And this Examinate further sayth, that _Elizabeth Nutter_, wife to old _Robert Nutter_, did request this Examinate, and _Loomeshaws_ wife of _Burley_, and one _Iane Boothman_, of the same, who are now both dead, (which time of request, was before that _Robert Nutter_ desired the company of _Redfearns_ wife) to get young _Robert Nutter_ his death, if they could; all being togeather then at that time, to that end, that if _Robert_ were dead, then the Women their Coosens might haue the Land: By whose perswasion, they all consented vnto it. After which time, this Examinates Sonne in law _Thomas Redfearne_, did perswade this Examinate, not to kill or hurt the sayd _Robert Nutter_; for which perswasion, the sayd _Loomeshaws_ Wife, had like to haue killed the sayd _Redfearne_, but that one M. _Baldwyn_ (the late Schoole-maister at _Coulne_) did by his learning, stay the sayd _Loomeshaws_ wife, and therefore had a Capon from _Redfearne_.[D4_a_]
And this Examinate further sayth, that she thinketh the sayd _Loomeshaws_ wife, and _Iane Boothman_, did what they could to kill the sayd _Robert Nutter_, as well as this Examinate did.
_The Examination of_ ELIZABETH SOTHERNES, alias OLD DEMBDIKE: _taken at the Fence in the Forrest of Pendle in the Countie of Lancaster, the day and yeare aforesaid._
ROGER NOWEL _Esquire, one of the Kings Maiesties Iustices of Peace in the said Countie, against_ ANNE WHITTLE, alias CHATTOX.
The said _Elizabeth Southernes_ saith vpon her Examination, that about halfe a yeare before _Robert Nutter_ died, as this Examinate thinketh, this Examinate went to the house of _Thomas Redfearne_, which was about Mid-sommer, as this Examinate remembreth it. And there within three yards of the East end of the said house, shee saw the said _Anne Whittle_, alias _Chattox_, and _Anne Redferne_ wife of the said _Thomas Redferne_, and Daughter of the said _Anne Whittle_, alias _Chattox_: the one on the one side of the Ditch, and the other on the other: and two Pictures of Clay or Marle lying by them: and the third Picture the said _Anne Whittle_, alias _Chattox_, was making: and the said _Anne Redferne_ her said Daughter, wrought her Clay or Marle to make the third picture withall. And this Examinate passing by them, the said Spirit, called _Tibb_, in the shape of a black Cat, appeared vnto her this Examinate, and said, turne back againe, and doe as they doe: To whom this Examinate said, what are they doing? whereunto the said Spirit said; they are making three Pictures: whereupon she asked whose pictures they were? whereunto the said Spirit said; they are the pictures of _Christopher Nutter_, _Robert Nutter_, and _Marie_, wife of the said _Robert Nutter_: But this Examinate denying to goe back to helpe them to make the Pictures aforesaid; the said Spirit seeming to be angrie, therefore shoue or pushed this Examinate into the ditch, and so shed the Milke which this Examinate had in a Can or Kit: and so thereupon the Spirit at that time vanished out of this Examinates sight: But presently after that, the said Spirit appeared to this Examinate againe in the shape of a Hare, and so went with her about a quarter of a mile, but said nothing to this Examinate, nor shee to it.