_The Examination and Euidence of_ IENNET DEVICE, _daughter of_ ELIZABETH DEVICE.
The said Examinate saith, That on Good-Friday last, there was about 20. persons, whereof only two were men (to this Examinates remembrance) at her said Grand-mothers house at Malking-Tower, about twelue of the clock; all which persons, this Examinats said mother tould her, were Witches. And she further saith, she knoweth the names of six of them, _viz._ the wife of _Hugh Hargreiues_ vnder Pendle, _Christopher Howgate_ of Pendle, Vncle to this Examinat and _Elizabeth_ his wife; and _Dick Myles_ wife of the Rough-Lee, _Christopher Iacks_ of Thorniholme, and his wife; and the names of the residue, she this Examinate doth not know.
After these Examinations were openly read, his Lordship being very suspitious of the accusation of this yong wench _Iennet Deuice_, commanded one to take her away into the vpper Hall, intending in the meane time to make Triall of her Euidence, and the Accusation especially against this woman, who is charged to haue beene at Malking-Tower, at this great meeting. Master _Couel_ was commanded to set all his prisoners by themselues, and betwixt euery Witch another Prisoner, and some other strange women amongst them, so as no man could iudge the one from the other: and these being set in order before the Court from the prisoners, then was the Wench _Iennet Deuice_ commaunded to be brought into the Court: and being set before my Lord, he tooke great paines to examine her of euery particular Point, What women were at Malking-Tower vpon Good-Friday? How she knew them? What were the names of any of them? And how she knew them to be such as she named?
In the end being examined by my Lord,[P2_a_1] Whether she knew them that were there by their faces, if she saw them? she told my Lord she should: whereupon in the presence of this great Audience, in open Court, she went and tooke _Alice Nutter_, this prisoner, by the hand, and 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: what conference they had, and all the rest of their proceedings at large, without any manner of contrarietie.