To these three seuerall Indictments vpon her Arraignement, shee pleaded not guiltie; and for the tryall of her life, put her selfe vpon God and her Countrie. So as now the Gentlemen of the Iurie of life and death, stand charged to finde, whether shee bee guiltie of them, or any of them. Whereupon there was openly read, and giuen in euidence against her, for the Kings Majestie, her owne voluntarie Confession and Examination, when shee was apprehended, taken, and committed to the Castle of Lancaster by M. _Nowel_, and M. _Bannester_, two of his Maiesties Iustices of Peace in the same Countie. _viz._ * * * * * _The Examination and voluntarie Confession of_ ELIZABETH DEVICE, _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._ IACOBI, _Angl. &c. decimo, & Scotiae_ xlv. Before ROGER NOWEL, _and_ NICHOLAS BANNESTER, _Esquires; two of his Maiesties Iustices of the Peace within the same Countie._ viz. The said _Elizabeth Deuice_, Mother of the said _Iames_, being examined, confesseth and saith. That at the third time her Spirit,[F4_a_] the Spirit _Ball_, appeared to her in the shape of a browne Dogge, at, or in her Mothers house in Pendle Forrest aforesaid: about foure yeares agoe the said Spirit bidde this Examinate make a picture of Clay after the said _Iohn Robinson_, alias _Swyer_, which this Examinate did make accordingly at the West end of her said Mothers house, and dryed the same picture with the fire and crumbled all the same picture away within a weeke or thereabouts, and about a weeke after the Picture was crumbled or mulled away; the said _Robinson_ dyed. The reason wherefore shee this Examinate did so bewitch the said _Robinson_ to death, was: for that the said _Robinson_ had chidden and becalled this Examinate, for hauing a Bastard-child with one _Seller_. And this Examinate further saith and confesseth, that shee did bewitch the said _Iames Robinson_ to death, as in the said _Iennet Deuice_ her examination is confessed. And further shee saith, and confesseth, that shee with the wife of _Richard Nutter_, and this Examinates said Mother, ioyned altogether, and did bewitch the said _Henrie Mytton_ to death. * * * * * _The Examination and Euidence of_ IENNET DEVICE, _Daughter of the said_ ELIZABETH DEVICE, _late Wife of_ IOHN DEVICE, _of the Forrest of Pendle, in the Countie of Lancaster._ Against ELIZABETH DEVICE _her Mother, Prisoner at the Barre vpon her Arraignement and Triall._ viz.