credite, learning,
sobriety, honesty, and wit, will take this holy aduantage,
to raise the ruines of his desperate decayed name, and for
his better glory wil be-pray the iugling drab, and cast out
_Mopp_ the deuil.

They that haue their braines baited, and their fancies
distempered with the imaginations, and apprehensions of
Witches, Coniurers, and Fayries, and all that Lymphatical
_Chimaera_: I finde to be marshalled in one of these fiue
rankes, children, fooles, women, cowards, sick, or blacke,
melancholicke, discomposed wits. The Scythians being a
warlike Nation (as _Plutarch_ reports) neuer saw any
visions.--_Harsnet's Declaration_, p. 136.

D 2 _a_ 2. "_From these two sprung all the rest in order._"] The
descent from these two rival witch stocks, between which a deadly feud
and animosity prevailed, which led to the destruction of both
families, is shewn as follows:

Elizabeth Sothernes,
alias Old Demdike,
died in prison in 1612,
about 80 years old.
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Christopher = Eliz. Elizabeth, executed = John Device, or
Howgate. Both of at Lancaster, | Davies, supposed
them were reputed 1612. | to have been bewitched
to be at the witches | to death,
meeting on Good | by Widow Chattox,
Friday, 1612, but | because he had not
were not indicted. | paid her his yearly
Perhaps they were | aghen dole of meal.
the "one Holgate |
and his wife" mentioned |
amongst the |
witches in 1633. |
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James Device, or Alizon, executed Jennet, 9 years old
Davies, executed at at Lancaster in 1612. in 1612, and an evidence
Lancaster in 1612. in the present
trial. Condemned
herself, along with
16 other person