younger sonnes of the said Sir John. And att the howse of
John Warde dwellinge in Samlesburie Park syde. And the said
Prieste sayeth Masse att the said lodge and att the said
Wards howse. Whether resorte, Mr. Sowthworthe, Mres. An
Sowthworthe, John Walmesley servante to Sir John
Southworthe, Tho. Southworthe dwellinge in the Parke, John
Gerrerde, servante to Sir John Southworthe, John Singleton,
John Wrighte, James Sherples iunior, John Warde of
Samlesburie, John Warde of Medler thelder, Henrie Potter of
Medler, John Gouldon of Winwicke, Thomas Gouldon of the
same, Roberte Anderton of Samlesburie and John Sherples of
Stanleyhurst in Samlesburie.--_Baines's Lancashire_, vol. i.
p. 543.

Att the lodge in Samlesburie Parke there be masses daylie
and Seminaries dyuerse Resorte thither as James Cowpe,
Harrisson Bell and such like, The like vnlawfull meetings
are made daylie att the howse of John Warde by the Parke
syde of Samlesburie all wiche matters, masses, resorte to
Masses, receipting of Seminaries wilbe Justifyed by Mr. Adam
Sowtheworthe Thomas Sherples and John Osbaldston.--_Ibid._,
p. 544.

K 4 _b_. "_Picked her off._"] Threw her off.

L _a_. "_Hugh Walshmans._"] The wife of Hugh Walshman, of Samlesbury,
is mentioned in the list of recusants; Baines, vol. i. p. 544.

L 2 _a_ 1. "_Brought a little child._"] The evidence against the
Pendle witches exhibits meagreness and poverty of imagination compared
with the accumulated horrors with which the Jesuit, fresh, it may be,
from Bodin and Delrio, made his "fire burn and cauldron bubble." With
respect to this old story of the magical use made of the corpses of
infants, Ben Jonson, in a note on

"I had a dagger: what did I with that?
Killed an infant to have his fat;"

tells us with great gravity:

Their killing of infants is common, both for confection of
their ointment (whereto one ingredient is the fat boiled, as
I have shewed before out of Paracelsus and Porta) as also
out of a lust to do murder. _Sprenger in Mal. Malefic._
reports that a witch, a midwife in the diocese of Basil,
confessed to have killed above forty infants (ever as they
were new born, with pricking them in the brain with a
needle) which she had offered to the devil. See the story of
the three witches in _Rem. Daemonola lib. cap._ 3, about