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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
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

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