‘But now to draw neere unto their ends, this _Agnes Browne_ and her daughter _Ioane Vaughan_, being brought to their Arraignment, were there indicted for that they had bewitched the bodies of Maister _Auery_ and his sister Mistris _Belcher_ in manner and forme aforesayd. Together with the body of a young Child to the death; (the true relation whereof came not to my hands). To all which they pleaded not guilty, and, putting themselues uppon the countrey, were found guilty. And when they were asked what they could say for themselves, why y{e} sentence of death should not be pronounced against them, they stood stiffely upon their Innocence. Whereupon, Judgement beeing giuen, they were carried backe unto the Gaole, where they were neuer heard to pray, or to call uppon God, but with bitter Curses and execrations, spent that little time they had to liue, untill the day of their Execution, when neuer asking pardon for their offences, either of God, or the world, in this their daungerous and desperate resolution, dyed. [Illustration] ‘It was credibly reported that some fortnight before their apprehension, this _Agnes Browne_, one _Katherine Gardiner_, and one _Ioane Lucas_, all birdes of a winge, and all abyding in the Towne of _Gilsborough_ did ride one night to a place (not aboue a mile off) called _Rauenstrop_ all upon a Sowes back, to see one mother _Rhoades_, an old Witch that dwelt there; but, before they came to the house the old Witch died; and, in her last cast cried out, that there were three of her old friends comming to see her, but they came too late. Howbeit, shee would meete with them in another place within a month after.’ CHAPTER XVI. The Lancashire Witches--Janet Preston--Margaret and Philip Flower--Anne Baker, Joane Willimot, and Ellen Greene--Elizabeth Sawyer--Mary Smith--Joan Williford, Joan Cariden, and Jane Hott. The foregoing sample must serve for the witches of Northamptonshire, nor will I touch on the Lancashire witches, whose story appears in nearly every modern work on witchcraft, and has been vulgarized by Harrison Ainsworth, except to give a portion of the evidence of one James Device, of the forest of Pendle, labourer, in the case of Janet or Jennet Preston, who was condemned as a witch, and executed at York in 1612.