Hereupon were diuerse Examinations taken and read openly against her, to induce and satisfie the Gentlemen of the Iurie of Life and Death, to finde she was a Witch; and many other circumstances for the death of M. _Lister_. In the end _Anne Robinson_ and others were both examined, who vpon their Oathes declared against her, That M. _Lister_ lying in great extremitie, vpon his death bedde, cried out vnto them that stood about him; that _Iennet Preston_ was in the house, looke where shee is, take hold of her: for Gods sake shut the doores, and take her, shee cannot escape away. Looke about for her, and lay hold on her, for shee is in the house: and so cryed very often in his great paines, to them that came to visit him during his sicknesse. _Anne Robinson_, and _Thomas Lister_, Being examined further, they both gaue this in euidence against her, That when Master _Lister_ lay vpon his death-bedde, hee cryed out in great extremitie; _Iennet Preston_ lyes heauie vpon me, _Prestons_ wife lies heauie vpon me; helpe me, helpe me: and so departed, crying out against her. These, with many other witnesses, were further examined, and deposed, That _Iennet Preston_, the Prisoner at the Barre, being brought to M. _Lister_ after hee was dead, & layd out to be wound vp in his winding-sheet, the said _Iennet Preston_ comming to touch the dead corpes, they bled fresh bloud presently,[Y3_a_] in the presence of all that were there present: Which hath euer beene held a great argument to induce a Iurie to hold him guiltie that shall be accused of Murther, and hath seldome, or neuer, fayled in the Tryall. But these were not alone: for this wicked and bloud-thirstie Witch was no sooner deliuered at the Assises holden at Yorke in Lent last past, being indicted, arraigned, and by the fauor and mercie of the Iurie found not guiltie, for the murther of a Child by Witch-craft: but vpon the Friday following, beeing Good-Friday, shee rode in hast to the great meeting at Malking-Tower, and there prayed aide for the murther of M. _Thomas Lister:_ as at large shall appeare, by the seuerall Examinations hereafter following; sent to these Assises from Master _Nowel_ and other his Maiesties Iustices of Peace in the Countie of Lancaster, to be giuen in euidence against her, vpon her Triall, _viz._ * * * * * _The Examination and Euidence of_ IAMES DEVICE, _of the Forrest of Pendle, in the Countie of Lancaster, Labourer, taken at the house of_ IAMES WILSEY, _of the Forrest of Pendle in the Countie of Lancaster, the seuen and twentieth day of Aprill_, Anno Reg. Regis IACOBI Angliae, &c. Decimo ac Scotiae quadragesimo quinto. Before ROGER NOWEL _and_ NICHOLAS BANESTER, _Esquires, two of his Maiesties Iustices of the Peace within the Countie of Lancaster_, viz.