_Sir_ EDWARD BROMLEY _Knight, one of his Maiesties
Iustices of Assise at Lancaster._
_Katherine Hewit._
Who but Witches can be proofes, and so witnesses of the doings of
Witches? since all their Meetings, Conspiracies, Practises, and
Murthers, are the workes of Darkenesse: But to discouer this wicked
_Furie_, GOD hath not only raised meanes beyond expectation, by the
voluntarie Confession and Accusation of all that are gone before, to
accuse this Witch (being Witches, and thereby witnesses of her doings)
but after they were committed, by meanes of a Child, to discouer her
to be one, and a Principall in that wicked assembly at Malking-Tower,
to deuise such a damnable course for the deliuerance of their friends
at Lancaster, as to kill the Gaoler, and blow vp the Castle, wherein
the Deuill did but labour to assemble them together, and so being
knowne to send them all one way: And herein I shall commend vnto your
good consideration the wonderfull meanes to condemne these parties,
that liued in the world, free from suspition of any such offences, as
are proued against them: And thereby the more dangerous, that in the
successe we may lawfully say, the very Finger of God did point th[=e]
out. And she that neuer saw them, but in that meeting, did accuse
them, and by their faces discouer them.
This _Katherine Hewyt_, Prisoner in the Castle at Lancaster, being
brought to the Barre before the great Seate of Iustice, was there
according to the former order and course Indicted and Arraigned, for
that she felloniously had practized, exercised, and vsed her Deuillish
and wicked Arts, called _Witch-crafts_, _Inchantments_, _Charmes_, and
_Sorceries_, in, and vpon _Anne Foulds_; and the same _Anne Foulds_,
by force of the same witch-craft, felloniously did kill and murder.
_Contra formam Statuti, &c. Et contra Pacem dicti Domini Regis, &c._
Vpon her Arraignement to this Indictment, shee pleaded not guiltie;
And for the triall of her life put her selfe vpon God and her
Countrie.
So as now the Gentlemen of the Iurie of life and death, stand charged
with her as with others.
_The Euidence against_ Katherine Hewyt,
_Prisoner at the Barre._
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_The Examination of_ IAMES DEVICE,
_Sonne of_ ELIZABETH DEVICE, _taken the seuen and
twentieth day of Aprill_, Anno Reg. Regis IACOBI, Angliæ,
Franciæ, & Hiberniæ, decimo, et Scotiæ quadragesimo
quarto.