And shee further saith, That at the said meeting at Malking-Tower, as aforesaid, Katherine Hewyt and Iohn Bulcock, with all the rest then there, gaue their consents, with the said Prestons wife, for the killing of the said Master Lister.
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The Examination and Euidence of IENNET DEVICE
Against
IOHN BVLCOCKE and IANE his mother, prisoners
at the Barre.
The said Examinate saith, That vpon Good-Friday last there was about twentie persons, whereof two were men, to this Examinates remembrance, at her said Grand-mothers house, called Malking-Tower aforesaid: all which persons, this Examinates said mother told her were Witches, and that she knoweth the names of sixe of the said Witches.
Then was the said Iennet Deuice commaunded by his Lordship to finde and point out the said Iohn Bulcock and Iane Bulcock amongst all the rest; whereupon shee went and tooke Iane Bulcock by the hand, accused her to be one, and told her in what place shee sat at the Feast at Malking-Tower, at the great Assembly of the Witches; and who sat next her: and accused the said Iohn Bulcock to turne the Spitt there;[R_a_] what conference they had, and all the rest of their proceedings at large, without any manner of contrarietie.
Shee further told his Lordship, there was a woman that came out of Craven to that Great Feast at Malking-Tower, but shee could not finde her out amongst all those women.
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Pp The names of the Witches at the
Great Assembly and Feast at
Malking-Tower, viz. vpon Good-Friday
last, 1612.[R1_b_]
Elizabeth Deuice.
Alice Nutter.
Katherine Hewit, alias
Mould-heeles.
John Bulcock.
Jane Bulcock.
Alice Graie.
Jennet Hargraues.
Elizabeth Hargraues.
Christopher Howgate.
Sonne to old Dembdike.
Christopher Hargraues.
Grace Hay, of Padiham.
Anne Crunckshey, of Marchden.
Elizabeth Howgate.
Jennet Preston, Executed at Yorke for the Murder of Master Lister,
With many more, which being bound ouer to appeare at the last Assizes, are since that time fled to saue themselues.
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THE ARRAIGNMENT and Triall of ALIZON DEVICE, Daughter of ELIZABETH DEVICE, within the Forrest of Pendle, in the Countie of Lancaster aforesaid, for Witch-craft.
Alizon Deuice.