ROGER NOWEL _and_ NICHOLAS BANESTER, _two of his Maiesties Iustices of Peace in the Countie of Lancaster. Against Alice Nutter._ The said Examinate saith vpon his oath, That hee heard his Grand-mother say, about a yeare ago, that his mother, called _Elizabeth Deuice_, and his Grand-mother, and the wife of _Richard Nutter_, [Sidenote: _Alice Nutter_ the Prisoner.] of the Rough-Lee aforesaid, had killed one _Henry Mitton_, of the Rough-Lee aforesaid, by Witchcraft. The reason wherefore he was so killed, was for that this Examinats said Grand-mother had asked the said _Mitton_ a penny: and hee denying her thereof; thereupon shee procured his death as aforesaid. * * * * * _The Examination of_ ELIZABETH DEVICE, _mother of the said_ IAMES DEVICE. Against ALICE NVTTER, _wife of_ RICHARD NVTTER, _Prisoner at the Barre, vpon her Arraignement and Triall._ Before ROGER NOWEL _and_ NICHOLAS BANESTER, _Esquires, the day and yeare aforesaid._ This Examinate vpon her oath confesseth, and saith, That she, with the wife of _Richard Nutter_, called _Alice Nutter_, Prisoner at the Barre; and this Examinates said mother, _Elizabeth Sotherne_, alias _Old Demdike_; ioyned altogether, and bewitched the said _Henry Mitton_ to death. This Examinate further saith, That vpon Good-friday last, there dined at this examinats house two women of Burneley Parish, whose names the said _Richard Nutters_ wife, _Alice Nutter_, now Prisoner at the Barre, doth know. * * * * * _The Examination of_ IAMES DEVICE _aforesaid._ Against _The said_ ALICE NVTTER, _the daye and yeare aforesaid._ The said Examinate vpon his oath saith, That vpon Good-Friday about twelue of the clocke in the day time, there dined in this Examinats said mothers house, a number of persons, whereof three were men, with this Examinate, and the rest women: and that they mette there for these three causes following, as this Examinats said mother told this Examinate. The first was for the naming of the Spirit, which _Alizon Deuice_, now Prisoner at Lancaster, had, but did not name him, because she was not there. The second cause was, for the deliuerie of his said Grand-mother; this Examinates said sister, _Alizon_; the said _Anne Chattox_, and her daughter _Redferne_; killing the Gaoler at Lancaster, and before the next Assizes to blow vp the Castle there; to the end that the foresaid Prisoners might by that meanes make an escape, and get away: all which this Examinate then heard them conferre of.