[D 3 a]. "Commaunded this examinate to call him by the name of Fancie.">[ The fittest name for a familiar she could possibly have chosen. Sir Walter Scott (Letters on Demonology, p. 242) unaccountably speaks of Fancie as a female devil. Master Potts would have told him, (see [M 2 b],) "that Fancie had a very good face, and was a very proper man."
[D 3 b 1]. "The wife of Richard Baldwin, of Pendle.">[ Richard Baldwin was the miller who accosted Old Dembdike so unceremoniously.
[D 3 b 2]. "Robert Nutter.">[ The family of the Nutters, of Pendle, bore a great share in the proceedings referred to in this trial. It seems to have been a family of note amongst the inferior gentry or yeomanry of the forest. A Nutter held courts for many years about this period, as deputy steward at Clitheroe. (See Whitaker's Whalley, p. 307.) Three of the name are stated in the evidence to have been killed by witchcraft, Christopher Nutter, Robert Nutter, and Anne, the daughter of Anthony Nutter; and one of the unfortunate persons convicted is Alice Nutter. The branch to which Robert belonged is shewn in the following table:
| Robert Nutter, the elder, ofPendle, called old Robert Nutter. | = | Elizabeth, who is reputed tohave employed Anne Chattox, Loomeshaw's wife, and Jane Boothman to bewitch to deathyoung Robert Nutter, that other relations might inherit. | |||||||
| Christopher, reputed to havedied of witchcraft about 18 years before. | |||||||||
| 1 | 2 | 3 | |||||||
| Robert, of Greenhead, inPendle, a retainer of Sir Richard Shuttleworth, reputed to have been bewitched todeath 18 or 19 years before the trial took place. | = | Mary | John, of Higham Booth | Margaret | = | Crooke | |||
| gaveevidence at the trial | |||||||||
[D 4 a]. "One Mr. Baldwyn (the late Schoole-maister at Coulne) did by his learning, stay the sayd Loomeshaws wife, and therefore had a Capon from Redfearne.">[ I regret that I can give no account of this learned Theban, who appears to have stayed the plague, and who taught at the school at which Archbishop Tillotson was afterwards educated. He well deserved his capon. Had he continued at Colne up to the time of this trial, he might perhaps, on the same easy terms, have kept the powers of darkness in check, and prevented some imputed crimes which cost ten unfortunates their lives.
[E b 1]. "Iames Robinson.">[ Baines, in his History of Lancashire, vol. i. p. 605, speaks of Edmund Robinson, the father of the boy on whose evidence the witches were convicted in 1633, as if he had been a witness at the present trial; which is probably a mistake for this James Robinson, as no Edmund Robinson appears amongst the witnessses whose depositions are given.
[E b 2]. "Anne Whittle alias Chattox was hired by this examinates wife to card wooll.">[ She seems to have been by occupation a carder of wool, and to have filled up the intervals, when she had no employment, by mendicancy.
[E 2 a]. "Sir Richard Shuttleworth."} Of the family of the Shuttleworths of Gawthorp, "where they resided" Whitaker observes, "in the condition of inferior gentry till the lucrative profession of the law raised them, in the reign of Elizabeth, to the rank of knighthood and an estate proportioned to its demands." Sir Richard was Sergeant-at-law, and Chief Justice of Chester, 31st Elizabeth, and died without issue about 1600.
[E 2 b]. "A Charme.">[ Evidently in so corrupted a state as to bid defiance to any attempt at elucidation.
[E 3 a 1]. "Perceiuing Anthonie Nutter of Pendle to fauour Elizabeth Sothernes alias Dembdike.">[ The Sothernes and Davies's and the Whittles and Redfernes were the Montagus and Capulets of Pendle. The poor cottager whose drink was forsepoken or bewitched, or whose cow went mad, and who in his attempt to propitiate one of the rival powers offended the other, would naturally exclaim from the innermost recesses of his heart, "A plague on both your houses."