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now prisoner at Lancaster, had an other Picture in her hand, which
Picture she the said _Redfernes_ wife, was then crumbling, but whose
Pictures they were, this Examinate cannot tell. And at his returning
backe againe, some ten Roods off them there appeared vnto him this
Examinate a thing like a Hare, which spit fire at him this Examinate.
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THE ARRAIGNMENT
_and Triall of_ ALICE NUTTER,
_of the Forrest of Pendle, in the Countie of Lancaster, for
Witch-craft; upon Wednesday the nineteenth of August,
at the Assizes and generall Gaole deliuerie, holden at
Lancaster._
Before
_Sir_ EDWARD BROMLEY _Knight, one of his
Maiesties Iustices of Assize at Lancaster._
_Alice Nutter._[O3_a_]
The two degrees of persons which chiefly practise Witch-craft, are
such, as are in great miserie and pouertie, for such the Deuill
allures to follow him, by promising great riches, and worldly
commoditie; Others, though rich, yet burne in a desperate desire of
Reuenge; Hee allures them by promises, to get their turne satisfied to
their hearts contentment, as in the whole proceedings against old
_Chattox_: the examinations of old _Dembdike_; and her children, there
was not one of them, but have declared the like, when the Deuill first
assaulted them.
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