_The Examination of_ IENNET BIERLEY, ELLEN BIERLEY, _and_ IANE SOVTHWORTH, _of Salmesburie, in the Countie of Lancaster, Taken vpon Wednesday the nineteenth of August_ 1612. _Annoq; Reg. Regis_, IACOBI _Angliae, Franciae, & Hiberniae, Fidei Defensoris, &c. decimo & Scotiae_, xlvi. Before WILLIAM LEIGH, _and_ EDWARD CHISNAL, _Esquires; two of his Maiesties Iustices of Peace in the same Countie: At the Assizes and generall Gaole deliuerie, holden at Lancaster._ By _Direction of Sir_ EDWARD BROMLEY _Knight, one of his Maiesties Iustices of Assize at Lancaster._ _Iennet Bierley_ being demanded what shee knoweth, or hath heard, how _Grace Sowerbuts_ was brought to _Christopher Southworth_, Priest; shee answereth, that shee was brought to M. _Singletons_ house by her owne Mother, where the said Priest was, and that shee further heard her said Mother say, after her Daughter had been in her fit, that shee should be brought vnto her Master, meaning the said Priest. And shee further saith, that shee thinketh it was by and through the Counsell of the said M. _Thomson_, alias _Southworth_, Priest, That _Grace Sowerbuts_ her Grand-child accused her of Witchcraft, and of such practises as shee is accused of: and thinketh further, the cause why the said _Thompson_, alias _Southworth_ Priest, should practise with the Wench to doe it was, for that shee went to the Church. _Iane Southworth_ saith shee saw Master _Thompson_, alias _Southworth_, the Priest, a month or sixe weekes before she was committed to the Gaole; and had conference with him in a place called Barne-hey-lane, where and when shee challenged him for slandering her to bee a Witch: whereunto he answered, that what he had heard thereof, he heard from her mother and her Aunt: yet she, this Examinate, thinketh in her heart it was by his procurement, and is moued so to thinke, for that shee would not be disswaded from the Church. _Ellen Bierley_ saith, Shee saw Master _Thompson_, alias _Southworth_, sixe or eight weeks before she was committed, and thinketh the said Priest was the practiser with _Grace Sowerbutts_, to accuse her of Witchcraft, and knoweth no cause why he should so doe, but because she goeth to the Church. _Signum_, [Symbol: Maltese cross] Iennet Bierley. _Signum_, L Iane Southworth. _Signum_, [Symbol: Greek Phi] Ellen Bierley. _William Leigh._ _Edward Chisnall._