_Contra formam Statuti_, &c. _Et Contra Pacem_, &c.
Vpon her Arraignement, to this Indictment shee pleaded not guiltie;
and for the triall of her life, put her selfe vpon God and the
Countrey.
So as now the Gentlemen of the Iury of life and death stand charged
with her, as with others.
_The Euidence against_ Alice Nutter _Prisoner
at the Barre._
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_The Examination of_ IAMES DEVICE
_sonne of_ ELIZABETH DEVICE: _Taken the seuen
and twentieth day of Aprill_: Anno Reg. Regis IACOBI
Angliae, Franciae, & Hiberniae, Fidei Defensor. &c.
Decimo & Scotiae, xlvj.
Before
ROGER NOWEL _and_ NICHOLAS BANESTER, _two of his Maiesties Iustices of
Peace in the Countie of Lancaster. Against Alice Nutter._
The said Examinate saith vpon his oath, That hee heard his
Grand-mother say, about a yeare ago, that his mother, called
_Elizabeth Deuice_, and his Grand-mother, and the wife of _Richard
Nutter_, [Sidenote: _Alice Nutter_ the Prisoner.] of the Rough-Lee
aforesaid, had killed one _Henry Mitton_, of the Rough-Lee aforesaid,
by Witchcraft. The reason wherefore he was so killed, was for that
this Examinats said Grand-mother had asked the said _Mitton_ a penny:
and hee denying her thereof; thereupon shee procured his death as
aforesaid.
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