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A09875	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.	1613 (1613)	STC 20138; ESTC S114979	74,814	196

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

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

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

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

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

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