the Gaoler at Lancaster, and before the next Affifes to blow vp the Castle there, to that end the aforefaid prifoners might by that meanes make an escape, and get away: All which this Examinate then heard them conferre of. And he alfo fayth, That the names of such said Witches as were on Good-Friday at this Examinates faid Grand-mothers houfe, and now this Examinates owne mothers, for fo many of them as hee did know, were thefe, viz. Iane Bulcock, wife of Chriftopher Bulcock, of the Moffe end, and Iohn her fonne amongst others, &c. And this Examinate further faith, That all the faid Witches went out of the faid houfe in their own shapes and likeneffes and they all, by that they were forth of the dores, were gotten on horfe-backe, like vnto Foales, fome of one colour, and fome of another, and Prestons wife was the laft: and when thee got on horse-backe, they all presently vanifhed out of out of this Examinates fight. And further he faith, That the faid Iohn Bulcock and Iane his faid Mother, did confeffe vpon Good-Friday laft at the faid Malking-Tower, in the hearing of this Examinate, That they had bewitched, at the new-field Edge in Yorkeshire, a woman called Iennet, wife of Iohn Deyne, befides, her reafon; and the faid Womans name fo bewitched, he did not heare them fpeake of. And this Examinate further faith, That at the said Feast at Malking-Tower this Examinate heard them all giue their confents to put the faid Mafter Thomas Lister of Weftby to death. And after Mafter Lister fhould be made away by Witch-craft, then all the faid Witches gaue their confents to ioyne all together, to hanck Ma fter fter Leonard Lifter, when he should come to dwell at the Cow-gill, and fo put him to death. The Examination of ELIZABETH DEVICE, Taken the day and yeare aforefaid, Before ROGER NOVVEL and NICHOLAS BANESTER, Efquires, two of his Maiesties Lustices of Peace in the Countie of Lancaster. Against IOHN BVLCOCK, and IANE BVLCOCK, his mother. His Examinate faith vpon her oath, That the doth verily thinke, that the faid Bulcockes wife doth know of fome Witches to bee about Padyham and Burnley. And thee further faith, That at the faid meeting at Malking-Tower, as aforefaid, Katherine Hewyt and Iohn Bulcock, with all the reft then there, gaue their consents, with the faid Prestons wife, for the killing of the faid Master Lister. The IOHN BVLCOCKE and IANE his mother, prifoners at the Barre. He faid Examinate faith, That vpon Good-Friday laft there was about twentie perfons, whereof two were men, to this Examinates remembrance, at her faid Grand-mothers house, called Malking-Tower aforefaid: all which perfons, this Examinates faid mother told her were Witches, and that the knoweth the names of fixe of the faid Witches. Then was the faid Iennet Deuice commaunded by his Lordship to finde and point out the faid Iohn Bulcock and Iane Bulcock amongst all the reft; whereupon shee went and tooke Iane Bulcock by the hand, accufed her to be one, and told her in what place fhee fat at the Feast at Malking-Tower, at the great Affembly of the Witches; and who fat next her: and accufed the faid Iohn Bulcock to turne the Spitt there; what conference they had, and all the reft of their proceedings at large, without any manner of contrarietie. Shee further told his Lordfhip, there was a woman that came out of Craven to that Great Feaft at Malking-Tower, but fhee could not finde her out amongst all those women. |