So as now the Gentlemen of the Iurie of her offence and death, stand charged with her as with others.
The Euidence against Margaret Pearson,
Prisoner at the Barre.
The Examination and Euidence of
Anne Whittle, alias Chattox.
Against
Margaret Pearson, Prisoner at the Barre.
THe said Anne Chattox being examined saith, That the wife of one Pearson of Paddiham, is a very euill Woman, and confessed to this Examinate, that shee is a Witch, and hath a Spirit which came to her the first time in likenesse of a Man, and clouen footed, and that shee the said Pearsons wife hath done very much harme to one Dodgesons goods, who came in at a loope-hole into the said Dodgesons Stable, and shee and her Spirit together did sit vpon his Horse or Mare, vntill the said Horse or Mare died. And likewise, that shee the said Pearsons wife did confesse vnto her this Examinate, that shee bewitched vnto death one Childers wife, and her Daughter, and that shee the said Pearsons wife is as ill as shee.
The Examination of Iennet Booth,
of Paddiham, in the Countie of Lancaster, the ninth day
of August 1612.
Before