The Examination of Iames Device,[E3b]
sonne of Elizabeth Device, taken the seuen and
twentieth day of Aprill, Annoq; Reg. Regis Iacobi
Angliæ, &c. Decimo ac Scotiæ xlv.
Before
Roger Nowel and Nicholas Banister,
Esquires, two of his Maiesties Iustices of the Peace within
the said Countie. viz.
ANd further saith, That twelue yeares agoe, the said Anne Chattox at a Buriall at the new Church in Pendle, did take three scalpes of people, which had been buried, and then cast out of a graue, as she the said Chattox told this Examinate; and tooke eight teeth out of the said Scalpes, whereof she kept foure to her selfe, and gaue other foure to the said Demdike, this Examinates Grand-mother: which foure teeth now shewed to this Examinate, are the foure teeth that the said Chattox gaue to his said Grand-mother, as aforesaid; which said teeth haue euer since beene kept, vntill now found by the said Henry Hargreiues & this Examinate, at the West-end of this Examinates Grand-mothers house, and there buried in the earth, and a Picture of Clay there likewise found by them, about halfe a yard ouer in the earth, where the said teeth lay, which said picture so found was almost withered away, and was the Picture of Anne, Anthony Nutters daughter; as this Examinates Grand-mother told him.
The Examination of Allizon Device
daughter of Elizabeth Device: Taken at
Reade, in the Countie of Lancaster, the thirtieth day of
March, Annoq; Reg. Regis Iacobi nunc Angliæ,
&c. Decimo, & Scotiæ Quadragesimo quinto.
Before
Roger Nowel of Reade aforesaid, Esquire, one
of his Maiesties Iustices of the Peace, within the said
Countie.
THis Examinate saith, that about eleuen yeares agoe, this Examinate and her mother had their firehouse broken,[E4a] and all, or the most part of their linnen clothes, & halfe a peck of cut oat-meale, and a quantitie of meale gone, all which was worth twentie shillings, or aboue: and vpon a Sunday then next after, this Examinate did take a band and a coife, parcell of the goods aforesaid, vpon the daughter of Anne Whittle, alias Chattox, and claimed them to be parcell of the goods stolne, as aforesaid.