Vpon her Examination, although Master _Nowel_ was very circumspect, and exceeding carefull in dealing with her, yet she would confesse nothing, vntill it pleased God to raise vp a yong maid, _Iennet Deuice_, her owne daughter, about the age of nine yeares (a witnesse vnexpected) to discouer all their Practises, Meetings, Consultations, Murthers, Charmes, and Villanies: such, and in such sort, as I may iustly say of them, as a reuerend and learned Iudge of this Kingdome speaketh of the greatest Treason that euer was in this Kingdome, _Quis haec posteris sic narrare poterit, vt facta non ficta esse videantur?_ That when these things shall be related to Posteritie, they will be reputed matters fained, not done. And then knowing, that both _Iennet Deuice_, her daughter, _Iames Deuice_, her sonne, and _Alizon Deuice_, with others, had accused her and layed open all things, in their Examinations taken before Master _Nowel_, and although she were their owne naturall mother, yet they did not spare to accuse her of euery particular fact, which in her time she had committed, to their knowledge; she made a very liberall and voluntarie Confession, as hereafter shall be giuen in euidence against her, vpon her Arraignment and Triall. This _Elizabeth Deuice_ being at libertie, after Old _Dembdike_ her mother, _Alizon Deuice_, her daughter, and old _Chattocks_ were committed to the Castle of Lancaster for Witchcraft; laboured not a little to procure a solemne meeting at Malkyn-Tower of the Graund Witches of the Counties of Lancaster and Yorke, being yet vnsuspected and vntaken, to consult of some speedie course for the deliuerance of their friends, the Witches at Lancaster, and for the putting in execution of some other deuillish practises of Murther and Mischiefe: as vpon the Arraignement and Triall of _Iames Deuice_, her sonne, shall hereafter in euery particular point appeare at large against her. The first Indictment. This _Elizabeth Deuice_, late the wife of _Iohn Deuice_, of the Forrest of Pendle in the Countie of Lancaster Widdow, being indicted, for that shee felloniously had practized, vsed, and exercised diuers wicked and deuillish Arts, called _Witch-crafts_, _Inchantments_, _Charmes_, and _Sorceries_, in, and vpon one _Iohn Robinson_, alias _Swyer_: and by force of the same felloniously, the said _Iohn Robinson_, alias _Swyer_, had killed. _Contra pacem, &c._ being at the Barre was arraigned. 2. Indictment. The said _Elizabeth Deuice_ was the second time indicted in the same manner and forme, for the death of _Iames Robinson_, by Witch-craft. _Contra pacem, &c._ 3. Indictment. The said _Elizabeth Deuice_, was the third time with others, _viz._ _Alice Nutter_, and _Elizabeth Sothernes_, alias _Old-Dembdike_, her Grand-mother, Indicted in the same manner and forme, for the death of _Henrie Mytton_. _Contra pacem, &c._