evidence, came to hand, would not the monarch be the happiest man in his dominions! Twenty years after the publication of the tract now reprinted, Pendle Forest again became the scene of pretended witchcrafts; and from various circumstances, the trial which took place then (in 1633) has acquired even greater notoriety than the one which preceded it, though no Master Potts could be found to transmit a report of the proceedings in the second case, a deficiency which is greatly to be lamented. The particulars are substantially comprised in the following examination, which is given from the copy in Whitaker's _Whalley_, p. 213, which, on comparison, is unquestionably more accurate than the other two versions, in Webster, p. 347, and Baines's _Lancashire_, vol. i. p. 604:[40]-- [Footnote 40: The copy in Baines is from the Harl. MSS., cod. 6854, fo. 26 _b_, and though inserted in his history as more correct than that in Whitaker's Whalley, is so disfigured by errors, particularly in the names of persons and places, as to be utterly unintelligible. From what source Whitaker derived his transcript does not appear; for the confession of Margaret Johnson he cites Dodsworth MSS. in Bodleian Lib., vol. 61, p. 47.] "THE EXAMINATION OF EDMUND ROBINSON, "Son of _Edm. Robinson_, of _Pendle_ forest, mason,[41] taken at _Padiham_ before _Richard Shuttleworth_[42] and _John Starkie_,[43] Esqs. two of his majesty's justices of the peace, within the county of _Lancaster_, 10th of February, A.D. 1633.