Discovery of Witches: The Wonderfull Discoverie of Witches in the Countie of LancasterPotts, Thomas, active 1612-1618
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Discovery of Witches: The Wonderfull Discoverie of Witches in the Countie of Lancaster
Potts, Thomas, active 1612-1618
Preston, Jennet, -1612; Witchcraft -- England -- Lancashire
And shee further saith, That at the said meeting at Malking-Tower, as
aforesaid, _Katherine Hewyt_ and _Iohn Bulcock_, with all the rest
then there, gaue their consents, with the said _Prestons_ wife, for
the killing of the said Master _Lister_.
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_The Examination and Euidence of_
IENNET DEVICE
Against
IOHN BVLCOCKE _and_ IANE _his mother, prisoners
at the Barre._
The said Examinate saith, That vpon Good-Friday last there was
about twentie persons, whereof two were men, to this Examinates
remembrance, at her said Grand-mothers house, called Malking-Tower
aforesaid: all which persons, this Examinates said mother told her
were Witches, and that she knoweth the names of sixe of the said
Witches.
Then was the said _Iennet Deuice_ commaunded by his Lordship to finde
and point out the said _Iohn Bulcock_ and _Iane Bulcock_ amongst all
the rest; whereupon shee went and tooke _Iane Bulcock_ by the hand,
accused her to be one, and told her in what place shee sat at the
Feast at Malking-Tower, at the great Assembly of the Witches; and who
sat next her: and accused the said _Iohn Bulcock_ to turne the Spitt
there;[R_a_] what conference they had, and all the rest of their
proceedings at large, without any manner of contrarietie.
Shee further told his Lordship, there was a woman that came out of
Craven to that Great Feast at Malking-Tower, but shee could not finde
her out amongst all those women.
* * * * *
Pp The names of the Witches at the
_Great Assembly and Feast at_
Malking-Tower, _viz._ vpon Good-Friday
last, 1612.[R1_b_]
_Elizabeth Deuice._
_Alice Nutter._
_Katherine Hewit_, alias
_Mould-heeles._
_John Bulcock._
_Jane Bulcock._
_Alice Graie._
_Jennet Hargraues._
_Elizabeth Hargraues._
_Christopher Howgate._
Sonne to old _Dembdike_.
_Christopher Hargraues._
_Grace Hay_, of Padiham.
_Anne Crunckshey_, of Marchden.
_Elizabeth Howgate._
_Jennet Preston_, Executed at Yorke
for the Murder of Master _Lister_,
With many more, which being bound ouer to appeare at the last Assizes,
are since that time fled to saue themselues.
[Illustration: decoration]
THE ARRAIGNMENT
_and Triall of_ ALIZON DEVICE,
_Daughter of_ ELIZABETH DEVICE, _within the Forrest
of Pendle, in the Countie of Lancaster aforesaid, for
Witch-craft._
_Alizon Deuice._
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