s, this Examinates said mother told her
were Witches, and that she knoweth the names of sixe of the said
Witches.
Then was the said _Iennet Deuice_ commaunded by his Lordship to finde
and point out the said _Iohn Bulcock_ and _Iane Bulcock_ amongst all
the rest; whereupon shee went and tooke _Iane Bulcock_ by the hand,
accused her to be one, and told her in what place shee sat at the
Feast at Malking-Tower, at the great Assembly of the Witches; and who
sat next her: and accused the said _Iohn Bulcock_ to turne the Spitt
there;[R_a_] what conference they had, and all the rest of their
proceedings at large, without any manner of contrarietie.
Shee further told his Lordship, there was a woman that came out of
Craven to that Great Feast at Malking-Tower, but shee could not finde
her out amongst all those women.
* * * * *
Pp The names of the Witches at the
_Great Assembly and Feast at_
Malking-Tower, _viz._ vpon Good-Friday
last, 1612.[R1_b_]
_Elizabeth Deuice._
_Alice Nutter._
_Katherine Hewit_, alias
_Mould-heeles._
_John Bulcock._
_Jane Bulcock._
_Alice Graie._
_Jennet Hargraues._
_Elizabeth Hargraues._
_Christopher Howgate._
Sonne to old _Dembdike_.
_Christopher Hargraues._
_Grace Hay_, of Padiham.
_Anne Crunckshey_, of Marchden.
_Elizabeth Howgate._
_Jennet Preston_, Executed at Yorke
for the Murder of Master _Lister_,
With many more, which being bound ouer to appeare at the last Assizes,
are since that time fled to saue themselues.
[Illustration: decoration]
THE ARRAIGNMENT
_and Triall of_ ALIZON DEVICE,
_Daughter of_ ELIZABETH DEVICE, _within the Forrest
of Pendle, in the Countie of Lancaster aforesaid, for
Witch-craft._
_Alizon Deuice._
Behold, aboue all the rest, this lamentable spectacle of a poore
distressed Pedler, how miserably hee was tormented, and what
punishment hee endured for a small offence, by the wicked and damnable
practise of this odious Witch, first instructed therein by old
_Dembdike_ her Grand-mother, of whose life and death with her good
conditions, I haue written at large before in the beginning of this
worke, out of her owne Examinations and other Records, now remayning
with the Clarke of the Crowne at Lancaster: And by her Mother brought
vp in this detestable course of life; wherein I pray you obserue but
the manner and course of it in order, euen to the last period at her
Execution, for this ho
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