Before

ROGER NOWEL, NICHOLAS BANNESTER,

_and_ ROBERT HOLDEN, _Esquires; three of his

Maiesties Iustices of Peace within the said Countie._

This Examinat vpon his oath saith, That _Anne Whittle_, alias

_Chattox_, confessed vnto him, that she knoweth one _Prestons_ wife

neere Gisburne, and that the said _Prestons_ wife should haue beene at

the said feast, vpon the said Good-Friday, and that shee was an ill

woman, and had done Master _Lister_ of Westby great hurt.

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_The Examination of_ ELIZABETH

DEVICE, _mother of_ IAMES DEVICE, _taken before_

ROGER NOWEL _and_ NICHOLAS BANESTER,

_Esquires, the day and yeare aforesaid_, viz.

The said _Elizabeth Deuice_ vpon her Examination confesseth, That

vpon Good-Friday last, there dined at this Examinats house, which she

hath said are Witches, and doth verily thinke them to be Witches; and

their names are those whom _Iames Deuice_ hath formerly spoken of to

be there.

She also confesseth in all things touching the killing of Master

_Lister_ of Westby, as the said _Iames Deuice_ hath before confessed.

And the said _Elizabeth Deuice_ also further saith, That at the said

meeting at Malking-Tower, as aforesaid, the said _Katherine Hewyt_ and

_Iohn Bulcock_, with all the rest then there, gaue their consents,

with the said _Prestons_ wife, for the killing of the said Master

_Lister_. And for the killing of the said Master _Leonard Lister_, she

this Examinate saith in all things, as the said _Iames Deuice_ hath

before confessed in his Examination.

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_The Examination of_ IENNET DEVICE,

_daughter of_ ELIZABETH _late wife of_ IOHN

DEVICE, _of the Forrest of Pendle, in the Countie of Lancaster,

about the age of nine yeares or thereabouts, taken

the day and yeare aboue-said:_