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this Examinate.[E3_a_2] And the last time of all shee, this Examinate, saw him, was vpon Thursday last yeare but one, next before Midsummer day, in the euening, like a Beare, and this Examinate would not then speake vnto him, for the which the said Deuill pulled this Examinate downe. * * * * * _The Examination of_ IAMES DEVICE,[E3_b_] _sonne of_ ELIZABETH DEVICE, _taken the seuen and twentieth day of Aprill_, Annoq; Reg. Regis IACOBI Angliae, &c. Decimo ac Scotiae 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 Angliae, &c. Decimo, & Scotiae 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,[E4_a_] 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
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