Katherine Hewit.

Who but Witches can be proofes, and so witnesses of the doings of Witches? since all their Meetings, Conspiracies, Practises, and Murthers, are the workes of Darkenesse:  But to discouer this wicked Furie, GOD hath not only raised meanes beyond expectation, by the voluntarie Confession and Accusation of all that are gone before, to accuse this Witch (being Witches, and thereby witnesses of her doings) but after they were committed, by meanes of a Child, to discouer her to be one, and a Principall in that wicked assembly at Malking-Tower, to deuise such a damnable course for the deliuerance of their friends at Lancaster, as to kill the Gaoler, and blow vp the Castle, wherein the Deuill did but labour to assemble them together, and so being knowne to send them all one way:  And herein I shall commend vnto your good consideration the wonderfull meanes to condemne these parties, that liued in the world, free from suspition of any such offences, as are proued against them:  And thereby the more dangerous, that in the successe we may lawfully say, the very Finger of God did point th[=e] out.  And she that neuer saw them, but in that meeting, did accuse them, and by their faces discouer them.

This Katherine Hewyt, Prisoner in the Castle at Lancaster, being brought to the Barre before the great Seate of Iustice, was there according to the former order and course Indicted and Arraigned, for that she felloniously had practized, exercised, and vsed her Deuillish and wicked Arts, called Witch-crafts, Inchantments, Charmes, and Sorceries, in, and vpon Anne Foulds; and the same Anne Foulds, by force of the same witch-craft, felloniously did kill and murder. Contra formam Statuti, &c.  Et contra Pacem dicti Domini Regis, &c.

Vpon her Arraignement to this Indictment, shee pleaded not guiltie; And for the triall 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 with her as with others.

     The Euidence against Katherine Hewyt,
     Prisoner at the Barre.

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The Examination of IAMES DEVICE, Sonne of ELIZABETH DEVICE, taken the seuen and twentieth day of Aprill, Anno Reg.  Regis IACOBI, Angliae, Franciae, & Hiberniae, decimo, et Scotiae quadragesimo quarto.

Before

ROGER NOWEL, and NICHOLAS BANNESTER, Esquires; two of his Maiesties Iustices of Peace, in the Countie of Lancaster.

Against

KATHERINE HEWYT, alias MOVLD-HEELES
of Colne. viz.