ROGER NOWEL _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 Maudlintide 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.
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_The Examination of_ IOHN NVTTER,
_of Higham Booth, in the Forrest of Pendle, in the
Countie of Lancaster, yeoman_,