Device, or Howgate.  Both of at Lancaster, | Davies, supposed them were reputed 1612. | to have been bewitched to be at the witches | to death, meeting on Good | by Widow Chattox, Friday, 1612, but | because he had not were not indicted. | paid her his yearly Perhaps they were | aghen dole of meal. the “one Holgate | and his wife” mentioned |
amongst the |
witches in 1633. |
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James Device, or Alizon, executed Jennet, 9 years old
Davies, executed at at Lancaster in 1612. in 1612, and an evidence
Lancaster in 1612. in the present
trial.  Condemned
herself, along with
16 other persons,
for witchcraft, in
1633, when she appears
to have been
unmarried, but not
executed.

Anne Whittle, alias
Chattox, executed
at Lancaster, 1612,
about 80 years old.
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Anne, executed = Thomas Redferne.
in 1612. |
               |
             Mary.

D 3 a. “Commaunded this examinate to call him by the name of Fancie.”] The fittest name for a familiar she could possibly have chosen.  Sir Walter Scott (Letters on Demonology, p. 242) unaccountably speaks of Fancie as a female devil.  Master Potts would have told him, (see M 2 b,) “that Fancie had a very good face, and was a very proper man.”

D 3 b 1. “The wife of Richard Baldwin, of Pendle.”] Richard Baldwin was the miller who accosted Old Dembdike so unceremoniously.

D 3 b 2. “Robert Nutter.”] The family of the Nutters, of Pendle, bore a great share in the proceedings referred to in this trial.  It seems to have been a family of note amongst the inferior gentry or yeomanry of the forest.  A Nutter held courts for many years about this period, as deputy steward at Clitheroe. (See Whitaker’s Whalley, p. 307.) Three of the name are stated in the evidence to have been killed by witchcraft, Christopher Nutter, Robert Nutter, and Anne, the daughter of Anthony Nutter; and one of the unfortunate persons convicted is Alice Nutter.  The branch to which Robert belonged is shewn in the following table: 

Robert Nutter, the elder, = Elizabeth, who is reputed
of Pendle, called old | to have employed Anne
Robert Nutter. | Chattox, Loomeshaw’s
                          | wife, and Jane Boothman
                          | to bewitch to death young
                          | Robert Nutter, that other
                          | relations might inherit.