Great was the care and paines of his Lordship, to make triall of the Innocencie of this woman, as shall appeare vnto you vpon the Examination of Iennet Deuice, in open Court, at the time of her Arraignement and Triall; by an extraordinary meanes of Triall, to marke her out from the rest.

It is very certaine she was of the Grand-counsell at Malking-Tower vpon Good-Friday, and was there present, which was a very great argument to condemne her.

This Alice Nutter, Prisoner in the Castle at Lancaster:  Being brought to the Barre before the Great Seat of Iustice; was there according to the former order and course Indicted and Arraigned, for that she felloniously had practised, exercised, and vsed her diuellish and wicked Arts, called Witchcrafts, Inchantments, Charmes and Sorceries, in and vpon Henry Mitton:  and him the said Henry Mitton, by force of the same Witchcrafts, felloniously did kill and murther. Contra formam Statuti, &c. Et Contra Pacem, &c.

Vpon her Arraignement, to this Indictment shee pleaded not guiltie; and for the triall of her life, put her selfe vpon God and the Countrey.

So as now the Gentlemen of the Iury of life and death stand charged with her, as with others.

     The Euidence against Alice Nutter 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, Fidei Defensor. &c.  Decimo & Scotiae, xlvj.

Before

ROGER NOWEL and NICHOLAS BANESTER, two of his Maiesties Iustices of
Peace in the Countie of Lancaster.  Against Alice Nutter.

The said Examinate saith vpon his oath, That hee heard his Grand-mother say, about a yeare ago, that his mother, called Elizabeth Deuice, and his Grand-mother, and the wife of Richard Nutter, [Sidenote:  Alice Nutter the Prisoner.] of the Rough-Lee aforesaid, had killed one Henry Mitton, of the Rough-Lee aforesaid, by Witchcraft.  The reason wherefore he was so killed, was for that this Examinats said Grand-mother had asked the said Mitton a penny:  and hee denying her thereof; thereupon shee procured his death as aforesaid.

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The Examination of ELIZABETH DEVICE, mother of the said IAMES DEVICE.

Against

ALICE NVTTER, wife of RICHARD NVTTER,
Prisoner at the Barre, vpon her Arraignement and
Triall.

Before

ROGER NOWEL and NICHOLAS BANESTER,
Esquires, the day and yeare aforesaid.

This Examinate vpon her oath confesseth, and saith, That she, with the wife of Richard Nutter, called Alice Nutter, Prisoner at the Barre; and this Examinates said mother, Elizabeth Sotherne, alias Old Demdike; ioyned altogether, and bewitched the said Henry Mitton to death.