that he verily thought that the said Anne Whittle, alias Chattox, and the said Redfernes wife, had bewitched him:  and the said Robert Nutter shortly after, being to goe with his then Master, called Sir Richard Shattleworth,[E2_a_] into Wales, this Examinate heard him say before his then going, vnto the said Thomas Redferne, that if euer he came againe he would get his Father to put the said Redferne out of his house, or he himselfe would pull it downe; to whom the said Redferne replyed, saying; when you come back againe you will be in a better minde:  but he neuer came back againe, but died before Candlemas in Cheshire, as he was comming homeward.

Since the voluntarie confession and examination of a Witch, doth exceede all other euidence, I spare to trouble you with a multitude of Examinations, or Depositions of any other witnesses, by reason this bloudie fact, for the Murder of Robert Nutter, vpon so small an occasion, as to threaten to take away his owne land from such as were not worthie to inhabite or dwell vpon it, is now made by that which you haue alreadie heard, so apparant, as no indifferent man will question it, or rest vnsatisfied:  I shall now proceede to set forth vnto you the rest of her actions, remaining vpon Record.  And how dangerous it was for any man to liue neere these people, to giue them any occasion of offence, I leaue it to your good consideration.

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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 ANGLIAE, Franciae, & Hiberniae, decimo & Scotiae xlv.

Before

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.

    A Charme.[E2_b_]

    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.