 all
                 presently
                 vanished
                 out
                 of
                 this
                 Examinates
                 sight
                 :
                 and
                 before
                 their
                 said
                 parting
                 away
                 ,
                 they
                 all
                 appointed
                 to
                 meete
                 at
                 the
                 said
                 Prestons
                 wifes
                 house
                 that
                 day
                 twelue
                 month
                 ,
                 at
                 which
                 time
                 the
                 said
                 Prestons
                 wife
                 promised
                 to
                 make
                 them
                 a
                 great
                 feast
                 :
                 and
                 if
                 they
                 had
                 occasion
                 to
                 meete
                 in
                 the
                 meane
                 time
                 ,
                 then
                 should
                 warning
                 be
                 giuen
                 to
                 meet
                 vpō
                 Romleys
                 Moore
                 .
              
            
             
               
                 
                   The
                   Examination
                   and
                   Euidence
                   of
                
                 IENNET
                 DEVICE
                 ,
                 
                   daughter
                   of
                
                 ELIZABETH
                 DEVICE
                 .
                 Against
                 ALICE
                 NVTTER
                 ,
                 
                   Prisoner
                   at
                   the
                   Barre
                
                 .
              
               
                 THe
                 said
                 Examinate
                 saith
                 ,
                 That
                 on
                 Good-Friday
                 last
                 ,
                 there
                 was
                 about
                 20.
                 persons
                 ,
                 whereof
                 only
                 two
                 were
                 men
                 (
                 to
                 this
                 Examinates
                 remembrance
                 )
                 at
                 her
                 said
                 Grand-mothers
                 house
                 at
                 Malking-Tower
                 ,
                 about
                 twelue
                 of
                 the
                 clock
                 ;
                 all
                 which
                 persons
                 ,
                 this
                 Examinats
                 said
                 mother
                 tould
                 her
                 ,
                 were
                 Witches
                 .
                 And
                 she
                 further
                 saith
                 ,
                 she
                 knoweth
                 the
                 names
                 of
                 six
                 of
                 them
                 ,
                 viz.
                 the
                 wife
                 of
                 
                   Hugh
                   Hargreiues
                
                 vnder
                 Pendle
                 ,
                 
                   Christopher
                   Howgate
                
                 of
                 Pendle
                 ,
                 Vncle
                 to
                 this
                 Examinat
                 and
                 Elizabeth
                 his
                 wife
                 ;
                 and
                 
                   Dick
                   Myles
                
                 wife
                 of
                 the
                 Rough-Lee
                 ,
                 
                   Christopher
                   Iacks
                
                 of
                 Thorniholme
                 ,
                 and
                 his
                 wife
                 ;
                 and
                 the
                 names
                 of
                 the
                 residue
                 ,
                 she
                 this
                 Examinate
                 doth
                 not
                 know
                 .
              
               
               
                 AFter
                 these
                 Examinations
                 were
                 openly
                 read
                 ,
                 his
                 Lordship
                 being
                 very
                 suspitious
                 of
                 the
                 accusation
                 of
                 this
                 yong
                 wench
                 
                   Iennet
                   Deuice
                
                 ,
                 commanded
                 one
                 to
                 take
                 her
                 away
                 into
                 the
                 vpper
                 Hall
                 ,
                 intending
                 in
                 the
                 meane
                 time
                 to
                 make
                 Triall
                 of
                 her
                 Euidence
                 ,
                 and
                 the
                 Accusation
                 especially
                 against
                 this
                 woman
                 ,
                 who
                 is
                 charged
                 to
                 haue
                 beene
                 at
                 Malking-Tower
                 ,
                 at
                 this
                 great
                 meeting
                 .
                 Master
                 Couel
                 was
                 commanded
                 to
                 set
                 all
                 his
                 Prisoners
                 by
                 themselues
                 ,
                 and
                 betwixt
                 euery
                 Witch
                 another
                 Prisoner
                 ,
                 and
                 some
                 other
                 strange
                 women
                 amongst
                 them
                 ,
                 so
                 as
                 no
                 man
                 could
                 iudge
                 the
                 one
                 from
                 the
                 other
                 :
                 and
                 these
                 being
                 set
                 in
                 order
                 before
                 the
                 Court
                 from
                 the
                 prisoners
                 ,
                 then
                 was
                 the
                 Wench
                 
                   Iennet
                   Deuice
                
                 commaunded
                 to
                 be
                 brought
                 into
                 the
                 Court
                 :
                 and
                 being
                 set
                 before
                 my
                 Lord
                 ,
                 he
                 tooke
                 great
                 paines
                 to
                 examine
                 her
                 of
                 euery
                 particular
                 Point
                 ,
                 What
                 women
                 were
                 at
                 Malking-Tower
                 vpon
                 Good-Friday
                 ?
                 How
                 she
                 knew
                 them
                 ?
                 What
                 were
                 the
                 names
                 of
                 any
                 of
                 them
                 ?
                 And
                 how
                 she
                 knew
                 them
                 to
                 be
                 such
                 as
                 she
                 named
                 ?
              
               
                 In
                 the
                 end
                 being
                 examined
                 by
                 my
                 Lord
                 ,
                 Whether
                 she
                 knew
                 them
                 that
                 were
                 there
                 by
                 their
                 faces
                 ,
                 if
                 she
                 saw
                 them
                 ?
                 she
                 told
                 my
                 Lord
                 she
                 should
                 :
                 whereupon
                 in
                 the
                 presence
                 of
                 this
                 great
                 Audience
                 ,
                 in
                 open
                 Court
                 ,
                 she
                 went
                 and
                 tooke
                 
                   Alice
                   Nutter
                
                 ,
                 this
                 prisoner
                 ,
                 by
                 the
                 hand
                 ,
                 and
                 accused
                 her
                 to
                 be
                 one
                 :
                 and
                 told
                 her
                 in
                 what
                 place
                 shee
                 sat
                 at
                 the
                 Feast
                 at
                 Malking-Tower
                 ,
                 at
                 the
                 great
                 assembly
                 of
                 the
                 Witches
                 ,
                 and
                 who
                 sat
                 next
                 her
                 :
                 what
                 conference
                 they
                 had
                 ,
                 and
                 all
                 the
                 rest
                 of
                 their
                 proceedings
                 at
                 large
                 ,
                 without
                 any
                 manner
                 of
                 contrarietie
                 .
              
               
                 Being
                 demaunded
                 further
                 by
                 his
                 Lordship
                 ,
                 Whether
                 she
                 knew
                 
                   Iohan
                   a
                   Style
                
                 ?
                 she
                 alledged
                 ,
                 she
                 knew
                 no
                 such
                 womā
                 to
                 be
                 there
                 ,
                 neither
                 did
                 she
                 euer
                 heare
                 her
                 name
                 .
              
               
               
                 This
                 could
                 be
                 no
                 forged
                 or
                 false
                 Accusation
                 ,
                 but
                 the
                 very
                 Act
                 of
                 GOD
                 to
                 discouer
                 her
                 .
              
               
                 Thus
                 was
                 no
                 meanes
                 left
                 to
                 doe
                 her
                 all
                 indifferent
                 fauour
                 ,
                 but
                 it
                 was
                 vsed
                 to
                 saue
                 her
                 life
                 ;
                 and
                 to
                 this
                 shee
                 could
                 giue
                 no
                 answere
                 .
              
               
                 But
                 nothing
                 would
                 serue
                 :
                 for
                 old
                 Dembdike
                 ,
                 old
                 Chattox
                 ,
                 and
                 others
                 ,
                 had
                 charged
                 her
                 with
                 innocent
                 bloud
                 ,
                 which
                 cries
                 out
                 for
                 Reuenge
                 ,
                 and
                 will
                 be
                 satisfied
                 .
                 And
                 therefore
                 Almightie
                 GOD
                 ,
                 in
                 his
                 Iustice
                 ,
                 hath
                 cut
                 her
                 off
                 .
              
               
                 And
                 here
                 I
                 leaue
                 her
                 ,
                 vntill
                 shee
                 come
                 to
                 her
                 Execution
                 ,
                 where
                 you
                 shall
                 heare
                 shee
                 died
                 very
                 impenitent
                 ;
                 insomuch
                 as
                 her
                 owne
                 children
                 were
                 neuer
                 able
                 to
                 moue
                 her
                 to
                 confesse
                 any
                 particular
                 offence
                 ,
                 or
                 declare
                 anything
                 ,
                 euen
                 in
                 
                   Articulo
                   Mortis
                
                 :
                 which
                 was
                 a
                 very
                 fearefull
                 thing
                 to
                 all
                 that
                 were
                 present
                 ,
                 who
                 knew
                 shee
                 was
                 guiltie
                 .
              
            
             
               
               
                 THE
                 ARRAIGNMENT
                 
                   and
                   Triall
                   of
                
                 KATHERINE
                 HEVVIT
                 ,
                 
                   Wife
                   of
                
                 IOHN
                 HEVVIT
                 ,
                 alias
                 MOVLD-HEELES
                 ,
                 
                   of
                   Coulne
                   ,
                   in
                   the
                   Countie
                   of
                   Lancaster
                   Clothier
                   ,
                   for
                   Witchcraft
                   ;
                   vpon
                   Wednesday
                   the
                   nineteenth
                   of
                   August
                   ,
                   at
                   the
                   Assises
                   and
                   Generall
                   Gaole-deliuerie
                   ,
                   holden
                   at
                   Lancaster
                   ,
                
                 Before
                 Sir
                 EDVVARD
                 BROMLEY
                 
                   Knight
                   ,
                   one
                   of
                   his
                   Maiesties
                   Iustices
                   of
                   Assise
                   at
                   Lancaster
                   .
                
              
               
                 Katherine
                 Hewit
                 .
              
               
                 WHo
                 but
                 Witches
                 can
                 be
                 proofes
                 ,
                 and
                 so
                 witnesses
                 of
                 the
                 doings
                 of
                 Witches
                 ?
                 since
                 all
                 their
                 Meetings
                 ,
                 Conspiracies
                 ,
                 Practises
                 ,
                 and
                 Murthers
                 ,
                 are
                 the
                 workes
                 of
                 Darkenesse
                 :
                 But
                 to
                 discouer
                 this
                 wicked
                 Furie
                 ,
                 GOD
                 hath
                 not
                 onely
                 raised
                 meanes
                 beyond
                 expectation
                 ,
                 by
                 the
                 voluntarie
                 Confession
                 and
                 Accusation
                 of
                 all
                 that
                 are
                 gone
                 before
                 ,
                 to
                 accuse
                 this
                 Witch
                 (
                 being
                 Witches
                 ,
                 and
                 thereby
                 witnesses
                 of
                 her
                 doings
                 )
                 but
                 after
                 they
                 were
                 committed
                 ,
                 by
                 meanes
                 of
                 a
                 Child
                 ,
                 to
                 discouer
                 her
                 to
                 be
                 one
                 ,
                 and
                 a
                 Principall
                 in
                 that
                 wicked
                 assembly
                 at
                 Malking-Tower
                 ,
                 to
                 deuise
                 such
                 a
                 damnable
                 course
                 for
                 the
                 deliuerance
                 of
                 their
                 friends
                 at
                 
                 Lancaster
                 ,
                 as
                 to
                 kill
                 the
                 Gaoler
                 ,
                 and
                 blow
                 vp
                 the
                 Castle
                 ,
                 wherein
                 the
                 Deuill
                 did
                 but
                 labour
                 to
                 assemble
                 them
                 together
                 ,
                 and
                 so
                 being
                 knowne
                 to
                 send
                 them
                 all
                 one
                 way
                 :
                 And
                 herein
                 I
                 shall
                 commend
                 vnto
                 your
                 good
                 consideration
                 the
                 wonderfull
                 meanes
                 to
                 condemne
                 these
                 parties
                 ,
                 that
                 liued
                 in
                 the
                 world
                 ,
                 free
                 from
                 suspition
                 of
                 any
                 such
                 offences
                 ,
                 as
                 are
                 proued
                 against
                 them
                 :
                 And
                 thereby
                 the
                 more
                 dangerous
                 ,
                 that
                 in
                 the
                 successe
                 wee
                 may
                 lawfully
                 say
                 ,
                 the
                 very
                 Finger
                 of
                 God
                 did
                 point
                 thē
                 out
                 .
                 And
                 she
                 that
                 neuer
                 saw
                 them
                 ,
                 but
                 in
                 that
                 meeting
                 ,
                 did
                 accuse
                 them
                 ,
                 and
                 by
                 their
                 faces
                 discouer
                 them
                 .
              
               
                 This
                 
                   Katherine
                   Hewyt
                
                 ,
                 Prisoner
                 in
                 the
                 Castle
                 at
                 Lancaster
                 ,
                 being
                 brought
                 to
                 the
                 Barre
                 before
                 the
                 great
                 Seate
                 of
                 Iustice
                 ,
                 was
                 there
                 according
                 to
                 the
                 former
                 order
                 and
                 course
                 Indicted
                 and
                 Arraigned
                 ,
                 for
                 that
                 she
                 felloniously
                 had
                 practized
                 ,
                 exercised
                 ,
                 and
                 vsed
                 her
                 Deuillish
                 and
                 wicked
                 Arts
                 ,
                 called
                 
                   Witch-crafts
                   ,
                   Inchantments
                   ,
                   Charmes
                
                 ,
                 and
                 Sorceries
                 ,
                 in
                 ,
                 and
                 vpon
                 
                   Anne
                   Foulds
                
                 ;
                 and
                 the
                 same
                 
                   Anne
                   Foulds
                
                 ,
                 by
                 force
                 of
                 the
                 same
                 witch-craft
                 ,
                 felloniously
                 did
                 kill
                 and
                 murder
                 .
                 
                   Contra
                   formam
                   Statuti
                   ,
                   &c.
                   Et
                   contra
                   Pacem
                   dicti
                   Domini
                   Regis
                   ,
                   &c.
                   
                
              
               
                 Vpon
                 her
                 Arraignement
                 to
                 this
                 Indictment
                 ,
                 shee
                 pleaded
                 not
                 guiltie
                 ;
                 And
                 for
                 the
                 triall
                 of
                 her
                 life
                 put
                 her selfe
                 vpon
                 God
                 and
                 her
                 Countrie
                 .
              
               
                 So
                 as
                 now
                 the
                 Gentlemen
                 of
                 the
                 Iurie
                 of
                 life
                 and
                 death
                 ,
                 stand
                 charged
                 with
                 her
                 as
                 with
                 others
                 .
              
               
                 
                   The
                   Euidence
                   against
                
                 Katherine
                 Hewyt
                 ,
                 
                   Prisoner
                   at
                   the
                   Barre
                
                 .
              
            
             
               
               
                 
                   The
                   Examination
                   of
                
                 IAMES
                 DEVICE
                 ,
                 
                   Sonne
                   of
                
                 ELIZABETH
                 DEVICE
                 ,
                 
                   taken
                   the
                   seuen
                   and
                   twentieth
                   day
                   of
                   Aprill
                   ,
                
                 Anno
                 Reg.
                 Regis
                 IACOBI
                 ,
                 Angliae
                 ,
                 Franciae
                 ,
                 &
                 Hiberniae
                 ,
                 decimo
                 ,
                 &
                 Scotiae
                 quadragesimo
                 quarto
                 .
                 Before
                 ROGER
                 NOWEL
                 ,
                 and
                 NICHOLAS
                 BANNESTER
                 ,
                 
                   Esquires
                   ;
                   two
                   of
                   his
                   Maiesties
                   Iustices
                   of
                   Peace
                   ,
                   in
                   the
                   Countie
                   of
                   Lancaster
                   .
                
                 Against
                 KATHERINE
                 HEWYT
                 ,
                 alias
                 MOVLD-HEELES
                 
                   of
                   Colne
                
                 .
                 viz.
                 
              
               
                 THis
                 Examinate
                 saith
                 ,
                 that
                 vpon
                 Good-Friday
                 last
                 ,
                 about
                 twelue
                 of
                 the
                 Clock
                 in
                 the
                 day
                 time
                 ,
                 there
                 dined
                 at
                 this
                 Examinates
                 Mothers
                 house
                 a
                 number
                 of
                 persons
                 :
                 And
                 hee
                 also
                 saith
                 ,
                 that
                 they
                 were
                 Witches
                 ;
                 and
                 that
                 the
                 names
                 of
                 the
                 said
                 Witches
                 ,
                 that
                 were
                 there
                 ,
                 for
                 so
                 many
                 of
                 them
                 as
                 he
                 did
                 know
                 ,
                 were
                 amongst
                 others
                 
                   Katherine
                   Hewyt
                
                 ,
                 wife
                 of
                 
                   Iohn
                   Hewyt
                
                 ,
                 alias
                 Mould-heeles
                 ,
                 of
                 Colne
                 ,
                 in
                 the
                 Countie
                 of
                 Lancaster
                 Clothier
                 ;
                 And
                 that
                 the
                 said
                 Witch
                 ,
                 called
                 
                   Katherine
                   Hewyt
                
                 ,
                 alias
                 Mould-heeles
                 ,
                 and
                 one
                 
                   Alice
                   Gray
                
                 ,
                 did
                 confesse
                 amongst
                 the
                 said
                 Witches
                 at
                 their
                 meeting
                 at
                 Malkin-Tower
                 aforesaid
                 ,
                 that
                 they
                 had
                 killed
                 Foulds
                 wifes
                 child
                 ,
                 called
                 
                   Anne
                   Foulds
                
                 ,
                 of
                 Colne
                 :
                 And
                 also
                 said
                 ,
                 that
                 they
                 had
                 then
                 in
                 hanck
                 a
                 child
                 of
                 
                   Michael
                   Hartleys
                
                 of
                 Colne
                 .
              
               
                 And
                 this
                 Examinate
                 further
                 saith
                 ,
                 that
                 all
                 the
                 said
                 Witches
                 went
                 out
                 of
                 the
                 said
                 house
                 in
                 their
                 own
                 shapes
                 and
                 likenesses
                 ,
                 and
                 by
                 that
                 time
                 they
                 were
                 gotten
                 forth
                 
                 of
                 the
                 doores
                 ,
                 they
                 were
                 gotten
                 on
                 Horse-back
                 like
                 vnto
                 foales
                 ,
                 some
                 of
                 one
                 colour
                 ,
                 some
                 of
                 an
                 other
                 ,
                 and
                 the
                 said
                 Prestons
                 wife
                 was
                 the
                 last
                 :
                 And
                 when
                 shee
                 got
                 on
                 Horse-back
                 ,
                 they
                 all
                 presently
                 vanished
                 out
                 of
                 this
                 Examinates
                 sight
                 .
                 And
                 before
                 their
                 said
                 parting
                 away
                 they
                 all
                 appointed
                 to
                 meete
                 at
                 the
                 said
                 Prestons
                 wifes
                 house
                 that
                 day
                 twelue
                 Moneths
                 :
                 at
                 which
                 time
                 the
                 said
                 Prestons
                 wife
                 promised
                 to
                 make
                 them
                 a
                 great
                 feast
                 ,
                 and
                 if
                 they
                 had
                 occasion
                 to
                 meete
                 in
                 the
                 meane
                 time
                 ,
                 then
                 should
                 warning
                 be
                 giuen
                 that
                 they
                 all
                 should
                 meet
                 vpon
                 Romlesmoore
                 .
              
            
             
               
                 
                   The
                   Examination
                   and
                   Euidence
                   of
                
                 ELIZABETH
                 DEVICE
                 ,
                 
                   Mother
                   of
                   the
                   said
                
                 IAMES
                 DEVICE
                 ,
                 Against
                 KATHERINE
                 HEWYT
                 ,
                 alias
                 MOVLD-HEELES
                 ,
                 
                   Prisoner
                   at
                   the
                   Barre
                   vpon
                   her
                   Arraignement
                   and
                   Triall
                   ,
                   taken
                   the
                   day
                   and
                   yeare
                   aforesaid
                   .
                
                 viz.
                 
              
               
                 THis
                 Examinate
                 vpon
                 her
                 oath
                 confesseth
                 ,
                 that
                 vpon
                 Good-Friday
                 last
                 there
                 dyned
                 at
                 this
                 Examinates
                 house
                 ,
                 which
                 she
                 hath
                 said
                 are
                 Witches
                 ,
                 and
                 verily
                 thinketh
                 to
                 bee
                 Witches
                 ,
                 such
                 as
                 the
                 said
                 
                   Iames
                   Deuice
                
                 hath
                 formerly
                 spoken
                 of
                 ;
                 amongst
                 which
                 was
                 
                   Katherine
                   Hewyt
                
                 ,
                 alias
                 Mould-heeles
                 ,
                 now
                 Prisoner
                 at
                 the
                 Barre
                 :
                 and
                 shee
                 also
                 saith
                 ,
                 that
                 at
                 their
                 meeting
                 on
                 Good-Friday
                 at
                 Malkin-Tower
                 aforesaid
                 ,
                 the
                 said
                 
                   Katherine
                   Hewyt
                
                 ,
                 alias
                 Mould-heeles
                 ,
                 and
                 
                   Alice
                   Gray
                
                 ,
                 did
                 confesse
                 ,
                 they
                 had
                 killed
                 
                 a
                 child
                 of
                 Foulds
                 of
                 Colne
                 ,
                 called
                 
                   Anne
                   Foulds
                
                 ,
                 and
                 had
                 gotten
                 hold
                 of
                 an
                 other
                 .
              
               
                 And
                 shee
                 further
                 saith
                 ,
                 the
                 said
                 
                   Katherine
                   Hewyt
                
                 with
                 all
                 the
                 rest
                 ,
                 there
                 gaue
                 her
                 consent
                 with
                 the
                 said
                 Prestons
                 wife
                 for
                 the
                 murder
                 of
                 Master
                 Lister
                 .
              
            
             
               
                 
                   The
                   Examination
                   and
                   Euidence
                   of
                
                 IENNET
                 DEVICE
                 ,
                 Against
                 KATHERINE
                 HEWYT
                 ,
                 alias
                 MOVLD-HEELES
                 ,
                 
                   Prisoner
                   at
                   the
                   Barre
                
                 .
              
               
                 THe
                 said
                 Examinate
                 saith
                 ,
                 That
                 vpon
                 Good-Friday
                 last
                 ,
                 there
                 was
                 about
                 twentie
                 persons
                 ,
                 where
                 of
                 two
                 were
                 men
                 to
                 this
                 Examinates
                 remembrance
                 ,
                 at
                 her
                 said
                 Grand-mothers
                 house
                 ,
                 called
                 Malkin-Tower
                 aforesaid
                 ,
                 about
                 twelue
                 of
                 the
                 clock
                 :
                 All
                 which
                 persons
                 this
                 Examinates
                 said
                 mother
                 told
                 her
                 were
                 Witches
                 ,
                 and
                 that
                 shee
                 knoweth
                 the
                 names
                 of
                 sixe
                 of
                 the
                 said
                 Witches
                 .
              
               
                 Then
                 was
                 the
                 said
                 
                   Iennet
                   Deuice
                
                 commanded
                 by
                 his
                 Lordship
                 ,
                 to
                 finde
                 and
                 point
                 out
                 the
                 said
                 
                   Katherine
                   Hewyt
                
                 ,
                 alias
                 Mould-heeles
                 ,
                 amongst
                 all
                 the
                 rest
                 of
                 the
                 said
                 Women
                 ,
                 whereupon
                 shee
                 went
                 and
                 tooke
                 the
                 said
                 
                   Katherine
                   Hewyt
                
                 by
                 the
                 hand
                 :
                 Accused
                 her
                 to
                 bee
                 one
                 ,
                 and
                 told
                 her
                 in
                 what
                 place
                 shee
                 sate
                 at
                 the
                 feast
                 at
                 Malkin-Tower
                 ,
                 at
                 the
                 great
                 Assembly
                 of
                 the
                 Witches
                 ,
                 and
                 who
                 sate
                 next
                 her
                 ;
                 what
                 conference
                 they
                 had
                 ,
                 and
                 all
                 the
                 rest
                 of
                 their
                 proceedings
                 at
                 large
                 ,
                 without
                 any
                 manner
                 of
                 contrarietie
                 :
                 Being
                 demanded
                 further
                 by
                 his
                 Lordship
                 ,
                 
                 whether
                 
                   Ioane
                   a
                   Downe
                
                 were
                 at
                 that
                 Feast
                 ,
                 and
                 meeting
                 ,
                 or
                 no
                 ?
                 shee
                 alleaged
                 shee
                 knew
                 no
                 such
                 woman
                 to
                 be
                 there
                 ,
                 neither
                 did
                 shee
                 euer
                 heare
                 her
                 name
                 .
              
               
                 If
                 this
                 were
                 not
                 an
                 Honorable
                 meanes
                 to
                 trie
                 the
                 accusation
                 against
                 them
                 ,
                 let
                 all
                 the
                 World
                 vpon
                 due
                 examination
                 giue
                 iudgement
                 of
                 it
                 .
                 And
                 here
                 I
                 leaue
                 her
                 the
                 last
                 of
                 this
                 companie
                 ,
                 to
                 the
                 Verdict
                 of
                 the
                 Gentlemen
                 of
                 the
                 Iurie
                 of
                 life
                 and
                 death
                 ,
                 as
                 hereafter
                 shall
                 appeare
                 .
              
               
                 Heere
                 the
                 Iurie
                 of
                 Life
                 and
                 Death
                 ,
                 hauing
                 spent
                 the
                 most
                 part
                 of
                 the
                 day
                 ,
                 in
                 due
                 consideration
                 of
                 their
                 offences
                 ;
                 Returned
                 into
                 the
                 Court
                 to
                 deliuer
                 vp
                 their
                 Verdict
                 against
                 them
                 ,
                 as
                 followeth
                 .
              
            
             
               
                 The
                 Verdict
                 of
                 Life
                 and
                 Death
                 .
              
               
                 WHo
                 vpon
                 their
                 Oathes
                 found
                 
                   Iennet
                   Bierley
                   ,
                   Ellen
                   Bierley
                
                 ,
                 and
                 
                   Iane
                   Southworth
                
                 ,
                 not
                 guiltie
                 of
                 the
                 offence
                 of
                 Witch-craft
                 ▪
                 conteyned
                 in
                 the
                 Indictment
                 against
                 them
                 .
              
               
                 
                   Anne
                   Redferne
                
                 ,
                 guiltie
                 of
                 the
                 fellonie
                 &
                 murder
                 ,
                 conteyned
                 in
                 the
                 Indictment
                 against
                 her
                 .
              
               
                 
                   Alice
                   Nutter
                
                 ,
                 guiltie
                 of
                 the
                 fellonie
                 and
                 murder
                 conteyned
                 in
                 the
                 Indictment
                 against
                 her
                 .
              
               
                 And
              
               
                 
                   Katherine
                   Hewyt
                
                 ,
                 guiltie
                 of
                 the
                 fellonie
                 &
                 murder
                 conteyned
                 in
                 the
                 Indictment
                 against
                 her
                 .
              
               
               
                 Whereupon
                 Master
                 Couell
                 was
                 commanded
                 by
                 the
                 Court
                 to
                 take
                 away
                 the
                 Prisoners
                 Conuicted
                 ,
                 and
                 to
                 bring
                 forth
                 
                   Iohn
                   Bulcocke
                   ,
                   Iane
                   Bulcocke
                
                 his
                 mother
                 ,
                 and
                 
                   Alizon
                   Deuice
                
                 ,
                 Prisoners
                 in
                 the
                 Castle
                 at
                 Lancaster
                 ,
                 to
                 receiue
                 their
                 Trialls
                 .
              
               
                 Who
                 were
                 brought
                 to
                 their
                 Arraignement
                 and
                 Triall
                 as
                 hereafter
                 followeth
                 .
              
            
          
           
             
             
               
                 THE
                 ARRAIGNMENT
                 
                   and
                   Triall
                   of
                
                 IOHN
                 BVLCOCK
                 and
                 IANE
                 BVLCOCK
                 
                   his
                   mother
                   ,
                   wife
                   of
                
                 C●●ISTOPHER
                 BVLCOCK
                 ,
                 
                   of
                   the
                   Mosse-end
                   ,
                   in
                   the
                   Countie
                   of
                   Lancaster
                   ,
                   for
                   Witch-craft
                   :
                   vpon
                   Wednesday
                   in
                   the
                   after-noone
                   ,
                   the
                   nineteenth
                   of
                   August
                   ,
                
                 1612.
                 
                 
                   At
                   the
                   Assizes
                   and
                   generall
                   Gaole
                   deliuery
                   ,
                   holden
                   at
                   Lancaster
                   .
                
                 Before
                 Sir
                 EDVVARD
                 BROMLEY
                 ,
                 
                   Knight
                   ,
                   one
                   of
                   his
                   Maiesties
                   Iustices
                   of
                   Assizes
                   at
                   Lancaster
                   .
                
              
               
                 John
                 Bulcock
                 ,
                 and
                 
                   Jane
                   Bulcock
                
                 his
                 mother
                 .
              
               
                 IF
                 there
                 were
                 nothing
                 to
                 charge
                 these
                 Prisoners
                 withall
                 ,
                 whom
                 now
                 you
                 may
                 behold
                 vpon
                 their
                 Arraignement
                 and
                 Triall
                 but
                 their
                 poasting
                 in
                 haste
                 to
                 the
                 great
                 Assembly
                 at
                 Malking-Tower
                 ,
                 there
                 to
                 aduise
                 and
                 consult
                 amongst
                 the
                 Witches
                 ,
                 what
                 were
                 to
                 bee
                 done
                 to
                 set
                 at
                 liberty
                 the
                 Witches
                 in
                 the
                 Castle
                 at
                 Lancaster
                 :
                 Ioyne
                 with
                 
                   Iennet
                   Preston
                
                 for
                 the
                 murder
                 of
                 Master
                 Lister
                 ;
                 and
                 such
                 like
                 wicked
                 &
                 diuellish
                 practises
                 :
                 
                 It
                 were
                 sufficient
                 to
                 accuse
                 them
                 for
                 Witches
                 ,
                 &
                 to
                 bring
                 their
                 liues
                 to
                 a
                 lawfull
                 Triall
                 .
                 But
                 amongst
                 all
                 the
                 Witches
                 in
                 this
                 company
                 ,
                 there
                 is
                 not
                 a
                 more
                 fearefull
                 and
                 diuellish
                 Act
                 committed
                 ,
                 and
                 voluntarily
                 confessed
                 by
                 any
                 of
                 them
                 ,
                 comparable
                 to
                 this
                 ,
                 vnder
                 the
                 degree
                 of
                 Murder
                 ▪
                 which
                 impudently
                 now
                 (
                 at
                 the
                 Barre
                 hauing
                 formerly
                 confessed
                 ;
                 )
                 they
                 forsweare
                 ,
                 swearing
                 they
                 were
                 neuer
                 at
                 the
                 great
                 assembly
                 at
                 Malking
                 Tower
                 ;
                 although
                 the
                 very
                 Witches
                 that
                 were
                 present
                 in
                 that
                 action
                 with
                 them
                 ,
                 iustifie
                 ,
                 maintaine
                 ,
                 and
                 sweare
                 the
                 same
                 to
                 be
                 true
                 against
                 them
                 :
                 Crying
                 out
                 in
                 very
                 violent
                 &
                 outragious
                 manner
                 ,
                 euen
                 to
                 the
                 gallowes
                 ,
                 where
                 they
                 died
                 impenitent
                 for
                 any
                 thing
                 we
                 know
                 ,
                 because
                 they
                 died
                 silent
                 in
                 the
                 particulars
                 .
                 These
                 of
                 all
                 others
                 were
                 the
                 most
                 desperate
                 wretches
                 (
                 void
                 of
                 all
                 feare
                 or
                 grace
                 )
                 in
                 all
                 this
                 Packe
                 ;
                 Their
                 offences
                 not
                 much
                 inferiour
                 to
                 Murther
                 :
                 for
                 which
                 you
                 shall
                 heare
                 what
                 matter
                 of
                 Record
                 wee
                 haue
                 against
                 them
                 ;
                 and
                 whether
                 they
                 be
                 worthie
                 to
                 continue
                 ,
                 we
                 leaue
                 it
                 to
                 the
                 good
                 consideration
                 of
                 the
                 Iury.
                 
              
               
                 The
                 said
                 
                   Iohn
                   Bulcock
                
                 ,
                 and
                 
                   Iane
                   Bulcock
                
                 his
                 mother
                 ,
                 Prisoners
                 in
                 the
                 Castle
                 at
                 Lancaster
                 ,
                 being
                 brought
                 to
                 the
                 Barre
                 before
                 the
                 great
                 Seat
                 of
                 Iustice
                 :
                 were
                 there
                 according
                 to
                 the
                 former
                 order
                 and
                 course
                 Indicted
                 and
                 Arraigned
                 ,
                 for
                 that
                 they
                 felloniously
                 had
                 practised
                 ,
                 exercised
                 and
                 vsed
                 their
                 diuellish
                 &
                 wicked
                 Arts
                 ,
                 called
                 
                   Witchcrafts
                   ,
                   Inchantments
                   ,
                   Charmes
                
                 and
                 Sorceries
                 ,
                 in
                 and
                 vpon
                 the
                 body
                 of
                 
                   Iennet
                   Deane
                
                 :
                 so
                 as
                 the
                 body
                 of
                 the
                 said
                 
                   Iennet
                   Deane
                
                 ,
                 by
                 force
                 of
                 the
                 said
                 Witchcrafts
                 ,
                 wasted
                 and
                 consumed
                 ;
                 and
                 after
                 she
                 ,
                 the
                 said
                 Iennet
                 ,
                 became
                 madde
                 .
                 
                   Contra
                   formam
                   Statuti
                
                 ,
                 &c.
                 
                   Et
                   Contra
                   Pacem
                
                 ,
                 &c.
                 
              
               
                 Vpon
                 their
                 Arraignement
                 ,
                 to
                 this
                 Indictment
                 they
                 pleaded
                 not
                 guiltie
                 ;
                 and
                 for
                 the
                 triall
                 of
                 their
                 liues
                 put
                 
                 themselues
                 vpon
                 God
                 and
                 their
                 Countrey
                 .
              
               
                 So
                 as
                 now
                 the
                 Gentlemen
                 of
                 the
                 Iurie
                 of
                 Life
                 and
                 Death
                 stand
                 charged
                 with
                 them
                 as
                 with
                 others
                 .
              
               
                 
                   The
                   Euidence
                   against
                
                 Iohn
                 Bulcock
                 ,
                 and
                 Iane
                 Bulcock
                 
                   his
                   mother
                   ,
                   Prisoners
                   at
                   the
                   Barre
                   .
                
              
            
             
               
                 
                   The
                   Examination
                   of
                
                 IAMES
                 DEVICE
                 
                   taken
                   the
                   seuen
                   and
                   twentieth
                   day
                   of
                   Aprill
                   aforesaid
                   .
                
                 Before
                 ROGER
                 NOVVEL
                 and
                 NICHOLAS
                 BANESTER
                 ,
                 
                   Esquires
                   ,
                   two
                   of
                   his
                   Maiesties
                   Iustices
                   of
                   Peace
                   in
                   the
                   Countie
                   of
                   Lancaster
                   .
                
                 Against
                 IOHN
                 BVLCOCK
                 and
                 IANE
                 BVLCOCK
                 
                   his
                   mother
                
                 .
              
               
                 THis
                 Examinate
                 saith
                 ,
                 That
                 vpon
                 Good-Friday
                 ,
                 about
                 twelue
                 of
                 the
                 clocke
                 in
                 the
                 day
                 time
                 ,
                 there
                 dined
                 in
                 this
                 Examinates
                 said
                 Mothers
                 house
                 a
                 number
                 of
                 persons
                 ,
                 whereof
                 three
                 were
                 men
                 with
                 this
                 Examinate
                 and
                 the
                 rest
                 women
                 ,
                 and
                 that
                 they
                 met
                 there
                 for
                 these
                 three
                 causes
                 following
                 ,
                 as
                 this
                 Examinates
                 said
                 mother
                 told
                 this
                 Examinate
                 .
                 The
                 first
                 was
                 ,
                 for
                 the
                 naming
                 of
                 the
                 Spirit
                 which
                 
                   Allison
                   Deuice
                
                 ,
                 now
                 prisoner
                 at
                 Lancaster
                 had
                 ,
                 but
                 did
                 not
                 name
                 him
                 ,
                 because
                 shee
                 was
                 not
                 there
                 .
                 The
                 second
                 cause
                 was
                 ,
                 for
                 the
                 deliuerie
                 of
                 his
                 said
                 Grand-mother
                 ;
                 this
                 Examinates
                 said
                 sister
                 Allison
                 ;
                 the
                 said
                 
                   Anne
                   Chattox
                
                 ,
                 and
                 her
                 daughter
                 Redferne
                 ,
                 killing
                 
                 the
                 Gaoler
                 at
                 Lancaster
                 ,
                 and
                 before
                 the
                 next
                 Assises
                 to
                 blow
                 vp
                 the
                 Castle
                 there
                 ,
                 to
                 that
                 end
                 the
                 aforesaid
                 prisoners
                 might
                 by
                 that
                 meanes
                 make
                 an
                 escape
                 ,
                 and
                 get
                 away
                 :
                 All
                 which
                 this
                 Examinate
                 then
                 heard
                 them
                 conferre
                 of
                 .
              
               
                 And
                 he
                 also
                 sayth
                 ,
                 That
                 the
                 names
                 of
                 such
                 said
                 Witches
                 as
                 were
                 on
                 Good-Friday
                 at
                 this
                 Examinates
                 said
                 Grand-mothers
                 house
                 ,
                 and
                 now
                 this
                 Examinates
                 owne
                 mothers
                 ,
                 for
                 so
                 many
                 of
                 them
                 as
                 hee
                 did
                 know
                 ,
                 were
                 these
                 ,
                 
                   viz.
                   Iane
                   Bulcock
                
                 ,
                 wife
                 of
                 
                   Christopher
                   Bulcock
                
                 ,
                 of
                 the
                 Mosse
                 end
                 ,
                 and
                 Iohn
                 her
                 sonne
                 amongst
                 others
                 ,
                 &c.
                 
              
               
                 And
                 this
                 Examinate
                 further
                 saith
                 ,
                 That
                 all
                 the
                 said
                 Witches
                 went
                 out
                 of
                 the
                 said
                 house
                 in
                 their
                 own
                 shapes
                 and
                 likenesses
                 :
                 and
                 they
                 all
                 ,
                 by
                 that
                 they
                 were
                 forth
                 of
                 the
                 dores
                 ,
                 were
                 gotten
                 on
                 horse-backe
                 ,
                 like
                 vnto
                 Foales
                 ,
                 some
                 of
                 one
                 colour
                 ,
                 and
                 some
                 of
                 another
                 ,
                 and
                 Prestons
                 wife
                 was
                 the
                 last
                 :
                 and
                 when
                 shee
                 got
                 on
                 horse-backe
                 ,
                 they
                 all
                 presently
                 vanished
                 out
                 of
                 this
                 Examinates
                 sight
                 .
              
               
                 And
                 further
                 he
                 saith
                 ,
                 That
                 the
                 said
                 
                   Iohn
                   Bulcock
                
                 and
                 Iane
                 his
                 said
                 Mother
                 ,
                 did
                 confesse
                 vpon
                 Good-Friday
                 last
                 ,
                 at
                 the
                 said
                 Malking-Tower
                 ,
                 in
                 the
                 hearing
                 of
                 this
                 Examinate
                 ,
                 That
                 they
                 had
                 bewitched
                 ,
                 at
                 the
                 new-field
                 Edge
                 in
                 Yorkeshire
                 ,
                 a
                 woman
                 called
                 Iennet
                 ,
                 wife
                 of
                 
                   Iohn
                   Deyne
                
                 ,
                 besides
                 ,
                 her
                 Reason
                 ;
                 and
                 the
                 said
                 Womans
                 name
                 so
                 bewitched
                 ,
                 he
                 did
                 not
                 heare
                 them
                 speake
                 of
                 ▪
                 And
                 this
                 Examinate
                 further
                 saith
                 ,
                 That
                 at
                 the
                 said
                 Feast
                 at
                 Malking-Tower
                 this
                 Examinate
                 heard
                 them
                 all
                 giue
                 their
                 consents
                 to
                 put
                 the
                 said
                 Master
                 
                   Thomas
                   Lister
                
                 of
                 Westby
                 to
                 death
                 .
                 And
                 after
                 Master
                 Lister
                 should
                 be
                 made
                 away
                 by
                 Witch-craft
                 ,
                 then
                 all
                 the
                 said
                 Witches
                 gaue
                 their
                 consents
                 to
                 ioyne
                 all
                 together
                 ,
                 to
                 hanck
                 Master
                 
                 
                   Leonard
                   Lister
                
                 ,
                 when
                 he
                 should
                 come
                 to
                 dwell
                 at
                 the
                 Cow-gill
                 ,
                 and
                 so
                 put
                 him
                 to
                 death
                 .
              
            
             
               
                 
                   The
                   Examination
                   of
                
                 ELIZABETH
                 DEVICE
                 ,
                 
                   Taken
                   the
                   day
                   and
                   yeare
                   aforesaid
                   ,
                
                 Before
                 ROGER
                 NOVVEL
                 and
                 NICHOLAS
                 BANESTER
                 ,
                 
                   Esquires
                   ,
                   two
                   of
                   his
                   Maiesties
                   Iustices
                   of
                   Peace
                   in
                   the
                   Countie
                   of
                   Lancaster
                   ,
                
                 Against
                 IOHN
                 BVLCOCK
                 ,
                 and
                 IANE
                 BVLCOCK
                 ,
                 
                   his
                   mother
                
                 .
              
               
                 THis
                 Examinate
                 saith
                 vpon
                 her
                 oath
                 ,
                 That
                 she
                 doth
                 verily
                 thinke
                 ,
                 that
                 the
                 said
                 Bulcockes
                 wife
                 doth
                 know
                 of
                 some
                 Witches
                 to
                 bee
                 about
                 Padyham
                 and
                 Burnley
                 .
              
               
                 And
                 shee
                 further
                 saith
                 ,
                 That
                 at
                 the
                 said
                 meeting
                 at
                 Malking-Tower
                 ,
                 as
                 aforesaid
                 ,
                 
                   Katherine
                   Hewit
                
                 and
                 
                   Iohn
                   Bulcock
                
                 ,
                 with
                 all
                 the
                 rest
                 then
                 there
                 ,
                 gaue
                 their
                 consents
                 ,
                 with
                 the
                 said
                 Prestons
                 wife
                 ,
                 for
                 the
                 killing
                 of
                 the
                 said
                 Master
                 Lister
                 .
              
            
             
               
               
                 
                   The
                   Examination
                   and
                   Euidence
                   of
                
                 IENNET
                 DEVICE
                 Against
                 IOHN
                 BVLCOCKE
                 and
                 IANE
                 
                   his
                   mother
                   ,
                   prisoners
                   at
                   the
                   Barre
                   .
                
              
               
                 THe
                 said
                 Examinate
                 saith
                 ,
                 That
                 vpon
                 Good-Friday
                 last
                 there
                 was
                 about
                 twentie
                 persons
                 ,
                 whereof
                 two
                 were
                 men
                 ,
                 to
                 this
                 Examinates
                 remembrance
                 ,
                 at
                 her
                 said
                 Grand-mothers
                 house
                 ,
                 called
                 Malking-Tower
                 aforesaid
                 :
                 all
                 which
                 persons
                 ,
                 this
                 Examinates
                 said
                 mother
                 told
                 her
                 were
                 Witches
                 ,
                 and
                 that
                 she
                 knoweth
                 the
                 names
                 of
                 sixe
                 of
                 the
                 said
                 Witches
                 .
              
               
                 Then
                 was
                 the
                 said
                 
                   Iennet
                   Deuice
                
                 commaunded
                 by
                 his
                 Lordship
                 to
                 finde
                 and
                 point
                 out
                 the
                 said
                 
                   Iohn
                   Bulcock
                
                 and
                 
                   Iane
                   Bulcock
                
                 amongst
                 all
                 the
                 rest
                 :
                 whereupon
                 shee
                 went
                 and
                 tooke
                 
                   Iane
                   Bulcock
                
                 by
                 the
                 hand
                 ,
                 accused
                 her
                 to
                 be
                 one
                 ,
                 and
                 told
                 her
                 in
                 what
                 place
                 shee
                 sat
                 at
                 the
                 Feast
                 at
                 Malking-Tower
                 ,
                 at
                 the
                 great
                 Assembly
                 of
                 the
                 Witches
                 ;
                 and
                 who
                 sat
                 next
                 her
                 :
                 and
                 accused
                 the
                 said
                 
                   Iohn
                   Bulcock
                
                 to
                 turne
                 the
                 Spitt
                 there
                 ;
                 what
                 conference
                 they
                 had
                 ,
                 and
                 all
                 the
                 rest
                 of
                 their
                 proceedings
                 at
                 large
                 ,
                 without
                 any
                 manner
                 of
                 contrarietie
                 .
              
               
                 Shee
                 further
                 told
                 his
                 Lordship
                 ,
                 there
                 was
                 a
                 woman
                 that
                 came
                 out
                 of
                 Craven
                 to
                 that
                 Great
                 Feast
                 at
                 Malking-Tower
                 ,
                 but
                 shee
                 could
                 not
                 finde
                 her
                 out
                 amongst
                 all
                 those
                 women
                 .
              
            
             
               
               
                 ¶
                 The
                 names
                 of
                 the
                 Witches
                 at
                 the
                 Great
                 Assembly
                 and
                 Feast
                 at
                 Malking-Tower
                 ,
                 viz.
                 vpon
                 Good-Friday
                 last
                 ,
                 1612.
                 
              
               
                 
                   
                     Elizabeth
                     Deuice
                  
                   .
                
                 
                   
                     Alice
                     Nutter
                  
                   .
                
                 
                   
                     Katherine
                     Hewit
                  
                   ,
                   alias
                   Mould-heeles
                   .
                
                 
                   
                     John
                     Bulcock
                  
                   .
                
                 
                   
                     Jane
                     Bulcock
                  
                   .
                
                 
                   
                     Alice
                     Graie
                  
                   .
                
                 
                   
                     Jennet
                     Hargraues
                  
                   .
                
                 
                   
                     Elizabeth
                     Hargraues
                  
                   .
                
                 
                   
                     Christopher
                     Howgate
                  
                   ,
                   Sonne
                   to
                   old
                   Dembdike
                   .
                
                 
                   
                     Christopher
                     Hargraues
                  
                   .
                
                 
                   
                   
                     Grace
                     Hay
                  
                   ,
                   of
                   Padiham
                   .
                
                 
                   
                     Anne
                     Crunckshey
                  
                   ,
                   of
                   Marchden
                   .
                
                 
                   
                     Elizabeth
                     Howgate
                  
                   .
                
                 
                   
                     Jennet
                     Preston
                  
                   ,
                   Executed
                   at
                   Yorke
                   for
                   the
                   Murder
                   of
                   Master
                   Lister
                   .
                
              
               
                 With
                 many
                 more
                 ,
                 which
                 being
                 bound
                 ouer
                 to
                 appeare
                 at
                 the
                 last
                 Assizes
                 ,
                 are
                 since
                 that
                 time
                 fled
                 to
                 saue
                 themselues
                 .
              
            
             
               
               
                 THE
                 ARRAIGNMENT
                 
                   and
                   Triall
                   of
                
                 ALIZON
                 DEVICE
                 ,
                 
                   Daughter
                   of
                
                 ELIZABETH
                 DEVICE
                 ,
                 
                   within
                   the
                   Forrest
                   of
                   Pendle
                   ,
                   in
                   the
                   Countie
                   of
                   Lancaster
                   aforesaid
                   ,
                   for
                   Witch-craft
                   .
                
              
               
                 Alizon
                 Deuice
                 .
              
               
                 BEhold
                 ,
                 aboue
                 all
                 the
                 rest
                 ,
                 this
                 lamentable
                 spectacle
                 of
                 a
                 poore
                 distressed
                 Pedler
                 ;
                 how
                 miserably
                 hee
                 was
                 tormented
                 ,
                 and
                 what
                 punishment
                 hee
                 endured
                 for
                 a
                 small
                 offence
                 ,
                 by
                 the
                 wicked
                 and
                 damnable
                 practise
                 of
                 this
                 odious
                 Witch
                 ,
                 first
                 instructed
                 therein
                 by
                 old
                 Dembdike
                 her
                 Grand-mother
                 ,
                 of
                 whose
                 life
                 and
                 death
                 with
                 her
                 good
                 conditions
                 ,
                 I
                 haue
                 written
                 at
                 large
                 before
                 in
                 the
                 beginning
                 of
                 this
                 worke
                 ,
                 out
                 of
                 her
                 owne
                 Examinations
                 and
                 other
                 Records
                 ,
                 now
                 remayning
                 with
                 the
                 Clarke
                 of
                 the
                 Crowne
                 at
                 Lancaster
                 :
                 And
                 by
                 her
                 Mother
                 brought
                 vp
                 in
                 this
                 detestable
                 course
                 of
                 life
                 ;
                 wherein
                 I
                 pray
                 you
                 obserue
                 but
                 the
                 manner
                 and
                 course
                 of
                 it
                 in
                 order
                 ,
                 euen
                 to
                 the
                 last
                 period
                 at
                 her
                 Execution
                 ,
                 for
                 this
                 horrible
                 fact
                 ,
                 able
                 to
                 terrifie
                 and
                 astonish
                 any
                 man
                 liuing
                 .
              
               
                 This
                 
                   Alizon
                   Deuice
                
                 ,
                 Prisoner
                 in
                 the
                 Castle
                 of
                 Lancaster
                 ,
                 
                 being
                 brought
                 to
                 the
                 Barre
                 before
                 the
                 great
                 Seat
                 of
                 Iustice
                 ,
                 was
                 there
                 according
                 to
                 the
                 former
                 order
                 and
                 course
                 indicted
                 and
                 arraigned
                 ,
                 for
                 that
                 shee
                 felloniously
                 had
                 practised
                 ,
                 exercised
                 ,
                 and
                 vsed
                 her
                 Deuillish
                 and
                 wicked
                 Arts
                 ,
                 called
                 
                   Witch-craf●s
                   ,
                   Inchantments
                   ,
                   Charmes
                
                 ,
                 and
                 Sorceries
                 ,
                 in
                 ,
                 and
                 vpon
                 one
                 
                   Iohn
                   Law
                
                 ,
                 a
                 Petti-chapman
                 ,
                 and
                 him
                 had
                 lamed
                 ,
                 so
                 that
                 his
                 bodie
                 wasted
                 and
                 consumed
                 ,
                 &c.
                 
                   Contra
                   formam
                   Statuti
                   ,
                   &c.
                   
                   Et
                   contra
                   pacem
                   dicti
                   Domini
                   Regis
                   ,
                   Coronam
                   &
                   Dignitatem
                   ,
                   &c.
                   
                
              
               
                 Vpon
                 the
                 Arraignement
                 ,
                 The
                 poore
                 Pedler
                 ,
                 by
                 name
                 
                   Iohn
                   Law
                
                 ,
                 being
                 in
                 the
                 Castle
                 about
                 the
                 Moot-hall
                 ,
                 attending
                 to
                 be
                 called
                 ,
                 not
                 well
                 able
                 to
                 goe
                 or
                 stand
                 ,
                 being
                 led
                 thether
                 by
                 his
                 poore
                 sonne
                 
                   Abraham
                   Law
                
                 :
                 My
                 Lord
                 Gerrard
                 moued
                 the
                 Court
                 to
                 call
                 the
                 poore
                 Pedler
                 ,
                 who
                 was
                 there
                 readie
                 ,
                 and
                 had
                 attended
                 all
                 the
                 Assizes
                 ,
                 to
                 giue
                 euidence
                 for
                 the
                 Kings
                 Majestie
                 ,
                 against
                 the
                 said
                 
                   Alizon
                   Deuice
                
                 ,
                 Prisoner
                 at
                 the
                 Barre
                 ,
                 euen
                 now
                 vpon
                 her
                 Triall
                 .
                 The
                 Prisoner
                 being
                 at
                 the
                 Barre
                 ,
                 &
                 now
                 beholding
                 the
                 Pedler
                 ,
                 deformed
                 by
                 her
                 Witch-craft
                 ,
                 and
                 transformed
                 beyond
                 the
                 course
                 of
                 Nature
                 ,
                 appeared
                 to
                 giue
                 euidence
                 against
                 her
                 ;
                 hauing
                 not
                 yet
                 pleaded
                 to
                 her
                 Indictment
                 ,
                 saw
                 it
                 was
                 in
                 vaine
                 to
                 denie
                 it
                 ,
                 or
                 stand
                 vpon
                 her
                 justification
                 :
                 Shee
                 humbly
                 vpon
                 her
                 knees
                 at
                 the
                 Barre
                 with
                 weeping
                 teares
                 ,
                 prayed
                 the
                 Court
                 to
                 heare
                 her
                 .
              
               
                 Whereupon
                 my
                 Lord
                 Bromley
                 commanded
                 shee
                 should
                 bee
                 brought
                 out
                 from
                 the
                 Prisoners
                 neare
                 vnto
                 the
                 Court
                 ,
                 and
                 there
                 on
                 her
                 knees
                 ,
                 shee
                 humbly
                 asked
                 forgiuenesse
                 for
                 her
                 offence
                 :
                 And
                 being
                 required
                 to
                 make
                 an
                 open
                 declaration
                 or
                 confession
                 of
                 her
                 offence
                 :
                 Shee
                 confessed
                 as
                 followeth
                 .
                 viz.
                 
              
            
             
               
               
                 
                   The
                   Confession
                   of
                
                 ALIZON
                 DEVICE
                 ,
                 
                   Prisoner
                   at
                   the
                   Barre
                   :
                   published
                   and
                   declared
                   at
                   time
                   of
                   her
                   Arraignement
                   and
                   Triall
                   in
                   open
                   Court.
                   
                
              
               
                 SHe
                 saith
                 ,
                 That
                 about
                 two
                 yeares
                 agone
                 ,
                 her
                 Grand-mother
                 ,
                 called
                 
                   Elizabeth
                   Sothernes
                
                 ,
                 alias
                 Dembdike
                 ,
                 did
                 (
                 sundry
                 times
                 in
                 going
                 or
                 walking
                 together
                 ,
                 as
                 they
                 went
                 begging
                 )
                 perswade
                 and
                 aduise
                 this
                 Examinate
                 to
                 let
                 a
                 Diuell
                 or
                 a
                 Familiar
                 appeare
                 to
                 her
                 ,
                 and
                 that
                 shee
                 ,
                 this
                 Examinate
                 would
                 let
                 him
                 suck
                 at
                 some
                 part
                 of
                 her
                 ;
                 and
                 she
                 might
                 haue
                 and
                 doe
                 what
                 shee
                 would
                 .
                 And
                 so
                 not
                 long
                 after
                 these
                 perswasions
                 ,
                 this
                 Examinate
                 being
                 walking
                 towards
                 the
                 Rough-Lee
                 ,
                 in
                 a
                 Close
                 of
                 one
                 
                   Iohn
                   Robinsons
                
                 ,
                 there
                 appeared
                 vnto
                 her
                 a
                 thing
                 like
                 vnto
                 a
                 Blacke
                 Dogge
                 :
                 speaking
                 vnto
                 her
                 ,
                 this
                 Examinate
                 ,
                 and
                 desiring
                 her
                 to
                 giue
                 him
                 her
                 Soule
                 ,
                 and
                 he
                 would
                 giue
                 her
                 power
                 to
                 doe
                 any
                 thing
                 she
                 would
                 :
                 whereupon
                 this
                 Examinate
                 being
                 therewithall
                 inticed
                 ,
                 and
                 setting
                 her
                 downe
                 ;
                 the
                 said
                 Blacke-Dogge
                 did
                 with
                 his
                 mouth
                 (
                 as
                 this
                 Examinate
                 then
                 thought
                 )
                 sucke
                 at
                 her
                 breast
                 ,
                 a
                 little
                 below
                 her
                 Paps
                 ,
                 which
                 place
                 did
                 remaine
                 blew
                 halfe
                 a
                 yeare
                 next
                 after
                 :
                 which
                 said
                 Blacke-Dogge
                 did
                 not
                 appeare
                 to
                 this
                 Examinate
                 ,
                 vntill
                 the
                 eighteenth
                 day
                 of
                 March
                 last
                 :
                 at
                 which
                 time
                 this
                 Examinate
                 met
                 with
                 a
                 Pedler
                 on
                 the
                 high-way
                 ,
                 called
                 Colne-field
                 ,
                 neere
                 vnto
                 Colne
                 :
                 and
                 this
                 Examinate
                 demanded
                 of
                 the
                 said
                 Pedler
                 to
                 buy
                 some
                 pinnes
                 of
                 him
                 ;
                 but
                 the
                 said
                 Pedler
                 sturdily
                 answered
                 this
                 Examinate
                 that
                 he
                 would
                 not
                 loose
                 his
                 Packe
                 ;
                 and
                 so
                 this
                 Examinate
                 parting
                 with
                 him
                 :
                 presently
                 there
                 appeared
                 to
                 this
                 Examinate
                 the
                 Blacke-Dogge
                 ,
                 which
                 appeared
                 vnto
                 her
                 as
                 before
                 :
                 which
                 Black
                 
                 Dogge
                 spake
                 vnto
                 this
                 Examinate
                 in
                 English
                 ,
                 saying
                 ;
                 What
                 wouldst
                 thou
                 haue
                 me
                 to
                 do
                 vnto
                 yonder
                 man
                 ?
                 to
                 whom
                 this
                 Examinate
                 said
                 ,
                 What
                 canst
                 thou
                 do
                 at
                 him
                 ?
                 and
                 the
                 Dogge
                 answered
                 againe
                 ,
                 I
                 can
                 lame
                 him
                 :
                 whereupon
                 this
                 Examinat
                 answered
                 ,
                 and
                 said
                 to
                 the
                 said
                 Black
                 Dogge
                 ,
                 Lame
                 him
                 :
                 and
                 before
                 the
                 Pedler
                 was
                 gone
                 fortic
                 Roddes
                 further
                 ,
                 he
                 fell
                 downe
                 Lame
                 :
                 and
                 this
                 Examinate
                 then
                 went
                 after
                 the
                 said
                 Pedler
                 ;
                 and
                 in
                 a
                 house
                 about
                 the
                 distance
                 aforesaid
                 ,
                 he
                 was
                 lying
                 Lame
                 :
                 and
                 so
                 this
                 Examinate
                 went
                 begging
                 in
                 Trawden
                 Forrest
                 that
                 day
                 ,
                 and
                 came
                 home
                 at
                 night
                 :
                 and
                 about
                 fiue
                 daies
                 next
                 after
                 ,
                 the
                 said
                 Black-Dogge
                 did
                 appeare
                 to
                 this
                 Examinate
                 ,
                 as
                 she
                 was
                 going
                 a
                 begging
                 ,
                 in
                 a
                 Cloase
                 neere
                 the
                 New-Church
                 in
                 Pendle
                 ,
                 and
                 spake
                 againe
                 to
                 her
                 ,
                 saying
                 ;
                 Stay
                 and
                 speake
                 with
                 me
                 ;
                 but
                 this
                 Examinate
                 would
                 not
                 :
                 Sithence
                 which
                 time
                 this
                 Examinat
                 neuer
                 saw
                 him
                 .
              
               
                 Which
                 agreeth
                 verbatim
                 with
                 her
                 owne
                 Examination
                 taken
                 at
                 Reade
                 ,
                 in
                 the
                 Countie
                 of
                 Lancaster
                 ,
                 the
                 thirtieth
                 day
                 of
                 March
                 ,
                 before
                 Master
                 Nowel
                 ,
                 when
                 she
                 was
                 apprehended
                 and
                 taken
                 .
              
               
                 MY
                 Lord
                 Bromley
                 ,
                 and
                 all
                 the
                 whole
                 Court
                 not
                 a
                 little
                 wondering
                 ,
                 as
                 they
                 had
                 good
                 cause
                 ,
                 at
                 this
                 liberall
                 and
                 voluntarie
                 confession
                 of
                 the
                 Witch
                 ;
                 which
                 is
                 not
                 ordinary
                 with
                 people
                 of
                 their
                 condition
                 and
                 qualitie
                 :
                 and
                 beholding
                 also
                 the
                 poore
                 distressed
                 Pedler
                 ,
                 standing
                 by
                 ,
                 commanded
                 him
                 vpon
                 his
                 oath
                 to
                 declare
                 the
                 manner
                 how
                 ,
                 and
                 in
                 what
                 sort
                 he
                 was
                 handled
                 ;
                 how
                 he
                 came
                 to
                 be
                 lame
                 ,
                 and
                 so
                 to
                 be
                 deformed
                 ;
                 who
                 deposed
                 vpon
                 his
                 oath
                 ,
                 as
                 followeth
                 .
              
            
             
               
               
                 
                   The
                   Euidence
                   of
                
                 IOHN
                 LAVV
                 ,
                 
                   Pettie
                   Chapman
                   ,
                   vpon
                   his
                   oath
                   :
                
                 Against
                 ALIZON
                 DEVICE
                 ,
                 
                   Prisoner
                   at
                   the
                   Barre
                
                 .
              
               
                 HE
                 deposeth
                 and
                 saith
                 ,
                 That
                 about
                 the
                 eighteenth
                 of
                 March
                 last
                 past
                 ,
                 hee
                 being
                 a
                 Pedler
                 ,
                 went
                 with
                 his
                 Packe
                 of
                 wares
                 at
                 his
                 backe
                 thorow
                 Colne-field
                 :
                 where
                 vnluckily
                 he
                 met
                 with
                 
                   Alizon
                   Deuice
                
                 ,
                 now
                 Prisoner
                 at
                 the
                 Barre
                 ,
                 who
                 was
                 very
                 earnest
                 with
                 him
                 for
                 pinnes
                 ,
                 but
                 he
                 would
                 giue
                 her
                 none
                 :
                 whereupon
                 she
                 seemed
                 to
                 be
                 very
                 angry
                 ;
                 and
                 when
                 hee
                 was
                 past
                 her
                 ,
                 hee
                 fell
                 downe
                 lame
                 in
                 great
                 extremitie
                 ;
                 and
                 afterwards
                 by
                 meanes
                 got
                 into
                 an
                 Ale-house
                 in
                 Colne
                 ,
                 neere
                 vnto
                 the
                 place
                 where
                 hee
                 was
                 first
                 bewitched
                 :
                 and
                 as
                 hee
                 lay
                 there
                 in
                 great
                 paine
                 ,
                 not
                 able
                 to
                 stirre
                 either
                 hand
                 or
                 foote
                 ;
                 he
                 saw
                 a
                 great
                 Black-Dogge
                 stand
                 by
                 him
                 ,
                 with
                 very
                 fearefull
                 firie
                 eyes
                 ,
                 great
                 teeth
                 ,
                 and
                 a
                 terrible
                 countenance
                 ,
                 looking
                 him
                 in
                 the
                 face
                 ;
                 whereat
                 he
                 was
                 very
                 sore
                 afraid
                 :
                 and
                 immediately
                 after
                 came
                 in
                 the
                 said
                 
                   Alizon
                   Deuice
                
                 ,
                 who
                 staid
                 not
                 long
                 there
                 ,
                 but
                 looked
                 on
                 him
                 ,
                 and
                 went
                 away
                 .
              
               
                 After
                 which
                 time
                 hee
                 was
                 tormented
                 both
                 day
                 and
                 night
                 with
                 the
                 said
                 
                   Alizon
                   Deuice
                
                 ;
                 and
                 so
                 continued
                 lame
                 ,
                 not
                 able
                 to
                 trauell
                 or
                 take
                 paines
                 euer
                 since
                 that
                 time
                 :
                 which
                 with
                 weeping
                 teares
                 in
                 great
                 passion
                 turned
                 to
                 the
                 Prisoner
                 ;
                 in
                 the
                 hearing
                 of
                 all
                 the
                 Court
                 hee
                 said
                 to
                 her
                 ,
                 
                   This
                   thou
                   knowest
                   to
                   be
                   too
                   true
                
                 :
                 and
                 thereupon
                 she
                 humblie
                 acknowledged
                 the
                 same
                 ,
                 and
                 cried
                 out
                 to
                 God
                 to
                 forgiue
                 her
                 ;
                 and
                 vpon
                 her
                 knees
                 with
                 weeping
                 teares
                 ,
                 humbly
                 prayed
                 him
                 to
                 forgiue
                 her
                 that
                 wicked
                 offence
                 ;
                 which
                 he
                 very
                 freely
                 and
                 voluntarily
                 did
                 .
              
               
               
                 Hereupon
                 Master
                 Nowel
                 standing
                 vp
                 ,
                 humbly
                 prayed
                 the
                 fauour
                 of
                 the
                 Court
                 ,
                 in
                 respect
                 this
                 Fact
                 of
                 Witchcraft
                 was
                 more
                 eminent
                 and
                 apparant
                 then
                 the
                 rest
                 ,
                 that
                 for
                 the
                 better
                 satisfaction
                 of
                 the
                 Audience
                 ,
                 the
                 Examination
                 of
                 
                   Abraham
                   Law
                
                 might
                 be
                 read
                 in
                 Court.
                 
              
            
             
               
                 
                   The
                   Examination
                   of
                
                 ABRAHAM
                 LAVV
                 ,
                 
                   of
                   Hallifax
                   ,
                   in
                   the
                   Countie
                   of
                   Yorke
                   ,
                   Cloth-dier
                   ,
                   taken
                   vpon
                   oath
                   the
                   thirtieth
                   day
                   of
                   March
                   ,
                
                 1612.
                 
                 Before
                 ROGER
                 NOVVEL
                 ,
                 
                   Esquire
                   ,
                   aforesaid
                
                 .
              
               
                 BEing
                 sworne
                 and
                 examined
                 ,
                 saith
                 ,
                 That
                 vpon
                 Saturday
                 last
                 saue
                 one
                 ,
                 being
                 the
                 one
                 and
                 twentieth
                 day
                 of
                 this
                 instant
                 March
                 ,
                 he
                 ,
                 this
                 Examinate
                 was
                 sent
                 for
                 ,
                 by
                 a
                 letter
                 that
                 came
                 from
                 his
                 father
                 ,
                 that
                 he
                 should
                 come
                 to
                 his
                 father
                 ,
                 
                   Iohn
                   Law
                
                 ,
                 who
                 then
                 lay
                 in
                 Colne
                 speechlesse
                 ,
                 and
                 had
                 the
                 left-side
                 lamed
                 all
                 saue
                 his
                 eye
                 :
                 and
                 when
                 this
                 Examinate
                 came
                 to
                 his
                 father
                 ,
                 his
                 said
                 father
                 had
                 something
                 recouered
                 his
                 speech
                 ,
                 and
                 did
                 complaine
                 that
                 hee
                 was
                 pricked
                 with
                 Kniues
                 ,
                 Elsons
                 and
                 Sickles
                 and
                 that
                 the
                 same
                 hurt
                 was
                 done
                 vnto
                 him
                 at
                 Colne-field
                 ,
                 presently
                 after
                 that
                 
                   Alizon
                   Deuice
                
                 had
                 offered
                 to
                 buy
                 some
                 pinnes
                 of
                 him
                 ,
                 and
                 she
                 had
                 no
                 money
                 to
                 pay
                 for
                 them
                 withall
                 ;
                 but
                 as
                 this
                 Examinates
                 father
                 told
                 this
                 Examinate
                 ,
                 he
                 gaue
                 her
                 some
                 pinnes
                 .
                 And
                 this
                 Examinate
                 further
                 saith
                 ,
                 That
                 he
                 heard
                 his
                 said
                 father
                 say
                 ▪
                 that
                 the
                 hurt
                 he
                 had
                 in
                 his
                 lamenesse
                 was
                 done
                 vnto
                 him
                 by
                 the
                 said
                 
                   Alizon
                   Deuice
                
                 ,
                 by
                 Witchcraft
                 .
                 And
                 this
                 
                 Examinate
                 further
                 saith
                 ,
                 that
                 hee
                 heard
                 his
                 said
                 Father
                 further
                 say
                 ,
                 that
                 the
                 said
                 
                   Alizon
                   Deuice
                
                 did
                 lie
                 vpon
                 him
                 and
                 trouble
                 him
                 .
                 And
                 this
                 Examinate
                 seeing
                 his
                 said
                 Father
                 so
                 tormented
                 with
                 the
                 said
                 Alizon
                 and
                 with
                 one
                 other
                 olde
                 woman
                 ,
                 whome
                 this
                 Examinates
                 Father
                 did
                 not
                 know
                 as
                 it
                 seemed
                 :
                 This
                 Examinate
                 made
                 search
                 after
                 the
                 said
                 Alizon
                 ,
                 and
                 hauing
                 found
                 her
                 ,
                 brought
                 her
                 to
                 his
                 said
                 Father
                 yesterday
                 being
                 the
                 nine
                 &
                 twenteth
                 of
                 this
                 instant
                 March
                 :
                 whose
                 said
                 Father
                 in
                 the
                 hearing
                 of
                 this
                 Examinate
                 and
                 diuers
                 others
                 did
                 charge
                 the
                 said
                 Alizon
                 to
                 haue
                 bewitched
                 him
                 ,
                 which
                 the
                 said
                 Alizon
                 confessing
                 did
                 aske
                 this
                 Examinates
                 said
                 Father
                 forgiuenesse
                 vpon
                 her
                 knees
                 for
                 the
                 same
                 ;
                 whereupon
                 this
                 Examinaes
                 Father
                 accordingly
                 did
                 forgiue
                 her
                 .
                 Which
                 Examination
                 in
                 open
                 Court
                 vpon
                 his
                 oath
                 hee
                 iustified
                 to
                 be
                 true
                 .
              
               
                 Whereupon
                 it
                 was
                 there
                 affirmed
                 to
                 the
                 Court
                 that
                 this
                 
                   Iohn
                   Law
                
                 the
                 Pedler
                 ,
                 before
                 his
                 vnfortunate
                 meeting
                 with
                 this
                 Witch
                 ,
                 was
                 a
                 verie
                 able
                 sufficient
                 stout
                 man
                 of
                 Bodie
                 ,
                 and
                 a
                 goodly
                 man
                 of
                 Stature
                 .
                 But
                 by
                 this
                 Deuilish
                 art
                 of
                 Witch-craft
                 his
                 head
                 is
                 drawne
                 awrie
                 ,
                 his
                 Eyes
                 and
                 face
                 deformed
                 ,
                 His
                 speech
                 not
                 well
                 to
                 bee
                 vnderstood
                 ;
                 his
                 Thighes
                 and
                 Legges
                 starcke
                 lame
                 :
                 his
                 Armes
                 lame
                 especially
                 the
                 left
                 side
                 ,
                 his
                 handes
                 lame
                 and
                 turned
                 out
                 of
                 their
                 course
                 ,
                 his
                 Bodie
                 able
                 to
                 indure
                 no
                 trauell
                 :
                 and
                 thus
                 remaineth
                 at
                 this
                 present
                 time
                 .
              
               
                 The
                 Prisoner
                 being
                 examined
                 by
                 the
                 Court
                 whether
                 shee
                 could
                 helpe
                 the
                 poore
                 Pedler
                 to
                 his
                 former
                 strength
                 and
                 health
                 ▪
                 she
                 answered
                 she
                 could
                 not
                 ,
                 and
                 so
                 did
                 many
                 of
                 the
                 rest
                 of
                 the
                 Witches
                 :
                 But
                 shee
                 ,
                 with
                 others
                 ,
                 affirmed
                 ,
                 That
                 if
                 old
                 Dembdike
                 had
                 liued
                 ,
                 shee
                 could
                 and
                 would
                 haue
                 helped
                 him
                 out
                 of
                 that
                 great
                 miserie
                 ,
                 
                 which
                 so
                 long
                 he
                 hath
                 endured
                 for
                 so
                 small
                 an
                 offence
                 ,
                 as
                 you
                 haue
                 heard
                 .
              
               
                 These
                 things
                 being
                 thus
                 openly
                 published
                 against
                 her
                 ,
                 and
                 she
                 knowing
                 her selfe
                 to
                 be
                 guiltie
                 of
                 euery
                 particular
                 ,
                 humbly
                 acknowledged
                 the
                 Indictment
                 against
                 her
                 to
                 be
                 true
                 ,
                 and
                 that
                 she
                 was
                 guiltie
                 of
                 the
                 offence
                 therein
                 contained
                 ,
                 and
                 that
                 she
                 had
                 iustly
                 deserued
                 death
                 for
                 that
                 and
                 many
                 other
                 such
                 like
                 :
                 whereupon
                 she
                 was
                 carried
                 away
                 ,
                 vntill
                 she
                 should
                 come
                 to
                 the
                 Barre
                 to
                 receiue
                 her
                 judgement
                 of
                 death
                 .
              
               
                 Oh
                 ,
                 who
                 was
                 present
                 at
                 this
                 lamentable
                 spectacle
                 ,
                 that
                 was
                 not
                 moued
                 with
                 pitie
                 to
                 behold
                 it
                 !
              
               
                 Hereupon
                 my
                 Lord
                 Gerard
                 ,
                 Sir
                 
                   Richard
                   Houghton
                
                 ,
                 and
                 others
                 ,
                 who
                 much
                 pitied
                 the
                 poore
                 Pedler
                 ,
                 At
                 the
                 entreatie
                 of
                 my
                 Lord
                 Bromley
                 the
                 Iudge
                 ,
                 promised
                 some
                 present
                 course
                 should
                 be
                 taken
                 for
                 his
                 reliefe
                 and
                 maintenance
                 ;
                 being
                 now
                 discharged
                 and
                 sent
                 away
                 .
              
               
                 But
                 here
                 I
                 may
                 not
                 let
                 her
                 passe
                 ;
                 for
                 that
                 I
                 find
                 something
                 more
                 vpon
                 Record
                 to
                 charge
                 her
                 withall
                 :
                 for
                 although
                 she
                 were
                 but
                 a
                 young
                 Witch
                 ,
                 of
                 a
                 yeares
                 standing
                 ,
                 and
                 thereunto
                 induced
                 by
                 Dembdike
                 her
                 Grand-mother
                 ,
                 as
                 you
                 haue
                 formerly
                 heard
                 ,
                 yet
                 she
                 was
                 spotted
                 with
                 innocent
                 bloud
                 among
                 the
                 rest
                 :
                 for
                 in
                 one
                 part
                 of
                 the
                 Examination
                 of
                 
                   Iames
                   Deuice
                
                 ,
                 her
                 brother
                 ,
                 he
                 deposeth
                 as
                 followeth
                 ,
                 viz.
                 
              
            
             
               
               
                 
                   The
                   Examination
                   of
                
                 IAMES
                 DEVICE
                 ,
                 
                   brother
                   to
                   the
                   said
                
                 ALIZON
                 DEVICE
                 ,
                 
                   Taken
                   vpon
                   Oath
                
                 Before
                 ROGER
                 NOVVEL
                 
                   Esquire
                   ,
                   aforesaid
                   ,
                   the
                   thirtieth
                   day
                   of
                   March
                   ,
                
                 1612.
                 
              
               
                 
                   IAmes
                   Deuice
                
                 ,
                 of
                 the
                 Forrest
                 of
                 Pendle
                 ,
                 in
                 the
                 Countie
                 of
                 Lancaster
                 ,
                 Labourer
                 ,
                 sworne
                 and
                 examined
                 ,
                 sayth
                 ,
                 That
                 about
                 Saint
                 Peters
                 day
                 last
                 one
                 
                   Henry
                   Bulcock
                
                 came
                 to
                 the
                 house
                 of
                 
                   Elizabeth
                   Sothernes
                
                 ,
                 alias
                 Dembdike
                 ,
                 Grand-mother
                 to
                 this
                 Examinate
                 ,
                 and
                 said
                 ,
                 That
                 the
                 said
                 
                   Alizon
                   Deuice
                
                 had
                 bewitched
                 a
                 Child
                 of
                 his
                 ,
                 and
                 desired
                 her
                 ,
                 that
                 shee
                 would
                 goe
                 with
                 him
                 to
                 his
                 house
                 :
                 which
                 accordingly
                 shee
                 did
                 :
                 and
                 thereupon
                 shee
                 the
                 said
                 Alizon
                 fell
                 downe
                 on
                 her
                 knees
                 ,
                 and
                 asked
                 the
                 said
                 Bulcock
                 forgiuenesse
                 ;
                 and
                 confessed
                 to
                 him
                 ▪
                 that
                 she
                 had
                 bewitched
                 the
                 said
                 Child
                 ,
                 as
                 this
                 Examinate
                 heard
                 his
                 said
                 sister
                 confesse
                 vnto
                 him
                 this
                 Examinate
                 .
              
               
                 And
                 although
                 shee
                 were
                 neuer
                 indicted
                 for
                 this
                 offence
                 ,
                 yet
                 being
                 matter
                 vpon
                 Record
                 ▪
                 I
                 thought
                 it
                 conuenient
                 to
                 joyne
                 it
                 vnto
                 her
                 former
                 Fact.
                 
              
               
                 HEre
                 the
                 Iurie
                 of
                 Life
                 and
                 Death
                 hauing
                 spent
                 the
                 most
                 part
                 of
                 the
                 day
                 in
                 due
                 consideration
                 of
                 their
                 offences
                 ,
                 returned
                 into
                 the
                 Court
                 to
                 deliuer
                 vp
                 their
                 Verdict
                 against
                 them
                 ,
                 as
                 followeth
                 .
              
            
             
               
               
                 The
                 Verdict
                 of
                 Life
                 and
                 Death
                 .
              
               
                 WHo
                 vpon
                 their
                 Oathes
                 found
                 
                   Iohn
                   Bulcock
                
                 and
                 
                   Iane
                   Bulcock
                
                 his
                 mother
                 ,
                 not
                 guiltie
                 of
                 the
                 Felonie
                 by
                 Witch-craft
                 ,
                 contained
                 in
                 the
                 Indictment
                 against
                 them
                 .
              
               
                 
                   Alizon
                   Deuice
                
                 conuicted
                 vpon
                 her
                 owne
                 Confession
                 .
              
               
                 Whereupon
                 Master
                 Couel
                 was
                 commaunded
                 by
                 the
                 Court
                 to
                 take
                 away
                 the
                 Prisoners
                 conuicted
                 ,
                 and
                 to
                 bring
                 forth
                 
                   Margaret
                   Pearson
                
                 ,
                 and
                 
                   Isabell
                   Robey
                
                 ,
                 Prisoners
                 in
                 the
                 Castle
                 at
                 Lancaster
                 ,
                 to
                 receiue
                 their
                 Triall
                 .
              
               
                 Who
                 were
                 brought
                 to
                 their
                 Arraignement
                 and
                 Trialls
                 ,
                 as
                 hereafter
                 followeth
                 ,
                 viz.
                 
              
            
          
           
             
             
               
                 THE
                 ARRAIGNMENT
                 
                   and
                   Triall
                   of
                
                 MARGARET
                 PEARSON
                 
                   of
                   Paddiham
                   ,
                   in
                   the
                   Countie
                   of
                   Lancaster
                   ,
                   for
                   Witchcraft
                   ;
                   the
                   nineteenth
                   of
                   August
                
                 1612
                 ,
                 
                   at
                   the
                   Assises
                   and
                   Generall
                   Gaole-deliuerie
                   ,
                   holden
                   at
                   Lancaster
                   ,
                
                 Before
                 Sir
                 EDVVARD
                 BROMLEY
                 
                   Knight
                   ,
                   one
                   of
                   his
                   Maiesties
                   Iustices
                   of
                   Assise
                   at
                   Lancaster
                   .
                
              
               
                 Margaret
                 Pearson
                 .
              
               
                 THus
                 farre
                 haue
                 I
                 proceeded
                 in
                 hope
                 your
                 patience
                 will
                 endure
                 the
                 end
                 of
                 this
                 discourse
                 ,
                 which
                 craues
                 time
                 ,
                 and
                 were
                 better
                 not
                 begunne
                 at
                 all
                 ,
                 then
                 not
                 perfected
                 .
              
               
                 This
                 
                   Margaret
                   Pearson
                
                 was
                 the
                 wife
                 of
                 
                   Edward
                   Pearson
                
                 of
                 Paddiham
                 ,
                 in
                 the
                 Countie
                 of
                 Lancaster
                 ;
                 little
                 inferiour
                 in
                 her
                 wicked
                 and
                 malicious
                 course
                 of
                 life
                 to
                 any
                 that
                 hath
                 gone
                 before
                 her
                 :
                 A
                 very
                 dangerous
                 Witch
                 of
                 long
                 continuance
                 ,
                 generally
                 suspected
                 and
                 feared
                 in
                 all
                 parts
                 of
                 the
                 Countrie
                 ,
                 and
                 of
                 all
                 good
                 people
                 neare
                 her
                 ,
                 and
                 not
                 without
                 great
                 cause
                 :
                 For
                 whosoeuer
                 gaue
                 her
                 any
                 iust
                 occasion
                 of
                 offence
                 ,
                 shee
                 tormented
                 
                 with
                 great
                 miserie
                 ,
                 or
                 cut
                 off
                 their
                 children
                 ,
                 goods
                 ,
                 or
                 friends
                 .
              
               
                 This
                 wicked
                 and
                 vngodly
                 Witch
                 reuenged
                 her
                 furie
                 vpon
                 goods
                 ,
                 so
                 that
                 euery
                 one
                 neare
                 her
                 sustained
                 great
                 losse
                 .
                 I
                 place
                 her
                 in
                 the
                 end
                 of
                 these
                 notorious
                 Witches
                 ,
                 by
                 reason
                 her
                 iudgement
                 is
                 of
                 an
                 other
                 Nature
                 ,
                 according
                 to
                 her
                 offence
                 ;
                 yet
                 had
                 not
                 the
                 fauour
                 and
                 mercie
                 of
                 the
                 Iurie
                 beene
                 more
                 then
                 her
                 desert
                 ,
                 you
                 had
                 found
                 her
                 next
                 to
                 old
                 Dembdike
                 ;
                 for
                 this
                 is
                 the
                 third
                 time
                 shee
                 is
                 come
                 to
                 receiue
                 her
                 Triall
                 ;
                 one
                 time
                 for
                 murder
                 by
                 Witch-craft
                 ;
                 an
                 other
                 time
                 for
                 bewitching
                 a
                 Neighbour
                 ;
                 now
                 for
                 goods
                 .
              
               
                 How
                 long
                 shee
                 hath
                 beene
                 a
                 Witch
                 ,
                 the
                 Deuill
                 and
                 shee
                 knowes
                 best
                 .
              
               
                 The
                 Accusations
                 ,
                 Depositions
                 ,
                 and
                 particular
                 Examinations
                 vpon
                 Record
                 against
                 her
                 are
                 infinite
                 ,
                 and
                 were
                 able
                 to
                 fill
                 a
                 large
                 Volume
                 ;
                 But
                 since
                 shee
                 is
                 now
                 only
                 to
                 receiue
                 her
                 Triall
                 for
                 this
                 last
                 offence
                 .
                 I
                 shall
                 proceede
                 against
                 her
                 in
                 order
                 ,
                 and
                 set
                 forth
                 what
                 matter
                 we
                 haue
                 vpon
                 Record
                 ,
                 to
                 charge
                 her
                 withall
                 .
              
               
                 This
                 
                   Margaret
                   Pearson
                
                 ,
                 Prisoner
                 in
                 the
                 Castle
                 at
                 Lancaster
                 :
                 Being
                 brought
                 to
                 the
                 Barre
                 before
                 the
                 great
                 Seat
                 of
                 Iustice
                 ;
                 was
                 there
                 according
                 to
                 the
                 course
                 and
                 order
                 of
                 the
                 Law
                 Indicted
                 and
                 Arraigned
                 ,
                 for
                 that
                 shee
                 had
                 practised
                 ,
                 exercised
                 ,
                 and
                 vsed
                 her
                 diuellish
                 and
                 wicked
                 Arts
                 ,
                 called
                 
                   Witchcrafts
                   ,
                   Inchantments
                   ,
                   Charmes
                
                 and
                 Sorceries
                 ,
                 and
                 one
                 Horse
                 or
                 Mare
                 of
                 the
                 goods
                 and
                 Chattels
                 of
                 one
                 Dodgeson
                 of
                 Padiham
                 ,
                 in
                 the
                 Countie
                 of
                 Lancaster
                 ,
                 wickedly
                 ,
                 maliciously
                 ,
                 and
                 voluntarily
                 did
                 kill
                 .
                 
                   Contra
                   formam
                   Statuti
                   ,
                   &c.
                   Et
                   contra
                   Pacem
                   dicti
                   Domini
                   Regis
                   .
                   &c.
                   
                
              
               
               
                 Vpon
                 her
                 Arraignement
                 to
                 this
                 Indictment
                 ,
                 shee
                 pleaded
                 not
                 guiltie
                 ;
                 And
                 for
                 the
                 triall
                 of
                 her
                 life
                 put
                 her selfe
                 vpon
                 God
                 and
                 her
                 Countrie
                 .
              
               
                 So
                 as
                 now
                 the
                 Gentlemen
                 of
                 the
                 Iurie
                 of
                 her
                 offence
                 and
                 death
                 ,
                 stand
                 charged
                 with
                 her
                 as
                 with
                 others
                 .
              
               
                 
                   The
                   Euidence
                   against
                
                 Margaret
                 Pearson
                 ,
                 
                   Prisoner
                   at
                   the
                   Barre
                
                 .
              
            
             
               
                 
                   The
                   Examination
                   and
                   Euidence
                   of
                
                 ANNE
                 WHITTLE
                 ,
                 alias
                 CHATTOX
                 .
                 Against
                 MARGARET
                 PEARSON
                 ,
                 
                   Prisoner
                   at
                   the
                   Barre
                
                 .
              
               
                 THe
                 said
                 
                   Anne
                   Chattox
                
                 being
                 examined
                 saith
                 ,
                 That
                 the
                 wife
                 of
                 one
                 Pearson
                 of
                 Paddiham
                 ,
                 is
                 a
                 very
                 euill
                 Woman
                 ,
                 and
                 confessed
                 to
                 this
                 Examinate
                 ,
                 that
                 shee
                 is
                 a
                 Witch
                 ,
                 and
                 hath
                 a
                 Spirit
                 which
                 came
                 to
                 her
                 the
                 first
                 time
                 in
                 likenesse
                 of
                 a
                 Man
                 ,
                 and
                 clouen
                 footed
                 ,
                 and
                 that
                 shee
                 the
                 said
                 Pearsons
                 wife
                 hath
                 done
                 very
                 much
                 harme
                 to
                 one
                 Dodgesons
                 goods
                 ,
                 who
                 came
                 in
                 at
                 a
                 loope-hole
                 into
                 the
                 said
                 Dodgesons
                 Stable
                 ,
                 and
                 shee
                 and
                 her
                 Spirit
                 together
                 did
                 sit
                 vpon
                 his
                 Horse
                 or
                 Mare
                 ,
                 vntill
                 the
                 said
                 Horse
                 or
                 Mare
                 died
                 .
                 And
                 likewise
                 ,
                 that
                 shee
                 the
                 said
                 Pearsons
                 wife
                 did
                 confesse
                 vnto
                 her
                 this
                 Examinate
                 ,
                 that
                 shee
                 bewitched
                 vnto
                 death
                 one
                 Childers
                 wife
                 ,
                 and
                 her
                 Daughter
                 ,
                 and
                 that
                 shee
                 the
                 said
                 Pearsons
                 wife
                 is
                 as
                 ill
                 as
                 shee
                 .
              
            
             
               
               
                 
                   The
                   Examination
                   of
                
                 IENNET
                 BOOTH
                 ,
                 
                   of
                   Paddiham
                   ,
                   in
                   the
                   Countie
                   of
                   Lancaster
                   ,
                   the
                   ninth
                   day
                   of
                   August
                
                 1612.
                 
                 Before
                 NICHOLAS
                 BANNESTER
                 ,
                 
                   Esquire
                   ;
                   one
                   of
                   his
                   Maiesties
                   Iustices
                   of
                   Peace
                   in
                   the
                   Countie
                   of
                   Lancaster
                   .
                
              
               
                 IEnnet
                 ,
                 the
                 wife
                 of
                 
                   Iames
                   Booth
                
                 ,
                 of
                 Paddiham
                 ,
                 vpon
                 her
                 oath
                 saith
                 ,
                 That
                 the
                 Friday
                 next
                 after
                 ,
                 the
                 said
                 Pearsons
                 wife
                 ,
                 was
                 committed
                 to
                 the
                 Gaole
                 at
                 Lancaster
                 ,
                 this
                 Examinate
                 was
                 carding
                 in
                 the
                 said
                 Pearsons
                 house
                 ,
                 hauing
                 a
                 little
                 child
                 with
                 her
                 ,
                 and
                 willed
                 the
                 said
                 Margerie
                 to
                 giue
                 her
                 a
                 little
                 Milke
                 ,
                 to
                 make
                 her
                 said
                 child
                 a
                 little
                 meat
                 ,
                 who
                 fetcht
                 this
                 Examinate
                 some
                 ,
                 and
                 put
                 it
                 in
                 a
                 pan
                 ;
                 this
                 examinat
                 meaning
                 to
                 set
                 it
                 on
                 the
                 fire
                 ,
                 found
                 the
                 said
                 fire
                 very
                 ill
                 ,
                 and
                 taking
                 vp
                 a
                 stick
                 that
                 lay
                 by
                 her
                 ,
                 and
                 brake
                 it
                 in
                 three
                 or
                 foure
                 peeces
                 ,
                 and
                 laid
                 vpon
                 the
                 coales
                 to
                 kindle
                 the
                 same
                 ,
                 then
                 set
                 the
                 pan
                 and
                 milke
                 on
                 the
                 fire
                 :
                 and
                 when
                 the
                 milke
                 was
                 boild
                 to
                 this
                 Examinates
                 content
                 ,
                 she
                 tooke
                 the
                 pan
                 wherein
                 the
                 milke
                 was
                 ,
                 off
                 the
                 said
                 fire
                 ,
                 and
                 with
                 all
                 ,
                 vnder
                 the
                 bottome
                 of
                 the
                 same
                 ,
                 there
                 came
                 a
                 Toade
                 ,
                 or
                 a
                 thing
                 very
                 like
                 a
                 Toade
                 ,
                 and
                 to
                 this
                 Examinates
                 thinking
                 came
                 out
                 of
                 the
                 fire
                 ,
                 together
                 with
                 the
                 said
                 Pan
                 ,
                 and
                 vnder
                 the
                 bottome
                 of
                 the
                 same
                 ,
                 and
                 that
                 the
                 said
                 Margerie
                 did
                 carrie
                 the
                 said
                 Toade
                 out
                 of
                 the
                 said
                 house
                 in
                 a
                 paire
                 of
                 tonges
                 ;
                 But
                 what
                 shee
                 the
                 said
                 Margerie
                 did
                 therewith
                 ,
                 this
                 Examinate
                 knoweth
                 not
                 .
              
               
                 After
                 this
                 were
                 diuers
                 witnesses
                 examined
                 against
                 her
                 in
                 open
                 Court
                 ,
                 
                   viua
                   voce
                
                 ,
                 to
                 proue
                 the
                 death
                 of
                 the
                 Mare
                 ,
                 
                 and
                 diuers
                 other
                 vild
                 and
                 odious
                 practises
                 by
                 her
                 committed
                 ,
                 who
                 vpon
                 their
                 Examinations
                 made
                 it
                 so
                 apparant
                 to
                 the
                 Iurie
                 as
                 there
                 was
                 no
                 question
                 ▪
                 But
                 because
                 the
                 fact
                 is
                 of
                 no
                 great
                 importance
                 ,
                 in
                 respect
                 her
                 life
                 is
                 not
                 in
                 question
                 by
                 this
                 Indictment
                 ,
                 and
                 the
                 Depositions
                 and
                 examinations
                 are
                 many
                 ,
                 I
                 leaue
                 to
                 trouble
                 you
                 with
                 any
                 more
                 of
                 them
                 ,
                 for
                 being
                 found
                 guiltie
                 of
                 this
                 offence
                 ,
                 the
                 penaltie
                 of
                 the
                 Law
                 is
                 as
                 much
                 as
                 her
                 good
                 ▪
                 Neighbours
                 doe
                 require
                 ,
                 which
                 is
                 to
                 be
                 deliuered
                 from
                 the
                 companie
                 of
                 such
                 a
                 dangerous
                 ,
                 wicked
                 ,
                 and
                 malicious
                 Witch
                 .
                 ⸫
              
            
             
               
               
                 THE
                 ARRAIGNMENT
                 
                   and
                   Triall
                   of
                
                 ISABEL
                 ROBEY
                 
                   in
                   the
                   Countie
                   of
                   Lancaster
                   ,
                   for
                   Witch-craft
                   :
                   vpon
                   Wednesday
                   the
                   nineteenth
                   of
                   August
                   ,
                
                 1612.
                 
                 
                   At
                   the
                   Assizes
                   and
                   generall
                   Gaole-deliuery
                   ,
                   holden
                   at
                   Lancaster
                   .
                
                 Before
                 Sir
                 EDVVARD
                 BROMLEY
                 ,
                 
                   Knight
                   ,
                   one
                   of
                   his
                   Maiesties
                   Iustices
                   of
                   Assizes
                   at
                   Lancaster
                   .
                
              
               
                 Isabel
                 Robey
                 .
              
               
                 THus
                 at
                 one
                 time
                 may
                 you
                 behold
                 Witches
                 of
                 all
                 sorts
                 from
                 many
                 places
                 in
                 this
                 Countie
                 of
                 Lancaster
                 which
                 now
                 may
                 lawfully
                 bee
                 said
                 to
                 abound
                 asmuch
                 in
                 Witches
                 of
                 diuers
                 kindes
                 as
                 Seminaries
                 ,
                 Iesuites
                 ,
                 and
                 Papists
                 .
                 Here
                 then
                 is
                 the
                 last
                 that
                 came
                 to
                 act
                 her
                 part
                 in
                 this
                 lamentable
                 and
                 wofull
                 Tragedie
                 ,
                 wherein
                 in
                 his
                 Maiestie
                 hath
                 lost
                 somany
                 Subjects
                 ,
                 Mothers
                 their
                 Children
                 ,
                 Fathers
                 their
                 Friends
                 ,
                 and
                 Kinsfolkes
                 the
                 like
                 whereof
                 of
                 hath
                 not
                 beene
                 set
                 forth
                 in
                 any
                 age
                 .
                 What
                 hath
                 the
                 Kings
                 Maiestie
                 written
                 and
                 published
                 in
                 his
                 Daemonologie
                 ,
                 by
                 way
                 of
                 premonition
                 and
                 preuention
                 ,
                 which
                 hath
                 not
                 here
                 by
                 the
                 first
                 or
                 last
                 
                 beene
                 executed
                 ,
                 put
                 in
                 practise
                 or
                 discouered
                 ?
                 What
                 Witches
                 haue
                 euer
                 vpon
                 their
                 Arraignement
                 and
                 Trial
                 made
                 such
                 open
                 liberall
                 and
                 voluntarie
                 declarations
                 of
                 their
                 liues
                 ,
                 and
                 such
                 confessions
                 of
                 their
                 offences
                 :
                 The
                 manner
                 of
                 their
                 attempts
                 and
                 their
                 bloudie
                 practises
                 ,
                 their
                 meetings
                 ,
                 consultations
                 and
                 what
                 not
                 ?
                 Therefore
                 I
                 shall
                 now
                 conclude
                 with
                 this
                 
                   Isabel
                   Robey
                
                 who
                 is
                 now
                 come
                 to
                 her
                 triall
                 .
              
               
                 This
                 
                   Isabel
                   Robey
                
                 Prisoner
                 in
                 the
                 Castle
                 at
                 Lancaster
                 being
                 brought
                 to
                 the
                 Barre
                 before
                 the
                 great
                 Seat
                 of
                 Iustice
                 was
                 there
                 according
                 to
                 the
                 former
                 order
                 and
                 course
                 Indicted
                 and
                 Arraigned
                 ,
                 for
                 that
                 shee
                 Felloniously
                 had
                 practised
                 ,
                 exercised
                 and
                 vsed
                 her
                 Deuilish
                 and
                 wicked
                 Artes
                 called
                 
                   Witchcrafts
                   ,
                   Inchantmnnts
                   ,
                   Charmes
                   and
                   Sorceries
                   .
                
              
               
                 Vpon
                 her
                 Arraignment
                 to
                 this
                 Indictment
                 she
                 pleaded
                 not
                 guiltie
                 ,
                 and
                 for
                 the
                 triall
                 of
                 her
                 life
                 ,
                 put
                 her selfe
                 vpon
                 God
                 and
                 her
                 Countrie
                 .
              
               
                 So
                 as
                 now
                 the
                 Gentlemen
                 of
                 the
                 Iurie
                 of
                 life
                 and
                 death
                 stand
                 charged
                 with
                 her
                 as
                 with
                 others
                 .
              
               
                 
                   The
                   Euidence
                   against
                
                 Isabel
                 Robey
                 
                   Prisoner
                   at
                   the
                   Barre
                
                 .
              
            
             
               
               
                 
                   The
                   Examination
                   of
                
                 PETER
                 CHADDOCK
                 
                   of
                   Windle
                   ,
                   in
                   the
                   Countie
                   of
                   Lancaster
                   :
                   Taken
                   at
                   Windle
                   aforesaid
                   ,
                   the
                
                 12.
                 
                   day
                   of
                   Iuly
                
                 1612.
                 
                 Anno
                 Reg.
                 Regis
                 IACOBI
                 ,
                 Angliae
                 ,
                 &c.
                 decimo
                 ▪
                 &
                 Scotiae
                 xlv
                 .
                 Before
                 Sir
                 THOMAS
                 GERRARD
                 
                   Knight
                   ,
                   and
                   Barronet
                   .
                   One
                   of
                   his
                   Maiesties
                   Iustices
                   of
                   the
                   Peace
                   within
                   the
                   said
                   Countie
                   .
                
              
               
                 THe
                 said
                 Examinate
                 vpon
                 his
                 Oath
                 saith
                 ,
                 That
                 before
                 his
                 Marriage
                 hee
                 heard
                 say
                 that
                 the
                 said
                 
                   Isabel
                   Robey
                
                 was
                 not
                 pleased
                 that
                 hee
                 should
                 marrie
                 his
                 now
                 wife
                 :
                 whereupon
                 this
                 Examinate
                 called
                 the
                 said
                 Isabel
                 Witch
                 ,
                 and
                 said
                 that
                 hee
                 did
                 not
                 care
                 for
                 her
                 .
                 Then
                 within
                 two
                 dayes
                 next
                 after
                 this
                 Examinate
                 was
                 sore
                 pained
                 in
                 his
                 bones
                 :
                 And
                 this
                 Examinate
                 hauing
                 occasion
                 to
                 meete
                 Master
                 
                   Iohn
                   Hawarden
                
                 at
                 Peaseley
                 Crosse
                 ,
                 wished
                 one
                 
                   Thomas
                   Lyon
                
                 to
                 goe
                 thither
                 with
                 him
                 ,
                 which
                 they
                 both
                 did
                 so
                 ;
                 but
                 as
                 they
                 came
                 home-wards
                 ,
                 they
                 both
                 were
                 in
                 euill
                 case
                 .
                 But
                 within
                 a
                 short
                 time
                 after
                 ,
                 this
                 Examinate
                 and
                 the
                 said
                 
                   Thomas
                   Lyon
                
                 were
                 both
                 very
                 well
                 amended
                 .
              
               
                 And
                 this
                 Examinate
                 further
                 saith
                 ,
                 that
                 about
                 foure
                 yeares
                 last
                 past
                 ,
                 his
                 now
                 wife
                 was
                 angrie
                 with
                 the
                 said
                 Isabel
                 ,
                 shee
                 then
                 being
                 in
                 his
                 house
                 ,
                 and
                 his
                 said
                 Wife
                 thereupon
                 went
                 out
                 of
                 the
                 house
                 ,
                 and
                 presently
                 after
                 that
                 the
                 said
                 Isabel
                 went
                 likewise
                 out
                 of
                 the
                 house
                 not
                 well
                 pleased
                 ,
                 as
                 this
                 Examinate
                 then
                 did
                 thinke
                 ,
                 and
                 presently
                 after
                 vpon
                 the
                 same
                 day
                 ,
                 this
                 Examinate
                 with
                 his
                 said
                 wife
                 working
                 in
                 the
                 Hay
                 ,
                 a
                 paine
                 and
                 a
                 starknesse
                 fell
                 into
                 the
                 necke
                 of
                 this
                 Examinat
                 which
                 grieued
                 him
                 very
                 
                 whereupon
                 this
                 Examinate
                 sent
                 to
                 one
                 Iames
                 a
                 Glouer
                 ,
                 which
                 then
                 dwelt
                 in
                 Windle
                 ,
                 and
                 desired
                 him
                 to
                 pray
                 for
                 him
                 ,
                 and
                 within
                 foure
                 or
                 fiue
                 dayes
                 next
                 after
                 this
                 Examinate
                 did
                 mend
                 very
                 well
                 .
                 Neuerthelesse
                 this
                 Examinate
                 during
                 the
                 same
                 time
                 was
                 very
                 sore
                 pained
                 ,
                 and
                 so
                 thirstie
                 withall
                 ,
                 and
                 hot
                 within
                 his
                 body
                 ,
                 that
                 hee
                 would
                 haue
                 giuen
                 any
                 thing
                 hee
                 had
                 ,
                 to
                 haue
                 slaked
                 his
                 thirst
                 ,
                 hauing
                 drinke
                 enough
                 in
                 the
                 house
                 ,
                 and
                 yet
                 could
                 not
                 drinke
                 vntill
                 the
                 time
                 that
                 the
                 said
                 Iames
                 the
                 Glouer
                 came
                 to
                 him
                 ,
                 and
                 this
                 Examinate
                 then
                 said
                 before
                 the
                 said
                 Glouer
                 ,
                 I
                 would
                 to
                 God
                 that
                 I
                 could
                 drinke
                 ,
                 where
                 upon
                 the
                 said
                 Glouer
                 said
                 to
                 this
                 Examinate
                 ,
                 take
                 that
                 drinke
                 ,
                 and
                 in
                 the
                 name
                 of
                 the
                 Father
                 ,
                 the
                 Sonne
                 ,
                 and
                 the
                 
                   Holy
                   Ghost
                
                 ,
                 drinke
                 it
                 ,
                 saying
                 ;
                 The
                 Deuill
                 and
                 Witches
                 are
                 not
                 able
                 to
                 preuaile
                 against
                 GOD
                 and
                 his
                 Word
                 ,
                 whereupon
                 this
                 Examinate
                 then
                 tooke
                 the
                 glasse
                 of
                 drinke
                 ,
                 and
                 did
                 drinke
                 it
                 all
                 ,
                 and
                 afterwards
                 mended
                 very
                 well
                 ,
                 and
                 so
                 did
                 continue
                 in
                 good
                 health
                 ,
                 vntill
                 our
                 Ladie
                 day
                 in
                 Lent
                 was
                 twelue
                 moneth
                 or
                 thereabouts
                 ,
                 since
                 which
                 time
                 this
                 Examinate
                 saith
                 ,
                 that
                 hee
                 hath
                 beene
                 sore
                 pained
                 with
                 great
                 warch
                 in
                 his
                 bones
                 ,
                 and
                 all
                 his
                 limmes
                 ,
                 and
                 so
                 yet
                 continueth
                 ,
                 and
                 this
                 Examinate
                 further
                 saith
                 ,
                 that
                 his
                 said
                 warch
                 and
                 paine
                 came
                 to
                 him
                 rather
                 by
                 meanes
                 of
                 the
                 said
                 
                   Isabel
                   Robey
                
                 ,
                 then
                 otherwise
                 ,
                 as
                 he
                 verily
                 thinketh
                 .
              
            
             
               
               
                 
                   The
                   Examination
                   of
                
                 IANE
                 WILKINSON
                 ,
                 
                   Wife
                   of
                
                 FRANCIS
                 WILKINSON
                 ,
                 
                   of
                   Windle
                   aforesaid
                   :
                   Taken
                   before
                   the
                   said
                   Sir
                
                 THOMAS
                 GERRARD
                 ,
                 
                   Knight
                   and
                   Barronet
                   ,
                   the
                   day
                   and
                   place
                   aforesaid
                   .
                   Against
                   the
                   said
                
                 ISABEL
                 ROBEY
                 .
              
               
                 THe
                 said
                 Examinate
                 vpon
                 her
                 oath
                 saith
                 ,
                 that
                 vpon
                 a
                 time
                 the
                 said
                 
                   Isabel
                   Robey
                
                 asked
                 her
                 milke
                 ,
                 and
                 shee
                 denied
                 to
                 giue
                 her
                 any
                 :
                 And
                 afterwards
                 shee
                 met
                 the
                 said
                 Isabel
                 ,
                 whereupon
                 this
                 Examinate
                 waxed
                 afraid
                 of
                 her
                 ,
                 and
                 was
                 then
                 presently
                 sick
                 ,
                 and
                 so
                 pained
                 that
                 shee
                 could
                 not
                 stand
                 ,
                 and
                 the
                 next
                 day
                 after
                 this
                 Examinate
                 going
                 to
                 Warrington
                 ,
                 was
                 suddenly
                 pinched
                 on
                 her
                 Thigh
                 as
                 shee
                 thought
                 ,
                 with
                 foure
                 fingers
                 &
                 a
                 Thumbe
                 twice
                 together
                 ,
                 and
                 thereupon
                 was
                 sicke
                 ,
                 in
                 so
                 much
                 as
                 shee
                 could
                 not
                 get
                 home
                 but
                 on
                 horse-backe
                 ,
                 yet
                 soone
                 after
                 shee
                 did
                 mend
                 .
              
            
             
               
                 
                   The
                   Examination
                   of
                
                 MARGARET
                 LYON
                 
                   wife
                   of
                
                 THOMAS
                 LYON
                 
                   the
                   yonger
                   ,
                   of
                   Windle
                   aforesaid
                   :
                   Taken
                   before
                   the
                   said
                   Sir
                
                 THOMAS
                 GERRARD
                 ,
                 
                   Knight
                   and
                   Barronet
                   ,
                   the
                   day
                   and
                   place
                   aforesaid
                   .
                   Against
                   the
                   said
                
                 ISABEL
                 ROBEY
                 .
              
               
                 THe
                 said
                 
                   Margaret
                   Lyon
                
                 vpon
                 her
                 Oath
                 saith
                 ,
                 that
                 vpon
                 a
                 time
                 
                   Isabel
                   Robey
                
                 came
                 into
                 her
                 house
                 and
                 said
                 that
                 
                   Peter
                   Chaddock
                
                 should
                 neuer
                 mend
                 vntill
                 he
                 had
                 asked
                 her
                 forgiuenesse
                 ;
                 and
                 that
                 shee
                 knew
                 hee
                 would
                 neuer
                 doe
                 :
                 whereupon
                 this
                 Examinate
                 said
                 ,
                 how
                 doe
                 
                 you
                 know
                 that
                 ,
                 for
                 he
                 is
                 a
                 true
                 Christian
                 ,
                 and
                 hee
                 would
                 aske
                 all
                 the
                 world
                 forgiuenesse
                 ?
                 then
                 the
                 said
                 Isabel
                 said
                 ,
                 that
                 is
                 all
                 one
                 ,
                 for
                 hee
                 will
                 neuer
                 aske
                 me
                 forgiuenesse
                 ,
                 therefore
                 hee
                 shall
                 neuer
                 mend
                 ;
                 And
                 this
                 Examinate
                 further
                 saith
                 ,
                 that
                 shee
                 being
                 in
                 the
                 house
                 of
                 the
                 said
                 
                   Peter
                   ▪
                   Chaddock
                
                 ,
                 the
                 wife
                 of
                 the
                 said
                 Peter
                 ,
                 who
                 is
                 God-Daughter
                 of
                 the
                 said
                 Isabel
                 ,
                 and
                 hath
                 in
                 times
                 past
                 vsed
                 her
                 companie
                 much
                 ,
                 did
                 affirme
                 ,
                 that
                 the
                 said
                 Peter
                 was
                 now
                 satisfied
                 ,
                 that
                 the
                 said
                 
                   Isabel
                   Robey
                
                 was
                 no
                 Witch
                 ,
                 by
                 sending
                 to
                 one
                 Halseworths
                 ,
                 which
                 they
                 call
                 a
                 wiseman
                 ,
                 and
                 the
                 wife
                 of
                 the
                 said
                 Peter
                 then
                 said
                 ,
                 to
                 abide
                 vpon
                 it
                 ,
                 I
                 thinke
                 that
                 my
                 Husband
                 will
                 neuer
                 mend
                 vntill
                 hee
                 haue
                 asked
                 her
                 forgiuenesse
                 ,
                 choose
                 him
                 whether
                 hee
                 will
                 bee
                 angrie
                 or
                 pleased
                 ,
                 for
                 this
                 is
                 my
                 opinion
                 :
                 to
                 which
                 he
                 answered
                 ,
                 when
                 he
                 did
                 need
                 to
                 aske
                 her
                 forgiuenesse
                 ,
                 he
                 would
                 ,
                 but
                 hee
                 thought
                 hee
                 did
                 not
                 need
                 ,
                 for
                 any
                 thing
                 hee
                 knew
                 :
                 and
                 yet
                 this
                 Examinate
                 further
                 saith
                 ,
                 That
                 the
                 said
                 
                   Peter
                   Chaddock
                
                 had
                 very
                 often
                 told
                 her
                 ,
                 that
                 he
                 was
                 very
                 afraid
                 that
                 the
                 said
                 Isabel
                 had
                 done
                 him
                 much
                 hurt
                 ;
                 and
                 that
                 he
                 being
                 fearefull
                 to
                 meete
                 her
                 ,
                 he
                 hath
                 turned
                 backe
                 at
                 such
                 time
                 as
                 he
                 did
                 meet
                 her
                 alone
                 ,
                 which
                 the
                 said
                 Isabel
                 hath
                 since
                 then
                 affirmed
                 to
                 be
                 true
                 ,
                 saying
                 ,
                 that
                 hee
                 the
                 said
                 Peter
                 did
                 turne
                 againe
                 when
                 he
                 met
                 her
                 in
                 the
                 Lane.
                 
              
            
             
               
               
                 
                   The
                   Examination
                   of
                
                 MARGARET
                 PARRE
                 
                   wife
                   of
                
                 HVGH
                 PARRE
                 
                   of
                   Windle
                   aforesaid
                   .
                   Taken
                   before
                   the
                   said
                   Sir
                
                 THOMAS
                 GERARD
                 
                   Knight
                   and
                   Baronet
                   ,
                   the
                   day
                   and
                   place
                   aforesaid
                   .
                   Against
                   the
                   said
                
                 ISABEL
                 ROBEY
                 .
              
               
                 THE
                 said
                 Examinate
                 vpon
                 her
                 oath
                 saith
                 ,
                 that
                 vpon
                 a
                 time
                 ,
                 the
                 said
                 
                   Isabel
                   Robey
                
                 came
                 to
                 her
                 house
                 ,
                 and
                 this
                 Examinate
                 asked
                 her
                 how
                 
                   Peter
                   Chaddock
                
                 did
                 ,
                 And
                 the
                 said
                 Isabel
                 answered
                 shee
                 knew
                 not
                 ,
                 for
                 shee
                 went
                 not
                 to
                 see
                 ,
                 and
                 then
                 this
                 Examinate
                 asked
                 her
                 how
                 
                   Iane
                   Wilkinson
                
                 did
                 ,
                 for
                 that
                 she
                 had
                 beene
                 lately
                 sicke
                 and
                 suspected
                 to
                 haue
                 beene
                 bewitched
                 :
                 then
                 the
                 said
                 Isabel
                 said
                 twice
                 together
                 ,
                 I
                 haue
                 bewitched
                 her
                 too
                 :
                 and
                 then
                 this
                 Examinate
                 said
                 that
                 shee
                 trusted
                 shee
                 could
                 blesse
                 her selfe
                 from
                 all
                 Witches
                 and
                 defied
                 them
                 ;
                 and
                 then
                 the
                 said
                 Isabel
                 said
                 twice
                 together
                 ,
                 would
                 you
                 defie
                 me
                 ?
                 &
                 afterwards
                 the
                 said
                 Isabel
                 went
                 away
                 not
                 well
                 pleased
                 .
              
               
                 Here
                 the
                 Gentlemen
                 of
                 the
                 last
                 Iurie
                 of
                 Life
                 and
                 Death
                 hauing
                 taken
                 great
                 paines
                 ,
                 the
                 time
                 being
                 farre
                 spent
                 ,
                 and
                 the
                 number
                 of
                 the
                 Prisoners
                 great
                 ,
                 returned
                 into
                 the
                 Court
                 to
                 deliuer
                 vp
                 their
                 Verdict
                 against
                 them
                 as
                 followeth
                 .
                 viz.
                 
              
            
             
               
                 The
                 Verdict
                 of
                 Life
                 and
                 Death
                 .
              
               
                 WHo
                 vpon
                 their
                 Oathes
                 found
                 the
                 said
                 
                   Isabel
                   Robey
                
                 guiltie
                 of
                 the
                 Fellonie
                 by
                 Witch-craft
                 ,
                 contained
                 
                 in
                 the
                 Indictment
                 against
                 her
                 .
                 And
                 
                   Margaret
                   Pearson
                
                 guiltie
                 of
                 the
                 offence
                 by
                 Witch-craft
                 ,
                 contained
                 in
                 the
                 Indictment
                 against
                 her
                 .
              
               
                 Whereupon
                 Master
                 Couell
                 was
                 commaunded
                 by
                 the
                 Court
                 in
                 the
                 afternoone
                 to
                 bring
                 forth
                 all
                 the
                 Prisoners
                 that
                 stood
                 Conuicted
                 ,
                 to
                 receiue
                 their
                 Iudgment
                 of
                 Life
                 and
                 Death
                 .
              
               
                 For
                 his
                 Lordship
                 now
                 intended
                 to
                 proceed
                 to
                 a
                 finall
                 dispatch
                 of
                 the
                 Pleas
                 of
                 the
                 Crowne
                 .
                 And
                 heere
                 endeth
                 the
                 Arraignement
                 and
                 Triall
                 of
                 the
                 Witches
                 at
                 Lancaster
                 .
              
               
                 THus
                 at
                 the
                 length
                 haue
                 we
                 brought
                 to
                 perfection
                 this
                 intended
                 Discouery
                 of
                 Witches
                 ,
                 with
                 the
                 Arraignement
                 and
                 Triall
                 of
                 euery
                 one
                 of
                 them
                 in
                 order
                 ,
                 by
                 the
                 helpe
                 of
                 Almightie
                 God
                 ,
                 and
                 this
                 Reuerend
                 Iudge
                 ;
                 the
                 Lanterne
                 from
                 whom
                 I
                 haue
                 receiued
                 light
                 to
                 direct
                 me
                 in
                 this
                 course
                 to
                 the
                 end
                 .
                 And
                 as
                 in
                 the
                 beginning
                 ,
                 I
                 presented
                 vnto
                 their
                 view
                 a
                 Kalender
                 containing
                 the
                 names
                 of
                 all
                 the
                 witches
                 :
                 So
                 now
                 ,
                 I
                 shall
                 present
                 vnto
                 you
                 in
                 the
                 conclusion
                 and
                 end
                 ,
                 such
                 as
                 stand
                 conuicted
                 ,
                 and
                 come
                 to
                 the
                 Barre
                 to
                 receiue
                 the
                 iudgement
                 of
                 the
                 Law
                 for
                 their
                 offences
                 ,
                 and
                 the
                 proceedings
                 of
                 the
                 Court
                 against
                 such
                 as
                 were
                 acquitted
                 ,
                 and
                 found
                 not
                 guiltie
                 :
                 with
                 the
                 religious
                 Exhortation
                 of
                 this
                 Honorable
                 Iudge
                 ,
                 as
                 eminent
                 in
                 gifts
                 and
                 graces
                 as
                 in
                 place
                 and
                 preeminence
                 ,
                 which
                 I
                 may
                 lawfully
                 affirme
                 without
                 base
                 flattery
                 (
                 the
                 canker
                 of
                 all
                 honest
                 and
                 worthie
                 minds
                 )
                 drew
                 the
                 eyes
                 and
                 reuerend
                 respect
                 of
                 all
                 that
                 great
                 Audience
                 present
                 ,
                 to
                 heare
                 their
                 Iudgement
                 ,
                 and
                 the
                 end
                 of
                 these
                 proceedings
                 .
              
            
             
               
                 
                 The
                 Prisoners
                 being
                 brought
                 to
                 the
                 Barre
                 .
              
               
                 THe
                 Court
                 commanded
                 three
                 solemne
                 Proclamations
                 for
                 silence
                 ,
                 vntill
                 Iudgement
                 for
                 Life
                 and
                 Death
                 were
                 giuen
                 .
              
               
                 Whereupon
                 I
                 presented
                 to
                 his
                 Lordship
                 the
                 names
                 of
                 the
                 Prisoners
                 in
                 order
                 ,
                 which
                 were
                 now
                 to
                 receiue
                 their
                 Iudgement
                 .
                 *
                 ⁎
                 *
              
            
          
           
             
             
               
                 ¶
                 The
                 names
                 of
                 the
                 Prisoners
                 at
                 the
                 Barre
                 to
                 receiue
                 their
                 Judgement
                 of
                 Life
                 and
                 Death
                 .
              
               
                 Anne
                 Whittle
                 ,
                 alias
                 Chattox
                 .
              
               
                 Elizabeth
                 Deuice
                 .
              
               
                 James
                 Deuice
                 .
              
               
                 Anne
                 Redferne
                 .
              
               
                 Alice
                 Nutter
                 .
              
               
                 Katherine
                 Hewet
                 .
              
               
                 John
                 Bulcock
                 .
              
               
                 Jane
                 Bulcock
                 .
              
               
                 Alizon
                 Deuice
                 .
              
               
                 Isabel
                 Robey
                 .
              
            
          
           
             
             
               
                 THE
                 IVDGEMENT
                 OF
                 THE
                 RIGHT
                 HONORABLE
                 Sir
                 EDVVARD
                 BROMLEY
                 ,
                 Knight
                 ,
                 one
              
               of
               his
               Maiesties
               Iustices
               of
               Assize
               at
               Lancaster
               vpon
               the
               Witches
               conuicted
               ,
               
                 as
                 followeth
              
               .
            
             
               THere
               is
               no
               man
               aliue
               more
               vnwilling
               to
               pronounce
               this
               wofull
               and
               heauy
               Iudgement
               against
               you
               ,
               then
               my selfe
               :
               and
               if
               it
               were
               possible
               ,
               I
               would
               to
               God
               this
               cup
               might
               passe
               from
               me
               .
               But
               since
               it
               is
               otherwise
               prouided
               ,
               that
               after
               all
               proceedings
               of
               the
               Law
               ,
               there
               must
               be
               a
               Iudgement
               ;
               and
               the
               Execution
               of
               that
               Iudgement
               must
               succeed
               and
               follow
               in
               due
               time
               :
               I
               pray
               you
               haue
               patience
               to
               receiue
               that
               which
               the
               Law
               doth
               lay
               vpon
               you
               .
               You
               of
               all
               people
               haue
               the
               least
               cause
               to
               complaine
               :
               since
               in
               the
               Triall
               of
               your
               liues
               there
               hath
               beene
               great
               care
               and
               paines
               taken
               ,
               and
               much
               time
               spent
               :
               and
               very
               few
               or
               none
               of
               you
               ,
               but
               stand
               conuicted
               vpon
               your
               owne
               voluntarie
               confessions
               and
               Examinations
               ,
               
                 Ex
                 ore
                 proprio
              
               :
               Few
               Witnesses
               examined
               against
               you
               ,
               but
               such
               as
               were
               present
               ,
               and
               parties
               in
               your
               Assemblies
               .
               Nay
               I
               may
               further
               affirme
               ,
               What
               persons
               of
               your
               nature
               and
               condition
               ,
               euer
               were
               Arraigned
               and
               Tried
               with
               more
               solemnitie
               ,
               had
               more
               libertie
               giuen
               to
               pleade
               or
               answere
               to
               euerie
               particular
               point
               of
               Euidence
               against
               you
               ?
               In
               conclusion
               such
               hath
               beene
               the
               
               generall
               care
               of
               all
               ,
               that
               had
               to
               deale
               with
               you
               ,
               that
               you
               haue
               neither
               cause
               to
               be
               offended
               in
               the
               proceedings
               of
               the
               Iustices
               ,
               that
               first
               tooke
               paines
               in
               these
               businesses
               ,
               nor
               with
               the
               Court
               that
               hath
               had
               great
               care
               to
               giue
               nothing
               in
               euidence
               against
               you
               ,
               but
               matter
               of
               fact
               ;
               Sufficient
               matter
               vpon
               Record
               ,
               and
               not
               to
               induce
               ,
               or
               leade
               the
               Iurie
               to
               finde
               any
               one
               of
               you
               guiltie
               vpon
               mâtter
               of
               suspition
               or
               presumption
               ,
               nor
               with
               the
               witnesses
               who
               haue
               beene
               tried
               ,
               as
               it
               were
               in
               the
               fire
               :
               Nay
               ,
               you
               cannot
               denie
               but
               must
               confesse
               what
               extraordinarie
               meanes
               hath
               beene
               vsed
               to
               make
               triall
               of
               their
               euidence
               ,
               and
               to
               discouer
               the
               least
               intended
               practice
               in
               any
               one
               of
               them
               ,
               to
               touch
               your
               liues
               vniustly
               .
            
             
               As
               you
               stand
               simply
               (
               your
               offences
               and
               bloudie
               practises
               not
               considered
               )
               your
               fall
               would
               rather
               moue
               compassion
               ,
               then
               exasperate
               any
               man.
               For
               whom
               would
               not
               the
               ruine
               of
               so
               many
               poore
               creatures
               at
               one
               time
               ,
               touch
               ,
               as
               in
               apparance
               simple
               ,
               and
               of
               little
               vnderstanding
               ?
            
             
               But
               the
               bloud
               of
               those
               innocent
               children
               ,
               and
               others
               his
               Maiesties
               Subiects
               ,
               whom
               cruelly
               and
               barbarously
               you
               haue
               murdered
               ,
               and
               cut
               off
               ,
               with
               all
               the
               rest
               of
               your
               offences
               ,
               hath
               cryed
               out
               vnto
               the
               Lord
               against
               you
               ,
               and
               sollicited
               for
               satisfaction
               and
               reuenge
               ,
               and
               that
               hath
               brought
               this
               heauie
               iudgement
               vpon
               you
               at
               this
               time
               .
            
             
               It
               is
               therefore
               now
               time
               no
               longer
               wilfully
               to
               striue
               ,
               both
               against
               the
               prouidence
               of
               God
               ,
               and
               the
               Iustice
               of
               the
               Land
               :
               the
               more
               you
               labour
               to
               acquit
               your selues
               ,
               the
               more
               euident
               and
               apparant
               you
               make
               your
               offences
               to
               the
               World.
               And
               vnpossible
               it
               is
               that
               they
               shall
               either
               prosper
               or
               continue
               in
               this
               World
               ,
               or
               receiue
               reward
               in
               the
               next
               ,
               that
               are
               stained
               with
               so
               much
               innocent
               bloud
               .
            
             
               The
               worst
               then
               I
               wish
               to
               you
               ,
               standing
               at
               the
               Barre
               conuicted
               ,
               to
               receiue
               your
               Iudgement
               ,
               is
               ,
               Remorse
               ,
               and
               true
               Repentance
               ,
               
               for
               the
               safegard
               of
               your
               Soules
               ,
               and
               after
               ▪
               an
               humble
               ,
               penitent
               ,
               and
               heartie
               acknowledgement
               of
               your
               grieuous
               sinnes
               and
               offences
               committed
               both
               against
               GOD
               and
               Man.
               
            
             
               First
               ,
               yeeld
               humble
               and
               heartie
               thankes
               to
               Almightie
               GOD
               for
               taking
               hold
               of
               you
               in
               your
               beginning
               ,
               and
               making
               stay
               of
               your
               intended
               bloudie
               practises
               (
               although
               GOD
               knowes
               there
               is
               too
               much
               done
               alreadie
               )
               which
               would
               in
               time
               haue
               cast
               so
               great
               a
               weight
               of
               Iudgement
               vpon
               your
               Soules
               .
            
             
               Then
               praise
               GOD
               that
               it
               pleased
               him
               not
               to
               surprize
               or
               strike
               you
               suddenly
               ,
               euen
               in
               the
               execution
               of
               your
               bloudie
               Murthers
               ,
               and
               in
               the
               middest
               of
               your
               wicked
               practises
               ,
               but
               hath
               giuen
               you
               time
               ,
               and
               takes
               you
               away
               by
               a
               iudiciall
               course
               and
               triall
               of
               the
               Law.
               
            
             
               Last
               of
               all
               ,
               craue
               pardon
               of
               the
               World
               ,
               and
               especially
               of
               all
               such
               as
               you
               haue
               iustly
               offended
               ,
               either
               by
               tormenting
               themselues
               ,
               children
               ,
               or
               friends
               ,
               murder
               of
               their
               kinsfolks
               ,
               or
               losse
               of
               any
               their
               goods
               .
            
             
               And
               for
               leauing
               to
               future
               times
               the
               president
               of
               so
               many
               barbarous
               and
               bloudie
               murders
               ,
               with
               such
               meetings
               ,
               practises
               ,
               consultations
               ,
               and
               meanes
               to
               execute
               reuenge
               ,
               being
               the
               greatest
               part
               of
               your
               comfort
               in
               all
               your
               actions
               ,
               which
               may
               instruct
               others
               to
               hold
               the
               like
               course
               ,
               or
               fall
               in
               the
               like
               sort
               :
            
             
               It
               only
               remaines
               I
               pronounce
               the
               Iudgement
               of
               the
               Court
               against
               you
               by
               the
               Kings
               authoritie
               ,
               which
               is
               ;
               
                 You
                 shall
                 all
                 goe
                 from
                 hence
                 to
                 the
                 Castle
                 ,
                 from
                 whence
                 you
                 came
                 ;
                 from
                 thence
                 you
                 shall
                 bee
                 carried
                 to
                 the
                 place
                 of
                 Execution
                 for
                 this
                 Countie
                 :
                 where
                 your
                 bodies
                 shall
                 bee
                 hanged
                 vntill
                 you
                 be
                 dead
                 ;
                 And
                 GOD
                 HAVE
                 MERCIE
                 VPON
                 YOVR
                 SOVLES
                 :
                 For
                 your
                 comfort
                 in
                 this
                 world
                 I
                 shall
                 commend
                 a
                 learned
                 and
                 worthie
                 Preacher
                 
                 to
                 instruct
                 you
                 ,
                 and
                 prepare
                 you
                 for
                 an
                 other
                 World
                 :
                 All
                 I
                 can
                 doe
                 for
                 you
                 is
                 to
                 pray
                 for
                 your
                 Repentance
                 in
                 this
                 World
                 ,
                 for
                 the
                 satisfaction
                 of
                 many
                 ;
                 And
                 forgiuenesse
                 in
                 the
                 next
                 world
                 ,
                 for
                 sauing
                 of
                 your
                 Soules
                 .
                 And
                 God
                 graunt
                 you
                 may
                 make
                 good
                 vse
                 of
                 the
                 time
                 you
                 haue
                 in
                 this
                 World
                 ,
                 to
                 his
                 glorie
                 and
                 your
                 owne
                 comfort
                 .
              
            
             
               
                 Margaret
                 Pearson
                 .
              
               
                 THe
                 Iudgement
                 of
                 the
                 Court
                 against
                 you
                 ,
                 is
                 ,
                 You
                 shall
                 stand
                 vpon
                 the
                 Pillarie
                 in
                 open
                 Market
                 ,
                 at
                 
                   Clitheroe
                   ,
                   Paddiham
                   ,
                   Whalley
                
                 ,
                 and
                 Lancaster
                 ,
                 foure
                 Market
                 dayes
                 ,
                 with
                 a
                 Paper
                 vpon
                 your
                 head
                 ,
                 in
                 great
                 Letters
                 ,
                 declaring
                 your
                 offence
                 ,
                 and
                 there
                 you
                 shall
                 confesse
                 your
                 offence
                 ,
                 and
                 after
                 to
                 remaine
                 in
                 Prison
                 for
                 one
                 yeare
                 without
                 Baile
                 ,
                 and
                 after
                 to
                 be
                 bound
                 with
                 good
                 Suerties
                 ,
                 to
                 be
                 of
                 the
                 good
                 behauiour
                 .
              
            
             
               
               
                 To
                 the
                 Prisoners
                 found
                 not
                 guiltie
                 by
                 the
                 IVRIES
                 .
                 
                   
                     Elizabeth
                     Astley
                     .
                  
                   
                     John
                     Ramsden
                     .
                  
                   
                     Alice
                     Gray
                     .
                  
                   
                     Isabel
                     Sidegraues
                     .
                  
                   
                     Lawrence
                     Hay
                     .
                  
                
              
               
                 
                   TO
                   you
                   that
                   are
                   found
                   not
                   guiltie
                   ,
                   and
                   are
                   by
                   the
                   Law
                   to
                   bee
                   acquited
                   ,
                   presume
                   no
                   further
                   of
                   your
                   Innocencie
                   then
                   you
                   haue
                   iust
                   cause
                   :
                   for
                   although
                   it
                   pleased
                   God
                   out
                   of
                   his
                   Mercie
                   ,
                   to
                   spare
                   you
                   at
                   this
                   time
                   ,
                   yet
                   without
                   question
                   there
                   are
                   amongst
                   you
                   ,
                   that
                   are
                   as
                   deepe
                   in
                   this
                   Action
                   ,
                   as
                   any
                   of
                   them
                   that
                   are
                   condemned
                   to
                   die
                   for
                   their
                   offences
                   :
                   The
                   time
                   is
                   now
                   for
                   you
                   to
                   forsake
                   the
                   Deuill
                   :
                   Remember
                   how
                   ,
                   and
                   in
                   what
                   sort
                   hee
                   hath
                   dealt
                   with
                   all
                   of
                   you
                   :
                   make
                   good
                   vse
                   of
                   this
                   great
                   mercie
                   and
                   fauour
                   :
                   and
                   pray
                   vnto
                   God
                   you
                   fall
                   not
                   againe
                   :
                   For
                   great
                   is
                   your
                   happinesse
                   to
                   haue
                   time
                   in
                   this
                   World
                   ,
                   to
                   prepare
                   your selues
                   against
                   the
                   day
                   when
                   you
                   shall
                   appeare
                   before
                   the
                   Great
                   Iudge
                   of
                   all
                   .
                
              
               
                 
                   Notwithstanding
                   ,
                   the
                   iudgement
                   of
                   the
                   Court
                   ,
                   is
                   ,
                
                 You
                 shall
                 all
                 enter
                 Recognizances
                 with
                 good
                 sufficient
                 Suerties
                 ,
                 to
                 appeare
                 at
                 the
                 next
                 Assizes
                 at
                 Lancaster
                 ,
                 and
                 in
                 the
                 meane
                 time
                 to
                 be
                 of
                 the
                 good
                 behauiour
                 .
                 All
                 I
                 can
                 say
                 to
                 you
                 :
                 
                   
                   
                     
                       Jennet
                       Bierley
                    
                     ,
                  
                   
                     
                       Ellen
                       Bierley
                    
                     ,
                  
                   
                     
                       Jane
                       Southworth
                    
                     ,
                  
                
                 is
                 ,
                 That
                 GOD
                 hath
                 deliuered
                 you
                 beyond
                 expectation
                 ,
                 I
                 pray
                 GOD
                 you
                 may
                 vse
                 this
                 mercie
                 and
                 fauour
                 well
                 ;
                 and
                 take
                 heed
                 you
                 fall
                 not
                 hereafter
                 :
                 And
                 so
                 the
                 Court
                 doth
                 order
                 you
                 shall
                 be
                 deliuered
                 .
              
            
          
           
             
               What
               more
               can
               bee
               written
               or
               published
               of
               the
               proceedings
               of
               this
               honorable
               Court
               :
               but
               to
               conclude
               with
               the
               Execution
               of
               the
               Witches
               ,
               who
               were
               executed
               the
               next
               day
               following
               at
               the
               common
               place
               of
               Execution
               ,
               neare
               vnto
               Lancaster
               .
               Yet
               in
               the
               end
               giue
               mee
               leaue
               to
               intreate
               some
               fauour
               that
               haue
               beene
               afraid
               to
               speake
               vntill
               my
               worke
               were
               finished
               .
               If
               I
               haue
               omitted
               any
               thing
               materiall
               ,
               or
               published
               any
               thing
               imperfect
               ,
               excuse
               me
               for
               that
               I
               haue
               done
               :
               It
               was
               a
               worke
               imposed
               vpon
               me
               by
               the
               Iudges
               in
               respect
               I
               was
               so
               wel
               instructed
               in
               euery
               particular
               .
               In
               hast
               I
               haue
               vndertaken
               to
               finish
               it
               in
               a
               busie
               Tearme
               amongst
               my
               other
               imploiments
               .
            
             
               My
               charge
               was
               to
               publish
               the
               proceedings
               of
               Iustice
               ,
               and
               matter
               of
               Fact
               ,
               wherein
               I
               wanted
               libertie
               to
               write
               what
               I
               would
               ,
               and
               am
               limited
               to
               set
               forth
               nothing
               against
               them
               ,
               but
               matter
               vpon
               Record
               ,
               euen
               in
               their
               owne
               Countrie
               tearmes
               ,
               which
               may
               seeme
               strange
               .
               And
               this
               I
               hope
               will
               giue
               good
               satisfaction
               to
               such
               as
               vnderstand
               how
               to
               iudge
               of
               a
               businesse
               of
               this
               nature
               .
               Such
               as
               haue
               no
               other
               imploiment
               but
               to
               question
               other
               mens
               Actions
               ,
               I
               leaue
               them
               to
               censure
               what
               they
               please
               ,
               It
               is
               no
               part
               of
               my
               profession
               to
               publish
               any
               thing
               in
               
               print
               ,
               neither
               can
               I
               paint
               in
               extraordinarie
               tearmes
               .
               But
               if
               this
               discouerie
               may
               serue
               for
               your
               instruction
               ,
               I
               shall
               thinke
               my selfe
               very
               happie
               in
               this
               Seruice
               ,
               and
               so
               leaue
               it
               to
               your
               generall
               censure
               .
            
             
               
                 Da
                 ueniam
                 Ignoto
                 non
                 displicuisse
                 meretur
                 ,
              
               
                 Festinat
                 studijs
                 qui
                 placuisse
                 tibi
                 .
              
            
          
        
      
       
         
           
             
             
             
               THE
               ARRAIGNEMENT
               AND
               TRIALL
               OF
               IENNET
               PRESTON
               ,
               OF
               GISBORNE
               IN
               CRAVEN
               ,
               in
               the
               Countie
               of
               Yorke
               .
            
             
               At
               the
               Assises
               and
               Generall
               Gaole
               ▪
               Deliuerie
               holden
               at
               the
               Castle
               of
               Yorke
               in
               the
               Countie
               of
               Yorke
               ,
               the
               xxvij
               .
               day
               of
               Iuly
               last
               past
               ,
               
                 Anno
                 Regni
                 Regis
              
               IACOBI
               Angliae
               ,
               &c.
               
               Decimo
               ,
               &
               Scotiae
               quadragesimo
               quinto
               .
            
             
               Before
               Sir
               
                 IAMES
                 ALTHAM
              
               Knight
               ,
               one
               of
               the
               Barons
               of
               his
               Maiesties
               Court
               of
               Exchequer
               ;
               and
               Sir
               EDVVARD
               BROMLEY
               Knight
               ,
               another
               of
               the
               Barons
               of
               his
               Maiesties
               Court
               of
               Exchequer
               ;
               his
               Maiesties
               Iustices
               of
               Assise
               ,
               Oyer
               and
               Terminer
               ,
               and
               generall
               Gaole-Deliuerie
               ,
               in
               the
               Circuit
               of
               the
               North-parts
               .
            
             
               LONDON
               ,
               Printed
               by
               W.
               STANSBY
               for
               IOHN
               BARNES
               ,
               and
               are
               to
               be
               sold
               at
               his
               Shoppe
               neere
               Holborne
               Conduit
               ,
               1612.
               
            
          
        
         
           
             
             
             
               THE
               ARRAIGNMENT
               
                 and
                 Triall
                 of
              
               IENNET
               PRESTON
               
                 of
                 Gisborne
                 in
                 Crauen
                 ,
                 in
                 the
                 Countie
                 of
                 Yorke
                 ,
                 at
                 the
                 Assises
                 and
                 Generall
                 Gaole-deliuerie
                 ,
                 holden
                 at
                 the
                 Castle
                 of
                 Yorke
                 ,
                 in
                 the
                 Countie
                 of
                 Yorke
                 ,
                 the
                 seuen
                 and
                 twentieth
                 day
                 of
                 Iuly
                 last
                 past
                 .
              
               Anno
               Regni
               Regis
               Iacobi
               Angliae
               &c.
               Decimo
               &
               Scotiae
               xlvj
               .
            
             
               Jennet
               Preston
               .
            
             
               MANY
               haue
               vndertaken
               to
               write
               great
               discourses
               of
               Witches
               and
               many
               more
               dispute
               and
               speake
               of
               them
               .
               And
               it
               were
               not
               much
               if
               as
               many
               wrote
               of
               them
               as
               could
               write
               at
               al
               ,
               to
               set
               forth
               to
               the
               world
               the
               particular
               Rites
               and
               Secrets
               of
               their
               vnlawfull
               Artes
               ,
               with
               their
               infinite
               and
               wonderfull
               practises
               which
               many
               men
               little
               feare
               till
               they
               seaze
               vpon
               them
               .
               As
               by
               this
               late
               wonderfull
               discouerie
               of
               Witches
               in
               the
               Countie
               of
               Lancaster
               may
               appeare
               ,
               wherein
               I
               find
               such
               apparant
               matter
               to
               satisfie
               the
               World
               ,
               how
               dangerous
               and
               malitious
               a
               
               Witch
               this
               
                 Iennet
                 Preston
              
               was
               ,
               How
               vnfit
               to
               liue
               ,
               hauing
               once
               so
               great
               mercie
               extended
               to
               her
               :
               And
               againe
               to
               reuiue
               her
               practises
               ,
               and
               returne
               to
               her
               former
               course
               of
               life
               ,
               that
               I
               thinke
               it
               necessarie
               not
               to
               let
               the
               memorie
               of
               her
               life
               and
               death
               die
               with
               her
               ;
               But
               to
               place
               her
               next
               to
               her
               fellowes
               and
               to
               set
               forth
               the
               Arraignement
               Triall
               and
               Conuiction
               of
               her
               ,
               with
               her
               offences
               for
               which
               she
               was
               condemned
               and
               executed
               .
            
             
               And
               a
               though
               shee
               died
               for
               her
               offence
               before
               the
               rest
               ,
               I
               yet
               can
               afford
               her
               no
               better
               place
               then
               in
               the
               end
               of
               this
               Booke
               in
               respect
               the
               proceedings
               was
               in
               an
               other
               Countie
               ;
            
             
               You
               that
               were
               husband
               to
               this
               
                 Iennet
                 Preston
              
               ;
               her
               friends
               and
               kinsfolkes
               ,
               who
               haue
               not
               beene
               sparing
               to
               deuise
               so
               scandalous
               a
               slander
               out
               of
               the
               malice
               of
               your
               hearts
               ,
               as
               that
               shee
               was
               maliciously
               prosecuted
               by
               Master
               Lister
               and
               others
               ;
               Her
               life
               vniustly
               taken
               away
               by
               practise
               ;
               and
               that
               (
               euen
               at
               the
               Gallowes
               where
               shee
               died
               impenitent
               and
               void
               of
               all
               feare
               or
               grace
               )
               she
               died
               an
               Innocent
               woman
               ,
               because
               she
               would
               confesse
               nothing
               :
               You
               I
               say
               may
               not
               hold
               it
               strange
               ,
               though
               at
               this
               time
               ,
               being
               not
               only
               moued
               in
               conscience
               ,
               but
               directed
               ,
               for
               example
               sake
               ,
               with
               that
               which
               I
               haue
               to
               report
               of
               her
               ,
               I
               suffer
               you
               not
               to
               wander
               any
               further
               ;
               but
               with
               this
               short
               discourse
               oppose
               your
               idle
               conceipts
               able
               to
               seduce
               others
               :
               And
               by
               Charmes
               of
               Imputations
               and
               slander
               ,
               laid
               vpon
               the
               Iustice
               of
               the
               Land
               ,
               to
               cleare
               her
               that
               was
               iustly
               condemned
               and
               executed
               for
               her
               offence
               ;
               That
               this
               
                 Iennet
                 Preston
              
               was
               for
               many
               yeares
               well
               thought
               of
               and
               esteemed
               by
               Master
               Lister
               who
               afterwardes
               died
               for
               it
               Had
               free
               accesse
               to
               his
               house
               ,
               kind
               respect
               and
               entertainment
               ;
               nothing
               denied
               her
               she
               
               stood
               in
               need
               of
               .
               Which
               of
               you
               that
               dwelleth
               neare
               them
               in
               Crauen
               but
               can
               and
               will
               witnesse
               it
               ?
               which
               might
               haue
               incouraged
               a
               Woman
               of
               any
               good
               condition
               to
               haue
               runne
               a
               better
               course
               .
            
             
               The
               fauour
               and
               goodnesse
               of
               this
               Gentleman
               Master
               Lister
               now
               liuing
               ,
               at
               his
               first
               entrance
               after
               the
               death
               of
               his
               Father
               extended
               towards
               her
               ,
               and
               the
               reliefe
               she
               had
               at
               all
               times
               ,
               with
               many
               other
               fauours
               that
               succeeded
               from
               time
               to
               time
               ,
               are
               so
               palpable
               and
               euident
               to
               all
               men
               as
               no
               man
               can
               denie
               them
               .
               These
               were
               sufficient
               motiues
               to
               haue
               perswaded
               her
               from
               the
               murder
               of
               so
               good
               a
               friend
               .
            
             
               But
               such
               was
               her
               execrable
               Ingratitude
               ,
               as
               euen
               this
               grace
               and
               goodnesse
               was
               the
               cause
               of
               his
               miserable
               and
               vntimely
               death
               .
               And
               euen
               in
               the
               beginning
               of
               his
               greatest
               fauours
               extended
               to
               her
               ,
               began
               shee
               to
               worke
               this
               mischiefe
               ,
               according
               to
               the
               course
               of
               all
               Witches
               .
            
             
               This
               
                 Iennet
                 Preston
              
               ,
               whose
               Arraignment
               and
               Triall
               ,
               with
               the
               particular
               Euidence
               against
               her
               I
               am
               now
               to
               set
               forth
               vnto
               you
               ,
               one
               that
               liued
               at
               Gisborne
               in
               Crauen
               ,
               in
               the
               Countie
               of
               Yorke
               ,
               neare
               Master
               Lister
               of
               Westbie
               ,
               against
               whom
               she
               practised
               much
               mischiefe
               ;
               for
               hauing
               cut
               off
               
                 Thomas
                 Lister
              
               Esquire
               ,
               father
               to
               this
               gentleman
               now
               liuing
               ,
               shee
               reuenged
               her selfe
               vpon
               his
               sonne
               :
               who
               in
               short
               time
               receiued
               great
               losse
               in
               his
               goods
               and
               cattell
               by
               her
               meanes
               .
            
             
               These
               things
               in
               time
               did
               beget
               suspition
               ,
               and
               at
               the
               Assizes
               and
               Generall
               Gaole
               deliuerie
               holden
               at
               the
               Castle
               of
               Yorke
               in
               Lent
               last
               past
               ,
               before
               my
               Lord
               Bromley
               ,
               shee
               was
               Indicted
               and
               Arraigned
               for
               the
               murder
               of
               a
               Child
               of
               one
               Dodg-sonnes
               ,
               but
               by
               the
               fauour
               and
               mercifull
               consideration
               of
               the
               Iurie
               thereof
               acquited
               .
            
             
             
               But
               this
               fauour
               and
               mercie
               was
               no
               sooner
               extended
               towardes
               her
               ,
               and
               shee
               set
               at
               libertie
               ,
               But
               shee
               began
               to
               practise
               the
               vtter
               ruine
               and
               ouerthrow
               of
               the
               name
               and
               bloud
               of
               this
               Gentleman
               .
            
             
               And
               the
               better
               to
               execute
               her
               mischiefe
               and
               wicked
               intent
               ,
               within
               foure
               dayes
               after
               her
               deliuerance
               out
               of
               the
               Castle
               at
               Yorke
               ,
               went
               to
               the
               great
               Assembly
               of
               Witches
               at
               Malking-Tower
               vpon
               Good-friday
               last
               :
               to
               pray
               aide
               and
               helpe
               ,
               for
               the
               murder
               of
               Master
               Lister
               ,
               in
               respect
               he
               had
               prosecuted
               against
               her
               at
               the
               same
               Assizes
               .
            
             
               Which
               it
               pleased
               God
               in
               his
               mercie
               to
               discouer
               ,
               and
               in
               the
               end
               ,
               howsoeuer
               he
               had
               blinded
               her
               ,
               as
               he
               did
               the
               King
               of
               Aegypt
               and
               his
               Instruments
               ,
               for
               the
               brighter
               euidence
               of
               his
               own
               powerfull
               glory
               ;
               Yet
               by
               a
               Iudiciall
               course
               and
               triall
               of
               the
               Law
               ,
               cut
               her
               off
               ,
               and
               so
               deliuered
               his
               people
               from
               the
               danger
               of
               her
               Deuilish
               and
               wicked
               practises
               :
               which
               you
               shall
               heare
               against
               her
               ,
               at
               her
               Arraignement
               and
               Triall
               ,
               which
               I
               shall
               now
               set
               forth
               to
               you
               in
               order
               as
               it
               was
               performed
               ,
               with
               the
               wonderfull
               signes
               and
               tokens
               of
               GOD
               ,
               to
               satisfie
               the
               Iurie
               to
               finde
               her
               guiltie
               of
               this
               bloudie
               murther
               ,
               committed
               foure
               yeares
               since
               .
            
             
               
               
                 Indictment
                 .
              
               
                 THis
                 
                   Iennet
                   Preston
                
                 being
                 Prisoner
                 in
                 the
                 Castle
                 at
                 Yorke
                 ,
                 and
                 indicted
                 ,
                 for
                 that
                 shee
                 felloniously
                 had
                 practised
                 ,
                 vsed
                 ,
                 and
                 exercised
                 diuerse
                 wicked
                 and
                 deuillish
                 Arts
                 ,
                 called
                 Witchcrafts
                 ,
                 Inchauntments
                 ,
                 Charmes
                 ,
                 and
                 Sorceries
                 ,
                 in
                 and
                 vpon
                 one
                 
                   Thomas
                   Lister
                
                 of
                 Westby
                 in
                 Crauen
                 ,
                 in
                 the
                 Countie
                 of
                 Yorke
                 Esquire
                 ,
                 and
                 by
                 force
                 of
                 the
                 same
                 Witchcraft
                 felloniously
                 the
                 said
                 
                   Thomas
                   Lister
                
                 had
                 killed
                 ,
                 
                   Contra
                   Pacem
                   &c.
                
                 beeing
                 at
                 the
                 Barre
                 ,
                 was
                 arraigned
                 .
              
               
                 To
                 this
                 Indictment
                 vpon
                 her
                 Arraignement
                 ,
                 shee
                 pleaded
                 not
                 guiltie
                 ,
                 and
                 for
                 the
                 Triall
                 of
                 her
                 life
                 put
                 her selfe
                 vpon
                 GOD
                 and
                 her
                 Countrey
                 .
              
               
                 Whereupon
                 my
                 Lord
                 Altham
                 commaunded
                 Master
                 Sheriffe
                 of
                 the
                 Countie
                 of
                 Yorke
                 ,
                 in
                 open
                 Court
                 to
                 returne
                 a
                 Iurie
                 of
                 sufficient
                 Gentlemen
                 of
                 vnderstanding
                 ,
                 to
                 passe
                 betweene
                 our
                 Soueraigne
                 Lord
                 the
                 Kings
                 Majestie
                 and
                 her
                 ,
                 and
                 others
                 the
                 Prisoners
                 ,
                 vpon
                 their
                 liues
                 and
                 deaths
                 ;
                 who
                 were
                 afterwards
                 sworne
                 ,
                 according
                 to
                 the
                 forme
                 and
                 order
                 of
                 the
                 Court
                 ,
                 the
                 prisoner
                 being
                 admitted
                 to
                 her
                 lawfull
                 challenge
                 .
              
               
                 Which
                 being
                 done
                 ,
                 and
                 the
                 Prisoner
                 at
                 the
                 Barre
                 to
                 receiue
                 her
                 Tryall
                 ,
                 Master
                 Heyber
                 ,
                 one
                 of
                 his
                 Maiesties
                 Iustices
                 of
                 Peace
                 in
                 the
                 same
                 County
                 ,
                 hauing
                 taken
                 great
                 paines
                 in
                 the
                 proceedings
                 against
                 her
                 ;
                 and
                 being
                 best
                 instructed
                 of
                 any
                 man
                 of
                 all
                 the
                 particular
                 points
                 of
                 Euidence
                 against
                 her
                 ,
                 humbly
                 prayed
                 ,
                 the
                 witnesses
                 hereafter
                 following
                 might
                 be
                 examined
                 against
                 her
                 ,
                 and
                 the
                 seuerall
                 Examinations
                 ,
                 taken
                 before
                 Master
                 Nowel
                 ,
                 and
                 certified
                 ,
                 might
                 openly
                 bee
                 published
                 against
                 her
                 ;
                 which
                 hereafter
                 follow
                 in
                 order
                 ,
                 viz.
                 
              
            
             
               
               
                 The
                 Euidence
                 for
                 the
                 Kings
                 Maiestie
                 Against
                 IENNET
                 PRESTON
                 ,
                 
                   Prisoner
                   at
                   the
                   Barre
                
                 .
              
               
                 HEreupon
                 were
                 diuerse
                 Examinations
                 taken
                 and
                 read
                 openly
                 against
                 her
                 ,
                 to
                 induce
                 and
                 satisfie
                 the
                 Gentlemen
                 of
                 the
                 Iurie
                 of
                 Life
                 and
                 Death
                 ,
                 to
                 finde
                 she
                 was
                 a
                 Witch
                 ;
                 and
                 many
                 other
                 circumstances
                 for
                 the
                 death
                 of
                 M.
                 Lister
                 .
                 In
                 the
                 end
                 
                   Anne
                   Robinson
                
                 and
                 others
                 were
                 both
                 examined
                 ,
                 who
                 vpon
                 their
                 Oathes
                 declared
                 against
                 her
                 ,
                 That
                 M.
                 Lister
                 lying
                 in
                 great
                 extremitie
                 ,
                 vpon
                 his
                 death-bedde
                 ,
                 cried
                 out
                 vnto
                 them
                 that
                 stood
                 about
                 him
                 ;
                 that
                 
                   Iennet
                   Preston
                
                 was
                 in
                 the
                 house
                 ,
                 looke
                 where
                 shee
                 is
                 ,
                 take
                 hold
                 of
                 her
                 :
                 for
                 Gods
                 sake
                 shut
                 the
                 doores
                 ,
                 and
                 take
                 her
                 ,
                 shee
                 cannot
                 escape
                 away
                 .
                 Looke
                 about
                 for
                 her
                 ,
                 and
                 lay
                 hold
                 on
                 her
                 ,
                 for
                 shee
                 is
                 in
                 the
                 house
                 :
                 and
                 so
                 cryed
                 very
                 often
                 in
                 his
                 great
                 paines
                 ,
                 to
                 them
                 that
                 came
                 to
                 visit
                 him
                 during
                 his
                 sicknesse
                 .
              
            
             
               
                 Anne
                 Robinson
                 ,
                 and
                 Thomas
                 Lister
              
               
                 Being
                 examined
                 further
                 ,
                 they
                 both
                 gaue
                 this
                 in
                 euidence
                 against
                 her
                 ,
                 That
                 when
                 Master
                 Lister
                 lay
                 vpon
                 his
                 death-bedde
                 ,
                 hee
                 cryed
                 out
                 in
                 great
                 extremitie
                 ;
                 
                   Iennet
                   Preston
                
                 lyes
                 heauie
                 vpon
                 me
                 ,
                 Prestons
                 wife
                 lyes
                 heauie
                 vpon
                 me
                 ;
                 helpe
                 me
                 ,
                 helpe
                 me
                 :
                 and
                 so
                 departed
                 ,
                 crying
                 out
                 against
                 her
                 .
              
               
               
                 These
                 ,
                 with
                 many
                 other
                 witnesses
                 ,
                 were
                 further
                 examined
                 ,
                 and
                 deposed
                 ,
                 That
                 
                   Iennet
                   Preston
                
                 ,
                 the
                 Prisoner
                 at
                 the
                 Barre
                 ,
                 being
                 brought
                 to
                 M.
                 Lister
                 after
                 hee
                 was
                 dead
                 ,
                 &
                 layd
                 out
                 to
                 be
                 wound
                 vp
                 in
                 his
                 winding-sheet
                 ,
                 the
                 said
                 
                   Iennet
                   Preston
                
                 comming
                 to
                 touch
                 the
                 dead
                 corpes
                 ,
                 they
                 bled
                 fresh
                 bloud
                 presently
                 ,
                 in
                 the
                 presence
                 of
                 all
                 that
                 were
                 there
                 present
                 :
                 Which
                 hath
                 euer
                 beene
                 held
                 a
                 great
                 argument
                 to
                 induce
                 a
                 Iurie
                 to
                 hold
                 him
                 guiltie
                 that
                 shall
                 be
                 accused
                 of
                 Murther
                 ,
                 and
                 hath
                 seldome
                 ,
                 or
                 neuer
                 ,
                 fayled
                 in
                 the
                 Tryall
                 .
              
               
                 But
                 these
                 were
                 not
                 alone
                 :
                 for
                 this
                 wicked
                 and
                 bloud-thirstie
                 Witch
                 was
                 no
                 sooner
                 deliuered
                 at
                 the
                 Assises
                 holden
                 at
                 Yorke
                 in
                 Lent
                 last
                 past
                 ,
                 being
                 indicted
                 ,
                 arraigned
                 ,
                 and
                 by
                 the
                 fauor
                 and
                 mercie
                 of
                 the
                 Iurie
                 found
                 not
                 guiltie
                 ,
                 for
                 the
                 murther
                 of
                 a
                 Child
                 by
                 Witch-craft
                 :
                 but
                 vpon
                 the
                 Friday
                 following
                 ,
                 beeing
                 Good-Friday
                 ,
                 shee
                 rode
                 in
                 hast
                 to
                 the
                 great
                 meeting
                 at
                 Malking-Tower
                 ,
                 and
                 there
                 prayed
                 aide
                 for
                 the
                 murther
                 of
                 M.
                 
                   Thomas
                   Lister
                
                 :
                 as
                 at
                 large
                 shall
                 appeare
                 ,
                 by
                 the
                 seuerall
                 Examinations
                 hereafter
                 following
                 ;
                 sent
                 to
                 these
                 Assises
                 from
                 Master
                 Nowel
                 and
                 other
                 his
                 Majesties
                 Iustices
                 of
                 Peace
                 in
                 the
                 Countie
                 of
                 Lancaster
                 ,
                 to
                 be
                 giuen
                 in
                 euidence
                 against
                 her
                 ,
                 vpon
                 her
                 Triall
                 ,
                 viz.
                 
              
            
             
               
               
                 
                   The
                   Examination
                   and
                   Euidence
                   of
                
                 IAMES
                 DEVICE
                 ,
                 
                   of
                   the
                   Forrest
                   of
                   Pendle
                   ,
                   in
                   the
                   Countie
                   of
                   Lancaster
                   ,
                   Labourer
                   ,
                   taken
                   at
                   the
                   house
                   of
                
                 IAMES
                 WILSEY
                 ,
                 
                   of
                   the
                   Forrest
                   of
                   Pendle
                   in
                   the
                   Countie
                   of
                   Lancaster
                   ,
                   the
                   seuen
                   and
                   twentieth
                   day
                   of
                   Aprill
                   ,
                
                 Anno
                 Reg.
                 Regis
                 IACOBI
                 Angliae
                 ,
                 &c.
                 
                 Decimo
                 ac
                 Scotiae
                 quadragesimo
                 quinto
                 .
                 Before
                 ROGER
                 NOVVEL
                 ,
                 and
                 NICHOLAS
                 BANESTER
                 ,
                 
                   Esquires
                   ,
                   two
                   of
                   his
                   Maiesties
                   Iustices
                   of
                   the
                   Peace
                   within
                   the
                   Countie
                   of
                   Lancaster
                   ,
                
                 viz.
                 
              
               
                 THis
                 Examinate
                 saith
                 ,
                 That
                 vpon
                 Good-Friday
                 last
                 about
                 twelue
                 of
                 the
                 clocke
                 in
                 the
                 day-time
                 ,
                 there
                 dined
                 in
                 this
                 Examinates
                 said
                 mothers
                 house
                 a
                 number
                 of
                 persons
                 ,
                 whereof
                 three
                 were
                 men
                 ,
                 with
                 this
                 Examinate
                 ,
                 and
                 the
                 rest
                 women
                 :
                 and
                 that
                 they
                 met
                 there
                 for
                 these
                 three
                 causes
                 following
                 (
                 as
                 this
                 Examinates
                 said
                 mother
                 told
                 this
                 Examinate
                 )
                 :
                 First
                 was
                 for
                 the
                 naming
                 of
                 the
                 Spirit
                 ,
                 which
                 
                   Alizon
                   Deuice
                
                 ,
                 now
                 Prisoner
                 at
                 Lancaster
                 ,
                 had
                 ,
                 but
                 did
                 not
                 name
                 him
                 ,
                 because
                 shee
                 was
                 not
                 there
                 .
                 The
                 second
                 cause
                 was
                 for
                 the
                 deliuery
                 of
                 his
                 said
                 Grand-mother
                 ,
                 this
                 Examinates
                 said
                 sister
                 Alizon
                 ,
                 the
                 said
                 
                   Anne
                   Chattox
                
                 ,
                 and
                 her
                 daughter
                 Redferne
                 :
                 Killing
                 the
                 Gaoler
                 at
                 Lancaster
                 ;
                 and
                 before
                 the
                 next
                 Assizes
                 to
                 blow
                 vp
                 the
                 Castle
                 there
                 ;
                 to
                 that
                 end
                 the
                 aforesaid
                 Prisoners
                 might
                 by
                 that
                 meanes
                 make
                 an
                 escape
                 and
                 get
                 away
                 .
                 All
                 which
                 this
                 Examinate
                 then
                 heard
                 them
                 conferre
                 of
                 .
                 And
                 the
                 third
                 cause
                 was
                 ,
                 for
                 that
                 there
                 was
                 a
                 woman
                 dwelling
                 in
                 Gisburne
                 Parish
                 ,
                 who
                 came
                 into
                 this
                 Examinates
                 said
                 Grand-mothers
                 
                 house
                 ,
                 who
                 there
                 came
                 ,
                 and
                 craued
                 assistance
                 of
                 the
                 rest
                 of
                 them
                 that
                 were
                 then
                 there
                 ,
                 for
                 the
                 killing
                 of
                 Master
                 Lister
                 of
                 Westby
                 :
                 because
                 ,
                 as
                 she
                 then
                 said
                 ,
                 he
                 had
                 borne
                 malice
                 vnto
                 her
                 ,
                 and
                 had
                 thought
                 to
                 haue
                 put
                 her
                 away
                 at
                 the
                 last
                 Assizes
                 at
                 Yorke
                 ;
                 but
                 could
                 not
                 .
                 And
                 then
                 this
                 Examinat
                 heard
                 the
                 said
                 woman
                 say
                 ,
                 that
                 her
                 power
                 was
                 not
                 strong
                 enough
                 to
                 doe
                 it
                 her selfe
                 ,
                 being
                 now
                 lesse
                 then
                 before-time
                 it
                 had
                 beene
                 .
              
               
                 And
                 he
                 also
                 further
                 saith
                 ,
                 That
                 the
                 said
                 Prestons
                 wife
                 had
                 a
                 Spirit
                 with
                 her
                 like
                 vnto
                 a
                 white
                 Foale
                 ,
                 with
                 a
                 blacke-spot
                 in
                 the
                 forehead
                 .
                 And
                 further
                 ,
                 this
                 Examinat
                 saith
                 ,
                 That
                 since
                 the
                 said
                 meeting
                 ,
                 as
                 aforesaid
                 ,
                 this
                 Examinate
                 hath
                 beene
                 brought
                 to
                 the
                 wife
                 of
                 one
                 Preston
                 in
                 Gisburne
                 Parish
                 aforesaid
                 ,
                 by
                 
                   Henry
                   Hargreiues
                
                 of
                 Goldshey
                 to
                 see
                 whether
                 shee
                 was
                 the
                 woman
                 that
                 came
                 amongst
                 the
                 said
                 Witches
                 ,
                 on
                 the
                 said
                 last
                 Good-Friday
                 ,
                 to
                 craue
                 their
                 aide
                 and
                 assistance
                 for
                 the
                 killing
                 of
                 the
                 said
                 Master
                 Lister
                 :
                 and
                 hauing
                 had
                 full
                 view
                 of
                 her
                 ;
                 hee
                 this
                 Examinate
                 confesseth
                 ,
                 That
                 she
                 was
                 the
                 selfe-same
                 woman
                 which
                 came
                 amongst
                 the
                 said
                 Witches
                 on
                 the
                 said
                 last
                 Good-Friday
                 ,
                 for
                 their
                 aide
                 for
                 the
                 killing
                 of
                 the
                 said
                 Master
                 Lister
                 ;
                 and
                 that
                 brought
                 the
                 Spirit
                 with
                 her
                 ,
                 in
                 the
                 shape
                 of
                 a
                 White
                 Foale
                 ,
                 as
                 aforesaid
                 .
              
               
                 And
                 this
                 Examinate
                 further
                 saith
                 ,
                 That
                 all
                 the
                 said
                 Witches
                 went
                 out
                 of
                 the
                 said
                 house
                 in
                 their
                 owne
                 shapes
                 and
                 likenesses
                 ,
                 and
                 they
                 all
                 ,
                 by
                 that
                 they
                 were
                 forth
                 of
                 the
                 doores
                 ,
                 were
                 gotten
                 on
                 horse-backe
                 like
                 vnto
                 Foales
                 ,
                 some
                 of
                 one
                 colour
                 ,
                 some
                 of
                 another
                 ,
                 and
                 Prestons
                 wife
                 was
                 the
                 last
                 ;
                 and
                 when
                 she
                 got
                 on
                 horsebacke
                 ,
                 they
                 all
                 presently
                 vanished
                 out
                 of
                 this
                 Examinats
                 sight
                 :
                 and
                 before
                 their
                 said
                 parting
                 away
                 ,
                 they
                 all
                 appointed
                 to
                 meete
                 at
                 the
                 said
                 Prestons
                 wifes
                 house
                 that
                 
                 day
                 twelue-month
                 ;
                 at
                 which
                 time
                 the
                 said
                 Prestons
                 wife
                 promised
                 to
                 make
                 them
                 a
                 great
                 feast
                 ;
                 and
                 if
                 they
                 had
                 occasion
                 to
                 meet
                 in
                 the
                 meane
                 time
                 ,
                 then
                 should
                 warning
                 bee
                 giuen
                 that
                 they
                 all
                 should
                 meete
                 vpon
                 Romles-Moore
                 .
                 And
                 this
                 Examinate
                 further
                 saith
                 ,
                 That
                 at
                 the
                 said
                 feast
                 at
                 Malking-Tower
                 ,
                 this
                 Examinat
                 heard
                 them
                 all
                 giue
                 their
                 consents
                 to
                 put
                 the
                 said
                 Master
                 
                   Thomas
                   Lister
                
                 of
                 Westby
                 to
                 death
                 :
                 and
                 after
                 Master
                 Lister
                 should
                 be
                 made
                 away
                 by
                 Witchcraft
                 ,
                 then
                 al
                 the
                 said
                 Witches
                 gaue
                 their
                 consents
                 to
                 ioyne
                 altogether
                 to
                 hancke
                 Master
                 
                   Leonard
                   Lister
                
                 ,
                 when
                 he
                 should
                 come
                 to
                 dwell
                 at
                 the
                 Sowgill
                 ,
                 and
                 so
                 put
                 him
                 to
                 death
                 .
              
            
             
               
                 
                   The
                   Examination
                   of
                
                 HENRIE
                 HARGREIVES
                 
                   of
                   Goldshey-booth
                   ,
                   in
                   the
                   Forrest
                   of
                   Pendle
                   ,
                   in
                   the
                   Countie
                   of
                   Lancaster
                   Yeoman
                   ,
                   taken
                   the
                   fifth
                   day
                   of
                   May
                   ,
                
                 Anno
                 Reg.
                 Regis
                 IACOBI
                 Angliae
                 ,
                 &c.
                 
                 Decimo
                 ,
                 ac
                 Scociae
                 quadragesimo
                 quinto
                 .
                 Before
                 ROGER
                 NOVVEL
                 ,
                 NICHOLAS
                 BANNESTER
                 ,
                 and
                 ROBERT
                 HOLDEN
                 ,
                 
                   Esquires
                   ;
                   three
                   of
                   his
                   Maiesties
                   Iustices
                   of
                   Peace
                   within
                   the
                   said
                   Countie
                   .
                
              
               
                 THis
                 Examinat
                 vpon
                 his
                 oath
                 saith
                 ,
                 That
                 
                   Anne
                   Whittle
                
                 ,
                 alias
                 Chattox
                 ,
                 confessed
                 vnto
                 him
                 ,
                 that
                 she
                 knoweth
                 one
                 Prestons
                 wife
                 neere
                 Gisburne
                 ,
                 and
                 that
                 the
                 said
                 Prestons
                 wife
                 should
                 haue
                 beene
                 at
                 the
                 said
                 feast
                 ,
                 vpon
                 the
                 said
                 Good-Friday
                 ,
                 and
                 that
                 shee
                 was
                 an
                 ill
                 woman
                 ,
                 and
                 had
                 done
                 Master
                 Lister
                 of
                 Westby
                 great
                 hurt
                 .
              
            
             
               
               
                 
                   The
                   Examination
                   of
                
                 ELIZABETH
                 DEVICE
                 ,
                 
                   mother
                   of
                
                 IAMES
                 DEVICE
                 ,
                 
                   taken
                   before
                
                 ROGER
                 NOVVELL
                 and
                 NICHOLAS
                 BANESTER
                 ,
                 
                   Esquires
                   ,
                   the
                   day
                   and
                   yeare
                   aforesaid
                   ,
                
                 viz.
                 
              
               
                 THe
                 said
                 
                   Elizabeth
                   Deuice
                
                 vpon
                 her
                 Examination
                 confesseth
                 .
                 That
                 vpon
                 Good-Friday
                 last
                 ,
                 there
                 dined
                 at
                 this
                 Examinats
                 house
                 ,
                 which
                 she
                 hath
                 said
                 are
                 Witches
                 ,
                 and
                 doth
                 verily
                 thinke
                 them
                 to
                 be
                 Witches
                 ;
                 and
                 their
                 names
                 are
                 those
                 whom
                 
                   Iames
                   Deuice
                
                 hath
                 formerly
                 spoken
                 of
                 to
                 be
                 there
                 .
              
               
                 She
                 also
                 confesseth
                 in
                 all
                 things
                 touching
                 the
                 killing
                 of
                 Master
                 Lister
                 of
                 Westby
                 ,
                 as
                 the
                 said
                 
                   Iames
                   Deuice
                
                 hath
                 before
                 confessed
                 .
              
               
                 And
                 the
                 said
                 
                   Elizabeth
                   Deuice
                
                 also
                 further
                 saith
                 ,
                 That
                 at
                 the
                 said
                 meeting
                 at
                 Malking-Tower
                 ,
                 as
                 aforesaid
                 ,
                 the
                 said
                 
                   Katherine
                   Hewyt
                
                 and
                 
                   Iohn
                   Bulcock
                
                 ,
                 with
                 all
                 the
                 rest
                 then
                 there
                 ,
                 gaue
                 their
                 consents
                 ,
                 with
                 the
                 said
                 Prestons
                 wife
                 ,
                 for
                 the
                 killing
                 of
                 the
                 said
                 Master
                 Lister
                 .
                 And
                 for
                 the
                 killing
                 of
                 the
                 said
                 Master
                 
                   Leonard
                   Lister
                
                 ,
                 she
                 this
                 Examinate
                 saith
                 in
                 all
                 things
                 ,
                 as
                 the
                 said
                 
                   Iames
                   Deuice
                
                 hath
                 before
                 confessed
                 in
                 his
                 Examination
                 .
              
            
             
               
               
                 
                   The
                   Examination
                   of
                
                 IENNET
                 DEVICE
                 ,
                 
                   daughter
                   of
                
                 ELIZABETH
                 
                   late
                   wife
                   of
                
                 IOHN
                 DEVICE
                 ,
                 
                   of
                   the
                   Forrest
                   of
                   Pendle
                   ,
                   in
                   the
                   Countie
                   of
                   Lancaster
                   ,
                   about
                   the
                   age
                   of
                   nine
                   yeares
                   or
                   thereabouts
                   ,
                   taken
                   the
                   day
                   and
                   yeare
                   aboue-said
                
                 :
                 Before
                 ROGER
                 NOVVEL
                 and
                 NICHOLAS
                 BANESTER
                 ,
                 
                   Esquires
                   ,
                   two
                   of
                   his
                   Maiesties
                   Iustices
                   of
                   Peace
                   in
                   the
                   Countie
                   of
                   Lancaster
                   .
                
              
               
                 THe
                 said
                 Examinate
                 vpon
                 her
                 Examination
                 saith
                 ,
                 that
                 vpon
                 Good-friday
                 last
                 there
                 was
                 about
                 twenty
                 persons
                 ,
                 whereof
                 only
                 two
                 were
                 men
                 ,
                 to
                 this
                 Examinats
                 remembrance
                 ,
                 at
                 her
                 said
                 Grand
                 ▪
                 mothers
                 house
                 ,
                 called
                 Malking-Tower
                 aforesaid
                 ,
                 about
                 twelue
                 of
                 the
                 clocke
                 :
                 all
                 which
                 persons
                 ,
                 this
                 Examinates
                 said
                 mother
                 told
                 her
                 were
                 Witches
                 ,
                 and
                 that
                 she
                 knoweth
                 the
                 names
                 of
                 diuers
                 of
                 the
                 said
                 Witches
                 .
              
               
               
                 AFter
                 all
                 these
                 Examinations
                 ,
                 Confessions
                 ,
                 and
                 Euidence
                 ,
                 deliuered
                 in
                 open
                 Court
                 against
                 her
                 ,
                 His
                 Lordship
                 commanded
                 the
                 Iurie
                 to
                 obserue
                 the
                 particular
                 circumstances
                 ;
                 first
                 ,
                 Master
                 Lister
                 in
                 his
                 great
                 extremitie
                 ,
                 to
                 complaine
                 hee
                 saw
                 her
                 ,
                 and
                 requested
                 them
                 that
                 were
                 by
                 him
                 to
                 lay
                 hold
                 on
                 her
                 .
              
               
                 After
                 he
                 cried
                 out
                 shee
                 lay
                 heauie
                 vpon
                 him
                 ,
                 euen
                 at
                 the
                 time
                 of
                 his
                 death
                 .
              
               
                 But
                 the
                 Conclusion
                 is
                 of
                 more
                 consequence
                 then
                 all
                 the
                 rest
                 ,
                 that
                 
                   Iennet
                   Preston
                
                 being
                 brought
                 to
                 the
                 dead
                 corps
                 ,
                 they
                 bled
                 freshly
                 ,
                 And
                 after
                 her
                 deliuerance
                 in
                 Lent
                 ,
                 it
                 is
                 proued
                 shee
                 rode
                 vpon
                 a
                 white
                 Foale
                 ,
                 and
                 was
                 present
                 in
                 the
                 great
                 assembly
                 at
                 
                   Malkin
                   Tower
                
                 with
                 the
                 Witches
                 ,
                 to
                 intreat
                 and
                 pray
                 for
                 aide
                 of
                 them
                 ,
                 to
                 kill
                 Master
                 Lister
                 ,
                 now
                 liuing
                 ,
                 for
                 that
                 he
                 had
                 prosequuted
                 against
                 her
                 .
              
               
                 And
                 against
                 these
                 people
                 you
                 may
                 not
                 expect
                 such
                 direct
                 euidence
                 ,
                 since
                 all
                 their
                 workes
                 are
                 the
                 workes
                 of
                 darkenesse
                 ,
                 no
                 witnesses
                 are
                 present
                 to
                 accuse
                 them
                 ,
                 therefore
                 I
                 pray
                 God
                 direct
                 your
                 consciences
                 .
              
               
                 After
                 the
                 Gentlemen
                 of
                 the
                 Iurie
                 of
                 Life
                 and
                 Death
                 had
                 spent
                 the
                 most
                 part
                 of
                 the
                 day
                 ,
                 in
                 consideration
                 of
                 the
                 euidence
                 against
                 her
                 ,
                 they
                 returned
                 into
                 the
                 Court
                 and
                 deliuered
                 vp
                 their
                 Verdict
                 of
                 Life
                 and
                 Death
                 .
                 ⸫
              
            
             
               
               
                 The
                 Verdict
                 of
                 Life
                 and
                 Death
                 .
              
               
                 WHo
                 found
                 
                   Iennet
                   Preston
                
                 guiltie
                 of
                 the
                 fellonie
                 and
                 murder
                 by
                 Witch-craft
                 of
                 
                   Thomas
                   Lister
                
                 ,
                 Esquire
                 ;
                 conteyned
                 in
                 the
                 Indictment
                 against
                 her
                 ,
                 &c.
                 
              
               
                 Afterwards
                 ,
                 according
                 to
                 the
                 course
                 and
                 order
                 of
                 the
                 Lawes
                 ,
                 his
                 Lordship
                 pronounced
                 Iudgement
                 against
                 her
                 to
                 bee
                 hanged
                 for
                 her
                 offence
                 .
                 And
                 so
                 the
                 Court
                 arose
                 .
              
            
          
           
             
               HEre
               was
               the
               wonderfull
               discouerie
               of
               this
               
                 Iennet
                 Preston
              
               ,
               who
               for
               so
               many
               yeares
               had
               liued
               at
               Gisborne
               in
               Crauen
               ,
               neare
               Master
               Lister
               :
               one
               thing
               more
               I
               shall
               adde
               to
               all
               these
               particular
               Examinations
               ,
               and
               euidence
               of
               witnesses
               ,
               which
               I
               saw
               ,
               and
               was
               present
               in
               the
               Court
               at
               Lancaster
               ,
               when
               it
               was
               done
               at
               the
               Assizes
               holden
               in
               August
               following
               .
            
             
               My
               Lord
               Bromley
               being
               very
               suspicious
               of
               the
               accusation
               of
               
                 Iennet
                 Deuice
              
               ,
               the
               little
               Wench
               ,
               commanded
               her
               to
               looke
               vpon
               the
               Prisoners
               that
               were
               present
               ,
               and
               declare
               which
               of
               them
               were
               present
               at
               
                 Malkin
                 Tower
              
               ,
               at
               the
               great
               assembly
               of
               Witches
               vpon
               Good-Friday
               last
               :
               shee
               looked
               vpon
               and
               tooke
               many
               by
               the
               handes
               ,
               and
               accused
               them
               to
               be
               there
               ,
               and
               when
               shee
               had
               accused
               all
               that
               were
               there
               present
               ,
               shee
               told
               his
               Lordship
               there
               was
               a
               Woman
               that
               came
               out
               of
               Crauen
               that
               was
               
               amongst
               the
               Witches
               at
               that
               Feast
               ,
               but
               shee
               saw
               her
               not
               amongst
               the
               Prisoners
               at
               the
               Barre
               .
            
             
               What
               a
               singular
               note
               was
               this
               of
               a
               Child
               ,
               amongst
               many
               to
               misse
               her
               ,
               that
               before
               that
               time
               was
               hanged
               for
               her
               offence
               ,
               which
               shee
               would
               neuer
               confesse
               or
               declare
               at
               her
               death
               ?
               here
               was
               present
               old
               Preston
               her
               husband
               ,
               who
               then
               cried
               out
               and
               went
               away
               :
               being
               fully
               satisfied
               his
               wife
               had
               Iustice
               ,
               and
               was
               worthie
               of
               death
               .
            
             
               To
               conclude
               then
               this
               present
               discourse
               ,
               I
               heartilie
               desire
               you
               ,
               my
               louing
               Friends
               and
               Countrie-men
               ,
               for
               whose
               particular
               instructions
               this
               is
               added
               to
               the
               former
               of
               the
               wonderfull
               discouerie
               of
               Witches
               in
               the
               Countie
               of
               Lancaster
               :
               And
               for
               whose
               particular
               satisfaction
               this
               is
               published
               ;
               Awake
               in
               time
               ,
               and
               suffer
               not
               your selues
               to
               be
               thus
               assaulted
               .
            
             
               Consider
               how
               barbarously
               this
               Gentleman
               hath
               been
               dealt
               withall
               ;
               and
               especially
               you
               that
               hereafter
               shall
               passe
               vpon
               any
               Iuries
               of
               Life
               and
               Death
               ,
               let
               not
               your
               conniuence
               ,
               or
               rather
               foolish
               pittie
               ,
               spare
               such
               as
               these
               ,
               to
               exequute
               farther
               mischiefe
               .
            
             
               Remember
               that
               shee
               was
               no
               sooner
               set
               at
               libertie
               ,
               but
               shee
               plotted
               the
               ruine
               and
               ouerthrow
               of
               this
               Gentleman
               ,
               and
               his
               whole
               Familie
               .
            
             
               Expect
               not
               ,
               as
               this
               reuerend
               and
               learned
               Iudge
               saith
               ,
               such
               apparent
               proofe
               against
               them
               ,
               as
               against
               others
               ,
               since
               all
               their
               workes
               ,
               are
               the
               workes
               of
               darkenesse
               :
               and
               vnlesse
               it
               please
               Almightie
               God
               to
               raise
               witnesses
               to
               accuse
               them
               ,
               who
               is
               able
               to
               condemne
               them
               ?
            
             
               Forget
               not
               the
               bloud
               that
               cries
               out
               vnto
               God
               for
               reuenge
               ,
               bring
               it
               not
               vpon
               your
               owne
               heads
               .
            
             
               Neither
               doe
               I
               vrge
               this
               any
               farther
               ,
               then
               with
               this
               ,
               that
               I
               would
               alwaies
               intreat
               you
               to
               remember
               ,
               that
               it
               is
               
               as
               great
               a
               crime
               (
               as
               Salomon
               sayth
               ,
               Prov.
               17
               )
               to
               condemne
               the
               innocent
               ,
               as
               to
               let
               the
               guiltie
               escape
               free
               .
            
             
               Looke
               not
               vpon
               things
               strangely
               alledged
               ,
               but
               iudiciously
               consider
               what
               is
               justly
               proued
               against
               them
               .
            
             
               And
               that
               as
               well
               all
               you
               that
               were
               witnesses
               ,
               present
               at
               the
               Arraignement
               and
               Triall
               of
               her
               ,
               as
               all
               other
               strangers
               ,
               to
               whome
               this
               Discourse
               shall
               come
               ,
               may
               take
               example
               by
               this
               Gentleman
               to
               prosecute
               these
               hellish
               Furies
               to
               their
               end
               :
               labor
               to
               root
               them
               out
               of
               the
               Commonwealth
               ,
               for
               the
               common
               good
               of
               your
               Countrey
               .
               The
               greatest
               mercie
               extended
               to
               them
               ,
               is
               soone
               forgotten
               .
            
             
               GOD
               graunt
               vs
               the
               long
               and
               prosperous
               continuance
               of
               these
               Honorable
               and
               Reuerend
               Iudges
               ,
               vnder
               whose
               Gouernment
               we
               liue
               in
               these
               North
               parts
               :
               for
               we
               may
               say
               ,
               that
               GOD
               Almightie
               hath
               singled
               them
               out
               ,
               and
               set
               them
               on
               his
               Seat
               ,
               for
               the
               defence
               of
               Iustice
               .
            
             
               And
               for
               this
               great
               deliuerance
               ,
               let
               vs
               all
               pray
               to
               GOD
               Almightie
               ,
               that
               the
               memorie
               of
               these
               worthie
               Iudges
               may
               bee
               blessed
               to
               all
               Posterities
               .
            
             
               FINIS
               .
            
             
          
        
      
    
     
       
         Notes, typically marginal, from the original text
         
           Notes for div A09875-e1660
           
             Euening
             .
          
        
         
           Notes for div A09875-e2320
           
             Her
             owne
             examination
             
          
           
             Her
             Spirit
             .
          
           
             Executed
             at
             Yorke
             the
             last
             Assises
             .
          
           
             Dandy
             .
          
        
         
           Notes for div A09875-e13260
           
             Anne
             Redferne
             the
             Witch
             .
          
           
             
               Alice
               Nutter
            
             the
             Prisoner
             .