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[G3_b_1] (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:[G3_b_2] 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.
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_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._