ROGER NOWEL and NICHOLAS BANISTER, _Esquires, two of his Maiesties Iustices of the Peace within the said Countie._ viz.
And further saith, That twelue yeares agoe, the said _Anne Chattox_ at a Buriall at the new Church in Pendle, did take three scalpes of people, which had been buried, and then cast out of a graue, as she the said _Chattox_ told this Examinate; and tooke eight teeth out of the said Scalpes, whereof she kept foure to her selfe, and gaue other foure to the said _Demdike_, this Examinates Grand-mother: which foure teeth now shewed to this Examinate, are the foure teeth that the said _Chattox_ gaue to his said Grand-mother, as aforesaid; which said teeth haue euer since beene kept, vntill now found by the said _Henry Hargreiues_ & this Examinate, at the West-end of this Examinates Grand-mothers house, and there buried in the earth, and a Picture of Clay there likewise found by them, about halfe a yard ouer in the earth, where the said teeth lay, which said picture so found was almost withered away, and was the Picture of _Anne_, _Anthony Nutters_ daughter; as this Examinates Grand-mother told him.
_The Examination of_ ALLIZON DEVICE _daughter of_ ELIZABETH DEVICE: _Taken at Reade, in the Countie of Lancaster, the thirtieth day of March_, Annoq; Reg. Regis IACOBI nunc Angliæ, &c. Decimo, & Scotiæ Quadragesimo quinto.
ROGER NOWEL _of Reade aforesaid, Esquire, one of his Maiesties Iustices of the Peace, within the said Countie._
This Examinate saith, that about eleuen yeares agoe, this Examinate and her mother had their firehouse broken,[E4_a_] and all, or the most part of their linnen clothes, & halfe a peck of cut oat-meale, and a quantitie of meale gone, all which was worth twentie shillings, or aboue: and vpon a Sunday then next after, this Examinate did take a band and a coife, parcell of the goods aforesaid, vpon the daughter of _Anne Whittle, alias Chattox_, and claimed them to be parcell of the goods stolne, as aforesaid.
And this Examinate further saith, That her father, called _Iohn Deuice_, being afraid, that the said _Anne Chattox_ should doe him or his goods any hurt by Witchcraft; did couenant with the said _Anne_, that if she would hurt neither of them, she should yearely haue one Aghen-dole of meale;[E4_b_1] which meale was yearely paid, vntill the yeare which her father died in, which was about eleuen yeares since: Her father vpon his then-death-bed, taking it that the said _Anne Whittle_, alias _Chattox_, did bewitch him to death, because the said meale was not paid the last yeare.