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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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