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, [Sidenote: _Anne Redferne the Witch._]
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
backe againe, some ten Roods off them there appeared vnto him this
Examinate a thing like a Hare, which spit fire at him this Examinate.
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THE ARRAIGNMENT
_and Triall of_ ALICE NUTTER,
_of the Forrest of Pendle, in the Countie of Lancaster, for
Witch-craft; upon Wednesday the nineteenth of August,
at the Assizes and generall Gaole deliuerie, holden at
Lancaster._