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 Grand-mothers 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 Dinners, 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 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.
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_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._