_The Examination and voluntarie Confession of_ ANNE WHITTLE, alias CHATTOX, _taken at the Fence in the Forrest of Pendle, in the Countie of Lancaster, the second day of Aprill_, Anno Regni Regis IACOBI ANGLIÆ, Franciæ, & Hiberniæ, decimo & Scotiæ xlv.
ROGER NOWEL, _Esquire, one of his Maiesties Iustices of Peace within the Countie of Lancaster._
She the said Examinate saith, That shee was sent for by the wife of _Iohn Moore_, to helpe drinke that was forspoken or bewitched: at which time shee vsed this Prayer for the amending of it, _viz._
_Three Biters hast thou bitten, The Hart, ill Eye, ill Tonge: Three bitter shall be thy Boote, Father, Sonne, and Holy Ghost a Gods name, Fiue Pater-nosters, fiue Auies, and a Creede, In worship of fiue wounds of our Lord._
After which time that this Examinate had vsed these prayers, and amended her drinke, the said _Moores_ wife did chide this Examinate, and was grieued at her.
And thereupon this Examinate called for her Deuill _Fancie_, and bad him goe bite a browne Cow of the said _Moores_ by the head, and make the Cow goe madde: and the Deuill then, in the likenesse of a browne Dogge, went to the said Cow, and bit her: which Cow went madde accordingly, and died within six weekes next after, or thereabouts.
Also this Examinate saith, That she perceiuing _Anthonie Nutter_ of Pendle to fauour _Elizabeth Sothernes_, alias _Dembdike_,[E3_a_1] she, this Examinate, called _Fancie_ to her, (who appeared like a man) and bad him goe kill a Cow of the said _Anthonies_; which the said Deuill did, and that Cow died also.
And further this Examinate saith, That the Deuill, or _Fancie_, hath taken most of her sight away from her. And further this Examinate saith, That in Summer last, saue one, the said Deuill, or _Fancie_, came vpon this Examinate in the night time: and at diuerse and sundry times in the likenesse of a Beare, gaping as though he would haue wearied this Examinate.[E3_a_2] And the last time of all shee, this Examinate, saw him, was vpon Thursday last yeare but one, next before Midsummer day, in the euening, like a Beare, and this Examinate would not then speake vnto him, for the which the said Deuill pulled this Examinate downe.
_The Examination of_ IAMES DEVICE,[E3_b_] _sonne of_ ELIZABETH DEVICE, _taken the seuen and twentieth day of Aprill_, Annoq; Reg. Regis IACOBI Angliæ, &c. Decimo ac Scotiæ xlv.