D 3 _b_ 2. "_Robert Nutter._"] The family of the Nutters, of Pendle, bore a great share in the proceedings referred to in this trial. It seems to have been a family of note amongst the inferior gentry or yeomanry of the forest. A Nutter held courts for many years about this period, as deputy steward at Clitheroe. (See Whitaker's _Whalley_, p. 307.) Three of the name are stated in the evidence to have been killed by witchcraft, Christopher Nutter, Robert Nutter, and Anne, the daughter of Anthony Nutter; and one of the unfortunate persons convicted is Alice Nutter. The branch to which Robert belonged is shewn in the following table: Robert Nutter, the elder, = Elizabeth, who is reputed of Pendle, called old | to have employed Anne Robert Nutter. | Chattox, Loomeshaw's | wife, and Jane Boothman | to bewitch to death young | Robert Nutter, that other | relations might inherit. | Christopher, reputed to have died of witchcraft about 18 years before. | 1 | 2 3 ------------------------------------------------------ | | | Robert, of Greenhead, = Mary John, of Higham Margaret = Crooke in Pendle, a retainer Booth. | of Sir Richard | | Shuttleworth, --------------------------- reputed to have been gave evidence at the trial. bewitched to death 18 or 19 years before the trial took place. D 4 _a_. "_One Mr. Baldwyn (the late Schoole-maister at Coulne) did by his learning, stay the sayd Loomeshaws wife, and therefore had a Capon from Redfearne._"] I regret that I can give no account of this learned Theban, who appears to have stayed the plague, and who taught at the school at which Archbishop Tillotson was afterwards educated. He well deserved his capon. Had he continued at Colne up to the time of this trial, he might perhaps, on the same easy terms, have kept the powers of darkness in check, and prevented some imputed crimes which cost ten unfortunates their lives. E _b_ 1. "_Iames Robinson._"] Baines, in his _History of Lancashire_, vol. i. p. 605, speaks of Edmund Robinson, the father of the boy on whose evidence the witches were convicted in 1633, as if he had been a witness at the present trial; which is probably a mistake for this James Robinson, as no Edmund Robinson appears amongst the witnessses whose depositions are given. E _b_ 2. "_Anne Whittle alias Chattox was hired by this examinates wife to card wooll._"] She seems to have been by occupation a carder of wool, and to have filled up the intervals, when she had no employment, by mendicancy.