On the indictment against Anne Whittle being read, she pleaded not guilty, whereupon "Mr. Nowell, the best instructed of any man of all these particular poyntes of evidence against her and her fellows," requested that the prisoner's own confession made before him should now be "published against her," and this was forthwith done. Of the character of the evidence given by the various witnesses, the following are samples: Anne Whittle, to spite the wife of one John Moore, "called for her Deuill _Fancie_ and bad him goe bite a browne cow of Moore's by the head and make the cow goe madde; and the Deuill then in the likenesse of a brown dogge went to the said cow and bit her, which cow went madde accordingly and died within six weekes." Alice Chattox "at a buriall at the new church in Pendle did take three scalpes of people which had been buried, and then cast them out of a grave, and took eight teeth out of the said scalpes," which were afterwards used for purposes of witchcraft. They were not only accused of causing the deaths of various people and cattle by charms, but also of being the means of bringing about evil of every description. In the case of Elizabeth Device (the daughter of old Demdike), her own child, nine years of age, was "set upon the table in the presence of the whole court," and there declared that she knew her mother to be a witch, for she had several times seen her spirit in the shape of a brown dog come to her at her house. Another extraordinary piece of evidence was that of James Device, a son of young Demdyke's, who first put himself out of court as a creditable witness by confessing that he had recently stolen a sheep, and then swore that he had seen a number of witches at his grandmother's house, who first partook of the stolen mutton and then went out of doors, where they "were gotten on horsebacke, like unto foales, some one colour, some of another, and Preston's wife was the last, and when shee got on horsebacke they all presently vanished out of sight." Amongst the witches was one Alice Nutter, of the Forest of Pendle, whom Potts describes as "a rich woman" with "a great estate and children of good hope, and in the opinion of the world of good temper, free from envy or malice," and he adds, "Whether by the means of the rest of the witches or some unfortunate occasion shee was drawne to fall to this wicked course of life I know not; but hither she is now come to receive her triall both for murder and many other vile and damnable practices." The witnesses against this prisoner were the other accused and members of their families only.