The said Examinate saith, that about sixe yeares agoe, _Anne Whittle_, alias _Chattox_, was hired by this Examinates wife to card wooll;[E_b_2] and so vpon a Friday and Saturday, shee came and carded wooll with this Examinates wife, and so the Munday then next after shee came likewise to card: and this Examinates wife hauing newly tunned drinke into Stands, which stood by the said _Anne Whittle_, alias _Chattox_: and the said _Ann Whittle_ taking a Dish or Cup, and drawing drinke seuerall times: and so neuer after that time, for some eight or nine weekes, they could haue any drinke, but spoiled, and as this Examinate thinketh was by the meanes of the said _Chattox_. And further he saith, that the said _Anne Whittle_, alias _Chattox_, and _Anne Redferne_ her said Daughter, are commonly reputed and reported to bee Witches. And hee also saith, that about some eighteene yeares agoe, he dwelled with one _Robert Nutter_ the elder, of Pendle aforesaid. And that yong _Robert Nutter_, who dwelled with his Grand-father, in the Sommer time, he fell sicke, and in his said sicknesse hee did seuerall times complaine, that hee had harme by them: and this Examinate asking him what hee meant by that word _Them_, He said, that he verily thought that the said _Anne Whittle_, alias _Chattox_, and the said _Redfernes_ wife, had bewitched him: and the said _Robert Nutter_ shortly after, being to goe with his then Master, called Sir _Richard Shattleworth_,[E2_a_] into Wales, this Examinate heard him say before his then going, vnto the said _Thomas Redferne_, that if euer he came againe he would get his Father to put the said _Redferne_ out of his house, or he himselfe would pull it downe; to whom the said _Redferne_ replyed, saying; when you come back againe you will be in a better minde: but he neuer came back againe, but died before Candlemas in Cheshire, as he was comming homeward. Since the voluntarie confession and examination of a Witch, doth exceede all other euidence, I spare to trouble you with a multitude of Examinations, or Depositions of any other witnesses, by reason this bloudie fact, for the Murder of _Robert Nutter_, vpon so small an occasion, as to threaten to take away his owne land from such as were not worthie to inhabite or dwell vpon it, is now made by that which you haue alreadie heard, so apparant, as no indifferent man will question it, or rest vnsatisfied: I shall now proceede to set forth vnto you the rest of her actions, remaining vpon Record. And how dangerous it was for any man to liue neere these people, to giue them any occasion of offence, I leaue it to your good consideration. * * * * * _The Examination and voluntarie Confession of_ ANNE WHITTLE, alias CHATTOX, _taken at the Fence in the Forrest of Pendle, in the Countie of Lancaster, the second day of Aprill_, Anno Regni Regis IACOBI ANGLIAE, Franciae, & Hiberniae, decimo & Scotiae xlv. Before