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hath deliuered you beyond expectation, I pray GOD you may vse this mercie and fauour well; and take heed you fall not hereafter: And fo the Court doth order you fhall be deliuered.

What more can bee written or published of the proceedings of this honourable Court: but to conclude with the Execution of the Witches, who were executed the next day following at the common place of Execution, neare vnto Lancaster. Yet in the end giue mee leaue to intreate fome fauour that haue beene afraid to speake vntill my worke were finished. If I haue omitted any thing materiall, or published any thing imperfect, excufe me for that I haue done: It was a worke impofed vpon me by the Iudges, in refpect I was fo wel inftructed in euery particular. In haft I haue vndertaken to finish it in a bufie Tearme amongst my other imploiments.

My charge was to publifh the proceedings of Iustice, and matter of Fact, wherein I wanted libertie to write what I would, and am limited to fet forth nothing against them, but matter vpon Record, euen in their owne Countrie tearmes, which may seeme ftrange. And this I hope will giue good fatisfaction to fuch as vnderftand how to iudge of a bufineffe of this nature. Such as haue no other imploiment but to question other mens Actions, I leaue them to cenfure what they please, It is no part of my profeffion to publifh any thing in

print

print, neither can I paint in extraordinarie tearmes. But if this discouerie may ferue for your inftruction, I fhall thinke my felfe very happie in this Seruice, and fo leaue it to your generall cenfure.

Da veniam Ignoto non difplicuiffe meretur,

Feftinat ftudijs qui placuiffe tibi.

THE

ARRAIGNEMENT

AND TRIALL OF

IENNET PRESTON,

GISBORNE IN CRAVEN,

in the Countie of Yorke.

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At the Afsifes and Generall GaoleDeliuerie holden at the Castle of Yorke in the Countie of Yorke, the xxvij. day of Iuly laft paft, Anno Regni Regis IACOBI Angliæ, &c Decimo, & Scotia quadragefimo quinto.

Before

Sir I AM ES
ES ALTHAM Knight, one

of the Barons of his Maiefties Court of Exchequer ; and Sir ED VVARD BROMLEY Knight, another of the Barons of his Maiefties Court of Exchequer ;

his Maiefties Iuftices of Affife, Oyer and Terminer,
and generall Gaole-Deliuerie, in the Circuit
of the North-parts.

LONDON,

Printed by W. STANSBY for IOHN BARNES, and are to be fold at his Shoppe neere Hol