At the Assises and Generall Gaole-_Deliuerie_ _holden at the Castle of Yorke_ in the Countie of Yorke, the xxvij. day of Iuly last past, _Anno Regni Regis_ IACOBI _Angliae, &c. Decimo, & Scotiae quadragesimo quinto._ Before _Sir_ IAMES ALTHAM _Knight, one_ of the Barons of his Maiesties Court of Exchequer; and Sir EDWARD BROMLEY Knight, another of _the Barons of his Maiesties Court of Exchequer;_ his Maiesties Iustices of Assise, Oyer and Terminer, _and generall Gaole-Deliuerie, in the Circuit of the North-parts._ [Illustration: decoration] LONDON. Printed by W. STANSBY for IOHN BARNES, and are to be sold at his Shoppe neere Holborne Conduit. 1612. [Illustration: decoration] THE ARRAIGNMENT _and Triall of_ IENNET PRESTON _of Gisborne in Crauen, in the Countie of Yorke, at the Assises and generall Gaole-deliuerie, holden at the Castle of Yorke, in the Countie of Yorke, the seuen and twentieth day of Iuly last past._ Anno Regni Regis Iacobi Angliae &c. Decimo & Scotiae xlvj. _Jennet Preston._ Many haue vndertaken to write great discourses of Witches and many more dispute and speake of them. And it were not much if as many wrote of them as could write at al, to set forth to the world the particular Rites and Secrets of their vnlawfull Artes, with their infinite and wonderfull practises which many men little feare till they seaze vpon them. As by this late wonderfull discouerie of Witches in the Countie of Lancaster may appeare, wherein I find such apparant matter to satisfie the World, how dangerous and malitious a Witch this _Iennet Preston_ was, How vnfit to liue, hauing once so great mercie extended to her: And againe to reuiue her practises, and returne to her former course of life; that I thinke it necessarie not to let the memorie of her life and death die with her; But to place her next to her fellowes and to set forth the Arraignement Triall and Conviction of her, with her offences for which she was condemned and executed. And although shee died for her offence before the rest, I yet can afford her no better place then in the end of this Booke in respect the proceedings was in an other Countie;